Abstract

ARENILLAS MELENDEZ, Sara. Hybrid masculinities in Måneskin's glam rock. Recial [online]. 2022, vol.13, n.21, pp.16-35.  Epub Sep 16, 2022. ISSN 2718-658X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.53971/2718.658x.v13.n21.37844.

The Italian rock group Måneskin was awarded in Eurovision Song Contest´ 2021. Since then, its global audience was growing up and its impact has been remarkable, even entering the Billboard charts. Måneskin are framed as glam rock, genre well-known for its inauthenticity and its challenge to rock´s heteronormativity through androgyny, transvestism, and the understanding of gender as a performance, features came up from camp and effeminate masculinity associated with gay. In this research, we make a brief approach to Måneskin´s gender discourse, applying the concept defined, among others, by Bridges and Pascoe of “hybrid masculinity”. In the first section we examine how, despite its glam features, Måneskin articulates a discourse focused on rock authenticity strategies, which are related to masculinity and homosociality. Then, we examine hybrid masculinity in Måneskin through their singer Damiano David and their bassist Victoria de Angelis, and the videoclip of I wanna be your slave. Thus, we highlighted how Måneskin's hybrid masculinity shows the flexibility and the negotiations in which this gender identity is currently inserted.

Keywords : glam rock; masculinity; Måneskin; authenticity; Eurovision Song Contest.