{"id":120273,"date":"2020-04-09T15:33:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T13:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/?p=120273"},"modified":"2020-04-09T16:06:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T14:06:55","slug":"dani-miller-or-how-punk-continues-to-defy-the-canons-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highxtar.com\/en\/dani-miller-or-how-punk-continues-to-defy-the-canons-of-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Dani Miller, or how punk continues to defy the canons of beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Her messy mullet, her extravagant makeup and clothes and her charisma are unique. But if there’s one thing that characterizes Dani Miller, it’s her smile, which is now her biggest trademark. Gucci’s 2019 campaign<\/a> was a turning point not only in her career, but also on a personal level.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Seeing that her imperfect smile, the object of bullying as a child, was celebrated by an international brand and by so many people around the planet, was a very important moment of personal growth and self-acceptance for the artist. But before her idyll with Gucci, Miller had been on the New York garage-punk scene for years challenging the homogeneous notion of beauty.<\/p>\n

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Originally from California and an adopted New Yorker since she was young, her life journey included quitting drugs by the age of twenty or working for film director Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Black Swan or Noah)<\/strong>. She also explains that at some point at 21 years old she had to put together a band to play at a friend’s event. That night she discovered that the adrenaline and catharsis provided by the live show is what she wanted to dedicate the rest of her life to. And so was born Surfbort, the punk rock band she leads that gets its name not so much from the fact that its members surf, but from the term Beyonc\u00e9 coined in the song Drunk In Love describing a sexual position “I fill the tub up halfway, then riding with my surfboard<\/strong><\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Like the name of the group and the singer herself, Surfbort<\/strong> is irreverent and iconoclastic. Their lyrics talk about relationships or everyday life, among which Hippie Vomit Inhaler, High Anxiety or Pretty Little fucker stand out. But there are also plenty of politicized themes, openly against the Republican government and current policies. In this line, in the video clip Trash the singer vomits on a TV with the image of Donald Trump. Good song.<\/p>\n