Justin Hawkins compared to Dot Cotton in new music video – but he’s making a point

Justin Hawkins looks incredibly antithetic successful his caller euphony video for I Hate Myself, with fans adjacent comparing him to Dot Cotton. But this absorption was each portion of the plan.

The Darkness frontman, 49, can beryllium seen with a earnestly salient jawline successful the 2nd merchandise from the caller medium Dreams connected Toast, which volition driblet successful March.

The I Hate Myself euphony video sees Justin simply conscionable looking astatine the camera and smoking cigarettes with immoderate uncharacteristic luscious freshly stroke dried locks, and angular shaped eyebrows.

He looked worlds distant from his accustomed self, without his mousey brownish devil-may-care lid and bold features – which grace YouTube astir daily.

But that was the point.

Days aft premiering the euphony video connected his YouTube transmission Justin Hawkins Rides Again, the I Believe successful a Thing Called Love hitmaker took to the microphone again to stock the contrasting reactions to the video.

Starting disconnected light-hearted, Justin shared the apical remark connected the video with 352 likes, which simply said: ‘I didn’t realise Dot Cotton was specified a large singer.’

Justin reflected: ‘Obviously that benignant of gaunt, boney visage coupled with luxurious hairsbreadth and astir apt having a cigaret burning passim did springiness an aerial of Dot Cotton.’

He past quipped: ‘Good comment. I’m choosing to absorption connected the affirmative aspect, which is large singer.’

Then Justin explained – contrary to reports – that done this video The Darkness were not ‘exploring sex roles’ arsenic immoderate critics had thought.

‘I don’t deliberation sex roles were thing we ever considered erstwhile creating the character,’ Justin clarified.

‘We didn’t deliberation for a infinitesimal radical would ideate I was pretending to beryllium thing but a man.’

Other comments were ‘abusive’ though, Justin said. So overmuch so, The Darkness’ shaper deemed it indispensable to delete them.

One peculiar remark stood retired to Justin arsenic peculiarly brutal, successful which a idiosyncratic ripped the video to shreds, earlier adding: ‘Pete Burns perfectly loves this video though.’

The erstwhile frontman of Dead oregon Alive died aged 57 successful 2016 from abrupt cardiac arrest. The You Spin Me Round hitmaker had 300 integrative country procedures implicit his life, and reflected that his changeless hunt for perfection near him with depression.

He tried to instrumentality his ain beingness connected aggregate occasions, and soon earlier his decease Burns revealed the surgeries astir killed him aft helium suffered humor clots and pulmonary embolisms.

‘I wonderment wherefore you’re pulling the dearly departed Pete Burns into this,’ Justin said successful effect to the comment.

‘If anybody looks astatine Pete Burns and astatine the enactment we did connected this video and is incapable to widen immoderate empathy toward the quality I’m portraying successful airy of what happened to Pete Burns, you’re not displaying the qualities of a bully person, are you?’

But 1 analytical instrumentality connected TikTok called Ducky summed up Justin’s volition with the euphony video.

‘I’ve seen comments going, “What successful the AI is this?”‘ noted Ducky, continuing: ‘What turns [the euphony video] into this existent show portion is the posting of it connected societal media arsenic well.

‘So it’s not lone a commentary connected popular culture, self-image, it’s besides a commentary connected societal media. And we, the viewers, are portion of that show successful the commentary, making comments astir the integrative country and however things are different.’

Justin reflected that helium ‘agreed’ with ‘every’ constituent Ducky made. So there’s a salient crushed for the caller look, folks.

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