1. Porcelain Black's music was posted to her Myspace account, "rockcitynosebleed", where she gained millions of hits.
41 Facts About Porcelain Black
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Porcelain Black appeared in the music video for Jack White's "Freedom at 21".
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Porcelain Black made her first televised appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, performing "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like".
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Porcelain Black is best known for her guttural vocals and two-toned hair.
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Porcelain Black considers her music the "love child" of Marilyn Manson and Britney Spears.
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Vocally compared to Courtney Love, Porcelain Black was approached to record backing vocals for Love's 2008 album.
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Porcelain Black grew up in and spent most of her life in various parts of Metro Detroit, Michigan.
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Porcelain Black's mother is an accountant; her father was a hairstylist.
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Porcelain Black's mother is of Polish descent and her father is Scottish-Albanian.
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Porcelain Black owned a hair salon and brought her along to fashion shows and photoshoots.
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Porcelain Black's parents separated when she was six years old.
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Porcelain Black had taken part in national competitive dancing, taking jazz, hip-hop, tap, and ballet lessons, since she was young, and, at one point, was training to perform on Broadway.
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Porcelain Black faced skepticism from her collaborators, who questioned her desire to mix industrial rock sounds with dance pop.
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Porcelain Black began posting the songs she recorded on Myspace, gaining upwards of 10 million views in a matter of months.
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Porcelain Black co-wrote and sang backup vocals for the song "Lunacy Fringe" by The Used.
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Porcelain Black was approached by Courtney Love on MySpace to provide backing vocals for a solo album she was working on.
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Porcelain Black was initially reluctant to give the song away, but relented and later recorded the song for her own album with production from RedOne.
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Porcelain Black asked to meet Black in his studio in November 2009, which led to them writing her debut single "This Is What Rock n' Roll Looks Like" the next day.
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Porcelain Black introduced her to a new manager, Derrick "EI" Lawrence, who managed Lil Wayne.
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Porcelain Black changed her name to Porcelain Black, as it caused confusion to people who thought Porcelain and the Tramps was a band.
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Porcelain Black's aunt thought that the dolls resembled her in appearance, with strawberry blond hair and pale skin.
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Porcelain Black included "Black" in her name because she felt that it represented the opposite of "fragile" porcelain.
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Porcelain Black made plans to revisit the Porcelain and the Tramps project in the future.
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Porcelain Black had a cameo role in Rock of Ages with RedOne's help, playing the lead singer of a 1980s glam metal band.
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Porcelain Black sang one of the sole original songs for the film, "Rock Angels".
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Porcelain Black appeared on Oxygen's Best Ink, where the working title of her debut album was said to be Mannequin Factory.
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Challengers on the show were tasked with creating cover art for the album in a style that Porcelain Black termed "stripper couture".
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However, Porcelain Black later recorded songs with other producers after the album's release date was pushed back.
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Porcelain Black made her television debut on the Late Show with David Letterman on July 21,2011.
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Porcelain Black's long-anticipated debut album was expected to be released after the five-week promotional period, with two brand new singles preceding it.
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Later that year, Porcelain Black announced through French radio station Skyrock that the album had no confirmed title, revealing she had considered the names Porcelain Black Rainbow and Mannequin Factory, but that those titles might not make it to the album as she had recorded more songs.
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Porcelain Black initially denied the feature and cancelled three sessions to pen her feature on the song.
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On February 5,2020, through her Twitter account, Porcelain Black posted she was almost done with her first album, which needed mixing and mastering.
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Porcelain Black's voice has been described as raspy, death growls often appearing in her music.
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Porcelain Black is uncompromising in pursuing her own creative vision.
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Porcelain Black cites that Spears inspires her deep love for choreography, while Manson inspires the sound and attitude of her lyrics and performance style.
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Porcelain Black usually creates a song title, then forges the song around that.
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Porcelain Black finds the most difficult songwriting process to be starting with melody, because making the syllables of her lyrics match the melody produces an effect that sounds forced and contrived.
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When working with RedOne, Porcelain Black said they would construct the melodies together, but all of the song lyrics were written exclusively by her; RedOne did not contribute to her music lyrically while they were working together on her first attempt at a debut album.
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Porcelain Black is often compared to Lady Gaga, but she has been compared to Joan Jett, Courtney Love, and Nicki Minaj.
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Popjustice writer Peter Robinson said Porcelain Black was one of pop music's most confusingly styled artists, attributing the shift from her edgier, rock-inspired look to one resembling Jennifer Lopez as an attempt by her team to make her image more marketable.