Blood on the Dance Floor
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About
Blood on the Dance Floor, also known by their abbreviated name BOTDF, was an American electropop band, its most popular configuration consisting of Dahvie Vanity and Jayy Von Monroe, the stage names of Jesus David Torres and Jeremy Brian Griffis respectively. Since the group's rise to popularity much criticism has been directed towards the band for the quality of their music, later on compounded with sexual assault allegations directed towards Vanity from a number of women, most of which were underage fans of the group.
History
Blood on the Dance Floor originally started under the name Love the Fashion, which consisted of Vanity, Christopher Mongillo and Rebecca Fugate. This configuration would stay until the band's second album, in which Mongillo and Fugate left, with [content]. Prior to music, Dahvie was known as a hairdresser, advertising his services on Myspace under the name
In September 2016, Jayy Von Monroe would depart from the band, later issuing a statement on Facebook in November revealing abusive behaviour from Vanity, including how he prevented Monroe from receiving HIV treatment, rather having to push him to do a tour, leaving Monroe exhausted and sick as a result.
Following Monroe's departure, the group would briefly go on hiatus until they would reform with Vanity and his then-girlfriend Fallon Vendetta. She would depart sometime in 2018.
As of 2020, Dahvie currently manages a merch brand, The Dark Arts, and releases music under his solo project Kawaii Monster.
Reputation
Since the early 2010s, the group has been widely lambasted for the quality of their music, generally falling under the crunkcore genre, and their association with the scene subculture. Another aspect of the group that was widely criticized was the group's explicitly sexual lyrics while also attracting an underage fanbase. An anti-BOTDF community would later come to form, though some large groups have long been taken down, initially focused on the band, though would later pivot towards Dahvie Vanity.
The group's fandom is known as the Slash Gash Terror Crew or SGTC for short.
Dahvie Vanity Sexual Assault Allegations
A number of sexual assault allegations have been directed at Dahvie Vanity since at least the mid 2000s, with a majority of them being underage fans of the group.
In 2012, Ash Costello of the band New Year's Day announced they would not tour with the group following the allegations coming to light. The
In 2014, Jeffree Star commented on Dahvie Vanity's actions in a series of deleted tweets including an allegation of [insert allegation]. However despite the previous criticism, Jeffree Star would later make amends with Dahvie Vanity, with Jeffree having a credited feature on the group's 2014 song "Poison Apple".
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That same year, the band Combichrist removed them as a supporting act on their 2014 tour.
in 2018, music news site MetalSucks published six different accounts from victims of Dahvie Vanity. In 2019, The Huffington Post published an article detailing, at first 13 victims, before increasing to at least 21 different victims in a follow-up article, of sexual assault committed by Vanity. This would result in BigCartel removing their online store in 2018 and Spotify removing the group's music from their service in 2019.
The allegations resulted in the group having performances and gigs at a number of venues cancelled throughout their career.
In 2020, Chris Hansen revealed that Vanity was a potential subject on his show Have A Seat With Chris Hansen, saying “Dahvie Vanity is on our radar here at Have a Seat with Chris Hansen and I promise you I’ll take a really good, hard look at it. We’ll be tackling that topic as we move forward in all these investigations.”
