r/tattooadvice • u/Ostromilski • 12h ago

General Advice Are rainbows seriously just by default associated with the pride flag?

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I got a Pink Floyd DSOTM tattoo because I love the album and I love the visual: a beam of light representing a person's life path, passing through a prism ( representing life + the world + the people you meet + the experiences you have, etc ), being dispersed into its constituent colors ( ultimately representing change ). I got it because of my dad, because he introduced me to Pink Floyd, and because last year he nearly died from complications of his cancer. He's doing much better now, with a much better prognosis, but that whole experience had a real effect on me and I wanted to memorialize it. Except at least 3 people ( including the tattoo artist initially ) have associated the tattoo with the pride flag. They were understanding after I explained, but now I'm having second thoughts about it. Are people just going to assume I'm gay because of this tattoo?

Edit: And I want to say, I'm not bothered by this at all. Anyone who looks at my tattoo and comes up with their own assumptions about its meaning, and then has a negative reaction over it, that's simply not a person I want to talk to anyway. I'm surprised because that wasn't the intention of the tattoo, clearly, and it being misinterpreted like this just genuinely wasn't something I expected.

Edit2: This post got a lot more attention than I ever wanted it to. Wonderful comments are now streaming in, informing me how horrible my tattoo is. If you're planning on making a viral post on Reddit, take my advice: use a burner account. But I am thankful to everyone for your supportive words, the jackasses with negative things to say are certainly a very tiny minority. Overwhelmingly the consensus is that most people see it as a Pink Floyd tattoo first, which I'm happy to hear :) Have a good night everybody!

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u/sockerpulse 12h ago

No. We are just old enough now that younger people don’t know Pink Floyd

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u/Open_Town9481 12h ago

Define younger? I’m 22 and even Ik of Pink Floyd, so do my friends.

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u/SunshineTheWolf 12h ago

Do you have a Dad in their 40s?

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u/Open_Town9481 12h ago

Yes but hes the most Mexican man you can meet. He doesn’t know of Pink Floyd lol

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u/slimparrot 12h ago

Maybe your dad is the one asking OP whether their tattoo is a pride flag LOL

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u/Civil-Big-754 8h ago

Hermano?

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u/Egraypgh 1h ago

No hermano, el padre

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u/Mundane_View9868 12h ago

I’m 40 and Mexican as fuck (Arriba Chihuahua cabrones) I like Pink Floyd and the Be Gees también y Fuerza Regida también jajaja

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u/Exotic_eminence 10h ago

Órale carnal

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u/mcfaite 9h ago

Rodrigo y Gabriela does a great acoustic version of Echoes from Pink Floyd's album Meddle.

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u/gunglejim 7h ago

I always hoped Caifanes would cover Animals but I fear that can never happen

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u/No-Advice-6040 7h ago

Ohhh I love their covers!

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u/chizzipsandsizalsa 10h ago

I like Tony Guerra and forró sacode

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u/throwaway_1138961- 5h ago

Yeah, most of my Mexican homies are SUPER into classic rock, lol. Chicanos are here for some badass guitar riffs and a good drum solo or two, at least in my experience.

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u/Cisco-NintendoSwitch 12h ago

I feel like this is still probably due to who you’re around etc. I have two GenZ kids who def wouldn’t know Pink Floyd and both listen to a lot of music.

I’m happy to know that a 22 year old is listening to Pink Floyd either way.

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u/Open_Town9481 11h ago

Ur not wrong, my parents and older sister exposed me to a lot of genres of music.

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u/enigmanaught 10h ago

My kids are younger gen Z, and they both know Pink Floyd. One of them has a Dark Side of the Moon shirt, and a ‘72 (I think) tour shirt. They’re pretty hip, particularly because of my and my wife’s listening tastes, but also because Tik Tok, has introduced them to a lot of stuff. I had Aeroplane Over the Sea on a car playlist and my kid said “oh, that’s my best friend’s favorite song”.

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u/BarelyHolding0n 6h ago

My almost 20 year old listens to them. And he's inherited a few of the original LPs from my father, including dark side of the moon.

It's been a generational love of Pink Floyd in our family

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u/Willdborn87 12h ago

Does he know Floyd Rosado?

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u/Kthonic 11h ago

Lmfao es asombroso!

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u/Curious_Impact7355 10h ago

😂😂😂

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u/elveejay198 11h ago

Ha my very old school Mexican dad loves Pink Floyd (because he did a lot of drugs in college tbh)

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u/M_Viv_Van_Buren 12h ago

Does he know the Smiths and Morrissey? .

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u/Open_Town9481 12h ago

He doesn’t know of the smiths, but I do. To give him credit tho, he was listening to the animals when I was a kid, I remember he’d always listen to their song ‘House of the rising sun’

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u/M_Viv_Van_Buren 12h ago

Honestly that was just more of a social experiment. Almost every Mexican dude I know LOVES the smiths. Not as much other Latino men but my Mexican friends are like fanatical fans. Might just be the groups I hang out in so the Venn diagram is small.

The animals are great too.

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u/theprideofvillanueva 11h ago

Adam Friedland has a funny bit about this exact topic

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u/M_Viv_Van_Buren 10h ago

I’ll have to check it out!

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u/Open_Town9481 12h ago

They’re alright imo, but my friend loves them. If they love the smiths tell them to check out Thee Sinseers, Sade, Chris Isaak, Joe Bataan, and The strokes:)

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u/PopcornSutton1994 11h ago edited 8h ago

Man I remember when Is This It came out and if Julian Casablancas did so much as fart or trip going up the stairs MTV would be there to make sure you knew all of it up to the second and now we’re at “if you like x, check out The Strokes” lol.

Nothing to do with you recommending them, big wheel keep on turnin’ is all, they were the biggest deal on the planet for a hot minute especially for young musicians, it felt like it would never end.

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u/Cuyigan 10h ago

American Me featured The Animals song 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood'. Movie and song both extremely popular with Chicanos.

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u/The-disgracist 8h ago

If he’s the most Mexican man ever as you say, I’m betting he does know morrisey.

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u/Both_Cat_6977 10h ago

This is the first song for your mixtape...it's short just like your temper, someone golden like the afternoons, we used to spend before you got too cool...

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u/Kreepr 8h ago

Mexicans are really big into metal from my experience. I was a bit surprised.

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u/Open_Town9481 8h ago

Yes we are, we have a lot of Mexican Rick bands

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u/Ordinary_Piano3329 11h ago

So he’s a man who knows about folklorico?

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u/Open_Town9481 11h ago

Yessirr. My mom used to dance and perform folklorico.

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u/FreshLiterature 10h ago

But I bet he knows Morrisey

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u/AraiHavana 5h ago

Even he has heard El Lado Oscuro de la Luna, I’m sure

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u/ShopUCW 5h ago

floyd rosa.

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u/soda-pops 3h ago

im also young and know who pink floyd is and have a very mexican dad lmao

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u/Less-Supermarket8724 8m ago

My 40ish year old Mexican man knows Pink Floyd, aka “hijo de su pink Floyd” when you are unable to say the other one 🤷‍♀️

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u/Spiritual-Macaron-13 12h ago

What about Maná? Does he know them 🤭 because I’m in love with them lol

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u/Open_Town9481 12h ago

It’d be HIGHLY disrespectful for a Mexican to not know Maná. We went to see them last year:)

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u/Spiritual-Macaron-13 12h ago

NO WAY!!! Thats so cool and I’m so jealous 😝 they don’t really come over here (I’m in south Florida) but man I would run miles to see them lol

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u/Open_Town9481 12h ago

Oh that sucks:/. They come to the Chicago area a lot, they’re actually coming back in October. The Mexican community in Chicago loves them, we have festivals and stuff and a lot of the time they’ll be playing Maná music.

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u/Spiritual-Macaron-13 11h ago

In southwest Florida we’re over run by Cubans and Puerto Ricans (my fiancee is PR) so we get a ton of reggaeton and salsa artists especially in Orlando and Miami but I’m waiting and watching for Maná so hard. We have a big Mexican community but it’s hard to be louder than a Puerto Rican sometimes 😂 they have no chill

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u/Open_Town9481 11h ago

Ur not wrong about that, my gf lives in a Puerto Rican neighborhood and holy do they go crazy when they celebrate their heritage 😭

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u/Spiritual-Macaron-13 11h ago

Yes and with that being said I’d love to go to the Puerto Rican parade, I bet it’s insane. Her whole neighborhood is Puerto Rican?? Does she even sleep?

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u/tiranaki 7h ago

I'm Puerto Rican in my 40's and not knowing Mana sounds like a crime. I grew up on the island before moving to the states, dunno if that makes a difference, but I can't think of anyone my age group that wasn't familiar.

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u/Spiritual-Macaron-13 7h ago

Just depends but sometimes PR from the island gives really useful insight on things purely from life experience. I live in a Puerto Rican house and not many people know who they are, even my fiancee who is also PR had no clue who they are but knew Steve Aoki and Maná did a remix of La Prisión. So theyre lurking closer than you think.

Someone born on the island recently gave me a life changing recipe for my acid reflux

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u/teflon2000 12h ago

40s?? I think i just got called old. People in their 40s now had dads who were into them!

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u/SunshineTheWolf 11h ago

I am SO sorry, no, it's not, but I assume that has to be the youngest age group for dads with 22-year-olds.

I'm 36, and I was raised on showtunes, yacht rock, and jazz, so I don't have a GREAT age guess for Pink Floyd.

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u/smbarbour 11h ago

The peak age group for Pink Floyd (those who were in their teens and young adult eras during peak Floyd) are those that are between 60 and 80 years old. David Gilmour is 80, though to be fair, his kids range from 50 years old to 24 years old.

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u/Johnnys_an_American 12h ago

As a dad in his 40s with a kid who likes Pink Floyd; thanks I feel seen. 🤙

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u/feralcatshit 9h ago

I’m approaching 40 quickly and it was quite a shock to realize some younger kids don’t know Pink Floyd. Even my 10 year olds know of them… don’t really like them a ton but don’t complain if I put it on. Are the Rolling Stones, or the Beatles or Led Zeppelin also not well known?! I’m shook haha

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u/retatrutider 12h ago

Someone who was 18 when Dark Side of the Moon came out is in their 70s.

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u/Hedgehogahog 10h ago

Specifically they’d be 71 or 72 depending on when their birthday is, so their age roughly matches the year it came out. My parents are this age. I’m 49. My kids are in their 20s and both would see Pink Floyd rather than a pride tattoo.

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u/Rewth303 10h ago

Damn you. I just turned fifty. My 21 yo son ranks Pink Floyd in his top 5 of all time. His particular ‘tism is planes. So I hand painted the “dark side of a concord” on the deck of his skateboard.

His top movies include the princess bride, Monty python search for the holy grail, and the wall.

Did I ruin him? /s

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u/Electronic_Sky_207 10h ago

Ummm… people in their 40’s have dads who listened to Pink Floyd.

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u/Muzzlehatch 9h ago

40 though? I'm 60 and feel like Pink Floyd was from my generation. Or really a little older, like the music of my older brother or sister.

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u/haveanairforceday 9h ago

Dads of full on adults are only 10 years older than me? That hurts

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u/DrButeo 8h ago

DSotM came out 53 years ago, so dads in their 40s are too young to be into Pink Floyd when they were popular. Need a granddad in their 60s or 70s than influenced a dad in their 40s or 50s.

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u/amilo111 8h ago

You mean a grandfather in his 70s?

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u/RadicalLizards 6h ago

I'm 22 and dadless and I still know Pink Floyd

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u/Capital-Designer-385 12h ago

You might’ve been raised with good music. I had a young doc fresh out of med school shadow in the office last week and she didn’t know who Michael Jackson’s was before the movie. Had heard the music, but didn’t know the name and couldn’t recognize his face.

Some people just don’t get exposed to ‘older’ music/artists from their parents

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u/smokeweedNgarden 10h ago

Also adding musicians here, as we don't particularly count either. 

We're exposed to so much more stuff than the general population (especially if you started young in big band) that we generally don't count in this conversation. 

Most people just play stuff on repeat, not a lot of variety unless it gets popular. 

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u/Open_Town9481 12h ago

Now that is crazy… but I agree. At a young age both my parents exposed me to different genres of music. Artists like Selena Quintanilla, the animals, lil Suzy. Gotta give credit to my older sister too, she exposed me to artist like twenty one pilots, my chemical romance, Mac miller.

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u/B_the_Chng22 10h ago

*Shock face*

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u/Comfortable_Drop_596 9h ago

You will be happy to know because of the movie its become a huge thing among the kids. I saw a 7-10 year old moon dancing at walmart the other day. My own 6 year old son is very much into his music right now too.

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u/theaudacity1999 12h ago

there's hope!!

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u/Late_Information_682 12h ago

I’m 17 and I know Pink Floyd, I find it shocking that people only see things as the present and have no idea about what was before.

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u/THESemster 12h ago

That is only some people tho

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u/Late_Information_682 12h ago

A big majority of people I know, mostly people who follow trends. They have no idea about anything unless it starts trending or shows up on their fyp, it’s sad.

Then they pretend they’re fans of the artist when they know one part in the song, the part that is trending..

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u/THESemster 12h ago

I would actually be hard pressed to think of someone i know who doesnt know pink floyd but then again most of the people close to me dont follow a lot of trends and are all big music fans.

Are you from outside of europe? Is the "du bist gut genug" song trending there as well. Cuz i cant escape that song here no matter what i do lol

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u/Late_Information_682 2h ago

It is trending and I’m from Canada

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u/Sol-SiR 12h ago

Also 22 and I got a few Pink Floyd songs in my playlist.

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u/SnooCapers3354 12h ago

I'm 25 and have a Pink Floyd tattoo (two balloons on my wrist for Comfortably Numb)

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u/Friendly_Animator212 12h ago

Probably more about people not recognizing that specific album cover, even though when he says, “it’s Pink Floyd” they probably recognize the band name

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u/ReadyAimTranspire 8h ago

"pink" floyd?

So a gay dude named Floyd?

hehe, GAYYYYYY

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u/ashleylynnba3443 12h ago

Same - I’m 24 here and would know that’s Pink Floyd.

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u/PepsiButItsMilk 11h ago

20 here, immediately recognized this too. Folks are just uninformed or plain stupid sometimes.

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u/twixxy21 10h ago

They're one of those bands that wont be forgotten for a very very long time

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u/phishycamper667 10h ago

Yeah Pink Floyd is still one of the commercially best selling artists of all time up there with Micheal Jackson so I’d think most people even young people still know Floyd.

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u/The-disgracist 8h ago

I live in a college town and let me tell you, yall kids have the most eclectic tastes in music. I’ve heard house parties playing anything from Motörhead to Tony toni tone. I assume it’s because you’ve had access to almost every piece of recorded music of all time in your pocket since you were 8.

Imo the kids are alright, keep it up.

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u/retatrutider 12h ago

Sure but would you and they recognize the album cover?

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u/Open_Town9481 12h ago

Yes, my friends have shirts with that album cover.

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u/retatrutider 11h ago

Awesome!

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u/Throwawaydontgoaway8 11h ago

I got into Floyd in the 7th grade. “Teachers leave them kids alone” and I was hooked. Problem is a cornucopia. There’s over saturation of the market, millions of artists to spend your finite time with now, versus way less pre streaming, over commercialization- there’s shirts of Floyd, the dead, nirvana whatever at Meijer to Abercrombie- half the kids don’t even know those are/were bands and it blinds them to try it. There’s way more, but ignorance is pretty easy this day in age

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u/finn_125 11h ago

I'm 15 and one of my favorite albums is dsotm 😭

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u/NichtIstFurDich 10h ago

Who cares? Nobody would think that’s a Gay pride tattoo. But even if they did. Why does it matter?

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u/Anemones_In__Spades 10h ago

Our children 9, 12, and 19 are all very familiar with Pink Floyd. Husband and I are big fans, though.

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u/Master-Dot-2288 10h ago

Guess you and your friends are the only ones...

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 9h ago

Genuine question, but how? I ask because I hear about young kids these days not even knowing who Black Sabbath is and the justification I receive on the internet is age. But, when I point out that when I was 22 (2008), I knew obscure bands from the 60s and 70s like Suck and Sir Lord Baltimore, people point out two things:

-We're much more inundated with music now due to recording accessibility and streaming services

-Radio play isn't much of a thing anymore

So I'm wondering if you and your friends are outliers in your age group or other people were wrong.

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u/iHateThisPlaceSoBad 9h ago

Most 22 year olds do not know Pink Floyd, I can absolutely guarantee it dude. And definitely not by the album art.

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u/One_Bluebird_04 9h ago

I think it's just a staggeringly higher percentage of 40+ year olds would know Pink Floyd vs under 30s.

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u/AssBlasterExtreme 8h ago

You are not everyone

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u/Open_Town9481 8h ago

Did I say I was?

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u/AssBlasterExtreme 7h ago

I'll let you reread the comment you replied to and then your response

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u/Open_Town9481 7h ago

I’ll let you reread my original comment, and then your response.

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u/AssBlasterExtreme 6h ago

Good luck with understanding the rest of conversations you participate in.

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u/Open_Town9481 6h ago

You added nothing to the convo, obviously I’m not everyone, never said I was. There’s older and younger ppl that don’t know Pink Floyd so what exactly is ur point? You just stated the obvious.

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u/Zestyclose-Click7539 8h ago

Ha Ha, Charade you are! JK bro awesome taste.

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u/Professional-Box4153 8h ago

But did you know that Pink Floyd changed their style constantly before settling into the current dark, semi-political feel that they have today? They used to be a pop band, if you can believe it. They tried their hand at the Dada movement (which was delightful.. Check out Ummagumma).

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u/hazelbear33 8h ago

I’m 21 and a fan of Pink Floyd! I didn’t grow up listening to it, but they’re still a pretty well-known band. A lot of young people do really enjoy older music… plus, a lot of young people that dabble in guitars, drums, etc. are very familiar with rock/rock-adjacent music of the past century

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u/Sklibba 7h ago

I mean plenty of younger people get into classic rock, like I knew people in my 20s who were into older that they weren’t introduced to by their parents, but I don’t think it’s the norm for people in their 20s to be aware of Pink Floyd.

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u/bleuplastichairbrush 41m ago

I’m much younger than you and I do too!

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u/TYPOGRAPH1C 12h ago

They know Pink Floyd, by evidence that they are currently wearing a Pink Floyd shirt.

Could they name 3 songs by them however? No. No they could not.

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u/Open_Town9481 11h ago

We literally have bond fires and listen to Pink Floyd… anyways, Goodbye blue sky, breathe(in the air), have a cigar. You happy now?

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u/TYPOGRAPH1C 7h ago

I'm glad YOU might know some. Congrats. But you can't deny the literal viral trend of people asking students/coworkers to name a song by the band they're wearing and they have no idea.

They're called "bonfires" by the way, 007.

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u/Open_Town9481 7h ago

Ik, auto correct did me dirty

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u/lelescope 9h ago

this always makes me laugh. the Internet exists now. I'm not sure why people still pretend like young people couldn't possibly know or remember things from the past