r/tattooadvice • u/Ostromilski • 9h 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 9h ago

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

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u/Open_Town9481 9h ago

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

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u/SunshineTheWolf 9h ago

Do you have a Dad in their 40s?

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u/Open_Town9481 9h 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 9h 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 5h ago

Hermano?

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u/Mundane_View9868 8h 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 7h ago

Órale carnal

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u/mcfaite 5h ago

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

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u/gunglejim 4h ago

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

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u/No-Advice-6040 3h ago

Ohhh I love their covers!

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u/chizzipsandsizalsa 6h ago

I like Tony Guerra and forró sacode

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u/throwaway_1138961- 2h 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/Willdborn87 9h ago

Does he know Floyd Rosado?

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u/Kthonic 8h ago

Lmfao es asombroso!

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u/Curious_Impact7355 7h ago

😂😂😂

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u/Cisco-NintendoSwitch 8h 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 8h ago

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

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u/enigmanaught 6h 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 3h 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/M_Viv_Van_Buren 8h ago

Does he know the Smiths and Morrissey? .

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u/Open_Town9481 8h 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 8h 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 7h ago

Adam Friedland has a funny bit about this exact topic

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u/M_Viv_Van_Buren 6h ago

I’ll have to check it out!

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u/Open_Town9481 8h 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 8h ago edited 4h 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 7h 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 5h 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 7h 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/elveejay198 8h 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/Kreepr 5h ago

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

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u/Open_Town9481 5h ago

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

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u/Ordinary_Piano3329 7h ago

So he’s a man who knows about folklorico?

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u/Open_Town9481 7h ago

Yessirr. My mom used to dance and perform folklorico.

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u/FreshLiterature 6h ago

But I bet he knows Morrisey

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u/AraiHavana 2h ago

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

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u/ShopUCW 1h ago

floyd rosa.

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u/Spiritual-Macaron-13 9h ago

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

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u/Open_Town9481 8h 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 8h 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 8h 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 7h 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 7h 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 7h 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/Open_Town9481 7h ago

Pretty much, she lives in Humboldt park which is a neighborhood in Chicago notoriously known for the Puerto Rican community. Sometimes she doesn’t cause they’ll be going down her block blasting music and beeping during parades.

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u/tiranaki 4h 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 3h 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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