Crazy pole dancing tattooed metalhead biking crossplaying Asians

• Main Authors: Devi, Uma, Kang, Hillary Yu Ping
• Other Authors: Duffy Andrew Michael
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76610
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Singapore is known for its glitz, glamour and billion dollar skyline, but there are great things to be found in Singapore beyond what the world sees on glossy magazines and CGI-ed screens. Not everyone in Singapore may be rich, but they are certainly crazy - if you know where to look. This is the New Asia, where people are starting to cast off the shackles of conformity, and where you’re just as likely to find a homemaker who pole dances as you are a financial compliance advisor who screams himself hoarse in his death metal band by night. Here are communities bursting with life, populated by like minded people united in their love of the unusual. This is not a rebellion: it is a celebration. This feature magazine dives past Singapore’s gilt exterior and into the world of five vibrant communities - here are Singapore’s pole dancers, its tattoo artists, its metal bands, its girl bikers, and its crossplayers, and these are their worlds.