![]() ![]() When he was twenty-one, he was attacked, while walking down the street, by a group of young men who had jumped out of a car. He briefly attended Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts, where, for one project, he took apart VCRs and hung the parts from the ceiling, and, for another, made paintings with his own blood and pubic hair. ![]() In his senior year, he dropped out of high school. ![]() He spent a lot of time “standing outside smoking and weeping,” he told the Times, in 2014. He was the only openly gay student at his high school, and he was feminine football players spat on him and beat him up. Then, in his early adolescence, the world closed in around him. Mike Hadreas, who records music as Perfume Genius, grew up in the Seattle suburbs in the nineteen-eighties and early nineties, as a hammy kid who loved to dance and never wanted to talk about anything serious. ![]()
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