Blackface implies caricature. This isn't attempting to be African American.

His visual media has quite a bit of this transhumanist stuff showing people made out of different materials, Hate or Glory shows a maniac who gets cast into gold for pleasure.

Considering he was working with Lady Gaga, who is also known for these extreme runway looks, I would say it was quite appropriate.

I have no idea, ive just seen him live once. Afaik hes always done the mask thing

listen, it's 20256, you got to have a gimmick if you actually want to make it big in anything remotely "mainstream". you think zoomers have the attention span to just watch someone in a suit sing?

True, although in many of the comics I read in my youth (mostly 1980s) Kurt was depicted as a very dark blue to the point that they made significant amounts of him look black.