Blood on the Dance Floor was an American electronic music group from Orlando, Florida, formed in 2006.
After falling out as a touring musician with multiple local musical acts in the Orlando, Florida area during 2006, Jesus David Torres, going by the moniker "Dahvie Vanity", formed a musical group with friends Matty "M" Malaret, Christopher Mongillo, and Rebecca Fugate.
[2] During the recording of their second album, It's Hard to be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World, the band was picked up by producer and writer Rusty Wilmot.
Many of the songs originally recorded with Ecstasy intended for the upcoming album OMFG were re-recorded with new vocals by Von Monroe.
Star later chose to go back on his accusations and sweep what he claimed to have seen under the rug due to feeling like the band was being victimized.
[7] Even before the release of Epic, recording began for Blood on the Dance Floor's fourth album, All the Rage!!.
The duo collaborated with several artists for the album, including Lady Nogrady, JJ Demon, and Nick Nasty.
A music video for their hit single from the album, "Bewitched", featured Nicole "Lady" Nogrady, who later said that she felt disrespected by the band during production of the album as well as on the music video, and found herself having to confront the band directly in order for her name to appear on the credits of her work with them.
[9] The song was subsequently performed by other female vocalists in place of Nogrady at live shows, and was re-recorded with vocals by Haley Rose for their 2013 acoustic album Blood Unplugged.
[10] In celebration of BOTDF's fourth anniversary, a digital compilation album entitled The Legend of Blood on the Dance Floor was set to be released on Halloween.
Blood on the Dance Floor's fifth album, Evolution, was released on June 19, 2012[11] along with a deluxe edition that featured acoustic versions of two songs.
The album featured tracks in collaboration with Haley Rose, Amelia Arsenic, Shawn Brandon, Joel Madden of the band Good Charlotte, Elena Vladimirova, and Deuce.
In April 2017, Vanity announced that there would be a new member, and that Blood on the Dance Floor would be returning on May 5 of that year without Jayy Von Monroe.
With Vendetta, they released the singles "Resurrection Spell", "Love Like Voodoo", "Six Feet Under", "Yo Ho 2 (Pirate's Life)", "Ghosting" and "Destroy".
The group's style has been described as having hypersexual lyrics combined with electronica[22] or electronic music,[23] but also heavily incorporates electropop,[6][24] dance-pop,[25] and crunkcore.
[27] Jeffree Star and New Years Day members Ash Costello and Nikki Misery have stated that they observed Vanity engage in questionable or illegal sexual behavior during one of the Vans Warped Tours and also during the "All the Rage Tour 2012" in support of their third studio album of the same name around the early 2010s.