{"id":198090,"date":"2026-05-27T16:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=198090"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:52:21","slug":"jarelle-naait-muziek-op-haar-broek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2026\/05\/27\/jarelle-naait-muziek-op-haar-broek\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarelle sews music onto her trousers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Jarelle is wearing patch trousers on which she has sewn dozens of pieces of fabric.<\/p>

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\u201cEverybody wants to change the world, no one wants to die.\u201d The lyric from My Chemical Romance is written on Jarelle\u2019s (19) trousers. She painted it on herself. They are patch trousers: tight jeans onto which she has hand-sewn dozens of pieces of fabric. They feature logos of bands she loves and phrases that inspire her. Some of the texts are positive \u2013 \u2018Smile\u2019 or \u2018Stay Alive\u2019 \u2013 while others are political \u2013 \u2018No Kings\u2019 is written on her thigh. The My Chemical Romance lyric is important to her because she \u2018can\u2019t really deal with hypocritical people and a lot of people are hypocritical\u2019. Many people love to talk about their lofty ideals, but don\u2019t have the courage to put them into practice. Jarelle is not afraid to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The psychology student is very into (pop) punk and rock. \u201cMy life revolves around music.\u201d She constantly listens to bands such as Green Day and Rancid and also releases her own songs under the name Lilly-Rose Black. The music is dark and loud, but Jarelle talks about it cheerfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The song text of My Chemical Romance is important for Jarelle.<\/p>

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Everything she wears is linked to a subculture: \u201cMy trousers are punk, but my belts are more emo.\u201d She wears three studded belts and one striped hand warmer. Her red canvas trainers \u2018from a fake brand\u2019 are also covered in song lyrics. She is wearing an Ed Hardy T-shirt with a large skull on it and necklaces around her neck featuring a padlock and a razor blade. Her make-up is black and actually very simple: \u201cI pull my eyes tight and then run eyeliner across my waterline above and below in one go. After that, I just rub my eyes. I\u2019m lazy so I usually leave it on for a few days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jarelle started listening to more alternative music and dressing accordingly during the coronavirus pandemic. She dyed her dark blonde hair purple, started writing songs and learned to sew. \u201cWhen we were slowly allowed to go outside again, it was kind of like exposure therapy\u201d, she says. \u201cI could slowly get used to other people\u2019s reactions and learned that you can basically get away with anything if you do not care yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back home in Ridderkerk, people sometimes look at Jarelle strangely, but she has become used to that by now. \u201cThe only people whose opinion about my style matters to me are other alternative people.\u201d Jarelle sees them on campus: people dressed in punk style, although she does not know many of them. \u201cI find it difficult to start conversations, but actually I would really like to become friends with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t

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What is the nicest compliment you have ever received?<\/p>\n

\u201cI was wearing a denim jacket covered in patches, just like these trousers, and a man tapped me on the shoulder in Dirk and said: \u2018What a cool battle jacket!\u2019 I thought it was so cool that he knew the punk term for a jacket like that. It completely made my day better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t

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