A few musings from the past couple of days:
• The appearance of Jared and Genevieve Padalecki at the Texas State Capitol to "advocate" for David's Law (legislation that holds cyber bullying as a criminal act when it leads to the injury or death of a minor) was very much an eye catcher. The headlines online read that they were there in support, even though the law had already passed the House and the Senate in earlier May, and now awaiting the formality of the Texas governor's signature. At this point, their guest attendance is very much fandom contained, the visual message very strong that they are a "family" and as Genevieve states in the video while laying a physical claim on Jared's arm, "I am the wife of this guy over here, Jared" and she's also "here I am a mom, we have three children". Her speech clearly was an opportunity to reiterate the mental images of her and Jared's marrying, establishing their "home", raising "their family", "us", "we", "our", well you get the message. So many events like this are exactly for this reason - to establish a picture. To reinforce an image or narrative. Just like the Louis Tomlinson and Eleanor Calder airport video, which included a very distinct quote from Louis about "my girlfriend". Or, like Jake Gyllenhaal saying in 2009 at a Brothers movie press conference, "Obviously I exist in my girlfriend's world". In both Louis and Jake's case, these were quite distinct and rare references.
For space conservation, we won't even go into the whole American Airlines agent....Delta bag check...."barmaid"....uh,... "hotel employee"....online activity and that whole thing called irony.
And if all of that wasn't enough yesterday, the beard Genevieve is back on Twitter today to pound home that family image again.
It was such an honor to speak to the Texas Senate + House yesterday with @jarpad. Thank you for your support! ❤️🇺🇸💙#DavidsLaw #AKF pic.twitter.com/xjUzdC1TJT— Genevieve Padalecki (@realGpad) May 27, 2017
• Then we have the ever subtle, rainbow flag waving, complementary
tattoo loving, color pink embracing Harry Styles and the swarm of ham-handed
speculations that follow him wherever he goes.
This time the inevitable, tiresome opposite sex discussions centered around the
subjects of his self-titled album, which was just released on May 12th. Once the record dropped, here came the predictable,
reassuring “I like girls” articles with rumors about “Two Ghosts” being a
nostalgic remembrance of his “fling” with Taylor Swift. Everyone in the know, soon to be told that
the Internet was absolutely abuzz about the subject of the song track
immediately following its release. No doubt, jump started by that meddlesome Larrie fandom who
indicated immediately that the lyrics and context pointed to Louis Tomlinson, Harry's long-time boyfriend and bandmate. Hey there, Louis. Looking good!
The manufactured songwriting discussion, however,
served the intended purpose of distributing a myriad of articles to appear with the phrase, "Harry
Styles’ ex-girlfriend, Taylor Swift".
Once that lyric controversy wound down, a new one quickly emerged, this time spotlighting the heterosexualized song entitled, “Carolina”. In quick succession, story after story (conveniently accompanied by hot pics) about how the now proclaimed “love” song was all about someone named, Townes Adair Jones. Gasp! The unconventional name attached to a simple girl next door type, with a side boob pic ready for circulation.
She needs to take better care of herself, don’t
you think?
A perfectly concocted, made to seem real, life connection (with a detailed backstory at the ready) to lend more credence to Harry's musical "inspiration". No one need be suspicious because Townes Adair Jones was no stranger, just a friend of Cameron
Azoff, Jeff’s younger brother. Being that Jeff is Harry’s manager, the alleged hook up becomes a very cozy one, don’t you
think? After an eye rolling resignation of what spoon fed narrative is about to
come, the close relationship angle is an easily recognizable PR technique. A stunt almost as incestuously familiar as Jake Gyllenhaal’s
mother and sister introducing him repeatedly to almost all of his beards, I mean “girlfriends," throughout
the years.
Fast forward back to “Carolina” and the obviousness of the
manipulation is explained away by articles stating that the fans were the
busybodies who found all of this "private" information out, just within a week of the album drop. In other
words, the girl must be real because the fans discovered the “hook up”. The side effect importantly distancing management from the stunt. Rolling
Stone piled on by sensationalizing the ever changing details of the story by indicating that Townes was
only 17 when Harry, ahem, did the deed. Because that's what real heterosexual men do you know. They don't just go out on a date and have dinner.
Harry Styles, "Carolina"
Only when the 1D fandom blew up about "Carolina" being underage, did management decide to change the story to her being legal, which pointed yet again to Harry having bedded her. Now, she became a 20-year old who
Harry met through her sister when he began working on his album last year. The date
soon turning into a one night stand. Oh, and how did she find out the song was
about her? Well, her dad told her because he just happened to be in the crowd
of the "Today" show when Harry debuted the tune, immediately recognizing who the musician
was pining about. That's right, her dad. Because every girl tells her father about her solo sex nights. Do you have a headache yet?
Interestingly, enough it appears
that no one cares a lick who Niall Horan is writing about when he releases a
song. Even with explicitly steaming lyrics like are found on “Slow Hands.” For the life of me, I absolutely cannot figure out why that would
be. Can you? *grin*
Niall Horan's "Slow Hands"
• The following picture of Austin Nichols appeared on Twitter this past week and it deemed worthy of a re-posting. The young man handing Austin the snogging on his left is Patrick J. Flueger, a former Lawless Range co star of his, while the other gentleman is not known. Nor is it known who the original source of the picture is. But nonetheless...
📷 | Austin Nichols with Patrick J. Flueger and another friend few years ago pic.twitter.com/FZqZa92LJK— Austin Nichols daily (@AustinNsource) May 23, 2017
Pretty dandy stuff, eh? ;-)
• And finally, there was this glorious and fascinating Twitter exchange between Mark Sheppard, former cast member of the television show Supernatural and executive producer of the show, Jim Michaels.
@TheJimMichaels With all due respect, your comment is inaccurate and misleading to the fans. There are NO plans to have me return to SPN at ANY juncture.— Mark Sheppard (@Mark_Sheppard) May 25, 2017
Isn't that something? You don't even need any fandom background to see that this was no faux saltiness going on. Mark Sheppard is not returning to the show next year as his character Crowley was killed off in the season finale. He also has made it known that he was not invited to any Creation - Supernatural conventions in 2018. Fans were in an uproar and yet a few (or one? always hard to tell on that site) anon voices on Spn_Goss seemed to want to downplay the speculation and turn the blame onto Mark Sheppard. Interesting. And this was quite an informative tumblr post by one individual on their observations:
source
The simultaneous combined freeze from both the television show and Creation Entertainment would certainly seem worthy of a second, very hard glance.
collaboration: PG and M&M
pic sources: Twitter
our playlist: I'm No Angel - Gregg Allman, 1947-2017
Midnight Rider - Gregg Allman
5 comments:
Boy, Genevieve was something else during that whole presentation speech. As M&M had pointed out to me earlier today, this law had already been passed by both the House and the Senate earlier this month. All that remained to be done was the governor to sign the bill. J & G did not need to advocate - the bill had passed. So this appearance really seemed to be a grand stage for the "family unit" to make an official stand, you know, in case there were any doubts, right???
Yes, Jared has his AKF campaign and has been a supportive speaker for sufferers of depression and mental illness. He could have made a solo appearance, but no...we had the whole family - even though both Tom and Shep are too young to even know what was being talked about or why they had a sign being held in front of them.
That family picture which Jared "leaked" earlier this month, the pink one, the one without the beard? That was the family unit, only without the real life partner and remainder of the real family unit. But that's okay - we know why they weren't there. But Genevieve could have been, only she wasn't.
The Texas Capitol is just a building, not a house of notarization.
lol, what in the heck is wrong with my avatar? Poor Lima, he's all distorted. I'll have to change.
The story behind the post title is just that M&M and I kind of started the post this morning...but it's evening by the time it's wrapped up. LOL!
Being on social media is fun. It's also been a real eye opener. It's educational, hilarious, can provide a sense of community sometimes. But I do think it is also a bit of a minefield because many of the folks of interest are closeted, which means this draws Mgmnt and their compensated "interns".
And it also can draw the presence of "interns" not just in possible trolling, but in the presence of "friendly fire" or false "allies". Meaning, you can have a twitter follower who is really a coyote in the hen house. I firmly believe it happens.
Anyway last night, I realized that there was an Austin Nichols twitter account who did a 180 of sorts along with my noticing that the account had changed its twitter name. And I looked at their style of writing and then the change of twitter name? And I knew that account had changed hands.
But then today, I went back and studied our past history of discussions and it dawned on me that the account very likely always had been a compromised account. Do I know that 100%? Do I have solid proof? No. But yesterday's online activity made it pretty clear too clear to me, which is the main reason why I spoke up so harshly.
And the fact that this account follows the paid troll next door's twitter, pretty much wax-sealed the deal. Really, really creepy stuff.
Thanks for the Greg Allman. Yet another sad loss for music.
I was not a fan of 1D but I really like the stuff Harry Styles is doing now, probably because it is more rock than pop driven.
Hey, Destiny,
Yeah, I really like what Harry's putting out now. A very talented guy (they all are), but Harry has always had a certain joy and charisma as a performer that sets him apart from the others when you see him in action. I'm a rock person myself too. Although I do love a lot of 1D stuff. Particularly, their last two albums, "Four" and "Made in the A.M." Good stuff.
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