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Sunday, June 17, 2018

The Predictability of PR Hacks



“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.” - Albert Einstein


With the arrival of Father's Day today and Harry Styles finishing up the last leg of his Pink Tour in North America, we here at Narnia were naturally waiting for the telltale signs of the heavy hand of management to appear.  True to form, Jake Gyllenhaal's Calvin Klein fragrance commercial began airing on television all week and tweets began appearing talking about his child....

 

 

 

 

 

Coincide these subliminal suggestions onto a tandem bicycle built for two with Austin sending himself to Texas just so that he can get his annual haircut on his 10th wedding anniversary, and well....at least we can see that Austin is looking fine and dandy.  Courtesy of their go-to enabling twitter account:

[Again, June 16th, 2008 was the first day that licenses for same-sex marriages were issued after the ban on them was overturned by the Supreme Court of California (May 15). At that time, Maggie, Peter, the matriarch, and Jake are all seen in LA as if the family is congregating (and not just for a Brothers screening). OK! magazine has come out with a story entitled "Reese Ready to Wed!".  And as for Austin? Well, a twitter mutual of mine happened to see Jake and Austin having brunch together at Coogies in Malibu, CA the weekend before June 16.  All of these signs (in addition to a few others) narrow down to a legal nuptial ceremony on June 16]

It's a day late, but Happy 10th wedding anniversary to Austin and Jake!  And Happy Father's Day. It's possible today could be a Nichols/Gyllenhaal/Stovall Father's Day quadruple celebration.

 

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Then with Harry being as gay as he can be on and off stage, Management decided it was time to allow Louis Tomlinson to appear at the Delaware Firefly Music Festival on Friday and Saturday, with beard in tow. Prominently documenting that even though he was just one hour away from Harry's concert in Hershey, PA, he had no desire to support his former bandmate in anyway. The media narrative that Louis and Harry are no longer together once again repetitively reinforced by the "girlfriend" appendage. It's always hilarious to see Louis out and about with the "girlfriend". Inevitably surrounded by his lads  (phalanx of protectors), Calvin, Oli and this time, Luke (aka "Hot Luke") Malak, with Eleanor tagging along like the fifth wheel that no one needs or wants. These "candid" moments not surprisingly as fake and awkward as the ersatz couple's first public outing in September 2011. That's right. This farce has been going on for seven years! What a waste of money. What a waste of time. Predictable and pathetic. Add in the sour tasting tidbit that the "fan" who took the up close and personal pics this weekend just happens to be a Eleanor/Louis shipper...well let's just say that the "coincidences" keep piling up, don't they?

 Louis with his friend, Luke


                                                     

        Louis with his friend, Oli


 

                       Scantily clan fake girlfriend by his side  

                                         

     Luke, Oli, Calvin, Louis and back view of bouncing beard

  

Not to be outdone, Harry's team made sure to roll out Harry's male beard again this weekend, Xander Ritz. Forget the fact, that Sony/Syco already has Harry shackled to his own stunt girlfriend. Because remember that the public narrative from Harry's homophobic team is that he is a womanizer and apparently a manizer, because hints have been spread for sometime now that Harry just might be bisexual; the "Anybody but Louis" meme as strong as ever. Never mind the obvious attempt to remind those pesky Larries that the scuzzbucket introduced to the fandom in 2015 to sell the idea that Louis and Harry had broken up is still very much around. Well, of course he is since the guy is buds with Jeff Azoff, Harry's manager. How interesting that 2015 was the same year that Sony/Syco saddled Louis with a one night stand fake pregnancy stunt. But, I'm sure that was just a coincidence....NOT!


  X, guy in the back also known for sending dick pics to young female 1D fans
          

One thing for sure, no matter what stunt Harry is burdened with he always seems to be able to turn the situation to his advantage, especially while he's on stage. Whether he's wearing that blue bandana the fandom has associated with Louis since 2014 during a pre-concert break, 


 

or shouting "Happy Pride" to an enthusiastic and colorful crowd, he never ceases to undermine the fake narratives that continue to be promoted by a tone deaf management team and music label.  

 


On Saturday night, for instance, he trended for hours on Twitter because of a certain act of rebellion that social media was enjoying thoroughly.



 

You tell 'em, Harry. In the end, PR hacks can be as predictable as they want to be, but somehow despite the noise, despite the lies, despite the personal vendettas of small minded corporate types another message is coming through loud and clear. A message that is being heard and embraced by anyone with eyes to see. Which is really all that matters.

A dashing 3-year old fan at Harry's concert in PA

     

....and a little child shall lead them.

 
Happy Father's Day, everyone

pic sources: tumblr

our playlist:  I'm Looking Through You - The Wallflowers

                     Sign of the Times - Harry Styles

                    Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys

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