We already know that it’s true that Rosalia, our Rosie, has broken up with Rau Alejandro., this blue-haired Puerto Rican who dances like a god will move while dancing. news published Peoplepreceded by speculation and caused the collapse of the souls who still believe in love, plunging many of us into a state of deep sadness (sadness that gave rise to anger and, again, speculation). Thus, the Internet began to go through the stages of its special mourning. But, Why are we so strongly affected when star couples break up? Do we play anything in each other’s novels?
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That a connection is emerging between the masses and a popular figure is certainly not new, and it is more than understandable that we are interested in the lives of people we admire to a certain extent, but at the present time they are aware of a number of circumstances that reinforce the view that we dedicate to our stars. It occurs to me, in order to clarify my hypothesis, to draw a square: in one corner there would be V celebrity culturein a different social mediain third poor mental health and last attitude of modern man to romantic love. Let me explain and I’ll start from the end.
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We are going through a stage of, shall we say, transition, or at least interrogation: the traditional model (boy meets girl, they like each other, meet, become boyfriends, get married, start a family and stay together until the day they die) becomes more unlikely, does not always work out and / or does not suit everyone; however, even those who do not want to follow this path feel some nostalgia for it’s almost impossible to let go of the dream we’ve been fed since childhood. In a world where the romantic ideal dies (or is transformed), we continue to consume typical love, perhaps with more anxiety than ever (desire arising from the loss of this promise of well-being). A TikTok account in which a passer-by in New York asks random couples for stories has garnered millions of views. Despite the reversal of roles, our goals and expectations, despite skepticism and failure, despite the dictatorship of dissatisfaction imposed by dating apps, classic love keeps touching us. Add to this the age-old obsession with celebrities, and you have a powerful drug.
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What is called in the USA celebrity culture (the culture of celebrity) was born a couple of centuries ago, when the nouveau riche of that time strove to appear on secular columns. However, in recent decades, morbid curiosity has assumed colossal proportions, eventually completely taking over the environment in which we exist. exposure is constant: weekly television programs and periodical magazines have given way blogging And reality, thereby providing us with higher, more frequent, and coarser doses of alien intimacy. The latest stage of this progress has become social networks, direct channels of communication between celebrities and their public. The benefits are clear (the image we get is less distorted and the asymmetry is reduced), but also danger. We are offered the opportunity to enter the living room of our idol, listen to his voice daily (the voice that speaks to US), gain access to his space and ourselves. Two words: parasocial relationship.
Parasocial relationships are “imaginary or illusory connections that people form with fictional characters or celebrities without actual interaction.” In the heat of battle (voicing our opinion) we tend to forget a simple truth: we don’t know these people. We write about their divorces, choose sides, make strict judgments, but to be honest, we don’t know anything. Doja Cat He stated this week that he doesn’t love his fans (“I Don’t Know You”); such a verbal slap in the face, though difficult to process, opened a gap in the delirium. We don’t know these people! Through Instagram, we are presented with a falsified portrait that maintains in us both a sense of closeness and an aspiration (to have, to be, to be there, not here). The worse our mental health, the weaker our psycho-affective structure, the more weight we will pour into those hyperfixations that serve to avoid and at the same time never completely satisfy.
Rosalia and Rau were generous (or perhaps unconscious) and they gave us a glimpse into their private lives. Rather, they gave us collage, a collection of images, sounds and poems designed to reflect the idea of your privacy. As we continue our uninteresting conversation with a Tinder contact, in the post-pandemic context of isolation and addiction to the screen, their story may seem exceptional to us, but Rosalia and Rau are just a woman and a man who, like you and me, and so many women and so many men in front of them they met and created an imperfect bond. Precious, sure, but imperfect. Let’s resist the siren songs, get rid of the fantasies that trap us, and focus our attention on making our life, small but ours, one worth living.
TO