Bachelorette Clare, Falling in Love Too Fast?

 


So as I’ve stated before I’ve barely been watching The Bachelorette, but Clare just sent someone home because he didn’t know anything about her the very first day. What, are they supposed to google her? Sure, they had the time with corona but what about the romance? He said she was beautiful and wanted to get to know her better and she took that as the worst insult ever. She was upset he wasn't fawning over her. That’s like googling a blind date before meeting them. It definitely could work out, but relationships form with chemistry and time. Why would you want someone who just cyber stalked you and all of a sudden know your sisters 3rd grade dog? That would look crazy and psychotic....Like why are you so obsessed with me? But in the bachelor world, I guess everyone should be madly in love with everyone. This is just very much inline with what others have said about being the lead bachelor or bachelorette, where they at the same time, want this huge serendipitous experience with love at first sight and just a fairy tale story, but also want every man or woman to be crazy about them from the get go.

Like there must be some insecurity in the beginning, about finding someone they fall in love enough to get engaged or what not. Right now actually it almost seems like they are strictly putting the men against each other with competition with the dodgeball and rewarding those who break the rules and such. They spin cycle it about competing for Clare's heart, but its strip dodgeball.  Clare allegedly actually has talked to some guys through DMs before the filming but on TV acts like they are just meeting for the first time like Dale, the supposed super crush for Clare Crawley. Todays episode was just super awkward and uncomfortable to watch....just from her talking to and meeting the guys and all...

This just reminds me that no matter how old or young the people are in front of TV and on reality shows, they all are the same. Clares montra this season is ‘At 39 years old I am the oldest bachelorette because I didn’t settle for men like that’ as a guy leaves the show. Now I never watched Juan Pablo's season so I can't realistically touch on that but did we all just forget about Benoit where they got engaged and broke it off after a few months? And the other 3 shows of the bachelor she was on...maybe a TV relationship isn't in the cards Clare, but who knows, honestly anythings possible with this show....

Other guys are talking about their impression of Clare in the bachelorette and it’s not exactly positive. I think she has forgotten she wants the guys to fall in love with her and get engaged and honestly she’s sort of scaring them and turning them off from her very quickly. Or maybe she shouldn’t have zeroed in on one guy from day one, or before day one maybe. Who knows. I think personally she's just bored from corona and knows her season isn't as good as it would have been. But when does the bachelor ever have a happily ever after, forget about marriage...

Supposedly there is another girl Taysha that comes in later on because Clare leaves with Dale and Taysha finishes the year with some of these guys and some others brought in as well. Maybe I'll wait and watch that portion, Oh and Barstool Sports does a live Twitter as well as an after show stream and they clearly show their bias toward the producers and production with their opinions on empowerment Clare and them loving how guys should stay in line and all that stuff. I wonder how much the Bachelor producers bought them for, for all the positive press and all...I'm assuming at least, because Clare does not look good to the public eye and they are giving her ringing endorsements. 

Get your paycheck I guess, just know that you guys are just like Nick Viall and Ashley Iaconetti now, just saying whatever the producers want you to say; us, the public aren't that stupid. The producers can and do definitely trick us with however they edit their show but we definitely can tell that you guys are just a bunch of yes men. I guess getting interviews and such with Chris Harrison and Mike Fleiss the producers helps to get in their good graces, also the fact that Trent was on the show does help that relationship. Any press is good press, especially all that free press by Barstool.  Whatever, until next time, who knows, I actually don't know if I'll finish watching this or just watch Reality Steves updates...

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Too Old vs Too Young Influencers

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So right now I sit on the couch watching The bachelorette and it just got me thinking about everyone’s ages and reality stars/social media influencers. Like comparing them to the Pinterest influencers, Tik Tokers, and reality people. There are people famous on all these random social media platforms trying to become the best of the best. 

So here at The Bachelorette Clare Crowley is 39 and is a veteran to The Bachelor franchise, she has gone on The Bachelor, two seasons of Bachelor in Paradise and The Bachelor: Winter Games....and now as The Bachelorette. Hopefully fifth times the charm. 

I know the reasons why I would want to go on a show like The Bachelor (mainly selfish, popularity and social media type influencers things) so I’m always curious if others are the same? Now of course productions it almost seems to go out of their way to to find these influencers now a days with finding girls with huge social media followings and even now finding already seasoned influencers such as Hannah G and Hannah Ann and evening this upcoming season there’s bound to be youtubers or Tik Tokers.

So bringing it around to the Tik Tok thing, teenagers are cash cows and basically the new child actors for parents. Even Tik Tok royalty Charli D’Amelio and Co.  are now far beyond tipping their toe in the influencer game but integrating themselves in the business aspect of social media. They already built their following and now are trying to become media moguls. 

Supposedly the D’Amelio’s have been/are being courted by rival app Triller who have been partnering up with other Tik Tok creators such as Bryce Hall, Tayler Holder, Blake Gray and also have been gifted them with a variety of incentives on the Triller company dime to promote their app. 

According to The New York Times , they have been financing two creator houses right after Bryce Hall and Blake Gray’s power got shut off by the city for partying as well as partnerships with Josh Richard and others for positions in their company, equity packages and perks.  Even apparently a board position for father, Marc D’Amelio? Charli was supposed promised a couple million for promotion and their leased Rolls Royce with the Triller license plate. 



So disregard what I’ve said in the past about these teenagers and early 20s creators, looks like they do know something about business growth and marketing. Even Sway House members partnering with other famous notables like actor and now DJ Vin Diesel, and media business man Dave Portnoy from Barstool Sports. Podcasts now really are the new thing, with nearly all the famous Tik Tok creators making their own in the past few weeks. I guess after the Call Her Daddy numbers and revenue were publicized, everyone wanted in. 

Oh also did you know they’re remaking Zoey 101 with Tik Tok stars? Tik Tok is the next best thing, not a fan though, I think the producers underestimated nostalgia of Zoey 101 and brought in all these social media influencers to as their safety net to make sure they get views. I guess this is just like Degrassi 2.0 and the reboot of 90210. 

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Podcasts, the Next Media

 


Starting this year off with Barstool's Call Her Daddy and even Joe Rogans $100 Million Spotify deal leading to Howard Sterns Sirius XM's $120 Million a year deal, even leading to the new Sofia with and F podcast and other up and coming Tik Tok podcasts, it seems to be podcasts are the nest best thing. 

Powerhouse deals with host icons like shock jock Howard Stern, and the controversial Joe Rogan definitely are spearheading this new mainstream content platform. For the past 10 years there was a surge in Youtubers and still are with daily vlogs, beauty gurus and lifestyle brands but podcasts have been the up and comers with their genre diversity from NPR to comedians Bill Burr and Theo Von, even mainstream host Conan O'Brien. 

Iheart Radio hosted the second podcast award this past January even with shows likes Iheart's Ron Burgundy Show, EarWolf and Team Coco's Conan O'Brien, Needs a Friend, Barstool's Pardon My Take and Armchair Umbrella's Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard. Other notables including Life is Short with Justin Long, Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum, Your Favorite Thing with Wells Adams and Brandi Cyrus. Besides hollywood stars, social media stars have built an audience such as Logan Paul with Impaulsive, Addison Rae, Bryce Hall, Charli and Dixi D'amelio, and David Dobrik. 


Media is in the state of transition where content is moving digital and streaming services, creating this new boom of podcasts. Traditional media is in the past, today podcasts have brought in starting with 28 Million to 62 million weekly listeners comparing 2015 numbers to 2019 according to Edison Research and Triton Digital. In 2020, 155 million listens weekly. This boom of views has definitely created an armrace between popular platforms Spotify, Iheart, Barstool, New York Times, and NPR, all with 10's to 100's of millions of global downloads and streams. 

The projected audiences for podcasts coupled with ad sales and the ability to exceed $1 billion in revenue are extremely promising. Youtubers for the past ten years have capitalized on their home videos and building a brand but now podcasts seem to be the future. From listening on the commute to work or simply work from home, there are thousands of podcasts options today from educational to entertainment and more. Podcasts are the new radio shows, and the next best thing. 



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Ex 'Call Her Daddy' Host With New Rival Podcast


 It was everywhere a couple months ago in news of the podcast featuring Alex Cooper and Sofie Franklyn took the media by storm with their publicized Barstool Sports contract negotiations for the very popular cohosted show Call Her Daddy. 

Contract negotiations involved IP's, salary, and  incentive based contracts with Barstools President David Portnoy and CEO Erika Nardini. Both Alex with her new solo hosted Call Her Daddy and now Sofia with her new podcast Sofia with an F have stated their side of the story, adding a whole new prospective in this whole story. 

Now, with all the business and lawyer talk stated before, both Alex and Sofia's side definitely have two distinct point of views: one focusing more on the contract with Barstool and the IP with the increased pay and the other side focusing more on the backstabbing friendships and females in business. 

According to Sofia, things had changed with their business partnership when the new contracts were being negotiated, stating they were earning far less than the numbers their podcast were bringing in ($10,000,000 hypothetically) with them taking in around $500,000 each. 

Other points brought up with friendships being burned and how this controversy would not happen if she was a man, even bringing up points about mental health through this whole thing this past spring. 

With this new podcast being dropped and all the interested Call Her Daddy Fans, it's obvious Sofia's podcast will be the best new thing for the time being. I'm sure all the fans are eager to hear her side of the story and see Sofia's new podcast format out of all this. Alex for sure is doing just fine herself with guests like Miley Cyrus and other notables, also not to mention her new massive Manhattan loft which you can view below. 

Ultimately, this is a new contender and rival for Call Her Daddy and we'll see how things will compare. With one episode down, Sofia for sure has not fully fleshed out her side of the story and has the potential for great growth as the next best podcast. Definitely new content is to come and of course competition between the two, let's see what is to come.  

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sofia-with-an-f/id1533822662

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Morgan Wallen Dropped as Musical Guest w/ SNL

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Now it would entirely be easy to divide the response behind SNL dropping country artist Morgan Wallen but honestly what seems to be the reasoning behind it all is that he just is not NBC's cup of tea. 

Now he isn't exactly a house hold name besides the modern country fan but even I have heard of songs Whiskey Glasses and Heartless with Diplo just by looking him up on Spotify. He's a good singer just not famous enough to skate by with this news for NBC. 

Ultimately I'm sure companies don't want the bad press and PR from hiring an almost 30 year old country singer parading around with the every sorority girl from University of Alabama during these sensitive times.

Now even take corona out of the picture, and still this isn't exactly a setting that SNL wants to give their ringing endorsement. He did state that he had tested negative but it seems that is beyond the point now. 

I'm sure every guy under the sun are queuing up to writing under the comments of this announcement would say they would do the same, really anything to go hook up with teenagers and college girls just the public eye doesn't always agree with assumed horny middle aged men.

 On the plus side, Morgan Wallen got the buzz I'm sure he had wanted from the get go out of this situation. Although a lot of media outlets could be skewering him for his lewd behavior, it doesn't matter really in the end because he still got his publicity. 

So going forward from this, ultimately he just has to learn from the past and move forward. I'm sure he's not the first singer with some popularity to go try and hook up with the sorority girls at every college and he's definitely not the last. 

Probably next time try with someone without their cell phone recording all the time or someone older and was born before like 2000.

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Covid SNL w/Jim Carrey Chris Rock and Megan the Stallion


 So Saturday Night Live was brought back for their first episode of season 46 hosted by Chris Rock. Now I definitely have been late on the SNL train but I was interested in how the production would change due to corona restrictions and policies. There was a noticeable difference and the new rules and current climate were hard to ignore with references throughout the show. 

Politics of course was the main focal point, with the presidential election only weeks away, as it should be. Elections aside, politics for the past 6 odd months have been hot button topics of course, with coronas threat to public health, governmental restrictions put in place, as well as the affects on the American people. 

As much material that has been circulating around the media the episode had more of a safe and cautious feel, definitely toeing the line. The opening episode started off with a parody of the presidential debate that had just happened portrayed by Jim Carrey for Joe Biden and Alec Baldwin returning to his Donald Trump. Other sketches touches on the effects of corona, with material including masks, online school teaching, TIkTok, and the NBA bubble.  

Now next week the host is Bill Burr and I love that SNL is willing to touch on more controversial and edgier topics as he does. Bill's New Englander attitude and quick wit could definitely prompt a diverse array of sketches. Coupled with previous acting college Pete Davidson, there are definite areas for outside the box options.




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