Alizée on Stars à Domicile again!!! - Page 7

VVVACCPLPNLY · #61 04-21-2010, 12:03 PM

There doesn't seem to be a definite answer to that uestion yet.

User22 · #62 04-21-2010, 12:12 PM

ok so there is still a chance of her surprising some lucky person

???

VVVACCPLPNLY · #63 04-21-2010, 02:05 PM

Maybe. Very doubtful. But definitely not Amercans.

User22 · #64 04-21-2010, 04:46 PM

Hmmm, we shall wait to see if the show goes on....

VVVACCPLPNLY · #65 04-21-2010, 06:15 PM

It would be great to see. Preferably a male fan this time; change things up.

Rev · #66 04-21-2010, 10:51 PM

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I wonder about that every once in a while. What does Alizée (or any of those people) actually get paid for and how much?
It does seem a bit strange that it seems to me like some of these tv people are getting pretty desperate to put anything on tv that will get people's interest, but at the same time that people are demanding more and want actual good programming, the money has and perhaps continues to dry up because people are just simply losing interest in tv. I don't know if that's total b.s., but frankly, I'm a bit surprised that we humans have continued to watch tv as much as we have. I always figured it would go out of style eventually as people find other ways to create, connect, experience things. But, I guess there's still plenty of passivity and lack of focusable energy on the part of people at home. I don't know. I recently heard that tv watching is as popular as ever; so, is it just that the ad driven sales paradigm in it trouble? Or, maybe there is no problem and this is just business as usual in show biz/tv. ??

Today is different than 10 years ago. The intensity of life is much higher.

So much more is competing for peoples attention today that the competition is much more cutthroat. Also, as the number of venues has multiplied, the old controls have partially come off, and the intensity needed to attract attention has increased.

One of the casualties is good "family" programming.

For example, 10 years ago, 10 TV channels was common. If you had cable (and much fewer did) then you might have gotten 40 channels. Now it is more like 400. And everybody gets their own program.

The internet was not yet for the masses. Devices like iPods did not yet exist. Neither did Napster. The computer (PC) was running Windows 98. Cell phones were actually phones, and mostly in the hands of adults.

Today, my daughter sends/receives 8,000 texts a month. She will be on facebook (with about 1,000 friends) and have one or two IMs going at a time (while texting). She has instant access to several hunderd teens at any given moment.

The kids today face pressures we never did. I wish them all a lot of luck keeping their priorities straight.

Bottom line is it is a different world than just 10 years ago.

User22 · #67 04-21-2010, 11:05 PM

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The kids today face pressures we never did. I wish them all a lot of luck keeping their priorities straight.

Bottom line is it is a different world than just 10 years ago.

Totally agreed, like it is now socially acceptable to be gay/lesbian, overweight, a nazi....kidding bout the nazi one

Roman · #68 04-25-2010, 10:13 PM

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The kids today face pressures we never did. I wish them all a lot of luck keeping their priorities straight. ...

Kids? We're all in a vice. We all face pressures we never did right now. The concept of "generation" is dead my friend. The singularity approaches.

User22 · #69 04-25-2010, 10:19 PM

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The concept of "generation" is dead my friend. The singularity approaches.

Yah there are no generations...especially when most people 40+ have some form of cellular communication...and know how to operate a computer...

Rev · #70 04-25-2010, 11:41 PM

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Kids? We're all in a vice. We all face pressures we never did right now. The concept of "generation" is dead my friend. The singularity approaches.

No argument that everything is more intense now. However, imagine what it would have been like to grow up with this intensity. Imagine what the 9th grade would have been like, with all the social pressure added on top of everything else. I am watching my daughter cope with all this and am amazed that she actually can.

As for the singularity... I actually think that 2012 will be more interesting.