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A Fork's Existential Crisis?","publishDate":1560969638,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>The \u003cem>Toy Story \u003c/em>movies are about the secret lives of dolls and action figures that find their deepest fulfillment in a child's embrace. But they're really about what it means to be human: the joys of love and friendship and the pains of rejection and loss. But even more than the earlier films, \u003cem>Toy Story 4\u003c/em> feels haunted by the idea of impermanence. What happens when we outgrow something we once cherished? To put it another way: After three \u003cem>Toy Story\u003c/em> movies, do we really need a fourth?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The director, Josh Cooley, and the writers, Andrew Stanton and Stephany Folsom, seem to have wrestled hard with that question, and they've come up with an entertaining if not entirely satisfying answer. \u003cem>Toy Story 4 \u003c/em>is as funny and dazzling as you'd expect from a Pixar entertainment, but it's also a more ungainly piece of storytelling than its predecessors: The humor is coarser around the edges and the plot takes wild, audacious leaps that don't always pay off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbdspP_tU6M\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the movie opens, Sheriff Woody (voiced again by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/04/26/475573489/tom-hanks-says-self-doubt-is-a-high-wire-act-that-we-all-walk\">Tom Hanks\u003c/a>) is in the rare position of no longer being the favorite toy in the bedroom. He's aged into an avuncular figure, concerned with making sure that he and his friends are there for their owner, Bonnie, when she needs them. But one day Bonnie comes home from kindergarten with a creature she made herself out of a plastic eating utensil, a pipe cleaner and two googly eyes. His name is Forky, and Bonnie's love has brought him to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Forky, voiced with neurotic terror by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/06/22/483064148/theres-a-reason-why-i-play-anxious-characters-says-veep-actor-tony-hale\">Tony Hale\u003c/a>, sees himself not as a toy but as a piece of trash, which is why he keeps trying to hurl himself into the nearest wastebasket. As a mini-Frankenstein with suicidal urges, Forky represents the kind of existential conundrum that future dissertations are made of; perhaps only Pixar could make a children's movie that leaves you pondering the origins of the soul and the nature of free will. Still, for the first time in a \u003cem>Toy Story\u003c/em> picture, I found myself resisting parts of the premise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forky grows on you as a character, but his role is mainly to enable Woody's reckless heroism, which is starting to look a lot like narcissism. When Bonnie brings her toys along on a family road trip, Forky gets lost, and Woody sets out to track him down. He finds him, but then they wind up in an antique shop where Woody spies something that reminds him of his old friend, the shepherdess Bo Peep, whom he hasn't seen in years. That leads them to a doll named Gabby Gabby, voiced by Christina Hendricks with a sweetness that seems a little too good to be true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabby Gabby has her own twisted plans for Woody and Forky. She might seem like the latest version of a familiar villain, the abandoned toy out for revenge. Happily, she turns out to be a more complicated and sympathetic figure than that. But the movie's most richly layered character is Bo Peep, who was given away by her kid years ago and now spends her days with other renegade toys on public playgrounds. Don't be fooled by that porcelain delicacy: Bo Peep, voiced by Annie Potts, has been toughened by her years off the grid, and it's bracing to see her rebuke Woody, with his sentimental belief that every toy needs a child's love to know its worth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, Bo Peep will still help Woody and Forky find their way back to Buzz Lightyear and the others. Along the way we meet a lot of new toy characters, not all of them successful. If you like Canada jokes, you'll like Keanu Reeves' performance as a posturing motorcycle stunt rider named Duke Caboom. As for Ducky and Bunny, a pair of plush toys, they were obnoxious enough to wear down even my fondness for the actors \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/11/20/246311451/for-key-and-peele-biracial-roots-bestow-special-comedic-power\">Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pixar being the well-oiled entertainment machine that it is, the disparate parts of \u003cem>Toy Story 4\u003c/em> eventually come together in smooth, even wizardly fashion. Long after the contrived and misfired bits have faded, the brilliantly visualized action sequences and the pinpricks of emotion stay with you. Still, bidding farewell to these characters for the fourth time, I couldn't help but hope it would be the last, that the filmmakers would leave well enough alone. With all due affection for these movies and their astonishing quarter-century run, Woody isn't the only one having trouble letting go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 Fresh Air. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=To+Infinity+And+...+Be+Done%3A+After+4+Films%2C+Have+We+Finally+Outgrown+%27Toy+Story%27%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Only Pixar could make a children's movie that leaves you pondering the origins of the soul and the nature of free will...","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1560969638,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":792},"headData":{"title":"'Toy Story 4': Woody And The Gang Deal With... 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The new Hulu show \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>, based on her \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/498400353/shrill-notes-from-a-loud-woman\">2016 memoir\u003c/a> about being feminist and body positive, is not \"all about the message,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reality of being a fat person isn't that every moment of your life is about being fat,\" she says. \"It's that you're trying to live the same kind of complicated, exciting, fun, beautiful, difficult life as everyone else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only problem, West says, is that at every turn, society says \"you should apologize for just living in your body.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyUr_-jxWZA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/703305271/aidy-bryant-on-shrill-snl-thrills-and-not-feeling-bad-about-her-body\">SNL's Aidy Bryant\u003c/a> plays West's character in the show. \"Annie\" is not exactly Lindy, but there are some obvious parallels, like being an aspiring writer at an alternative weekly newspaper in the Pacific Northwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When West was writing her memoir, she'd ask herself one question whenever she got lost or stuck: \"What's the book that I needed to read when I was younger?\" That was the guiding principle for West and Bryant as they shaped the screen adaptation, too: \"Aidy and I just said over and over ... We're going to make the show that we needed when we were younger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/703468584/703535395\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the notion that there's a small person \"inside\" every fat person\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've had variations of that said to me my whole life. ... That's what diet culture advertising is all about—that there is this small person inside of you waiting to be unleashed ... that my body is a prison for a smaller, more important person. ... It's really hard to have a good comeback in the moment when you're being emotionally abused by a stranger, so it's nice to redo that with a writers' room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On resisting diet culture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's such a hard transition to sort of wrench your head out of diet culture. We're really taught from birth that the only way to have a good life is to have this one certain kind of body. And people spend their whole lives, you know, struggling to attain that one specific shape. ... I still feel the pull of that. ... I broke through that wall a long time ago and built the life that I want for myself in this body that I have—this fat body—and I can still feel it pulling on me. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why we made the show. You don't see fat people being happy on TV. If there's a fat character on TV they are sad. They're trying to lose weight, or they're having a makeover montage, or they get whacked over the head and believe that they're beautiful because it's a delusion. You know it can't just be a sincere truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On depicting an abortion on the show\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously there are all kinds of abortion stories and people have all different kinds of experiences. ... We really wanted to tell this sort of smaller, not-sensationalized, true story about a person who ... was pregnant who didn't want to be pregnant and had access to her constitutionally protected right and exercised it. You know, that's a really simple, really common story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the way that we do talk about abortion in media—when we talk about it at all ... is as this sort of high-drama moment. ... It meant a lot to me to get to put this abortion onscreen in such ... an honest and small way, where, you know, it's a big moment in her life, but not because she's conflicted about the procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110406\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-800x579.jpg\" alt=\"Executive Producer Lindy West attends Hulu's 'Shrill' New York Premiere at the Lincoln Center. \" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-800x579.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-768x556.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-1200x868.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-1920x1389.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Producer Lindy West attends Hulu's 'Shrill' New York Premiere at the Lincoln Center. \u003ccite>(Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Hulu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On sharing personal stories in the writers' room\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It [was] super collaborative in the writers' room. It is such a personal, vulnerable show that, yeah, there was a lot of sharing and, you know, commiserating and kind of beautiful cathartic moments. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially the men really, like, couldn't believe that some of these things had been said to us. Especially when we would talk about the way we've been treated in relationships ... they were just very disturbed and astonished. ... It's not just that these things happened to us one time, but they were like a normal part of dating in our 20s. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Society really does not teach young men how to value plus-size women. And it's rough, man. I think that's part of what we wanted to do with the show—was make that experience accessible to people who maybe don't really understand quite how cruel it can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the \"Fat Babe Pool Party\" scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Fat Babe Pool Parties are] a real thing in multiple cities—there are these body positive pool parties because for generations fat people have been told not to go swimming. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We shot it at this gorgeous country club outside of Portland and it was a two-day shoot. And the great thing about shooting a Fat Babe Pool Party for two days at a gorgeous country club is that you have to \u003cem>throw\u003c/em> a Fat Babe Pool Party for two days at a gorgeous country club. ... I was just weeping every day because it was so beautiful. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm so excited for people to see this show—especially the pool party—and to feel that little sort of tickle of recognition ... \u003cem>That's me. That's what I look like.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On hoping the show helps young women feel good about their bodies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously things are different now than they were 10 years ago when I was going through this process. There is a lot more body diversity on screen and there's a lot more open conversation about this stuff in the media. So probably these ideas aren't as new to young people now as they were to me. ... But I do hope that that message makes it to people and resonates with people. If it changes one person's life a little tiny bit, I'm so, so, so glad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sam Gringlas and Sarah Handel produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Beth Novey adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+%27Shrill%2C%27+Lindy+West+Made+The+Body+Positive+Show+That+She+Never+Had&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"\"You don't see fat people being happy on TV. If there's a fat character on TV they are sad,\" West says. That's definitely not the case in 'Shrill'—a Hulu comedy series adapted from West's 2016 memoir.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1552900989,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1068},"headData":{"title":"In 'Shrill,' Lindy West Made the Body Positive Show She Never Had | KQED","description":""You don't see fat people being happy on TV. 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The new Hulu show \u003cem>Shrill\u003c/em>, based on her \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/498400353/shrill-notes-from-a-loud-woman\">2016 memoir\u003c/a> about being feminist and body positive, is not \"all about the message,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reality of being a fat person isn't that every moment of your life is about being fat,\" she says. \"It's that you're trying to live the same kind of complicated, exciting, fun, beautiful, difficult life as everyone else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only problem, West says, is that at every turn, society says \"you should apologize for just living in your body.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/JyUr_-jxWZA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/JyUr_-jxWZA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/703305271/aidy-bryant-on-shrill-snl-thrills-and-not-feeling-bad-about-her-body\">SNL's Aidy Bryant\u003c/a> plays West's character in the show. \"Annie\" is not exactly Lindy, but there are some obvious parallels, like being an aspiring writer at an alternative weekly newspaper in the Pacific Northwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When West was writing her memoir, she'd ask herself one question whenever she got lost or stuck: \"What's the book that I needed to read when I was younger?\" That was the guiding principle for West and Bryant as they shaped the screen adaptation, too: \"Aidy and I just said over and over ... We're going to make the show that we needed when we were younger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/703468584/703535395\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the notion that there's a small person \"inside\" every fat person\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've had variations of that said to me my whole life. ... That's what diet culture advertising is all about—that there is this small person inside of you waiting to be unleashed ... that my body is a prison for a smaller, more important person. ... It's really hard to have a good comeback in the moment when you're being emotionally abused by a stranger, so it's nice to redo that with a writers' room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On resisting diet culture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's such a hard transition to sort of wrench your head out of diet culture. We're really taught from birth that the only way to have a good life is to have this one certain kind of body. And people spend their whole lives, you know, struggling to attain that one specific shape. ... I still feel the pull of that. ... I broke through that wall a long time ago and built the life that I want for myself in this body that I have—this fat body—and I can still feel it pulling on me. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why we made the show. You don't see fat people being happy on TV. If there's a fat character on TV they are sad. They're trying to lose weight, or they're having a makeover montage, or they get whacked over the head and believe that they're beautiful because it's a delusion. You know it can't just be a sincere truth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On depicting an abortion on the show\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously there are all kinds of abortion stories and people have all different kinds of experiences. ... We really wanted to tell this sort of smaller, not-sensationalized, true story about a person who ... was pregnant who didn't want to be pregnant and had access to her constitutionally protected right and exercised it. You know, that's a really simple, really common story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the way that we do talk about abortion in media—when we talk about it at all ... is as this sort of high-drama moment. ... It meant a lot to me to get to put this abortion onscreen in such ... an honest and small way, where, you know, it's a big moment in her life, but not because she's conflicted about the procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-110406\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-800x579.jpg\" alt=\"Executive Producer Lindy West attends Hulu's 'Shrill' New York Premiere at the Lincoln Center. \" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-800x579.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-768x556.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-1200x868.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204-1920x1389.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/03/GettyImages-1135649204.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Producer Lindy West attends Hulu's 'Shrill' New York Premiere at the Lincoln Center. \u003ccite>(Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Hulu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On sharing personal stories in the writers' room\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It [was] super collaborative in the writers' room. It is such a personal, vulnerable show that, yeah, there was a lot of sharing and, you know, commiserating and kind of beautiful cathartic moments. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Especially the men really, like, couldn't believe that some of these things had been said to us. Especially when we would talk about the way we've been treated in relationships ... they were just very disturbed and astonished. ... It's not just that these things happened to us one time, but they were like a normal part of dating in our 20s. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Society really does not teach young men how to value plus-size women. And it's rough, man. I think that's part of what we wanted to do with the show—was make that experience accessible to people who maybe don't really understand quite how cruel it can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the \"Fat Babe Pool Party\" scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Fat Babe Pool Parties are] a real thing in multiple cities—there are these body positive pool parties because for generations fat people have been told not to go swimming. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We shot it at this gorgeous country club outside of Portland and it was a two-day shoot. And the great thing about shooting a Fat Babe Pool Party for two days at a gorgeous country club is that you have to \u003cem>throw\u003c/em> a Fat Babe Pool Party for two days at a gorgeous country club. ... I was just weeping every day because it was so beautiful. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm so excited for people to see this show—especially the pool party—and to feel that little sort of tickle of recognition ... \u003cem>That's me. That's what I look like.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On hoping the show helps young women feel good about their bodies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously things are different now than they were 10 years ago when I was going through this process. There is a lot more body diversity on screen and there's a lot more open conversation about this stuff in the media. So probably these ideas aren't as new to young people now as they were to me. ... But I do hope that that message makes it to people and resonates with people. If it changes one person's life a little tiny bit, I'm so, so, so glad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sam Gringlas and Sarah Handel produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Beth Novey adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+%27Shrill%2C%27+Lindy+West+Made+The+Body+Positive+Show+That+She+Never+Had&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/110403/in-shrill-lindy-west-made-the-body-positive-show-that-she-never-had","authors":["2421"],"categories":["pop_1"],"tags":["pop_3501","pop_3426","pop_2910","pop_3502","pop_533","pop_2858"],"featImg":"pop_110405","label":"pop"},"pop_109631":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_109631","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"109631","score":null,"sort":[1550863846000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"i-want-justice-r-kelly-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-2-more-women","title":"'I Want Justice:' R. Kelly Accused of Sexual Misconduct by 2 More Women","publishDate":1550863846,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Two new accusers have come forward against R. Kelly, claiming that the embattled singer sought to have sex with them when they were minors, more than two decades ago. At a news conference Thursday in New York City, Rochelle Washington and Latresa Scaff related the story of a traumatic encounter that allegedly occurred after one of Kelly's performances in the mid-1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington and Scaff, now 39 and 40, respectively, claim that when they were 15 and 16 years old when they attended an after-party together in Baltimore in either 1995 or '96—they could not recall which. There, they say they were offered alcohol, marijuana and cocaine—though they say they didn't consume the latter—and Kelly asked them to meet him in his hotel suite later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scaff says that Kelly had his genitals exposed when he eventually entered the room. And he allegedly propositioned both—but Washington, who says she had been recently raped in a separate incident, says she soon left the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When Kelly was alone with me,\" Scaff told reporters, \"he asked me to perform oral sex on him. I was under the influence of marijuana and alcohol and did it. He then had sexual intercourse with me even though I did not have the capacity to consent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>R. Kelly's legal team did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment. But Kelly himself has repeatedly denied wrongdoing for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new claims come amid a rising tide of allegations against the 52-year-old artist, who has been dogged for roughly a quarter-century by reports that he has abused underage girls. For nearly a decade after Kelly was cleared of child pornography charges in 2008, many of those questions quieted—only to be stirred to life again by a 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult\">BuzzFeed investigation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, more women have come forward accusing the star of sexual misconduct and abuse, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/683936629/r-kelly-allegations-an-abridged-history#wife\">including Kelly's ex-wife\u003c/a>, Andrea Kelly. And the new year has brought a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/03/681851521/lifetimes-series-about-r-kelly-depicts-a-darker-side-to-the-singer\">popular docuseries\u003c/a> from Lifetime on the allegations, a flurry of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/683900713/lady-gaga-apologizes-for-r-kelly-collaboration-in-wake-of-lifetime-series\">disavowals \u003c/a>from former collaborators, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/685912752/the-muterkelly-movement-takes-its-protest-to-the-steps-of-his-record-label\">protests \u003c/a>from activist groups, and public pressure that led to his record label \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686641970/r-kelly-has-been-dropped-by-rca-records-billboard-reports\">dropping him\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gloria Allred, the attorney representing Scaff and Washington, also \u003ca href=\"http://gothamist.com/2019/01/14/r_kelly_accuser_is_meeting_with_nyp.php\">alleged last month\u003c/a> that another client of hers, Faith Rodgers, suffered retaliation for speaking out against Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109636\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Faith Rodgers speaks as attorney Gloria Allred looks on during a press conference to discuss Rodgers' allegations of sexual, physical and mental abuse against singer R. Kelly. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faith Rodgers speaks as attorney Gloria Allred looks on during a press conference to discuss Rodgers' allegations of sexual, physical and mental abuse against singer R. Kelly. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"While R. Kelly has rocketed to fame and fortune, he has used his celebrity status to victimize countless young women who were afraid to speak out until now,\" Allred said Thursday. \"We applaud Latresa and Rochelle and the other accusers who have had the courage to come forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that both women planned to speak with the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am speaking out because I want to encourage other victims who I know must be out there to come forward as well,\" Scaff said. \"I want justice for anyone who is a victim of R. Kelly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27I+Want+Justice%3A%27+R.+Kelly+Accused+Of+Sexual+Misconduct+By+2+More+Women&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Rochelle Washington and Latresa Scaff said the singer made sexual advances on them when they were underage in the mid-1990s.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1550863846,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":542},"headData":{"title":"'I Want Justice:' R. 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Kelly Accused of Sexual Misconduct by 2 More Women","nprImageCredit":"Seth Wenig","nprByline":"Colin Dwyer","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"696730998","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=696730998&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696730998/i-want-justice-r-kelly-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-2-more-women?ft=nprml&f=696730998","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:50:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:50:10 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:50:54 -0500","path":"/pop/109631/i-want-justice-r-kelly-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-2-more-women","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two new accusers have come forward against R. Kelly, claiming that the embattled singer sought to have sex with them when they were minors, more than two decades ago. At a news conference Thursday in New York City, Rochelle Washington and Latresa Scaff related the story of a traumatic encounter that allegedly occurred after one of Kelly's performances in the mid-1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington and Scaff, now 39 and 40, respectively, claim that when they were 15 and 16 years old when they attended an after-party together in Baltimore in either 1995 or '96—they could not recall which. There, they say they were offered alcohol, marijuana and cocaine—though they say they didn't consume the latter—and Kelly asked them to meet him in his hotel suite later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scaff says that Kelly had his genitals exposed when he eventually entered the room. And he allegedly propositioned both—but Washington, who says she had been recently raped in a separate incident, says she soon left the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When Kelly was alone with me,\" Scaff told reporters, \"he asked me to perform oral sex on him. I was under the influence of marijuana and alcohol and did it. He then had sexual intercourse with me even though I did not have the capacity to consent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>R. Kelly's legal team did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment. But Kelly himself has repeatedly denied wrongdoing for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new claims come amid a rising tide of allegations against the 52-year-old artist, who has been dogged for roughly a quarter-century by reports that he has abused underage girls. For nearly a decade after Kelly was cleared of child pornography charges in 2008, many of those questions quieted—only to be stirred to life again by a 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult\">BuzzFeed investigation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, more women have come forward accusing the star of sexual misconduct and abuse, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/683936629/r-kelly-allegations-an-abridged-history#wife\">including Kelly's ex-wife\u003c/a>, Andrea Kelly. And the new year has brought a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/03/681851521/lifetimes-series-about-r-kelly-depicts-a-darker-side-to-the-singer\">popular docuseries\u003c/a> from Lifetime on the allegations, a flurry of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/683900713/lady-gaga-apologizes-for-r-kelly-collaboration-in-wake-of-lifetime-series\">disavowals \u003c/a>from former collaborators, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/685912752/the-muterkelly-movement-takes-its-protest-to-the-steps-of-his-record-label\">protests \u003c/a>from activist groups, and public pressure that led to his record label \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/18/686641970/r-kelly-has-been-dropped-by-rca-records-billboard-reports\">dropping him\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gloria Allred, the attorney representing Scaff and Washington, also \u003ca href=\"http://gothamist.com/2019/01/14/r_kelly_accuser_is_meeting_with_nyp.php\">alleged last month\u003c/a> that another client of hers, Faith Rodgers, suffered retaliation for speaking out against Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_109636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-109636\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Faith Rodgers speaks as attorney Gloria Allred looks on during a press conference to discuss Rodgers' allegations of sexual, physical and mental abuse against singer R. Kelly. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/02/GettyImages-1082792652.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faith Rodgers speaks as attorney Gloria Allred looks on during a press conference to discuss Rodgers' allegations of sexual, physical and mental abuse against singer R. Kelly. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"While R. Kelly has rocketed to fame and fortune, he has used his celebrity status to victimize countless young women who were afraid to speak out until now,\" Allred said Thursday. \"We applaud Latresa and Rochelle and the other accusers who have had the courage to come forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that both women planned to speak with the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am speaking out because I want to encourage other victims who I know must be out there to come forward as well,\" Scaff said. \"I want justice for anyone who is a victim of R. Kelly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27I+Want+Justice%3A%27+R.+Kelly+Accused+Of+Sexual+Misconduct+By+2+More+Women&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/109631/i-want-justice-r-kelly-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-2-more-women","authors":["byline_pop_109631"],"categories":["pop_1"],"tags":["pop_3226","pop_3426","pop_3126","pop_463","pop_3475"],"featImg":"pop_109635","label":"pop"},"pop_104722":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_104722","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"104722","score":null,"sort":[1532472251000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"black-thought-pays-tribute-to-trayvon-martin-and-calls-for-change","title":"Black Thought Pays Tribute to Trayvon Martin and Calls For Change","publishDate":1532472251,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>The Paramount Network has released an official track to go along with the upcoming debut of the documentary series \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6719962/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story\u003c/em>.\u003c/a> It's a fitting tribute and call for change from The Roots' prophetic frontman \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/627971101/black-thought\">Black Thought\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=149&v=GS7Ovv5jxUY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The track \"Rest in Power\" and accompanying video, equal parts eulogy and rallying cry, interweaves Black Thought's words with 911 calls and clips from the \u003cem>Rest in Power \u003c/em>series, while Black Thought cites specific stats about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/tags/148905681/trayvon-martin\">Trayvon Martin\u003c/a> case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The shooter was unthreatened, seventy-one seconds / So many unanswered questions, I see reflections of myself / I feel like in fatherhood we are connected / Too long before the shooter was arrested / So wrong, worldwide, we've been affected / To them it's real, sins of the father remembered still / For every Trayvon Martin, there was an \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till\">Emmett Till\u003c/a>,\" he raps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black Thought also calculates how many days Trayvon was alive and ponders if the 17-year-old is still learning in spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wonder if you're in Heaven's eleventh grade / Six thousand two hundred and thirty days / Too young of an early age, such evil and worldly ways.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97sB1Xjvkok\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rest in Power \u003c/em>is executive produced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/16318474/jay-z\">Jay-Z\u003c/a> as well as Trayvon Martin's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin. The docu-series will unfold in six episodes, retracing the days before Martin's death, recapping the trial of George Zimmerman that sparked a national debate and connecting it all to the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a> movement that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story \u003c/em>premieres Monday, July 30 at 9:00 p.m. ET on Paramount Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Black+Thought+Pays+Tribute+To+Trayvon+Martin+And+Calls+For+Change&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"\"Rest in Power\" is from 'Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story', an upcoming documentary series produced by Jay-Z.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1532472251,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":302},"headData":{"title":"Black Thought Pays Tribute to Trayvon Martin and Calls For Change | KQED","description":""Rest in Power" is from 'Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story', an upcoming documentary series produced by 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age, such evil and worldly ways.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/97sB1Xjvkok'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/97sB1Xjvkok'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Rest in Power \u003c/em>is executive produced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/artists/16318474/jay-z\">Jay-Z\u003c/a> as well as Trayvon Martin's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin. The docu-series will unfold in six episodes, retracing the days before Martin's death, recapping the trial of George Zimmerman that sparked a national debate and connecting it all to the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a> movement that followed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story \u003c/em>premieres Monday, July 30 at 9:00 p.m. ET on Paramount Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Black+Thought+Pays+Tribute+To+Trayvon+Martin+And+Calls+For+Change&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/104722/black-thought-pays-tribute-to-trayvon-martin-and-calls-for-change","authors":["byline_pop_104722"],"categories":["pop_1"],"featImg":"pop_104723","label":"pop"},"pop_95954":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_95954","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"95954","score":null,"sort":[1505407193000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"who-tries-out-for-american-idol-in-2017-i-went-to-the-oakland-auditions-to-find-out","title":"Who Tries Out for 'American Idol' in 2017? I Went to the Oakland Auditions to Find Out","publishDate":1505407193,"format":"image","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/09/Idol.mp3\" title=\"Is It Too Late to Say Sorry for Eating So Much Avocado?\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jack London Square in Oakland is overcast and chilly at 7:30 am on the morning of open auditions for the \u003ca href=\"http://deadline.com/2017/05/american-idol-revival-abc-1202087368/\">newly-resurrected \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>\u003c/a> -- but of course, those in this open-air line have been here for hours already. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several members of the Oakland Police Department are on hand in the background, standing by their squad car and not doing much at all. “This is exciting, huh?” one officer said to me, and he was being serious.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95975 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.16.19-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.16.19-PM.png 440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.16.19-PM-160x111.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.16.19-PM-240x166.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.16.19-PM-375x260.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s the first time that \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> has held auditions in Oakland, rather than San Francisco just across the bay, but the audition rules remain the same: Per the \u003ca href=\"http://abc.go.com/shows/american-idol/auditions\">online registration form\u003c/a>, applicants must be aged between 15 and 28. The atmosphere is, therefore, as excitable and jittery as you’d expect a gathering of hundreds of 15 to 28-year-olds waiting to appear on television to be. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a diverse crowd, and the dress code ranges from casual sweats right up to groomed, glossy Instagram Model. Every time the \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> cameras appear to pick out interview subjects in line, there’s a palpable surge of energy. People suddenly strike up a song in line and everyone joins in. Every so often, you hear someone yelling out their social media handles, to nobody in particular. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No matter how many times you’ve seen footage of the \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> juggernaut coming to a particular city -- the big blue tour bus, the triple-speed footage gliding down the long, snaking line of hopefuls -- it’s still odd seeing it in the flesh. As with all peeks behind the TV curtain, there’s an element of anticlimax, of diminished scale, which the outdoor setting does nothing to assuage. The line is long, yes, but not the crazy mass I’d been anticipating. (Later, an \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> representative will politely decline my emailed request to know just how many people showed up for the Oakland auditions, saying that’s not information they give out.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95976\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 713px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.15.30-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"713\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.15.30-PM.png 713w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.15.30-PM-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.15.30-PM-240x168.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.15.30-PM-375x262.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.15.30-PM-520x363.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An American Idol hopeful is interviewed on-camera by members of the production staff. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQEDD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The biggest surprise, however, comes half an hour in, as I’m chatting with a gaggle of hopefuls and a very loud sound suddenly interrupts us. It’s the clatter of the Amtrak train, passing through on the tracks that are only steps from where we’re standing in Jack London Square. It’s so loud that I have to ask the girl I'm interviewing to pause a moment while it passes, and then I realize: \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Idol is filming its audition show next to a busy train track.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2016 was meant to be \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>’s last year, after 15 seasons on Fox. No less than Barack Obama \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7326314/president-obama-american-idol-finale-watch\">appeared on what was billed as the farewell finale\u003c/a>, praising the show for having “transformed television.” Goodbyes were said, Trent Harmon was crowned the new Idol, and that was that... until barely a month later, ABC announced it would be resurrecting the show on its network. In a statement, ABC President Channing Dungey called the show a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"pop-culture staple that left the air too soon.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second part may be up for debate, but there's no disputing the first. For many, it feels like \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> has always been on TV, but it's easy to forget just how all-pervasive and influential it really was and is, in the way that it normalized this kind of competition on TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 769px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"769\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM.png 769w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM-160x105.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM-768x503.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM-240x157.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM-375x246.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM-520x341.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert, who came to support his girlfriend, stands in front of the line to audition for American Idol in Jack London Square \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Towards the end, \u003cem>Idol’\u003c/em>s ratings were a shadow of what they were in the show’s heyday. Even the young people now standing in line in Oakland to pin their fortune on the show stopped watching. So often, when I asked a hopeful if they liked \u003cem>Idol,\u003c/em> they'd say, \"Yeah, I used to watch it when I was a kid.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“So, like, last month then?”, I want to tease them every time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A show like \u003cem>American\u003c/em> \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> has a set recipe, and a key ingredient is a person’s story. Talent is powerful, but even more so when its owner has something that makes them different. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The unifying theme of these stories is, usually, struggle: A difficult past, a family breakup, a tragedy lived through and overcome, with music almost always as the medicine. These folks in the line know this, and they’ve come ready to tell the world -- the producers, the cameras, me. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the auditionees I speak to quickly volunteer details of the traumatic events in their lives, it's with readiness, a degree of preparedness, and a total lack of self-consciousness. They know this honesty, or the TV version of it, is part of the deal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In any other context, if people leaped straight to emotional third base in this way, it would be startling. But in that line -- with the big blue \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> bus bearing down on us -- revealing one's story and a difficult past straight away, with virtually no prompting, is par for the course. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95958\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 504px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95958\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1.png 504w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Idol hopeful Gabriel Flores \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I get to chatting with Gabriel, a young man with aviator sunglasses and a guitar on his back, while he’s taking a smoking break from the intensity of the line. He’s road-tripped here from Vancouver, and my questions about his \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> motivations are met with an answer that delves immediately into a troubled past. He reached, he tells me, “a point where I was about to commit suicide” -- struggles which halted his previous foray into reality TV. He got through to the second round of \u003cem>The Voice\u003c/em>, but “some things I was going through” meant he couldn’t continue. Winning \u003ci>Idol\u003c/i>, he says, “would change my life because I have a daughter, and I want to give her everything I could give her. The best future I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 767px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95959\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.11-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.11-PM.png 767w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.11-PM-160x105.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.11-PM-240x158.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.11-PM-375x247.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.11-PM-520x342.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Idol try-out Courtney and mother Alisha. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not just potential Idols who were prepared to share their backstories, but their families and supporters too. Standing in line, Alisha from Pittsburg told me how her \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> hopeful daughter Courtney’s “really low, raspy kind of voice” would set her apart (“you don’t see that too much”). Then, she spoke of her husband’s death. Courtney appearing on the show, she said, would be “a tribute to him too -- showing her daddy in heaven that ‘I’m still doing it, daddy. This is for you.’ Life is so precious and so short.” In the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Idol \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">line, emotion and history are always right near the surface. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The audition hashtag, as proclaimed on the \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> bus, is #thennextidol -- a phrase that practically encourages those in line to forget about the journey and skip straight to the destination. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Talking to\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> waiting hopefuls, it becomes clear that years of watching \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and shows like it has trained people to already see themselves as others will: As a package, a product even, to be viewed and assessed. When they talk about themselves and their dream, they're already seeing themselves as they imagine an audience -- and their intermediaries, the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> producers -- might. It’s like the male gaze, rewritten as the reality TV gaze.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 508px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95961\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.31-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.31-PM.png 508w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.31-PM-160x119.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.31-PM-240x178.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.31-PM-375x278.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Idol hopefuls Elena and Jace. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elena, 19, from Gilroy, already had an on-screen analogue for herself in mind. “I always think I am literally [\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hairspray\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s] Tracey Turnblad. So everyone would think ‘Oh, it’s that big girl from high school that no-one really looked at, but she’s a star now!’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her friend Jace, 20, a psychology student from Fairfield, was imagining herself cast on the show in the role of the quirky outlier. “I’m a little bit weird so they’d look at it, like, who’s this strange human?” She then added: “It’s pretty much the expected reaction when people see me in general.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 747px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95962\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.17-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"747\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.17-PM.png 747w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.17-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.17-PM-240x154.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.17-PM-375x240.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.17-PM-520x333.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Idol audionee Adriana and her mother. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This hyper-self-awareness is brought into sharp relief when a woman actively approaches me as I'm typing notes on my phone, telling me that if I'm looking for a good story, her 16-year-old daughter Adriana is \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">it\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. They're a military family, she explains, and have overcome the struggles that entails: “I just thought it was a good story to tell. She’s traveled all over the United States with us and she’s a military child and she’s got a story to tell.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I ask Adriana herself, she tells me her background has “made me who I am,” but that she feels like “I haven’t heard the ‘military brat’ story. I haven’t heard the struggles that me and my friends go through. I feel like a lot of people should know.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It's becoming clear that adjacent to the fame and the acclaim and the record deal, the young people here genuinely view \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as their opportunity to become an \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ambassador\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for something. Whenever I ask how they predict the audience at home might perceive them, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the response is always in these terms: \"I want to be seen as an \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">example\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\" It’s like mere talent is not enough -- to truly be #thenextidol, one needs an almost remedial power to reach out through the television screen and touch the viewer’s very life in some meaningful way. They don’t want to just be some kid’s new favorite singer. They really do want to be their \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">idol\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95978\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 748px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.49-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.49-PM.png 748w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.49-PM-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.49-PM-240x156.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.49-PM-375x244.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.49-PM-520x338.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People waiting to audition for American Idol \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This drive is most striking in Tito, the 27-year-old successful auditionee who I've noticed several times earlier today owing to the viola he's carrying with him everywhere. Like everyone else I spoke to, Tito was disarmingly frank about his past struggles. Upon moving to LA from San Francisco to pursue his entertainment dreams -- against the wishes of his evangelical Christian parents, immigrants from El Salvador -- he wound up “homeless for a little bit.” Jobless, he \"started doing some dancing gigs, a little bit of go-go dancing -- nothing wrong with that, but I had to live in my car for a little bit, and I picked myself up and here I am.” (The entire time Tito is telling me this, a woman is singing very soulfully and incredibly loudly for a producer behind us.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 716px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.04-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.04-PM.png 716w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.04-PM-160x110.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.04-PM-240x166.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.04-PM-375x259.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.04-PM-520x359.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tito Herrera and viola \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tito tells me he wants his hoped-for appearance on Idol to be as an advocate for homeless youth. “To be a Latin male, an ex-homeless person, I think that would be a good representation of what you can do it you really set your mind to it.” He hopes that “my voice and my story can be a voice for those who don’t have one. There’s a lot of Latin immigrants that don’t have that confidence to speak out for themselves, especially with our President in office,” he says. When I ask him if he sees any potential appearance on Idol as a political act, he tells me that “it's almost like a ‘f*ck you’ to Donald Trump. I’m Latino, I’m reaching for my dreams in this country.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aren't you concerned that the reality TV juggernaut will edit out -- or at least gloss over -- all your politics and your passion, I ask? Like everyone I ask this question, Tito is sunnily pragmatic. “If I sign a contract, I sign a contract… As long as I get my message across, I’ve done my job, as a performer and as a citizen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>23-year-old professional musician Mandy, who was visibly vibrating with adrenaline after making it to the next round, was similarly bullish. “[I’ll] be me and if they don’t like it, then it’s okay. It’s not gonna stop me playing music.” Being edited, she said, was “not the end of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>Back in the line, I flag down Robert, who, despite the guitar he's holding, isn’t here to audition but to support his girlfriend Desiry. (“She sings really great, she’s versatile, and yeah -- she’s gorgeous.”) Robert foresaw some startlingly logistical improvements to their life together coming from \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em>. With him working graveyard shifts at a bank, and her working retail all day, their day/night jobs afforded them little time to collaborate musically. “But if we were to actually win this, it would be a lot easier to connect and do things we love together.” (He also, of course, saw potential ambassadorship in Desiry, predicting that viewers might “want to follow in her footsteps and be a better them.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 745px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95965\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"745\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.09-PM.png 745w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.09-PM-160x95.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.09-PM-240x143.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.09-PM-375x223.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.09-PM-520x309.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Idol hopeful Desiry and her boyfriend Robert \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nobody I spoke with had any problems with the idea of leaving their hometown and their community if they were to become #thenextidol. In fact, it seemed part of the appeal for many like Courtney, the young woman auditioning in memory of her father, who said she was “definitely ready to bounce” from Pittsburg. “I think everybody there is ready to get out,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It struck me how this seeming familiarity with the machinery of reality TV, and a person's place in it, was paired with a startling lack of concern \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">about\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that machinery. I repeatedly ask auditionees how this show could alter their life, and the answer is always the same: It would be amazing, positive, incredible. Nobody seems to perceive any downsides to that level of public scrutiny -- or if they do, they’re not talking to me about them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 721px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.15-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.15-PM.png 721w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.15-PM-160x99.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.15-PM-240x148.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.15-PM-375x232.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.15-PM-520x322.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People waiting in line to audition for American Idol \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But why would they? They're in line to be #thenextidol, and #thenextidol is relentlessly, almost oppressively positive about everyone and everything. Music is amazing, this opportunity is amazing, the fellow auditionees are amazing. Even the rejected performers stay upbeat: “I absolutely sang my heart out. I felt so much release,” 16-year-old Hayley told me, moments after being turned down by the producers after her performance of \"Hallelujah.\" She was smiling, even though she'd obviously been crying earlier. \"There’s always next year.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 762px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"762\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.39-PM.png 762w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.39-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.39-PM-240x154.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.39-PM-375x240.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.39-PM-520x333.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hayley, who tried out for American Idol but ultimately didn't make the cut \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given it’s a large crowd of teens and young adults -- a large portion of whom are destined to be told that their talent just isn't evident enough -- this lack of visible despondency at rejection is startling. The auditions themselves -- performed for one of several \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> producers sitting at a row of desks beneath the palm trees of Jack London Square -- are all conducted in full view of not only the line of waiting auditionees but also an assembled crowd of supporters, onlookers, and random folks stopping to rubberneck. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The “no” is, therefore, very evident and crazily public, yet these young people simply smile tightly and briskly walk back to the barriers. Because of their age, most of them are going into the arms of their waiting family. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People here see my camera and beam at me, like a switch has been flipped -- they're being seen and that's great. That, after all, is what they're here for. Later that night, going through my photos, I’m struck by just how many of the people in the background, behind the actual subject, are posing too.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But why, in the age of YouTube, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">would\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> any young person see such a relic of the reality TV era as their preferred ticket to stardom? Hayley, the teen who didn’t make the cut, explains that it’s “just a lot easier to go through \u003cem>American Idol.\u003c/em> If you make it, you automatically know these producers, and record labels will look at you. With YouTube, it’s a little bit slower; you really have to promote yourself.\" She might, she said, now try out for \u003cem>The X Factor\u003c/em>, or \u003cem>America’s Got Talent\u003c/em>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 512px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.21-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.21-PM.png 512w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.21-PM-160x149.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.21-PM-240x224.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.21-PM-375x350.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The American Idol tour bus, parked in Jack London Square, Oakland \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On shows like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol,\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> you’ll often hear auditionees say it's their “last chance” to make it in this business, or their “only hope.” But honestly, watching them seem to shrug off rejection, it became evident that most of those in attendance were very aware of their other options in life. When I asked the hopefuls in the line about their plan B if \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> didn't work out, they were always breezy -- they'd keep on hustling, continue with school, keep putting their stuff on YouTube, audition for another reality show. When I caught up with Robert’s girlfriend Desiry -- the one who was actually here to audition -- her attitude to the possibility of rejection was so calmly pragmatic, and (at the risk of sounding condescending here) \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">mature\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “[I’ll just] continue to get better!”, she said. “Constructive criticism is the only way forward. If you can’t take that, there’s no way that you can really improve in this world.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 755px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95967\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.32-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.32-PM.png 755w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.32-PM-160x96.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.32-PM-240x144.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.32-PM-375x225.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.32-PM-520x311.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monica from Richmond, in the American Idol audition line \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For many others I spoke with, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was just a moonshot while they were pursuing various other paths. Monica, 19, from Richmond, who says she’d be “shocked and surprised” if she made the cut today, is about to start her junior year at medical school in a couple of days. (“I come from a city that doesn’t have the best reputation, but I heard a quote once that said ‘diamonds are created through pressure,” she tells me, giggling.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 765px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.57-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.57-PM.png 765w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.57-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.57-PM-240x152.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.57-PM-375x238.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.57-PM-520x330.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirsten, from Benicia, and her keyboard \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Further down the line, 15-year-old Kirsten from Benicia -- pink skirt suit, bright blue contact lenses, not much taller than the chunky free-standing keyboard she’s brought along -- talks to me about her dreams of becoming a software engineer with as much passion as she does about her desire to feature on \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>. She doesn’t think appearing on -- or even winning -- the show will affect that part of her life. Kirsten performs a yowling version of ‘Great Balls of Fire’ for my microphone, while people around fall silent and listen, but is even more excitable when we discuss her ambitions to attend UC Irvine and work for Disney. (“I hear that Disney and other tech companies hire straight out of schools around the area,” she informs me with authority.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asking Kirsten whether she sees a contradiction in her twin dreams of coding excellence and reality TV fame is a telling moment. She says she doesn’t understand the question, so I think I’ve expressed myself badly and repeat myself, this time also asking her if one seems more “shallow” than the other. She tells me confidently that “if you’re in it for the right reasons, there’s no \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reason\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for it to be shallow.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 767px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95980\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.32-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.32-PM.png 767w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.32-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.32-PM-240x153.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.32-PM-375x239.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.32-PM-520x332.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen performs for the American Idol cameras \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I realize suddenly that the question only really makes sense to someone my age or older, who can remember a time before \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and its ilk. We’re the ones who tsk-tsk about “short cuts to fame,” and roll our eyes at this new way of making it big. For people Kirsten’s age, reality TV and YouTube stardom have always \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">been\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> an option. It’s been on the table -- close for some, tantalizingly out of reach for others -- and physically on their screens for as long as they can remember. So why would there be any contradiction between the things they want, when they’re all dreams in the same life? ”There’s a lot of great artists I look up to like Aretha Franklin or Bruno Mars,” she tells me. There’s no contradiction.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>These open-air auditions are so transparent -- at least in terms of what you can see and hear -- that you can see auditionees in the line for the producer’s desk getting visibly psyched out by a particularly proficient performance ahead. Yet the jittery enthusiasm is infectious, and makes cynicism hard to maintain, even for uninvolved onlookers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 771px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95982\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"771\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM.png 771w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM-160x100.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM-768x481.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM-240x150.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM-375x235.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM-520x326.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People waiting to audition for American Idol in Jack London Square \u003ccite>(Carly Severn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hillary, a trained classical singer in her late twenties who's stopped to watch the scene, is far from dismissive -- or even just a little skeptical -- of this parade of mostly-untrained young singers. She talks with an unexpected pride about what she sees as their openness and their creative ambition. “They’re so happy and so open to express themselves and their talent and what they truly believe to be true. And I think that’s just a marvelous thing.” Doesn’t the professionally-trained part of her rankle at amateur singers thinking they’re good enough to vault straight to the big leagues, I ask? Not at all, she replies. “They’re pop singers so they sing with a pop sound. They move their jaws around a lot… it’s a different type of singing. It’s people letting their souls out and singing popular songs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 762px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95981\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-8.18.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"762\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-8.18.03-PM.png 762w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-8.18.03-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-8.18.03-PM-240x153.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-8.18.03-PM-375x240.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-8.18.03-PM-520x332.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two young women handing their registration papers to a member of the American Idol team \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watching a frighteningly good-looking young man singing Hozier's \"Take Me to Church\" for the producers’ cameras with a stop-start phrasing that's entirely absent from the original, I think of how it’s become a tired cliche to point out that voices like Janis Joplin's or Tom Waits’ would never make it through the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gates. But witnessing the auditions as an unedited procession, it’s staggering to see and hear just \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">how\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> homogenized the sound actually is. Everybody really does sound the same: soulful, soaring, emotive, vibrato-ing wildly. This is Good Singing, and the general idea, it seems, is to opt for these big songs that allow an opportunity to glide up the octave. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the set, I ask one of \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em>’s casting producers -- Nancy Yearing, who’s worked on the show for nine seasons -- about these audition trends. Yes, everyone basically sings the same songs, she says. “Lot of Alicia Keys; \"At Last\"; \"House of the Rising Sun\" -- amazing songs, but they’ve just been overdone. It seems like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">everyone\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> comes in with the same 50.” She wonders whether they’re getting them “from their vocal coaches.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 741px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.51-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"741\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.51-PM.png 741w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.51-PM-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.51-PM-240x152.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.51-PM-375x237.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.51-PM-520x328.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Yearing, casting producer for American Idol \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I then ask Nancy if they were aware their Oakland set was essentially on top of an Amtrak route. She tells me no, they only found out the morning they arrived to set up, but that she’s finding workarounds. “I try and time it. I have a good view of when the gates come down.” It might also be an unexpected bonus, she suggests, for assessing an auditionee’s mettle. “If it happens in the middle of someone singing, in some way it’s a good test -- what can you sing through?” \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also tells me she doesn’t “really know” the reasoning for the show’s upper age limit (28), and is firm when I ask if she’s concerned she’s missing out on some really top-notch 29-year-old talent. There are, Nancy says, “lots of avenues for talent. If someone’s going to be successful, they’re going to be successful.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nancy tells me the show's producers are excited to be auditioning in Oakland this year rather than San Francisco. Not just because of the “coolness” of this “up-and-coming city,” and “trying to change up where we normally go,” but also because of the new variety of try-outs she thinks will now be able to participate -- as if those cities were hundreds of miles from each other, rather than a Bay Bridge ride or a 10 minute BART train. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the lack of familiarity shows. I keep thinking: This is a tightly-controlled, multi-million-dollar television juggernaut, now in its 15th year. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they didn't know their open air film set was next to a busy railway line. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Was the City of Oakland just so thrilled to have \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> in town that it never came up? Did nobody scout out what is an entirely new location for this roadshow? I can't help but wonder how much cheaper hiring out Jack London Square is for \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s new network ABC than a similar venue in New York City, or L.A. or San Francisco (none of which are on the 19-city tour list).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95984\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 569px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95984\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.06.01-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.06.01-PM.png 569w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.06.01-PM-160x122.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.06.01-PM-240x183.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.06.01-PM-375x287.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.06.01-PM-520x398.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A line of waiting hopefuls at the American Idol auditions \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But if anybody here shares my suspicions, they’re not telling me. Everyone in line seems thrilled that the \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> bus has chosen Oakland today, almost always citing the diversity they see in the cohort. (Tito, with his viola, tells me he actually sees way more diversity today than he did when auditioning for \u003cem>The Voice\u003c/em>. “It’s a different crowd of people.”) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On my way out, I ask one teenager dressed in a Wonder Woman costume about the strategy behind her outfit. Anything to stand out, she replied -- already seeing herself as the producers, and the viewers would -- and indeed, she got past the producer’s audition desk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walking back past the line, which is now dwindling, I think of the young woman I heard earlier in a nearby coffee shop, telling someone on the other end of the phone that \"I don't know whether to chose something that shows off my talent or something that they \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">want.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\" \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2017, the American Idol hopefuls here in Oakland truly know the difference.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To hear the actual voices of the auditionees I talked to and more, give this episode of The Cooler a listen:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/09/Idol.mp3\" title=\"Is It Too Late to Say Sorry for Eating So Much Avocado?\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Auditionees waiting in line shared traumatic events in their lives and their social media handles with equal ease. 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I Went to the Oakland Auditions to Find Out","datePublished":"2017-09-14T16:39:53.000Z","dateModified":"2017-09-14T19:12:25.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"95954 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=95954","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/09/14/who-tries-out-for-american-idol-in-2017-i-went-to-the-oakland-auditions-to-find-out/","disqusTitle":"Who Tries Out for 'American Idol' in 2017? I Went to the Oakland Auditions to Find Out","path":"/pop/95954/who-tries-out-for-american-idol-in-2017-i-went-to-the-oakland-auditions-to-find-out","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. 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The atmosphere is, therefore, as excitable and jittery as you’d expect a gathering of hundreds of 15 to 28-year-olds waiting to appear on television to be. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s a diverse crowd, and the dress code ranges from casual sweats right up to groomed, glossy Instagram Model. Every time the \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> cameras appear to pick out interview subjects in line, there’s a palpable surge of energy. People suddenly strike up a song in line and everyone joins in. Every so often, you hear someone yelling out their social media handles, to nobody in particular. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No matter how many times you’ve seen footage of the \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> juggernaut coming to a particular city -- the big blue tour bus, the triple-speed footage gliding down the long, snaking line of hopefuls -- it’s still odd seeing it in the flesh. As with all peeks behind the TV curtain, there’s an element of anticlimax, of diminished scale, which the outdoor setting does nothing to assuage. The line is long, yes, but not the crazy mass I’d been anticipating. (Later, an \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> representative will politely decline my emailed request to know just how many people showed up for the Oakland auditions, saying that’s not information they give out.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95976\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 713px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.15.30-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"713\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.15.30-PM.png 713w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.15.30-PM-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.15.30-PM-240x168.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.15.30-PM-375x262.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.15.30-PM-520x363.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An American Idol hopeful is interviewed on-camera by members of the production staff. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQEDD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The biggest surprise, however, comes half an hour in, as I’m chatting with a gaggle of hopefuls and a very loud sound suddenly interrupts us. It’s the clatter of the Amtrak train, passing through on the tracks that are only steps from where we’re standing in Jack London Square. It’s so loud that I have to ask the girl I'm interviewing to pause a moment while it passes, and then I realize: \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Idol is filming its audition show next to a busy train track.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2016 was meant to be \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>’s last year, after 15 seasons on Fox. No less than Barack Obama \u003ca href=\"http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7326314/president-obama-american-idol-finale-watch\">appeared on what was billed as the farewell finale\u003c/a>, praising the show for having “transformed television.” Goodbyes were said, Trent Harmon was crowned the new Idol, and that was that... until barely a month later, ABC announced it would be resurrecting the show on its network. In a statement, ABC President Channing Dungey called the show a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"pop-culture staple that left the air too soon.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second part may be up for debate, but there's no disputing the first. For many, it feels like \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> has always been on TV, but it's easy to forget just how all-pervasive and influential it really was and is, in the way that it normalized this kind of competition on TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95985\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 769px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"769\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM.png 769w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM-160x105.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM-768x503.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM-240x157.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM-375x246.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.00-PM-520x341.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert, who came to support his girlfriend, stands in front of the line to audition for American Idol in Jack London Square \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Towards the end, \u003cem>Idol’\u003c/em>s ratings were a shadow of what they were in the show’s heyday. Even the young people now standing in line in Oakland to pin their fortune on the show stopped watching. So often, when I asked a hopeful if they liked \u003cem>Idol,\u003c/em> they'd say, \"Yeah, I used to watch it when I was a kid.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“So, like, last month then?”, I want to tease them every time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A show like \u003cem>American\u003c/em> \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> has a set recipe, and a key ingredient is a person’s story. Talent is powerful, but even more so when its owner has something that makes them different. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The unifying theme of these stories is, usually, struggle: A difficult past, a family breakup, a tragedy lived through and overcome, with music almost always as the medicine. These folks in the line know this, and they’ve come ready to tell the world -- the producers, the cameras, me. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the auditionees I speak to quickly volunteer details of the traumatic events in their lives, it's with readiness, a degree of preparedness, and a total lack of self-consciousness. They know this honesty, or the TV version of it, is part of the deal. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In any other context, if people leaped straight to emotional third base in this way, it would be startling. But in that line -- with the big blue \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> bus bearing down on us -- revealing one's story and a difficult past straight away, with virtually no prompting, is par for the course. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95958\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 504px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95958\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1.png 504w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.40-PM-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Idol hopeful Gabriel Flores \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I get to chatting with Gabriel, a young man with aviator sunglasses and a guitar on his back, while he’s taking a smoking break from the intensity of the line. He’s road-tripped here from Vancouver, and my questions about his \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> motivations are met with an answer that delves immediately into a troubled past. He reached, he tells me, “a point where I was about to commit suicide” -- struggles which halted his previous foray into reality TV. He got through to the second round of \u003cem>The Voice\u003c/em>, but “some things I was going through” meant he couldn’t continue. Winning \u003ci>Idol\u003c/i>, he says, “would change my life because I have a daughter, and I want to give her everything I could give her. The best future I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95959\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 767px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95959\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.11-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.11-PM.png 767w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.11-PM-160x105.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.11-PM-240x158.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.11-PM-375x247.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.11-PM-520x342.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Idol try-out Courtney and mother Alisha. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s not just potential Idols who were prepared to share their backstories, but their families and supporters too. Standing in line, Alisha from Pittsburg told me how her \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> hopeful daughter Courtney’s “really low, raspy kind of voice” would set her apart (“you don’t see that too much”). Then, she spoke of her husband’s death. Courtney appearing on the show, she said, would be “a tribute to him too -- showing her daddy in heaven that ‘I’m still doing it, daddy. This is for you.’ Life is so precious and so short.” In the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Idol \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">line, emotion and history are always right near the surface. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The audition hashtag, as proclaimed on the \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> bus, is #thennextidol -- a phrase that practically encourages those in line to forget about the journey and skip straight to the destination. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Talking to\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> waiting hopefuls, it becomes clear that years of watching \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and shows like it has trained people to already see themselves as others will: As a package, a product even, to be viewed and assessed. When they talk about themselves and their dream, they're already seeing themselves as they imagine an audience -- and their intermediaries, the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> producers -- might. It’s like the male gaze, rewritten as the reality TV gaze.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 508px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95961\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.31-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.31-PM.png 508w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.31-PM-160x119.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.31-PM-240x178.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.14.31-PM-375x278.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Idol hopefuls Elena and Jace. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elena, 19, from Gilroy, already had an on-screen analogue for herself in mind. “I always think I am literally [\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hairspray\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s] Tracey Turnblad. So everyone would think ‘Oh, it’s that big girl from high school that no-one really looked at, but she’s a star now!’” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Her friend Jace, 20, a psychology student from Fairfield, was imagining herself cast on the show in the role of the quirky outlier. “I’m a little bit weird so they’d look at it, like, who’s this strange human?” She then added: “It’s pretty much the expected reaction when people see me in general.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 747px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95962\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.17-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"747\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.17-PM.png 747w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.17-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.17-PM-240x154.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.17-PM-375x240.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.13.17-PM-520x333.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Idol audionee Adriana and her mother. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This hyper-self-awareness is brought into sharp relief when a woman actively approaches me as I'm typing notes on my phone, telling me that if I'm looking for a good story, her 16-year-old daughter Adriana is \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">it\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. They're a military family, she explains, and have overcome the struggles that entails: “I just thought it was a good story to tell. She’s traveled all over the United States with us and she’s a military child and she’s got a story to tell.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I ask Adriana herself, she tells me her background has “made me who I am,” but that she feels like “I haven’t heard the ‘military brat’ story. I haven’t heard the struggles that me and my friends go through. I feel like a lot of people should know.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It's becoming clear that adjacent to the fame and the acclaim and the record deal, the young people here genuinely view \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as their opportunity to become an \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ambassador\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for something. Whenever I ask how they predict the audience at home might perceive them, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the response is always in these terms: \"I want to be seen as an \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">example\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\" It’s like mere talent is not enough -- to truly be #thenextidol, one needs an almost remedial power to reach out through the television screen and touch the viewer’s very life in some meaningful way. They don’t want to just be some kid’s new favorite singer. They really do want to be their \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">idol\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95978\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 748px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.49-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.49-PM.png 748w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.49-PM-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.49-PM-240x156.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.49-PM-375x244.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.49-PM-520x338.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People waiting to audition for American Idol \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This drive is most striking in Tito, the 27-year-old successful auditionee who I've noticed several times earlier today owing to the viola he's carrying with him everywhere. Like everyone else I spoke to, Tito was disarmingly frank about his past struggles. Upon moving to LA from San Francisco to pursue his entertainment dreams -- against the wishes of his evangelical Christian parents, immigrants from El Salvador -- he wound up “homeless for a little bit.” Jobless, he \"started doing some dancing gigs, a little bit of go-go dancing -- nothing wrong with that, but I had to live in my car for a little bit, and I picked myself up and here I am.” (The entire time Tito is telling me this, a woman is singing very soulfully and incredibly loudly for a producer behind us.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 716px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.04-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.04-PM.png 716w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.04-PM-160x110.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.04-PM-240x166.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.04-PM-375x259.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.09.04-PM-520x359.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tito Herrera and viola \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tito tells me he wants his hoped-for appearance on Idol to be as an advocate for homeless youth. “To be a Latin male, an ex-homeless person, I think that would be a good representation of what you can do it you really set your mind to it.” He hopes that “my voice and my story can be a voice for those who don’t have one. There’s a lot of Latin immigrants that don’t have that confidence to speak out for themselves, especially with our President in office,” he says. When I ask him if he sees any potential appearance on Idol as a political act, he tells me that “it's almost like a ‘f*ck you’ to Donald Trump. I’m Latino, I’m reaching for my dreams in this country.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aren't you concerned that the reality TV juggernaut will edit out -- or at least gloss over -- all your politics and your passion, I ask? Like everyone I ask this question, Tito is sunnily pragmatic. “If I sign a contract, I sign a contract… As long as I get my message across, I’ve done my job, as a performer and as a citizen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>23-year-old professional musician Mandy, who was visibly vibrating with adrenaline after making it to the next round, was similarly bullish. “[I’ll] be me and if they don’t like it, then it’s okay. It’s not gonna stop me playing music.” Being edited, she said, was “not the end of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>Back in the line, I flag down Robert, who, despite the guitar he's holding, isn’t here to audition but to support his girlfriend Desiry. (“She sings really great, she’s versatile, and yeah -- she’s gorgeous.”) Robert foresaw some startlingly logistical improvements to their life together coming from \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em>. With him working graveyard shifts at a bank, and her working retail all day, their day/night jobs afforded them little time to collaborate musically. “But if we were to actually win this, it would be a lot easier to connect and do things we love together.” (He also, of course, saw potential ambassadorship in Desiry, predicting that viewers might “want to follow in her footsteps and be a better them.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 745px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95965\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"745\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.09-PM.png 745w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.09-PM-160x95.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.09-PM-240x143.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.09-PM-375x223.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.09-PM-520x309.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Idol hopeful Desiry and her boyfriend Robert \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nobody I spoke with had any problems with the idea of leaving their hometown and their community if they were to become #thenextidol. In fact, it seemed part of the appeal for many like Courtney, the young woman auditioning in memory of her father, who said she was “definitely ready to bounce” from Pittsburg. “I think everybody there is ready to get out,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It struck me how this seeming familiarity with the machinery of reality TV, and a person's place in it, was paired with a startling lack of concern \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">about\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that machinery. I repeatedly ask auditionees how this show could alter their life, and the answer is always the same: It would be amazing, positive, incredible. Nobody seems to perceive any downsides to that level of public scrutiny -- or if they do, they’re not talking to me about them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95977\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 721px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95977\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.15-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.15-PM.png 721w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.15-PM-160x99.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.15-PM-240x148.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.15-PM-375x232.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.15-PM-520x322.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People waiting in line to audition for American Idol \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But why would they? They're in line to be #thenextidol, and #thenextidol is relentlessly, almost oppressively positive about everyone and everything. Music is amazing, this opportunity is amazing, the fellow auditionees are amazing. Even the rejected performers stay upbeat: “I absolutely sang my heart out. I felt so much release,” 16-year-old Hayley told me, moments after being turned down by the producers after her performance of \"Hallelujah.\" She was smiling, even though she'd obviously been crying earlier. \"There’s always next year.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 762px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"762\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.39-PM.png 762w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.39-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.39-PM-240x154.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.39-PM-375x240.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.39-PM-520x333.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hayley, who tried out for American Idol but ultimately didn't make the cut \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given it’s a large crowd of teens and young adults -- a large portion of whom are destined to be told that their talent just isn't evident enough -- this lack of visible despondency at rejection is startling. The auditions themselves -- performed for one of several \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> producers sitting at a row of desks beneath the palm trees of Jack London Square -- are all conducted in full view of not only the line of waiting auditionees but also an assembled crowd of supporters, onlookers, and random folks stopping to rubberneck. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The “no” is, therefore, very evident and crazily public, yet these young people simply smile tightly and briskly walk back to the barriers. Because of their age, most of them are going into the arms of their waiting family. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">People here see my camera and beam at me, like a switch has been flipped -- they're being seen and that's great. That, after all, is what they're here for. Later that night, going through my photos, I’m struck by just how many of the people in the background, behind the actual subject, are posing too.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But why, in the age of YouTube, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">would\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> any young person see such a relic of the reality TV era as their preferred ticket to stardom? Hayley, the teen who didn’t make the cut, explains that it’s “just a lot easier to go through \u003cem>American Idol.\u003c/em> If you make it, you automatically know these producers, and record labels will look at you. With YouTube, it’s a little bit slower; you really have to promote yourself.\" She might, she said, now try out for \u003cem>The X Factor\u003c/em>, or \u003cem>America’s Got Talent\u003c/em>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 512px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.21-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.21-PM.png 512w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.21-PM-160x149.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.21-PM-240x224.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.12.21-PM-375x350.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The American Idol tour bus, parked in Jack London Square, Oakland \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On shows like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol,\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> you’ll often hear auditionees say it's their “last chance” to make it in this business, or their “only hope.” But honestly, watching them seem to shrug off rejection, it became evident that most of those in attendance were very aware of their other options in life. When I asked the hopefuls in the line about their plan B if \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> didn't work out, they were always breezy -- they'd keep on hustling, continue with school, keep putting their stuff on YouTube, audition for another reality show. When I caught up with Robert’s girlfriend Desiry -- the one who was actually here to audition -- her attitude to the possibility of rejection was so calmly pragmatic, and (at the risk of sounding condescending here) \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">mature\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “[I’ll just] continue to get better!”, she said. “Constructive criticism is the only way forward. If you can’t take that, there’s no way that you can really improve in this world.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 755px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95967\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.32-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.32-PM.png 755w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.32-PM-160x96.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.32-PM-240x144.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.32-PM-375x225.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.32-PM-520x311.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monica from Richmond, in the American Idol audition line \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For many others I spoke with, \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was just a moonshot while they were pursuing various other paths. Monica, 19, from Richmond, who says she’d be “shocked and surprised” if she made the cut today, is about to start her junior year at medical school in a couple of days. (“I come from a city that doesn’t have the best reputation, but I heard a quote once that said ‘diamonds are created through pressure,” she tells me, giggling.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95968\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 765px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.57-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.57-PM.png 765w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.57-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.57-PM-240x152.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.57-PM-375x238.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.57-PM-520x330.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirsten, from Benicia, and her keyboard \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Further down the line, 15-year-old Kirsten from Benicia -- pink skirt suit, bright blue contact lenses, not much taller than the chunky free-standing keyboard she’s brought along -- talks to me about her dreams of becoming a software engineer with as much passion as she does about her desire to feature on \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>. She doesn’t think appearing on -- or even winning -- the show will affect that part of her life. Kirsten performs a yowling version of ‘Great Balls of Fire’ for my microphone, while people around fall silent and listen, but is even more excitable when we discuss her ambitions to attend UC Irvine and work for Disney. (“I hear that Disney and other tech companies hire straight out of schools around the area,” she informs me with authority.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asking Kirsten whether she sees a contradiction in her twin dreams of coding excellence and reality TV fame is a telling moment. She says she doesn’t understand the question, so I think I’ve expressed myself badly and repeat myself, this time also asking her if one seems more “shallow” than the other. She tells me confidently that “if you’re in it for the right reasons, there’s no \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">reason\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for it to be shallow.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95980\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 767px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95980\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.32-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.32-PM.png 767w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.32-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.32-PM-240x153.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.32-PM-375x239.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.11.32-PM-520x332.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen performs for the American Idol cameras \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I realize suddenly that the question only really makes sense to someone my age or older, who can remember a time before \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and its ilk. We’re the ones who tsk-tsk about “short cuts to fame,” and roll our eyes at this new way of making it big. For people Kirsten’s age, reality TV and YouTube stardom have always \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">been\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> an option. It’s been on the table -- close for some, tantalizingly out of reach for others -- and physically on their screens for as long as they can remember. So why would there be any contradiction between the things they want, when they’re all dreams in the same life? ”There’s a lot of great artists I look up to like Aretha Franklin or Bruno Mars,” she tells me. There’s no contradiction.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>These open-air auditions are so transparent -- at least in terms of what you can see and hear -- that you can see auditionees in the line for the producer’s desk getting visibly psyched out by a particularly proficient performance ahead. Yet the jittery enthusiasm is infectious, and makes cynicism hard to maintain, even for uninvolved onlookers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95982\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 771px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95982\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"771\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM.png 771w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM-160x100.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM-768x481.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM-240x150.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM-375x235.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.08.13-PM-520x326.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People waiting to audition for American Idol in Jack London Square \u003ccite>(Carly Severn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hillary, a trained classical singer in her late twenties who's stopped to watch the scene, is far from dismissive -- or even just a little skeptical -- of this parade of mostly-untrained young singers. She talks with an unexpected pride about what she sees as their openness and their creative ambition. “They’re so happy and so open to express themselves and their talent and what they truly believe to be true. And I think that’s just a marvelous thing.” Doesn’t the professionally-trained part of her rankle at amateur singers thinking they’re good enough to vault straight to the big leagues, I ask? Not at all, she replies. “They’re pop singers so they sing with a pop sound. They move their jaws around a lot… it’s a different type of singing. It’s people letting their souls out and singing popular songs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 762px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95981\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-8.18.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"762\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-8.18.03-PM.png 762w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-8.18.03-PM-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-8.18.03-PM-240x153.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-8.18.03-PM-375x240.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-8.18.03-PM-520x332.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two young women handing their registration papers to a member of the American Idol team \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watching a frighteningly good-looking young man singing Hozier's \"Take Me to Church\" for the producers’ cameras with a stop-start phrasing that's entirely absent from the original, I think of how it’s become a tired cliche to point out that voices like Janis Joplin's or Tom Waits’ would never make it through the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gates. But witnessing the auditions as an unedited procession, it’s staggering to see and hear just \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">how\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> homogenized the sound actually is. Everybody really does sound the same: soulful, soaring, emotive, vibrato-ing wildly. This is Good Singing, and the general idea, it seems, is to opt for these big songs that allow an opportunity to glide up the octave. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the set, I ask one of \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em>’s casting producers -- Nancy Yearing, who’s worked on the show for nine seasons -- about these audition trends. Yes, everyone basically sings the same songs, she says. “Lot of Alicia Keys; \"At Last\"; \"House of the Rising Sun\" -- amazing songs, but they’ve just been overdone. It seems like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">everyone\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> comes in with the same 50.” She wonders whether they’re getting them “from their vocal coaches.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 741px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95969\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.51-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"741\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.51-PM.png 741w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.51-PM-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.51-PM-240x152.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.51-PM-375x237.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.10.51-PM-520x328.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Yearing, casting producer for American Idol \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I then ask Nancy if they were aware their Oakland set was essentially on top of an Amtrak route. She tells me no, they only found out the morning they arrived to set up, but that she’s finding workarounds. “I try and time it. I have a good view of when the gates come down.” It might also be an unexpected bonus, she suggests, for assessing an auditionee’s mettle. “If it happens in the middle of someone singing, in some way it’s a good test -- what can you sing through?” \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also tells me she doesn’t “really know” the reasoning for the show’s upper age limit (28), and is firm when I ask if she’s concerned she’s missing out on some really top-notch 29-year-old talent. There are, Nancy says, “lots of avenues for talent. If someone’s going to be successful, they’re going to be successful.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nancy tells me the show's producers are excited to be auditioning in Oakland this year rather than San Francisco. Not just because of the “coolness” of this “up-and-coming city,” and “trying to change up where we normally go,” but also because of the new variety of try-outs she thinks will now be able to participate -- as if those cities were hundreds of miles from each other, rather than a Bay Bridge ride or a 10 minute BART train. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the lack of familiarity shows. I keep thinking: This is a tightly-controlled, multi-million-dollar television juggernaut, now in its 15th year. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And they didn't know their open air film set was next to a busy railway line. \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Was the City of Oakland just so thrilled to have \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> in town that it never came up? Did nobody scout out what is an entirely new location for this roadshow? I can't help but wonder how much cheaper hiring out Jack London Square is for \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Idol\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">’s new network ABC than a similar venue in New York City, or L.A. or San Francisco (none of which are on the 19-city tour list).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95984\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 569px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95984\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.06.01-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.06.01-PM.png 569w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.06.01-PM-160x122.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.06.01-PM-240x183.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.06.01-PM-375x287.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/09/Screenshot-2017-09-03-at-7.06.01-PM-520x398.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A line of waiting hopefuls at the American Idol auditions \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But if anybody here shares my suspicions, they’re not telling me. Everyone in line seems thrilled that the \u003cem>Idol\u003c/em> bus has chosen Oakland today, almost always citing the diversity they see in the cohort. (Tito, with his viola, tells me he actually sees way more diversity today than he did when auditioning for \u003cem>The Voice\u003c/em>. “It’s a different crowd of people.”) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On my way out, I ask one teenager dressed in a Wonder Woman costume about the strategy behind her outfit. Anything to stand out, she replied -- already seeing herself as the producers, and the viewers would -- and indeed, she got past the producer’s audition desk. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walking back past the line, which is now dwindling, I think of the young woman I heard earlier in a nearby coffee shop, telling someone on the other end of the phone that \"I don't know whether to chose something that shows off my talent or something that they \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">want.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\" \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2017, the American Idol hopefuls here in Oakland truly know the difference.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To hear the actual voices of the auditionees I talked to and more, give this episode of The Cooler a listen:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"program":"The Cooler","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg","label":"src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/09/Idol.mp3\" title=\"Is It Too Late to Say Sorry for Eating So Much Avocado?\""},"numeric":["src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2017/09/Idol.mp3\" title=\"Is","It","Too","Late","to","Say","Sorry","for","Eating","So","Much","Avocado?\""]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/95954/who-tries-out-for-american-idol-in-2017-i-went-to-the-oakland-auditions-to-find-out","authors":["3243"],"categories":["pop_3","pop_1"],"tags":["pop_280"],"featImg":"pop_95987","label":"pop"},"pop_94015":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_94015","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"94015","score":null,"sort":[1501617696000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"product-placement-in-music-videos-is-so-out-of-hand-we-dont-know-whats-real-anymore","title":"Product Placement in Music Videos is So Out of Hand, We Don't Know What's Real Anymore","publishDate":1501617696,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>In the post-album-buying age, artists have to make money in new and ever-expanding ways. In the '90s, back when people actually bought albums on the regular, going to a concert rarely cost more than $50, and T-shirts at the show were usually $10-$15. These days, as artists try to make up revenue they no longer get from record sales, concert tickets have skyrocketed in price, and merch can be positively extortionate. But there's another weird side effect that has changed the face of music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started in 2008 with an aggressive marketing strategy by Beats by Dre. Recent HBO documentary series, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT5FeylUWO0\">\u003cem>The Defiant Ones\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, talks openly about the fact that Dr. Dre's business partner, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Iovine\">Jimmy Iovine\u003c/a>, pushed the headphones on every single famous person he came into contact with -- be they athletes, actors, or musicians -- in order to market them to the public. That year, Beats by Dre headphones showed up in music videos by Lady Gaga, Ludacris, Pussycat Dolls, The Game, Snoop Dogg, Solange, Busta Rhymes & Linkin Park, Keri Hilson, and too many others to mention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was there nothing subtle about any of Beats by Dre's marketing, it opened the floodgates. By 2012, Swedish House Mafia's \"Greyhound\" video transformed into an Absolut Vodka commercial, Ellie Goulding's \"How Long Will I Love You\" was one long, excruciating Nokia endorsement, and No Doubt's \"Settle Down\" was a thinly veiled ad for Ice watches. The following year, Avicii's \"Wake Me Up\" video was basically a Ralph Lauren brochure, and Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull demonstrated what great multi-taskers they were by advertising Nokia phones, Swarovski jewelry, Beluga vodka, and Ice watches all in the space of one video (\"Live it Up\" should probably be renamed \"Buy More Stuff\").\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the arrival of the Beats Pill speaker though, that took music-videos-as-commercials to the next level. The prior marketing of Beats by Dre headphones looked positively subtle by comparison. Between 2013 and 2015, it was hard to find a music video that didn't spend an annoyingly long time lingering on a Beats Pill. Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, Robin Thicke, TI and Pharrell, Coldplay, Jessie J, Ty Dolla $ign, Lily Allen, and more prominently featured the product in their videos. In the \"We Can't Stop\" video, we see the pill before we even see Miley Cyrus's face, and in Britney Spears' \"Work Bitch,\" the pill is even used as a ball gag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 659px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94029\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-1.02.47-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-1.02.47-PM.png 659w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-1.02.47-PM-160x89.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-1.02.47-PM-240x134.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-1.02.47-PM-375x209.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-1.02.47-PM-520x290.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Britney Spears, \"Work Bitch\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post-Beats Pill, all bets are off; some artists are shilling a wide variety of products (and now services!) in their music videos in a manner that can only be described as shameless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demi Lovato's latest, \"Sorry Not Sorry,\" is the pinnacle of awfulness when it comes to product placement because it starts with the promise of realness (\"On June 29th, Demi threw a house party and we made a music video\"). The video then works its way through endorsements for Jaguar cars, JBL headphones, and speakers, and ends in a super prominent endorsement for Lyft. Despite Lovato's still-thriving career, there is an element of it all that smacks of desperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MsvER1dpjM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrast this with Justin Bieber's pool party video for 2012's \"Beauty and a Beat.\" It's a stark contrast of what a difference no endorsements make. Bieber uses technology throughout the clip and never once advertises anything. It is, as a result, a far superior music video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys7-6_t7OEQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lines are now so blurred when it comes to music promotion and product placement that artists have now started to play with our general sense of confusion. With the release of their new album, \u003cem>Everything Now\u003c/em>, Arcade Fire has been indulging in some post-modern mockery of the current sell-sell-sell musical landscape. In June, its Twitter threw up an ad for USB fidget spinners:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/arcadefire/status/878299800420048897?lang=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to how accustomed music fans have become to getting sold nonsense, the fidget spinner ad thoroughly confused a lot of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/HulseCallum/status/880817216974979073\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a stunning indictment of the times we live in that it's impossible to know for sure whether or not a band is genuinely trying to sell us something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the internet age, marketing has become a stealth, around-the-clock endeavor, and it stands to reason that a less lucrative music industry would join forces with corporate entities for extra funds. A major problem arises, however, when the product placement overshadows the music. If the current trends continue, it's going to become ever more difficult to engage with music visuals at all without a sense of cynicism creeping in. Surely that should be more important to artists than collecting money from a ride sharing app or speaker company.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In 2017, we might be getting our music for free, but we're paying for it in other ways.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1501617696,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":837},"headData":{"title":"Product Placement in Music Videos is So Out of Hand, We Don't Know What's Real Anymore | KQED","description":"In 2017, we might be getting our music for free, but we're paying for it in other ways.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Product Placement in Music Videos is So Out of Hand, We Don't Know What's Real Anymore","datePublished":"2017-08-01T20:01:36.000Z","dateModified":"2017-08-01T20:01:36.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"94015 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=94015","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/08/01/product-placement-in-music-videos-is-so-out-of-hand-we-dont-know-whats-real-anymore/","disqusTitle":"Product Placement in Music Videos is So Out of Hand, We Don't Know What's Real Anymore","path":"/pop/94015/product-placement-in-music-videos-is-so-out-of-hand-we-dont-know-whats-real-anymore","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the post-album-buying age, artists have to make money in new and ever-expanding ways. In the '90s, back when people actually bought albums on the regular, going to a concert rarely cost more than $50, and T-shirts at the show were usually $10-$15. These days, as artists try to make up revenue they no longer get from record sales, concert tickets have skyrocketed in price, and merch can be positively extortionate. But there's another weird side effect that has changed the face of music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started in 2008 with an aggressive marketing strategy by Beats by Dre. Recent HBO documentary series, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT5FeylUWO0\">\u003cem>The Defiant Ones\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, talks openly about the fact that Dr. Dre's business partner, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Iovine\">Jimmy Iovine\u003c/a>, pushed the headphones on every single famous person he came into contact with -- be they athletes, actors, or musicians -- in order to market them to the public. That year, Beats by Dre headphones showed up in music videos by Lady Gaga, Ludacris, Pussycat Dolls, The Game, Snoop Dogg, Solange, Busta Rhymes & Linkin Park, Keri Hilson, and too many others to mention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only was there nothing subtle about any of Beats by Dre's marketing, it opened the floodgates. By 2012, Swedish House Mafia's \"Greyhound\" video transformed into an Absolut Vodka commercial, Ellie Goulding's \"How Long Will I Love You\" was one long, excruciating Nokia endorsement, and No Doubt's \"Settle Down\" was a thinly veiled ad for Ice watches. The following year, Avicii's \"Wake Me Up\" video was basically a Ralph Lauren brochure, and Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull demonstrated what great multi-taskers they were by advertising Nokia phones, Swarovski jewelry, Beluga vodka, and Ice watches all in the space of one video (\"Live it Up\" should probably be renamed \"Buy More Stuff\").\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the arrival of the Beats Pill speaker though, that took music-videos-as-commercials to the next level. The prior marketing of Beats by Dre headphones looked positively subtle by comparison. Between 2013 and 2015, it was hard to find a music video that didn't spend an annoyingly long time lingering on a Beats Pill. Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, Robin Thicke, TI and Pharrell, Coldplay, Jessie J, Ty Dolla $ign, Lily Allen, and more prominently featured the product in their videos. In the \"We Can't Stop\" video, we see the pill before we even see Miley Cyrus's face, and in Britney Spears' \"Work Bitch,\" the pill is even used as a ball gag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 659px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-94029\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-1.02.47-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-1.02.47-PM.png 659w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-1.02.47-PM-160x89.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-1.02.47-PM-240x134.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-1.02.47-PM-375x209.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-26-at-1.02.47-PM-520x290.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Britney Spears, \"Work Bitch\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post-Beats Pill, all bets are off; some artists are shilling a wide variety of products (and now services!) in their music videos in a manner that can only be described as shameless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demi Lovato's latest, \"Sorry Not Sorry,\" is the pinnacle of awfulness when it comes to product placement because it starts with the promise of realness (\"On June 29th, Demi threw a house party and we made a music video\"). The video then works its way through endorsements for Jaguar cars, JBL headphones, and speakers, and ends in a super prominent endorsement for Lyft. Despite Lovato's still-thriving career, there is an element of it all that smacks of desperation.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-MsvER1dpjM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-MsvER1dpjM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Contrast this with Justin Bieber's pool party video for 2012's \"Beauty and a Beat.\" It's a stark contrast of what a difference no endorsements make. 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In June, its Twitter threw up an ad for USB fidget spinners:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"878299800420048897"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Thanks to how accustomed music fans have become to getting sold nonsense, the fidget spinner ad thoroughly confused a lot of people.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"880817216974979073"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>It's a stunning indictment of the times we live in that it's impossible to know for sure whether or not a band is genuinely trying to sell us something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the internet age, marketing has become a stealth, around-the-clock endeavor, and it stands to reason that a less lucrative music industry would join forces with corporate entities for extra funds. A major problem arises, however, when the product placement overshadows the music. If the current trends continue, it's going to become ever more difficult to engage with music visuals at all without a sense of cynicism creeping in. Surely that should be more important to artists than collecting money from a ride sharing app or speaker company.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/94015/product-placement-in-music-videos-is-so-out-of-hand-we-dont-know-whats-real-anymore","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_4","pop_1"],"featImg":"pop_94050","label":"pop"},"pop_94025":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_94025","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"94025","score":null,"sort":[1501102555000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"take-a-break-from-trump-and-watch-these-cute-animal-videos-instead","title":"Take a Break from Trump and Watch These Cute Animal Videos Instead","publishDate":1501102555,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>Remember what it was like to wake up and not have your entire day ruined by whatever news slipped out of the HellMouth and onto your phone while you were sleeping? Yeah, me neither.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/xcusemybeauty/status/890257397188444160\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of my day usually goes one of two ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Read every single article about all the new horrible things that are happening. Update Burn Book. Read even more upsetting articles. Rant via every medium -- text, landline, tweet, face-to-face. Google Ruth Bader Ginsburg to make sure she's still doing okay and keeping up with her pushup exercise regimen. Think about Sasha Obama and smile. Go back to being mad about everything. Repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Add to your life by avoiding the news. Hydrate. Listen to music from your childhood as a way to remind yourself of a time before you realized everyone is craven and evil. Find cute animal videos and watch them all more than twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, I'm walking through Door #2. I present the cute animal videos du jour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do you prepare panda cubs for a life without the help of humans? Dress up in a panda costume and play with them!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ftheguardian%2Fvideos%2F10155738165431323%2F&width=500&show_text=false&height=500&appId\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still feeling bad? Check out this elephant picking up trash just to be nice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/planetepics/status/887918259831529472\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultivate calmness by watching this zen cutie heed Michelle Obama's words to go high when they go low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/zboah/status/883738347621036034\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We should all try to be more like this puppy petting a kitten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/WoaAnimals/status/889333888690028544\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember to make time for your friends, a.k.a. the baby goats to your baby rhino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MeetAnimals/status/890129815336038400\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next time something confounding happens in the world, think of this head-tilting pup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AnimaILife/status/890059393496215553\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's easy to forget to practice self-care during turbulent and stressful times. Make a to-do list that only involves three things: stretching, resting, and cuddling. If it's good enough for these little kitties, it's good enough for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CuteAnimaIVines/status/889558650636861445\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel so much better. Don't you?\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sometimes the news is just too much. That's where baby pandas, kittens, and puppies come in.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1501105496,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":375},"headData":{"title":"Take a Break from Trump and Watch These Cute Animal Videos Instead | KQED","description":"Sometimes the news is just too much. 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Make a to-do list that only involves three things: stretching, resting, and cuddling. If it's good enough for these little kitties, it's good enough for you.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"889558650636861445"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel so much better. Don't you?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/94025/take-a-break-from-trump-and-watch-these-cute-animal-videos-instead","authors":["27"],"categories":["pop_1","pop_1041"],"tags":["pop_2827"],"featImg":"pop_94041","label":"pop"},"pop_91270":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_91270","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"91270","score":null,"sort":[1499884739000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-defense-of-pitbulls-teeny-tiny-baseball-jersey","title":"In Defense of Pitbull's Teeny-Tiny Baseball Jersey","publishDate":1499884739,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>On Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pitbull/?hl=en\">Pitbull\u003c/a> performed at Miami Marlins Park for the annual \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Run_Derby_(Major_League_Baseball)\">MLB Home Run Derby\u003c/a>, and the internet lost its damn mind over Mr. Worldwide's pairing of extremely tight white pants and a teeny-tiny baseball jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's some chatter from Twitter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BlackSBayless/status/884569134452822017\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ShtBallPlayrsDo/status/884562792283594753\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MLBSponge/status/884563295910469632\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Charlie_Burris/status/884563567776845824\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CorkGaines/status/884559824599625728\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do any of these people know who Pitbull is? And what he usually looks like? Because it's this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-91286 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-800x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-800x440.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-160x88.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-768x423.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-240x132.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-375x206.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-520x286.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Timber\", YouTube\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And also this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91287\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-91287 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-800x452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-800x452.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-768x434.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-1020x577.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-960x543.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-240x136.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-375x212.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-520x294.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Greenlight\"/ YouTube\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And sometimes this (those gloves aren't just for baseball, guys):\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 614px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-91288 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-11-at-11.24.02-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-11-at-11.24.02-AM.png 614w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-11-at-11.24.02-AM-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-11-at-11.24.02-AM-240x151.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-11-at-11.24.02-AM-375x236.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-11-at-11.24.02-AM-520x328.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Greenlight\"/ YouTube\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But mostly this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 619px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-91289 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/pitbull-fun-video.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/pitbull-fun-video.jpg 619w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/pitbull-fun-video-160x87.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/pitbull-fun-video-240x130.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/pitbull-fun-video-375x204.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/pitbull-fun-video-520x282.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Fun\"/ YouTube\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pitbull is perpetually in clothes so tight, they look like they might pop off at any moment. That's his \u003cem>thing\u003c/em>. His other thing? White. Dude loves wearing white -- even after Labor Day, like the wild man that he is! With this in mind, Pitbull's MLB outfit actually made ALL OF THE SENSE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to wonder whether sports fans would have freaked out like this about, say, \u003ca href=\"https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/59/d3/cc/59d3cce4e42794fa5d1b6d4a2de700d2.jpg\">Ricky Martin\u003c/a>, in the same outfit. Hard to imagine, right? Maybe the issue isn't the tightness of Pitbull's clothes, but rather the hetero of Pitbull's sexuality. (Rumors about his potential gay status have been splashed all over the internet for years -- probably thanks in part to his wardrobe -- despite a string of \u003ca href=\"https://hitberry.com/rapper-pitbull-who-is-his-girlfriend-what-s-his-relation-with-barbara-alba-any-flings-or-not/\">relationships \u003c/a>with women and two children who were, as far as we know, conceived the old fashioned way.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the ladykiller vibes Pitbull portrays in his videos don't line up with his wardrobe -- at least according to what virile heterosexual men are \"supposed\" to wear -- we should applaud Pitbull as both a fashion rebel and a gender-role challenger. This guy summed it up pretty well:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/884567302263406592\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not easy being sexy.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"It's not easy being sexy.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1499884739,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":326},"headData":{"title":"In Defense of Pitbull's Teeny-Tiny Baseball Jersey | KQED","description":"It's not easy being sexy.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"In Defense of Pitbull's Teeny-Tiny Baseball Jersey","datePublished":"2017-07-12T18:38:59.000Z","dateModified":"2017-07-12T18:38:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"91270 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=91270","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/07/12/in-defense-of-pitbulls-teeny-tiny-baseball-jersey/","disqusTitle":"In Defense of Pitbull's Teeny-Tiny Baseball Jersey","path":"/pop/91270/in-defense-of-pitbulls-teeny-tiny-baseball-jersey","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pitbull/?hl=en\">Pitbull\u003c/a> performed at Miami Marlins Park for the annual \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Run_Derby_(Major_League_Baseball)\">MLB Home Run Derby\u003c/a>, and the internet lost its damn mind over Mr. Worldwide's pairing of extremely tight white pants and a teeny-tiny baseball jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's some chatter from Twitter:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"884569134452822017"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"884562792283594753"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"884563295910469632"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"884563567776845824"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"884559824599625728"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Do any of these people know who Pitbull is? And what he usually looks like? Because it's this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-91286 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-800x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-800x440.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-160x88.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-768x423.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-240x132.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-375x206.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview-520x286.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/timbersideview.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Timber\", YouTube\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And also this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91287\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-91287 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-800x452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-800x452.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-768x434.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-1020x577.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-960x543.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-240x136.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-375x212.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579-520x294.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Pitbull-Greenlight-e1471972454584-1024x579.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Greenlight\"/ YouTube\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And sometimes this (those gloves aren't just for baseball, guys):\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 614px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-91288 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-11-at-11.24.02-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-11-at-11.24.02-AM.png 614w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-11-at-11.24.02-AM-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-11-at-11.24.02-AM-240x151.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-11-at-11.24.02-AM-375x236.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-07-11-at-11.24.02-AM-520x328.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Greenlight\"/ YouTube\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But mostly this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91289\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 619px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-91289 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/pitbull-fun-video.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/pitbull-fun-video.jpg 619w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/pitbull-fun-video-160x87.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/pitbull-fun-video-240x130.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/pitbull-fun-video-375x204.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/07/pitbull-fun-video-520x282.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Fun\"/ YouTube\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pitbull is perpetually in clothes so tight, they look like they might pop off at any moment. That's his \u003cem>thing\u003c/em>. His other thing? White. Dude loves wearing white -- even after Labor Day, like the wild man that he is! With this in mind, Pitbull's MLB outfit actually made ALL OF THE SENSE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to wonder whether sports fans would have freaked out like this about, say, \u003ca href=\"https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/59/d3/cc/59d3cce4e42794fa5d1b6d4a2de700d2.jpg\">Ricky Martin\u003c/a>, in the same outfit. Hard to imagine, right? Maybe the issue isn't the tightness of Pitbull's clothes, but rather the hetero of Pitbull's sexuality. (Rumors about his potential gay status have been splashed all over the internet for years -- probably thanks in part to his wardrobe -- despite a string of \u003ca href=\"https://hitberry.com/rapper-pitbull-who-is-his-girlfriend-what-s-his-relation-with-barbara-alba-any-flings-or-not/\">relationships \u003c/a>with women and two children who were, as far as we know, conceived the old fashioned way.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the ladykiller vibes Pitbull portrays in his videos don't line up with his wardrobe -- at least according to what virile heterosexual men are \"supposed\" to wear -- we should applaud Pitbull as both a fashion rebel and a gender-role challenger. This guy summed it up pretty well:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"884567302263406592"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not easy being sexy.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/91270/in-defense-of-pitbulls-teeny-tiny-baseball-jersey","authors":["11242"],"categories":["pop_4","pop_1"],"tags":["pop_3006","pop_3005"],"featImg":"pop_91271","label":"pop"},"pop_78775":{"type":"posts","id":"pop_78775","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"pop","id":"78775","score":null,"sort":[1494421209000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mapping-privilege-whats-the-difference-between-a-gun-and-a-sex-toy","title":"Mapping Privilege: What’s the Difference Between a Gun and a Sex Toy?","publishDate":1494421209,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED Pop | KQED Arts","labelTerm":{"site":"pop"},"content":"\u003cp>My involvement in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/mapping-privilege/\">Mapping Privilege\u003c/a> project has taken me all over the country to talk to people about issues relating to identity. At times, though, I’ve found that observing billboards in any given area can often tell me just as much as my human interactions do. Noticing what advertisers spend their money on reveals a lot about what a community values, and who they worship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, there is no shortage of symbols from our patron saints of innovation; whether it’s the new smartphone you didn’t know you needed, or a new program to make you work more efficiently, the writing is literally on the wall. A\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s my cross-country drive eventually took me into the heart of Texas, the proliferation of gun range and Jesus billboards (often un-ironically adjacent) cued me in to what many Texans hold in high regard.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-79520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-160x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-150x150.png 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>Born and raised in Louisiana, with the state motto of \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.houmatoday.com/article/DA/20050201/News/608092787/HC/\">Sportsman's Paradise\u003c/a>,\" I arrived in the Lone Star State familiar with gun ownership as it relates to hunting. But the bumper stickers I saw peppering gas stations were different, and they made the local perspective abundantly clear: \"Ammo is expensive. Do not expect a warning shot.\" When I arrived at my lodgings, the message was driven home further with the most unwelcoming of mats: “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warning: Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of such fervent gun culture, a growing student activist movement at the University of Texas, Austin, is fighting back. For over a year, members of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://cocksnotglocks.org/about/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cocks Not Glocks \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have made international headlines with their unique method of advocacy: rocking dildos on their backpacks as they stroll around campus and attend their classes. For these students, sex toys are the perfect accessory to, as their organization's tagline explains, \"fight absurdity with absurdity.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PxyN9JqNjs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all started when Texas' Republican-controlled Congress passed a campus carry law that permits licensed gun owners to carry concealed handguns throughout college campuses, classrooms, and even dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jessicajin8?lang=en\">Jessica Jin\u003c/a>, a UT Texas Alum, responded to the news in 2015 the best way she knew how -- by posting \"the most crass joke on the subject\" to social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jessicajin8/status/652603768261865473\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jessicajin8/status/652605518062600192\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This joke became, in her words, \"lightning in a bottle\" and inspired Jin to create the first \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> event page on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cocksnotglocks/\">Facebook\u003c/a>, which, in turn, ended up attracting thousands of attendees and media attention (\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ku5d1z/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-texas-students-opt-for-c--ks-not-glocks\">The Daily Show\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, MSNBC, \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4074728/campus-carry-sex-toys/\">\u003cem>Time\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/us/university-of-texas-students-find-the-absurd-in-a-new-gun-law.html?_r=0\">The New York Times\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> \u003cem>History Now,\u003c/em> and many more).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:744a902d-3f0e-4614-833c-a2066d821d10\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" align=\"center\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jin is open about her childhood experiences growing up in Texas, which she feels helped shape her current understanding of privilege. As a first-generation American, Jin recalls a strong desire in her childhood to fit in with other students. As she got older, she started to gain more perspective on how she was viewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'We’re just going to Jessica’s house!'\" she laughs, explaining how friends would use her as a reliable excuse to convince their parents they were studying, when actually they were going to a party. It wasn’t just the gullible parents of her friends who were convinced of Jin’s inculpability. She started to notice that she could get away with a lot of things in high school too. She describes typical teen shenanigans -- skipping a class here or there, nothing too scandalous -- but there were rarely consequences from her teachers. Jin's theory? The teachers carried as many assumptions about her as her friends' parents did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This \u003ca href=\"https://www.education.com/reference/article/unraveling-minority-myth-asian-students/\">model minority\u003c/a> thing played to my advantage,” Jin says. “I didn’t realize it was inherent bias mixed with my ability to confirm it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The model minority idea to which Jin refers is the cultural expectation that Asian American and Pacific Islanders are more likely to be docile, hardworking, highly successful, and intellectually gifted in math and science. \u003c/span>Jin became aware, as soon as she became the spokesperson for \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em>, that the same stereotype still follows her today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This protest came about and lots of people didn’t expect it from an Asian American woman,\" she says. \"Perhaps the quiet and submissive stereotype is what made it easier for me to come out of nowhere and scare people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-79519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marshall Tidrick\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Scare\" may be putting it lightly. From the outrage and vitriol Jin has received so far, it’s clear that a remarkable number of people have a hard time seeing sex toys in public. Jin and the other \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> organizers have experienced everything from an unending amount of hateful online comments from trolls, to having their families targeted and addresses shared. At one particularly horrific point, somebody made a short film depicting one of them being murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a learning process,\" Jin admits. \"This has been the most insane few months of my life. They are doing work for us. They are proving a point for us. They are not the type of people you want to be carrying guns or making rules in society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-79521 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marshall Tidrick\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jin wrestles with the reasoning behind the outpouring of hate and the need to control rhetoric around safety for women, when many gun advocates suggest that women would be safer and less likely to be attacked if they were carrying a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What makes these guys feel so entitled to set the narrative for safety?\" Jin wonders. \"Is it privilege? Their manhood? How about you ask a woman what safety means?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jin and her fellow \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> advocates are clear that their movement is bringing up multiple conversations at once, and they are ready and willing to have all of them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most remarkable things about the \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> campaign, is that, through using sex toys as metaphors, the protest has now crossed\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> into an incredibly intersectional landscape of issues. What started as a protest about gun control has now turned into a conversation about sexual assault, owing to the fact that the number one threat Jessica Jin and other advocates receive is that of rape (statements like \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We can’t wait for you to be raped or assaulted because then we’ll be proven right”\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I hope you get raped\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">” are alarmingly common).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by the threats, Jin consulted with her fellow \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> activists at UT Austin and found that many of the women in the group had already experienced sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are quick to use that because they think it can control us,\" Jin suggests. \"What they don’t know is women have been dealing with this all their lives. We understand it better than they do.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Jessica Jin's 'Cocks Not Glocks' campaign uses humor, community organizing, and social media to challenge gun laws — and Asian American stereotypes.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1494363481,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1185},"headData":{"title":"Mapping Privilege: What’s the Difference Between a Gun and a Sex Toy? | KQED","description":"Jessica Jin's 'Cocks Not Glocks' campaign uses humor, community organizing, and social media to challenge gun laws — and Asian American stereotypes.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Mapping Privilege: What’s the Difference Between a Gun and a Sex Toy?","datePublished":"2017-05-10T13:00:09.000Z","dateModified":"2017-05-09T20:58:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"78775 https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/?p=78775","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/05/10/mapping-privilege-whats-the-difference-between-a-gun-and-a-sex-toy/","disqusTitle":"Mapping Privilege: What’s the Difference Between a Gun and a Sex Toy?","path":"/pop/78775/mapping-privilege-whats-the-difference-between-a-gun-and-a-sex-toy","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>My involvement in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/mapping-privilege/\">Mapping Privilege\u003c/a> project has taken me all over the country to talk to people about issues relating to identity. At times, though, I’ve found that observing billboards in any given area can often tell me just as much as my human interactions do. Noticing what advertisers spend their money on reveals a lot about what a community values, and who they worship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, there is no shortage of symbols from our patron saints of innovation; whether it’s the new smartphone you didn’t know you needed, or a new program to make you work more efficiently, the writing is literally on the wall. A\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s my cross-country drive eventually took me into the heart of Texas, the proliferation of gun range and Jesus billboards (often un-ironically adjacent) cued me in to what many Texans hold in high regard.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-79520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-160x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-150x150.png 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>Born and raised in Louisiana, with the state motto of \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.houmatoday.com/article/DA/20050201/News/608092787/HC/\">Sportsman's Paradise\u003c/a>,\" I arrived in the Lone Star State familiar with gun ownership as it relates to hunting. But the bumper stickers I saw peppering gas stations were different, and they made the local perspective abundantly clear: \"Ammo is expensive. Do not expect a warning shot.\" When I arrived at my lodgings, the message was driven home further with the most unwelcoming of mats: “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warning: Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of such fervent gun culture, a growing student activist movement at the University of Texas, Austin, is fighting back. For over a year, members of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://cocksnotglocks.org/about/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cocks Not Glocks \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have made international headlines with their unique method of advocacy: rocking dildos on their backpacks as they stroll around campus and attend their classes. For these students, sex toys are the perfect accessory to, as their organization's tagline explains, \"fight absurdity with absurdity.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-PxyN9JqNjs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-PxyN9JqNjs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all started when Texas' Republican-controlled Congress passed a campus carry law that permits licensed gun owners to carry concealed handguns throughout college campuses, classrooms, and even dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jessicajin8?lang=en\">Jessica Jin\u003c/a>, a UT Texas Alum, responded to the news in 2015 the best way she knew how -- by posting \"the most crass joke on the subject\" to social media.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"652603768261865473"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"652605518062600192"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>This joke became, in her words, \"lightning in a bottle\" and inspired Jin to create the first \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> event page on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cocksnotglocks/\">Facebook\u003c/a>, which, in turn, ended up attracting thousands of attendees and media attention (\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ku5d1z/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-texas-students-opt-for-c--ks-not-glocks\">The Daily Show\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, MSNBC, \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4074728/campus-carry-sex-toys/\">\u003cem>Time\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/us/university-of-texas-students-find-the-absurd-in-a-new-gun-law.html?_r=0\">The New York Times\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> \u003cem>History Now,\u003c/em> and many more).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:744a902d-3f0e-4614-833c-a2066d821d10\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" align=\"center\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jin is open about her childhood experiences growing up in Texas, which she feels helped shape her current understanding of privilege. As a first-generation American, Jin recalls a strong desire in her childhood to fit in with other students. As she got older, she started to gain more perspective on how she was viewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'We’re just going to Jessica’s house!'\" she laughs, explaining how friends would use her as a reliable excuse to convince their parents they were studying, when actually they were going to a party. It wasn’t just the gullible parents of her friends who were convinced of Jin’s inculpability. She started to notice that she could get away with a lot of things in high school too. She describes typical teen shenanigans -- skipping a class here or there, nothing too scandalous -- but there were rarely consequences from her teachers. Jin's theory? The teachers carried as many assumptions about her as her friends' parents did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This \u003ca href=\"https://www.education.com/reference/article/unraveling-minority-myth-asian-students/\">model minority\u003c/a> thing played to my advantage,” Jin says. “I didn’t realize it was inherent bias mixed with my ability to confirm it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The model minority idea to which Jin refers is the cultural expectation that Asian American and Pacific Islanders are more likely to be docile, hardworking, highly successful, and intellectually gifted in math and science. \u003c/span>Jin became aware, as soon as she became the spokesperson for \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em>, that the same stereotype still follows her today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This protest came about and lots of people didn’t expect it from an Asian American woman,\" she says. \"Perhaps the quiet and submissive stereotype is what made it easier for me to come out of nowhere and scare people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-79519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marshall Tidrick\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Scare\" may be putting it lightly. From the outrage and vitriol Jin has received so far, it’s clear that a remarkable number of people have a hard time seeing sex toys in public. Jin and the other \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> organizers have experienced everything from an unending amount of hateful online comments from trolls, to having their families targeted and addresses shared. At one particularly horrific point, somebody made a short film depicting one of them being murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a learning process,\" Jin admits. \"This has been the most insane few months of my life. They are doing work for us. They are proving a point for us. They are not the type of people you want to be carrying guns or making rules in society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-79521 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marshall Tidrick\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jin wrestles with the reasoning behind the outpouring of hate and the need to control rhetoric around safety for women, when many gun advocates suggest that women would be safer and less likely to be attacked if they were carrying a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What makes these guys feel so entitled to set the narrative for safety?\" Jin wonders. \"Is it privilege? Their manhood? How about you ask a woman what safety means?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jin and her fellow \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> advocates are clear that their movement is bringing up multiple conversations at once, and they are ready and willing to have all of them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most remarkable things about the \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> campaign, is that, through using sex toys as metaphors, the protest has now crossed\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> into an incredibly intersectional landscape of issues. 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We understand it better than they do.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/pop/78775/mapping-privilege-whats-the-difference-between-a-gun-and-a-sex-toy","authors":["11331"],"categories":["pop_1536","pop_1","pop_1041"],"tags":["pop_2934"],"featImg":"pop_79514","label":"pop"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? 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