Lisa and the Crazy Horse show "Rashomon"

Not surprisingly, Lisa was on the hot search again in the premiere of the Crazy Horse show.

In mid-September, BLACKPINK member Lisa posted a preview of her upcoming performance on the Crazy Horse show on Instagram, which ran from September 28 to September 30, with a total of five shows. As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused an uproar, why and whether she made this decision, whether it was right, and her follow-up response "you were not invited", dominated the hot search topic for nearly a week.

After the show, the audience quickly paid attention to the guests and the scene: her teammates Rosé and Jisoo, supermodel Kaia Gerber and Lisa's gossip boyfriend Frédéric Arnault's family; As for the central issue in the discussion, the scale of Lisa's performance, according to the repo of the audience, it was "beyond BLACKPINK's concert, but still not as good as strippers, and the largest nudity was only to the bikini level." ”

The latest topic of discussion is that domestic entertainment actresses Angelababy and Zhang Jiani appear in the list of viewers of the Crazy Horse show - the public, especially the Internet-Chinese public, seems to have always had a strong desire to discuss this.

In fact, outside the center of heated public opinion, or "outside the circle", many people are confused about this matter: why does a Thai member of a Korean girl group go to a well-known "striptease" performance in France to cause such a big response in China?

The heat is brewing

Netizens paid attention to and enthusiastically discussed "Lisa to Crazy Horse Show", which is essentially a complex public opinion vortex before this news was exposed.

Lisa, whose full name is Lalisa Manoban, is the youngest member of the Korean A-list girl group BLACKPINK. BLACKPINK is a mainstay of YG, one of the three major idol agencies in Korea. Lisa from Thailand is YG's first foreign idol group member and has been training for 5 years.

Globally, BLACKPINK is the world's most popular KPOP girl group, and there is not even one: the title track and precursor of the regular second album "BORN PINK" at the end of last year, and also appeared in the top two of the Billboard Global 200. Among them, Lisa is one of the most popular members of the group in the world, and her IG followers have exceeded 97 million; And her popularity in Chinese mainland also has the blessing of joining the iQiyi draft "Youth with You 2" in 2020 as a dance instructor.

At that time, Lisa was most praised by netizens for her business ability. In the BLACKPINK team, Lisa is positioned as the main dancer and rap bearer, and is well known to the audience for her pleasing dance level, and as of August this year, she has 134 million direct shoots and 11 million direct shoots on YouTube, ranking first among KPOP girl groups. In the two "Youth with You" drafts, she was a model for theme song dance.

Lisa in "Youth Has You 2" Source: Douban

The image of chasing dreams in a foreign country is already endearing, and Lisa's star path is indeed not smooth sailing. The Korean idol industry and rice circle public opinion are relatively exclusive, although Lisa has a thin waist and long legs, her appearance is really not the "beauty" standard in the Korean aesthetic category.

The star-making assembly line of the Korean idol industry created a suitable makeup and hairstyle for her and labeled her as "Barbie in the world", but there was a post on the Korean Internet that she was "a Southeast Asian face disguised by Korean makeup", and public opinion fermented, and many Thai and foreign artists spoke out against similar racial discrimination, including Wang Jiaer, who was in JYP's boy group at the time. Last year, Korean media also reported that Lisa was defrauded by brokers who have followed for many years as much as 1 billion won (about 5.82 million yuan).

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In particular, in Lisa's fans, her only fan perspective, teammate Jennie has been controversial for many years about "stage paddling" and "love", and the façade Jisoo's dance level is obviously unable to keep up with the other three, so Lisa, who has not had negative news for many years, looks excellent and dedicated in comparison. With the advent of the era of short videos, the dance direct shooting videos of girl groups quickly became popular, and Lisa's fame has further increased.

And this "contrast" is inseparable in the idol group rice circle ecology, in a well-known girl group such as BLACKPINK, the struggle in the rice circle will be more intense, and it has evolved into mutual attacks, and there are many "poison" fans.

For example, BLACKPINK previously had the controversy that Lisa was bullied and isolated by Jennie, but in fact, the so-called "bullying" video collection was edited by Lisa's poison fans from various official materials, and "women's group learning" always reminds people of the stereotype of "intrigue" between girls' dormitories.

The mutual attacks between the fan rice circles have rapidly escalated all personal disputes: their own idols appear negative, the first target of only fans is often "teammate fans" to smear, their own idols' teammates have negative public opinion, and many fans are happy to fall into the well, laying the groundwork for subsequent escalation.

COINCIDENTALLY, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S BECAUSE THE EXPIRATION OF BLACKPINK'S MEMBER CONTRACT IS IMMINENT, AND THIS YEAR CAN BE SAID TO BE AN "EVENTFUL AUTUMN" FOR THE ENTIRE GROUP.

In May this year, Jennie was exposed to travel to Jeju Island with V (Kim Taehyung), a member of South Korea's top boy group BTS, and then a photo of the two and news of the same trip to Paris leaked. Although neither company admitted it, the public generally believes that this is Jennie's third relationship, and the first two boyfriends are Kai, an EXO member who was photographed, and Kwon Ji Long, a senior of the same company. Rosé and Jisoo were also exposed to the scandal, but the former denied it, and the latter admitted his relationship with South Korean actor Ahn Pu-hyun.

On the other hand, participating in HBO's "The Idol" is regarded by fans as proof of Jennie's success in "breaking into beauty", and its male protagonist is the well-known European and American singer The Weeknd, and the female protagonist is Depp's daughter Lily-Rose. However, the reputation of "The Idol" plummeted, and accusations such as large-scale gimmicks and "male condensation" came to the fore, Jennie had few roles in it, and the line scale and the plot of dancing closely with the two actors also caused controversy.

"Breaking into beauty" is the common direction of the current KPOP idol industry, and it has also become the source of some controversial developments. Jennie's "Breaking into Beauty" is considered to be a loss of value but "has no effect", and she was repeatedly accused of not dancing seriously during the BLACKPINK world tour, and even ended halfway through the Macau venue, but her tour in Europe and the United States remained excellent, and many netizens accused her of "treating her differently" and "licking beauty".

In all the above events, Lisa was not present, but the long-squeezed grudge between fans broke out under the heaviest scandal.

Counterattack and public opinion field

In August this year, some netizens took the same frame photo of Lisa and "celebrity" Frédéric Arnault in a private jet lounge in Los Angeles, and after digging deeper, it was found that Lisa was suspected of joining Frédéric's family trip in Italy, and the background and hotel details could be matched.

Who is Frédéric? The most well-known identity is the "third son" of the Arnault family who heads the LVMH group, and is also the current president of TAG Heuer, which can be said to be the representative of the "old money" in Europe and the United States. According to this year's new Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the richest man in the world is Bernard Arnault, the boss of the LVMH group, the father of the "three sons".

Top with top giants, this novel-like configuration attracted all attention in an instant. As soon as the trailer of the Crazy Horse show came out, because Lisa once went to see the show with Sangongzi, the nature of the matter in the Chinese public opinion field was led to "female top dancing to please her boyfriend" at the beginning, directly to the emotional problem of "marrying a wealthy family".

Internet wild emotional bloggers have come into battle, analyzing that Lisa is Thai and a singing and dancing idol, it is impossible to step into the door of the European and American old money family, the third son's move is not really to recognize this girlfriend, otherwise it will be like the daughter-in-law of the Kushner family, supermodel Karlie Kloss, first go to New York University to learn programming.

To many male netizens, things are even simpler: Korean girl groups and local chaebols are inextricably linked, but the object of this courtesy has become the European old white male elite, and many people relish the possibility of this Illuminati humiliation ceremony, and finally do not forget to come to the most basic "find resources".

The Crazy Horse show is one of the three major shows in France, with a more nude grade but a more artistic expression than the Lido and the Moulin Rouge. The French can't look at the striptease that Las Vegas is too direct, and the Crazy Horse show is considered the most artistic of the three shows: the actresses dance striptease, but they all use sound and light effects combined with dance, focusing on subtle, provocative visual erotic stimulation, and the most famous performance was Tita Vantis's champagne glass striptease.

The scale of body exposure in East Asia and Europe and the United States is different from a historical perspective. Paris is the fashion capital of the world, and the depiction of nude women was once an important expression in the art of 19th-century painting. In the movie "Titanic", when Jack showed Ruth his paintings of female nudes, he said: "That's the good thing about Paris, girls are willing to take off their clothes for art." ”

But it is hard to deny that the stripper industry exploits and objectifies women. Crazy Horse is similar in pronunciation to Crazy Whores, and the Crazy Horse Show has strict physical standards for actresses, with the same wig and heavy makeup, and has become a carrier of seduction games under the sound and light effects of the stage.

This also became the last point of the opponents, that Lisa's participation in the Crazy Horse show was a kind of "backstab" in feminism.

BLACKPINK'S STYLE LABEL IS GIRL CRUSH, WHICH SIMPLY MEANS TO OPPOSE THE GENDER STEREOTYPES AND MALE GAZES THAT PREVIOUSLY DOMINATED THE MAINSTREAM, AND TO MAKE GIRLS LIKE IT TOO. From the perspective of music style, the group's songs are also mostly powerful electronic dance music, and the visual bias is "cool and sexy", which is different from the popular stereotype of girl groups with a sweet style.

BLACKPINK'S SMARTER POINT IN GROUP IMAGE SHAPING IS THAT THEY ARE MADE INTO "GIRLS' IDEAL SELVES": NO NEED TO PRETEND TO BE CUTE ON STAGE AND SHOW A FLATTERING SMILE, THEIR SUCCESSFUL IDOLS CAREER HAS GIVEN THEM ENOUGH ASSETS, AND ACCESSORIES, CLOTHING, AND PHOTO STYLES HAVE BECOME POPULAR WEATHER VANES.

BLACKPINK'S LONG BLANK PERIOD EVEN "COOPERATES" WITH THIS IMAGE SHAPING: THE RETURN PERIOD OF KPOP GROUPS IS OFTEN ACCOMPANIED BY INTENSIVE ITINERARIES, AND MANY IDOLS CAN ONLY TAKE TIME TO SLEEP IN THE NANNY CAR, BUT BLACKPINK RETURNS AT MOST ONCE A YEAR IN THE LATER PERIOD, AND WILL NOT BE FULL OF SONG SHOWS IN SOUTH KOREA, THEY SPEND MORE TIME BUSY PARTICIPATING IN VARIOUS FASHION ACTIVITIES OR MORE PROFITABLE OVERSEAS TOURS, POSTING PHOTOS AND EVEN SELFIES ON SOCIAL PLATFORMS SUCH AS IG, AND THERE ARE A LOT OF ADVERTISING FEES IN THE ACCOUNT.

In contrast, many female audiences believe that Lisa's participation in the Crazy Horse show looks more like a "self-willing depravity". Whether or not she actually takes off her dress in the end, "choosing to complete a striptease performance in a nightclub" is itself a "backstab" for the label of girl crush in the context of East Asian society.

And when the real performance repo came out, Lisa's "no real nudity" led to a new controversy - viewers felt that if she really thought the performance was art, she shouldn't just make herself special. Comments on the Korean Internet described Lisa's strip show as a "princess's deviance": "The accompanying dancers next to them are naked, covering their chests with their hands, and Lisa is wearing special covered clothes in the middle, smiling leisurely." ”

In this regard, Lisa's fans were quite angry: whether she took it off or not, she had to scold, but when she saw that she didn't take it off in the end, some people became angry and began to change the scolding method.

But in any case, the most satisfying thing to be with the current situation is the Crazy Horse show itself: with Lido out of business and striptease in recession, Lisa has spread the popularity of the Crazy Horse show to the world. Unlike the rumors, the tickets for the Crazy Horse show are sold publicly, and the tickets for Lisa's participation in the performance were even cheaper than the front row of the BLACKPINK concert, and Lisa was immediately fired for a sky-high price of more than 100,000 yuan after participating in the show.

According to "ELLE" interviews with people related to the Crazy Horse show, she has seen several performances and visited the backstage, "acting like a show girl" was proposed by Lisa herself, and she also led and participated in the planning of the entire show. Whether Lisa's original intention was simply to "find it interesting" or the team behind it wanted to further open up the European and American markets, Crazy Horse had high hopes for the icon's fame - and ultimately presented a well-planned win-win.

"ELLE" interview translation excerpt Image source @ button cobalt lu liuliu

After the first Crazy Horse show, some viewers took pictures of Lisa walking out of the venue. Her red lips on the stage have not yet been removed, her long hair is scattered, revealing her forehead, and some viewers compared photos of her blonde hair with bangs and Korean makeup in the early days of her debut, saying that she "changed her face".

She once expressed inferiority to her face, under the packaging of the idol industry, no matter how she rolled and jumped on the stage, the "iron bangs" did not move, and after becoming a world superstar, Lisa swept away the past unease, pulled out her bangs, and exposed her forehead to the sun.

It ended up being a wonderful metaphor. Lisa pulled out her bangs and walked into the Crazy Horse show with her, which is also a kind of self-acceptance and choice, but the young idol will not know what he can do after leaving the industrialized idol system; Or maybe you don't understand what kind of power you hold in your hands.