Is not his, but ours. Not KC Concepcion’s, but ours.
Which is not to look down on how KC feels. Any girl who’s gone through a bad break-up, celebrity or not, would’ve seen those tears and known them to be real, would’ve heard her anger and known it to resonate. We can argue about why she had to do that interview of course, but the easy answer really is contemporary showbiz: where tell-alls with Boy Abunda à la Kris Aquino are the order of the day. This is not new, and in fact if we are to look at this as a form of prostitution, then really, it’s been going on for more than a decade. Is it right? What is right in the age of reality and trash TV? Calling it prostitution doesn’t engage it in a productive discussion anymore, not at this point.What is clear is the fact that in this tell-all, the first that she’s done, tears and all, KC for the first time revealed herself part of this enterprise of show as we know it, and this is where her image as proper intelligent independent girl went through an unraveling all its own. Now we can argue about whether it was a good unraveling or not; I’d like to think that happening on nationwide television as it did, it can only be important that those who look up to her, young teenage girls and her peers, see her falter and fall and fight in this way. That is an image that’s strong, extraneous to who she was talking about. Or what.
Which is not to look down on how KC feels. Any girl who’s gone through a bad break-up, celebrity or not, would’ve seen those tears and known them to be real, would’ve heard her anger and known it to resonate. We can argue about why she had to do that interview of course, but the easy answer really is contemporary showbiz: where tell-alls with Boy Abunda à la Kris Aquino are the order of the day. This is not new, and in fact if we are to look at this as a form of prostitution, then really, it’s been going on for more than a decade. Is it right? What is right in the age of reality and trash TV? Calling it prostitution doesn’t engage it in a productive discussion anymore, not at this point.What is clear is the fact that in this tell-all, the first that she’s done, tears and all, KC for the first time revealed herself part of this enterprise of show as we know it, and this is where her image as proper intelligent independent girl went through an unraveling all its own. Now we can argue about whether it was a good unraveling or not; I’d like to think that happening on nationwide television as it did, it can only be important that those who look up to her, young teenage girls and her peers, see her falter and fall and fight in this way. That is an image that’s strong, extraneous to who she was talking about. Or what.
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