NOWADAYS MTV IS AN INSTITUTION. “PITIPOANCELE”, “COCALARII”, THE HORSETAIL ON THE SCRUFF, EMO-ORIENTAL HAIR STYLES, THE BLACK SHIRT STRECHED OVER A GENEROUS BELLY ARE ALREADY TOO MUCH TO REMAIN ONLY REASONS TO LAUGH OR CRY.
P!S! g0t t4l3nt
Writer and critic, COSTI ROGOZANU, knows how to talk straight to the point. But… are you prepared to hear him?
THERE’S A TSUNAMI RAISING AGAINST ORIENTAL CULTURE AND CHEAP CLUB LOOKS
An attitude which can be resumed by two very successful websites, cocalari.ro and pitzipoance.org, that laugh with tears over others stupidity. Just that people stay on the side and laugh, having an apparently cool attitude, which is actually extremely conservative.
The phenomenon went really high: heavy gold neck chains appeared in a recent collection of Vivienne Westwood. Everyone hurried to say that the gypsies’ clothes were the inspiration for the British designer’s collection for 2009. It’s funny because the “manele” phenomenon deeply influenced citizens of Romania, beyond ethnic groups or traditional clothes. Oriental culture and everything that involves it is now a symbol of the majority.
Acid critics against “pitzi”girls or gypsies have this huge problem: lots of guys used THEM for too long to look smarter. It’s time to see that there’s more than that and not to place the equal sign between stretched shirt with neck chain and thick skin (although we’re not usually wrong).
We might have to deal with one of the most living cultures from our country which, stupid as it is, has its incredible strength.
One of my first concerns came a few years ago, regarding the online attack of the oriental culture: Hi5 pages with the well known “the most beautiful girl”, “the coolest pussy”, sites and many other. The wealth arrogance turned into the audience arrogance. Oriental culture remained insignificant among the “babies” it would grow from it. “Pitzi”girl is now everywhere: a strange mix of a woman who’s hunting men for money and of a bowed down woman, made by the standards of a macho world.
Some other place, with a few musical and style stept higher, we find Beyonce, a woman who cries out “pay my bills” in one of her hits. Feminist fighters were horrified. On a website like pitzipoanca.org, you can stare and ask yourself what is that girl thinking while she humiliates herself like that.
By internet, a whole world that was present all the time but we couldn’t see exploded. We didn’t listen to their music, we don’t go to their clubs, still the influences are incredible. This is why we compare them with MTV generation or PRO generation (remember the voices against that one 10 years ago!)
The “pitzi” phenomenon throws us our own hypocrisy in our faces. Don’t we live in an ultra macho world, bowed down and with a strong gossip industry? Could anyone dare to deny this?
I don’t think so.
“Pitzi” world is already a code for Romania. And one of the worst things we could do is to keep on laughing and criticize it. History teaches us that fighting a phenomenon is a lost fight from the start. Beavis and Butthead represented the greatness of stupidity, in a smart way. So why is this exhibitionism so popular? Maybe because the places, the remedies for the showing of natural need are missing? Could it be because those who reject this are too tight? Or perhaps because oriental culture brought the most living parties with it? I have no idea.
The thing is that I’ve started to take new language lessons online. Did you knew that, for example, “4” is the new “a”? And that “3” is the new “e” and that “!” is the new “I”? Quoting from a girl named „dore”’s hi5 page: 4 SW33T PuSsy. ! kn0w ! h4v3 t4l3nT”. Homework for parents: discover what the teenager wanted to say and compose 10 similar phrases. You will laugh just like when you were 14. Also try understanding this new phenomenon, like this girl says “ Don’t judge a person, don’t gossip about her, without even not knowing her”.
