You go on an on about how crafted their public images are, but I just find that a little hard to believe. I mean, I know you believe Harry and Louis are together (which I'm not sure about yet) but even other than that, it just seems like they wouldn't be able to turn the boys into people they're not just by writing stuff in tabloids.
Do you want me to show you exactly how simple it is for them to turn them into people they’re not? Because I can do that, easily.
I switched around their respective images randomly. Louis is the womaniser, Zayn is the sensible one, Niall is the bad boy, Harry is the abrasive, ungrateful one, and Liam is the loveable blank slate who everyone finds funny. (Note that I actually did choose these completely randomly, before watching the interviews that I pulled the quotes from.)
And then I wrote fake article blurbs using actual quotes taken out of context from a single random interview (basically the first solo interview result found for each boy when I searched their names) with accompanying “persuasive” photos. All in all, it took me about a half hour to spin an image for all five boys out of basically nothing (including the time it took me to watch the videos). This is literally how easily this is done. Keep in mind that I’m a publicist, not even a journalist, so I’m sure someone who is a journalist could probably do an even better job of this.
it’s wild to me that ppl don’t realize Louis dresses like a literal UK gay porn stereotype, google scally lads y’all
oh my. i googled and apparently trackies.com is not where you buy track suits LOL
“In the gay scene we take a look and refine it,” says Alex. “A guy has to have the right sneakers, and his track bottoms must be tucked into his socks. It has to be a lot more obvious and on display. There is a concerted effort that goes into the look to stand out more than the average guy from a council estate. You want to show guys you’re into it and that it’s something that turns you on.”
I feel like it’s time for me to share my theory about 1D’s formation (and why it had been planned well before this X-factor video was shot - though this video did very well at making it seem organic)
A lot of this theory comes from reading stuff from @verily-i-say who, if you weren’t around when she was, worked with reality television and talked about how casting for reality shows works (ie everyone is assigned a role before they are even cast and you just try to find someone who can fit the roles that you need)
Liam giving that talk a couple months back about how 1D was something he believed Simon made for him because of their talk only solidified this theory for me. So lets get into it.
Let’s start with what was going on in pop culture in the start of 2010, and what 1D was originally supposed to be. Because remember, 1D was never supposed to be as big as they ended up being! By 2010 boy bands still weren’t as big as they had been in the late 90s and early 00s. There were the Jonas Brothers who were starting to wind down their activities just by the nature of how long they had been. The producers of X-factor would have known this without any sort of inside knowledge it’s just how pop bands are. They have shelf lives. K-pop was trying hard to pierce the western market but so far nothing had stuck and there was a feeling at the time that kpop would never make it big in the west because of how their bands were crafted/promoted.
What that means is there was room for a boy band. I think Simon and the people in the X-factor knew it was a good time to make a boyband. There was a market for it, and something that needed filled. So they start crafting their story. No group had ever won the X-factor because pre-made groups kinda sucked/weren’t fully crafted the same way they used to be. Clearly this meant they would have more success making a group than anything else.
We know the producers knew of Liam and Louis. I think they started with Liam - and again this is all before we even got to the filmed auditions. I think they had the idea to make the band with these 5 boys from the original auditions and it was ALWAYS going to be them.
Niall filled the Irish niche. They had just opened auditions to Ireland. This was an easy way to gain success in Ireland.
Zayn filled the “ethnic” niche. How else is the group supposed to be “diverse” if they don’t have a POC?
Liam filled the group leader. The band was originally crafted around Liam and I will die by this.
Harry filled the “baby” role. He was the youngest. You think it was coincidence his age was brought up during his filmed audition? No it was meant to cast him as the “baby”. It’s not as intense a role as the “maknae” in kpop groups but it’s a role to fill. It also leads into him being marketed as “adorably slow”. He’s baby.
And Louis? Well Louis filled the “gay” role. Vee has talked about how obvious it is to anyone with eyes that 18 year old Louis was gay. I’ll get into why they needed a gay member in a moment.
So that was their initial set up: Irish, POC, Leader, Baby, Gay. Those are the roles the X-factor deemed they needed for a boyband in early 2010 and then they went about looking for people who fit those roles.
Now, like with any casting, it doesn’t always work out perfectly. You see it constantly in tv shows and reality shows. Audience reaction to people and also just general “character development” changes where people fall. Liam’s role of “leader” and “face” of the band swiftly fell apart because Harry is SO FUCKING CHARISMATIC. If you rewatch any X-factor stuff you can see it happen almost in real time. I could go on a whole tangent about how this affected Liam and Harry’s relationship but that’s not exactly the point of this post and it’s already way too long lol.
But what happened to Louis being “gay” and why did they need a “gay” member to begin with? It goes back to the idea 1D was never meant to be as successful as they are. In 2010 being gay and coming out/or being outted was like… pop culture candy. It was trendy. It got you promo. I’m not saying it’s right but that’s how it was. So I think they always wanted a gay member so that way they guaranteed a 3 album commitment from the boys. Album 1 rides off the back of X-factor. If Album 2 wasn’t as successful you pull out the gay card and BOOM instant interest in album 3. Enough to get Simon’s money worth from the band before they’re allowed to fade into obscurity.
Obviously that didn’t happen. Why? Well for starters the band was INSANELY popular. And secondly 🤷🏼♀️ Larry? They got put in a position with Larry where they couldn’t out Louis even if they needed to without outting Harry and ruining his “role” in the band.
So like... when Larry inevitably come out are they and their family gonna like... at least apologize for 13+ years of gaslighting??? Like I know it's not our place to demand they come out but they've all been aggressively denying it and calling us crazy for over a decade, siccing antis on us, etc. like I feel like we will be owed some apologies even if it's a "sorry but we were forced to do that."
Amy do you remember the days that every blond, blue eye baby was Freddie? Now they have to face tune this poor child to give him some resemblance to his “dad”.
I think it got harder as he got older because his features started getting more distinctive as he grew. Brett’s giant head, Brett’s shark teeth, the same coloring as Austin and same hair not to mention his size for his age. Lol
He says twice "which is when you send videos across" after saying they were video chatting, as if we don't know what video chatting is. It's rambling so that he can think of what to say next in a made-up story. This is what people do when we lie!
sorry about the ABSOLUTE essay this about to be, but:
i’ve been a fan since 2012, and what today’s fans can’t understand is how much modest’s marketing still effects us. all things considered, harry and louis had quite similar backgrounds, but their teams needed archetypes to sell. louis became the plucky unique-sounding underdog in a rags to riches story, who came from an unstable home life and made it big. harry they wanted as their star, so they pushed the image of a quiet nuclear family, elegant coparenting, and a normal small town upbringing (of course, making him too posh would grate on people.) louis was characterized as loud, sassy, a jokester, and harry was characterized as mature, charming, well raised. (aside from the sex demon image, but hey! easier to sell than a gay boyband frontman.)
and god, did that marketing work. fans didn’t know anne had a husband between des and robin for YEARS. the years harry spent living over a bar, erased. jay being able to successfully support 5 kids? brushed aside. but fans were young, we didn’t see everything going on, just the images built for them. they were so ingrained, and hit us young, and now they’ve carried over. the image that served harry well in 1D has now been turned against him, and fans have the impression he’s just another rich white guy who was handed everything. louis’ has built him a sturdy fanbase who love rooting for the underdog, and dismiss anything that remind them he’s also rich and white and sometimes a little out of touch.
I don’t really have a conclusion. we haven’t really gone anywhere since then. but I think it’s important to not just acknowledge the disparity in how harry and louis are treated, and examine why that is.
Fucking THANK YOU for bringing that up. Yes, yes, yes. So many newer fans have no idea and even those of us who’ve been here for a while easily forget all those details. PR and marketing is a huge industry and they fabricated images for these boys from very early on and HL (and the others) are still living with those images, as much as they may have been tweaked and added to.
TMZ posted a video (i think it's from their live show from Friday) on their YT channel when they were talking about solo dad aka Louis with Freddie and it's hilarious to watch they are laughing so hard
can you share more how did louis react and comment on it? if you want to of course
Well I mean I guess it’s up for interpretation but the way he looked at me…. basically I met him when he was on promo tour in my country on the way to the next location and I was wearing a jacket my friend had gifted me for my birthday, a blue green Lacoste jacket, and bc I fumbled for ages to unlock my phone and get the camera working, we stood next to each other what felt for like eternity and we were both looking at my phone and of course I had harry and me as my lockscreen holding my flag and because I kept telling myself in my head to go slow to get it right on the first try I took ages to open my camera so while we were both looking at my lockscreen and my shaking fingers (lol) he turned to me and looked me up and down and then looked pointedly at the alligator emblem of my Lacoste jacket and then in my eyes and said very pointedly „I reaaaally like your jacket,“ and I was just screaming I LOVE YOU in my head but then joni said we had to hurry so I just said thank you with a grin and then he looked me in the eye, like actually seeing me for the first time during that interaction, and I fell irrevocably in love with that man forever and then we took the photo lol and I said bye and he said bye and walked away!
So as far as I understand him and his clothes choices and signalling and just the way he said it like it wasn’t just a casual compliment it meant something it’s definitely reinforced my believes like, he knew i was a rat, I had rainbow stuff everywhere and harry with my flag and the jacket and all that and yeah he’s not stupid he knows what it means
Allow me not to bury it all under a read more because then upon deletion, all content is gone. This way at least the reblogs keep it alive.
Q: Whats the whole thing with the monkey?? Ive legit never heard of this
A by stylestm: a couple of days before the boys were going to go back on tour, louis was papped at lax. everyone was really confused, because he didn’t need to be papped (his name wasn’t as near as big then as it is now) and it didn’t look that great given the band was about to go on tour and it was clear they weren’t in rehearsals. then, louis posted a picture of himself with eli the monkey from the steal my girl video. later, an update account posted a picture of briana with the monkey but quickly deleted it and all of them refused to post it again. it was basically like, ‘leak it yourself if you want it out there.’ briana at the time had an instagram, but it was private. after the pictures of her and the monkey didn’t circulate, she went turned off private and put her instagram on public to get them to spread around. i can’t remember if that ever worked. but, either it did or she realized no one was going to post it, so she went back on private. anyway, it later came to light that the trip was highly publicized and talked about because i think it’s supposed to be when louis “found out” about the baby, even if i think she would have missed her period like days before he showed up. and instead of keeping that on the downlow and sorting the situation out, his team thought it was a good idea to get him papped.
scrufflecake:
This happened shortly after as well:
9 days later the IT'S NOT REAL concert happens.
Q: I've been seeing a lot of baby gate talk again and I remember people saying she stole pics of other women? Do we have proof of this or is it stuff that looks photoshopped or something?
A by aliensyndrome: he and her family legitimately stole photos of amber fillerup’s pregnancy/hospital trip. there’s threads somewhere that show it but the most circulated are her cousin ashley’s place in this entire saga that have all checked out
Now some tea spilling about the night when "CALVIN FUCKED UP":
posted by: chnandler-blog3: I hate to do this because I’ve stepped away from the fandom and really am just fed up with it. And in light of the kind of stunts they are running right now - this is the last straw. I have been sitting on a story from my friend (I’m posting this for her. And she previously wanted me to keep it private but she gave me permission to post it.) I HAVE TO SAY THIS IS NOT MY STORY - MY friend gave me permission to post it. Please respect me and do not ask me who it is. She is not famous so it doesn’t matter who she is. This will be my last post about 1D for a long time if even forever. Because this fandom is NOT healthy. But anyway here’s the story (I won’t answer asks about it because I’m not posting it for the attention on me.) It’s a receipt that UAs deceive and contribute to damage control. Also if they tweet random shit about Larry or anything really that’s out of place like there’s prolly a reason why even if nobody is talking about anything in particular.
Now my friend was telling me and a group of friends about this little incident clubbing. It was in May in LA (it would have had to be May 9th? Because I tweeted the 10th about last night Calvin fucked up which I’m gonna add later.) that time Louis went clubbing with Calvin, Oli and Liam. It’s nothing incriminating to Louis OR Harry’s sexuality. BUT my friend’s friend went clubbing with them that night (the one night Liam was with them.) My friend told me that that her friend told her that Calvin was trying to get these girls to go back to the hotel where Oli, Calvin, etc were staying at and he was SO smashed and he was saying that the guys will be there and that they should come back with them and then backtracked to say that Louis wouldn’t be there because he’s staying at Harry’s. Now my friends and I didn’t really know if this was true but nonetheless we got a kick out of it and (I have a couple screencaps of tweets I sent out about the situation.) TO WHICH THIS GETS BETTER:
SO the next day 1DAlerts comes online to say they’re pretty sure Louis was staying with FRIENDS not Harry. Pretty convenient, eh? Nobody understood why they tweeted this. Because I mean aside from the normal chatter like NOBODY was tweeting about this story which is the MOST hilarious part! “Obviously….”
So here are my receipts:
If you see my tweets shading the situation are timestamped a couple hours BEFORE their tweet. And even better another friend of mine posted shading them for covering up when his friend fucks up and they called her crazy and were just “stating their opinion” They didn’t even mention the UA by name or the people involved :’) The funniest bit is we all were sitting on this and they really just confirmed the story to us when they were trying to cover it up… And no that one I’m replying to on these screencaps don’t know anything and is not my friend in this story so don’t harass them about this. I will not be divulging who it is. So again PLEASE respect and don’t ask who it is. I don’t wanna send out 18237429847289 replies saying no. It’s just gonna be a blanketed no.
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Credit to m-mrmaid: A bit of Calvin again, plus more.
tbt to when calvin was drunk and when asked by a bunch of girls if louis was coming with them back to the rental he said no and that he was going back to harrys, brianna & ashley were in that group of girls but oh & let’s make it better ! i know this really happened because i found this out early morning that next day when somebody told me that she got a phone call @ 2 am of her friend drunkly sobbing on the line about how larry might actually be real (this girl is a groupie and a huge het stan & has been for years like how else do you think i got that calvin nude last year ??? I don’t have his snapchat lol) & explained what calvin said and me, my friend and my friend she told it to were all laughing about in our dms that morning and ohhhhh LETS MAKE IT EVEN BETTER !!! jordyn got on twitter the day after it happened and tweeted about how louis didn’t go to harrys house LOL so I tweeted “when your boy fucks up and gets a ua to fix it” & she replied to me like 2 seconds after saying “calvin never said anything about louis going to harrys and he didn’t tell me to fix it” & I LITERALLY SCREAMED, again instead of going home with his “fling” or “gf” at the time he went home to harrys just like when girls would wake up at the rental and louis would never be there :) & don’t even get me started on the stories ive heard of girls seeing them bring brianna / ashley home with NO louis with them but you know !!!!!! we are wrong to doubt this !!!!!!!!! AMAZING !!!!!!!!!
Credit: Bulletprooflarry: about those URL's
@happy1days asked about the URLs in her tags on my chat. Most were registered on 20 July 2015, and were registered for 1 year, ending 20 July 2016.
My curiosity lead me to see if they were still taken, but guess what. After we found them and dragged their asses for their money-grabbing attempts at the end of January, the more blatant URLs were released and are up for purchase again.
The following URLs are still taken and expire 15 July 2016, exactly 1 year and 1 day after the People announcement was made:
Brianajungwirth.org
brianajungwirth.net
brianajungwirth.com
These URLs are still taken and expire 20 July 2016:
louistomlinsonbaby.com
louistomlinsonsbaby.com
onedirectionbaby.com
onedirectionsbaby.com
tracyquattrochi.com
ashleyjswartz.com
quattrochipictures.com
quattrochifilms.com
quatrocchiart.com
brandonogrady.com
However, the following URLs have been released and are up for sale again:
brianajungwirthbaby.com ($11.99/year)
brianatomlinson.com ($799.99/year)
babytomlinson.com ($11.99/year)
tomlinsonbaby.com ($11.99/year)
brianajungwirthupdates.com ($11.99/year)
onedirectionupdates.com ($6,500 minimum offer)
brianajungwirthclothing.com ($11.99/year)
babytomlinsonphotos.com ($11.99/year)
I think they kept their names and business-related URLs (quattrochifilms, etc.) for personal reasons. However, they also appear to have kept the most obvious and most valuable Louis and 1D-related URLs, too. “louis tomlinsons baby” and “louis tomlinson baby” and “one direction baby” are by far the most Googled terms in this group of URLs.
They released the more embarrassing URLs with less income potential back into the pool.
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Credit to adifferentkindofson: A bit of perspective on the days we lived during bg:
i feel like the events of the past few days have given me a much better understanding of the past few months and wow everything is always so much clearer in retrospect with this fandom
#we can be reasonably certain that simon is out and the syco contract is over#because of his billboard article in which he preemptively tries to do damage control#then the sun article confirming louis *won’t* actually be part of the x factor#followed by tmz ramping everything up to a million again#and openly discussing the possibility of the baby being fake#and introducing the concept of larry to the general public/non 1d viewers for the first time#so it makes so much sense to me that all the perceived stops and starts we had weren’t actually stops and starts#so much as they were treading water and setting up the narratives that would be relevant later#as well as doing everything they could to protect louis’ image#so he looks like a good caring father#because as long as louis’ image is in tact#they can deal with the tiny bumps simon might throw at them#like louis being forced to do interviews about freddie at the brits for instance#they would have learned from last time#with the bullshit 2.0 tweet#that there’s no point trying to make any major headway while simon still has influence#because he’ll just find a way to thwart their plans or throw in a curveball they don’t want to deal with#like if they’d tried to end babygate earlier#while simon still had the ultimate trump card of the syco contract hanging over the boys heads#who knows what other shit could have happened#or how he could have intercepted things for the worse#so no they just did their best to keep the story moving but not taking major steps forward#(the custody battle being the exception)#(because that was something that needed to be introduced to the public reasonably ahead of time)#(in order to preserve even the most basic illusion of realism)#and made sure to keep the fandom occupied and busy speculating and trying to figure out what was happening#but as much as they might have initially hoped to end things earlier#i think as soon as louis started playing along after the ‘birth’#they knew they were in this for the long haul#mine (adifferentkindofson)
With all this talk about names that were banded about during the "pregnancy". I've always wondered why people think Freddie Reign wouldn't be a name any Brit would pick, like it's Louis taking the piss. Both names are regularly used here, Freddie more so as a first name, especially in the last 10 years. What was considered old fashioned is super popular now. As a Brit I don't understand the fandom's thinking, it's seems also as if everyone thinks Louis made the names up for spite, that it's unthinkable to name a child here that. It's my biggest bugbear with the fandom. As more popular blogs say "do your research".
Brit anon, I can't really tell for your tone if you know the reasons behind Freddie Reign being such a massive joke and is just trying to pin it on "it's a usual name" and "just a coincidence" or if you actually have no idea about the context. But I will explain it anyway because there's no such thing as a coincidence with this name, love. And I don't know what blogs you've been reading but no one is saying Freddie Reign wouldn't be a name any Brit would pick. This could be the most popular name in Britain but we're talking about context and what these two names represent together for Louis Tomlinson.
As you may know, throughout 2015 we were presented with the rainbow bears. But RBB wasn't the first name given to the bear, it was previously known for Freddie Mustache among other variations of the name, for the resemblance with Freddie Mercury.
As months went by, they gave us dozens of queer icons and references, and the Freddie Mercury/Queen references were always there, over and over. Probably the most important reference actually, considering RBB never let go of the combo mustache+glasses. That's Freddie Mercury's very recognizable brandTM
But they really kept the references coming, from the Hollywood walk of fame, profile pictures, dumb puns (*cough* harry) to even movies from RBB's collection
(Meanwhile SBB was out there shading his fake baby)
Still in 2015, FIMQ was a well known larrie, very very popular for making Larry videos on youtube. FIMQ = Freddie is my queen, a play of words because of the fact that Freddie was from the band Queen.
This is BEFORE Freddie Reign was born. The bears spent the entire year of 2015 and early 2016 talking about Freddie Mercury. To only a few weeks after this picture
FREDDIE REIGN was born.
FIMQ = Freddie is my Queen
Freddie Mercury, from the band Queen
Freddie Reign, are you kidding me????
Plus, look at the picture! It's literally right there under everyone's noses:
Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography
Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupid
Hotel Babylon
Mercury and Me
Under it we have "QU", probably something else Queen related and again a crown.
Before Freddie Reign was even born.
They're spelling Freddie, Queen, baby and lies all in the same sentence here. It couldn't possibly exist a most fitting name for this fake parenthood after everything RBB and SBB gave us.
Oh, and just for the record, later on, FIMQ was the same youtube channel Harry and Louis shared revenue with. They went there and literally split money with her youtube channel.
Hi there, a lot of people know the struggle when antis ask about closeting. We give then proof, but it is never enough. This masterpost is made to show people that closeting exists and that pr relationships exist too. You will also see interviews of Simon Cowell himself and other things that has been happened in the music industry for ages. Have a good and instructive time! (This post is not meant for the One Direction fandom only, various artists are being talked about and causes that might include your idol too. )
1. How to dispel gay rumors?
"The most effective way would be for me to create a longterm PR relationship."
This is Simon's former publicist Max who passed away in prison in 2017. This documentary was published in 2002. Simon is the creator of The X Factor. He created One Direction and Fifth Harmony. They all had to (and still have to) follow the rules of these guys and their teams. Max worked for Simon and his artists until at least 2012. (He died in prison 2017.) Guess when all the fake girlfriend stuff started? End 2011/ begin 2012. He basically admit to do what Larries have been saying the whole time.
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2. Hiding in the music industry.
“The machine of the hiding is insane and inhumane. It's gonna keep going until somebody who has something to lose stands up and says 'I am gay', somebody big." Please watch the whole video.
"I have NEVER heard of a label who does not sc**w an artist."
"We, the label, don't feel like pushing your records anymore, or we don't feel you're gonna sell, we're not gonna let you go. We'll just kind of put you on the shelf over here and we won't really let you work, but we're not gonna let you leave either."
4a. Not being able to escape a contract (Rebecca Ferguson).
Rebecca Ferguson was a contestant around thr same time as One Direction were. She signed a contracts with Syco Music and Epic Records. 1D has the same label. After a while she signed to Colombia Records. Guess with whom 1D was/is signed? Yes.
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"Many different lawyers told me that I would never be able to get out of this contract. That I should find a different career." JoJo spent nearly a decade fighting her record label and won. She couldn't release music anymore because she didn't "legally own her own voice".
4 b. 2 She also went on a hiatus.
Yes, a hiatus for 10 years. Does this sound familiar? 1D? No? Yes. Jojo needed to gain back the right for her OWN voice. She went on a 10 year hiatus, and after her lawyer found a loophole she could leave her label and sign to a new one. She could not sing any songs, because her label had her under their control.
This boy talks about how the label can adapt, change and alter your image. You have no say in this. You can not decide who you want to be as a person. The label does that. Sounds familiar? *cough* cough* Louis, Zayn, Niall, Liam and Harry.
6a. Pr relationships.
As you have read, the label closets the gay person and gives them a fake girlfriend to parade around with. This does not only happen to gay people or people who are married/dating someone from the same gender. This also happens to gain publicity. Here are a few videos about celebs talking about it.
This is from a person who worked in the industry for several years. Her name is @aismadeintheam from twitter.
This is how you promote a pr relationship... this is written by the biggedy secret keepers of Hollywood. Some were editors from In Touch and others were specialized in crisis managment.
B. Austin Mahone about PR relationships: "I think everybody is been doing that for years."
C. Chely Wright and her heterosexual image.
She is the same blond woman in the 2nd video. The guy says "She went to fairly extensive length to paint the image to me that she was man crazy." At 29:57.
7. Being private.
Some of you tend to think it is impossible to hidr everything from the media. That is not true, love. Here gou have Gigi Hadid talking about it. People can hide whole relationships, Larry and Ziam, for example. Now you must think "if she can hide so much, why did Gigis racist video come out?" That has to so with her becoming popular by the views. Bad publicity is still publicity.
"If we're trying to hide it, we just hide it. There's so many ways people can just do shit without any of you finding out." Gigi told the world that it's possible to hide a relationship from fans / paparazzi. At 4:50
8. Homophobia
This part is going to bbe about homophobia and people who confirmed the label abused them. I know I have talked about it in the previous parts, but these are also important, my loves.
A. Lance Bass
"Bottom line is what the record labels look at. They just wanna make money. And if this artist isn't going to pull in this many fans because they are gay, they are not gonna support him this much. And I see that with so many people." Lance Bass.
"It was very torturous because I didn't want people to find out who I truly was. I thought especially in the 90s that if anyone knew I was gay that my life would be over. People would hate me, N’Sync would be over. It was a lot of pressure. You become very lonely."
Link: https://youtu.be/KNRlLQR3Pj4
B. Jonathan Knight
"If you let the world know you are gay you are gonna ruin your career, your managers' career, your label is gonna lose money on record sales. There was so much on my shoulders as kid." Jonathan Knigh.
C. Markus Feehily
Mark Feehily reveals he went into therapy to deal with fear of coming out. "I suppose I became paranoid that press were gonna be after it, I was really scared so I thought the only thing to do here was just to get in the closet, lock the door and swallow the key."
D. Ellen Page
"I felt uninspired and sad. I felt like it was absolutely effecting my work. How are you gonna feel creatively motivated when you feel like you're just living in a way that is not true. A part of me also felt guilty."
Link: https://youtu.be/xG6HBdTtS4s
9. Pr Extreme; Fake Wedding
A lavender marriage is a male–female mixed marriage, undertaken as a marriage of convenience to conceal the socially stigmatised sexual orientation of one or both partners. The term dates from the early 20th century and is used almost exclusively to characterize certain marriages of public celebrities in the first half of the 20th century, primarily before World War II, when public attitudes made it impossible for a person acknowledging homosexuality to pursue a public career, notably in the Hollywood film industry.
During the early days of Hollywood, a gay actor or actress had to keep their sexual preferences hidden for fear of ruining their careers. To give the appearance of being straight—and often at the insistence of their agents or studio—homosexual entertainers would sometimes marry a person of the opposite sex in what was known as a ‘lavender marriage.’
Gay stars have been masking their sexuality under the cover of heterosexual relationships since the first days of film. "Lavender marriages," as they were called, began as a response to big studios including "moral clauses" in their stars' contracts. Gay stars picked wives, often actresses and celebrities themselves, in order to hide their sexualities and keep fans lusting after them onscreen.
These marriages were arranged by Hollywood studios between one or more gay, lesbian or bisexual people in order to hide their sexual orientation from the public. They date back to the early 20th century and carried on past the gay liberation movement of the 1960s.
b. Faking a child
Faking a child is impossible according to some people. Well....it is not, love. Please read this carefully.
Jodie Marsh's new documentary uncovers a new way of having a baby, where healthy women are handpicking surrogates so they can keep their fig
Shocked Jodie was in disbelief as she asked: “So some have used a surrogate then stuffed a pillow up their jumper?”
Dr Sahakian confirmed it as he said: “We are talking about well-known women.
“It would be taboo for them to admit they used a social surrogate. I have had a couple of patients who pretended they were pregnant, yes.”
This goes further, because Sean Combes was not the father of his supposed baby. The woman accused him of being the father. After seeing all of these things, including Gigi Hadid saying that celebrities can do ehatever they want, how is it possible that Sean Combes could not do this privately? How? This is again a tactic to get people to read an article. All of it is fake.
I would like to add Louis Tomlinsons situation in here, but it would not be right. Briana Jungwirth was never even pregnant and we caught her stealing pictures of pregnant women. She also posted 7/8 months pregnancy throwback pictures of herself with a flat stomach. Plus, we all know the truth is going to come out. It will be another attention seeking episode just like Sean Combes'.
10. Contracts are tough.
From the previous parts you can see that people are not allowed to be who they are. Sometimes they are afraid to come out and sometimes they do want to come out but they can not. Here is a very brave message from Lauren.
"Read your contracts. Because of all the contracts I've signed, I can't say a word."
Here is a link of Lauren saying thing about her label and shading them. https://youtu.be/h7GUZbNmV2s
Lauren was a member from 5H. 1D was signed to the same label. Which means they can also not speak about stuff like that. If Louis, Liam, Harry, Zayn and Niall can not tell you that they are gay etc. openly it is NOT because they do not want to come out. They judt can not say it. If they will you know what the label will do. They will shut them up forever, loves. It takes a very brave lion heart to pick up or to wear the sign of the LGBTQ+ community and to show who you are. Louis, Harry and the rest of the boys did that while they are going through hell. Never think they want this, they do not.
This is it, my dear. This post has got all the proof you need in order to understand what is happening. I hope you have learnt a lot from this, if anything is wrong please just tell me. I will help you. If any of you have further questions, I will gladly answer them, my dears.
Here are a few things I hope you have learnt:
1. Closeting still exists.
2. The label changes the image of a person.
3. Escaping a contract is very difficult.
4. You are stuck if the label does not want you. They own you and you have to wait for years to get your voice back. (That is why 1D is on hiatus)
5. You have to do everything the label says.
6. The Industry is VERY homophobic.
7. Privacy exists in Hollywood. Everything you see is for public purposes.
8. Faking pregnancies and weddings is a normal thing to do.
9. When you are gay or in a gay relationshop, your label puts you in a longterm relationship.
This is a very sad post. If you are a member of the LGBTQ+ community, always remember that you should NEVER be afraid to hold the hand of the person you are in love with. You are loved, and perhaps you do not know it, but we stand behind you. Always. Gay is okay and so is the whole LGBTQ+ community. You are the color in this dark, empty world. Never forget that, loves.
Credits to owners of the videos and also @totallylost4you on twitter.
An anon Sony Executive revealing Syco’s methods back in 2011
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“BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT and the RONAN PARKE CONNECTION
For reasons which will become obvious, I can't reveal my full identity. But let me just say that, I am an executive with Sony Music UK with many years experience in music mangement. My work involves close liasion with Simon Cowell's SYCO company (specifically SYCO Music and SYCO TV) and, as a result, I have seen what goes on from the inside and this has left me increasingly uncomfortable about the integrity of Britain's Got Talent and particularly the workings of SYCO.
It's long been known that there is a quite a degree of "fixing" in BGT. ( Daily Mail http://bit.ly/fxkWne ) But press reports on "fixing" are only the tip pf the iceberg when it comes to SYCO's manipulation of, not only the show and the contestants, but also the viewing public and hopefully, in this email, I can shine some light on the smoke and mirrors trickery of SYCO.
Take BGT 2011 for example. Scouts working for SYCO first saw Ronan Parke (the 12 year old singer) some two years ago when he was just 10 and was singing at a birthday party for former Norwich City goal-keeper, Bryan Gunn. Following that, Ronan was privately auditioned by SYCO scouts on two more occasions and, as is usual practice on BGT, he was "invited" to audition for the show as a "preferred" contestant. At the same time, Ronan and his parents were "required" to enter into a contract with SYCO. Like all SYCO contracts, it is heavily weighted in favour of the label and are notoriously bad, even in the cut-throat world of the music industry. Simon effectively signed Ronan for life and he's got little or no chance of ever getting out of it...unless Simon decides to terminate. Recording contracts are legally extremely complex and usually require input and advice from very expensive, specialist contract lawyers. SYCO knows that such legal advice goes well beyond the means of most contestants. As one senior SYCO executive said to me recently. "These people are mugs. They'll sign away their own mother just to get on tv. It's a fucking turkey-shoot and then we own their arses!"
As is common for "invited" contestants that SYCO likes and have already signed, Ronan and his parents were provided with a car to drive them to the audition in London. These "invited" contestants don't have to queue up with everyone else, they don't go through the preliminary auditions with producers, but perform straight to Simon and the judging panel at a pre- arranged time-slot. And so it was for Ronan back in 2009 when he was just 10.
It was at this initial audition that I first met Ronan and he looked very different back then. He was a skinny, 10 year old lad who, even at that time, was a bit effeminate. His voice needed a bit of working on, but that wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately, nerves got the better of Ronan and he was unable to perform. Simon however, had already seen the audition tapes from the scouts and took Ronan into an unused dressing room and got him to sing in there with his mum for support. Clearly Ronan was not going to be part of BGT in 2009 and nothing from this was ever televised.
Ordinarily, you would think that would be the end of things, but with Ronan already signed to SYCO, far from it. This was just the start of a two year grooming and manipulation process to prepare Ronan for stardom.
It's no big secret that Simon has been looking for an artist who could crack the very lucrative pre-teen market for some time, particularly in the US. If you like, he wanted his own rival to Bieber and, taking a leaf out of how professional football academies develop youngersters to feed their main team, Simon wanted his own singing academy and Ronan was just one of a number of identified youngsters, with whom SYCO intensively works with.
A development package, which included professional singing, dancing and stage-craft tuition was arranged for Ronan and the SYCO machine kicked into gear with the view of Ronan entering BGT 2010. Lots of work had been done with Ronan and his voice was much improved, unfortunately nerves were still a major issue for him and it was decided by SYCO not to enter him into the 2010 series.
At a following senior exec meeting at SYCO it was suggested that Ronan be dropped, but with Simon confident that he could be the kid he had been looking for, it was agreed that Ronan would receive "intensive support and input" to ready him for the 2011 series. Although Ronan's voice was now stunning, there were other major problems to be dealt with in order to sell him to the public. With respect to Ronan, he was nothing more than a cooky-looking, skinny runt of a kid and this was identified as a major handicap to sales.
It was agreed at a high-level, secret SYCO meeting, that if they were to do anything with Ronan, he needed totally restyling from the toes up. And so with time running out to develop Ronan into the star Simon wanted, SYCO went into overdrive. Ronan was even given speech and elocution training to rid him of his rural Norfolk accent, again in preparation for the potential US market. As for his effeminate and girlishness, this posed a bigger problem and resulted in many highly confidential meetings. At one of these meetings, the unthinkable was raised as a way forward....
Until now Ronan had been encouraged to "boy-up" and it was planned to present Ronan as an everyday skater-boy. But with his girliness still showing through, the image just wasn't believable. So a decision was taken to encourage and allow Ronan to "release" and enhance his campness. Disgustingly, SYCO planned to sexualise him. They were well aware of course, that if they sexualised a young girl to look sexually older than she is, all hell would let loose. But with Ronan, as one executive put it, "no one has ever seen a 'gay' kid before, it'll be a novelty." As for the pre-teen market, it was accepted they wouldn't care if Ronan appeared gay or not...most probably don't know what gay is anyway. And so, with a total gay- sexualisation of Ronan secretly planned, SYCO got to work. I should stress, Ronan's parents were not aware of any of this and were never consulted about Ronan's development or management. When I first met Ronan he was a bit effeminate in his ways, but nothing like the camp, girlie-giggling kid you see now on BGT and this is a direct result of SYCO's styling. Even his clothing worn at the audition and live semi-final were chosen for him by SYCO to match his new image.
SYCO took over everything to do with Ronan. His hairstyle, his clothes, his poise, giving tv interviews, you name it, Ronan was styled within an inch of his life and all on the promise of stardom, just as long as he worked hard and listened to his mentors. As for Ronan's parents they were constantly reassured that Simon was personally looking after Ronan and "it's all good".
And so to BGT 2011. With Ronan ready to be unveiled, SYCO bosses, under instructions from Simon did something not done in previous series of BGT; the winner of BGT 2011 was decided long before the first auditions took place and that winner HAD to be Ronan Parke. With Ronan now 12, he looked and sounded just as SYCO had planned, but time was running out. Soon Ronan would be going into puberty and his voice would eventually break, so BGT 2011 had to be the vehicle to launch Ronan's career; another year and as a singer he would probably be beyond any meaningful career and the opportunity will have been missed. With all this investment in Ronan, the production managers at SYCO TV are ready to deliver Ronan as ordered. Again, I need to stress, Ronan and his parents know nothing of this and have no idea Ronan will win BGT this weekend.
So far in the history of BGT and X-Factor, for that matter, no one has ever won who has not been an "invited or preferred" contestant, and it does sadden me that, all those thousands of people, lining up outside, often in the rain and cold, are basically wasting their time. The producers of BGT are not looking for the talented people, they aready have those. The reality is that the producers are hunting out oddities, freaks and, I'm ashamed to say, mentally ill people, to act as amusing fillers in the audition shows. They are nothing more than unpaid extras and they don't even qualify for traveling expenses! It's quite disgusting and shameful really, how the production team on BGT operate. People come from all over the country, often at great personal expense, because they think BGT is a talent competition and they stand a chance of realising their dreams. I can tell you from the inside that BGT is no more a "competition", than I am an astronaut. Nothing is left to chance on BGT, everything is micro-managed, choreographed, manipulated and planned down to the last detail including, the telephone voting.
The ability to manipulate viewers opinion is vital if you are to control telephone voting and indeed get the required result. SYCO see this as essential to the success of the show and are very open about fact; planning and delivering live shows of quality is impossible if it was purely left to the public vote. As Simon said in a meeting once. "The public NEED to be told who to vote for." Everything on BGT is geared towards telling you who you should for, particularly on the production side. It's an art really, which Simon has honed to perfection and SYCO are now world leaders at.
The micro-management of Ronan's audition performance was incredible. I was really quite shocked at his new image. From a starting point of wanting Ronan to look cute for the pre-teen market, SYCO had totally gayed him up in the process. Ronan's not a 16 year old expressing his sexualty for the first time, he's a 12 year old boy. It was horrible and I was very uncomfortable as to where this was going to end. Ronan, still suffering from nerves, performed his song and received a standing ovation from all three judges...why? Because it was in the script to give Ronan a standing ovation. As for Louis comment. "Ronan Parke. Remember that name. This kid's gonna be a star!!" - that was actually fed to him from the production gallery and I know the guy who wrote the line. And when it comes to Ronan's tears...well, check it out on YouTube or something. You see Ronan crying and wiping away tears. Only you don't see any actual tears, not even on close-up and on an HD tv. Yep you guessed it, even that was choreographed, right down to the lip-biting!
It was also interesting to see that even before the final credits rolled on Ronan's audition show, SYCO TV had uploaded the offical video of Ronan onto YouTube. Today, that particular video has been viewed over 2.5 million times and growing. SYCO don't do that for other contestants, so why Ronan? The gaying-up Ronan plan slightly backfired on SYCO when lots of negative comments were being posted on YouTube and Twitter about Ronan's image and the supposed sexuality that represents. Things got so bad on YouTube that the posting of comments had to be suspended. But SYCO learned from this and dressed Ronan more appropriately for his semi-final show; preferring a much more Bieber inspired look to the 'gay- kid' image presented in the audition.
In another unusal move for BGT contestants, SYCO created Ronan's Official Facebook Fan Page and Twitter account. Both these services are managed from within SYCO and they post messages and pictures, not Ronan. This is because they don't want Ronan posting anything controversial and is standard practice for currrent artists signed to SYCO.
And so this weekend will see Ronan crowned as winner of BGT 2011. Oh and let's not forget the £100k prize money. It's unlikely Ronan will see much or any of that. He's been signed to SYCO for two years now and under the terms of his contract, while SYCO stump-up for costs in advance, this is paid back from future earnings. So he will need to pay for all those lessons, coaches, cars, clothes, styling and management... I wouldn't be surprised even after winning BGT, if he is not still in debt to SYCO.
As a recording artist Ronan has a relatively short shelf-life. Simon knows he is going to have to hit the ground running to maximise Ronan's earning potential, particularly if they go ahead with a planned break into the States and the pace is going to be frantic for Ronan. If you think the music industry is bad in the UK, you haven't seen anything until you experience it Stateside. With an "anything goes" attitude all morals have long since gone out of the window. There will be no allowance for Ronan's age and he will be expected to perform on late- night shows and dinners etc. And if he get exhausted, there's always some sleaze-bag on hand ready to put a line of coke under his nose. I've seen it a million times.
I know for a fact, that the songs have already been chosen for Ronan's debut single and album, and that the backing and drum tracks have already been laid down.
Of course, once Ronan's voice breaks, it's game-over and he will be commercially redundant for a few years. By the time he gets through that, the world will have moved on and his fan-base will have grown-up a bit. Will he make a comeback? In my experience I'd say probably not.
I've met Ronan a few times over the past couple of years. He's a really nice kid with a generous, warm personality and the most wonderfully cute, girlie-giggle. There's nothing to not like about Ronan. He's a really sensitive soul and this comes across as him being a bit effeminate. But in a world of thuggish chavs, Ronan's a real breath of fresh air really and a real delight to chat to. Do I think Ronan's gay? No, is the short answer to that. SYCO have got a lot to answer for in their initial styling and image for Ronan. Like many 12 year old boys, Ronan may have issues in coming to terms with his sexuality in a couple of years. But right now, he's just a great kid...a bit different, I admit...but a great kid just the same.
I hope Ronan is not damaged by this experience, unforunately, history warns otherwise...but whatever, the genie is already out of the bottle and come this weekend, Ronan's life will change forever. Whether it's a good or bad experience being a 12 year old star in today's music industry, only time will tell. But as an industry insider I have serious reservations about what is about to happen to Ronan Parke and I doubt he or his family are ready for what's coming.
Thanks to my friends on Twitter and Facebook for getting this document out. Without you my voice would be silent.
** If you want to help expose the lie which is Britain's Got Talent, please feel free to republish this article or post a link to it
Anon
Sony Music UK”
Fact check:
Ronan did not win, but came runner-up.
His debut album was released in the UK on 24 October 2011.
His image turned out very Bieber-esk.
8 years later:
Edit: I received some comments I’d love to add to the post.
