It was not necessary to have attended Rosalía's concert in Madrid a few weeks ago to know a good part of what happened there, as happened something earlier with C. Tangana's.
The images of their performances followed one another in infinite
reels
,
stories
and other ephemeral tools of social networks.
To the point of wondering if her assistants were more interested in bearing witness to her presence in the place where they had to be instead of admiring and attending to the talent of the two most celebrated Spanish artists today.
Fanatic
, the new Netflix youth series, analyzes the lights and shadows of fame from a necessary rawness and hitherto unpublished.
A great success of this story in which a precarious
rider
replaces Chimera, the
trap
star of the moment, thanks to her amazing physical resemblance to him, is that the story does not pose any deception.
The singer dies during a concert, in front of his fans, so everyone knows that the project is being carried on by an impostor, without anyone seeming to care too much about artistic authenticity and genuine talent.
The important thing is to follow the
hype
;
continue to be fashionable by supporting the fashionable phenomenon.
The entertainment industry, always so concerned with cloning what already works, this time takes its mantra to the extreme.
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The story is starred by the Argentine actor and singer Lorenzo Ferro, known for the film
El Ángel
,
with an unusual physique and who is solvent when it comes to interpreting the contradictory fusion of ambition and apathy so characteristic, much to his regret, of the new generations.
Directed by Roger Gual, who in 2002 became, together with Julio D. Wallowits, a young promise in Spanish cinema with the premiere of the original
Smoking Room
and who, as time has gone by, has invested his talent in television, often in other's projects.
He also directed several episodes of
The Disorder You Leave
on Netflix , created by Carlos Montero, and
Las Chicas del Cable
, by Bambú Producciones.
The lack of expectations faced by those under 25 contrasts with the aggressive message about success and fame they receive from the media, new and old, to which they are exposed.
Therefore, Lorenzo, the protagonist, has to discover for himself on this strange journey what are the issues that really matter in his life.
The project joins the trend of platforms seeking youth content adapted to current consumption habits, in the form of a microseries of a few chapters and a few minutes.
This is the recent
How to fuck everything
(HBO Max) and
To be or not to be
(Playz – RTVE).
In
Fanatico
, some of her five episodes are barely 14 minutes long with credits included, not much longer than the ubiquitous videos of Rosalía that appeared on phones in the 24 hours after her concert.
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