Trixie Cruz: Once Again With Slits

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nne Curtis’ birthday was intended to be controversial. The tanga she wore was cut to the waist and when worn with a skirt slit on the left front, also as high as her waist, what was revealed was, well… apparently too much, considering all the hoopla that came after it.

Of course, the MTRCB reacted by summoning the usual suspects, Ms. Curtis, the director, producers, ad nauseam. We will be subjected to the usual debate on what constitutes obscenity. There will be Anne Curtis detractors and defenders and we will all put in our two cents worth on how much well-placed fabric should be covering her body at any time.

Oh, please, folks. This is precisely what the director and quite possibly Ms. Curtis and her manager intended, so let’s not fall for this cheap publicity stunt.

The cut, the clothes and the fake rain were all intended to titillate, to court controversy, even scandal, anything! Just anything to detract us from the truth: Ms. Curtis cannot sing. What she does cannot possibly pass off as singing, so feel free to substitute the words, “screech” of “nailscratches”

It’s certainly not for lack of trying. Ms. Curtis also had a rather controversial concert, which led one Broadway star to issue a strong opinion on off-key “singers.”

We put up with way too much mediocrity in government service and point to corruption as its root. The same has its parallels in showbusiness. As in government, with its penchant for putting up dynasties and trapos, the entertainment industry is populated by mestizo and non-Pinoy looking so-called actors and singers. Yet there is a gold mine of talent out there, wasting their gifts in karaoke bars.

Were it not for youtube, Charice Pempengco would still be joining fiesta type singing contests for mere pennies, and Arnel Pineda would be in some smoky bar in Pampanga. When the auditions for Ms. Saigon were first held here, the producer remarked that what they found was “an embarrassment of riches” in terms of talent.

It can’t all be blamed on the system. We know the drill, entertainment providers give what the most people want, the lowest common denominator wins. But we have failed too, in teaching the appreciation of the arts or entertainment.

Certainly there doesn’t seem to be enough space in the DepEd’s curriculum, and there are few programs that substitute for it. The majority of culture related programs aren’t masa-relate-able either.

We have a rich, lyrical cultural heritage, an ever deepening pool of ordinary people who are singers, yet it doesn’t translate into the entertainment industry. So, we end up with high slits instead of high notes.

So unfortunately while the freedom of expression means we must allow the likes of Ms. Curtis to sing, if she wants to, WE shouldn’t want to.

By: Atty. Trixie Cruz-Angeles
(Source : PSSST! Centro)





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