a shot at love with Tila
I watched A Shot At Love with Tila Tequila ep. 7 on youtube. This show is about a bisexual girl want to find true love, while straight boys and lesbian girls live in one big house together and compete for Tila’s affection.
The context of this show targets women who love drama and men who want to kill their time by watching contestants fighting for one bisexual woman and by looking at women’s body and also queer audiences who would like to watch people who have similar experiences.
I think that this show is mostly about three elements: jealousy, gender, and humiliation.
It was ridiculous to watch when Tila talked about everyone’s drama. Of course, there are drama going on among contestants, since they are all living in one area with no privacy and they are thinking about the same thing; ‘I am going to win this game to have one on one date with Tila.’ The contestants are sited in the place where each of them have to hate or feel jealous when anther gets more attention from Tila. And also Tila cause that jealous more and more by kissing a contestant in front of the other.
it was interesting that this show is now about just straight women and men competing but it is all about straight men accept the fact that they are not only fighting against men but also fighting against lesbians, bisexual women proudly tell her identity and find true love among contestants, and lesbians’s drama involved with Tila’s affection. Amenda asked Ryan if he is fighting for cheak or dude. This explains me that they are not just against with one particular gender. The show is definitely not about normative people competing for lovely women. However, to talk about this mixed gender reality is now one of the components that audiences are interested affected and wanted to watch: something spectacle. ( Liz Morrish and Kathleen O’Mra)
All contestants have the same goal; be Tila’s true love. However, at the same time, they are against with each other. Because of so many jealousy that caused from them, they are humiliating each other to let them look stronger. Brandi is a lesbian contestant who left Tila’s house because of her drama with Vanessa. Hoever, she came back to house for returning to Tila. While she was talking to Tila, all the other contestants, especially Amenda, didn’t feel good about it, because for her Brandi was biggest competitor. She likes Brandi, but she doesn’t want her to be back, because then she will be danger from elimination. There was shot that Amenda explain “reality.” She said, “ I feel I am the best person in the house for her… I love them all, BUT I am not going to be happy for them if they end up with the girl that I am love with. THAT IS JUST REALITY.
I watched A Shot At Love with Tila Tequila ep. 7 on youtube. This show is about a bisexual girl want to find true love, while straight boys and lesbian girls live in one big house together and compete for Tila’s affection.
The context of this show targets women who love drama and men who want to kill their time by watching contestants fighting for one bisexual woman and by looking at women’s body and also queer audiences who would like to watch people who have similar experiences.
I think that this show is mostly about three elements: jealousy, gender, and humiliation.
It was ridiculous to watch when Tila talked about everyone’s drama. Of course, there are drama going on among contestants, since they are all living in one area with no privacy and they are thinking about the same thing; ‘I am going to win this game to have one on one date with Tila.’ The contestants are sited in the place where each of them have to hate or feel jealous when anther gets more attention from Tila. And also Tila cause that jealous more and more by kissing a contestant in front of the other.
it was interesting that this show is now about just straight women and men competing but it is all about straight men accept the fact that they are not only fighting against men but also fighting against lesbians, bisexual women proudly tell her identity and find true love among contestants, and lesbians’s drama involved with Tila’s affection. Amenda asked Ryan if he is fighting for cheak or dude. This explains me that they are not just against with one particular gender. The show is definitely not about normative people competing for lovely women. However, to talk about this mixed gender reality is now one of the components that audiences are interested affected and wanted to watch: something spectacle. ( Liz Morrish and Kathleen O’Mra)
All contestants have the same goal; be Tila’s true love. However, at the same time, they are against with each other. Because of so many jealousy that caused from them, they are humiliating each other to let them look stronger. Brandi is a lesbian contestant who left Tila’s house because of her drama with Vanessa. Hoever, she came back to house for returning to Tila. While she was talking to Tila, all the other contestants, especially Amenda, didn’t feel good about it, because for her Brandi was biggest competitor. She likes Brandi, but she doesn’t want her to be back, because then she will be danger from elimination. There was shot that Amenda explain “reality.” She said, “ I feel I am the best person in the house for her… I love them all, BUT I am not going to be happy for them if they end up with the girl that I am love with. THAT IS JUST REALITY.
There was lots of pink during the show and that increased my heart beet faster as the shot went fast. Flash back helped me recall what was going on in last episode. And also there were lots of interviews that everyone got chance to summarize what is happening and to show their emotions. I believe that it is all about use of editing that make this show interesting. Editor can make some events more exaggerate or serious or even make a person look really bad by editing only particular shots. For example, there were flash back in the beginning where two lesbians were fighting against each other. Camera only captured them say bad words or being violence.
I had to watch from Ep. 1 to actually know what was going on. While I was watching it, I had only thought about this show is really bad because it is playing with human’s emotion and feelings. And I dough that they are not true about their feeling while they are on ridiculous competition such as drag chololate in the bucket by only using their body, eat cow testicles, etc. I thought that they were just playing around for the show. However, after I watched Ep.7, I realized that all that is serious event for them. I can just sit on the chair and watch them thought the screen but they are serious about their situations and their emotions. Maybe this was also set up through challenge of editing, but who knows!
Again, this show interests audiences by focusing the topic on outside of normalization or norm which most of other reality tv focus on straight men or women’s true love.
WORK CITED
Reading from course document Humiliation, Subjectivity, and reality Tv and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Comments
tila ur so hot i added u as one of my friends u are so sexy i hope u pick dani because the other guy is a freakin baby and he just wants to get what he wants and if he doesnt he gets pissed off so just pick dani she will love u!!if u cant have ME have dani any ways dani is hot to!!!!pleaz pick dani the other guy is an ass!!!p.s. I LOVE U dont pick the ASS!!!!
Posted by: trista | December 21, 2007 12:35 AM
I LOVE U, I LOVE U, I LOVE U, I LOVE U, I LOVE U!!!!!!!!!P.S.i love ur show to!!!!!:) :) :) :) :)
Posted by: trista | December 21, 2007 12:37 AM