It was late November '09 when I first started spotting trailers for "Jersey Shore." A fan of MTV's "True Life" docu series, I'd been mesmerized by the hour they'd devoted a couple years back to the Garden State's summer resort. A group of 20-somethings descended on it each balmy weekend looking for love (and trouble).
The reality series premiered on Dec. 3, with a cast of eight self-proclaimed "guidos and guidettes" and a quiet storm of controversy from offended Italian-American advocacy groups. Holy Outrageousness! The show was riveting for all the right and wrong reasons.
But when I asked around, it seemed only a select band of my pop-culturally attuned friends were watching. The rest, as you know, is television history.
"Jersey Shore" and its cast are a bona fide phenomenon, excoriated in The New Yorker, spoofed and lampooned on late night shows, and the generator of nicknames so inventive, the tags are rivaled only by Mob nomenclature.
G.T.L. Gym, tanning, laundry. I laughed, I cried, I "beat the beat," I related to all of that passion and familial loyalty, the (neighbor) hood slang...
And now lensman Terry Richardson will immortalize them in Interview (l. to r. "The Situation," Vinny, Richardson, Ronnie, and DJ Pauly D) Salute!
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3 comments:
"Holy Outrageousness". I love it
Seku, your comment was duplicated thrice. I accidentally deleted entirely in trying to pare down to once. But thanks. 'Holy Outrageousness,' indeed;)
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