thats good!
GMA have now brought 3 artists on international air, via ellen.
zendee, julie anne, elmo (the latter two just with a fan dance but they were funny and will be remembered)
so that's a little step in the right direction. funny side story, if anecdotal, how a filipino camera guy helped julielmo sneak in. :)
but it happened how I thought:
zendee was far from perfect, and she was the spectacular singer of the month with a background of poverty. sure it will help her and I'm happy to see this.
perhaps she can improve to professional perfection soon - she just did not anticipate that things would happen so suddenly.
to tell the difference:
charice with her "boom" appearance as a singer and actress now really made it to eyeheight with any official american artist. from the thousands of those, only a handful is on the current title pages on the magazines anyway. charice is being close to that, just the movie needs a little more of that boom, so let's see.
I can really believe, when charice reports, how nice her co-stars were and that they welcomed her. among artists, there isn't that much of chauvinism and culturalism as in the mainstream and some boulevard media.
actually, there is no reason for the western media to play down charice. they have no issues with her and her performances are totally in the ballpark if not great.
and they have no vehicle with her, she is not new. it's been processed all already.
while with zendee, they have another poor girl to show around. just saying, it's a little pitfall. it has little to do with the particular country of origin. it's more like a kind of vanity about one's own charitable image.
oprah and ellen did a lot of good to many folks. still, it all becomes a machinery after a short time and a couple of cases.
then, all the considerations to push through for a case, it becomes schematic and will lose innocence.
I don't want to see administering problems, I want problems to be changed and improved on systemic scale.
it is nice to see charice and later some zendee on ellen, who invites them because they have interesting but difficult lives.
but it is much more satisfying to see filipino artists becoming invited because they are among the coolest and most skilled ones in the world, without any need for some sob-story, you know, that's not my view of the particular persons, but it's a public view and a scheme of selling and making rates in the media world.
I think the next step should be that filipino enterprises and cultural-economic offices of the government collaborate to launch established artists in western mainstream, like koreans are doing (see the gangnam thingy, whatever works hahaha..).