The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday”, presented by Laurent Delahousse just after the 8 p.m. news on France 2, reveals the little story in the big one, to leaf through like a family album.
This new issue of “8:30 p.m. Saturday” (X), presented by Laurent Delahousse, tells the story of two publicized revenges, those of Jackie Kennedy and Shakira.
The day when > Jackie Kennedy created her legend
Sixty years ago, on November 25, 1963, the whole world had its eyes fixed on Washington and held its breath as the procession accompanied the coffin of assassinated President John Fitzgerald Kennedy passed by. For the first time in history, politics and the intimate are closely intertwined and broadcast live on television.
Some 180 million people watch Jacky Kennedy’s pain live, in the front row. She thought out the event down to the smallest detail. Three days, between the assassination and the funeral, to make her husband a legend, and their relationship a myth that nothing can detract. Her way of taking revenge on this twist of fate, and on a marital reality that is much darker than what the magazine covers depict.
News > The phenomenon of “revenge songs”
In the 1960s, it was all about keeping up appearances. Today with social networks, the time is for transparency. A musical phenomenon is growing: “revenge songs”, these songs where, to take revenge, one evokes a sentimental breakup by displaying publicly and by name the affronts suffered.
Colombian singer Shakira, for example, broke fourteen world records with Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53, a title in which she settles scores with her ex-spouse, footballer Gerard Piqué. Many other artists have been tempted: Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus… An Anglo-Saxon phenomenon which says a lot about an era and the evolution of romantic relationships and couples.
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