So i’ve been thinking some more about love today 🙂
I came home and cooked myself some pasta, and my roomate turned on the bachelor. Its pretty amazing how many people watch shows like this. Just as one point of reference, a single blog post from Jake — today’s Bachelor has >450 comments. Do we like drama? Sometimes yes, but more likely when the subject has to do with falling in love. This exists in every culture I have experienced — Latin’s most popular shows are telenovelas where men and women go through a series of acrobatic emotional acts in order to run after this thing we call Love….Indian’s don’t have the bachelor, but they have bollywood, and let me tell you — if you thought Hollywood has capitalized on Love, Bollywood really has taken it to the next level. I’d say over 90% of movies produced by Bollywood are about love, and no not just a simple sex scene in the middle of a movie, but about two people trying to find love together, while not having a food fight at every other encounter.
The list goes one. Love is probably one of the most prevalent emotions in media, and corporations have long understood the power of this emotion — Google recently showed the world that perhaps the strongest emotional response to a search engine would be “use google to find love” Watch this years super bowl ad here
In short, next time you turn on the radio, flip through TV channels, or look at what is playing in the theater, take a look and see how many of those shows are about love?
chocolate and jalapenos 