Here’s to Generation Z’s sex and rock

or stolen from violence, or avoided, dodged, not lived: Love, sex among Generation Z teens It seems to orbit dramatically between these two opposite poles. On the one hand there are reports of rape almost daily in the Italian news, on the other hand there are studies that find it – as Luigi Zoza points out in his book ‘The Decline of Desire’. Because the world is giving up on sex (Einaudi) – how much “today the knowledge of sexuality is not through the body but through images, even through pornographic images, which are far from preparing for the encounter. The Internet has completely filled the spaces of communication and also our brains, that is, our systems of desires and feelings.”

Desires and Affection, Romance and Sexuality They have always been embodied, expressed, experienced by teenagers – and even less so by teenagers – through the stardom and emotional mirror of music. Because – ever since Elvis has been Elvis, ever since the Beatles have been the Beatles – pop has been an outlet, enlightenment and liberation of the sensuality throbbing in young hearts. But who are those men, the international pop models who now excite and feed Gen Z’s fantasies – desires, efficacy?

harry styles and the weeknd, These days both are awaited by fans in concert in Italy, who have come to pre-sales in huge numbers, with enthusiasm that could be said to have come from another time, if the menaskin phenomenon had not been born here in recent years: the former One Direction would be applauded, yesterday at Campovolo in Reggio Emilia, more than a million people, tickets sold out in a matter of minutes, those who were there for several days to secure the best seats, the last date of the European tour of the singer British Tattoo What Will Be the First, 29 Years, Love On Tour is dedicated exclusively to the second and third and last albums, Fine Line and Harry House.

The After Hours Till Dawn Tour Brings The Weekend To Milan On Wednesday 25 July And Thursday 26 July: With 80,000 tickets sold out immediately for the first date at the La Moura Hippodrome, the organizers were forced to practically double the number of spectators, reaching 75,000 by now. The Weeknd would have said that this – which ties the last two albums by title – could be his last tour, at least under this pseudonym (and with the hypersexualized libertine character he’s played since the beginning?), as he now prefers to be called Abel Tesfaye, the name with which he was registered at the Toronto registry office where he was born 33 years ago, the only child of an Ethiopian immigrant couple who died in 1988. Arrived in Canada in the late 00s.

Styles and Tesfaye are symbolic: holy water and the devil, holy water (correct with a good splash of vodka) Styles is the rocker who on stage in an ostrich boa, earrings with pendants, a lace shirt, a sequined onesie, varnished nails, girlfriends models actresses directors The sex symbol welcomes, includes and represents – in attitude and appearance – pride, celebration, bizarre normality (though there are those who suspect the fashion is culturally inappropriate Suspects are outraged at the appropriation / commercial purpose). And then there’s Satan: The Weeknd, the R&B idol who has so far made himself not only a highly effective hitmaker, but also an erotic tale in which the more a man (woman) is able to dominate, the sexier he is, in which the deeper and more lustful the sensuality, the more satisfying and glamorous it is. As his songs narrate, as – unfortunately – it is very evident in his self-signed role as a superstar in the TV series The Idol, focussed on the elevation of his sexy-ego against Lily-Rose Depp’s character, a submissive perverted victim – Me Too, What Is It? – A long series of smug voyeuristic torture porn scenes.

gay-friendly soft and cocky manly: Something new under the rocky sky? They Might As Well Be An Updated Version Of Harry Styles And The Weeknd David Bowie / Apex of Obscurity and James Brown / Incandescent Sex Machine, Except that they – a thousand years ago – were fascinated by the mystery, by the flesh, by the art. What significance do Styles and Tesfaye hold today beyond their images?