Recently on a few of my favorite entertainment websites I have noticed a trend known as the "fake" kiss. Meaning a celebrity of some sort is only staging kisses to create media hype, for example, Miley Cyrus “fake” kissed a guy and a girl on Britain's Got Talent Show this month.
Stage or screen kisses have been in the business longer than the phrase, “boy meets girl”, but there is something about the term "fake" that implies malice or intent to hurt. Actors "fall" in love and make out with other actors all the time and the trick is NOT to make it seem “fake.” So this “fake” kissing phenomenon is odd to me….as if they know we aren’t going to buy the smooch at all they cop to it’s “fakeness” right off the bat which seems counterproductive to the point of the kiss in the first place.
A kiss for me is a sacred act more so than even having sex. During sex you can detach, retreat into your imagination, even pretend to be somewhere else, or as Lady Gaga alludes, "Poker Face" your way through it. However, when someone is literally in your face that intimate connection is not so easily severed. Faking it for the cameras is low. Straight, Gay, or Bi-kissing for personal gain makes me sad. You should kiss someone ONLY if you mean it. Even if it's not on the lips, kissing another's cheek is not just something to throw away lightly either. Air kisses are silly, fun and usually have some campy glow to them which is fine, but these empty kisses this soulless smooching isn’t worth any amount of buzz.
Caring and loving someone truly seems to be passé. Any public display of affection is just another means to promote yourself, and not seen as a moment of tenderness. Christ listen to me go on…..waxing rhapsodic over the art of snogging.
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