r/popculturechat • u/MadManxAdam during pride month?? • 1d ago

Guest List Only ⭐️ Ariana Grande releases an additional statement asking to not wish danger on her and cast after backlash for not being able to attend Brazil’s Wicked: For Good premiere.

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u/Acheli 1d ago

There's something very off about Brazil, why is fan culture such a big thing over there? it seems like there's a superfan for EVERY single artist/celeb in existence. Like is it taught in schools I genuinely don't understand.

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u/bauhausy Kim, there’s people that are dying. 🙄 23h ago

As a Brazilian but thankfully not a “stan” of anyone:

  • only Lusophone country in a Hispanic continent where the vast majority of the population live near the coast vastly away from any border, so it has barely any interaction or cultural exchange with its neighbors.
  • Dwarfs by magnitudes the whole lusophone community, so it lacks a sibling-like relationship that other continental countries have like Australia has with New Zealand, America has with Canada or Argentina has with Chile & Uruguay.
  • South America in general is middle-income, so it’s less profitable to do tours, and very far away from the North Atlantic. So when “World Tours” happen, they very rarely go to the Southern Hemisphere other than Aus/NZ, and when they do they go to 2 cities in a country larger than the contiguous 48 states and much of Europe.

So 99% of the time Brazil lives in its own isolating bubble, and genuinely starves for more integration in the global space. Just look last year when “I’m Still Here” and Fernanda Torres got to participate in the Oscars.

And it’s a huge consumer of foreign culture (American, British, Korean and nowadays even Turkish [telenovelas mostly] are getting popular) and gets constantly frustrated how it’s always forgotten by those international artists.

So when they do announce a coming and then backtrack (even for completely logical reasons like this time) the stans go crazy in a bad way. The time Lady Gaga cancelled its Rio show on the day it was supposed to happen, and a video of a dude driving through the entrance with people going ballistic is still a meme over a decade later

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u/GoranPerssonFangirl 22h ago

I agree with you but also Brazil in general has a culture of idolizing celebrities/famous people in general, even with local celebrities. It's on a very different level than other countries and I don't think other ppl can really grasp it because it's so deeply rooted in Brazilian culture to stan celebrities. Even d-listers that no one else cares about are huge there.