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Mia Freedman

šŸ‘¤ Speaker
617 total appearances

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Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

We all know that.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

how SPF works, how UV indexes work.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

Most other countries don't have that kind of information.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

So we can do the same thing for sharks.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

And the other thing is that Beckham awareness is really high because of the Netflix documentaries, which went global.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

The Beckhams used to be much more of a Anglophone country obsession but the Netflix shows really sent them into the global stratosphere.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

It wasn't the strategy during conception but it became the strategy.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

To me the most damning part of what he posted was not even about the dance, although I'm glad to say that we'll get to the dance in a bit.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

The most galling part of what Brooklyn wrote about to me was when he came back for David's birthday party.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

And he and Nicola wanted to see David, but they kept being told, you can't see him unless you come and see him at his party where there are cameras, where they're going to post it on Instagram.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

And that just seemed so sad.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

Yeah.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

To put my thumb on the scale, that's sad that he can't be bothered to see them unless there's a camera there documenting it for Instagram.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

Yeah.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

Well, yeah, it's not just the 1%.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

It's an American 1%.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

And I think that's another key thread we've got to bring up here is that this is a culture clash.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

And you talked a little bit about this on yesterday's show.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

Well, I don't think it's a coincidence that Meghan and Harry and Brooklyn and Nicola are both a British man and an American woman.

Mamamia Out Loud
Brooklyn Beckham, That ā€˜Inappropriate’ Dance & The Downfall of a Family Brand

Because what I see as at the heart of this conflict in both cases is a pull between American individualism and a British kind of idea of keep calm and carry on, like grin and bear it, like it's your family, what are you going to do?