Brenda from Beverly Hills 90210: We all wanted to be her

The world, in those years, was divided between Brenda And Kelly. Either here or there. The clumsy brunette provincial and the savvy Californian blonde. For those of us who were normal Italian teenagers in the 1990s, it was easier to identify with Brenda, the outsider in the microcosm of privileges of Beverly Hills 90210who in her self-affirmation even made the dream of any teenager come true: to get together with the hottest guy in school. Shannen Doherty passed away after a long illness, but her Brenda is still here to remind us of so many things about ourselves, about who we were and who we became, in addition to how to gracefully wear bangs and side-parted hair. It’s no coincidence that of all the girls on the TV series (that’s what they said, yes), together with Kelly, only she became a generational icon, a role model with all the proportions of the case: she in Los Angeles, we in eastern Milan; she at the Peach Pit, we at the Burghy in Piazza Duomo; she with the convertible, we with her cousin’s Sì; she with the ultra-cool Dylan, we with Tizio Carino from the fourth E.

Yet we made the layered cut by bringing the photo of Brenda torn from Meaning what at the neighborhood hairdresser, feeling that we were all in all similar. A bit like what happens with Taylor Swfit today, it makes you think: that illusion of being the same because come onwe feel the same things, even if the context is dramatically different. The hair, however, in this case was not a small detail: a distinctive sign of style but also a characteristic that marked a difference, the brunette provincial who found herself in the middle of a group of Californian blondes. And what is more specific to adolescence than this feeling of being different, out of place, always a little out of focus? Brenda, who comes from outside and who does not dress according to local fashion (at least, at the beginning) and who then wins everyone over, friends, teachers and the guy who looks like James Dean, also demonstrated that you don’t have to be a Kelly to make it. You don’t have to be blonde and rich to make it, even outsiders win. And Brenda won even in the midst of a thousand crises and a thousand tantrums, in years in which it was not right on TV to represent girls in the grip of aggression. Brenda, on the other hand, got really angry, she screamed, she took it out on a lot of people, often wrongly, and then she cut up with scissors the photos of her best friend (Kelly) and her boyfriend (Dylan) who had betrayed her and we thought that was the only possible, plausible reaction to the betrayal of betrayals. Maybe that was why we instinctively rooted for Brenda: because she seemed real, authentic, even in her vulnerabilities. Even from our bedroom in east Milan, while she was on a beach in Malibu.

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