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09. We Have a Format

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[Intro]
[Spoken Word]
We have a format.
Very fresh.
Very close to people.
[Verse 1]
We have a format. Very fresh. Very close to people.
We take two who love each other
and put them in two separate villas.
Twelve in each — hand-picked, exactly their type.
Cameras roll. The drink is there.
The rest, the human being does by himself.
We call it: a test of the relationship.
[Chorus]
And you sit at home and you watch,
and you are a good person.
That's the product. That was always the product.
Not the villa. Not the fight.
It's the ninety minutes
in which you are better than somebody.
Uncut.
Available any time.
And fully measured.
[Verse 2]
We don't cut anything in. We only cut things out.
A sentence from Monday, a look from Thursday,
and underneath, the music that tells you what you feel.
That isn't lying, that is dramaturgy.
And it's in the contract anyway.
Page nine. Right at the bottom. Very small.
[Spoken Word]
If the sentence still won't sit —
we have a tool for that.
We build it from three other days.
Still you. Officially.
[Verse 3]
Then we have the documentary line.
Real people! Real kitchens! Real cigarettes on the table!
We show it unvarnished — that's the valuable part.
We only ever show it with the same ones.
It simply watches better
when it comes from below.
[Verse 4]
And online — online there's room for more.
No watershed. No protection. No clock.
Online we run the cut that television wouldn't take,
and underneath it sits the comment section,
and that does the work all by itself.
It costs us nothing at all.
It comes from you.
[Verse 5]
Ninety minutes. Net.
That's the real number. That's the craft.
Ninety minutes is how long you have to stay,
and we know the exact second you'd otherwise leave.
That's why the cut before the break.
That's why the fight in the final third.
We are not building the show.
We are building the staying.
And then, every eighteen minutes,
a bank, a shower gel, an insurance policy,
a family at breakfast who love each other very much.
That is what you were watching for.
That was the price.
Not the subscription — you.
[Bridge]
And here's the trick, and it's really very simple:
it only works as long as you believe
that they in there are a different kind.
Take that away — one kind, not two —
and the whole thing becomes unbearable.
Not bad. Unbearable.
It is the same kind. It is the same stuff.
And that is exactly why we need you out there.
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 6]
One time, one of them didn't come back.
And then it was very quiet,
and we took the format off the air,
and everybody said something,
and three months later
we had a new one.
And you were there again.
[Final Chorus]
And you sit at home and you watch,
and you are a good person.
That's the product. That was always the product.
Not the villa. Not the fight.
It's the ninety minutes
in which you are better than somebody.
Uncut.
Available any time.
And fully measured.
[Outro]
[Spoken Word]
We have a format.
Very fresh.
Very close to people.
Thank you for staying.
The comment section is open.
This next one swings.
Moderation Is A Slur.