And that's something to be happy about, "relatability" be damned.
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The narcissistic inkling of relatability had hooked in my mind.
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Berry also said that relatability is essential for her channel.
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But also, that's why we love their best attempts at relatability.
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Relatability, romance, and absurdity is an excellent recipe for excellent memes.
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It's this grim relatability that's afforded the sesh so much success.
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"There's always that level of relatability juxtaposed with luxury," he says.
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Sedaris also revels in mistakes, because mistakes mean relatability, possibility, reality.
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His relatability is well-regarded, as is his attitude and character.
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Others sniffed, saying relatability shouldn't be embraced as an artistic criterion.
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It's that simplicity and relatability that makes One Punch Man so funny.
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It is the shortest route to that much-vaunted quality of relatability.
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Yeah, I think the strongest thing on the project is the relatability.
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We've talked about genre, narrative voice, "relatability," and creating bodies with words.
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His popularity was always rooted in his relatability, his humanness and imperfections.
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""But of equal importance to voters is authenticity and relatability and genuineness.
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Celebrities broadcast wearing it on the red carpet to signal their relatability.
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This uncanny relatability has been misread as a low ceiling for years.
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This relatability works tandem with the surrealism that pops up throughout the series.
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Relatability is often an indicator of how candidates will fare in the election.
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Yet it was that very relatability that made Mr. Clinton's personal failings frightening.
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As they've grown bigger, the tenuous balance between relatability and aspiration has shifted.
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Smoothed-down edges and fogged-up lyrics lubricate their songs' glide into universal relatability.
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But it's worth acknowledging the positive impact relatability can have on young queer fans.
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I now wondered, what would win out this year: performative relatability, or carnivorous guilt?
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But for 20 years, the quest for relatability has been Ellen's bread and butter.
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That he served in the Navy Reserve in Afghanistan can only help his relatability.
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Two days later, the writers had a flare-up over "relatability," that network bugaboo.
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There she dissects different areas of influencer culture, including relatability and the drama community.
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The melting posture and disheveled mop have helped to generate a sense of relatability.
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The beauty of Sky Ferreira's defining hit "Everything Is Embarrassing" is its eternal relatability.
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"Relatability" gets more complicated, however, when considering the Housewives franchise's track record with race.
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You might not understand it on the wall, but there's some sort of relatability.
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In the ever-expanding world of celebrities (thanks, reality TV), relatability can still seem rare.
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Democratic voters here like "Mayor Pete" for his intelligence, his relatability, his down-to-earthness.
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By contrast, Logic has built his whole career on his humanity, his ordinariness, his relatability.
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"Stacey Abrams has that undeniable relatability that doesn't cross the line into 'pandering,'" she said.
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Moving forward, I think Americans will value a president's perceived relatability above most other qualities.
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There were also questions about her declining relatability and the softening ticket sales for her tour.
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The answer differs for each Austen lover, to be sure, but it's all grounded in relatability.
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And celebrities, like us, can have the same tendencies — and we love them for their relatability.
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And this relatability spread its influence to other social-media networks over the next several years.
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Ms. White's unique brand of jazz exudes confidence and an inherent sense of humor and relatability.
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"People crave relatability, and see dogs as individuals with similar life challenges to themselves," he said.
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That box office hit packaged and cemented the ethos of relatability that drew fans to him.
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But some of her popularity on social media is — or was — connected to her perceived relatability.
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They've got authenticity and relatability, that special something that is so difficult in our business to find.
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She cares about the common people that are buying the tickets to see the films, the relatability.
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Meanwhile, the only one who maintains any kind of grounding and actual (versus fantasy) relatability is Miranda.
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And, as we all know, the two keys to a viral internet post are humor and relatability.
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Every moment of her fumbling journey, no matter how cringingly awkward, reaches a note of profound relatability.
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An important factor of the Go-Go's relatability was that they were clearly singing what they knew.
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He isn't interested in tidy or nice stories and feelings, much less lessons, uplift, closure or relatability.
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Other women have decamped to new underwear start-ups that offer comfort, relatability and pared-down style.
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Young, broke and determined It's part of Khaled's relatability, though, that he hasn't always been so successful.
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Matt Duckor, who oversees the videos on both Epicurious and Bon Appétit, told Insider that the "relatability" of chefs who make mistakes is the secret sauce to success and that the future of food on YouTube lies in conveying that relatability to viewers before they even start watching.
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What outrageously ripe an opportunity this offers for the lucky star pursuing relatability on this otherwise gilded night.
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Characters find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, interacting with aliens and automatons, while maintaining a base level of relatability.
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While this has sometimes meant casting kids with little acting experience, it's also contributed to the show's relatability.
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That communal relatability was part of the reason SpongeBob memes proliferated past the average meme's surface-level reaction.
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That brings us to the one ingredient that does feel like its missing from Season 2, though: relatability.
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It's that relatability that has made the show so enduring, and why its recent reboot skyrocketed in popularity.
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On the surface, they seem very insular, but they also allow enough space and relatability to be intimate.
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But it's the relatability of proxemics, as well as its unique notation, that makes it stand out today.
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I prefer adding as much nonsense as I can fit in, with a grain of relatability to it.
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Like all influencers, they need to exhibit some shred of humanity or relatability to keep viewers coming back.
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They've long ago surpassed relatability and have actually parlayed their online fame and lavish lifestyles into bankable success.
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Also important is "relatability," or the connection between player and consumer, which usually involves the player's personal biography.
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These issues are also what give the Real Housewives themselves a degree of relatability despite their fabulous wealth.
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Relatability is the chief psychological lubricant that glides you thoughtlessly down the curated, endless scroll of your feed.
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Maybe it's a subtle nod to her youth, her beginnings as a goddess in the making, her relatability factor.
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All of that is to say: Some queer people have grown wary of the lure of relatability (myself included).
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That comparative relatability has undoubtedly made it easier for Marvel to translate its characters into massively successful movie properties.
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Moth memes were about as absurdist as memes get, but somehow, a strange thread of relatability ran through them.
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We chatted with Lowe about pregnancy's inherent horror, the trap of "likable female characters," and her protagonist's unsettling relatability.
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"Those moments of relatability, empathy, excitement, dreams coming true, golden confetti are just the formula for success," he said.
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Her lessons will be released online in winter 2016, where she'll discuss melody, lyrics and relatability as a musician.
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Humanness and relatability are especially key, since our current cultural climate can elevate a celebrity to a godlike status.
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Exploring Dora's ethnicity, whether it be Mexican or Peruvian or Brazilian, wouldn't have taken away from the character's relatability.
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That could prove to be a liability in a contest in which relatability to everyday people is often key.
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Evan's character may have been born for the stage, but his earnestness and relatability sing through the book's pages.
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And that's because it gave more than two shits about the relatability of its own hero vs villain mythology.
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Some of this is about relatability, but it's also about how actors fill performances up with their own humanity.
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She had it all: intelligence, humor, authenticity, relatability; she knew how to play offense without appearing mean or angry.
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She had it all: intelligence, humor, authenticity, relatability; she knew how to play offense without appearing mean or angry.
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She also has in bucket loads that elusive characteristic – relatability – that so many politicians would give their second homes for.
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Most political candidates root the imagery of their campaigns in family, the bigger the better, to suggest stability and relatability.
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The Connors' status as a working-class family outside of an urban center helped fuel their (relative) progressiveness and relatability.
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She's just as indignant about everything as her co-hosts but without Doocy's chuckling curiosity or Kilmeade's regular-guy relatability.
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She marries spectacle with heart, absurdity with relatability, all wrapped up in turquoise hair, orange eyeshadow, and a neck scarf.
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She exudes relatability and body positivity, as well as having some really catchy songs to boot and incredible flautist abilities.
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They added that the series delivers satisfying moments of relatability, like Leone spilling something or Saffitz struggling to temper chocolate.
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We are excited to see Nick lend his mentorship, relatability and breadth of knowledge to a new crop of artists.
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When asked why people continue to choose his company, Lopez said the relatability of the brand was a huge factor.
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According to John Boyd Jr., principal at The Boyd Company, one factor driving interest in these games is their relatability.
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Her rise and portrayal offer insight into the central qualities of contemporary politics: relatability, authenticity, and communities built around their identity.
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But the film relies on the audience's projection of their own beauty ideals and their own insecurities to fuel Renee's relatability.
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What's funny about the whole relatability thing is that nobody mentions it's a racket; nothing does worse online than naked need.
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The strategy worked and the simple, elegant copy, which flowed onto the pages of American magazines, stemmed from the inherent relatability.
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It's that same song that caught the world's attention because of Sey's powerful, booming vocals and the relatability of the track.
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The Joanne singer stopped by John Lennon's memorial in Central Park and sat down to discuss her new level of relatability.
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But a minimal standard of human relatability is not being met, on a routine basis, in the medium's most dominant genre.
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In a way, A Seat At The Table provided a voice of bittersweet relatability that millennial Black women hadn't previously heard.
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I didn't know it at age 10, but the beauty of "If I Was Your Girlfriend" is its simplicity and relatability.
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Taddeo says she chose their stories because of their relatability, though each woman is young, white and more or less heterosexual.
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I think some of the younger managers in our 40s all have a little bit of relatability to people around us.
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The show may have been relatable to adolescents of yesteryear, but much of that relatability would be lost on today's teens.
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The gormless relatability of content farms is contrasted with critically acclaimed shows like HBO's "Insecure," created by and starring Issa Rae.
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There was an authenticity and relatability there, and soon it became evident that influencers could, well, influence people to buy stuff.
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Children, who comprised a large chunk of those walking around, appeared drawn to the accessibility and relatability of the NXT roster.
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Now, Rihanna is the one delivering the relatability, with a beauty tutorial that'll work whether you're feeling hungover, lazy, or extremely extra.
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The show immersed us in that neighborly mentality of Hawkins in a way, using that relatability to ground its most fantastical elements.
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Ultimately, the difference between regular travel blogging and fairytale travel blogging is the difference between aiming for aspirational relatability and otherworldly inspiration.
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Many other meats' tastes are measured on a spectrum where both ends are chicken, because chicken is familiar, a touchstone of relatability.
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We want to belt Kelly Clarkson with Zain (Adam Ali) from across the globe, and that relatability is pervasive throughout the series.
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Even so, the characters are tricky, especially Megyn and Gretchen, who come with ideological baggage that complicates Hollywood's holy grail of relatability.
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" His disgrace might even be a political advantage, he thinks: "There's almost an added element of relatability that comes with public failure.
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And while it crosses lines in every episode, it's usually in service of choosing relatability, insight, and a laugh over good taste.
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Nanette explicitly rejects the politics of acceptance, of tolerance, of relatability, of "love is love" messaging as a cure for anti-gay bigotry.
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As portrayed by Harboe, Thelma is just an awkward, ordinary girl — and that relatability is what makes her story of discovery so resonant.
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Maybe that relatability is a good thing, because young people, or people who can't afford couture, are seeing those things on the runway.
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The same points — hammering home his relatability, his quirkiness, his I'm-not-a-douche-ness — were reiterated and reinterpreted for those intended audiences.
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In regards to the latter, I realized that all I would need to do is find another consistent avenue of self-deprecating relatability.
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To use relatability more than just their resume Again, no one needs to be reminded of the terror created by an active shooter.
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Its honesty, intimacy, and relatability made the album, and Solange herself, something that Black women held close, with no plans to let go.
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Bertie's generalized anxiety is apparent throughout the whole series, and the writers handle it carefully and humorously — with a big dose of relatability.
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The track features vocals from Spanish musician La Bien Querida, who pairs melancholy with romantic yearning and pop relatability in her understated performance.
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" Elsewhere, she adds another layer of relatability: "I wanna be the best one at this/but I don't wanna get out of bed.
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But the diva's relatability is occasionally overplayed, and Ms. Fleming offers a lot of emoting, superfluous jazz inflections and tipsy flirtations with rubato.
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"In my experience, millennials most certainly don't want to use their parents' financial advisor, due to issues of relatability," said Boneparth, a millennial himself.
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The sons' role is, in part, to demonstrate that there is an authentic middle-American relatability beneath Mr. Trump's plutocratic exterior: They hunt, too.
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Dylan isn't filthy and funny like Ings's Luke is, nor does he get the messier, confused moments of relatability that Thomas enjoys as Evie.
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The potency of McCrae's words is in their relatability: Our war dead today also lived and felt the warmth of dawn after cold nights.
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"In my experience, millennials most certainly don't want to use their parents' financial advisor, due to issues of relatability," said Boneparth, a millennial himself.
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Lauded for its lyrical relatability and sumptuous vocals, CTRL made people who had never heard of SZA before 2017 fall in love with her.
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Director, performer, and founder of BurningAngel porn studio Joanna Angel told me that the appeal of the casting couch may be in its relatability.
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And its Mahomes' relatability that's fueling his sponsorship portfolio, which, based on the filed results, should be ready to take a massive turn upwards.
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At the heart of all of this is the ever-elusive "relatability" factor and whether there's enough to maintain a connection to their audience.
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Before Drake's Instagram-worthy lyrics were considered a punchline, before he was seen as hip-hop's resident sentimentalist, his relatability and sentimentality were innovations.
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Margot Robbie's quest for the top of the relatability index continued apace during her wedding as the Australian actress had some very populist catering choices.
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The designer, a Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton, thinks a relatability factor is important when it comes to the wardrobes of those in politics.
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A considerable problem with committing to relatability as a narrative device though is that it becomes significantly harder to do the more famous you get.
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We were captivated by the relatability of the 44th President, his wife First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters Malia and Sasha over the years.
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And of course, there's the fact that the film's assumed relatability is based on a very narrow and highly privileged interpretation of the teenage experience.
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When brands attempt to capture our hearts (and our wallets) it can either go surprisingly well, or be a complete dumpster fire of fake relatability.
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Americans are forever seeking that indefinable spark — a secret blend of strength and likability, authority and relatability, a talent for inspiring and connecting with voters.
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Another fashion expert, Cécile Duclos, previously told Insider that Middleton and Markle often wear affordable earrings with designer dresses to convey relatability to their fans.
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Mahomes, who became the youngest quarterback to win Super Bowl MVP honors this month, said retaining his relatability will be imperative to developing his brand.
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Meanwhile Aquaria, Monét X Change, and Asia O'Hara were all hilarious in the parody movie, bringing the outlandishness and relatability that good comedy always requires.
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She is responsible for some of this year's best catchphrases, and you should know them all because they offer a wealth of inspiration, wisdom, and relatability.
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But, I hope, they may grow to love them, and see in their flaws not some easy relatability but the possibility of a more difficult empathy.
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Like Adele, she is known for her tremendous voice, the vulnerability and relatability of her songs and her fearlessness when it comes to speaking her mind.
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Even with the darker tone and themes, a wonderful sense of absurdity and humor still grounds the whole series and keeps it from losing its relatability.
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When asked about the greatest challenge moving forward, Hammerling's answer offered a taste of the authenticity and relatability she's trying to bring out of her clients.
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Relatability is a desire for a connection to the world, to want what we see in others — especially if what we see in others is ourselves.
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Stranger Things is a near perfect show and season two manages an expertly-crafted deep dive of its universe and characters with clarity, relatability, logic, and heart.
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Jenner's followers are younger than Kardashian's, so she could be taking time away from the spotlight while pregnant in order to maintain relatability to fun, young admirers.
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Stranger Things returns this week fully charged with angsty teens, otherworldly monsters, and the signature blend of relatability and terror that keep us coming back for more.
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I still think that your art can be semi-self-indulgent in that it's centered around personal experienced and it's highly specific, but there's relatability in specificity.
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And still, for some reason — despite her relatability and the way she articulates the realities of institutionalized misogyny — we focus on Sandy, Danny, and Greased-effing-Lightning.
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The inputs needed to create an anchorwoman — in addition to skill and persistence, she requires beauty, youthfulness, relatability — mean that her position is always subject to review.
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Many are set within the same world, Titan, which gives them this overarching coherency and relatability across seemingly standalone happenings, something we find in many video game RPGs.
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It's a lucrative but wrongheaded approach — a lack of basic relatability makes Jason larger (and more fearsome) than life, but it also rapidly reduced him to a caricature.
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When I spoke with Carla Jimenez, who stars as Alba in Fox's The Mick, along with You're the Worst writer Philippe Iujvidin, relatability came up in both discussions.
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The artist began posting her illustrations of twentysomething life to Instagram in 2014, and ever since, they have been a hit with fans for their wit and relatability.
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The drive for relatability isn't particularly new: Nobody could accuse commercial character actors like Mr. Whipple, the Snapple Lady, or the "spicy meatball" couple of selling unattainable standards.
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But at the same time as they were being embraced by young Brits for their relatability, a classist resentment began to simmer in certain corners of the media.
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"Partnering with the Evil Geniuses provides the Navy a unique opportunity to engage with some of the world's top gamers and improve relatability with prospective Sailors," said Capt.
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Listening to Emily Alone is transportive in the way that peering into the corners of another mind can be, but it's also just as grounding in its relatability.
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While many lifestyle influencers might have started out with some level of relatability, the specifics of their spending can give a sense of how unrelatable they've actually become.
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One of the other snags in Ellen's relatability shtick: She has been criticized for occasionally getting a little too aggressive in some of her celebrity interviews, particularly with women.
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But I felt like my lack of connection went beyond relatability, and was more about a lack of chemistry on screen and some writing that landed with a thud.
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And despite the era it's set in, the recently released Season 2 tells a story centered around women that — for better and worse — feels utterly timeless in its relatability.
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Today's famous moms must strike a chord of relatability to earn loyalty, and revealing a history of postpartum depression has become a tried-and-tested way to do so.
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As cliché and outright lame as it is to say about the relatability of political candidates, Obama is the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with.
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Unlike plenty of other superheroes (like, say, Iron Man), the fact that he has to scramble to make money gives Peter an added layer of relatability for many readers.
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He manages to explain the intricacies of how big creators lose their relatability and don't break into the mainstream with ease, and also make you laugh along the way.
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But the response stems from a combination of the character's relatability, its need to be cared for, and the way it challenges us to rethink what we find cute.
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Often, female entrepreneurs must traffic in self-deprecation, conveying "a little bit of relatability," says cultural critic and brand strategist Aminatou Sow, cofounder of the popular Call Your Girlfriend podcast.
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When Kristen Roupenian's New Yorker short story "Cat Person" became a five-alarm sensation late last year, critics rushed to explain its popularity in terms of its relatability and quality.
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In a moment of endearing celebrity relatability, Kanye West once said he was sick and tired of all the in-app purchases made by his kids on their mobile device.
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This crafted relatability is probably part of the reason Swift has been such a mainstay in pop culture (and cultural commentary) since the genesis of her career at age 16.
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To call Jepsen&aposs lyrics superficial is to misunderstand the inherent relatability that characterizes pop — and the subversive quality that so-called generic music can have, for marginalized communities especially.
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"Atypical Season 3" While it seems like every show is trying not only to strike an emotional chord, but one of hilarious relatability, Netflix's original dramedy "Atypical" actually does so.
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Instead of seeing "relatable" as something that connects us, we may one day imagine it as a double negative: Relatability measures how strange something isn't, the lack of mystery itself.
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It's testament to the characters' relatability — or maybe to an audience's ability to empathize — that it matters little who plays the roles or that Linzy's voice echoes from their throats.
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She's even bonded with Colton over both of them being super nervous during the premiere night and it's that kind of relatability that can help someone go far in the franchise.
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She was one of the first people to share her life online without a filter, offering a sense of intimacy and relatability that we now take for granted with digital celebrities.
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YouTubers often strive for a kind of observational relatability that's meant to have us screaming, "YES, GOD YES, THAT'S EXACTLY HOW LIFE IS," at our phones when we're on the bus.
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So, with that in mind, it's no wonder that pop music—with its penchant for relatability and affinity for technology—would start to mirror humanity's need for a quick, zipless-fuck.
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She calls herself (and her book) "The Senator Next Door", which, like the cover image of her with a cup of coffee and a newspaper, is meant to convey everyday relatability.
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What's more, reality television — which millions watch (including me) for its compelling combination of escapism and familiarity, falseness and relatability — has permeated wider, societal conversations, taking on a strangely educational function.
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Bristowe and Tartick are lending some authenticity to The Bachelor brand of romance, and fans reactions indicate they like the relatability more than the over-the-top production of the show itself.
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But among their peers are a different class of clothing influencers: those who meet their audience where they are, whose relatability and, crucially, their financial sensibility are what makes them worth following.
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And Alcindor, who plans to perform in various cities this year with her All A Dream House Party tour, says she strives for that level of relatability for all of her music.
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Like all Keanu's real-life actions, these wound up fueling his meme persona; see this recently recirculated meme from 20193: Keanu's relatability, however, was what really put him on the meme map.
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Women who trust themselves and believe they are the best candidate for the position are better able to communicate that to audiences who now expect a different level of authenticity and relatability.
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Vanderpump isn't generally known for its relatability, but as its stars grow and change, so does its ability to tell a story that its viewers can understand on a more personal level.
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Not because he deserves our sympathy necessarily, but because his relatability allows male players to simultaneously condemn his actions, while also uncomfortably identifying with the feelings that lead him to unforgivable actions.
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Seen this way, relatability is a crutch for those who lack the faculty or the patience to be challenged by art — it's a vapid, selfish lens through which to offer a critique.
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He's been able to obscure this fact in recent years by flirting with relatability on The Tonight Show's Lip Sync Battle and playing the boorish, perpetually shirtless Stacee Jaxx in Rock of Ages.
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The Keanu resurgence has generated one think piece after another, each suggesting a culture enamored of his versatility and enduring career — but even more in love with his very human likability and relatability.
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By the time "Mary Jane" was released, Petty was a worldwide star, but he was still somewhat unknowable—a guy who'd managed to radiate relatability, yet never had an easy-to-pin down persona.
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She's no longer someone for whom relying on relatability is a means of personal and professional survival — she's an incredibly wealthy and incredibly powerful cultural figure, someone who seemingly has nothing left to prove.
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Being sincere and vulnerable allows for relatability, a commodity that, in 2016, is sold via ads for vitamin water and skincare products on the personal Instagram accounts and Facebook pages of former reality contestants.
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Whether by retweeting the depressing relatability of the So Sad Today Twitter account (at 855,000 followers as of this writing) or commenting the obligatory "same" on a MyTherapistSays Instagram post (currently at 3.6 million).
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If the language of depression and anxiety rules the internet, relatability is its cause; relatable accounts and posts — which I'm defining as ideas that mirror your lived experience — tend to earn the most attention.
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"That likability factor, the relatability factor, it's a requirement of being a child actor," said Ms. Brownstein, who cast Ms. Blanchard in her short film after taking notice of her, naturally, on social media.
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The relatability isn't only in the fact that they're starting new careers; many viewers can relate to the struggle of paying for a wedding, and the plot has been a welcome storyline this season.
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Positioning Carl's process as the episode's narrative centerpiece conveys respect for a child the audience has now spent eight years following, and who has often been the only point of relatability for younger viewers.
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The relatability [aspect], I think is something that tends to come up when the person writing is a woman—and if she's white, because then there's that idea that white men are a default.
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Their performances are so extraordinary and so deep, and the idea that they're asked to play these singular characters with these multiple faces and that they do it with such humanity and relatability — it's astonishing.
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Something being true might sound like an extremely fake idea in a story about dragons and zombies, but it relies on things that absolutely have to exist for narratives to work: consistency, relatability, and surprise.
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With all its mopey geniuses and angsty relatability, the alternative movement of the 22008s had inadvertently inured a generation of rock fans to heart-on-sleeve emotionality, seemingly repudiating decades of boneheaded lyrics and antics.
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While the fair gives candidates a chance to push their message at the soapbox, their visits are most important as a way for voters to test their relatability, veteran Republican Iowa strategist Dave Kochel said.
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For years the Thurmond eulogy has been framed as a virtue of Biden's own political career — proof of his bipartisanship and of his relatability in South Carolina, which holds the first presidential primary in the South.
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And acceptance — like relatability, which supposedly leads to tolerance — is, for some, losing its luster at a time when assimilating queer people into an anti-queer mainstream seems increasingly like settling for the straight world's scraps.
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But Clinton appealed to many of these rogue Republicans in 2016 not because of her relatability to the working class, but because of her more centrist past politics, her hawkish foreign policy, and her presumed electability.
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But if you respond in kind to Clark's vulnerability, then these are the more meaningful revelations that we can take from Masseduction into our lives: Relatability is a crock, and sincerity doesn't take a single form.
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McGrath will have to reach beyond the Democratic base to win over reliably-red Kentucky, banking on her background as a veteran, relatability as a mother, and determination to force entrenched D.C. fixtures out of Washington.
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With their songs having transcended the functional efficacy of turning aging rock listeners on, the ever-presence of AC/DC to our modern lives likely has to do with their relatability, lyrically as well as sonically.
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And it's this very relatability -- coupled with her prominence on a powerful internet platform -- that may also help Singh draw in younger viewers, who have not comprised a significant portion of the traditional late-night demographic.
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The actual sex scene is true to the show's combination of relatability and over-the-top, telenovela-inspired drama: it's an awkward experience involving a faked orgasm and an accidental sex tape sent to Jane's college advisor.
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"I think that will then take away some of the elite nature and exclusivity that has been part of fashion and bring it to a more real place that will further spark interest in relatability," Uri said.
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One of the only elements of modern life even more relentlessly unpleasant than online sparring is the advertising trend sometimes called "brand Twitter," where corporations lean on winking tongue-in-cheek voices to convey hipness and relatability.
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Surely, if a documentary crew comes to film at the palace, the public will see just how normal and sympathetic the family is, and there's one person in particular Philip believes holds the key to their relatability.
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" Eighteen years later, it was Shakespeare again who inspired Rebecca Mead to write in The New Yorker about the "scourge of relatability" after Ira Glass, host of "This American Life," complained that Shakespeare's plays were "not relatable.
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The relatability of the couple is ever-present as they enjoy ordinary activities (a homemade picnic or sudoku) amid their extraordinary surroundings of beautiful models and the in-crowd at a yacht party, fashion show and after parties.
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The homebody identity is so popular on social media that it's evolved into something of a cliche, with some influencers clearly using it as a way to telegraph relatability without compromising the otherwise aspirational nature of their brands.
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And while their relationship does mirror aspects of the central couple Cohen wrote for Neighbors, Ferrell and Poehler bring a genuine relatability to the film's more ridiculous moments (like a slow-motion screaming match across a craps table).
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And yet there's a relatability to the Boys, from Billy Butcher's need for revenge on the supers over his wife's death to Hughie's similar fight for justice after one of the supers kills his girlfriend by running through her.
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If the People diets signal virtue and discipline (Love me because I work so hard to look this way), the high-end fashion magazines' repast serves up relatability on a plate (Love me, because I'm really just like you!).
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Meghan, who has been a customer of the brand since her move to London last year (wearing their Infini ring and Precious Charm necklace to prior royal engagements), has a relatability that makes her style choices so covetable, says the jeweler.
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It's been exactly four years since my favorite tech video was uploaded to YouTube and I don't think I have been able to properly capture the relatability, authenticity, and pacifying feeling with sound in my own videos — especially a tech review.
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This is the type of verse that made him so ubiquitous as a radio feature in the first place, elevating a somewhat boilerplate Ariana Grande song (sticky relatability of "I just broke up with my ex" notwithstanding) to a memorable moment.
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Whereas Major League gave us an actual city and team to root for in Ward's beloved Cleveland Indians, The Program and its players fail even to reach the relatability of a scatter-armed Charlie Sheen, let alone creaky old Tom Berenger.
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It's the kind of unpredictable ride that Les Chiens de Navarre, founded in 2005 by the director Jean-Christophe Meurisse, have perfected over the years, and the production's series of vignettes frequently hit that sweet spot between relatability and wackiness.
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This is a detrimental accusation for an artist like Nas whose success has been dependent on relatability and trust from fans who believe what they are hearing isn't necessarily non-fiction, but heavily based off of a true and autobiographical story.
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But to many political strategists, it seemed Mr. Buttigieg had come up short on relatability after a meteoric rise in the Democratic 2020 field, which has been fueled by his even-tempered, coolly biting responses in nationally televised interviews and forums.
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In one of the most heartwarming examples of "The Stars, They're Just Like Us!" relatability, Larson retweeted her emotional reaction to the Nintendo Direct this past February that introduced fans to the new villagers coming to your town in New Horizons.
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In true antithetical fashion, her haters take the exact opposite approach in obsessing over her: While her fans praise her familiarity and relatability, her haters definitely do everything to bully and other her, presenting her as an adversary to be taken out.
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Like almost every star in a mainstream vehicle who plays a problematic character, Ms. Blunt — her persona, filmography, likability, relatability — serves as a kind of assurance from the filmmakers to the viewers not to worry, that things will turn out all right.
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Matt Duckor, the Vice President of Condé Nast Entertainment's Lifestyle Division, told Insider that the channel "is speaking to people who get dinner on the table five nights a week," and that the relatability aspect of having chefs like Duncan reflects that service-driven angle.
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Clinton, on the other hand, epitomizes a lack of relatability, and young voters—ever adept at social media and cognizant of popular trends—can smell a painfully robotic attempt at appearing human—like the cringe-worthy pandering that shown through in Clinton's Pokemon Go joke—a mile away.
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Back then, Ellen had to insist on her own niceness and relatability to win back the mainstream; now, cushioned as she is in Cowboys box seats among the rich and famous, her appeal to niceness mostly serves to flatten criticisms levied against her and her über-wealthy peers.
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And because she's one of the most beloved Democratic politicians of the moment, it's likely that Insta-storied skin care and Beto O'Rourke's constant cooking live streams will only be the beginning of an endless social media relatability race among politicians in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
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He pointed to the relatability of the characters, who think the world is too small for them and aim for a better life above the world, and to the false paradise they end up making, which has a border wall to keep out unwanted migrants in search of the same freedom.
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" Once the show premiered, Raisa came to realize that the show's success doesn't entirely hinge on the wide range of racial and ethnic representations, but rather on it's universal relatability: "I think that's why the show does so well… I just feel honored to be part of such a talented cast.
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It's only in recent years that we've gotten over this whole likeability and relatability hump, and viewers have tuned in to watch female characters go against the grain in unexpected places, such as the Oval Office (Veep), prison (Orange Is the New Black) and even the world at large (Broad City).
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The main takeaway from Pham and others' dismay at the miscategorization of "Cat Person" seems to be that fiction should be discussed not in terms of morality or political prescience or relatability but rather as "an imagined world that has its own rules," as Josephine Livingstone put it in the New Republic.
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And the probable reason why Sheeran both irritates critics and delights fans—who, fair enough, enjoy his relatability—is that he's just like any other kind of mediocre bloke you went to school with, or know from down the pub, just with an uncanny, almost unnatural knack for writing a catchy hook.
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Though the podcast struggles with the fact that many of these women are remembered in part because of the men they dated or married — a roster that includes Jackson Pollack, Robert Motherwell, Clement Greenberg, John Lennon, and Tom Doyle — the narrative of individual choice found in Radical Women contributes to its relatability today.
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Also, the relatability of the way she felt: It wasn't just seeing this man, it was doing something for herself, fulfilling this part of herself that had died following a group rape, following over a decade of a husband who didn't really want to kiss her and make love to her in a certain way.
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Though the pop landscape has changed immeasurably in the last decade—social media, which had not quite taken full hold during her early career, is now totally dominant, and fans seem to value relatability more than anything—I think that means that more than ever, there's space for Gaga at her very starriest to plug.
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In the book, Pollan contends that "most of us have happy memories of watching our mothers in the kitchen"; in the series, his relatability falters somewhat when he recounts an idyllic childhood summer spent in Martha's Vineyard with his very own pet pig, which he later gave to his neighbor, folk singer James Taylor.
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"What the poets of Instagram tend to have in common is what I would call emotional relatability or accessibility, and a tone and vocabulary that is reminiscent of the self-help or self-improvement movement — many read like motivational quotes," says Dr Eleanor Spencer-Regan, digital director of the Institute of Poetry and Poetics at Durham University.
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She is thus able to maintain her brand of authenticity and relatability, but in different ways for different groups; to her Western metropolitan audience, she is "the patron saint of millennial heartbreak," while to her marginal readers she is a representation of their desire for diversity in the literary world, despite rarely touching upon race in her work.
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Design-wise, the merman who serves as the film's romantic lead is a clear riff on the Creature from the Black Lagoon, but over the course of the film, he and the film's mute protagonist, Elisa (Sally Hawkins) fall in love and even have sex, which required a level of performance and relatability from the creature for the movie to work at all.
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In age in which the notion of "relatability" has become central to the discussion surrounding nearly every cultural object—from a faux-viral video dreamt up by a team of in-house creatives at a chocolate bar manufacturer to a challenging installation work housed in a gallery-cum-vet surgery in Penge—Sheeran is the most relatable artist of the lot.
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That's the kind of easygoing intimacy and relatability that has turned Mr. DeMarco, who is originally from Edmonton, Alberta, into what has become a rare breed: a breakout indie-rock idol whose consistent musical output — mostly mellow guitar pop in the mold of '60s and '70s songwriters like Harry Nilsson, Neil Young and John Lennon — is only bolstered by a fervent cult of personality.
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Clinton, after all, has had a famously conflicted relationship with fashion, chafing against the idea that she would in any way be defined, or identified, by what she wore as first lady or as a Senate candidate, seeing it as gender prejudice; then relaxing into her own uniform; and then using fashion as a tool to increase her relatability, by making jokes about her pantsuits and hair.
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Even if the choice was based on the difficulty of adjusting the camera work, it would have been a small price to pay for the sake of bringing a full-throated, energized cast to TV screens across country, not to mention giving us a Roger whose (temporary) disability added welcome relatability — something that's frequently a problem for the character anyway, given that he can easily come across as selfish and abrasive.
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"You make me so happy it turns back to sad / There's nothing I hate more than what I can't have / Guess I'll just stumble on home to my cats" are actual lyrics that made the final cut of the song, and while this is probably an attempt at #relatability, it seems bizarre considering the isolated, "I don't trust nobody" bombast that she made such a big deal out of on the first single.
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To put fiction in a realm where it can and should be appreciated only via a sophisticated toolkit of literary hermeneutics seems to me to ignore some of its most basic pleasures, one of which is recognition or, in certain cases, relatability: No, we shouldn't expect to relate to every character, to every story, but I would venture that many readers' favorite moments in fiction seem to eerily, uncannily capture a sensation, an emotion, an experience they have lived.
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But if he also cast his child in commercials, and that was on top of a web campaign in which the little boy or girl was otherwise a prominent fixture, and if my friend already inhaled the rarefied air of the ultrarich and I suspected the deployment of the adorable tyke was a strategic showcase for his own relatability as a normal parent and a measure to downplay the crass commercialism of the enterprise — well, then I might be concerned.
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To acknowledge the realities of running as a woman — the double standards, the higher bars, the demands for likability and relatability in a nation that mostly only relates to and likes dudes; the need to be authoritative but not hectoring; to be smart but not a know-it-all; to be cool but not fake; to be warm but not a mommy; to be maternal but not too soft; to have the contours of your life, from your breasts to your skin-care routines to your maternity leaves, treated as foreign and weird and maybe counterfeit by a political media that's never had to take this stuff seriously before; to be honest but not actually tell the truth about any of this stuff because you'll sound like a whiner — is a trap.
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