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  • Reality Rock Bottom Starring Tiffany

    Are reality shows where celebrities go to die, or is it where they can continue to stay in the public eye for just that much longer? Is being on a reality show just enough visibility to keep your back catalog selling if you were a former music artist? Or does it turn old fans away?

    Several weeks ago, word was out that CMT (Country Music Television) was going to give the go ahead to a wrestling reality show starring none other than Hulk Hogan (Terry Bollea). It was thought that the show could be canceled because of the recent bad light shed on Hogan’s family based his son Nick’s arrest for recklessly driving and crashing, leaving his best friend in need of lifetime medical care and in a nursing home.

    It not only doesn’t look to be canceled, but it even has a cast, per this Yahoo! story. Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling is going to be running wild on us soon.

    Looking up and down the cast, you have classic television stars, former wives of classic television stars, NBA stars, and whatever Trishelle is. But also, you have an 80s pop icon in Tiffany. I guess posing in Playboy and being on Celebrity Fit Club wasn’t enough.

    I don’t want to see Tiffany taking bumps or being called “brother” by Hulk Hogan either, but you have to admit, this has car crash TV written all over it.

    The Cast

    Dennis Rodman (Rod The Bod)
    Danny Bonaduce
    Dustin “Screech” Diamond
    Butterbean
    Frank Stallone (Take You Back)
    Todd Bridges (Whatchu talkin’ bout Willis?)
    Tiffany (80’s pop star)
    Erin Murphy (“Tabitha” from Bewitched)
    Nikki Ziering (ex-Playboy Playmate and ex-wife of Ian “Steve Sanders” Ziering)
    Trishelle Cannatella (drunken Real World slut)

    I say that Frank Stallone takes the whole season as “The Italian Stallion II”.

  • Friday Throwback – Ownlee Eue

    In 8th grade, one of the dance crews was performing at our junior high school rally. One of the members of the crew was a good friend of mine, so I was excited to see them dance. I honestly don’t remember much about their performance, but mostly because I was mesmerized by the song that came booming out of those speakers that day. In junior high school, kids are easily influenced and start liking things they may not have liked because of who introduced it to them. Well, I can’t say that I wasn’t influenced because one of my friends was dancing on stage and it was very cool, but when music hits you, it just hits you.

    – Yep, those are polka dots. That was his signature look.

    – Dude just busted out with a keytar.

    – “Love, cherish, respect and always be there for you”

    – Is he ever going to play the keytar?

    – This was the first song I’d ever heard where someone told a girl he would drink her bath water. It was disgusting then and still is now.

    – Ah, the old hump the floor dance move.

    Kwame isn’t all that well remembered even though he had 3 songs chart in the top 10 on the rap charts in 1989 and 1990. He actually stopped rapping by the mid 90s but recently came back as a producer and has worked with some main stream folks. I don’t think we’ll see the return of the polka dots, but this is what happens when rap stars go to die. If they have a good understanding with how the music is put together, they become producers.

  • Contender For Worst Song of 2008?: Flobots’ "Handlebars"

    How do I know I’m getting old? Because I constantly get the feeling that music today is infinitely worse than it was when I was a kid. I mean I came up in the era of Paula Abdul, C&C Music Factory and MC Hammer, but while I’ll be the first to tell you that none of that music was incredibly substantial, I’ll also tell you that most late 80s/early 90s pop music has at least some sort of hookiness and pop smarts that justifies the success it had.

    So, I’m out of touch. Whereas you could sit me down with any Top 10 list from 1980-2000 and I’d be able to at least sing the chorus of every song back to you, there’s songs in the Top 10 now that I barely even recognize. Hell, Lil’ Wayne’s “Lollipop” has been the #1 song in the country for four weeks now and I’ve heard it all the way through a grand total of ONCE.

    That doesn’t mean that I’m not interested in today’s music, and when I get wind of a new band that’s making waves, I try to give them a listen to see what they’re about. Sometimes we come up with a winner (Vampire Weekend, The Fray), sometimes we come up with what we think is a winner that later turns out to be something else entirely (Colbie Caillat), and other times, we come up with foul pieces of horse doody.

    Ladies and gentlemen, I now present you with Flobots. By the way, this isn’t the official video, but I couldn’t find a version on YouTube that contained embeddable code. So you’ll just have to suffer through this…if you dare.

    While it’s nice to see at least someone nowadays with a social conscience, this song is so terrible that any redeeming quality in the lyrical content is completely wiped away. First of all, guys, rap/rock died out about 7 or 8 years ago. Isn’t Fred Durst in the witness protection program or something? Not to mention the fact that these guys have the stiffest, most wooden rap flow of anyone I’ve ever heard before in my life. And I sat through the entirety of Kevin Federline’s album! (it’s not something I’m proud of).

    Anyway, what do you think of the song? I think Linkin Park are rolling in their graves whenever this song comes on-and they’re not even dead.