Last night VH1's The Cho Show aired its season finale (already???), leaving an aching void in my heart and on my DVR hard-drive that can't possibly be filled--except maybe by the upcoming Rock Of Love: Charm School. We shall see. Margaret is a tough act to follow.

Anyway, it was a great (if all-too-brief) series, and one of its highlights was when the absolutely fabulous Margaret Cho enlisted the talents of superstar producers Desmond Child (Bon Jovi, Roxette, "Who Let The Dogs Out?") and Andreas Carlsson (Britney Spears, *NSYNC, Clay Aiken) to make her own foray into heavily ProTooled prefab pop.

The result was her own sex-kittenish, Britney-esque jam (which kicks off with the familiar declaration, "It's Margaret, bitch!"), a sure-to-be-smash-hit single ingeniously titled "I Cho' Am A Woman":

The Making Of "I Cho' Am A Woman"

Call your local radio station and request it now!

Hey, remember The White Rapper Show on VH1? No? C'mon, it was only, oh, the raddest show EVER. An (ultimately futile) search for the Next Eminem, one of the program's most memorable contestants was first-runner-up John Brown, the self-declared "King Of The 'Burbs" and proponent/leader/sole member of some vague "Ghetto Revival" movement.

But now John's moved out of the 'burbs and ghetto and into the national sphere, with a topical new manifesto titled "Sarah Palin (I Wanna Lay Pipe)." Surely even his politically minded White Rapper Show rival Jus' Rhyme would be impressed by this:

Hallelujah hollaback!

The Biggest Loser: Families premieres tonight, and while I'm not the biggest fan of that hokey Biggest Loser theme song "Proud" (you know, the "what have you done today to make you feel proud?" anthem that kinda/sorta sounds like something out of a prescription-drug commercial), I must say I was pleasantly surprised when I got a sneak peek at the favorite workout songs by the show's cast members--first by the trainers and host (see this other playlist blog), and now by the show's contestants thmselves.

Old-school Outkast? Keane? Duffy? M.I.A.? Classic Cult and Clash? Sam Sparro, who actually features on several of the contestants' playlists? Well, color me impressed. These songs might even motivate me to dust off the old stairstepper machine I've been using as a coatrack and work up a sweat of my own.

I feel especially motivated to borrow Ed Brantley's iPod, since his workout soundtrack includes not only the aforementioned Sam Sparro and M.I.A. but also Air, David Bowie, the Chemical

Chris Daughtry has felt the fallout of voter apathy firsthand. Once a seeming frontrunner on season 5 of American Idol, he then unexpectedly ended up in the bottom two because his legions of fans failed to rock the vote that particular week. Then he was sent home:

Sure, Chris has since gone on to be one of Idol's biggest-selling success stories, but after that ordeal, the subject of voting is still near and dear to his heart--because in November 2008, America will be voting for its new PRESIDENT, which is a little more important than who gets a record contract with BMG, you know.

So Daughtry has recorded a non-partisan remake of a Foreigner song (perhaps a subtle statement about the importance of foreign-policy issues in this election? um, probably not...), "Feels Like The First Time," for CNN's League Of First-Time Voters initiative. The goal is to encourage newbie voters to participate in this year's Presidential Election:

Voters, don't let Chris down like you did back in season