Reality Rocks
  • In a previous blog, I offered full-length audio streams of the five remaining finalists' self-penned (or co-penned) tunes for Nashville Star's make-or-break Original Song Night. Click HERE to hear the songs.

    Well, I made my opinions known in that post--don't I always?--but songwriting is a very personal thing, so it's only right that we get to hear the composers themselves explain where they're coming from.

    Check out these exclusive clips of Ashlee, Coffey, Gabe, Melissa, and Shawn discussing the inspiration behind their would-be hits, and see them rehearse for the big night here:

    ASHLEE HEWITT:

    COFFEY:

    GABE GARCIA:

    MELISSA LAWSON:

    SHAWN MAYER:

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  • Tonight is Original Song Night on Nashville Star, and it's always my favorite night of the season. Original Song Night is what sets Nashville Star apart from pretty much every other televised singing competition, since it's rare that reality TV finalists get a challenge like this. After all, the American Idols never have to pen their own tunes while competing--and when some of them try to do so later, they suffer the wrath of Clive Davis. (Poor, poor Kelly Clarkson...)

    But Nashville, aka Music City, is a whole other world compared to Hollywood. Songwriting prowess is a Nashvillian's most all-important asset, not to mention how most aspiring Nashville stars make a behind-the-scenes buck while waiting for their chance in front of the mic. So it makes sense that Original Song Night is such a crucial part of the entire Nashville Star competition. Original Song Night is in fact make-or-break night.

    Luckily for Nashville Star viewers who can't wait for tonight's show, I've managed to get

    Read More »from Nashville Star: Preview All Five Original Songs Now!
  • MTV Stole My Idea!

    A few weeks ago, when blogging about the new season of Charm School in which Sharon Osbourne will attempt to rehabilitate Rock Of Love hoochies, I wrote the following:

    "My only question is: When is VH1 going to do a Charm School with someone like, say, Diddy assistant Fonzworth Bentley giving the Henry Higgins treatment to the failed I Love New York suitors? Guess we'll just have to wait for a season 3 to see that..."

    Please click HERE for the full blog and note the date: May 21, 2008.

    Anyhoo, it looks like VH1's sister station MTV has beaten VH1 to the punch. Because MTV's new show, From G's To Gents, a sort of Charm School-esque makeover show for male hood rats, is hosted by...wait for it...Fonzworth Bentley.

    See the trailer here:

    And a Fonzworth one-on-one here:

    Of course, this show would have been more awesome if it had starred Chance, 12 Pack, or Mr. Boston, but those dudes are too busy flaunting their ungentlemanly manners on I Love Money right now, anyway.

    MTV, I still

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  • Amid all my shock and awe last night over Kherrington and Gev's elimination from So You Think You Can Dance, I completely forgot to express my awe, awe, and more awe over the latest work of genius by resident SYTYCD choreographer/goddess Mia Michaels, a dreamy angel-themed dance for the top five girls.

    You know I don't how Mia comes up with these new and unimaginable ways for bodies to contort, or how she's able to make the unison swish of five heads of pre-Raphaelite hair extensions look like the most heart-stoppingly beautiful thing in the world. The mind of Mia Michaels is a mystery. Sometimes offputting stuff springs from it, like "You're so gorgeous I want to stab you" and "Will, you need a NEW PARTNER." But sometimes amazing stuff comes out of that puzzle-like, pixie-topped brain of hers, and that's why I love her.

    Kherrington's probably sad she was cut last night, but it must soften the blow that she had the opportunity to participate in this magical Mia moment before leaving

    Read More »from SYTYCD: A Little Slice Of Heaven
  • Tonight marked the first night that the So You Think You Can Dance vote lay squarely in the hands of the viewing public. But I've always appreciated the fact that the expert judges had veto power in the elimination process, and were allowed to save any dancer who clearly did not belong in the bottom (as I've pointed out before, just imagine how differently certain seasons of American Idol could have panned out if such a policy had been in place on the nights that Chris Daughtry or Tamyra Gray were axed). So I was not happy to learn that Nigel, Mary, et al would no longer have any say in who stays and who goes.

    Anyway, at first I thought America pretty much got it right tonight. And I was relieved. But then, there STILL were a couple of Jennifer Hudson-style elimination shockers at the end of the episode.

    But first things first....Mark and Kherrington are fantastic dancers, no doubt, and at one time it would have utterly astonished me to see either of them in the bottom. But frankly,

    Read More »from So You Think You Can Dance: Gev Goes, Kherrington’s Cut
  • Last week, Mia Michaels wished--out loud--for Will to get a new partner. Well, she got her wish, as this week the remaining five SYTYCD couples were split up and paired off anew. (I don't why they didn't just rotate partners week to week from the season's beginning, instead of waiting till now, but who knows what goes on inside those Fox producers' heads.) Anyhoo, be careful what you wish for, Mia: Because Jessica, who did manage to barely make the top 10 last week, dropped out last night due to two broken ribs. Ouch.

    Jessica was never, ever my favorite dancer on the show, and I often agreed with Mia and also wished Jess would be voted off. But I still can't help but feel sorry for her--making it this far and then having to quit. That's gotta suck. But Jessica has four weeks to recover before the So You Think You Can Dance national tour, which she'll still be included in, so that's a good thing, at least.

    By the way, last week Mia also wished--out loud--for Comfort to go home. And

    Read More »from SYTYCD: Back In The Comfort Zone
  • Last week on Nashville Star, either Laura or Sophie (sorry, I get those Olsen Twin lookalikes confused all the time--it was the one without braces) rolled her eyes while judge Jewel was critiquing yet another one of the teen duo's cringe-inducingly trainwrecky performances.

    In case you missed the eyeroll that made heads roll, here it is again. And again. And again..

    Well, last night, these eyerollers rolled right off the Nashville Star set. Apparently voting viewers weren't too thrilled with Laura & Sophie's bad attitude (or, um, bad singing), and therefore L&S were eliminated.

    Actually, the person least thrilled with Laura & Sophie's errant eyeballs was judge John Rich, who spoke to them so sternly last night, I half-expectedly this MuzikMafioso to jump onstage and administer a good ole fashioned spanking, right then and there. The way he blasted the girls made his scolding of the much less culpable Diana Degarmo on Gone Country look like a mushy, fatherly pep talk.

    "It's hard for

    Read More »from Nashville Star: Sophie Is Not The People’s Choice
  • I don't know about you, but my prom suuuuucked.

    At the time I was caught up in a very 90210-esque Brenda/Dylan/Kelly love triangle (I'm a little ashamed to admit I was the "Kelly"...but give me a break, I was stupid and 17), and due to some unfortunate assigned-seating error, my poached boyfriend "Dylan" was seated directly in between me and "Brenda."

    AWKWARD!

    So Brenda shot icy stabbling glares at Dylan all night and flirted exaggeratedly with her date in an attempt to make him jealous; he subsequently GOT jealous; that got ME jealous; I marched out in a huff while Dylan and Brenda reported to the dance floor to p-push it way too real-good to the ex-girlfriend-inappropriate "Push It" by Salt-N-Pepa; I sought comfort in the bottom of a bottle of Bartles & James; and all our poor mutual friends seated at our table just stared blankly down at their plates of stale Salisbury steak and prayed for this entire fiasco to come to a conclusion.

    Is this TMI?

    Well, I honestly would have

    Read More »from All Hail ABDC2′s Prom Kings & Queens!
  • Tonight the top 10 So You Think You Can Dance finalists were unveiled--an important turning point in the competition not only because it was the last chance for the judges to have any say in who stays and who goes, but also because these top 10 dancers are the ones who will participate in this year's SYTYCD tour.

    So with 12 dancers remaining on this all-important judgment night, that meant half of the contenders--or three couples--were on the chopping block this evening. One of the bottomed-out couples was no big surprise, but the other two at-risk couples were definitely more unexpected.

    First, the non-shocker: Comfort and Thayne were in the bottom three. I predicted as much last night. Comfort was definitely out of her depth during that Mandy Moore routine, and she was unpredictably disappointing dancing in her specialty genre of hip-hop, too. And her partner Thayne, with his supposed tree-like personality, has never been a favorite with the voters, so it was understandable that he

    Read More »from So You Think You Can Dance: Top 10 Revealed!
  • Is it just me, or does Jennifer Hudson look, um, DIFFERENT on her debut album's cover?

    Seriously, not since Ann Wilson was electronically compressed from a size 16 to a size 2 in one of Heart's '80s music videos have I seen such a glaring example of what appears to be some sort of digital diet. Because unless Jennifer has been on Beyonce's pre-Dreamgirls lemon-and-cayenne-pepper fasting plan for the past six months, this album art does NOT accurately represent the real Hudson from the neck down.

    So, this looks like one extreme Photoshop makeover. But why? Jennifer looks great the way she is. Do the suits at RCA Records really think she'll shift more units with her head digitally decapitated and then Frankensteined onto some skinny mystery body? And do they really think her fans are unobservant enough to overlook such a radical renovation of her famously full figure?

    You know, Effie would not stand for this, and neither should Jennifer. Neither should her fans.

    And if this really is

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