Reality Rocks
  • Tonight was a momentous, important night on So You Think You Can Dance, because the resultant votes would determine the four finalists for next Wednesday's season finale. So all six dancers were in fact "dancing for their lives" this evening.

    With the show being only an hour long tonight, Cat Deeley wasted no time in getting things underway--with, incidentally, Paula Abdul in the audience, smiling her nice-judge smile and seal-clapping sweetly for every routine.

    Yay, I love it when my favorite shows collide! Synergy rules!

    So first up were newly coupled-off Mark and Courtney--a pairing that could have been a disadvantage for both dancers, since going into tonight's episode they seemed like the boy and girl most likely to get cut this week. (Many viewers were surprised that Mark stayed over Will last week, and it was hard to imagine Courtney, fantastic as she is, outlasting either Chelsie or Katee.) So I assumed that the show's two (relatively) weakest links linked together would

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  • Um, does anyone else think it's odd, and maybe even a little bit of a bummer, that Luke Campbell--the 2 Live Crew man whose horndog hip-hop was so controversial, it became the center of a landmark Supreme Court obscenity case--has now recast himself as a bumbling father on the VH1 reality show Luke's Parental Advisory?

    That the pottymouthed lout behind the perennial stripclub anthem "Me So Horny" is now a doting TV dad, cautioning his impressionable young daughters not to earn bad reputations?

    That the bootyrapper whose classic Dirty South album As Nasty As They Wanna Be featured a cover photo of gleamingly exposed female buttocks is now on thirtysomething-friendly VH1, expressing fatherly disapproval over the racy pics of his teen son's MySpace ladyfriends?

    Of course, this cornball proud-papa schtick is nothing new. For years, the basic-cable airwaves have been clogged with plenty of "we're crazy but we love each other and take out the garbage like everyone else" dysfunctional-family

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  • "No Air" was the one breath of fresh air on Jordin Sparks's debut album for me. Although I've never doubted that the season 6 AmIdol winner has a good set of pipes, I have for the most part been disappointed with the safe, snoozy post-show material's she's released.

    The one exception has been "No Air," which I actually think is one of the best pop singles of 2008. I also think it's probably what saved Jordin from a sad, one-album-then-dropped, Taylor Hicks-like fate. Of course, it didn't hurt matters that her unstoppable and unfloppable labelmate Chris Brown appeared on the song, but even without his input, a good song is a good song is a good song.

    Case in point: The new "No Air" cover by rising Nashville star Rissi Palmer. It's a country version, and Chris Brown is nowhere to be found on it, and it's still just as great.

    Or is it? Some people might even say Rissi's version is better. Compare and contrast the remake and the original here, and you decide:

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  • Tonight, the final three contestants for next week's Nashville Star finale were announced, but not before all four singers had to prepare two songs apiece--for performances that would, in fact, determine who wins next week. See, the votes this week dictate next week's finale results, so each contestant had to be in it to win it, even though he/she had a 1-in-4 chance of getting cut tonight before even having a chance to sing his/her second song.

    Man, that's rough. But them's the breaks in Music City.

    So first up was Shawn Mayer. When she came out belting her first song, Gretchen Wilson's "Here For The Party," I was personally happy to see her back in butt-kickin' bad-girl mode, but I was also gravely concerned. I wasn't concerned that she'd be incapable of killing it on that Coyote Ugly-esque partystarter--and she did kill it--but I recalled how back in week one, she sang a Janis Joplin rawker and John Rich barked at her, "We don't need another Gretchen Wilson." Therefore it was a

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  • So recently I heard chitchat around the office that Yahoo! Music was planning to do an On Location shoot with the almighty, all-around awesome Jabbawockeez. The winners of season 1 of America's Best Dance Crew!! Holy frig!

    I got all excited and immediately started planning a superfly outfit to wear when I inevitably bumrushed this sure-to-be-amazing taping. A mask would have to be incorporated somehow...

    ...but then I found the taping had already taken place. I'd missed it.

    In the words of ABDC judge Lil' Mama: ARE YOU SERIOUS?

    Crestfallen--as if my own banner had just fallen, actually--I asked the producer peeps why I'd not been invited. And one of the Yahoo! producers innocently asked, "Oh, are you a fan of the show?"

    Um, am I FAN of the SHOW? Oh, naw. I just write a near-daily blog called REALITY ROCKS about REALITY TELEVISION that has my NAME and FACE on it. That's all. So why would I be a fan of America's Best Dance Crew, one of the best reality shows EVER, right?

    Sheesh.

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  • This week on Nashville Star, we get to find out which three singers will make it to the August 4th finale.

    But before one of them gets sent home for good, all four finalists--Coffey, Melissa Lawson, Gabe Garcia, and Shawn Mayer--get to go home and receive heroes' welcomes in their respective cities. Their homecoming footage will air on this week's show.

    Judging from the hometown reactions, it's going to be a close race if all of these fanbases mobilize, organize some local phonebanking programs, etc.

    Preview the hometown visits here, and tune in this Monday, July 28, at 9pm on NBC to see which of the four Nashville Star finalists gets eliminated--and goes home permanently, a whole lot sooner than he/she hoped.

     

    Shawn Mayer in May City, Iowa (will she run into her ex?):

    Coffey in Los Angeles (not his hometown, per se, but where his daughter is):

    Melissa Lawson in Arlington, Texas:

    Gabe Garcia in Lytle, Texas:

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  • This week on A&E (the once-credible network whose initials once stood for "Arts" and "Entertainment"), Corey Feldman--the saner and stabler of the two Coreys--serenaded his co-dependent wifey Susie with this heartfelt ballad:

     

    I'm just going to be nice and assume that Susie had tears in her eyes because she was genuinely emotionally moved, not because she was being humiliated on basic cable as her husband grabbed her by the scruff of her neck and screamed Andrew WK-style in her face.

    Or because her husband's lyrics included the following Pulitzer-worthy gems:

    Springtime flowers bloom
    Air of mystery

    You bring the stars up to the moon
    But when you leave you're gone too soon

    Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-nah yeah!
    Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-nah hey yeah!
    Do-do-do do-do-do I love you! I really love you!

    Man, that pap is worse than the words to David "Magic Rainbow" Cook's "Time Of My Life." But hey, such sentiments came straight from the heart and brain of Corey Feldman.

    Anyway, in a Best Week Ever

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  • Despite my many awesome and extremely marketable suggestions for new headbanging, groupie-banging bachelors to star in Rock Of Love 3 (read my suggestions here), VH1 has officially opted to bring back Bret Michaels for yet another season.

    What, Dave Navarro wasn't available? That dude will appear on anything. Dave was even a guest judge on Comedy Central's The New Gong Show, for eff's sake! Oh wait, that's right: Dave is off the market. He's reportedly doing the unskinny bop these days with Bret's second-season, sloppy-seconds castoff, Daisy De La Hoya.

    Anyway, apparently Bret and his pornstar-named season 2 bachelorette, Ambre Lake, are (shocking news alert!) no longer rocking each other's worlds. So great, Bret's conveniently available again, right in sync with the VH1 Q4 production schedule...but really, didn't the VH1 execs learn anything from Flavor Of Love 3?

    See, Flavor Flav's once-great dating show firmly established the pattern of an insanely spectacular first season, a

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  • Somewhere out there in TV Land, somewhere near a television set to Fox and a remote control that's been flung across the room in a rage, Debbie Allen is crying/clawing her eyes out. And she's probably ready to hit America's viewers over the head with that prop cane she used to threateningly wield in the opening sequence of Fame.

    Yes, people, it's true: So You Think You Can Dance's golden boy and Debbie Allen's protégé, the almighty Will--the guy who's been pimped by the judges more aggressively than Carly Smithson and David Archuleta ever were this season on American Idol--was voted off tonight.

    On the plus side, this means Debbie can now return to SYTYCD as a guest judge (to preserve some flimsy semblance of neutrality, she had to bow out when Will was selected to compete on the show). And perhaps even more on the plus side, it seems like the public has finally spoken out against all the astonishingly blatant favoritism on SYTYCD. But on the minus side, it's a pity that Will--one of

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  • Do you remember Sandra Colton? Um, I don't. Which is surprising, because she was a finalist on So You Think You Can Dance, one of the best things ever in the history of everything (or at least one of the best reality shows ever).

    But she was the very first dancer eliminated in season 1, so it's understandable that my memory of her has faded over the years.

    Here are some archived clips of Sandra's short time on the show, to refresh your memory:

    Nope, I still don't remember her. Hmmm. Maybe this clip will help:

    Oh, okay, that tapdancing solo does seem a little familiar. I ever-so-vaguely remember thinking that was kind of cool. But I guess it wasn't cool enough, because the judges axed her within minutes of that performance.

    Anyhoo, if Sandra were to be remembered, by me or anyone else, I'm sure she'd rather not have "First Contestant Ever Eliminated On SYTYCD" written on her business card, résumé, or tombstone. So she's giving singing a shot now. And amusingly--hopefully in an

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