Reality Rocks
  • Celebrity Circus just might be THE worst show on the air right now. Yes, even worse than A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila. (Because let's face it: Watching deluded bi-curious coeds scarf down pig genitalia to prove their devotion to a MySpace fame whore is a little more interesting than watching Christopher "Peter Brady" Knight walk a tightrope blindfolded.)

    But hey, it's my job to cover these shows.

    Man, I need a raise...

    Anyway, the one music "celebrity" in the Celebrity Circus competition, R&B one-hit-diva Blu Cantrell, was the first to get eliminated last night...thus allowing former Rod Stewart trophy wife/supermodel/"Stacy's Mom" video vixen Rachel Hunter to hang on (literally--I mean hang on to a trapeze) for at least another week. Or until this show is cancelled mid-season. Whichever comes first.

    Some might assume it was Blu's underwhelming performance last week on some Cirque Du Soleil doohickey called the Spanish Web that resulted in her literal and proverbial tumble. But

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  • Nowadays the basic-cable airwaves are bustling with all move-busting by lightfooted (and sometimes leftfooted) hopefuls on various dance-themed reality shows. So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing With The Stars, Step It Up And Dance, Dance Wars, Jennifer Lopez's DanceLife, Master Of Dance...the list is the long, like a chorus line that never ends.

    SYTYCD is still the granddaddy of all televised dance competitions, of course--but close on that show's high-kicking heels is America's Next Dance Crew, the Randy Jackson-masterminded MTV show that stole Shane Sparks away from SYTYCD and in the process also stole the hearts (and ratings) of street-dance fans desperate for rougher, grittier TV fare.

    Season 1 winners JabbaWockeeZ are still popping up on MTV alongside Shane Sparks, demonstrating various don't-try-this-at-home moves from hit music videos on the supposedly instructional special Walk It Out With JabbaWockeeZ. But Randy and MTV execs know when they've got a hit on their hands, so

    Read More »from Randy Jackson: The Reality Rocks “America’s Best Dance Crew” Interview
  • Yes, I KNOW that the Miss Rap Supreme finale aired nine days ago.

    It's been nine long days since pimpsuited hip-hop lothario Kool Keith serenaded newly crowned MRS pageant winner Rece Steele.

    Nine days since Kool Keith appeared in first runner-up Byata's mirror, Snow White-stylee, crooning/ordering her to step off.

    Or, as of this writing, more specifically eight days, 12 hours, and 21 minutes ago.

    But it's hard to get over this awesome show (or my innocent girl-crush on Byata, or my NOT-so-innocent woman-crush on Bellhop Willy) when VH1 insists on monopolizing my weekend by running a 10-hour Miss Rap Supreme Sunday marathon, MRS co-hostess Yo Yo stops by my office...AND my work shoots a special Mic Pass segment starring the MRS laydeez in all their mic-rockin' glory!

    So until season 2 goes into production--or until VH1 runs another Miss Rap Supreme marathon--here's Yahoo!'s new Pepsi Smash Mic Pass video, featuring Rece, Byata, Nicky 2States, D.A.B., Bree, Chiba, and even legendary

    Read More »from Miss Rap Supreme: The Rematch
  • Last week, I officially declared my favorite Nashville Star contestants to be Third Town, Coffey, and Melissa Lawson.

    And this week, as host Billy Ray Cyrus announced the names of the surviving finalists, he kept ticking each of the top 11 off his list...until there were just three names left.

    Yep, you guessed it. They were Third Town, Coffey, and Melissa Lawson.

    So, was today Opposite Day or something? Was America watching a different show last week? I was--and still am--utterly baffled by these results.

    Now, I'm not sure if these were the actual bottom three, or just the last three names called to keep us guessing, since Melissa seems to be a sure frontrunner (if recent message board activity is to be believed). All I know is, when those three were the last three standing, I was barely standing myself. I was shaking in my cowgirl boots.

    And then when Billy Ray announced that Coffey was safe, I was crying in my beer, country-saloon-style. Not because I don't love me some hot Coffey,

    Read More »from Nashville Star: Third Town’s Second Rejection
  • There's little doubt that reality television can be a fabulous launching pad for a career in music. Just ask Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Leona Lewis, Danity Kane, or even old-school Star Search country band Sawyer Brown. They've all done just fine...and they have TV to thank!

    But reality TV may be an even better re-launching pad for some artists. The old adage used to go something like, "Old musicians never die, they just fade away"--but now it's more like, "Old musicians never die, they just star on reality shows."

    Yes, many musicians whose glory days of groupie-shagging, stadium-headlining, and royalty-collecting seemed far behind them have managed to resurrect, or even redefine, their careers on the small screen. And sure, such career moves may have cost them credibility in the long run, but hey, credibility won't feed and clothe Flavor Flav's seven (and counting) kids, pay off Bobby Brown's divorce attorney bills, or keep Bret Michaels' bandanna closet well stocked, will

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  • As has been hyped for weeks now, on this season of Nashville Star the contestants will be mentored by the show's three judges--Jewel, John Rich, and Jeffrey Steele--who will bring their combined 50 or so years of music biz experience and expertise to the proverbial table.

    On paper, this seems like a fine and dandy idea. Nashville Star's panelists pride themselves on having a kinder, gentler approach than Simon Cowell and cutthroat critics on other TV talent shows, after all--so it makes sense that they'd want to go out of their way help the contestants, and make their constructive criticism especially constructive.

    But it will be interesting to see how this practice works in real life.

    See, each of the judges is going to be assigned three or four finalists to mentor personally. But will this arrangement bias them in any way? Will the judges be able to critique one of their own protégés as honestly and impartially as they would any other contestant on the show? And more importantly,

    Read More »from Nashville Star Spoiler Alert: Mentor Groups Revealed!
  • I have a confession to make: I actually like So You Think You Can Dance even more than I like American Idol. Maybe it's because the show makes me nostalgic for all the dance classes I took as a kid, and it makes me wonder what might have been if I'd continued studying dance after age 13, when as a surly teen I suddenly and stupidly decided dancing was "uncool." (A belief that SYTYCD has clearly debunked.) Who knows, if I'd kept up with my training, maybe I'd be hoofing it like Sabra by now.

    Or maybe it's just because I think the contestants' agenda is a little more pure. What I mean by that is, while Idol contestants can hope their involvement on that show will lead to lucrative record deals and Daughtry-sized success, there simply isn't as much fame and fortune in dancing. Sure, the finalists can hope for jobs dancing in music videos, Broadway shows, and Vegas revues, and later on maybe they'll teach or choreograph, but let's face it--they're never going to amass the fame or bank

    Read More »from So You Think You Can Dance Elimination: The First Curtain Call
  • Well, after weeks of left-footed drag queens, decidedly unsexy men named Sex, and a whole lot of broken bones and broken dreams, the So You Think You Can Dance auditions are over...and the competition has started among the top 20. And whoa, there's not a Schwimmer in the bunch! What gives? I figured ole Mama Schwimmer would keep popping out tiny dancers well into SYTYCD season 18, but now I guess last season's Lacey was the final Schwimmer spawn to compete. No adopted brothers of Travis this season, either. So it's a whole new show, and it's anyone's game.

    Going into tonight's top 20 episode, I of course already my faves picked out. Among the men, I was digging hunky Mark, who impressed me with his "Bohemian Rhapsody" dance routine even more than when past reality TV hunks Constantine Maroulis and Michael Johns sang that classic on American Idol. And among the women, I was partial to dark, gothy, utterly compelling Kourtni.

    I was pretty neutral about most of the other ladies (I didn't

    Read More »from SYTYCD Top 20: The Dance-Off Begins!
  • Some people may feel sorry for poor, poor Brett Asa Young...or "Ace," as he is more commonly known.

    See, the season 5 American Idol also-ran is possibly most famous for nearly getting an asswhupping on national TV at the famous fleet-fingered hands of Queen axeman Brian May, who was none too thrilled with Ace's attempt to remake "We Will Rock You" as an R&B slow-jam. It was certainly a case of Queen beating the Ace that time around.

    The seventh-place runner-up also gained notoriety this year when he returned to the Fox network on Bones, playing the rather undignified role of a karaoke singer who warbles Nickelback and later gets murdered. (Hey, he sang a Nickelback song--he had it coming!)

    But yo, don't you feel too sorry for Ace. He ain't doing too shabbily. After all, the guy co-wrote the gibungous "It's Not Over" with former fellow finalist Chris Daughtry--meaning he not only made a massive chunk of change, but he got nominated for a friggin' Grammy.

    So anyway, when Ace isn't

    Read More »from Ace Young: He Will, He Will…Rock You
  • Miss Rap Supreme just wrapped up last night, and already I miss it. I loved everything about this show: the '70s variety-show-style intro, that nerdy-but-sexy bellboy, the Salt-N-Pepa Suite afterparties, the lifesized furry cockroach and his puppet posse, the bizarre "STEP OFF!" skits at the end of each episode, the (usually Chiba-instigated) catfights, turban-swathed Yo Yo's "mirror mirror" alerts...EVERYTHING. Really, I'm so sad this show is over.

    But easing me through my Miss Rap Surpeme withdrawals today was hostess with the mostess Yo Yo herself, who stopped by Yahoo! Music HQ this afternoon (her genie turban swapped for a baseball cap) to discuss the MRS finale. And she mercifully answered all my burning questions: did the right femcee win, is champion Rece Steele working on an album, and, most importantly...

    WILL THERE BE A SEASON 2????

    Check out my Yo Yo interview here:

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