So, like, I was hanging out on this message board and AKSWulfe got all cynical and said
I sincerely hope that the arena they are holding this competition in collapses while they are all congregated in there and prevents any future garbage television shows such as this one to ever be conjured up again.
That's the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, a diamond set in a rough area. The idea is that the theatre will bring in money to the block and the seedy drug houses will get bought out so that the street will get renovated into a shopping district. Look for more entertainment industry special events to be booked there. And a deal has already been inked to do "American Idol 2", so bend over because its coming.
Then, like AKSWulfe got all "tv bites" and said
I also hope that MTV will go bankrupt for airing equally as retarded shows.
Not if E! beats them to it with "The Anna Nicole Smith Show".
But, like, you know, then AKSWulfe said
Whoever "wins" this horrid lab experiment of a TV show, I will guarantee you will have an album out by next year.
Of course they will! That's the whole point of the competition. Win the auditions, bag the recording contract, and then the teenagers and childless unmarried women with cats will buy a million copies of the record and flood the radio airwaves with requests for whatever song is on the title track.
And I was all, like, floored when AKSWulfe said
That's all it takes to be a super star these days, ripping off someone elses music.
-SW
I was hanging out with a bunch of guys during a buddy's bachelor outing, and the pub grill we were chilling at had music videos playing on the wall over the table. We couldn't hear the music, but the tv was in our natural line of sight. We were sitting there and I made a comment about how nobody has made an original video since MTV rose to greatness in the '80s. The stuff being made now is almost exactly the same stuff as was pumped out 10 or 15 years ago. No originality, no growth to the format as art, and that makes it marginal entertainment. I suspect that this is the reason why MTV is forced to offer 30-minute and hour-long shows - because videos these days are the pits.
So what were some of the great videos?
"Thriller" by Michael Jackson. Say what you will about Mike and his nose and other aberrations, the guy could do a good video.
"Beat It" by Michael Jackson. Same reason.
"Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel. He knows electronic art.
"Mr. Bombastic" by Shaggy. This one got repeated airplay during the all-request hours because, quite frankly, those girls were HOT!
"Boys Of Summer" by Don Henley. Cool tune, cool video to go with it.
"Hot For Teacher" by Van Halen. Whenever I hear that song, I can still picture the video. "Gimme somethin' to write on, man!"
Some of the worst videos:
"Hammer Time" by M.C. Hammer. Sure, he set a trend with the harem pants, but it was parodied on the comedy show "In Living Color" and after that I couldn't watch MC Hammer with a straight face.
"I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany. Valley girl mall rubbish ruined a perfectly good song.
"Running With the Shadows Of The Night" (or whatever the title is) by Pat Benatar. She even admitted that it was disjointed and made no sense. Well, at least it featured AT-6s and marginal air combat.
Any others?
