Like many people my age, I laughed at the idea of the Muchmusic VJ search, watched an episode out of pure boredom one day… and got hooked. It was a pretty ridiculous show, but it was well done as far as reality tv shows go (especially Canadian ones). Among the potential VJ hopefuls was the token black guy, the token asian guy, the token gay guy, the overachieving all-Canadian guy who tries so hard he makes everybody else look bad, the prettyboy, and the sassy chick with maybe a little too much sass. Basically, they covered all their bases.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the show ended a few weeks ago, and Tim (the prettyboy) won. He seems like a nice enough guy, everybody kept saying how “sweet” he is, and he looks a lot like a girl, so he should fit in well with the rest of the VJs currently on the Muchmusic roster.<\/p>\n
Now, I’m not going to get all upset over the fact that he won because he was the best looking of the 4 finalists despite probably being the worst interviewer of the 4 possibilities. What I do find a bit dissapointing is the lack of music knowledge that the 4 finalists seemed to have. I’m trying not to sound like a music snob here, but when (in theory anyway) the point of the job is to interview musicians, talk about music, and indirectly shape the musical tastes of the hundreds of thousands of kids who watch Muchmusic every day, one would assume that a working knowledge of music and musical history would be a necessary pre-requesite for the job. Sadly, this does not appear to be so.<\/p>\n
Not to pick on poor good-looking Tim (seriously, he’s a good looking dude. He makes that androgynous blonde guy<\/a> they hired a few years ago look like a pail of puke), but when asked who the most influential bands\/artists of all time are, one of his responses was Blink-182. While the wit and awesomeness of the album title “Take Off Your Pants and Jacket” may never be topped, that’s just an unacceptable answer. I suppose they were one of the first bands to popularize the whole poopy-bum-farts era of late-90s\/early-00s “punk” music (that stuff is pretty much the opposite of punk, but whatever), but I don’t think musical scholars a few hundred years from now will be studying the cultural significance of the song “Dysentary Gary”. Call me crazy.<\/p>\n