You know how sometimes you see a commercial for a new show, and you think to yourself “wow, television has sunk to a new low.\u00a0 I can’t believe how lame that’s gonna be”, then you tune in to see how bad it is and you end up becoming strangely addicted?<\/p>\n
No?\u00a0 Well, it’s never happened to me either, until now (actually, that’s a total lie – it happened with “the O.C.”, which thankfully got so crappy and retarded this past season that I had to stop watching it for my own sanity).<\/p>\n
Anyway, I’ve been watching Rockstar: Supernova, which is really pretty embarassing.\u00a0 As someone who LOVES music (especially pay-your-dues indie rock), I should find this type of karaoke-talent-show-that-ends-with-a-real-record-contract pretty offensive.\u00a0 I should hate it.\u00a0 And I normally do – I pretty much become homicidal when I hear someone at work talking about last night’s American Idol.\u00a0 And yet, here I am, confessing to watching pretty much the same show…<\/p>\n
*sigh*<\/p>\n
Anyway, I’m sure everyone reading this is familiar with the totally unoriginal premise, but just in case you’re lucky enough not to own a television, here are the basics:<\/p>\n
So basically, the show is pretty much exactly like every other “reality” show… and yet I can’t turn away.<\/p>\n
Is it the cast?\u00a0 I doubt it.\u00a0 If “Dave Navarro” was in the dictionary, the definition would say “fake rockstar douchebag wanker” (or something along those lines).\u00a0 He almost ruined the Chili Peppers, his solo\u00a0album was brutal, and I can’t even express how ridiculous his reality marriage show was.\u00a0 Jane’s Addiction was a fine band, but that was 15 years ago.\u00a0 Put a shirt on, you lamewad.<\/p>\n
Brooke Burke\u00a0is basically just\u00a0eye candy, which is fine, but other than that, she brings absolutely nothing to the table.\u00a0 Meh.<\/p>\n
Jason Newsted and\u00a0Gilby Clark take themselves way too seriously – their commentary is basically an unending string of rock\u00a0n’ roll clich\u00e9s.\u00a0 They could both easily be replaced by some sort of robot that randomly says things like “that rocked, dude” and “you really captured the spirit of that song” and “in rock and roll, you’ve gotta believe what you’re singing”.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tommy “I’ve got all 3 kinds of heppatitis” Lee\u00a0is, admittedly, pretty entertaining, but it’s also sort of sad watching a 45 year old man act like a horny 15 year old.<\/p>\n
The contestants\/singers\/whatever vary in talent from super crappy<\/a>\u00a0to actually pretty decent<\/a>, and predictably the song selection is pretty much limited to a few rock classics and early-to-mid 90s alt-rock songs.\u00a0 Really, it’s all\u00a0VERY predictable.\u00a0<\/p>\n And yet, I keep watching.\u00a0 And I’ve roped Sonja into watching it too.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 I have no idea.\u00a0 It’s entertaining, for reasons I can’t figure out.\u00a0 Awful.<\/p>\n What’s even more\u00a0awful though, is that you’ve just read this whole column about a show you probably don’t watch.\u00a0 Now you’re curious about it… You’re thinking “say, Mark’s the coolest guy I know.\u00a0 If he’s watching this show, it must be amazing”, and you’re gonna start watching it to see what all the fuss is about.<\/p>\n Good.\u00a0<\/p>\n It’ll all become slightly less embarassing for me if everyone I know is watching the same crap as I am.\u00a0<\/p>\n Misery loves company.<\/p>\n Last 5 songs: You know how sometimes you see a commercial for a new show, and you think to yourself “wow, television has sunk to a new low.\u00a0 I can’t believe how lame that’s gonna be”, then you tune in to see how bad it is and you end up becoming strangely addicted? No?\u00a0 Well, it’s never happened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[13,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}“ring of fire” – dilana<\/strike>; “the fox” – sleater-kinney; “heel” – the toadies; “the man with no skin” – great lake swimmers; “glasgow mega-snake” –\u00a0mogwai; “what’s golden” – jurassic 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"