Reality Rocks

So You Think You Can Dance: One Big Pajama Party

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:26:13 -0800

This week's So You Think You Can Dance dance-off was the most action-packed in the series' history, with 14--count 'em, FOURTEEN--separate routines. Each of the seven remaining couples danced twice, which made the show twice as nice, of course. ...

Nashville Star: Alyson, I Know This Show Is Killing You

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:58:34 -0800

Back on the premiere episode of this year's Nashville Star, the judges got their one shot of the season to eliminate the weak-link contestant of their choice. ...

Kristy Lee Cook Extends Her 15 Minutes

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:05:36 -0800

Regular readers of this blog throughout American Idol season 7 know I was never what you'd call a Kristy Lee Cook fan. Or even a Kristy Lee Cook tolerator. But as an intrepid and (ahem) impartial music journalist of the highest and most respectable order, I feel obligated to report the following:

KLC has landed a record deal, y'all.

It's summertime, so that means networks' programming schedules are much like summer vacation: NO CLASS.

Yes, the students are on break and apparently so are the television studios' taste police. ...

How Do I Look?: Plum Crazy

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:13:41 -0800

This "Reality Rocks" blog focuses on music in reality television, which means I've rarely had an opportunity to blog about the Style Network's highly watchable How Do I Do Look?. ...

Steaming Hot New Menudo!

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:28:11 -0800

Those of you who watched MTV's Making Menudo to the bitter end are already well aware that, after a season of cruelly and sometimes arbitrarily shifting and switching the cast's prospective Latin heartthrobs around like hapless chess pawns

'Dance' Eliminations: Don't The Door Hit You On The Sass On Your Way Out!

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:44:17 -0800

There were whole lot of last dances going on last night, when contestants on both So You Think You Can Dance and America's Best Dance Crew were eliminated. Overall, I'm pretty OK with the viewers/SYTYCD judges' joint decision last night on who to send home...and I'm frickin' THRILLED with the results of this week's ABDC2. So let's get right to it...

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:33:28 -0800

"Jennifer, you are fabulous," a supportive gal pal tells Mizz Hudson in the intro to Jennifer's first video. But to be honest, I haven't been too thrilled with Jennifer's less-than-fabulous career since she won her Oscar last year. ...

Blake Lewis: The Reality Rocks Interview

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:10:55 -0800

UPDATE: I originally ran this interview in February 2008, back when Blake Lewis still had a fleet of publicists slaving away to promote his rather respectable debut album, Audio Day Dream. Well, gee, what a difference four months makes: According to Rollingstone.com, Blake has already been dropped. Just like the previous American Idol season's first runner-up, Katharine McPhee. And the first runner-up before that, Bo Bice. ...

Nashville Star: Pop Goes Credibility

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:06:33 -0800

So last night was "Pop Goes Country" night on Nashville Star, and I have a feeling many country purists in the viewing audience were about ready to put a cowboy boot through their television screens.