Oh Dear God Please NOOOOOOOO!!

I have admitted in past blog entries that I have a list what I like to call my guilty pleasure music. This basically means that I have songs by the following "artists" on my ipod and I sing and dance around like a loon to these "artists" songs when no one is looking and I would also never cop to liking these "artists" at risk of loosing my indie cred; Fergie, Britney Spears ("Toxic" is a really good well crafted pop song!), Rihanna, that Pussy Cat Dolls song "Don't Cha" (I've always wanted to redo that song with a 60's girl group flare ala the Ronnetts), Kelly Clarkson (I kinda dug her last album reminded me a little bit of old school Pat Bennetar), the Black Eyed Peas and Justin Timberlake (his two solo records are great blue eyed soul records).

Any how while Kelly Clarkson is the only American Idol winner I like, I really loathe "American Idol" and the god awful music that TV show has inflicted upon the world! I will admit to watching that Sanjaya kid last season, there was something very punk about this less then talented kid bringing down the whole "AI" franchise had he won! But prior to that I watched only the first season. I find it funny that Paula Abdul is judging people's musical talents, Chris Rock had a great joke about that he said "Paula Abdul judging people's musical talents is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest". With half the winners and runners up being dropped from their record labels I really think it's time to pack in the "AI" franchise after this season. It's getting seriously tiresome and contrived.

Well besides American Idol one more "band" that will never make my guilty pleasure list is New Kids On the Block. For all you kids who don't know New Kids on the Block were the first boy band way back in the late 80's early 90's. They gave us such wonderful hits as "The Right Stuff" and "Hanging Tuff" and some really bad Beatlesque crap called "Brand New Day". And there was the dream boat brothers Jonathan (who actually looked like this kid I knew.... Jeff Preston from the band Jel) and Jordan (who had a mullet with a rat tail), the cutie Joey, the bad boy Donnie (who also had a mullet) and don't know what he was supposed to be then there was Danny. I was around twelve when those assholes hit big, I was in the midst of getting into my punk/metal phase and I was the weirdo girl in seventh grade cause I wasn't into New Kids On the Block! That's a source of childhood trauma that I discuss with my therapist...besides having sucky music that's another reason why New Kids on the Block will never make my guilty pleasure list, every time why I would try to explain to those kids why the Cure was so much better then the New Kids I was still called a weirdo! And the list of god awful performers that the New Kids camp signed....anyone remember Tommy Page!?

Anyway imagine my horror when I read on one of the many music sites that I go on, that there is a rumor that the New Kids would be reuniting this year. All those bad jr high memories came rushing back to me as soon as I read that! Then I read that the New Kids don't plan on reuniting but there is a reality show in the works to find a new group of douche bags to be a new version of the New Kids. Uggghhh just what the world needs another shitty reality show on VH-1 were people try out to be in a shitty boy band! Didn't the boy band craze end!? When will the reality show craze end!? Donnie Wallberg and his brother Mark found their true calling in acting who'd thunk Marky Marky and Donnie "the mulleted bad boy" would be such great actors!? Donnie should stick with the acting and not try his hand at music again!

Onto music that doesn't suck! Kung Fu Grip a band outta Brooklyn will be playing the R Bar tomorrow evening thursday 1/31 at 9pm. Kung Fu Grip has a really cool grungy garage rock sound and they are so worth a check out. The R Bar is located at 218 Bowery b/w Spring and Broome Streets. Kung Fu Grip goes on at 9pm.


http://www.myspace.com/kungfugrip