give me a sign

It seems that today isn't a particularly good grammar day for me, based on
some of the email I've sent, but I'll trudge on. Because you all need to
hear about my tv viewing. It's my duty.

Like Beauty and the Geek, I missed the bandwagon last week, and only tuned
in this week to NBC's Hit Me Baby One More Time. This show gets older bands
back together, they perform their major hit, and then they perform a cover
of some current song. Then the audience votes and one band wins a donation
to their charity of choice. simple enough. I hear it's based on a show in England, the host may be the same.

I'm not sure where they film, but the location is substantially large
(unlike that VH1 show bands reunited) and it's packed (at least the front
row that they film) with generically pretty young women wearing the tight
jeans, and simple yet asset emphasizing shirt. there must have been a
casting call. girls like that do not listen to these bands.

I unfortunately missed the beginning of the show so I didn't see the Knack
(my sharona) or Haddaway (what is love) (did you know he was black, and
australian). But reviews confirm what I would like to believe: the Knack
was good and Haddaway was, well, Haddaway.

I got to see Tommy Tutone (8675-309), and I thought he was fantastic. It's
probably been long enough that he's not sick of the damn song, and he put
some energy into it for an old guy.

Then the motels (only the lonely) who were also fantastic. Apparently the
lead singer is in some kind of weird cabaret theater in orange county. I
might look into it.

Then, vanilla ice (ice, ice baby), who apparently just goes by "Ice" now. and oh my gosh,
the generic sorority girl crowd went wild. There's nothing like a crazy
eyebrowed white rapper who was on a VH1 reality show for has beens to
excite a crowd. I suppose he wasn't any worse than he was in 1990, but he
certainly wasn't any better.

After each group performed their hit, then they cycled again to perform
covers.

The Knack did Jet's are you gonna be me girl. I don't really like the song
much, and I didn't particularly like them doing the song. But for being
that old they could pretty much still rock.

Then there was Haddaway's painful performance of Britney's toxic, complete
with him writhing around on the ground. uggh!

Then Tommy tutone did a fantastic rendition of blink 182's all the small
things. Even though he did mistake a lyric or two. He gave it a flair of
his own, and I respected it. Unfortunately KROQ's Kevin and
Bean didn't quite agree (i was very disappointed to hear their review this
morning)

But then, out of left field came The Motels with their "hyper-speed version
of Norah Jones' melodic ballad "'Don't Know Why.'" Oh my gosh, it was
fantastic! That lady can sing! and her rendition was great! I hate it when
bands cover songs and don't make any changes. What's the point?

and ice came back to do destiny's child's survivor, which, didn't impress me.
and the audience voted. Vanilla Ice won. bleh. The motels were by far the best. but ice got to come back for an encore of ice, ice baby. because, it seems, he only knows 2 songs. word to your mutha.

Next week we can look forward to a "fame" free Irene Cara and Wang Chung. I'm disappointed in the audience's bad taste, but I'll make it a plan to watch next week. Meanwhile, I'm going to look more into the motels. Maybe buy the greatest hits album