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Because it has been endlessly praised around me, I finally tuned in to catch a Veronica Mars rerun last night. Impressions - it's an okay show - but I can pick it up or put it down and am not particularly invested. I like Enrico Colatoni because he was awesome in Galaxy Quest and the dude who plays Wallace is pretty good too.
But I watched something else while waiting for VMars, that captured my fancy a bit more...
R U The Girl
I can't explain it. I liked TLC well enough, but I was never a huge fan. And Lisa Lopes was generally the one who stood out most for me anyway, so I'm not tremendously invested in the actuality. And like all the other talent based shows, it's not like I'm blown away by the performers. Though some of them are cute. Mostly, I'm watching because T-Boz and Chilli are amusing me.
I think T-Boz must have gone to the Stu Scott school of turning yourself lame by trying to be too hip. I don't know her bio, so who am I too say her verbal 'flourishes' are fake, but it does seem like she's trying to hard. And that's unintentionally funny. Almost as funny as always hearing them ask girls to "bring it" more and to "give intensity" and what-not. After awhile, it starts to descend into bad coach-speak, but with a hip-hop flavor, which is probably what brought up the Stu Scott associations in the first place...
But it does remind me of how much I used to get into the New Jack Swing back in HS. I wonder what happened to En Vogue. I actually broke out Funky Divas and listened to it in the car today. Seriously, that's a great album. Pretty eclectic too, and a very classy vibe. The breakdown on "Never Gonna Get It" is still one of my favorite musical bits of that era. And also, they were really, really freakin' hot.
But I watched something else while waiting for VMars, that captured my fancy a bit more...
R U The Girl
I can't explain it. I liked TLC well enough, but I was never a huge fan. And Lisa Lopes was generally the one who stood out most for me anyway, so I'm not tremendously invested in the actuality. And like all the other talent based shows, it's not like I'm blown away by the performers. Though some of them are cute. Mostly, I'm watching because T-Boz and Chilli are amusing me.
I think T-Boz must have gone to the Stu Scott school of turning yourself lame by trying to be too hip. I don't know her bio, so who am I too say her verbal 'flourishes' are fake, but it does seem like she's trying to hard. And that's unintentionally funny. Almost as funny as always hearing them ask girls to "bring it" more and to "give intensity" and what-not. After awhile, it starts to descend into bad coach-speak, but with a hip-hop flavor, which is probably what brought up the Stu Scott associations in the first place...
But it does remind me of how much I used to get into the New Jack Swing back in HS. I wonder what happened to En Vogue. I actually broke out Funky Divas and listened to it in the car today. Seriously, that's a great album. Pretty eclectic too, and a very classy vibe. The breakdown on "Never Gonna Get It" is still one of my favorite musical bits of that era. And also, they were really, really freakin' hot.