Posts Tagged ‘MTV’
Jersey Shore
I love trash TV and they don’t come anymore trashier than MTV’s real-life drama, Jersey Shore. I started watching Jersey Shore just so that I could entertain readers with a piss-taking piece on the blog but I’ve actually grown to love it!
The premise: send a bunch of Italian-New Yorkers to a beach resort in New Jersey for the summer and record them fighting, fornicating or causing drama – with more of each in every single episode than in the whole eleventh series of Big Brother. The guys are arrogant meatheads and the girls, loudmouth bitches (their words), and of course they share much in common ie. Silicone, hair extensions and tequila shots.
What develops is a scientific reaction when the volatile elements of steroid abuse, fake tits, liquor and grooming products mix. Girls hit guys, guys hit guys, guys hit girls and girls hit girls – basically there’s a lot of fighting. The girls have more testosterone than your average 5-a-side footy team (including subs), while the guys are hulking monsters of muscle and moronity.
The characters are so unlovable they actually come out the other side and you grow wearily fond of them. You can’t help but avidly follow their exploits, if only to see which one will get into a fight next. Two members of the Jersey Shore cast have broken through and are now household names, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino.
The Situation and Snooki in all their glory
The Situation, in a show of arrogant muscular dickheads, stands outs as the lord of arrogant muscular dickheads. The two things that ‘the situation’ manages each episode is repeating the word “situation” until it loses all meaning and whipping out his stomach at any opportunity, even when the “situation” doesn’t require it (see what I did there?). Also, what sort of narcissist gives them self a nickname that starts with ‘The’?
Erm… anyway… Snooki, who looks like the slutty daughter of an uptight garden gnome, is a teeny slag with a big mouth and a bright orange glow – If there was a competition for people with no class, she would sleep in and then instead of going, go to a bar, down shots of Sambuca and try to pull guys by shouting at them.
So to sum up, Jersey Shore is a delightful car crash of a show. It’s the televisual equivalent of Malteasers, you won’t be able to let yourself stop once you’ve had a taste.
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The Only Way is Essex, is it?
ITV’s ‘real life soap opera’, The Only Way is Essex, follows a group of rich, attractive morons as they go about their daily lives, which mostly consists of talking like a caricature of Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, spending their money, and talking way too much about vaginas.
It’s supposed to be in a similar style to MTV’s The Hills, which means it’s made up. Hence, this lot are either too stupid to remember lines and take direction or they’re the best actors in the history of acting.
The characters are all so shallow and unengaging, it’s hard to notice when one scene changes into another. But here’s my favourites so far: Mark, a bloke who has all the sincerity of a used car salesman, he’s only one pencil moustache away from being a 1950’s movie villain. Amy, a loveable cross between a confused Koala bear and a balloon. And Kirk, the nightclub owner that’s a bit Jack Tweed, bit Danny Dyer in an irritating fusion of ‘pwopa nawty geeza’.
Special mention should go to the best supporting actor, Amy’s cousin Harry, who is so camp, he has collapsed in on himself and is now a parody of a bad stereotype.
The Only Way Is Essex is just like involuntarily sitting in a coffee shop next to some rich people who you take an instant disliking to, and then having to stare at them for an extended period of time, or at least until feeling the urge to punch them, yourself or any inanimate object in swinging distance. But I can’t seem to stop watching it!
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Tinie Tempah talks shop
Tinie, you’ve come a long way since the Wifey riddum (below). Even back then we were like “this kid’s going to be a star”, so naturally we feel partly responsible for your success to date…
Haha, responsible for my career?! I like that.
Alright joking aside, how did you get from being the kid in that video to the young gentlemen about to takeover Brit rap?
That track came out in 2006 and was definitely a big moment in my life as far as making the transition from being unknown to sort of an underground name, and I was sixteen at the time. I started doing shows off the back of it so I hooked up with my cousin and set up Disturbing London. It was our own label and the whole ethos was to act like a major label as far as tracks we put out and videos we did. I set up the Milk & 2 Sugars blog in 2009. A lot of my friends had record deals at the time so I used that opportunity to go to their video shoots and get behind the scenes stuff and exclusive interviews that other journalists couldn’t. It got like a million hits in a couple of months and then all the labels wanted to know.
Is it true you’ve got a clothing line in the pipeline?
Yes indeed. It’s called Disturbing London, that’s basically the name for everything we do, and it’s going to be a good mix between street wear and high fashion. I feel like it will be one of the few brands where you can get the best of both, you won’t have to buy a shirt from here and the bottoms from down the road.
We’ll keep our eyes peeled for it. So can we take it the aim is to be a UK Jay-Z as far as the media moguling goes?
You know what, I’m just trying to be like Tinie Tempah and hope that one day someone will be having an interview in the U.S. or Australia and the interviewer will go, “Are you trying to be like the Australian Tinie Tempah?” Jay-Z is still very relevant and I definitely look up to him, but I feel like it’s a new era and I just want to carve out my own legacy and do something fresh.
So what are you doing different?
Well I’ve got my own brand of tea on the way – I bet you didn’t expect me to say that! I love a nice bit of tea me and soon you’ll be able to pick up my own brand of the stuff. We’re still working on the name but at the minute it’s just Tinie Tempah’s Special Brew.
Alright you win.
Performing new single Written In The Stars @ MTV Live Sessions…
Written In The Stars out now, go support. The debut album Disc-Overy out 4th October.
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Maino Slaps New MTV Star
In an attempt to offer something a little more hard-hitting than Jersey Shore, MTV are going to air new documentary series World of Jenks after the VMAs this weekend (In the US at least anyway).
It’s like When Louis (As in Theroux) Met… but with a younger more American host. And it looks quite good. Jenks is a fly on the wall in the lives of various people from rapper Maino to a homeless girl in San Francisco.
Check out this large segment of when he was rolling with rapper Maino, and talked himself into one of the Brooklyn native’s customary slaps in the face…
This Jenks is an interesting character himself. He is touted as the future of American filmmaking and made his name at 19 when he moved into a nursing home to shoot documentary Andrew Jenks, Room 335, which was later bought by HBO. Check out a trailer of that also…
We like this guy.
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