Alternate Ghostbusters II-inspired titles for a post about deposed New Jack King Bobby Brown allegedly joining the cast of the upcoming season of Celebrity Fit Club, so I can soothe the pain of a TMZ-sourced “news” item with the fierceness of that movie’s signature song “On Our Own”: “Bobby Brown Decides He’s Too Fat To Handle, Too Cold To Hold”; “Bobby Brown Joins The Weightbusters”; “Bobby Brown Sad To Find Out That Cake, Despite Being Delicious, Is Almost As Evil As Vigo”; “Bobby Brown Tries To Battle The Bulge (It’s Not Legal).” (There were also a few possibilities for an “Every Little Step”/treadmill joke, but I figured that might be a little too much reaching.) [TMZ / Dailymotion] More »
Scarred by its forays into tawdriness going a little too far, Vh1 has put out a press release touting its fall and winter schedule, which is actually anchored by more than one show that’s tangentially related to music. (This must be why its headline uses the word “rockin'” as a verb.) Perhaps the most interesting among them to Idolator readers is the rebirth of Behind The Music, the docudrama series that became so iconic, it inspired multiple parodies. (Being ideal fodder for weekend days spent on the couch, whether alone or in a Beavis And Butt-Head-ish situation with friends, surely helped.) What’s notable about BtM‘s forthcoming six-episode run is that a full 33% of its shows will be reruns, of a sort. More »
Those of you who think your competitive-reality shows don’t have enough R & B freshness may want to start tuning into the new season of Survivor, which will feature SWV’s Tamara “Taj” Johnson-George among its contestants. The all-lady trio hasn’t put out a new album since its 1997 holiday tie-in A Special Christmas, but it’s still touring now and then; according to Johnson-George’s intro video, which is after the jump, she gave up playing a show with Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, and Ralph Tresvant in order to pursue her dream of sweating out the competition on prime-time network TV. (Yes, they are touring now! Together! And calling themselves “The Summit”!)
If a cheeky keyboard-driven outfit were to craft a peppy minor hit out of an 18-year-old soft-rock song, similar to the way the Canadian outfit Kon Kan transformed Lynn Anderson’s “I Never Promised You A Rose Garden” into their U.S. top 20 track “I Beg Your Pardon,” what song would you pick to be rescued from the pop history books? Feel free to ponder this question while noting the lyrical back-and-forth between the Kon Kan track and the Anderson song, which I’ve placed after the jump.
Bobby Brown’s autobiography, The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But… should have been out by now (Amazon has its release date listed as June 1, but lists no copies as currently available), but there’s tragically been no word on when the book will actually hit stores. Blackvoices.com has an advance copy, though, and they’re sharing some interesting observations and anecdotes of Bobby’s about Usher, the “little mini me” who “basically did my whole show.” But that scuffle they had a while back? Please, it was no more of a fight than when Rick James and Charlie Murphy would get together.
“I never used cocaine until after I met Whitney!” cries thug lover Bobby Brown in his autobiography, Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But, out next month. Turns out his marriage to comeback hopeful Whitney Houston may have been a sham from the word go: “I think we got married for all the wrong reasons. Now, I realize Whitney had a different agenda than I did when we got married. … I believe her agenda was to clean up her image, while mine was to be loved and have children.” It seems the male Tina Turner (“she hits me more than I hit her,” Brown told Today in ’03) may also be the male Nicole Kidman.
So I was moving on Friday night and Maura was doing whatever it is she does during the baseball off-season and apparently the Idolator TiVo doesn’t pick up CMT and so we missed the premier of Gone Country, the reality TV contest where the Rich half of Nashville duo Big & Rich tries to groom the likes of Dee Snider and Carnie Wilson to become America’s Next Passable Country Singer. Thankfully, this MTV interview with Gone Country contestant Bobby Brown makes it sound like we can at least still look forward to the episode where Brown’s overactive bladder lands Marcia Brady on her ass. Actually re-reading this we’re not so sure why we’re sorry.
