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Is it just me, or is Vh1 airing nothing but Jerry Springer-like trash TV these days? If you don't know what I am talking about, just tune in one night and see for yourself.
In the good ol' days, Vh1 was known for shows like Behind the Music, an intimate look at your favorite recording artist, Best Week Ever, a show loaded with clips of the funniest and most bazaar moments from the entertainment world, Fabulous Life Presents, a ride though the lives of the rich and famous, I Love the 70's, I Love the 80's, and I Love the 90's, a flashback to all that was great in your generation, and Driven, a show bringing musical artist's past lives into your living room. These shows were great, thoroughly entertaining with respectable journalism and professional production.
Now however, Vh1 shows consist of a cluster of obnoxious, shallow, 20-something-year-old party animals competing for the heart of some has-been (or the affection of the rejected twit who lost last season and unbelievably got their own show out the deal!) That’s the depth of these shows, a mansion with a bunch of breast implants and lip injections running around reeking havoc.
I can see how some think these shows are entertaining- boobs wrestling in honey, and orange-tinted bodies running around a barn trying to catch a pig, how engaging. I on the other hand, I AM EMBARRASSED. As a woman, watching women compete over a guy is just tacky to me. And the extremes they go to in order to prove themselves are just degrading.
Did anyone see the girl on For the Love of Ray J, who wanted to "one-up" the other girls and decided to bust into a full front split and start bouncing up and down, humping the ground?
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Shows like Rock of Love, For the Love of Ray J, Shot at Love, Real Chance of Love and Flavor of Love are just trash. It’s like the producers gathered the most classless and blatantly promiscuous girls and then had them compete in the most tasteless of competitions. They eat disgusting things like animal parts, they wrestle each other in some cliché goo, make sultry home-made videos to give to their potential man-prize and compete in sports in next-to-nothing uniforms all while stabbing each other in the back and fighting like uncontrollable little girls.
The few times that I caught these shows had me shocked. The more episodes I watched, the more appalled I became. Seeing the episode of For the Love of Ray J, where the girl drops into a split and humped the ground threw me over the edge and prompted me to write this article. I was embarrassed, for her!
I can’t imagine these girls are dumb enough… wait a minute, yes I can. They think they are really going to find love? Ok, not love, but a real, grounded, meaningful relationship with one of these guys? Puh-lease! Most of them are just looking for some camera time and it’s an added bonus if they win and get to hang out and hook up with someone ‘famous’. How cheap.
I wish Vh1 would get their act together and come up with some thought out television programs. Did you notice how they keep casting the same damn people for the new shows? The leftovers get casted for the new reality show where they compete for money. Or how about how the "most famous" loser gets their own dating show, like in I Love New York and Real Chance at Love, o and not to forget Daisy now as well, from Rock of Love, in Daisy of Love.
I’m not going to go off on some feminist, bra-burning argument about how these girls cast a bad shadow on women and their place in society. But girls, for the love of god, put some clothes on, pull your selves together, stop acting like such sluts and start acting like a damn lady.
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