{"id":130,"date":"2003-08-01T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T16:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/08\/making_the_band_ii\/"},"modified":"2003-08-01T12:49:49","modified_gmt":"2003-08-01T16:49:49","slug":"making_the_band_ii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/01\/making_the_band_ii-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Band II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HardCore over at <a href=\"http:\/\/thought.3rdeyeopen.org\/archives\/000268.html\" title=\"fact or fiction?\">Thought 4 the Day wrote a great review of <i>Making the Band II<\/i><\/a>.  This pretty much sums it up for me (except for the &#8216;terrible&#8217; part):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<i>However, if you have ANY knowledge about the music industry, if you&#8217;ve ever been a performer, or worked in the industry, THIS SHOW IS A JOKE. It&#8217;s terrible. A bunch of unworthy talent show winners, laying up on Diddy&#8217;s money, being lazy, complaining about everything and nothing at the same time, while creating music that&#8217;s just &#8220;aight&#8221;. For independent artists like 3rd Eye Open, who spend their own money to record, promote, and press up music, it&#8217;s a slap in the face. We actually grind for whatever we get or don&#8217;t get. Club gigs, outdoor concerts, churches, community events, you name it. Anything to get the name out there. And there are a long list of talented artists who having been doing the same thing for decades, and have yet to garner the attention they deserve. So watching these screw ups with everything already paid for, with unlimited access to a studio, sit around bickering all the time, is frustrating as hell. The highly volatile cast truly shows how dysfunctional a lot of our youth is. Their dysfunction shows in how they interact (fight), as well as in the content of the material they&#8217;re creating. Non-black people watching this show gotta think these young black people are crazy, unintelligent, emotional basket cases. <\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That said, I love the show strictly for its entertainment value.  I can&#8217;t wait to see what ignorance the cast members will get into next.  And I&#8217;m really curious about how they&#8217;re ever gonna gel into a group.  We keep getting flashes of greatness from them, like on the song they did with Wyclef.  But here are some thoughts I&#8217;ve been saving up during the season:<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Did they really sign their contracts without even reading them?  Not that some of them would have understood the contracts, based on the reading skills displayed when they had to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00006JMC0\/tradermike-20\" title=\"Sex, Drugs, Money, and God\">Russell Simmons&#8217; autobiography<\/a>.  I truly hope they had enough sense to have a lawyer look at their contracts before signing them.  Especially after Puffy joked with them about never being able to get out of the contracts.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rif.org\/\">RIF<\/a> &#8212; If you can&#8217;t read well, can you write well?  I sure don&#8217;t expect any groundbreaking lyrics from these cats.  Not that they can&#8217;t be great successes with simplistic lyrics&#8230; but I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217;.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>WTF is up with thumb-sucking Fred?  My man is 20 years old an still sucking his thumb!  I can&#8217;t believe Puffy didn&#8217;t get on his case for that when he was breaking everybody down a couple of weeks ago.  Talk about an image problem.  But judging by all the thumb-sucking teens I see around Atlanta, maybe that&#8217;s the &#8216;in&#8217; thing to do these days.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Some of the band members just can&#8217;t seem to grasp the idea that Puffy doesn&#8217;t need them&#8230; they need Puffy.  <a href=\"http:\/\/thought.3rdeyeopen.org\/archives\/000268.html\">HardCore addresses this point well<\/a>.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Will anyone be surprised when Dylan end up back in the jail?  He&#8217;s the definition of a knucklehead.<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\nA truly dysfunctional group, but it makes for great TV.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HardCore over at Thought 4 the Day wrote a great review of Making the Band II. This pretty much sums it up for me (except for the &#8216;terrible&#8217; part): However, if you have ANY knowledge about the music industry, if you&#8217;ve ever been a performer, or worked in the industry, THIS SHOW IS A JOKE.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/01\/making_the_band_ii-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making the Band II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":163,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/21\/making_breaking_the_band_ii\/","url_meta":{"origin":130,"position":0},"title":"Making Breaking the Band II","date":"August 21, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Lots of rumors are flying about Da Band from MTV's Making the Band II. 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