Back in the late 90s, you couldn’t move for Steps. The sexually androgynous fivesome were on every TV show going, polluting people’s eyes with their garish costumes and annoyingly catchy dance moves.
Although they were generally held accountable for the music charts breakdown, and the antithesis of how well music was doing after that dreadful New Romantic nonsense in the 80s, they were great.
People with sense (read: liked Nirvana and “proper music”, as well as people who use air quotes) hated them because they were uncomplicated bubblegum pop, and spawned a whole legion of imitators that wanted to get children begging their parents for whatever corporate product they were shilling that month. Can anyone remember A*Teens and the allegedly IRA-sponsored B*witched? If you were in a band, you needed to have an asterisk in your name. It became de rigeur to not spell things the correct way. Maybe they couldn’t credit fans with the correct spelling.
Maybe they were all just outrageously dyslexic.
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With Big Brother finishing this week, you’d think we’d be free of reality TV for a while.
Well you can take that assumption and shove it down the toilet. Various broadcasters have given the green light to more of them than ever. X Factor contains more sob stories and wobbly contestants then ever before and Strictly Come Dancing has returned – sadly with no variation. Surely everyone agrees with us when we say Strictly Come Dancing On Broken Glass And Stinging Nettles would have generated more interest?
Not content with having one reality show on their network, ITV has decided to launch a brand new show on the less popular ITV2 channel. CelebAir sees eleven celebrities staffing a real plane as it flies genuine people on holiday. Now, we realise that airplane security has been strict lately, but surely this is an act of terrorism in the making.
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Remember when MTV used to be remotely hip, cutting edge and worth watching?
The very same days when it used to play the occasional music video as well. Times have now changed and seemingly anyone that’s been in the papers is getting their own show on the once-credible network.
In the past, viewers have had to endure washed up pop star Lisa Scott Lee and her crap attempt at trying to get a song into the charts. Even the human car crash that is Kerry Katona has given us a warts-and-all show, literally, to give an insight into the life of a fame-hungry, media-seeking bint, who also happens to be another failed musician. If you can call her that. And lest we forget Tila Tequila, social crusader.
He may not be a singer of any kind, but Calum Best has pointlessly been baptised into the celebrity world. His dad was a footballer, you know. And a chap with a passion for alcohol, so much so it broke his liver. So, simply because he came from Best Snr’s semen, young Calum automatically becomes famous… ?
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