Oh, I wanted to post again because I just remembered something that totally disturbed me. It was painfully horrible. I don't really watch television anymore. I watch maybe an hour of it a day religiously. Those shows are The Family Guy on Adult Swim and X-Play on Tech TV from 10:00-11:00. Well, next week it is going to be X-Play and then Futurama because X-Play is switching times, but that is irrelevant. Moving on...I was hanging out over at Sean's house and he, not having cable but having rabbit ears on his tele, was watching some show on FOX. I can't remember the name of the show, but it was something along the lines of Performing As.... The primise of the show was that people who were...for lack of a better word, freaks...performing as their favorite musicians. For example, a lady who was blonde and had a big nose and who loved Barbara Streisand dressed up and performed as Barbara Streisand. There was also Freddie Mercury, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, and Madonna. The Barbara Streisand chick performed as Streisand and even did the weird mouth shapes and movements that Streisand does, the Frank Sinatra guy just pretty much dressed up like Ol' Blue Eyes and sang New York, New York, Freddie Mercury guy looked like an Duracel person version of the lead singer from queen, but with even more stage make-up on, the Madonna chick was too fat to be wearing the outfit she was wearing, Tina Turner looked like she was a crazed fan girl stalker, and Aretha was about two times bigger than the real Queen of Soul. Now these things were not the only things that were disturbing. There was something else. In watching this painfully bad show, I started to notice the audience and how they were cheering and hollering a whole lot. Almost too much. I listen closer. Sure enough, the cheering and the clapping and everything was a tape loop. It was the same cheering and clapping every 3 to 4 seconds. I look at the members of the audience when the camera pans around, there were about 150 people in the audience. Not enough to make that kind of cheering. Also the people who were in that crowd looked like they were taken in from the streets and told they would get $50 to stand in this studio and look like they are enjoying the performances. I noticed a couple of people who had stopped trying to look like they were enjoying the show and just looked bored, tired and hungry. I don't really know what to think about that. I mean I know television is fake and everything, but damn. They just aren't really trying anymore, are they?
Posted by jessab at September 27, 2003 11:57 AM