Snook's Pregnancy

Why would Rihanna congratulate Snooki on her pregnancy? Two messes! At Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation fund-raiser she was asked what she thought about the pregnancy and responded in excitement with her huge “CONGRATULATIONS THAT’S DOPE” “WE NEED MORE SNOOKI’S IN THE WORLD.” Like oh? Snooki is always parading around as a drunk disaster so what kind of mother is she going to be when the baby arrives?  I don’t know I just feel like her pregnancy needs to be taking more seriously rather than joking around about it as if there is not an innocent child on the way.  I don’t take complete credit away from Snook... When the baby comes out is when we will really know how good of a mother she will be.  I just hope she stops acting immature and grows up on national TV.  Having a baby is not a joke. 

-MARISSA

Millionaire Matchmaker

I recently became obsessed with the show "Millionaire Matchmaker" on Bravo. Patti Stranger is a third generation matchmaker who sets up single millionaires on dates with potential spouses. 

Patti works with a team who help her pick the millionaires and to interview potential dates. After that, Patti sets up mixers for the millionaires to meet the potential dates. From there the millionaire chooses two mini dates and then one person for the actual date. 

Patti is extremely strict with all her dating rules and if you break her rules your out of her "millionaire club." Her rules are pretty old fashion and I love that they are. The guy needs to plan the date (millionaire or not,) the guy is the one to ask the women out if hes interested, no taking down phone numbers during the mixers, she wont set up a 50 year old with a 20 year old, and her main rule is no sexual relations without a committed relationship. 

Patti will say whatever she wants to whoever she wants, the show is hysterical! There re-runs on all the time but she just finished filming season 5 so new episodes should starting up again soon!

 ~Britt<3

Top ten idols

This weeks idols sang songs from Billy Joel! I love Billy Joel, but some of them choose such boring songs..Hollie Cavanagh sang "Honesty," which is a great song, however in my opinion not a song you sing for a competition. Jessica Sanchez sang "Everybody has a dream" and sounded awesome! I hated her outfit though, and I'm surprised because Tommy Hilfiger is their stylist. Philip Philips did great! He sang, "Moving Out" which is one of my favorite Billy Joel songs. Tommy Hilfiger told Philip he needed to change his style a bit, but he wouldn't, he said he wanted his music to come first. Philip dresses very plain and ordinary. I personally think Philip dresses fine but its definitly not stage attire, he needs to dress up more for performances.

Colton Dixon is still my absolute favorite. He sang "Piano man," as he played this gorgeous red piano. I really hope he wins, hes so talented and deserves it!
Heres his version of "Piano man."

~Britt<3

Idol

American Idol this week narrowed down the contestants to a top 10! I love American Idol, I know a lot of people are tired of it, but I think its great! I just don't like watching the beginning auditions, however watching the bad ones can be funny sometimes, especially when they get psychotic and argue with the judges. 

This week the idols sang songs from their birth year, and Shannon Magrane got sent home. Also, one of the finalist got kicked off the show. Jermaine Jones secretly had some warrants out for his arrest! I felt so bad, because if only he would have told Idol in the beginning, they probably could have settled them somehow.

Shannon Magrane

Jermaine Jones

 Colton Dixon is my favorite, he's awesome!  Colton is 20 years old and sings incredible, he has a Daughtry type of style to his voice. It doesn't matter what song he sings, it always comes out great so I'm rooting for him to win!

  

 ~Next week the idols sing songs from Billy Joel, can't wait!

~Britt<3

Dance Moms

"Dance Moms" is a show that centers around a group of girls on a dance team somewhere in Pennsylvania, and their crazy, overly dramatic mothers (all of whom are obviously living vicariously through their children). The kids are under the iron rule of Abby Lee Miller, who is apparently some sort of choreographing genius, and are expected to win every competition they take part in. [Abby Lee Miller is a disgusting person. She's morbidly obese and takes pleasure in screaming at seven year olds like some sort of suburban Jabba the Hutt. If you don't get the reference, see below.]



Anyway, the show basically involves the mothers of the girls on the dance team yelling at each other and desperately trying to kiss Abby's ass so their daughter will get preferential treatment. One went as far as getting Abby and her assistant private massage treatments in the dance studio. I feel sorry for the masseuse. Actually, I feel sorry for more or less everyone on the show, except for Abby. The girls look like they don't even enjoy what they're doing half of the time, the mothers are basically using the daughters to make themselves feel important and achieve something they never did as kids, and Abby eats things and screams a lot.

"Dance Moms" is entertaining for about one episode but then it just gets really hard to watch. Good for a cheap laugh though.

JERSATHON!

Last weekend MTV aired a marathon of Jersey Shore starting from the first episode. I actually only started watching Jersey Shore like a year ago. So I watched the first couple episodes and just made me think how trashy it started out and how its even gotten worse. All they do is get sloppy drunk and make fools of themselves. Oh wait, sorry they "work" in some tee-shirt shop too. 

The funniest part about the show is that they constantly are calling people, "grenades" when half the people in the house are grenades. Although it might sound like it, this isn't me hating on the show. Don't get me wrong I watch the show and I think its funny but I am also laughing at how ridiculous these people are. Situation is what? Like 30 and hes still bringing random girls home who are "DTF." Its far past that time to grow up. Snooki acts like a complete idiot, and shes an alcoholic (when do you see her not drinking?) They have no respect for themselves, or anyone else and yes, its funny to watch, and to copy their catch phrases but by doing this, were supporting them and giving them so much money to act like idiots. Go to any bar or club, you don't need Jersey Shore to get this kind of entertainment.

I grew up watching shows on Nickelodeon and ABC family, so I understand this isn't moral behavior. Kids today are growing up watching this, and are going to think its alright to;

get wasted, let your goods hang out, hook up with as many strangers as you want, get arrested, cheat on your boyfriend/girlfriend and get into bar fights.   

All I am trying to say is, if your younger sibling, child, niece, nephew or cousin watches this show, let them know its not acceptable to act that way. If their parent or guardian is allowing to them watch this but isn't teaching them how wrong the cast's behavior is, how will they know? The cast of Jersey Shore should not become a norm in society.

~Britt<3

The Real World

The Real World makes me both jealous (of the sweet houses/apartments they live in) and generally annoyed (and yes, I know it's not even currently airing). The show gathers together a group of people in their 20's into one house and films their every move for a few months as the housemates meet one another, get drunk with one another, and inevitably, sleep with each other. The people they pick to live in the house tend to be "different" from one another; the shows producers are apparently obsessed with having gays or lesbians featured on the show and continuously using their sexual orientation to cause stress among the people living in the house. It's obviously semi-scripted and edited to the point where the forced conversations you see and hear on screen probably didn't even happen. For example, if two of the show's stars are walking and talking, pay attention to the background and the things they pass on the street. From one moment to the next, nothing is consistent at all. They'll be walking next to a blue car and pass a woman walking a dog, and then all of a sudden they're near the beach being passed by a gang of bikers. You can't be sure if all of the drama that occurs in the house is real or just fabricated through tricky editing. Yet, somehow, The Real World is one the longest running shows on tv, and still manages to attract new audiences.  

Maybe I'm just jealous though... who wouldn't want to live for free in an amazing house in a new city, party all day and night, and "work" for a few hours a day at some joke job. It's like every college kid's dream come true.

Teen mom is a horrible influence.

I can't stand the shows teen mom and sixteen and pregnant! Its so ridiculous, these reality shows are making kids think its not a big deal to go out and act irresponsibly because, hey they can get famous for it!  They even had a special called teen dad. I bet some twisted kids are even trying to get pregnant just to be a "star." 

It used to be thought of as a bad thing but in todays society its becoming a norm. Its totally fake too, on the show the kids look like their struggling yet their being paid at least $65,000 per season and some are living with their parents? Farrah from teen mom got a boob job and now is apparently modeling, these kids are being paid to poorly influence the younger generation!

Instead of letting these kids walk the red carpet for something that should be considered a mistake, how about we teach young kids its not acceptable and to stop trying to grow up so fast. Am I the only one who sees how messed up these programs are?

~Britt <3