Kanye is getting Kardashianed

"The Real World"

 

It turns out that Kanye is getting Taylored, which will please your teen daughters who are Swifties.

 

Meh, I kind of think his antics have caused him to 'shed' more and more of his audience as time has gone on. Plus, well, he's 43. His mental health issues and Kardashian bullshit kind of makes you forget that plenty of artists would be in their 'natural' decline phase right now anyway. Jay-Z is 50, and most of his output of the past 10 years hasn't been especially memorable either.

 

And if you don't think the woman who encouraged her daughter to "leak" a sex tape to jump start her career is fully involved —including the "slams" against her — you're nuts.

 

The first couple of seasons of The Real World were actually quite compelling because they seemed somewhat real. Then, like everything else, it went completely off the rails.

I'm still shaking my head at the Miami crew that could have been given $50,000 for starting a business and they never received it because they couldn't agree on what business to start. Just start a fucking hot dog cart on the beach and get paid $50K. Sheesh.

 

I think Miley Cyrus predates them all. The apology after the Annie Leibovitz photo spread in Vanity Fair? She knew what she was doing all along.

 

The first year of The Real World was great television and 10 years later they were all doing real people shit like having families and recovering from failed music careers. The one guy, Andre, had a good Little Rock band but apparently he/they did so many drugs that MTV couldn't devote the footage they wanted to them.

Even the Miami crew I understood. I could see seven people who knew nothing of each other failing to agree on a business. They had some horrible ideas too.

 

The Hawaii cast destroyed The Real World. They are a lot of what we see today.

And yes, I watched for years.

 

Puck was one of the more reprehensible characters to ever grace TV.