Season 1, Quarterfinal 2
According to MTV, the idea behind their new show "The Wade Robson Project" is:
Super-choreographer Wade Robson has masterminded moves for Britney Spears and *NSYNC. Now his sights are set on finding the best amateur dancer in America—who will moonwalk away with $100,000 from Juice Batteries, a $10,000 wardrobe provided by Union Bay and the dance opportunity of a lifetime. Strap on your dance belt and, starting September 1 at 4:00 p.m., get ready for some high-voltage dance competition action, Wade Robson-style.
We think that sucks. Instead of finding some dancer who isn't hot enough to be a pop star and giving them $100,000, we'd rather find a great band and give them nothing. Well, maybe we'll just immortalize them in our pseudo-hall of fame. Since we're totally unoriginal, we'll just use the same rules Wade is using:
- Round 1: The audience votes for the dancer whose style they are NOT feeling. The dancer with the most votes is eliminated.
- Round 2: Two celebrity judges select one of the three remaining contestants to continue.
- Round 3: Wade makes the final decision after a rigorous choreography training session and dance off.
Round 1: AUDIENCE VOTE-OFF!!!!!
At the end of Round 1, Friends Forever is eliminated by the audience!
Round 2: CELEBRITY JUDGES!!!!
You know our first judge from his two THE LIST nominated bands, Landing and Surface of Ece(y)on, or for his
big bushy Manbeard, let's hear it for AARON SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anomoanan—Acoustic guitars and drums and warbly singing.
Sounds pretty familiar. I don't really see a new
twist in this that would make me interested at all.
Guy loses girl, writes a song on the acoustic and gets
his friends to play basic stuff behind it. Whatever.
Harris Newman—Is this that free folk stuff? Sounds okay with all
the weird chords and sloppy background junk. Okay,
now I'm just pretty bored. This sounds like something
someone would do after smoking some weed and getting
"creative" with the cardboard boxes and the acoustic.
Sort of cool, but not my thing.
US Maple—I like US Maple, especially their first album. This
song is the best of the three by far. It presents
something interesting and unique. That being said,
it's not their strongest stuff... but it's better than
the other two things.
I pick US Maple.
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Our next judge is the man behind the media powerhouse that is Scratch
Records and Distributioin as well as singer and drummer for such
hot acts as The Gay and Superconductor, give it up for KEITH PARRY!!!!!!!!
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Harris Newman is a fellow Canadian and has the good sense to take a bath
after playing a little hackysack with his dirty pals in Godspeed. Sounding
like John Fahey is no huge crime either, and he also records for the good
folk at Strange Attractors; whose only faux pas is name dropping real kraut
rock masters (Popol Vuh) in every single one sheet of his well meaning
roster of US space rock pretenders. Common, compare your bands to fucking
Labradford or Magnog, but let's leave the real deal alone on a
pedestal... OK? Thanks Chris... oh yeah, Harris Newman... thumbs up.
Anomoanon—This guy was a Palace Brother back before Will flooded us with
too much samey product. It's alright, a little gay, but so am I.
US Maple—Aren't these guys too old for this kind of dreadful creepy indie
angst? I hope they're making a living off of it
Decision time. Let's keep it in the North. Harris Newman gets my vote to
move forward.
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Well, I guess you know what that means. I'm sorry Anomoanon, but they sent you home.
Round 3: WADE DECIDES!!!!
You know, both competitors brought it, but I gotta look at the industry,
and who has the best chance to make it... US Maple, you're going on to the
Semifinals.
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