For the Love of Ray J is a reality love show on VH1 featuring singer Ray J. This show follows a format similar to Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, or I Love New York.
The show premiered on February 2, 2009. It seems to follow the crew of females to the hottest, most hip hangouts in LA to Las Vegas, partying all the way of course. Along their journey they have met some famous friends of Ray J. They also get to meet Ray J’s sister, hip hop singer Brandy.
Like other reality love shows, the girl go through a series of contests and challenges in hopes of winning the Love of Ray J. They pour their heart out and shed many tears in the spotlight for all of America to see! Unlike most other reality shows I’ve seen this one seems to be focused on the women more and pampering them. They seem to be treated to many upscale trips and luxuries that most other shows don’t incorporate into their format. The other shows just show a lot of drinking and partying, not necessarily in luxury!
Like all other reality love shows on VH1, the female contestant s are given “special” names by the star who is looking for love. In shows like Real Chance of Love we’ve seen names like Corn Fed, Cali, Risky, and Stalker! On I Love New York we’ve seen Buddha, Real, Chance, and Tailor Made. Ray J followed along these lines and has named girls such as Cashmere, Unique and Hot Cocoa.
I can honestly say that I haven’t gotten sucked into this show as much as I have others, but I it goes with my theme of reality love shows and deserves a mention!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
MUD BOWL ROUND 3
This week on Rock of Love brought the third annual mud wrestling match. Apparently Brett believes the woman of his dreams will win his heart in no other place but the muddy terrain of a football field! Beverly, who has previously showed her loyalty (or should I say lack of) by kissing one of Brett’s band members began to get fed up with the “Blondtourage” as she refers to the girls with blonde hair! As the women go into the mud bowl Brett divides them into two teams, The Fallen Angels and The Sweethearts. As this show progresses there is a separation between the girls, I would classify it as one group of girls being blonde and the other being brunette! These girls are clearly looking for fame not love…but who cares right? We will still watch the show.
As the football game pans out, we saw our usually drama and craziness. Ashley even had to stop to apply her pink lip gloss after she stated that she would never be friends with anyone who wore brown lip gloss (hence the mud on her lips)! In the end The Sweethearts win the game. As a prize Brett decides to treat the entire winning team to a date, but even better he decided to pick a game MVP. The girl who would be picked as a MVP would be able to fly solo with Brett to a show in Texas and spend the night with him. Everyone was surprised he picked Mindy as she seems to be one of the “more lame” girls as the other girls would say; basically she doesn’t embarrass herself all that much compared to the others!
The third annual mud bowl is over…THANK GOODNESS, and as I’m betting there will probably be a fourth…and perhaps a fifth in the future!
As the football game pans out, we saw our usually drama and craziness. Ashley even had to stop to apply her pink lip gloss after she stated that she would never be friends with anyone who wore brown lip gloss (hence the mud on her lips)! In the end The Sweethearts win the game. As a prize Brett decides to treat the entire winning team to a date, but even better he decided to pick a game MVP. The girl who would be picked as a MVP would be able to fly solo with Brett to a show in Texas and spend the night with him. Everyone was surprised he picked Mindy as she seems to be one of the “more lame” girls as the other girls would say; basically she doesn’t embarrass herself all that much compared to the others!
The third annual mud bowl is over…THANK GOODNESS, and as I’m betting there will probably be a fourth…and perhaps a fifth in the future!
Monday, February 9, 2009
As if there weren’t enough!
After a week break for the show, last night VH1 brought us a new episode of Rock of Love. Last night’s competition consisted of the girls getting in three groups of three. Each group nominated a captain and was assigned an ‘ugly’ girl as their ‘project’!
The girls seemed really excited and eager to make these plain Jane girls into rock n roll princesses! They worked hard for an hour and then presented their girls. Bret was so shocked at the transformations that he actually asked the three girls to stay and join his tour of love! The original crew of girls gave mixed emotions about his decision. Some girls stood up and clapped and some girls cried!
Bret was upset when the girls clapped. He actually stated that the reason he asked these three girls to join was because he wasn’t feeling any connections with any of the original girls. Come on now…does he actually think he is going to find love? All these girls are crazy and looking for one thing…fame, not love! He even made the comment last night that he felt like these girls are just on tour with him to party.
After everything was said and done, one girl was very upset, Ashley. She talked to Bret and expressed herself and apparently she won a personal date with him later that evening in his bus. I guess seeing a girl cry over him was all it took to win Bret’s heart on last night’s Rock of Love episode.
The girls seemed really excited and eager to make these plain Jane girls into rock n roll princesses! They worked hard for an hour and then presented their girls. Bret was so shocked at the transformations that he actually asked the three girls to stay and join his tour of love! The original crew of girls gave mixed emotions about his decision. Some girls stood up and clapped and some girls cried!
Bret was upset when the girls clapped. He actually stated that the reason he asked these three girls to join was because he wasn’t feeling any connections with any of the original girls. Come on now…does he actually think he is going to find love? All these girls are crazy and looking for one thing…fame, not love! He even made the comment last night that he felt like these girls are just on tour with him to party.
After everything was said and done, one girl was very upset, Ashley. She talked to Bret and expressed herself and apparently she won a personal date with him later that evening in his bus. I guess seeing a girl cry over him was all it took to win Bret’s heart on last night’s Rock of Love episode.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Let's Take A Week Off!!!
Reality love TV is great, but I need a week off! So instead of watching a reality love show this week I decided I would talk a little about the history of these shows that we all have came to love (or hate)! When I thought about the question of when in fact reality shows began I first thought of The Real World on MTV. I did some research and realized that I was in fact right! Reality television did in fact begin on MTV with The Real World back in 1992.
Granted I was only eight in 1992, I can say that I remember watching The Real World. I can remember thinking how “cool” the people were that were on the show. I guess in a way this could still be applied to reality shows that we all watch today. I’m sure it is safe to say that some people (especially younger adults/kids) watch these shows and like some things that they see and think that the people are in fact “cool”. Anywhere from the clothing that the people wear to the way that they talk can be considered “cool” and in fact can be imitated by viewers at home. This is a major example of how the media influences us a society. In the case of most reality shows that I watch/have watched it would be correct to say that the behaviors/ideas/dress that are displayed by the contestants/participants on these shows is in fact negative and should not be imitated by people at home! It is sad but true that we are socially taught to admire and adhere to what we are exposed to via the media.
These reality shows definitely go back awhile and their affects seem to be consistent throughout the years. The producers of these shows want to lure us in with the drama and chaos that surrounds strangers as they get thrown into a house and have to live with each other (and are usually competing with one another for something, which makes things even crazier). Though some things have changed in regards to these reality television shows (clothing styles), some things do in fact stay the same (bad attitudes).
Granted I was only eight in 1992, I can say that I remember watching The Real World. I can remember thinking how “cool” the people were that were on the show. I guess in a way this could still be applied to reality shows that we all watch today. I’m sure it is safe to say that some people (especially younger adults/kids) watch these shows and like some things that they see and think that the people are in fact “cool”. Anywhere from the clothing that the people wear to the way that they talk can be considered “cool” and in fact can be imitated by viewers at home. This is a major example of how the media influences us a society. In the case of most reality shows that I watch/have watched it would be correct to say that the behaviors/ideas/dress that are displayed by the contestants/participants on these shows is in fact negative and should not be imitated by people at home! It is sad but true that we are socially taught to admire and adhere to what we are exposed to via the media.
These reality shows definitely go back awhile and their affects seem to be consistent throughout the years. The producers of these shows want to lure us in with the drama and chaos that surrounds strangers as they get thrown into a house and have to live with each other (and are usually competing with one another for something, which makes things even crazier). Though some things have changed in regards to these reality television shows (clothing styles), some things do in fact stay the same (bad attitudes).
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Has Reality TV Gone Too Far???
In watching last Monday nights “Best of Stallionaires” (Real Chance of Love Re-cap) on Vh1 I came to the conclusion that reality television is pushing the limits. I enjoyed watching the past couple months of the show, but clearly there has been an extensive amount of editing! In a way the editing is affecting the way we as an audience perceive what is going on. I watched the entire season but never caught wind of the “real” things that were going on and how some of the girls were actually being degraded and hurt throughout the show. When I was watching this episode the stars of the show, Real and Chance, shared footage and extra info that we as viewers didn’t see.
One girl on the show, Rabbit, was pretty much humiliated on national television more than once by Chance, the man she was trying to win over. He repeatedly made comments about Rabbit having facial and neck hair. How embarrassing I thought…how immature and inappropriate for a grown man to make these kinds of comments about a girl…especially on national television. Then I wondered…was it his fault or Vh1’s for not editing this out? I came to the conclusion that reality television thrives on personal, hurtful jabs at individuals, which is how they draw people in, as sick as it sounds…it works!
Something else that was really hurtful for two of the girls was that neither of them got picked by Chance! I especially felt bad for Cali as she was the last one standing and was under the assumption that she was the winner. I feel that Chance could have approached this situation a lot better and called both girls down at once and let them both know that he wasn’t picking either of them. He sent Risky home and let Cali stand there…awaiting for his heartfelt speech telling her she was the one, instead she got her heart broken and truly seemed devastated!
This reality show was very crude when it all was exposed last Monday. The producers hope for the worst to happen and don’t really seem to care who gets hurt or caught in the cross fire! From what I can gather about reality shows is that America as a society has grown to love the misfortunes of others and we actually tune in every week to see who is getting hurt or humiliated.
One girl on the show, Rabbit, was pretty much humiliated on national television more than once by Chance, the man she was trying to win over. He repeatedly made comments about Rabbit having facial and neck hair. How embarrassing I thought…how immature and inappropriate for a grown man to make these kinds of comments about a girl…especially on national television. Then I wondered…was it his fault or Vh1’s for not editing this out? I came to the conclusion that reality television thrives on personal, hurtful jabs at individuals, which is how they draw people in, as sick as it sounds…it works!
Something else that was really hurtful for two of the girls was that neither of them got picked by Chance! I especially felt bad for Cali as she was the last one standing and was under the assumption that she was the winner. I feel that Chance could have approached this situation a lot better and called both girls down at once and let them both know that he wasn’t picking either of them. He sent Risky home and let Cali stand there…awaiting for his heartfelt speech telling her she was the one, instead she got her heart broken and truly seemed devastated!
This reality show was very crude when it all was exposed last Monday. The producers hope for the worst to happen and don’t really seem to care who gets hurt or caught in the cross fire! From what I can gather about reality shows is that America as a society has grown to love the misfortunes of others and we actually tune in every week to see who is getting hurt or humiliated.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Can You Really Find Love On A Bus?
Reality love shows, what can I say? They are everywhere! Last week…as you know (those of you who read my blogJ) my favorite reality love show rapped up and I’m anxiously awaiting the reunion show for Real Chance of Love…which airs January 26th! As I wait I of course have to scan the channels and see what else is out there in reality TV land!
Rock of Love is a show that I am very familiar with. I began watching this show three seasons ago when Poison’s lead singer Bret Michaels began his quest down the long, troublesome road of reality TV love! The first season was pretty typical as to what you could expect with any reality show. The season ended with Bret picking who he thought was the right girl for him! Her name was Jes, and I personally felt that they were a good pair and would make it together. I was very surprised as I’m sure much of the audience was when Jes told Bret she wasn’t “feeling” him at the reunion show and Bret’s heart broke for all of America to see.
So season two began and Bret had everything figured out, or so he thought. He narrowed the crop of girls down to Daisy and Ambre. Ambre was older, like him and more reserved. Daisy was younger and seemed to be more his type. Bret felt he would try something different and picked Ambre. Unfortunately he didn’t find love this time either!
Now we are to season three. This season is unique in that the women are actually traveling on the road with Bret as he is on tour. This season is pretty crazy and the drama is at the highest I have ever seen it before. I find myself being able to predict what is actually going to happen next very easily! I’ve never thought that these shows were scripted…and yes I have been told over and over again by my boyfriend that they are in fact so, but this season is making me feel different and I’m finding myself agreeing with my boyfriend. So far I feel that this show is RIDICULOUS! I think Bret should have hung his hat up after his last attempt at finding love and went about it in a different way than doing another show. As much as I find this show a waste of time, I will have to admit that I will be watching it through until the end! What can I say…I have a love hate relationship with this show!
I’m hoping that this season of Rock of Love will hopefully bring Bret Michaels true love and put an end to this show FOREVER!
Rock of Love is a show that I am very familiar with. I began watching this show three seasons ago when Poison’s lead singer Bret Michaels began his quest down the long, troublesome road of reality TV love! The first season was pretty typical as to what you could expect with any reality show. The season ended with Bret picking who he thought was the right girl for him! Her name was Jes, and I personally felt that they were a good pair and would make it together. I was very surprised as I’m sure much of the audience was when Jes told Bret she wasn’t “feeling” him at the reunion show and Bret’s heart broke for all of America to see.
So season two began and Bret had everything figured out, or so he thought. He narrowed the crop of girls down to Daisy and Ambre. Ambre was older, like him and more reserved. Daisy was younger and seemed to be more his type. Bret felt he would try something different and picked Ambre. Unfortunately he didn’t find love this time either!
Now we are to season three. This season is unique in that the women are actually traveling on the road with Bret as he is on tour. This season is pretty crazy and the drama is at the highest I have ever seen it before. I find myself being able to predict what is actually going to happen next very easily! I’ve never thought that these shows were scripted…and yes I have been told over and over again by my boyfriend that they are in fact so, but this season is making me feel different and I’m finding myself agreeing with my boyfriend. So far I feel that this show is RIDICULOUS! I think Bret should have hung his hat up after his last attempt at finding love and went about it in a different way than doing another show. As much as I find this show a waste of time, I will have to admit that I will be watching it through until the end! What can I say…I have a love hate relationship with this show!
I’m hoping that this season of Rock of Love will hopefully bring Bret Michaels true love and put an end to this show FOREVER!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Please...Somebody Find Them Love!!!
Reality television seems to be consuming our television networks. No matter what channel I seem to be watching, I always run across a reality program. More recently I have found myself watching and in fact becoming consumed with a few shows in reality TV land! The twist from regular reality TV shows is that these shows that I’ve grown so fond of are reality love shows! I end up becoming committed to these shows for two to three months before they finally end. Once they do end I wait another month to see the reunion show where all the people get together and usually argue about their experience on the show. Sometimes this is my favorite part of the entire experience! I know these shows are annoying, ridiculous, and predictable! However, I love them!!!
Most recently I have finished watching my favorite reality love show of all time…at least thus far! Real Chance of Love on VH1 finally ended this last Monday. Chance and Real are brothers who actually competed against each other in a previous reality love show on VH1 called I Love New York. Real is the nicer, more sensitive brother. Chance is very blunt and rough around the edges. Neither of them won the heart of New York... so of course they did what most previous reality TV stars do when they don’t win…they start their own show!
The two brothers each had their own set of girls on this show and narrowed it down to two girls in the end. Brother Chance didn’t find love! He sent both of his final girls home…I’m betting my car that he will be back on VH1 reality TV in no time! Brother Real did find love; he found love with a girl named Corn Fed. Ironically Corn Fed is from Fargo, North Dakota! This of course made the show that much better because I got to listen to the people on the show making silly remarks about North Dakota!
Now I sit, waiting for two weeks to pass until I can watch the reunion show for Real Chance of Love! My point in blogging about all of this is to make it evident how VH1 succeeded in snagging me into their reality love show scene! It all started a couple years ago when I started watching I Love New York…and so on and so on. The advertising and promoting that VH1 does definitely works and I am proof of that!
Most recently I have finished watching my favorite reality love show of all time…at least thus far! Real Chance of Love on VH1 finally ended this last Monday. Chance and Real are brothers who actually competed against each other in a previous reality love show on VH1 called I Love New York. Real is the nicer, more sensitive brother. Chance is very blunt and rough around the edges. Neither of them won the heart of New York... so of course they did what most previous reality TV stars do when they don’t win…they start their own show!
The two brothers each had their own set of girls on this show and narrowed it down to two girls in the end. Brother Chance didn’t find love! He sent both of his final girls home…I’m betting my car that he will be back on VH1 reality TV in no time! Brother Real did find love; he found love with a girl named Corn Fed. Ironically Corn Fed is from Fargo, North Dakota! This of course made the show that much better because I got to listen to the people on the show making silly remarks about North Dakota!
Now I sit, waiting for two weeks to pass until I can watch the reunion show for Real Chance of Love! My point in blogging about all of this is to make it evident how VH1 succeeded in snagging me into their reality love show scene! It all started a couple years ago when I started watching I Love New York…and so on and so on. The advertising and promoting that VH1 does definitely works and I am proof of that!
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