Rock of Love 2: Too Vile for Even A Guilty Pleasure

March 1, 2008 on 7:31 pm | In Cultural Commentary, Rants: Sexism |

I went to the gym today and with one eye watched a Food Channel show with that pretty lady who always shows too much bosom (I think her name is something like Giardia, but isn’t that an intestinal parasite?) and with one eye VH-1’s horrific “Rock of Love 2,” which made me yell at the screen a lot. It’s a good thing the gym was fairly empty.

This is another one of those shows featuring a really skaggy dude living in a house full of chicks vying for his approval. Everyone behaves somewhere at the level of rhesus monkeys (only with more sex and worse fashion) and at the end, he “eliminates” a babe or two from his harem, causing them to HATE THEMSELVES rather than him or the producers of this despicable bit of realitrash TV.

I’m only glad I caught it because I was so overwhelmed with disbelief, I stayed on the treadmill an extra 20 minutes to make sure I was getting the premise right. This character (Bret is the lead singer for the band “Poison,” if that means anything to you, and … don’t be offended, but I’m pretty sure he’s wearing a cucumber in his Levis) has these women in such a desperate hysteria of desire and devotion, I hoped they might turn on him in the end in a Dionysian lust-rage and tear him limb from limb, but no such luck.

If they did the same show with Professor Gary Dorrien, now that I’d watch. Heck, I’d even go on the show.

Bret Michaels

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  1. I saw some ads for that a few months back - I can’t believe this is a SECOND season! Brett Michaels (from the 80s band Poison) apparently attracts females who look and behave just like him. It’s so gross.

    It makes me think: did the women’s movement go RIGHT PAST these women?

    Comment by h sofia — March 1, 2008 #

  2. There are a string of such programs out now on various channels all trying to get a piece of the reality show trend. And most of the ones I can think of involve sex and power in this fashion - some of them do have a woman at the center of attention, though I don’t think that is any better.

    All I can say is GACK!

    (on a different note - I like Giada most when she is on the Today show. And right now she looks pregnant and fabulous.)

    Comment by jinnis — March 2, 2008 #

  3. ANTM is guilty pleasure enough for this chick.

    CC

    Comment by Chalicechick — March 2, 2008 #

  4. I watch Rock of Love. I liked the first one better. In the first one he picked the woman, Jess, who was the most normal and independent and then when they reunited (after watching the show) she dumped him on TV!!! I think these shows are more about self promotion. This show is like a car wreck, you want look away, but you just can’t. At least you got a better workout because of it.

    Comment by Kim — March 3, 2008 #

  5. I know I’m referencing the wrong “artist”, but DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY.

    Comment by Derek — March 3, 2008 #

  6. Giada and her bosoms make the most wonderful food, with lots of extreme hand close-ups(http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ei). Her Everyday Italian cookbook has a million things I would eat. What is maddening is that she will create a meal dripped in balamic, sugar, and olive oil, and then eat 2 bites. Umm!! Delicious! I don’t eat 2 bites. That is a cruel show to have running at the gym, nevermind Mr. Cucumber Pants. I have declared my house a reality-tv-free zone for Lent.

    Comment by Carol — March 10, 2008 #

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