After VH1 decided to debut its inappropriate, way too soon, but already completely addictive I Love the New Millennium, we decided to take it to the blog by way of good ol’ AIM. You can call this just another posting of a friendly conversation, OR the first installment of Live from Our Adjacent Cubicles: The Amy & Lisa Show (cue music!). Either way, here’s what we think about Hal Sparks and friends’ newest marathon-ready look at a decade — er, the last eight years…
Amy Wilkinson: ugh, soI caught I Love the New Millennium Monday night
Amy: I’m not lovin’ I Love the New Millennium so far
Lisa Raphael: I missed it!Even though those Britney ads are all over the place — which, by the way, make mewant to call up a séance for her career
Amy: I don’t understand whyyou’re still rooting for her ??
Lisa: WELL, speaking of —the year 2000? Britney Spears VMAS
Lisa: doesn’t get any better than that
Amy: OK, they did show her"Oops…" red jumpsuit moment again
Amy: Which I put in the pluscolumn in my notes
Amy: Really the highlight of2000 was TiVo
Lisa: okay, I can dig it,DVR has transformed my life
Amy: What would I do if Icouldn’t record The Golden Girls?
Lisa: Um, watch all therepeats that are on all the time…
Lisa: (do you really record The Golden Girls?)
Amy: But now I can watch therepeats at my leisure
Lisa: So what were the pros?According to Amy…
Amy: Well, besides TiVo andyour fallen Britney, CSI premiered, which I dig
Amy: But that’s about it
Lisa: Over it
Amy: For the most part, totalcultural wasteland
Amy: NOOOO!
Amy: You can NOT be over CSI
Amy: It’s so good
Amy: "Who are you…doo doo…doo doo"
Amy: love the theme song
Amy: by the Who
Lisa: No idea
Lisa: ooooh. Maybe a little
Amy: what??!
Amy: Lisa, seriously?
Amy: I’m worried about you?
Lisa: Scroll up, gurl! I waslearning the dance moves to Britney Spears in 2000
Lisa: I wasn’t even a fan of Justin Timberlake yet
Amy: dance moves? you meanyou became a child stripper?
Amy: you were what, like 14?
Lisa: I was a huge Napsterfan!
Lisa: That should be one of your pros!
Amy: Oh, I’m too much of agoody-two-shoes for Napster! Totes!
Amy: I buy my tunes legally
Lisa: Could you even buymusic legally back then?
Amy: yeah, I don’t think so
Lisa: I STILL have songsthat have survived and are on my iPod today from the Napster days
Amy: oh gosh!
Lisa: (I always know becausethey have DJ Clue yelling on them)
Amy: you shouldn’t say thatin a public forum
Amy: you might have the FCC after you
Lisa: oh yeah…
Amy: you were just kidding,right?
Lisa: Just putting on a showfor the cameras, you know!
Lisa: So what were your biggest disappointments of the show?
Amy: Basically, 2000 sucked,which made the show suck. Here are some examples:
Amy: 1. Richard Hatch (pictured)…naked
Lisa: that was a BFD!
Amy: BFD?
Lisa: I’m trying to be PCfor the PWers
Amy: I gotcha
Amy: 2. those whaaaazup commercials for Budweiser
Amy: so annoying
Amy: and not funny
Lisa: But everrrybody’s donea "whaaazup" in their day
Lisa: even you?
Amy: Lisa, you’ve seen me.Do I look like a "whaaazup" kind of girl?
Amy: I don’t think so.
Lisa: not so much…Why do youthink the show was a bomb?
Lisa: Is it just too soon?
Amy: That’s part of it, butreally, the year just sucked
Amy: I’m looking forward to 2001
Amy: It was the year of Moulin Rouge
Amy: My friend Dennis and I had a Moulin Rouge coming out on DVDparty
Amy: Yeah, we’re thosepeople
Lisa: hahaha yes! I’ve neverseen Moulin Rouge
Amy: WHAT!?!?!?!
Amy: NO!!!!
Amy: That Britney ruined your formative years.
Lisa: It’s possible.
Lisa: Who were the best pop culture pundits Monday night?
Amy: Normally I really enjoyHal Sparks, but that mullet was blinding me!
Amy: major bird’s nest
Lisa: yes I Google imagesearched it
Lisa: Terrifying
Amy: I’m always surprised athow funny wrestler Chris Jericho is.
Amy: He’s a pretty wittyfellow
Lisa: who was there besidesthe usuals?
Lisa: Which member of NSYNC was on the panel???
Amy: I think there may havebeen a Lance Bass moment
Lisa: I feel like Lance istoo big for it now
Lisa: hmm. I would have gone with Chris Kirkpatrick
Lisa: I think I’m lookingforward to 2003, otherwise known as: the year of McGriddles and JoeMillionaire!
Amy: I think the 80s and 90shad much more genuine cheesiness
Amy: The 2000s seem so forced
Amy: Joe Millionaire?
Amy: Yuck.
Amy: Punky Brewster? Yes!
Lisa: We probably need to bea little farther removed from the decade we’re currently living in tounderstand its cheese/kitsch value
Amy: true true
Lisa: Hal Sparks can tryagain in 10-20 years and maybe I’ll DVR it
Amy: Nope, DVRs will be oldhat then.
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You will blog about some sh!t on VH1 that they are going to keep on a continual loop until the end of time but still won’t live blog the BET awards which is the highest rated awards show on cable?
Larry,
It’s like I’ve been sayin’: F— EW! EW doesn’t care about black people!
K.West, I thought it was BUSH who didn’t care about black people?!?!?!?!!? I’ll say hello to Chris Willman for ya….
Never mind the fact that we can’t really look back on a decade that is currently still going on. The show is called “I Love the New MILLENNIUM” so shouldn’t it go on for 1,000 years? I personally cannot wait to see what happens in 2250!
A blog item about the BET awards probably may have been a better choice. However, I’m just happy to see that VH1 is airing something other than a reality show about a faded music/tv/movie star swapping venereal diseases with a bunch of trashy women.
I’m disappointed every year when PopWatch doesn’t do anything about the BET Awards… but you can find a post here. I did it for the Houston Chronicle, where I’m interning right now. Let me know what you think!
http://blogs.chron.com/tubular/archives/2008/06/a_critical_look.html
I could care less if EW doesn’t blog the BET awards, and don’t think it’s because I’m racist (I’m a black male). I’m just very uninterested with any kind of award shows, no matter what kind of media it covers (especially the Oscars and VMAs), but the fact that it’s on BET does it no favors. I don’t think BET’s a respectable network for our race, even though I’ll admit it’s done a bit better over the past few years.
Can I just say…Chris Jericho and Hal Sparks switched hair. Anyone else notice that?
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