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Anything with The Rock, I’m in. This was the first battle- The Rock, Dwayne Johnson does “Shake It Off”, and battles Jimmy Fallon, who does a Harry Belafonte song “Jump in the Line”. I would have liked better if he had done something with a Beetlejuice throwback, but alas, he went for the Carmen Miranda version.
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Next up, Fallon’s “Like a Prayer” versus the Rock “Stayin’ Alive”. Now, granted, neither of these performances would bring home a Grammy but hey, famous people are having fun being goofy and we always need more of that.
The next two on this special 2-episode opener were Common and John Legend. The latter happens to be married to the ‘color’ commentary specialist Chrissy Teigen, but I’ll get to her in a sec.
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These two were a fairly substantial pile of ‘meh’, mostly because smooth as silk John Legend can’t dance. His performance is behind a piano, but it’s really nice to see him let loose.
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This one has the best performance with Common doing “All Night Long”, that was fun.
Best part of the whole first two episodes.
Here is my problem with the series:
She’s hot, and allows the occasional sexist and/or chauvinist remark to fly in her general direction. But… her commentary sucks. Look, I love her hustle. 2007 she does a big Maxim shoot, meets John Legend at a model party and they start dating. 2010 her model pal Brooklyn Decker gets her a shot as SI Swimsuit girl then for the next 4 years she builds on that SI brand with a SUPER savvy “I’m going to take bts pics of the hottest women in the world for social media”. Now she has 2 million instagram followers, .75 million on the tweet box and I don’t even think she has a facebook because, well who needs facebook when you already have those other picture-based fan pages.
So, she’s the queen of taking pics of hot chicks, but I really wish she didn’t have to do this show. She adds nothing, and her version of ‘tongue-in-cheek’ when her husband was on the show seemed shallow, empty and forced. Get her a bunch of canned phrases, as the token girl, she needs to have a repertoire of funny quips prepared. Get her a writer, or get her gone. She’ll be put in the same miserable category as Nick Lachey’s wife trying to host Wipeout. Just awful.
In a show full of people that are famous for being talented, she is ‘famous’ for being cute. I just think she’s out of her league and for some reason SpikeTV wants her to be one of those accidental stars to transcend and I just don’t think it’s possible. I would love for her to prove me wrong.
That being said. LL Cool J may not be the best host but he’s genuine and has a good rap with the guests. so, job well done there James.
Watch the show, let me know what you think.