Hit Me Baby One More Time

Reality TV Forum

Is anyone else watching this show? I saw it last night. They had the Motels, Tommy Tutone, Vanilla Ice, and the Knack. Thursday night Howard Jones , Irene Cara, Cameo, Sophie B. Hawkins and Wang Chung will be on.

The premise is that these old bands sing their big hit, then they compete with a current song. The winner gets $20,000 donated to the charity of their choice.

I Loved Howard Jones. I can't wait to see it!

THEY HAD CAMEO ON!?!?!?!?!?????

He will be on this THursday.

Cameo's actually a group of about 4 guys, I think. They're the guys who sing Word Up, which for me is one of the most recognizable songs of the 80's.

Sorry. I knew they did Word Up, but I had no idea if it was a guy or a group.

That sounds like a cool show.

It is interesting to see what they look like and if they sound good. They had Tiffany on the other night. She tried to sing "break away". It was really bad.

Awwwwwwwwwww.... Yoyo will be so disappointed, she's got all of Tiffany's records

How sad for you Grant.


Howard Jones sounded amazing.

Here is a link to the NBC site. You can see video of the show.

http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Hit_Me_Baby/

A world where Vanilla Ice is back from mediocrity is a world for me .

-HECK!

hahaha they had Arrested Development... man, what a show it is...

But Arrested Development are still around, they had a new song not that long a go, a couple of months or so ago I think.

A few months? Are you sure? Their last album was like... 2 years ago-ish. I do know they're still around, but I really don't pay much attention to them anymore. But their first album was just so huge, that the fact they fell into obscurity is funny.

I think the show isn't necessarily only people/bands who no longer perform, a lot of the people who've been on it have had albums recently. Tiffany had one a couple of years ago, so did Vanilla Ice.

Thankfully wang chung haven't.

I remember the new Arrested Development song being released in our Summer so 6 - 8 months ago maximum.

Vanilla Ice had one a few years ago? Really? Isn't he a preist now? No .. that's MC Hammer, isn't it who's a preist? Is he?

What the hell does Wang Chung actually mean?

Wang Chung is just a name. Wang is actually Huang in Mandarin, which is basically a common surname like "smith" or whatever... and Chung is Zhong in Mandarin, and is... also just a name... but it also means clock... but they just mean the thing to be a name and not mean anything in particular.

They used to be called Huang Chung, apparently, then changed to Wang Chung. I think because they realized half the name was mandarin, the other half was cantonese (making them look really, really dumb)... can't think of any other reason for it.

I worked all that out by looking at this album cover
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f574/f57461bouic.jpg

PS. Vanilla Ice... dunno, I do remember some rapper becoming a priest (Mase comes to mind, but someone from the early 90's too)... wasn't Hammer, I don't think. Though he didn't make a lot of music lately, I just can't picture it Vanilla Ice's stuff is pretty sexually explicit, so its doubtful he is...

Yeah, Hammer became a priest. I think he also tried to play baseball.

Vanilla Ice was the one hung out of a window by Suge Knight.

-HECK!

How wierd would that be to be married by MC Hammer?
Does he wear shiny parachute pants while he performs ceremonies?