The Serious Side of a Man Band
If you read my blog, you know that I’m psyched about the premiere of “Mission: Man Band” on VH1 (Monday August 6th, 10 pm ET). I have my Google news alerts set to go off anytime something about the show gets printed. Well, I was surprised when I opened up my alert and found that perhaps “Mission: Man Band” is going to be much different than I expected.
I knew they would have a tough time breaking back into the biz in the youth driven business of pop music, but I had no idea that the show would take such a serious tone. The Orlando Sentinal reports:
“They wanted this light-hearted look: Where are they? How fat are they?” Kirkpatrick says. “They wanted the Surreal Life with boy bands. But they got some real compelling stuff that you go, ‘Wow!’ I think people will see that we’re normal guys who had crazy stuff happen to us.”
The show will get into Rich Cronin’s leukemia, Chris Kirkpatrick’s depression, Bryan Abrams’ alcoholism, and Jeff Timmons’ stage fright. These guys sound like they have some issues that are compounded when they are booed at an Orlando Magic game during a performance.
I, of course, will watch anyway. Will you?
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August 5th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
I saw the premiere episode and read the article and even I was taken aback. I knew that after *N SYNC folded Chris went into a funk. He mentioned it back in April 2004 when he performed with the band Ohno at the April Fools Ball in Texas. Have you ever heard “Who Am I” by Nigel’s 11? It’s on their myspace page and it will break your heart. I heard that song 3 years ago and I still can’t listen to it. These guys are four average guys with real problems. Unfortunately being a celebrity doesn’t mean you’re immune to pain and heartache. In fact it’s even worse because the whole world sees your pain.
With Chris–he’s always been the jokester. He has this humor where you can’t always tell when he’s being funny or serious. He masks the pain and whats going on on the inside with humor. He’s extremely intelligent having graduated college with a degree in Psychology, yet it appears as though he’d rather you see that he’s a good time guy than his smarts. He’s humble and he tends to let others have the spotlight rather than himself. Heck he let the show use his house! Not only does he have a home court advantage, but the guys in the group have the opportunity to be in a house with warmth, rather than going to some random house set up for him. One more day and I cannot wait for the show.