Pussycat Dolls
“When I Grow Up”

– Original Music Video
Scene: Top Pop Theme Song

Alicia Keys
“No One”

– Original Music Video
Jonas Brothers
“When You Look Me In The Eyes”

– Original Music Video
Chris Brown
“Kiss Kiss”

– Original Music Video
Kardinal Offishall
“Dangerous feat. Akon”

Jesse McCartney
“Leavin”

– Original Music Video
Nelly Furtado
“Say It Right”

– Original Music Video

Did this show just end early? Seems odd to have a season finale after only four episodes and with 6 groups still left. Anyway, the remaining 6 groups performed one last time. It figures that on the final show everyone would look and sound great. Where were these performances in the first 3 episodes?

Here are the performances of the remaining 6 groups:

America voted the top two groups: It came down to Ju-Taun and Mosaic, my favorites.

And the winner is *drum roll* – Mosaic. Check out their you tube channel

Here are all their performances on MTV’s Top Pop Group Season 1

Runners up – Ju-taun. Look for their album ‘Love Changes Things’. You can hear their music on their official myspace page

Here are all their performances on MTV’s Top Pop Group Season 1

Check out Mosaic and Ju-Taun’s reactions in this exclusive backstage interview:

Throw the Fight
“Save Me”

Bowling For Soup
“When We Die”

– Original Music Video
busbee
“Dont Let Them Get You”

Electric Bird Noise
“Vestibule Transitiore”

Olivia Broadfield
“Dont Cry”

Loveless
“Natural Today”

Geoff Byrd
“Brighter Day”

Atreyu
“We Stand Up”

War Stories
“TV”

Santogold
“L.E.S. Artistes”

– Original Music Video

This week we saw yet another former sweet 16er who has been spoiled to the point of being helpless. The show begins with a quick review of Meleny’s sweet 16 18 birthday party. Apparently Meleny hasn’t changed much since then, she still expects to be taken care of because she is the prettiest in the family. Her dad is concerned that she can’t take care of herself and decides to Exile her for a week to the snowcapped Andes Mountains in Peru.

Meleny has been the worst sweet 16er to be exiled so far. She started crying the moment she got there and commented to the camera how dirty and ugly she found the people. Things went downhill from there. She whined about having to help gather wood for cooking. She almost gagged when she saw how ugly the potatoes she was going to eat looked. And to make things worse she wanted to refuse to eat because her host sister had the nerve to touch the food with her bare hands. Obviously, she has never been in the kitchen when her mom was cooking dinner. You can’t prepare food without touching it.

The girls then went to the river to gather water and Meleny’s ugly, spoiled side came out with a vengence. Helen, her host sister, told her to be careful and not spill the water she was carrying. Meleny didn’t want to carry the water and deliberately spilt some of it, telling Helen to carry the water. I loved Helen when she dumped the rest of the water and ordered her to go back to the river and get more. Meleny threw the bucket down and refused so Helen told her she would not eat if she didn’t do it. Reluctantly, Meleny did as she was told.

I would have had a problem with what happened next. It seems guinea pig is a special treat in the mountain area of Peru. To honor Meleny, Helen grabs a cute little guinea pig and kills it with her bare hands. She then cleans off all the hair which caused Meleny to scream with fright. Helen cooked the little pig specially for Meleny, who took the tiniest bite she could and then refused to eat more, which offended Helen.

The next morning Meleny woke up feeling sick and was told by a doctor that she was suffering from altitude sickness. By day five she was feeling better and had fun doing what she loves; hair and makeup. The next day she ran and laughed with the llamas and partied at a special ceremony hosted by the family before heading home.

Back home her family say she has improved a lot. She enrolled in nursing school but I doubt she remained since the job of a nurse is to deal with touching people you might not want to. Her father says she started her own business, but her sister made it sound like she and her mom take care of the business and Meleny stops by and volunteers to help out sometimes. All in all, I doubt Meleny changed. As long as she can be daddy’s little girl, why would she?

The team investigate the case of a man who can project electricity…
and is at the center of a series of strange deaths involving electricity.

My wife has been doing a great job covering this season’s Biggest Loser Families. Last night she was all ready to do a post about the third episode of Biggest Loser season 6 when she got a phone call from a neighbor friend asking her if she wanted to go walking (ie. exercise). I think everyone can appreciate the irony of the situation. Does she stay and watch Biggest Loser Families or does she decide to do like people on the show and exercise?

I’m proud of my wife. She really didn’t even seem to blink an eye. She got up and ready and went out walking with the neighbor. Sure she missed an episode of one of her favorite TV shows, but it would have been kind of sad if she had watched Biggest Loser families and not tried to avoid some of the health problems the people on the show have experienced.

Luckily, I have a wonderful wife that will never let herself reach that point. Great choice honey and all of your rabid readers will welcome you with open arms next week.

I should mention that I’m certain if my wife had watched the show she’d have been crying through half of it. I may have had a tear reached the corner or my eye myself. Although, I’ll disavow any knowledge of such a thing happening. I’m glad Biggest Loser Families only kicked off one team member though.

Tonight was the premiere of Dirty Sexy Money. This is a crazy show with little intricacies that really show how well written it is. Unfortunately, if you don’t watch carefully you’ll miss a lot of the connections they’re making. It’s not a show that you can really watch casually. This show also really makes you wonder about what is going on with rich people in the world. It begs the question: how much (if any) of this is true and real.

Here’s a good video of Dirty Sexy Money actors on the red carpet talking about this season of the show:

Tonight’s episode was pretty good, but I think a bunch of it is just setting stuff up for the future. The cool part of the show is that nothing is unreal in this show. They could make up almost anything and have it seem feasible. Quite interesting.