I Call Shotgun!
I Call Shotgun! by Roxanne McDonald
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I call shotgun for several reasons—starting with needing it to take some bad characters out of our misery and not just to take the front seat position away from undeserving freaks like Lacey. |
Let’s do a check-in on the remaining “Rock of Love” girls,
instead of complaining about what is the inevitable fate of/regard for dating/reality competition shows, that is.
I am curious to see how I did with my initial consideration of the contenders for Bret’s “love” [on CDMusicRobot.com]…how my first impressions compare to current states of affairs.
Okay. Remember, I had little to go on other than a fifty-word bio on Vh1. Still, my instincts hit a couple of times:
Brandi M. I initially guessed how Brandi M. could be a good potential mate, what with her number of tats and being able to put her whole fist in her mouth. I also decided that despite being one of the most natural-looking and prettiest of the group, B.M. seemed likely to be one to Play Dirty, baby. Yep, remember how she confessed at a fine luncheon that she was known as BJ Brandi? Bret clearly liked this about her.
Heather, hailing from Columbus, Ohio, looked familiar to me…as I realized, yeah, Jackie Collins [same age, too, it seems]. I suggested at the start that maybe the Vegas dancer who admitted to having “been in several catfights” in the past was tossed in here for good TV. I’m stickin to my initial word.
Typically, Bret hands Heather a VIP Pass as he asks her something along the lines of staying as his “friend”. Yes, he tells us he appreciates her hottie photo shoots, but he doesn’t seem to want anything consistent and long-term with Heather beyond the “just friends” deal. You know that puts the kiss of doom on the poor old thing. If she could only come to realize this instead of definitively stating how she is “golden”, she is the one, and he is her man.
Jes I still like as one of the best for the rock stud. [Sorry, metal stud just sounds…so…wrong.] She still looks punk/Lauper/Melanie Griffith, but when she lets that outdated do go flat, she shows she has the prettiest and most contemplative face in the crowd. And, okay, if you want to go beyond the superficial [imagine doing so for a reality TV show…. Humph], she has never been unfaithful to a boyfriend in the past and shows the same stolid loyalty to Bret while at the same time retaining her
autonomy. I wouldn’t be surprised if she outlasts the less appealing/more aggressive Heather or even the following final-five freak:
Lacey. Call me skeptical. Call me a bitch. But there is something about this salacious saboteur, this mistress of mean [for the sake of being mean] who screams shill? She is a lead singer and writer for a rock band in Texas, and never ignores an opportunity to advertise this.
I called her [without knowing squat about her] “the token star-tripper wanna-be-on-TV to further-the-career type.” I also stick to this assessment, and add that maybe 1) she knew Bret before the show’s inception; 2) she is not really there for the same reason the others are purportedly there [notice how there is no love in er eyes or affection from her when she is alone with Bret?]; and/or 3) will still be there in the final hours of “Rock of Love”…, if, indeed the show is all about publicity and nothing more.
Whatever it is about the tendentious, whatever it is about her true objective, it is something just not quite right. Can’t wait to see the reveal.
This brings us to the fifth remaining contender for the role of one who will rock Bret’s world, the more innocuous but no less emotionally fraught darling of the group [yeah, though she is by far one of the most likeable/tolerable women left]:
Sam from Scarsdale, I decided before the show began, was going to be around for awhile. [Boy, do I ever get sore from patting self on back?] Sam is sensitive, pretty, and smart. She also tells Bret what he may not want to hear [about Lacey] and challenges him to get with it. She had said in her bio that she got easily intimidated, but she has held her own against the cutthroat efforts of the slimy strategists, Heather and Lacey.
Almost makes you miss Tiffany Two-fisted; or wonder if the publicity stunt that is “Rock of Love” yielded [post-production] anything other than some fun for viewers and players alike; or question how the supposed long-standing girlfriend has put up with all of the above.
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