Now That's What I Call Reality Pop

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I tried this on ILM during the Rough Guide era - the object being to create a compilation CD that would showcase the best of reality TV pop. The rules being:

- only 1 track per artist
- only artists and bands who formed/rose to stardom through a reality TV show
- only ace pop please.
- nothing pre 2000 (interesting cases of pre-Popstars/Pop Idol RTV shd be cited in the comments though)

So help me out. I've done the easy ones for starters:

Girls Aloud - No Good Advice
Will Young - Leave Right Now
Kelly Clarkson - Since You Been Gone
Hear'Say - Pure And Simple
Gareth Gates - Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake)
...

Over to you! (Foreign entries particularly welcome)

Comments

Re: Ashlee Simpson, people

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Is Ashlee really reality TV? I know Jessica had her programme (has she done any decent songs since? Surely she must have, but the only good Simpson Sr songs I know are pre-TV) but I don't know about Simpson Jr.

Of course, if we're bending the rules to include popstars who went on to have TV shows (as opposed to popstars created on TV shows) we have the entire BRITNEY catalogue open to us! Hurrah! 'Everytime' clearly the best.

Re: Ashlee Simpson, people

[koganbot]

Not bending the rules. The Ashlee Simpson Show was on MTV and among other things was about the making of her first album. She wasn't an established singer/pop star before the show. The album sold something like three-quarter million copies in the first week, because TV'd already established her. (Not that I saw the show; I've no TV. Never saw Seventh Heaven either, which was a show she acted in, though I don't think she was the main star.) Of course, having a famous sister helped her get attention (but also ensured that a lot of people would never take her seriously).

Re: Ashlee Simpson, people

[koganbot]

I know Jessica had her programme (has she done any decent songs since?

Yes, for instance "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'," lauded here.

Re: Ashlee Simpson, people

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of The Ashlee Simpson Show!

I kind of class Jessica's 'Boots' as "competently OK" rather than "great"...

Re: Ashlee Simpson, people

[koganbot]

Well, maybe by "competently OK" you mean "unlike any other dance track ever" or something. I'd certainly give it points for strangeness, even if I didn't love how it sounds.

Re: Ashlee Simpson, people

[koganbot]

Info on The Ashlee Simpson Show. Also, it turns out that Autobiography only sold 398,000 in its first week, which was still enough to put it number one.

Ashlee had played Cecilia in Seventh Heaven from 2002-2004, but the show had been on the air since 1996 and continued after she left (I'd thought it ended last year, but apparently episodes have appeared this year): "The Camdens, a Christian family living in California, face the challenges of trying to live a moral life in a confusing world. Jam-packed with thinly disguised public service announcements, this show may seem very conservative to its viewers (what with its constant anti-sex and anti-drug messages, its parents' hysterical responses to their children's' misbehaviors, and its teenage female characters' fixations on getting married)."