Thursday, October 8, 2009

Not Enough Microphones

I was watching a star-studded celebrity cast singing a song. It seemed sort of like We Are the World. All the celebrities were standing behind a plastic window, singing into microphones, wearing headphones. I noticed Danny Wood from the New Kids on the Block singing with them. After a minute, he walked away from the group and approached four men sitting on black plastic chairs. They seemed like an audience, watching the rest of the singers. As it turns out, this group of four men was...the other New Kids! All of them: Donnie, Jordan, Joe, and Jonathan. Danny handed the mic to Jonathan, and he took Danny's place in the celebrity group. It turns out, the producers of this event didn't have enough microphones because they couldn't afford them, so the New Kids were all taking turns. Very sad...

2 comments:

jx said...

ooh. i do not like star-studded music videos, psa's or the like. they're so strange. it's like all the popular kids at school getting together and making a band that you hate.

Reem Tara said...

I LOVE(D) We Are the World. I think I was like 5 or 6 and it was so amazing to see all those artists together. And, um, I totally love that song. NOW, however, star-studded songs usually suck...i.e. the cover of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" that a bunch of people did after 9/11. It was awful and near offensive. And totally sounded like your fantastic analogy. Well done.