What more do you want out of it?

VH1 has now become some big entertainment and pop culture channel. I decided to scratch out the music video programs it provides because they rarely show music videos on a daily basis. VH1 is TOTALLY not like it was many years ago. I think factors like Celebreality, other random celebrity shows, Best Week Ever, and the I Love the... series has cut and molded this channel into a pop culture information guide and reality television provider. I'm annoyed with this. In the past, I was used to the music channels and some of the biopics of musicians VH1 showed. Now, it has become a cheesy and "poppy" channel, ready to burst out and give you the latest gossip on crap that most people probably don't care about or air the most pointless shows in reality history. Sigh. I don't know. As time passes, VH1 is going to continue to deliver more and more usless and wasteful amounts of programs and I think it'll make me lose my interest in the channel; I'll probably switch over to its sister channel, MTV, instead.

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I love the NEW millenium!

Wowza! I brand new decade to look back on in the I Love the... series, the 2000s. I kind of thought that it was too early to air this season because this decade is not over yet; we're still in the middle of 2008 and we still have 2009 left to go. I guess they are not patient and they want to bring the nostalgia back to us. Ever since I watched I Love the '90s and I Love the '90s: Part Deux, I was full of excitement and curiosity on when the 2000s will air and what it would be called. Eventually I decided to wait until 2010 or later when it would air, but I found out recently that it would be on this week! I was in shock. I have seen a couple glimpses of the episodes and they are just as silly and wacked-out as the previous I Love the... series. It is great to see what happened in our world since 2000. I was 8-years-old when the new millenium hit and it's been a wild decade, full of disasters, tragedies, new styles, new laws, new music, new trends, and a new technology. The 2000s, to me, was full of fun and misery at the same time. I live most of this decade here in Arlington and I got used to everything around here. I don't feel like this is the best decade. I like to stick with the old patterns and styles, much like the 1990s but whatever. I just have to face with the new beginning that come along the way.

What a waste...

There was a little jingle VH1 made up back in 2005, I think. These random people would get up and sing out, "There's no place like Celebreality. There's no place like Celebreality!" Wow. I'm glad they don't show that segment anymore.

Celebreality, a special genre of television that VH1 provides. Where in the world did that come from?! It first started out back in 2003, when the first celebreality show The Surreal Life premiered. However, the first season of The Surreal Life premiered on the WB (now CW), but later switched to VH1. The Surreal Life later brought influences and creations of new (and retarded) Celebreality shows. Here's an example:

Flavor Flav was a cast member of the third season of The Surreal Life with Brigitte Nielsen. After "falling in love" on the show, Flav and Nielsen decided to start a pointless spin-off called Strange Love. Then after their love ended, Flav decided on creating a show similar to The Bachelor called Flavor of Love. He would eliminate hopeless singles until he found the right one for him. Flav would give the singles special nicknames to go by to make his experience interesting. In the final episode of the first season, he had to choose between the final two: Tiffany "New York" Pollard and Nicole "Hoopz" Alexander. Flav ended up choosing Hoopz and left New York behind. Unfortunately, his love with Hoopz ended later on and he decided on making a second season of the show. The second season was just another waste of time. New York came back to beat all the new faces of the second season. As time went by and more and more singles went "bye-bye", it ended up between New York (again) and Chandra "Deelishis" Davis. New York lost AGAIN, but once again Flav and Deelishis did not last. What a waste of television!

New York felt incredibly heart broken and decided she wanted to make her own version of The Bacherlorette called I Love New York. She found love in the first season but ended up insulting her final choice and ended up heart broken... again. A second season emerged and she ended up with someone, but that didn't work out and soon a new season will be called New York Goes To Hollywood. How pointless.

Poison's lead singer, Bret Michaels, eventually copied Flavor Flav and New York's idea to create his own version called Rock of Love with Bret Michaels. First season... of course a waste of time because it did not work out between him and winner Jes Rickleff. Sigh. A second season was created and he ended up being with Ambre Lake. I wonder if they're still together.

The contestants of Flavor of Love became the contestants of another meaningless spin-off called Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School... and I hear there may be a new second season, Rock of Love Girls: Charm School 2.

That's too many shows... all result from Flavor Flav. I blame it on him why there are multiple spin-offs just from the third season of The Surreal Life.

Other shows that followed:

Flavor of Love 3

The Surreal Life: Fame Games

My Fair Brady

I Love Money

Celebra Cadabra

Hogan Knows Best

Celebrity Fit Club

Breaking Bonaduce

Celebrity Paranormal Project

Ego Trip's Miss Rap Supreme

Gene Simmons' Rock School

Ice-T's Rap School

I Know My Kid's a Star

Kept

Mission: Man Band

The Pick-up Artist

The Salt-N-Pepa Show
Scott Baio Is 45...and Single
Scott Baio Is 46...and Pregnant

Shooting Sizemore

Viva Hollywood!

... and many more!

There's just way too much. It's so annoying and pointless, just like the little short-lived jingle they had. "There's no place like Celebreality. There's no place like Celebreality!"

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When it started...

On January 1st, 1985, nearly four years after the launch of Music Television (MTV), a new channel was created to bring a softer side of popular music. Video Hits One (VH-1) became a sister channel to MTV that day and delivered a variety music videos to the masses in the 1980s. During that decade, VH-1 played music videos from the "lighter" genres, but also showcased older videos from the 1960s.

In the early 1990s, after a decline in ratings, VH-1 emerged with a new look. VH-1 was renamed "VH1: Music First" (VH1) in 1994. VH1 decided to follow in MTV's footsteps and concentrate more on music-related shows than music videos. New shows were broadcast to bring up ratings. Such shows like Video Countdown, Pop-Up Video, Behind the Music, and Legends were aired to show new and interesting facts, interviews, concerts and history about musicians and their music. In 1999, VH1 began to air various movies, mostly biopics, in Movies That Rock. Most of these shows, except Movies That Rock, aired until the 2000s, when a another new era of VH1 emerged.

In 2003, VH1 brought out a fresh new look by dropping "Music First" in its name and creating a new color logo. The shows from the 1990s were out and the new varieties of shows were in. Like MTV, VH1 began to show less music videos and show more "pop culture". The pop culture began with a line of reality television shows, Celebreality, and pop culture nostalgia, I love the... series.

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Transition of television preferences

When I was little, I usually spent most of my time watching Nickelodeon and at time Cartoon Network. Those two channels were all that mattered during that time. When I got a little older, I would move on to Disney Channel, the Family Channel, now known as ABC Family, a little bit of MTV, then MTV2, and of course VH1. I enjoyed being entertained with cartoons, game shows, sitcoms, and dramas for kids, but I wanted to see other aspects like music, music videos, celebrity rubbish, sitcoms or dramas for older kids, and reality television. At an early age, I just watched whatever. There was no parental blockers on my television and my parents barely blocked me from programs that were not suitable for children my age. I just took in what I watched and either loved them or hated them.
Somewhere around the age of 10, I was making a transformation. I started to enjoy MTV, MTV2, VH1, and a new channel called MuchMusic USA (MMUSA), now known as FUSE. Watching music videos a lot more than before gave me a glimpse of the world of music. Music soon became a big part of my life before I became a teen. That was what I was obsessing over. My taste in Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network faded away and besides, my favorite shows on "Nick" were eventually cancelled and I soon tuned out.
Around the age of 12, I would be tuning in to the Real World and Road Rules on MTV, the weekly Rock Countdown on MTV2, and a load of music videos and specials on MMUSA. Being exposed to these shows made me feel more edgy and less girly, more unique and less plain. I was glued in to the repetitive censorship of profanity and language on the reality shows and music videos. At times, I felt wrong. I felt bad because I was looking at things I did not want to see, but I could not turn back time. I had to get used to it because at that time music channels and such were the somewhat "cool" channels to watch, better than "Nick" and Cartoon Network, better than Disney Channel and the Family Channel.