American Idol judge/songwriter-for-hire Kara DioGuardi is taking her televisual success to a new place—she told New York’s Diana Scholl that she’s developing a TV show of her own. And it actually sounds like something that I would not only watch, but document kind of obsessively. Behold: Dropped!
“It takes the best acts that have been dropped and gives them a second chance. You look at Katy Perry, the Jonas Brothers, Alicia Keys, and Lady Gaga, they all have one thing in common: They’ve all been dropped from their labels … I was dropped. Think about how many times in your life you haven’t achieved one goal but you’ve achieved another one.”
DioGuardi says the show would focus on music — and more! “[It'll be] ‘You didn’t get up at five this morning to go to a radio interview. How do you think that’s doing to affect you?’” (Negatively, we bet.) So will she be the host of Dropped? “Oh, my God, now we’re getting into particulars … All right, maybe! I shouldn’t have opened my big mouth.”
Of course if things keep going the way they’ve been going for the record labels the potential castmember pool will get pretty gigantic. But I can think of so many people who would be great candidates for this show! It would be like Bands Reunited with less-embarrassing past hairstyles and fuller heads of hair in the present! Dear some network out there, please put this into production ASAP. (Just don’t let Kara do any voice-overs, OK? Because seriously, that quote up there made me think, “Ah, good old Kara. There’s no “DioGuardi” without “I,” right?”)
Vulture Exclusive: Kara DioGuardi Shops New Reality Show, Dropped [Vulture]
Paula Abdul as the host, FTW!
BREAKING NEWS: Kara DioGuardi fired as creator of “Dropped,” to be replaced by Kate Clinton.
I can garauntee that the dropped-by-Island/Rock The Cradle alum/daughter of Joe Lucy Walsh will be on this.
Which means I will not be anywhere near it. Ugh.
Can’t we just get “Bands on the Run” back? Or at least put Flickerstick on “Dropped”, maybe?
@Audif Jackson Winters III: Bands on the Run was the best thing, seriously. The all-girl metal band (Harlot?) was just perfect.
Fucking VH1 now only produces reality shows about anything but music.
@fre2daa: Harlow. But ha!!
@Maura: Close enough!
Flickerstick put out a great live album and follow up album that I thought were pretty decent. Enough so that I bought them at least. I would *love* to see a return of Band On The Run, and the Dropped show idea is also a lot better than much of the content on tv these days.
VH-1 is following the footsteps of MTV in terms of actually having anything directly to do with music. I guess they figure since they have shows with musicians doing stuff totally unrelated to music it somehow still counts?
Wasn’t one of the women in Harlow a former member of Kittie or some such?
@revmatty: I don’t remember the other two bands, one was like some sort of jam multi cultural band or something? The other, I don’t have any memories about them.
@fre2daa: One of the other two was Soulcracker, which was portrayed as blatantly careerist and willing to skirt the rules to win the competition. And yes, the fourth band was very much what you described, kind of a Dave Matthews Band knockoff that was mostly forgettable and, as I recall, the first band to get kicked off.
@Audif Jackson Winters III: Yeah! I’m starting to remember now! They were the first ones kicked off. And it was weird because all the ‘tough-rocker’ types were crying like little girls, and the actual girls were chillin’ in the back. Memories!
@fre2daa: One of the early eliminees (sp?) was a pretty decent piano-rock band that I was sad to see go. Then the jam-bandy one had a few good songs including the possibly cleverly titled 40oz of Domestic Violence.