Making My Head Hurt…4

Last night was the premiere of season 4 of Making The Band on MTV (apparently the first season that was sans P Diddy and gave us O-Town doesn’t count). I’ve been a fan of the show in its previous 3 Diddy filled installments as he’s sent aspiring singers on cheesecake runs and put camera hogging choreographers in check, but I think I’ve got to draw the line after watching last nights episode.

Puff has brought back previous winners girl band Danity Kane, solo artist Donnie, and the boy band he put together last season, to record their respective albums all at the same time. My first reaction was where are the remaining members of season 1 group Da Band? Anyway Diddy instantly goes into playing the good cop/bad cop with all 3 acts playing both cops himself. For example he tells Danity Kane to go out and party like crazy before getting into the studio and then holds member Aubrey back to scold her for being in the tabloids too much. Um Puff, you might want to watch that one since one of the tabloid spreads declared that you had knocked Aubrey up.

Of course the drama of the show this time around is not so much about making the band or even making the album, it’s all about making out with the other band. In one episode we see the women and boys flock to each other which I’m sure will make for some made for television drama. Diddy’s no dummy and I know he’ll do anything to sell some records so why not make the Bad Boy family an incestuous one. Unfortunately for that drama to work you have to care about the people and while most of them have some talent and they are all beautiful people (yes even Big Mike, go on with your bad self playa), they come off as empty soulless husks that Diddy has manufactured. In previous seasons watching people jump through Diddy’s hoops was intriguing mostly because you knew there was a huge reward at the end of the tunnel. This time around the stakes are lower, the fakeness is higher and the interest is nil.