DJariya

I loved the original VH1 Behind the Music and I'm looking forward to the revival. This promo and announcement was from a month ago. But, it premieres in 5 days, so bringing it to your attention.

DJariya

This is up today. Don't know if anyone here has any interest in this.

But, 2 episodes are up. Ricky Martin and LL Cool J. They have been profiled before on the original VH1 series, but these are updated.


Here's the schedule for the 1st half of the season. The 2nd half airs later this year

7/29 - Ricky Martin/LL Cool J

8/5 - Huey Lewis

8/12 - Busta Rhymes

8/19 - Duran Duran

8/26 - New Kids on the Block

9/2 - Bret Michaels

9/9 - Fat Joe

DJariya

Alright I'm watching the LL Cool J episode. It's a mix of the original episode from VH1 and some newly shot interview footage of LL. The vast majority and narration is from the original VH1 episode and it's windowboxed. .

PhantomStranger

I would actually post this thread in the Music sub-forum. There will be more interest over there even though it's a tv show. Kind of interested in the Fat Joe episode.

Red Hood

So are all these “new” episodes just updated remixes of the original ones? If so, this is completely disappointing. With so many new acts since the last episode of the show aired, they could have chosen someone that they hadn’t covered before

DJariya

The LL Cool J episode appears to be 80-90% re-purposed from VH1. Looks like this original episode aired in 2013 and they put a graphic in the upper left showing the 2013 interviews. They do follow up with some more new material post 2013 in the last 10-15 minutes or so, including the BLM protests,

The narrator is the same from VH1 and he appears to be re-narrating the entire episode including the new segments.

JeffTheAlpaca

They could put this on VH1 since they have nothing good on that channel

Red Hood

This sucks. I remember that VH1 was doing the exact same thing back in 2010-13 with their remastered episodes which basically were updates to previous ones and then they had them replayed in VH1 Classics and MTV2. I get why they did it then but now Paramount is just being fucking lazy and pulling a bait and switch on what they said they were going to do. Like I said, there are too many bands and artists without a Behind the Music, so they could easily do new episodes. People like Robin Thicke, Lil Dicky, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Harry Styles, Adele, Daddy Yankee, Bad Bunny, etc, could have their own BTM. Really disappointed about the laziness with Paramount

DJariya

LL was talking on the set of NCIS LA. They probably just sent a camera and producer to there and talked to him for a couple of hours. Then they re-purposed the 2013 episode, added some new B-Roll, hired the old narrator for 1 day of work. I would guess they finished the episode up in a week at most. It does seem pretty lazy. And you're right that there have been so many artists with interesting stories over the last 10 years or so not covered by BTM in the past.

JeffTheAlpaca

I am not going to pay a montly fee to watch these.

MTV gets a lot of grief but VH1 use to be a cool channel with Storytellers, Rock Show, Behind The Music, Top 20 countdown, and music videos from 3-8 or 9am and now all of them are gone and VH1 is a sister channel of BET with Martin and Fresh Prince reruns and Nick Cannon shows.

dex14

Decker

There might be some interesting episodes this season, but starting out with Trace Adkins, Wolfgang Van Halen and Bell Biv DeVoe sure seems like a bad decision.

AaronHernandez

I could see Trace Adkins for the country fan demo as he had like half a dozen hit albums in the 90s and 00s and songs that topped the country chart.but like can't imagine anyone gives a F about a band that had 1 hit song 34 years ago and the son of Eddie Van Halen.

DJariya

Bell Biv Devoe had a 4 time platinum debut album and at least 3 singles from it. I have that album. And not only that, they were members Of New Edition. They are far from some no name one hit wonder. Michael Bivins also discovered Boyz II Men. I mean yeah like most 90s acts, they fell off. So I’m sure they have an interesting story.

cultshock

Not really interested in any of those, but who is the topic of the remaining fourth episode?

GuessWho

I would love to see this episode as I'm a big fan of Wolfgang Van Halen (but don't have Paramount+). His two albums are awesome--where he plays every instrument and does every vocal--and I'm really looking forward to seeing him open for Metallica this summer.

JeffTheAlpaca

I will watch the Ice T and WVH episodes.