#EntertainmentPSB: “The Walking Dead” – Season Six – February 11, 2016

By: Kris Watkins @KrisWatkinsPSB and Jonathan Hemingway @JLHemingwayPSB

The Walking Dead returns this Sunday with a mid-season premier for Season Six. When the first half of season ended, Alexandria was in disarray. Walkers broke through the walls and the group is attempting an escape. Here is commentary on the show from PSB Pop Culture analysts Jonathan Hemingway and Kris Watkins, who have tuned in to the show faithfully over the previous seasons.

Predictions for the Upcoming Season:

HEMINGWAY: I think this is the season where the group will face the most formidable challenge to date. The teasers at the end of last season alludes to this. Daryl and company run into a character that introduces himself as Negan. From all accounts, Negan’s group is not only evil but they are competent. In the past, Rick and company have been able to outsmart if not out muscle potential enemies. It now appears that Negan’s group will challenge the group in ways unseen before.

At this moment, who is your favorite character and why?

HEMINGWAY: Of course I like Rick, but everyone loves Rick. If you don’t like Rick – then you don’t like the show. But in terms of a character really growing and being intriguing I would say Carol. Here is a woman that was a victim of domestic abuse at the beginning of the story. Now she has just morphed into this strong and cunning character. Not only will she not take anything from anyone, she knows how to stay a step in front of her enemy. Her presentation of herself to Alexandria as this pie-making homemaker was brilliant. All the while she was preparing to protect herself and others from the naïve in the town.

WATKINS: Daryl is a character who I look forward to seeing every episode.  He has an old soul and it shows throughout each season.  I think he battles with being a part of the group and wanting to be a loner. I think he is beginning to no longer want to follow Rick’s lead.  I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a split in the group at some point this season and I could see him leading the break. 

Who is your least favorite character and why?

WATKINS: I despise Carl and I am ready for him to go.  I watch every episode hoping that he gets attacked by walkers and winds up dead with Rick holding him in his arms yelling “CAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLL.”  I really cannot figure out what his purpose in the show is and I do not feel like his character has developed at all since they left the prison. His only purpose is to hold his sister Judith in scenes.  I believe it is his time to man up and start acting like a MAN.  He had a chance to win me over in the last episode when he could have killed Ron and had Enid for himself (This is something is father, Rick, would have done/has done when he killed Pete), but instead he didn’t and I think this leaves the opportunity for Ron to kill him later this season.

HEMINGWAY: Father Gabriel needs to go. This guy infuriates me. Not only is a coward and apparently cost the lives of his entire congregation, but at a critical moment he calls Rick’s group “Dangerous People.” What a jerk! This group saved his sorry butt more than once. His tangled past and mental instability are a liability.

Favorite moment from the Series:

WATKINS: Without a doubt my favorite moment of the season was when Rick killed Shane.  In the scene Shane is questioning everything about Rick’s manhood and ability to care for his own family telling him, “I am a better father than you Rick, I’m better for Lori than you…I’m a better man than you Rick.” I think this is the moment when Rick’s character really took shape for me to become the man he has to be to keep his group/family alive.  I think that the fact the he kills him by stabbing as opposed to shooting him shows the darkness Rick is willing to go because stabbing is more intimate as opposed to simply shooting Shane. 
 
HEMINGWAY: Episode 1 of Season 5 was epic. It appears that Rick, Glen and Daryl are about to get their necks sliced by the cannibals at Terminus. Then at the right moment Carol, coated in walker blood and entrails, launches a fire cracker into a gas tank and creates a huge explosion. This creates a distraction that allows Rick and company to escape their doom. Eventually the group is able to escape Terminus and their once cannibalized fate.

What is the most important theme of the series?

HEMINGWAY: It could be a cliché by now, but I think it is worth repeating: What does it mean to be human? The show takes the viewer to some pretty dark places in this post-apocalyptic world. No government, no civilization and virtually no hope to escape the impending doom of being ate by zombies. The writers of the show do a masterful job of developing the characters and showing their growth. Rick, who was once soft in comparison to Shane, now acts like a savage at times. It is through this that the audience can play out the “What would I do while being surrounded by walkers” scenario. In a world that has no clear definition of right and wrong, Rick’s group always seem to balance survival with what is the right thing to do. And if you think about it, don’t we all do that on a daily basis? Minus the zombies, of course.

WATKINS: I think the two major themes that currently go hand in hand are Morality and Family. There are times you may have to do things that maybe are not necessarily moral/humane in order to protect your family.  You see this time and time again with the main group of the show has to test the limits of how far they are willing to go to protect their family.  It will be interesting this season to see the links Rick and his crew are willing to protect their own. 

If you have never tuned into the series, why should you on Sunday?

HEMINGWAY: Zombie movies, Sci-Fi genres were not in my rotation of entertainment just a few years ago. My programming choices consisted of ESPN or TBS prior to being married. Life changes. Although The Walking Dead does directly conflict with Sunday Night Football during the NFL season, I finally heeded my wife’s recommendation and began watching this series about a year and half ago. All of this is to say, this show reaches a broad audience of viewers from all over the country.

Moreover, the quality of writing, production and visual affects is movie quality. It once could have been said that true quality of entertainment could only be found at the movie theater. TV entertainment was once known for sitcom laughs or soap opera quality acting in the evening. This is not true of shows like The Walking Dead on AMC. The acting quality and storylines play out weekly like that on the big screen. The enjoyment of having to wait from week to week or even months to see the next twist in the story only fuels anticipation. Give it a shot when the show returns this Sunday – I don’t think you will be disappointed.

HEMI-HEAD-SHOTJonathan Hemingway is a Chicago sports fan who reps the Bears, Bulls and Cubs. He’s also a diehard NFL Sunday Ticket subscriber. Like Clay, Hemingway’s music taste are wide-ranged and depend on the day. He is also a major part of PeachStateBasketball.com wearing multiple hats with the title of Director of Domestic Scouting and owning CoachHemi.com.

Kris WatkinsKris Watkins is a contributor to PSBPopCulture.com. He’s well-versed in multiple walks of life from the latest Brooks sneakers to gluten free beverages. In his spare time, Watkins is considered a go-to in the world video editing and junior college basketball recruiting. Make sure to follow Watkins on Instagram and Twitter @KrisWatkinsPSB.

#PSBPopCulture: Who is Bob Dylan? – February 10, 2016

By: Jonathan Hemingway @JLHemingwayPSB

Bob Dylan has played important part of my life. You have to understand that my father used to spin Dylan vinyl albums in our living room when I was a child. We would listen to Dylan albums on cassette tapes on the way to Wednesday night church. And of course there was always the Highway 61 Revisited album in the stereo when my dad and I would play table tennis in the basement. Recently, Jimmy Fallon impersonated Bob Dylan on the Tonight Show doing a rendition of Drake’s Hot Line Bling to the tune of Dylan’s Positively 4th Street.

For the millennials who may not know who Bob Dylan is, here are some quick hitters on what most people associate Dylan with:
-Bad singing
-Harmonica Playing
-Folk songs

While it was not actually Dylan singing on the Tonight Show, it was a pretty accurate impersonation of Dylan. So who is Bob Dylan and how did he become such an iconic figure within popular culture?

Here is My Answer…

Before the hippies turned America upside down in the Sixties, the beatniks were the counter-cultural influence in America in the Fifties. It is out of their embracement of folk music that Dylan emerged as a cultural leader. In fact one of his more popular songs from 1963, Blowin’ in the Wind, spoke to wide audience of people. Take the opening the lines of the song as an example:

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

The first two lines could be interpreted as a questioning of America’s segregation system. The mentioning of doves and cannon balls could be alluding to the Cold War with the Soviet Union or the imminent war of containment in Asia. 1963 was an important year in American History. It was the year that Dr. Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream Speech” in Washington DC. It was also the year that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. And the country was on the precipice of sending American men to Vietnam. It is impossible to quantify just how influential Dylan was with his music and anti-establishment message.

The pattern of Dylan’s career could be simplified to this: He refuses to be pigeon-holed. In 1965 he hooked up an amplifier to his guitar, went electric and turned his back on the folk music community. In one of the recordings of his early live electric shows you can hear Dylan yelling at his band to “Play f*&%king loud!” This was the ultimate snub to the beatnik/folk music community that was rejecting everything modern, including electrified rock music.

Dylan produced three Platinum albums during this period that would be anthems of counter-culture movement of the 60s. Songs such as Like A Rolling Stone, Highway 61 and Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 would become anthems of the age.

By 1969 when the hippies converged on Woodstock, N.Y., for three days of “Peace and Music,” Dylan was absent. Again he had changed the course of his music creativity and produced a country album. My favorite song from his 1969 album, Nashville Skyline, is Girl from the North Country. He teamed up with Johnny Cash on this song and appeared to be able to sing and carry tune. My father told me of an interview where Dylan was asked why he was able to sing so well on this album. Dylan said, “I stopped smoking cigarettes for a few weeks.”

For my 16th birthday, my father bought me a couple of cds. He handed me Blood on the Tracks and just said “Here, you’re going to need this.” I had no idea what he meant, but I would soon understand. This would become the most important album in my 20s. Some background: Dylan recorded this album after his separation from his wife Sara in 1975. The entire album is about love, love lost and trying fit pieces that don’t fit together anymore. I played that cd hundreds of times during my separation and subsequent divorce of my ex-wife. My father was right, I would need it.

There are too many meaningful lines from this album to pick my favorite, but here is one from Shelter from the Storm:

Now there’s a wall between us, somethin’ there’s been lost
I took too much for granted, I got my signals crossed
Just to think that it all began on an uneventful morn
Come in, she said
I’ll give ya shelter from the storm

Dylan continued to puzzle and amaze fans and critics. In the early 80’s he became a born-again Christian and released three Christian albums. Less than two decades before this, Dylan was said to have been the man that introduced the Beatles to marijuana. Now he was legitimately a believer and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ through his music. By 1983 he returned to secular music and released the album Infidels, which would go Gold.
In 1989 he teamed up with the Grateful Dead to release the album Dylan and the Dead. Then he helped form the Traveling Wilburys and released two albums. That group featured some of the best rock musicians of the 20th century, which included Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and George Harrison. That collaboration stands as two of my favorite albums of all time.

In the mid-90s Dylan nearly died from a bacterial infection, but battled through and made a classic album called Time Out of Mind. This would be his first Platinum record in nearly two decades. One of the more popular songs from that album is called “To Make You Feel My Love.” This song was so influential, it was covered by Billy Joel, Garth Brooks and later by Adele. I also had this song on my wedding playlist when I married Nakita in 2013 (we played the Adele version…her voice is a bit more pleasing for a wedding crowd).

My favorite line from that song:
I could make you happy, make your dreams come true
Nothing that I wouldn’t do
Go to the ends of the earth for you
To make you feel my love
While his music through the 80s, 90s and into the 21st century would not be as popularly acclaimed as his work during the 60s, Dylan manages to stay relevant. For his fans, his music is always cutting edge. His message, although at times in code, speaks to an audience.

The questions that Dylan always seems to bring up in terms of music and pop culture, are:

“What does it mean to be successful in music?”
“Does the evolution of an artist necessarily mean he/she is selling out?”
“Should an artist cash in his/her 15 minutes of fame while sacrificing relevancy in the future?”
“Does an artist have to produce top 40 hits to be successful or popular?”
“What is more important: the art, the message or the money?”

A close study of Dylan’s life and career will show that he is a paradox. Maybe even a hypocrite. Here is a man that left the ‘60s culture to sell country records. But in the 21st century he has been on more than one commercial. Or maybe he has been playing us the whole time as the commercial below alludes to:

He was the voice of counter-culture who turned into an evangelical Christian. Was this a part of a master plan to sell more records? Or was he being true to his experience at the moment? Or is he a man that truly appreciates making art that he is satisfied with?

To me, there are no answers to any of these questions. He is just an interesting musician to follow. You never know what you are going to get from one album to the next. That is what keeps all of us Dylan fans coming back.

HEMI-HEAD-SHOTJonathan Hemingway is a Chicago sports fan who reps the Bears, Bulls and Cubs. He’s also a diehard NFL Sunday Ticket subscriber. Like Clay, Hemingway’s music taste are wide-ranged and depend on the day. He is also a major part of PeachStateBasketball.com wearing multiple hats with the title of Director of Domestic Scouting and owning CoachHemi.com.

#EntertainmentPSB: “The Bachelor” – Episode Five – February 7, 2016

By: @KTaylorPSB

Ben takes the girls to Mexico where they have a gorgeous suite to sit around and talk about each other. But Olivia wants everyone to calm down as a bidet isn’t that impressive because she has one at her house. Surprise, surprise. Ben decides to wake the girls up at 4:20 am (how original of you Bachelor producers) to see if he can find a girl who wakes up as stunning as Britt from Chris Soules season. Ben spots a girl’s weave and yells out “whose weave is this?” in my favorite Ben quote of the season so far. Ben finds his Britt, it’s Amanda looking stunning at 4:30 am minus the glitter eye shadow. On the opposite end of the spectrum Lauren H. took the cake wearing a metal retainer. But you have to love a girl who can laugh at herself.

Amanda gets the first one-on-one date. Amanda is Emily Maynard’s brunette twin, how can you hate her?! Looking at you, Olivia. Ben takes Amanda hot air balloon ride because that’s so Mexico. Amanda opened up to Ben about her ex-husband who sounded like as douchey as Juan Pablo. Ben continues to be a complete gentleman, as he has the entire season, and takes the story of Amanda’s past in the best way possible. Amanda is so sweet but I don’t know if her and Ben have much of a connection. Maybe a Bachelorette front-runner for next season?

Group date: Ben takes the women to a Spanish class, following up with a Spanish cooking glass. Olivia and Jubilee literally fight over Ben and I have a feeling that that weave Ben saw on the dresser is about to reappear after the fight.

Becca: She is real life hairstyle goals. Her and Caila didn’t get much TV time this episode, but that’s because there was so much drama the normal girls didn’t have a chance this week.

The twin: Claims to be out her element in all things Spanish, mainly because she is missing the other half of her brain. Apparently, it takes two twins to learn one line of Spanish and cook a meal for Ben.

JoJo: I want her entire wardrobe. It’s starting to make me think that Cartier bracelet was the real deal.

Jennifer: I am so confused as to why Jennifer never gets any airtime. She must be incredibly normal, but if that’s the case I don’t know how she even got on the show.

Lauren B: It’s difficult to pull off all white, but take lessons ladies Lauren B. shows us how it’s done. That dress is flawless. Ben clearly agrees because he couldn’t keep his hands off of her when he pulled her aside during the group date. Their chemistry is undeniable, and I’m definitely thinking she makes it to the final two.

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Leah: I have no idea how she is still on this show.

Jubilee: She was consistently pouting like the three year olds I work with, someone needs to move her green card to yellow. Everyone always talks about Olivia’s facial expressions but Jubilee’s sassy eye rolls are amazing. After refusing to hold Ben’s hand or tell him that she loves him in Spanish class, it was time for her to pack her bags and head home early. Looks like Olivia won this war Jubilee.

Jubilee-Pout

Olivia: Her facial expressions are getting out of hand; tone down the crazy eyes Olivia. The girls have had enough of her at this point. However, she continues to beat the girls to Ben first on every group date, maybe it’s her weird toes making her so fast. We now have the “Olivia Bashing List” that consists of: cankles, weird toes, and bad breath. Maybe her breath just smelled because of the “dog dish” she prepared in the cooking competition. Despite subpar cooking skills and the Olivia Bashing List getting longer, she somehow manages to get the group date rose (cue to the tears of several other girls).

The chef from the group date leaves us with this quote: “When you’re ready to cook, you’re ready to get married.” Jubilee was the only good cook, and he sent her home so let’s hope that isn’t true.

Lauren H. got the second one-on-one date. Ben tells us that “one thing people don’t know about Mexico City is that it is known for fashion” well if no one knows that, is it really known for fashion, Ben? The duo goes to Mexican fashion week, which is so well known that they let two people with no modeling experience walk in the show. Lauren H. is so dorky it’s adorable, while Ben’s taking it so seriously he looks like Derek Zoolander. Regardless the two are “really, really ridiculously good looking.”

This episode left us with a cliffhanger during the cocktail party after a Teen Mom comment was made by Olivia to Amanda. To which Amanda responds with “Well you remind me of Snookie from Jersey Shore who doesn’t have her life together, but you don’t hear me saying that to your face.” Amanda for the win. This little feud sends the twin over the edge and she cries uncontrollably to Ben about her hate for Olivia and the other girls follow her lead.

Until next week we won’t know who goes home with Jubilee but my money is on Leah. Mainly because her rose ceremony dress looks like a reused bridesmaid dress and it’s awful. That and she gets zero camera time.

Taylor-Staff-PicTaylor Johnson serves as Brandon Clay’s personal stylist and is one of the most fashionable people in Atlanta. While attending graduate school at Georgia State, she’ll contribute to various categories throughout the PSBPopCulture.com site.

#iTunesSounds: Panic! at the Disco – “Death of a Bachelor” – February 7, 2016

By: Kris Watkins @KrisWatkinsPSB

With every album, Panic! at the Disco keeps it fresh and changes things up a bit and band keeps that same philosophy with the latest release, “Death of a Bachelor” with lead singer and only remaining original band member, Brendon Urie, channeling his inner Frank Sinatra on numerous tracks.

I have been a Panic! at the Disco fan since their debut 2005 album, “A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out.” My roommate at the time, Blake, left the CD in my car and I lied to him when he asked if I had it because I loved the cd and didn’t’ want to give it back. Not only did I love that album but the music video for the hit song “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” is one of my favorites of all time.

Official Video: “I Write Sins Not Tragedies”

Here are my favorite tracks from this latest album:

3) “Hallelujah”

Breakdown: I love a song that allows us to embrace our mistakes (sins) but still know that we can move forward once we own up to what has transgressed in the past. This song has a strong chorus that is catchy and has you singing out “Hallelujah” every time it gets to the hook.

Favorite Line: “No one wants you when you have no heart and I’m sitting pretty in my brand new scars and you’ll never know if you don’t ever try again.”

5) “Death of a Bachelor”

Breakdown: Urie kills it and really shows his range in this song hitting the high falsettos and deep baritones to go along with an instrumental arrangement that reminds you of modern day Sinatra song. Urie not only sings about the end of an era of bachelorhood, but more importantly the promise of a brighter era when you fall in love with a woman and commit your life to them.

Favorite Line: “Oh Seems so fitting for happily ever after How could I ask for more? A lifetime of laughter At the expense of the death of a bachelor?”

6) “Crazy=Genius”

Breakdown: Upbeat with a swing music feel that makes you want to get up and dance and swing your lady around on the dancefloor.

Favorite Line: “Other boys you may have dated serrated your heart with a slice, but the cut off your love never hurts, Baby, it’s a sweet butter knife”

Panic! At The Disco even made Jimmy Kimmel Live:

Kris WatkinsKris Watkins is a contributor to PSBPopCulture.com. He’s well-versed in multiple walks of life from the latest Brooks sneakers to gluten free beverages. In his spare time, Watkins is considered a go-to in the world video editing and junior college basketball recruiting. Make sure to follow Watkins on Instagram and Twitter @KrisWatkinsPSB.

#iTunesSounds: Drake – “Summer Sixteen” – February 6, 2016

By: Donte’ Grant @DineroJones and Brandon Clay @psbpopculture

Drake is claiming 2016 as his year as his next album will be released in April. The Canadian artist, who is featured on Rihanna’s new single Work is getting into album mode, announcing his long-awaited fourth solo LP, “Views From the 6” is on the way.

Expected to arrive later this year, Drizzy gives fans a preview of what to expect on Views, premiering a new street single, “Summer Sixteen” on OVO Sound Radio on Beats 1.  Slide over to iTunes/Apple Music to purchase or stream “Summer Sixteen” which is produced by OVO in house beat monsters Boi-1da, 40, and CuBeatz.

CLAY’S TAKE: I was sitting courtside watching Kansas State last Saturday night when our PSBPopCulture.com Team Member, Jordan Davis, messaged me about this track. Let me say, I played it 20 times on the way from Manhattan back to Kansas City that night. Drake spared NO ONE on this. He touched Barack Obama with a line, “my verses are like the whips that you ride in, they’re bulletproof.” Drake then reengaged Meek Mill after winning this summer’s battle versus the Philly-based rapper. “I let the diss record drop, you were staying right below me (at the Four Seasons hotel). We must have played it 100 times, you were going to bed. Why would I wear a vest, you’re supposed to aim for the head?”

Next up, Mr. Graham took on Toronto’s own Tory Lanez. “All you boys in the New Toronto (a shot at Lanez’s mixtape title) wanna be me a little…you was never gang gang gang gang, you was never one of us.”

He even got a quick jab at Kanye West. “My pool is bigger than Kanye’s. Kanye’s pool is nice, mine’s just bigger is what I’m sayin.”

With Views from the 6 on the horizon, it will be interesting to see if Drake continues his “Shots Fired” campaign.

Listen to Drizzy’s announcement on OVO Sound from Beats 1 Radio on Apple Music below.

Screen Shot 2016-01-25 at 12.29.24 PMDonte’ Grant is a contributor to PSBPopCulture.com. Grant, a 10-year music industry veteran, a former A&R at Atlantic Records, Jeezy’s CTE label, and founder of TheOrganizedGrind. Follow him on IG @MuchoDineros and Twitter @dinerojones.

Brandon Clay serves as the publisher of PSBPopCulture.com. A self-professed entertainment, music and sports junkie, Clay has been on his game since picking up his first Nintendo and Sony Walkman in the early 90’s. Adding in a SLAM (Basketball) Magazine subscription in the late-90’s had him setup up for lifelong success. Clay is also a founding member of the “Luxury Boys Club” designed to stay on top of whatever is next in the world of PopCulture. You can follow him on Twitter @psbpopculture.

#iTunesSounds: Kanye West – “Waves” – February 2, 2016

By: Donte’ Grant @DineroJones

Kanye West aka The “Louis Vuitton Don” is back in the news with less than two weeks to go until his highly anticipated new album drops. This time, the news isn’t a new song dropping. It’s actually him dropping his album title.

What initially was going to be title So Help Me God then changed to Swish (which I never liked as a title by the way) now is titled Waves. A day after unveiling the track list to the then 10-song LP, Yeezy announced the album will now be titled Waves. Oh, and apparently with the new title came the addition of a new song. Mr. West added “Ultra Light Beam” to make Waves an 11 track opus.

Waves will debut at New York City’s Madison Square Garden during the Yeezy Season 3 fashion show which will be broadcasted live to various theatres across the world.

Can February 11th get here already???

Screen Shot 2016-01-25 at 12.29.24 PMDonte’ Grant is a contributor to PSBPopCulture.com. Grant, a 10-year music industry veteran, a former A&R at Atlantic Records, Jeezy’s CTE label, and founder of TheOrganizedGrind. Follow him on IG @MuchoDineros and Twitter @dinerojones.

#EntertainmentPSB: “The Bachelor” – Episode Four – February 1, 2016

By: @KTaylorPSB

Caila starts off the episode saying what America is thinking “Jubilee is a tough girl, no one can tell the difference between Haley and Emily, and Olivia is driving everyone nuts.” The show’s host, Chris Harrison, interrupts her girl bashing and comes to the mansion to tell the girls that they are going to Vegas: where everyone finds either love or strippers. Semantics.

JoJo gets the first date card that says Ben is going to set her heart on fire. Immediately the camera shoots to Olivia who looks like she is trying to set JoJo on fire with her special love super powers. Instead Olivia settles for moving a table with her mind to almost knock JoJo off a building. JoJo opened up to Ben about her last relationship and how “they” betrayed her. She continues to use the pronoun “they” DJ Khaled style to refer to her past relationship in a very aloof way. Hey JoJo never trust “they”. Major key. If you haven’t seen Khaled’s Snapchat, please take five minutes and get a couple of laughs in. Thank me later.

Sidenote: JoJo was sporting a bracelet very similar to the $6,000 Cartier version that Kylie Jenner wears. Still not sure if it was a knockoff or not, but if it isn’t “they” wasn’t treating you so poorly JoJo.

Ben takes the girls on a group date with some creepy puppet guy. In possibly the greatest group date in The Bachelor history, the girls perform in a talent (I use the word talent loosely) show on stage for 1000 people.

Here’s my takeaway from each performance:

Lauren H.: She is immediately concerned about wearing nipple tassels. Because nipple tassels and Vegas are basically synonyms. She goes the extreme opposite of that and decides a chicken suit is the best way to display her talentless self. With that being said, the Kindergarten teacher’s inappropriate comments are making her really grow on me. All I’m saying is that there was a reference using the term “Little Ben”

Lauren B.: She describes herself as having ZERO talent. We were all thinking it. However she is apparently talented enough to earn a group date rose from Ben.

Jubilee: She plays the cello because what else would you expect from a girl with a chest tattoo?

Olivia: Dressing up as a showgirl and jumping out of a cake is a little cliché for Vegas don’t you think Olivia? I think the cake was just so she could hide her ankles as much as possible. Ben’s secret language told Olivia he was embarrassed of her (didn’t take a secret language to guess that) and Olivia has a self diagnosed panic attack.

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Amanda: Amanda is so unimpressed with Olivia she can’t even laugh at her while she’s on stage. She criticizes her performance by saying she had so much time and “all she came up with was a terrible showgirl dance?” Amanda girl, you just attempted hula hooping on stage and failed.

Rachel: I’m starting to wonder how Rachel is unemployed. She rides a hover board flawlessly and can make balloon animals. Someone get her a job at an amusement park.

Caila: Ben describes Caila as a “sex panther” so she’s doing something right.

Amber: She continuously gets no camera time unless she is making fun of Olivia and I’m not mad about that at all.

I think Leah dressed up like a clown, and Jennifer was so talentless she didn’t even get any camera time on stage. She’s going to be just fine because her talent is clearly being gorgeous.

Becca gets the second one-on-one date and Ben sends her a kind of unintentionally horrible wedding dress to wear to the date at the Little White Chapel. The two marry people in the chapel together. I thought people only got married at 2:00 am in Vegas after one too many, but I guess I learn something new everyday. Becca disses Chris Soules by saying that the risk outweighs the reward a lot more this time. Sorry Chris. I’m personally a fan of Ben and Becca together, it just makes for boring TV.

THE TWINS GO ON A TWO ON ONE.

Ben takes the twins to their home in Vegas. They sneak into each twin’s bedroom while the other and their mom is in the living room, high school style. Haley still has pictures of her ex-boyfriend framed in her room and Emily basically sabotages her sister by telling Ben she doesn’t think Haley is ready for a relationship. Emily’s sabotage works and Ben sends Haley home, actually she is already home so Ben ditches her for the limo with the other one to make out with Emily. Meanwhile Haley is inside yelling at her mom for wearing those terrible Mek jeans on national TV (if not she should have). My main concern: who gets to bring all of the Kendra Scott jewelry while the other one is away?!

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Rachel, like America, knew she was going home tonight and that’s why she wore her floor length red gown because outside of the Bachelor, where are you going to wear that dress? Also not surprisingly, Amber went home. I’ll miss her Olivia hating comments but not her fashion choices.

Taylor-Staff-PicTaylor Johnson serves as Brandon Clay’s personal stylist and is one of the most fashionable people in Atlanta. While attending graduate school at Georgia State, she’ll contribute to various categories throughout the PSBPopCulture.com site.