BY DC CUEVA
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Welcome to the weekend and to our trip Inside the MTV Trifecta. There was plenty of drama this week on The Challenge Vendettas, and we'll have that covered for you coming up later. But first…
The year 2001 is notable to most because of what happened that September morning, but there were some other things that happened in the second year of the 2000's. It was the year I got my high school diploma, when The Miz and Coral met on that boat en route to the The Real World Back to New York loft and Eminem took the stage with Elton John at the Grammys. The first year of the 21st century and the third millennium is the theme behind two of this weekend's ExtraTime stories, and we begin with some unlikely prospects.
On Monday, a friend of the Trifecta in Teen Mom OG's Maci Bookout and her husband Taylor McKinney got to mark their one-year anniversary as man & wife, but then she made it public of her recent and heartbreaking miscarriage. Then, viewers stuck around as the kind of big-time drama synonymous with MTV reality series like The Challenge, Are You The One?, Real World and Jersey & Floribama Shore made its way to the sultry paradise that is Siesta Key, Florida. And just in case you're not in the loop, here you go…
Rumors began to swirl at a party thrown by one of SK's newbies, Hannah, of something that went down in last week's winter premiere which has inadvertently set off fireworks down south. It was of after a night out on the town, the Barbie and Ken of the group, Kelsey & Garrett, had went home together with her passing out on his couch after some partying. The odd thing about this is that the location setting on their SnapChat apps were on without them knowing, and it caught the attention of Chloe, who then relayed the info to the other girl in the town's latest love triangle, Juliette. She then confronted them on the dock, but that was just the beginning.
On this week's episode, the clique -- including budding couple Brandon & Madisson, her ex Alex (who got punched in the summer finale and had his jaw wired shut), his friend Pauly and newbies Canvas, Carson, Tarik & Paige -- gets together to celebrate Chloe's birthday at the Tiki Bar where she works with a Hawaiian luau like those we've seen on AYTO. With feelings still fresh from the party and everyone coming over to wish her a Happy Birthday, it's when Alex and his boat dock next to the bar that things begin to simmer a bit, and it's almost as if the sunny vibes of the first half of this season had vanished into the Florida night.
When Juliette, who dated Alex for some time, comes aboard, it's only a matter of time before things begin to unravel for this closely-knit clique. When they overhear one of them calling him a bad person, Juliette gets into a big argument with Chloe, Kelsey and Madisson which then turns into chaos when one tries to punch another. By the time everyone goes home - and Juliette snaring a kiss with Alex on the boat, the Siesta Seven's dynamic may have just changed and on a night that was supposed to be about fun and celebration, it instead becomes more like watching Real World than Laguna Beach. And Siesta was a top-trending Twitter topic with its biggest episode yet and this week's biggest MTV drama, all thanks to a slice of Mean Girls meets The Hills.
On Monday, a friend of the Trifecta in Teen Mom OG's Maci Bookout and her husband Taylor McKinney got to mark their one-year anniversary as man & wife, but then she made it public of her recent and heartbreaking miscarriage. Then, viewers stuck around as the kind of big-time drama synonymous with MTV reality series like The Challenge, Are You The One?, Real World and Jersey & Floribama Shore made its way to the sultry paradise that is Siesta Key, Florida. And just in case you're not in the loop, here you go…
On this week's episode, the clique -- including budding couple Brandon & Madisson, her ex Alex (who got punched in the summer finale and had his jaw wired shut), his friend Pauly and newbies Canvas, Carson, Tarik & Paige -- gets together to celebrate Chloe's birthday at the Tiki Bar where she works with a Hawaiian luau like those we've seen on AYTO. With feelings still fresh from the party and everyone coming over to wish her a Happy Birthday, it's when Alex and his boat dock next to the bar that things begin to simmer a bit, and it's almost as if the sunny vibes of the first half of this season had vanished into the Florida night.
When Juliette, who dated Alex for some time, comes aboard, it's only a matter of time before things begin to unravel for this closely-knit clique. When they overhear one of them calling him a bad person, Juliette gets into a big argument with Chloe, Kelsey and Madisson which then turns into chaos when one tries to punch another. By the time everyone goes home - and Juliette snaring a kiss with Alex on the boat, the Siesta Seven's dynamic may have just changed and on a night that was supposed to be about fun and celebration, it instead becomes more like watching Real World than Laguna Beach. And Siesta was a top-trending Twitter topic with its biggest episode yet and this week's biggest MTV drama, all thanks to a slice of Mean Girls meets The Hills.
WHAT. THE. F*CK. #SiestaKey pic.twitter.com/j1Xsi7GG2c— Siesta Key (@SiestaKey) January 23, 2018
Before that all went down this week, Chloe, Brandon, Carson and Pauly got to hang with someone who made his mark when the Siesta cast were watching Barney & Friends…
When Joseph Edgar Foreman was in junior high, he discovered a love for music in making songs at home and selling singles to his classmates... the first one was about his 8th grade teacher which got him kicked out of school but not before selling 400 copies and making plenty of money. By 1998, Joe adopted his stage name of Afroman in reference to his hair, and then released the first of his twelve albums. He also made some unwelcome news in 2005 when he knocked down a woman who was on stage at a performance in Biloxi, which got him arrested and given an assault charge.
But Afroman's shining moment came in 2000 when his producer, Tim "Headfridge" Ramenofsky, produced his second album, Because I Got High, featuring the title track that would become his signature song. After being distributed first at concerts, it made its way to Napster when file-sharing music was everywhere, and then to the Howard Stern show. It became a worldwide hit when it was released in summer 2001, earning Afroman a Grammy Rap nomination, a major label deal, and a spot on, appropriately enough, Cypress Hill's Smoke Out festival with Method Man and the Deftones.
The unwillingness of him cleaning his own room helped to inspire the song, which sees the subject flunk college, be a no-show to court, having to sell pot after losing his job and family, and even do some masturbating. And of course, who can forget having to sing along to the words, "Because I Got High"... all as pot has been in the news late, with it being legal on the West Coast, in Colorado and in the Northeast as the battle for it to become legal nationwide has continued in the decade & a half since that song first made waves.
Last weekend, the Siesta Key cast got to hang out with Afroman when he performed at an event in nearby Sarasota, just up the ways from the island. Brandon posted them meeting him backstage on Instagram, and Carson captioned, "That night we all met @ogafroman was lit to say in the least 🔥."
By the way, as DCBLOG's focus is on The Challenge this winter along with upcoming posts related to the Winter Olympics, we are not offering a Pulse diary or WRAP of Siesta Key as we usually do for the Trifecta. However, Cosmopolitan Magazine is recapping each week's episodes featuring the thoughts of the one & only Spencer Pratt of The Hills fame which you can check out there... there's no one who knows what it's like being on docu-soaps than the man who's by Heidi Montag's side, and Spencer offers some awesome perspective there as a more than interested viewer in all the drama.
Tomorrow, we turn to the main event in The Challenge, as something this one had for lunch today in some pizza unexpectedly causes some drama in the house, and food is also on the mind of the players along with a little bit of trivia. Join us then, and have a great weekend.
- I AM DC
When Joseph Edgar Foreman was in junior high, he discovered a love for music in making songs at home and selling singles to his classmates... the first one was about his 8th grade teacher which got him kicked out of school but not before selling 400 copies and making plenty of money. By 1998, Joe adopted his stage name of Afroman in reference to his hair, and then released the first of his twelve albums. He also made some unwelcome news in 2005 when he knocked down a woman who was on stage at a performance in Biloxi, which got him arrested and given an assault charge.But Afroman's shining moment came in 2000 when his producer, Tim "Headfridge" Ramenofsky, produced his second album, Because I Got High, featuring the title track that would become his signature song. After being distributed first at concerts, it made its way to Napster when file-sharing music was everywhere, and then to the Howard Stern show. It became a worldwide hit when it was released in summer 2001, earning Afroman a Grammy Rap nomination, a major label deal, and a spot on, appropriately enough, Cypress Hill's Smoke Out festival with Method Man and the Deftones.
The unwillingness of him cleaning his own room helped to inspire the song, which sees the subject flunk college, be a no-show to court, having to sell pot after losing his job and family, and even do some masturbating. And of course, who can forget having to sing along to the words, "Because I Got High"... all as pot has been in the news late, with it being legal on the West Coast, in Colorado and in the Northeast as the battle for it to become legal nationwide has continued in the decade & a half since that song first made waves.
Last weekend, the Siesta Key cast got to hang out with Afroman when he performed at an event in nearby Sarasota, just up the ways from the island. Brandon posted them meeting him backstage on Instagram, and Carson captioned, "That night we all met @ogafroman was lit to say in the least 🔥."
By the way, as DCBLOG's focus is on The Challenge this winter along with upcoming posts related to the Winter Olympics, we are not offering a Pulse diary or WRAP of Siesta Key as we usually do for the Trifecta. However, Cosmopolitan Magazine is recapping each week's episodes featuring the thoughts of the one & only Spencer Pratt of The Hills fame which you can check out there... there's no one who knows what it's like being on docu-soaps than the man who's by Heidi Montag's side, and Spencer offers some awesome perspective there as a more than interested viewer in all the drama.
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Tomorrow, we turn to the main event in The Challenge, as something this one had for lunch today in some pizza unexpectedly causes some drama in the house, and food is also on the mind of the players along with a little bit of trivia. Join us then, and have a great weekend.
- I AM DC
