Random Thoughts

I'm thinking about Cimorelli's cover of Demi Lovato's "Skyscraper," and I think to myself: Damn. That was amazing. It was without question one of Cimorelli's best covers. Hell, it WAS their best cover. But the question is, did they do it better than Lovato herself?

Honestly, I don't know personally.

Ask someone this question, and they'll most likely say Lovato. Why? Because she has records out. She's well-known by the mainstream community. Most people don't even know who Cimorelli is. They've only done covers and EPs up to this point. But when is that first LP coming out? It looks like the group is desperately trying to release it by the end of the year. The way I see it, it's September. The Jonas Brothers haven't even released V yet, and two singles ("Pom Poms" and "First Time") came out in the first half of the year. Lady Gaga's ARTPOP and Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 are being released in November. Drake's Nothing Was The Same comes out next week. Where is Cimorelli's debut album in all this craze?

Oddly enough, Lovato released her fourth album Demi earlier this year. But I digress. The point is, people may be quick to answer because they see Cimorelli as upstarts, unproven pretenders. Don't worry, the CimFam will be proving a lot to people when that first album hits. BOOM!

As filming continues for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2, I can't help but feel like the movie will reflect the past eight years of the show: Not bad overall, but paling in comparison to the first three seasons. Most people split SpongeBob into two shows: The one before the movie, and the one after the movie. Many of those people will tell you that every episode before the movie was excellent and every episode after the movie is either bad or just plain garbage. The fact of the matter is, SpongeBob didn't really get hot until the second season. The first season was pretty good, but it had more ground to cover from there. Many people hold SpongeBob as one of the greatest cartoons of all-time because of those three seasons. Stephen Hillenburg, the show's creator, was showrunner/executive producer in this era, and Derek Drymon was creative director. The movie was supposed to be the series finale. After all, Plankton's biggest scheme is a success, SpongeBob goes through a life-changing emotional journey and becomes manager of the Krusty Krab 2. But Nickelodeon realized how much money SpongeBob was pouring in and how beloved it was. They wanted the show to continue.

It did, but there were major changes. The writing team changed, and Vincent Waller was brought in as creative director. Hillenburg left as showrunner after the fourth season, and gave the job to long-time staff member Paul Tibbitt. Most people can notice a distinct change in the show overall. SpongeBob was way more annoying, Squidward was less sarcastic and more pathetic. Patrick was less of a smart idiot and just a plain idiot. And Waller, who had only worked on The Ren and Stimpy Show before, took that show's trademark gross-out humor and strapped it on SpongeBob. It failed, because gross-out humor was never a big part of SpongeBob. I'm going to remain a SpongeBob fan until worms have consumed my flesh and I've been buried forever. The first three seasons will never be topped. It was intelligent, entertaining, and memorable for almost every possible line in every episode. But this era with Tibbitt and Waller is not the Black Plague like fans make it out to be. Stop pissing on a show you were devoted to at one point and live your damn life. I'm 100% sure the second movie will end the show for good. It's lost a good amount of its popularity during the post-movie seasons. But when SpongeBob ends, people should have it up there as one of the greatest cartoons ever made. It has the first three seasons, the first movie, and plenty of fun post-movie episodes to prove it.

I wonder if Big Time Rush will take the crown from One Direction any time soon. Everybody loves American boy bands. 1D has about a year left the way I see it. Same as Bieber. Who knows? Justin might have less time than that. He's done some stupid stuff over the past year, and he became an international sensation in 2010. Three years? Time's nearly up. BTR is closing in on reaching that level. Nickelodeon is probably going to be more lenient with them now that the show has ended. In a perfect world, 2014 will end with Big Time Rush and Cimorelli as the new tween/teen juggernauts. In a perfect world.....

My cartoon show Thank You, Heavenly is entering its second season in twelve days. You can read the script for the season premiere on September 29. Honestly, check the show out on FanFiction. Yes, the official fan fiction website. That's where the show is. Right there. While you're there, read the script for the 20 Season 1 episodes. It will help you catch up to speed. Anyway, the Season 2 premiere of Thank You, Heavenly. September 29 on FanFiction. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!!! Or round........