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Rock Reality Show Recap: “Gone Country” Season Finale Shocker

Every Week on CMT’s new reality show Gone Country, a motley mix of Nashville misfits try to make it big on the Chesney tip. We’ll be watching (and chuckling): Sixty Minutes of Kentucky-Fried Reality in Eight Sentences: After seven weeks of watching CMT, it’s the episode you’ve all been waiting for: the hour-long finale. Tonight, our seven contestants perform the songs they’ve been learning all season in front of a Nashville audience. We know going into the episode that Sisqo doesn’t win, given his hilariously brief reunion with Dru Hill last week. “I don’t want to lose, because I’ve never lost a competition in my life,” boasts frontrunner and series MVP Bobby Brown. The contestants make their way to the Wild Horse Saloon — “the biggest honky-tonk in Nashville,” according to host John Rich — for the final performances. No-chance-at-winning Carnie Wilson kicks off the show, followed by Julio Iglesias Jr., who makes the ladies swoon. Maureen McCormick/Marcia Brady shakes off her paralyzing stage fright to sing her ode to her deceased mother. The crowd loves it, and Dee Snider predicts for the second time that McCormick will win this thing. The Honky-Tonkin’ Highlights: Diana DeGarmo, who was criticized by Rich last episode for being “too Aguilera,” belts out a countrified version of her song, turning her into the favorite to win this thing. “That was frighteningly good,” Rich says. But DeGarmo has one more hill to climb: Mt. Bobby Brown. Despite a pre-performance diet of Grey Goose-on-the-rocks, Brown brings the house down with his rousing performance, reminding the viewers at home that before he became a walking punch line, he was once a talented performer. Before we find out who wins the battle of DeGarmo vs. Brown, we must an endure a Sisqo performance (complete with ridiculous dancing) and Dee Snider’s juvenile “Rock Out with Your Rooster Out,” which starte

Published: 2008-03-10
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News