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Reality Show Recap: “Rock the Cradle” Goes Bankrupt

Each week on MTV’s Rock the Cradle, the sons and daughters of musical icons compete for the sort of exposure they would have received anyway on the basis of their DNA. Rock Daily sorts through the nepotistic wreckage. Children’s Story: After a quick recap of last week’s mess, we got a peek at last week’s after-party, which mostly involved Jesse Snider talking about how boring Crosby Loggins is (he was not wrong). Ryan Devlin welcomes us back for another round, promising that though everybody rehearsed a song for this week, the contestant voted off won’t get a sendoff, which seems sort of harsh. Everybody got a secondary storyline this week, and the personal struggles range from personal (Chloe Lattanzi went through a bad breakup) to professional (A’Keiba Burrell-Hammer has trouble learning dance moves from her dad) to banal (Snider argues with him mom over the tightness of his pants). After nearly an hour of teasing it, Jesse Money got the boot, thankfully relieving us of any more shots of Eddie Money trying to look cool. Baby Geniuses: It was “Parent’s Choice” week, so each mom or dad got to choose their offspring’s performance. Snider gained top scores (and thus is protected next week) with a shouty, mohawked version of Billy Idol’s “Rebel Yell.” Though the band still seems confused by her, Lattanzi rebounded well with a pretty intense version of “I Hate Everything About You” by Three Days Grace (there’s no way Olivia Newton-John has ever heard of that band). This week’s MVP was definitely Landon Brown, who spent his pre-performance video clip exchanging twitches with his father, and then absolutely killed Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition.” Red-Headed Stepchildren: Crosby Loggins continued to put people to sleep (his dad’s snooze-tastic choice of Gavin DeGraw’s “I Don’t Wanna Be” didn’t help matters) and Lara J

Published: 2008-04-11
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Rock Reality Show Recaps