Candy Girls Premier
March 9, 2009 by Mary Jones
Filed under Reality Show Reviews, Reality TV
Candy Girls
E! Sunday Nights at 10:30/9:30 CT
Everybody has an opinion about video vixens—you know, the girls-with-daddy-issues that hang around in music videos, shaking their money makers in slow motion while the rapper calls them a slut. Because it’s so empowering. As a way of showing us how empowering it is to be treated as a prop, E! has created Candy Girls. Based around the “talent agency” Bella, Candy Girls purports to be an inside look into the video vixen industry. Instead, it’s just a big old mess.
The ethical dilemma of willing-female-exploitation is the most controversial touchstone the show has to offer, so it’s interesting to note that it’s the one subject E! won’t touch with a 10-foot-poll. Unlike their other exploitalicious show The Girls Next Door, E! isn’t even interested in making fun of the girls’ intelligence (sorry, Kendra), or engaging in anything that resembles an eye-opening discourse. In fact, it’s difficult to know what’s going on at all.
Candy Girls opens with a very awkward America’s Next Top Model moment where the girls are sitting in a kitchen, having breakfast together, as if they all share the same house. The viewer is given no back story as to who they work for, what unites them as a group, or what the premise of the show is. And none of these questions get any clearer as we watch biracial Olivia go to awkward auditions, Latoya-Jackson-clone Brooke laugh at everyone’s jokes, sour-faced single mom Terricka making fun of everyone, and newbie Blanca starring like a wide-eyed fawn.
The one sane, intelligent person is the group is boss Danielle, who’s company Bella has been staffing video vixens for years. Danielle tells the girls that she is going to be profiled in 944 magazine, and needs to pick two of the vixens to pose with her. In exchange for the huge amount of press coverage the two ladies (Brooke and Terricka) will get, she asks these two provisions. 1) Brooke, please try to cover the majority of your huge rack. 2) Terricka, please stop talking about your daughter ever 5 minutes.
The completely unprofessional, irrational way Brooke and Terricka respond to this request tells you all you need to know about this series. A lot of words and phrases like “confident” and “who I am” and “she don’t know me” are going to be thrown around less as statements of fact than as questions. Weaves are going to be pulled, tears are going to be shed, constant references to “putting food in my babies mouths” will be made during any argument. But rather than use these hysterics as a way of exploring these women, E! throws them into the show for their dramatic qualities, resulting in a whole bunch of bluster, with very little substance.
I remember walking out of Will Smith’s Wild Wild West as a kid with no recollection of what I had been doing for the last 2 hours. The movie made so little effect on me one way or the other that I left without remembering more than 20 seconds of footage. I feel the same way after the premier episode of Candy Girls. Just like candy, this show is cheap, disposable, and completely forgettable. But hey, if you want to know what kind of women Tyson Beckford go for, then by all means, check it out.
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Plain stupid “candy girl”…Danielle is very smart…she can come with something else and dropped them stupid b’s that brought no meaning, you cant share your vision with hood -rats..they cant see pass stupid…shame on the “E”
i think the show showcased peoples intial thoughts on video vixens-that they are money hungry big butt sluts however they really care bout their job cuz they have kids and bills like everyone else.i like that they have the fiesty black girls and the hot latinia the college chick olivia and the best one of them all was keshia.she kept it real and she’s the prettiest.
Actually, Candy Girls surprised me, and checked my preconceived ideas about video girls
I had no idea they actually get paid for video appearances,host major events, and they aren’t drug addicts.
I know some of you feel better about your selves when you judge others. Yet your reducing your self, no matter what your status, down to
A HATER. If what you all noted is the worst you can say about these ladies then
They are reality role models compared to the others.
They have issues (no doubt) but they aint at the bottom of reality show
Barrel.
i agree with the writer we always wanna see black girls who r beautiful full of attitude but doesnt have any brains besides thinking of money and partying i am amazed to see them always talking about nothing but their bra size and bum. shame on u guys grow up and for once see the world around u their r important things than geting some fotball player or rapper
does anyone know where i can watch it over the internet?
Unfortunately the media and marketing executives dictates what we want to see and hear. When are we going to stand up and be conscious as a people? If the media, marketing executives,and people with strong voices and popularity have the ability to push negativity then just imagine if they push the positive.
The bottom line is that people with salacious behavior have deep routed issues. Just look at a lot of your stars and also the people around you.
The love of money, agility, and promiscuity is the path to self destruction.
J
This is a good point “J”. But we as Black people have to also wonder what “types” are being sought out for casting. For example, if Tiffany Pollard was not “over the top”, would she even have a career in reality television? Take a show like “Harlem Heights”. This show had low ratings, but Blacks were featured in a positive light. It’s not just how we portray ourselves, but what we as viewers will support.
Black people, women in general; we keep missing the point. It seems when we get a chance to highlight our talents, show that we can be elegant and intelligent that we choose women that are the opposite. The obnoxious girl that has social issues, full of drama, does anything for money, the only vernacular in which she speaks is money, partying, and materialism is who represents us—are you kidding.
Why can’t we showcase that we can be just as independent, and professional. Candy Girls, there is more to us than mere sex, and salacious behavior; which in my opinion is what this show and your business is all about. If anything, the stigma amongst video vixens and black women in this industry is almost
self-inflicting.
I only recently started watching the show, and it’s interesting.
i just want to let all of u know that this new reality show is postive and tasteful. its a show that all ages can look at. keep up the goos work and im your number one suppprters
The show has my attention regardlesss, cause it’s a unique idea that could use a lil umph!! an it might get some were! clearly cause theres more pos+ feedback then neg- step it up candy girl’s D.Ellis ent got some in process!!
I guess I’m the only person who whole heartedly agrees with this article. The show has absolutely no meaningful plot and if they do they don’t bother conveying it to the viewers. I couldn’t make it through the first episode. I won’t knock the ladies career choice, because I grew up in LA around that, but the ladies themselves have nothing to offer. There’s nothing compelling about any of them…even danielle.
HI MY NAME IS LATRESE IM FROM TOLEDO OHIO IM 24 VERY PRETTY NEVER MODELED NEVER BEEN IN A VIDEO BUT ALWAYS WANTED TOO.THE LADIES ON YOUR SHOW ARE PRETTY AND SOME HAVE ISSUES BUT WHO DOESNT I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU THAT IM GLAD A BLACK WOMAN LOOKING OUT FOR US BLACK WOMEN I THINK YOUR DOING YOUR BEST AND GOOD LUCK TO YOUR SUCESS.
Well i have alot of experience and will get the job done period !!
you’re ignorant. i love the show as well and instead of me being childish and negative about your opinion, ima leave it at that
Actually i love this show… thanks :-/