080: Surviving R. Kelly and Behind The Music

Mark Blankenship on Lifetime's wrenching, but imperfect, Surviving R. Kelly: the power of the first four episodes, and the weirdness of the last two; the "tradition" of fetishizing teenage girls in rock music; the voices we heard for the first time, and the ones we still haven't heard; and whose time is up next.

Then we move on to a vintage Behind The Music that's both very typical of VH1's legendary pop-gossip video mag, and delightfully off-brand, as it follows narrator Jim Forbes out of the audio bay, on camera, and into prison for a profoundly impatient interview with the murderer of Selena Quintanilla-Perez. Terrible brothers, awful fan-club presidents, and much more in the latest episode of The Blotter Presents.

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SHOW NOTES

• Surviving R. Kelly
• Anjelica Jade Bastién's SRK review on Vulture
• MASTAS Episode 11 (from inside a tin can, apparently; sorry) on Chic and R. Kelly
• The Selena Behind The Music

Special Guest: Mark Blankenship.