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Birthday surprise reality TV
Aug. 2nd, 2006 07:48 pm(This was from a couple of days ago)
I was either in charge of the show or one of the birthday girl's friends who was in on the big secret. Basically, we were going to throw her a big birthday bash in the style of a famous rock band, and this part she knew about but the real surprise would be later. We showed her a video of Aerosmith singing "Walk This Way" but she was dead silent. I got worried, did she not like these guys or not even know who they were? We were supposed to have set this up so it'd be a band that was pretty much this girl's idol(s) and yet here it looked like a case of very bad planning. But at the end of the music video was some "making of" clips and these showed each band member. The birthday girl finally spoke. She named them all without hesitation. We knew then that we'd landed a hit after all.
So the idea for the show/party was that she and her friends would dress up like Aerosmith band members and put on their own stage show for their friends. The birthday girl was going to be Steven Tyler, and I remember helping her pick out an outfit like his. We even put a scarf on the microphone like he would. She got up on stage with her pals and they did their fake-but-fun version of an Aerosmith song, then went into the crowd to dance and party. The time was ripe for the surprise: the real Aerosmith arrived on stage and started performing "Walk This Way." The birthday girl and her friends started screaming and jumping and generally freaking out. It was great TV.
Then I woke up.
I was either in charge of the show or one of the birthday girl's friends who was in on the big secret. Basically, we were going to throw her a big birthday bash in the style of a famous rock band, and this part she knew about but the real surprise would be later. We showed her a video of Aerosmith singing "Walk This Way" but she was dead silent. I got worried, did she not like these guys or not even know who they were? We were supposed to have set this up so it'd be a band that was pretty much this girl's idol(s) and yet here it looked like a case of very bad planning. But at the end of the music video was some "making of" clips and these showed each band member. The birthday girl finally spoke. She named them all without hesitation. We knew then that we'd landed a hit after all.
So the idea for the show/party was that she and her friends would dress up like Aerosmith band members and put on their own stage show for their friends. The birthday girl was going to be Steven Tyler, and I remember helping her pick out an outfit like his. We even put a scarf on the microphone like he would. She got up on stage with her pals and they did their fake-but-fun version of an Aerosmith song, then went into the crowd to dance and party. The time was ripe for the surprise: the real Aerosmith arrived on stage and started performing "Walk This Way." The birthday girl and her friends started screaming and jumping and generally freaking out. It was great TV.
Then I woke up.
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