Underplayed Gems

Singing with the Enemy

Singing with the Enemy poster
Genre
reality television
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This reality show pairs musicians from wildly different genres and forces them to live together for a week. They must set aside their differences to write and perform a collaborative song that blends their opposing styles.

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What happens

Singing with the Enemy is a 2007 BBC Three reality TV show that is based on the premise of putting two musical acts with very different styles together is a house for a week and challenging them to overcome their musical and personal prejudices and come up with a collaborative song merging their two different musical genres. Top record producer Tommy D acts as the groups mentor. The first series consists of six episodes with the following acts and genres K Tron and Exploding Triangles (maverick performance artist band) featuring performance artist Theo Adams vs. Code 5 (vocal harmony 'boyband') Paparazzi Whore (sex positive lesbian band) vs. Dweeb (Christian band) Lyrically Scar'd (grime rap band) vs. Dirty Cakes (bohemian cabaret band) Severed Heaven (female feminist metal band) vs. Lethal Fixx (male sleaze rock band) Don Diva (female hip-hop/r&b band) vs. Apollo Strings (female classical string trio) Fallen Angelz (female vocal pop band) vs. Amputated (male Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore band) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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