Rock the Cradle
Encyclopedia
Rock the Cradle was an MTV reality show in which the offspring of R&B
, pop
, and rock stars from the 1980s and 1990s vie in a six-week singing competition. The show debuted on Thursday, April 3, 2008.
, and there was a panel of four judges composed of The Go-Go's
lead vocalist Belinda Carlisle
, choreographer Jamie King
, celebrity fashion stylist
June Ambrose, and entertainment attorney
/personal manager
Larry Rudolph
, who was also one of the executive producers. Brian Friedman
substituted for an absent King in the fourth week.
from elimination for the following week. Elimination was determined by popular vote via toll-free telephone calls and text messaging. No immunity was granted for week five's performances, so all three finalists were subject to the popular vote and elimination to determine the winner.
Weekly Results by Call-out>
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6
Landon
26.5
Lucy
31.0
Jesse S.
37.5
Jesse S.
31.0
Crosby
38.0
Crosby
A'Keiba
34.5
Jesse S.
35.5
Crosby
34.0
Lara
26.0
Chloe
32.0
Jesse S.
Lara
28.5
Lara
31.5
Chloe
36.0
Lucy
37.5
Jesse S.
39.0
Chloe
Chloe
25.5
A'Keiba
30.5
Lara
30.5
Chloe
21.0
Lucy
Crosby
33.5
Crosby
32.5
Lil B.
21.5
Crosby
38.5
Lara
Jesse S.
32.5
Landon.
33.5
Landon
14.0
Landon
Jesse M.
30.5
Lil B.
25.0
Lucy
28.5
Lil B
Lil B.
31.0
Chloe
27.0
A'keiba
Lucy
36.5
Jesse M.
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
, pop
Popular music
Popular music belongs to any of a number of musical genres "having wide appeal" and is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional music, which are typically disseminated academically or orally to smaller, local...
, and rock stars from the 1980s and 1990s vie in a six-week singing competition. The show debuted on Thursday, April 3, 2008.
Personnel
The show was hosted by Ryan DevlinRyan Devlin
Ryan Patrick Devlin is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role opposite Calista Flockhart on the ABC show Brothers & Sisters where he played her younger boyfriend Seth. In addition, he recurs in the role of Smith in the ABC-TV comedy Cougar Town...
, and there was a panel of four judges composed of The Go-Go's
The Go-Go's
The Go-Go’s are an all-female American rock band formed in 1978. They made history as the first all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts....
lead vocalist Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands and the first such group whose members wrote their own songs and played their own instruments...
, choreographer Jamie King
Jamie King
Jamie King is a creative director and choreographer whose work directing concert tours for pop stars has grossed over two billion dollars...
, celebrity fashion stylist
Fashion design
Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social latitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories....
June Ambrose, and entertainment attorney
Entertainment law
Entertainment law or media law is a term for a mix of more traditional categories of law with a focus on providing legal services to the entertainment industry. The principal areas of Entertainment Law overlap substantially with the well-known and conventional field of intellectual property law...
/personal manager
Talent manager
A talent manager, also known as an artist manager or band manager, is an individual or company who guides the professional career of artists in the entertainment industry...
Larry Rudolph
Larry Rudolph
Larry Rudolph is a personal manager. He is best known as the manager of Britney Spears from 1999–2004, briefly in 2007, and 2008-present.-Career:...
, who was also one of the executive producers. Brian Friedman
Brian Friedman
Brian L. Friedman, is an American dancer and choreographer, and has created the choreography for many popular music artists - such as Britney Spears, Beyoncé Knowles and Mariah Carey - as well as for music videos, concert tours and television and film productions.-Early life:Friedman was born in...
substituted for an absent King in the fourth week.
Scoring and elimination
Judges rated performances each week, and the highest-scoring contestant earned immunityImmunity (reality television)
Immunity in reality television is a concept that is widely used in weekly elimination-type reality television shows by which a contestant participating in such a show may not be "kicked off" or eliminated from competition in a particular time period...
from elimination for the following week. Elimination was determined by popular vote via toll-free telephone calls and text messaging. No immunity was granted for week five's performances, so all three finalists were subject to the popular vote and elimination to determine the winner.
Contestants
The following contestants were featured:| Contestant | Age | Relation | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Landon Brown | 21 | Son of Bobby Brown Bobby Brown Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown is an American R&B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a... |
6th Place |
| A'Keiba Burrell-Hammer | 20 | Daughter of MC Hammer MC Hammer Stanley Kirk Burrell , better known by his stage name MC Hammer , is an American rapper, entertainer, business entrepreneur, dancer and actor. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s... |
8th Place |
| Lara Johnston | 17 | Daughter of The Doobie Brothers The Doobie Brothers The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band. The group has sold over 40 million units worldwide throughout their career. The Doobie Brothers were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004.-Original incarnation:... lead singer Tom Johnston Tom Johnston (US musician) Tom Johnston is an American musician. He is a guitarist and vocalist, and co-founded The Doobie Brothers with drummer John Hartman, guitarist Patrick Simmons and bassist Dave Shogren.... |
5th Place |
| Chloe Lattanzi Chloe Rose Lattanzi Chloe Rose Lattanzi is an American singer and actress. She was born in Los Angeles to actress and singer Olivia Newton-John. Her father is actor Matt Lattanzi... |
22 | Daughter of Olivia Newton-John Olivia Newton-John Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA... |
3rd Place |
| Crosby Loggins Crosby Loggins Crosby Loggins is an American singer/songwriter. He is the oldest son of Grammy winning soundtrack legend Kenny Loggins and his first wife, Eva Ein. Crosby Loggins is also the winner of MTV's Rock The Cradle.-Early life:... |
27 | Son of singer Kenny Loggins Kenny Loggins During the next decade, Loggins recorded so many successful songs for film soundtracks that he was referred to as, King of the Movie Soundtrack.He began with "I'm Alright" , "Mr. Night", and "Lead the Way" from Caddyshack... |
1st Place |
| Jesse Money Jesse Money Jesse Money is an American singer and daughter of rock and roll artist Eddie Money.Jesse graduated from Westlake High School in Westlake Village, California in 2005 and has consistently remained musically-focused... |
19 | Daughter of Eddie Money Eddie Money Eddie Money is an American rock guitarist, saxophonist and singer-songwriter who found success in the 1970s and 1980s with a string of Top 40 hits and platinum albums... |
9th Place |
| Jesse Blaze Snider Jesse Blaze Snider Jesse Blaze Snider is a comic book writer, voice over actor, TV/radio host, semi-pro football player, and rock musician. He is the eldest son of Twisted Sister frontman and vocalist Dee Snider, with whom he appeared on the MTV reality show Rock the Cradle. He performs in the band Baptized By Fire... |
25 | Son of Twisted Sister Twisted Sister Twisted Sister is an American heavy metal band from Long Island. Musically, the band implements elements of traditional heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, along with a style that is similar to early glam metal bands... lead singer Dee Snider Dee Snider Daniel "Dee" Snider is an American singer-songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality, and actor. Snider is most famous for his role as the frontman of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister... |
2nd Place |
| Lil B. Sure! | 21 | Son of Al B. Sure! Al B. Sure! Albert Jason Brown III is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He grew up in Leonia, New Jersey and Mount Vernon, New York. During the late 1980s under the stage name Al B... |
7th Place |
| Lucy Walsh Lucy Walsh Lucy Walsh is a singer, songwriter, and keyboardist who served as Ashlee Simpson's backing vocalist and keyboardist for her Autobiography tour. The daughter of Eagles' guitarist Joe Walsh, she appeared on the MTV reality show Rock the Cradle, which premiered April 3, 2008.-Personal life:Lucy was... |
24 | Daughter of Joe Walsh Joe Walsh Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B... |
4th Place |
Results
The following list is presented in the order in which the contestants performed.26.5
31.0
37.5
31.0
38.0
34.5
35.5
34.0
26.0
32.0
28.5
31.5
36.0
37.5
39.0
25.5
30.5
30.5
21.0
33.5
32.5
21.5
38.5
32.5
33.5
14.0
30.5
25.0
28.5
31.0
27.0
36.5
- The contestant earned immunityImmunity (reality television)Immunity in reality television is a concept that is widely used in weekly elimination-type reality television shows by which a contestant participating in such a show may not be "kicked off" or eliminated from competition in a particular time period...
for next week's elimination. - The contestant was eliminated.
- The contestant won the competition.
- Bold: The contestant had the highest score for that week.
- Italics: The contestant had the lowest score for that week.
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- Chloe Rose LattanziChloe Rose LattanziChloe Rose Lattanzi is an American singer and actress. She was born in Los Angeles to actress and singer Olivia Newton-John. Her father is actor Matt Lattanzi...
was the only contestant whose familial connection was her mother rather than her father. - Episode 2 introduced a fifth score screen representing the singer's total score, which was not present in Episode 1.
- The show was conceived as an eight-week contest, but due to lower-than-expected ratings, an announcement in Episode 3 declared that subsequent episodes would have double eliminations, reducing the total number of broadcast shows to six. The Finale was moved from Las VegasLas Vegas metropolitan areaThe Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
, NevadaNevadaNevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
to Los Angeles. - After winning the immunityImmunity (reality television)Immunity in reality television is a concept that is widely used in weekly elimination-type reality television shows by which a contestant participating in such a show may not be "kicked off" or eliminated from competition in a particular time period...
spot for Episode 2, Jesse Blaze Snider attempted to reject his second immunity on Episode 3. Producers forced him to accept the untouchable chair, ejecting Crosby Loggins for his earlier performance. - A'Keiba Burrell-Hammer's parent is a rapper rather than a singer.