Top cast Edit. Baby Norman Self as Self. Jahzeel Mumford Self as Self. Kimberly Caldwell Self as Self. Sandro Monetti Self as Self. Camille Guaty Self as Self. Ariane Von Kamp Self as Self. April Malina Self as Self. Shana Montanez Self as Self. More like this. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. User reviews 2 Review. Top review. Come on people Instead of producing contestants and judges, and feeding them lines to say to the camera, Popstars was more of a fly-on-the-wall experience, as contestant Andrea Henry recalls: "It wasn't scripted.
Whatever footage they got was what they got; I think the only thing I remember we had to do was we had to re-tape walking in somewhere. But it wasn't like what we were saying was rehearsed or anything. Popstars Canada eventually found a home on Global, and since a singing competition show had never been done here, Geddes was given a lot of leeway in terms of tailoring the series to a local audience.
One of those tweaks was dedicating even more episodes to the audition process. The show held a number of auditions in major cities across Canada, and most of them were held at nearby Famous Players movie theatres.
In total, almost 10, women showed up in hopes of landing a spot in a coveted girl group and getting signed to a major label. That was almost double what Geddes had anticipated. Since social media wasn't available back then, the show mostly relied on TV spots advertising the tryouts.
That surprise turnout resulted in hours of footage to go through. He's quick to clarify that this aspect of the show wasn't meant to be mean-spirited or for viewers to laugh at, but that people's sheer boldness and tenacity made for compelling TV.
He adds: "Maybe we all think we can sing, just like we all think we have an opinion. Henry, who had been working at a summer camp when she heard about auditions taking place, was unsure of what the process would be like.
The Hamilton singer had been to music tryouts before so she was comfortable singing a capella for judges, but had no expectations or assumptions beyond that. Maiko Watson was another emerging artist who decided to try her hand at competing on the show. Watson, a teenager at the time of her audition, had seen the MTV series Making the Band prior to Popstars and was captivated by the concept of peeking behind the scenes of a pop group in the making.
But even having that show as a template for what she was about to enter into, Watson wasn't prepared for the emotional roller-coaster ride she was about to embark on. She adds that having cameras follow them around constantly was "one part that I never really liked," but knew that she just had to deal with it because it was "part of the whole gig. While singing competition shows now typically stretch out auditions and their subsequent narrowing-down process to multiple weeks and episodes, Popstars was more of a miniature test run for today's more extended format.
Instead, Watson and Henry both confirm that the entirety of their journey on the series — from tryouts, to a boot-camp round that narrowed the field to 25 contestants, to finalizing the group, recording a single, and unveiling the group to the public — took just about a month to complete. Shot mostly in , Popstars Canada premiered in January By the time its finale aired, where the winning group made its public debut, the show was almost documenting events in real time.
A fifth person was originally chosen by the judges, but exited before the group's debut. Henry, who had already been informed that she didn't make the group, was brought back into the fold just in time to join the rest of the group in the studio. Both Henry and Watson's first reaction to seeing each other in the group was relief and elation, because Henry feared she would be the "token Black girl" of the group.
Plus, we have different vocal styles and each of us contributed to the sound of the group in our own way. As the space between real time and television time were closing in, the winning members had to keep their identities secret, something everyone took extremely seriously because of the growing interest in the show. In its first season, Popstars became the no. Watson, who grew up in Winnipeg, is friends with CBC Music host Odario Williams and sang on a song of his called "Riding Shotgun" prior to entering Popstars ; as a result of her making it on Popstars , the track and music video were pulled so her name would remain exclusive to her new project.
That time was integral to the five women in terms of bonding and forming a dynamic because, as Henry says, "None of us knew each other. It was almost like we went to college and these were our new roommates. I'm sure the whole experience was very different for each of us.
While the show's profile grew, some critics in the music sphere felt suspicious of this newfound format for producing music stars.
Almost immediately, there were claims that Sugar Jones was a manufactured act, a discriminatory label that was viewed as inauthentic and valueless in a time when pop acts were already dealing with enough scrutiny to begin with. But Henry didn't see it that way. Bill Toepfer Director. Michelle Driscoll Production Manager. Patrice Hutchinson DV Camera. Mike Donnelly Sound.
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