Two for, uh, Monday

Though it premiered a few weeks ago, the clip of Lucas Prata's appearance on My Super Sweet 16 has yet to make its way onto YouTube. Um, hello? Am I the only one with video ripping ability who recognizes how awesome it is to watch these teen girls gag over this stocky, thirtysomething meathead whose KTU staple, "And She Said...," is to Cher's "Believe" what his last name is to "Prada?" Designer impostor, baby!

Anyway, I've righted that wrong by uploading to YouTube. Just doing my part, guys. You know that in the distant future, when there's no more storable media, just YouTube, people are going to want to know what privileged Long Island culture was like in the mid-'00s. The following three minutes is everything you'll never need to know about that.

A few things to note:

• To Meleny, she whose Sweet 16 (actually, Sweet 18) is being profiled in this episode, there is ONLY ONE singer in the world and his name is (duh) Prata. He's her first and second favorite!
• "Lucas Prata, he's like an amazing singer. And he's here! Whoo!"
• His two male backup dancers are wearing t-shirts with the lyrics of the song printed on them. On the front, they say, "And she said..." and on the back? "Yeah yeah yeah." Funny, when I heard this on the radio months ago, I said, "These lyrics are so complex that only a silkscreen could do them justice."

A postscript: someone I know went to an 18+ club in Queens last week (because in Queens, apparently it's acceptable for grown people go to 18+ clubs...yeah, I don't know. It's Queens.) and Prata performed! The teen crowd went batshit, and Prata even mentioned his My Super Sweet 16 appearance. He's proud of this shit, y'all. But then, I would be, too, if I sweat that much without losing any bronzer.

The second video isn't as full of hawtness. It's just raggedy old Tyra Banks singing "We Belong Together" with a bunch of women's prison inmates. This, of course, happened on last week's Tyra-in-prison episode of her talk show. She does this gimmicky shit always around sweeps and often otherwise, and I eat it up like half of the time. I'm just a sucka for her love, tough and self-congratulatory as it may be.

But seriously, "We Belong Together!" That's at least as around-the way as those cornrows.

Comments

[brandy]

Who is that guy? How weird. Really, how strange.

[elb]

Who is this guy again? I read a lot of trash rags and I have never, ever heard of him. I'm also pretty sure he sweats mayonnaise.

[Joe]

is wrong to find lucas kinda hot? i have a thing for 'beefy' guys...

damn you for posting a link to his website...now i can't stop staring at his pictures. while he has chunked out a bit, i don't mind. grrrr.

[anita]

OMG, there's a picture of Lucas with Joey McIntyre on the website. Joey's still the man of my dreams.

[Thomas Cox]

Oh. My. Goh-

1. I heard this song the other day on some NY station. Apparently he used to sing jingles, and then decided to sing his 'own' music.
2. When hearing it on the radio, it is very hard to distinguish whether he is saying "Yeah-iyeahiyeah," or "Gay-iyeahiyeah." Fucking accents.
3. The song feels like it is around six minutes long. And what you see in that clip is basically it.
4. If anyone has heard of the club Posh on L.I., I'm guessing that is what is played there. Nonstop.

[Skybox]

I've heard of Lucas Prata only because the song is in heavy rotation on Sirius satellite radio, which I only have because it came free for one year with my new car. They play it over and over on the Remix (err, Gay) channel. The DJs (direct from comedy club circuit failure) then proceed to wax on about how much they love it, so they've clearly been incented somehow. It makes my ears bleed. Thankfully there are many other channels in case of emergency.

[Jude]

What is it with people's new spellings of names?

Meleny? WTF is that? Melanie! Come on!

I saw something in some magazine the other day featuring a chick named "Betcee."

To me, funkily spelled names just scream stripper.

[Leila]

For reasons I can't quite articulate, I found the sight of this alleged "Lucas Prata" character singing to that girl to be very disturbing. Although Melany's sweet 18 was awesome, nothing can ever compare to my favorite episode, which featured identical bitchy triplets turning eighteen. Amazing.

[Mateo]

Oh my GOD. that was painful to watch! I kept thingking, "WHo the f*** is Lucas Prata?" I thought i was living under a rock. Yet, I wasn't . he sucks. And its kind of gross to see him kissing that young girls hand. what a freak!

[Queen Lena]

damn you KTU. damn you.

[istolethetv!]

Ty-ty baby shoulda had the prison ladies sing her "shake ya body" song from a few ANTMs ago. THAT would have been keeping it real.

[Mara]

seriously, that lucas prata guy is a "pop star" with his song on heavy rotation?? wtf is this world coming to?!? i heard it like, once before, but had no idea a middle-aged LI guido sang that shit...scary.

and tyra need NEVER take out her weave...ever.

[MissDirected]

I'ma try this again, as I just totally posted this to the wrong post...

So yesterday I read this site and watched that video of Lucas Prata and thought to myself, "How lame is that guy?!?" And then, after work, when I was in the locker room at the gym, a song started, and I thought, "Yay! I really like this song!" and then the chorus started... You can see where this is going, right? I sat on this site yesterday and made fun of people for liking that song, and I'm one of them.

However, if it makes it any better, I totally thought the song was being sung by a woman until yesterday afternoon.

I'm sorry. I'll stop now.

[Geof]

My Super Sweet Sixteen is my current not-so-guilty pleasure/obsession. If fourfour did an occassional glimpse into the depths of this masterpiece, I would be a happy, happy man.

[Claudea]

snag, i'm 22 and i don't understand all this crazyness either!! First of all, that guy is FUG!!! eww he's NOT "hot"! ...........
And as everyone said, i have no idea who the fuck is that wanabe singer and I have a few comments that I cannot hold on anymore lol:
-what's up with those kids with all the money in the world who rent clubs, travel in Limousine, etc...
-argh will this stupid trend of mystic tan stop? it's the most ugly shit that ever happened to pop culture.
-I always though money=class but I guess I was completelly wrong!
-Is it an exception or are those kids completelly out of touch with the real world??? lol I'm from montreal and this feels like Mars to me! (I don,t have

[Bernice]

OMG Tyra is ridiculous

Can you upload THE FULL EPISODE and give the link??? PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ.

[Sarah]

This girl is from my town - I'm so very proud.

[John]

i seriously found this site by googling "who the hell is lucas prata". now i know. nobody.

ok, ok, so it was a long time ago when the show aired, but still, it's painfully obvious that the sweet 16 show was a paid for ad by lucas prata, or "melenie?" is somehow related.

unforunately, i didn't catch this "star" at the Seafood Festival (the what?) in West Sayville (in where?) back in August. but thanks to youtubers, i saw the highlights....(roll-eyes)

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