When people say that Hollywood has run out of ideas, they aren’t kidding. The musical Rock of Ages is being turned into a movie that’s being released this summer. Showing that Hollywood won’t try letting a good idea stand up for itself, they’ve cast Tom Cruise as an aging rock star. As part of the movie being a musical, there’s singing involved. Unfortunately, Tom Cruise does his own singing as evidence by this week’s Worst of Music winner.
I’m sure everyone is familiar with Def Leppard’s original Pour Some Sugar On Me. The Def Leppard version sounds fairly similar to what we got from the Rock of Ages crew. There’s one major difference. Tom Cruise is no Joe Elliott. Hell, Tom Cruise isn’t even a Rebecca Black. Cruise sings flat and without any feeling. He sounds like a business man doing karaoke while still sober instead of an aging former rock god who can still dig deep and melt faces. Cruise is in danger of putting people to sleep with his singing.
So congrats, Tom Cruise. You’ve won the prestigious Worst of Music award for this week.
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The Lowdown 
I prefer to think of Tom more like a used car salesman. He wasn’t “cast” as the lead in the film version of Rock of Ages. It was his project from the beginning having the musical developed with the full intent of it going to film. Rock of Ages happened to be the first song I heard of Def Leppard’s on the way to the Rock Till You Drop concert I had been invited to by friends on May 15, 1983. It was on May 16th, after school, that Joe Elliott showed up in full stage costume on my doorstep after following us to my home the night before. I met Tom right as Risky Business was being released to the theaters. Tom is a obvious lover of music and was fascinated every time I would make up a new song. I co-wrote Pour Some Sugar On me with Joe Elliott.
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