Metrosexuality

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This article is about the British TV series. For other usages of the word, see Metrosexual (disambiguation).

Metrosexuality is a British television dramedy, which aired on Channel 4 in 1999. The show, a short run series in six episodes, depicts the interactions of a racially and sexually diverse group of friends and family living in London. It was released on DVD by TLA Releasing in the form of a continuous film.

The series was written and created by Rikki Beadle-Blair, who also stars as one of the show's central characters. The cast also includes Noel Clarke, Paul Keating, Mat Fraser, Karl Collins and Pui Fan Lee.

The show features extravagant and colourful costumes and scenery, varied shooting styles and quick pacing. Much of the music was written and performed by Beadle Blair, who intended the series to feel like a musical.

The show was hailed by critics for its diversity; it depicted a social setting relatively free of racism or homophobia. It was also noted for its inclusion of Fraser, a thalidomide survivor with phocomelic arms, in a role where his disability was simply part of the show's fabric rather than an inherent focus of his character's role.

1 Plot outline
2 Music
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Plot outline

The story follows Kwame (Clarke), seventeen and straight, who is trying to get his two fathers, Max (Beadle Blair) and Jordan (Collins) back together. At the same time Kwame is trying to attract his love interest and provide support to his two best friends, who both have boyfriends and family problems of their own.

[edit] Music

The track listing on the soundtrack, officially titled Metrosexuality Songs, is as follows:

1. It's All About Love (The Theme) 2. First To Say 3. You So Lovely 4. I'm Your Guy 5. Cowboy Love 6. House Boy 7. Free To Be Lonely 8. Saturday Thru Sunday 9. Hip-Hop Love 10. Let The One Who Loves You Love You 11. In Your Eyes There Is God 12. Lay Me Down 13. Don't Cry My Baby Love 14. Gangsta Bwoy 15. Gangsta Man 16. All About Punk Love 17. Fly With Me 18. Love Is Power

All songs are composed and produced by Rikki Beadle Blair and Mark Hawkes.
Rikki performs all the music, except "Gangsta Man" (performed by Mat Fraser).
Music runs through most of the movie, and many songs are reprised several times in alternate forms (notably a dance version of the mid-tempo "Free To Be Lonely").
The back cover of the CD has a copyright date of 2000, but the disc itself has a copyright date of 2001.
Tracks 5, 9, 13, and 16 are not full songs; they are short versions of track 1 in various styles of music (downtempo, hip hop, ballad, and rock, respectively). A jazz version and a reggae version, featured in the movie, are not included on the soundtrack.

[edit] References

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