This is a Flashback Friday for 'Making the Band'.
“I'm thinking there has got to be a better way than this...” Alex gasped from under the bone clenching tightness of the red latex dress. He hated how familiar the sting of its hem digging into his thighs felt and his sweat was pooling under the shiny material and forming a juicy cocktail with the half-gallon of lubricant required to get him into it. A half-gallon of lube and nine years of bad decisions, he thought miserably. “What about a different direction? I heard denim is in right now... Anything that doesn't make my tits look like tomatoes...”
“Remember what I said...” Lucinda, his long suffering assistant shook her head dismissively. “If I am going to help you with this...with your comeback, we are going to do things my way.” She was playing with the camera trying to line up a shot. As the only person who knew the truth about Alex's identity, she was his assistant, photographer, marketing person and now apparently, his torturer. “Don't forget, the world sees you as the fourth member of Money Shot, and for good reason. The other three girls have all gone on to have successful solo careers because they have two things you don't – musical talent and personality. We need to lean into the things you do have on your side – nostalgia and sex appeal. The latex look was what introduced Money Shot to the world. It's their signature. And somehow, after all these years, you're still hot as hell!”
“I have personality...” Alex protested weakly, readjusting his pose because his heels felt like they were destroying his feet, causing Lucinda to scowl at him.
“You aren't listening!” Lucinda snapped a picture. “You don't need it. You know Andrea in accounts? Dull as a dictionary, and still every weekend without fail, she fluffs up her tits, rolls a skirt halfway up her arse, and has guys lining up to buy her drinks. We don't need to pretend you are interesting. You can't polish a turd but you can shine the shit out of latex, and for everything else, we have autotune, and those boobs you've kept hold of for some reason.”
“Fuck's sake. I couldn't even afford to get the implants removed.” Alex groaned. He couldn't believe he needed the money badly enough to resurrect Alexandra of the briefly world famous girl band 'Money Shot'.With all the beauty products he had needed to buy, he was even more in debt than when he asked Lucinda to help him. Now ten years older, it felt like he needed twice as much of everything to look half as good.
“My plan is fool proof!” Lucinda said. “We put these promotional shots on social media, record a couple of covers, leak some tabloid rumours about you dating a YouTuber or starting an OnlyFemmes...” She grinned as her boss's collagen enhanced lips formed an 'O'. “Relax! You won't actually have to start an OnlyFemmes. At least you won't as long as we can sell the songs. It wouldn't hurt though if those tits look as good in the flesh as they do through that dress...”






