Stating Vanilla Ice was one of the biggest draw-cards at the V Festival sounds like a badly timed April Fool`s gag. But ... Vanilla Ice was one of the biggest draw-cards at the V Festival.
I was stunned at how many people crammed to see Rob Van Winkle aka Vanilla Ice come out and perform a few songs from his 1990 15 minutes of fame period.The Killers may have been the headline act but Vanilla Ice was the Killer act.
The crowd sang along to every word from his biggest song ‘Ice Ice Baby’ like it was there’s, not his. “Ice Ice Baby brings back the great memories of the past. I do the old school stuff to take them back to reminisce”.
And reminisce this crowd did. They may have been 15 year-old school kids when the song was a hit but now these 30-something music fans were getting a dose of guilty pleasure live.
Rob, umm Ice, is in Australia as part of a Virgin Mobile viral marketing campaign where he was filmed apologizing for his music past. Is he really sorry? “It was a joke,” he tells Undercover.
Vanilla Ice was a ‘blink and you missed it’ moment in the 90s. Obviously, many kids then didn’t blink. ‘Ice Ice Baby’ has now sold almost 40 million units.
Rob performed ‘Play That Funky Music’ and ‘Ninja Rap’, his song from the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles soundtrack.
Should he come back for his own shows? Considering that reaction, indubitably!
