It's a tough documentary to get through only because the go-gos themselves come off so unlikable that it's hard to have any empathy for any of the hardships they talk about.
They love pushing the feminism thing and girl power but then when they were told about the extra money they could make when other managers came sniffing around - male managers at that - they had zero issue tossing their longtime manager to the curb and eagerly doing what the so-called male managers told them to do. Not so much girl power and sisterhood there, eh? It just makes them look bad as they double down and say how they needed a more experienced manager. Hello? Your original manager knew enough to fight stiff records to keep your publishing when you knuckleheads would have given it away. She deserves some respect just for that alone.
So when later on in the doc when they all start crying about how they felt betrayed about what happened in the band, it's hard to feel any empathy for them in any shape after seeing how they treated their manager.
Then at the end of the doc they're trying to noodle through some badly written new song and they're still talking about wondering about "woman's place in the future". Ok, can the feminist crap. You showed who you really were when you canned your manager and ran eagerly to a male one when a few dollars were dangled in front of your coke-covered noses.
Overall I walked away just disliking the go-gos, especially as people. I guess that's how it goes. Worth a watch just for being able to see all that glitters is not gold and watching first hand how a huge band can just implode and fall apart.
They love pushing the feminism thing and girl power but then when they were told about the extra money they could make when other managers came sniffing around - male managers at that - they had zero issue tossing their longtime manager to the curb and eagerly doing what the so-called male managers told them to do. Not so much girl power and sisterhood there, eh? It just makes them look bad as they double down and say how they needed a more experienced manager. Hello? Your original manager knew enough to fight stiff records to keep your publishing when you knuckleheads would have given it away. She deserves some respect just for that alone.
So when later on in the doc when they all start crying about how they felt betrayed about what happened in the band, it's hard to feel any empathy for them in any shape after seeing how they treated their manager.
Then at the end of the doc they're trying to noodle through some badly written new song and they're still talking about wondering about "woman's place in the future". Ok, can the feminist crap. You showed who you really were when you canned your manager and ran eagerly to a male one when a few dollars were dangled in front of your coke-covered noses.
Overall I walked away just disliking the go-gos, especially as people. I guess that's how it goes. Worth a watch just for being able to see all that glitters is not gold and watching first hand how a huge band can just implode and fall apart.