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While the Backstreet Boys and Nsync engage in a pissing match over who can sell the most hamburgers, Britney Spears actually has the chance to elevate herself above the teen pop fray and start to mature. After all, Christina Aguilera still can't shake her Grand Slut title, the 98 Degrees boys are still souped up on steroids and can't dance, Jessica Simpson has the vocabulary of a third grader, Mandy Moore isn't legal, etc. But then Britney embarrassed everyone and their mother by a) covering the Rolling Stone's "Satisfaction" live at the Video Music Awards...
...boring, repetition engenders complacency, complacency ensures the rule of "kiddie pop" and bands like 98 Degrees. Madonna abhors these bubblegum pop queens simply because she hates their laziness and their casual desecration of all the values she's held sacred in her musical career--after all, Britney and Christina Aguilera say that Madonna "inspired" them. But to Madonna, inspiration equals risk. Every new record will not only sound completely different from everything you've produced before, but from anything and everything languishing in the current musical landscape...
...Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro shake hands MTV Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera hold hands...
...alternative-rock-ruled early '90s, dancing was not a requirement. Who wants to sweat in flannel? Now, with teen pop topping the charts, good choreographers are in demand. Three in particular have emerged as major movers and hip shakers: Tina Landon (who has worked with Lopez and is teaching Aguilera those salsa steps), Darrin Henson (Spears, 'N Sync) and Fatima Robinson (Aaliyah, Backstreet Boys). Says Judy McGrath, president of MTV Group: "These days, when kids send us home videos, hoping to get on MTV, they're dancing in their bedroom, not playing air guitar...
...most daring moves sometimes end up on the cutting-room floor. In Aguilera's video Come On Over (All I Want Is You), Landon created a part in which male dancers push female dancers' heads down to waist level before the women playfully slap their hands away. It was a little risque for teen pop. "Britney and Christina are both at the age where they don't want to be little girls anymore," says Landon, who has worked with both. "But their audience is still made up of little girls. So sometimes you have to cut back...