Word: britneyness
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...things hung over the proceedings. One was the sad death of Aaliyah (the talented young hip-hop soul singer passed away in an airplane accident only recently). The other was the sad death of pop music (Britney Spears and 'N Sync, two flagrantly untalented teen acts, were slated to perform...
...Finally, after a few hours, the long march of a concert was slogging to its conclusion. Britney Spears came on. The word was that Britney was going to deliver a performance that was too hot for prime time, too sexy for MTV, a performance that would launch her out of the world of PG-13 and into adulthood, if not adult films. Didn't happen. First off, she appeared on stage with circus- type animals - a tiger and a snake. I don't know about your fetishes, but, in my book, circuses are not erotic. I don't typically...
...music Britney cavorted to, her new single "I'm a Slave 4 U," was also a major disappointment. It sounded like it was written by Prince's seventh cousin, like something you'd hear in the background of a bad Swedish porno film, only since the words were in English there was no hiding how insipid the lyrics were. The stage was filled with feline dancers, giving the appearance that Britney was trying to stage "Cats" off-Broadway. Memo to Britney: "Cats" is closed. At least try to re-stage, like, "The Producers" or something...
...trying to moonwalk in Jackson's footsteps, but now the man behind Thriller is returning with Invincible (Oct. 30), his first album of new material in six years. It's too early to tell if he's still the King of Pop, but such current-day musical royalty as Britney Spears, Jill Scott and Ricky Martin are scheduled to pay homage to him at the tribute concerts he's throwing for himself at Madison Square Garden on Sept...
...relative importance of that day's news. Same thing with the order of stories on the network evening news. The idea that readers or viewers might be able to evaluate for themselves what was important that day, or decide that perhaps they are more interested in reading about Britney Spears than Great Britain, undermines the very rationale for a newspaper front page or even an editorial point of view. It erodes the common and yet elitist view of traditional journalists that, "We know best...