Word: britneyness
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...kids today. Slinking around in their Britney Spears outfits or their mini-WWF getups - while their not-so-mini bellies bulge over their waistbands...
Takeo's doing the parapara, and it seems like just about everyone is following his lead. The sound of parapara is the heavy, synthesized, Eurobeat-style dance music that rules the Japanese charts. (One-hit wonder Aqua beat out Eminem, Britney and Christina Aquilera on the Japanese charts last year.). Trendy teen mags print full-page diagrams showing the motions that have been created for each new parapara song. Nightspots like Tokyo's hugely popular Twinstar distribute their own how-to parapara videos. Elementary school kids perform the moves at school events and, the ultimate Japanese pop-culture imprimatur, even...
...figure was much lower. The tragic loss to greasy-palmed men is a victory for the arts, as Lauderdale plans to focus on a singing career. But again, she's doing it her way, nixing, she says, a contract with Capitol Records because they wanted her to be too Britney. "It's one of those things when they say you have all creative control," said Mandy, "and you find out your music's all changed around, and it's pop-y." Totally...
...Whom, then, will the artists complain to? They're still the injured party - even label babies like Britney Spears have a moral claim on the music they make - but next time, instead of scolding their own fans, the next Metallica might want to take their beef to the record companies themselves...
...highly talented band like Phish can tour almost continuously for 17 years, maintaining a large and enthusiastic audience at show after show, while allowing and even encouraging the taping and free distribution of their music. This is something Britney will never be able to pull...