Word: britneyness
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Music is a performance art, and true afficionados recognize the primacy of the live experience. The more cynical among us are also fully aware of the magic that can happen in the studio, where out of tune notes are corrected, electronic effect and backup singers dominate, and then even Britney Spears comes out sounding, well, good...
...very clear idea. She promised she would come if we could sing together Caro Mio Ben. [But] don't make a big story," he told the abundant press corps. "She told me in confidence." A Madonna rep had no official comment. As for Madonna's rumored duet with Britney Spears, Spears was a relative model of restraint when she told a Swedish magazine, "There never were any clear plans, only lots of talk. But I'd really love to do it." Back to Pavarotti: "I have asked Madonna, but she has been busy. First she makes the baby, and then...
...make things worse, pop music is otherwise going through one of those moments when the general run of things is so toddling--Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys--that skinny white boys who talk a little tough, meaning Eminem, get to seem like a big deal. So if you happen to be a parent in, say, your 40s or 50s, nobody would blame you if you just turned away from pop music altogether. And if you happen to be a teenager, of course, you might not mind if they did. But the funny thing is, at the same time that the hard...
...they want the same levels of choice. But which one: Splooge? Tripnosis? Filetopia? SongSpy? It's hard to make a decision when you are an anonymous, headless horde with as many different musical tastes as languages. Rather like trying to rebuild the Tower of Babel, only with more Britney Spears bootlegs...
...Still, he definitely qualifies as an adult, if by nothing other than age. When I was eight, much like Howard Stern's kids, I thought that 20-year-olds were really experienced, knowledgeable, grown-up people. Forty-year-olds were ancient. But now I live in a world where Britney Spears is younger than I am. Almost six months younger...