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...cliché. Indeed, the moments at which Jordin appears on the carousel or along the boardwalk are almost eerily reminiscent of another young starlet’s early romantic musings. Watching Jordin’s video, it’s hard to resist thinking of the video for Britney Spears’s “Sometimes.” Tattooed on many of our minds, ”Sometimes” presented an early version of our favorite good girl gone bad and lamenting her own romantic travails on a boardwalk. And if Jordin is singing of tattoos...
...Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan symbolize the media's growing obsession with issues of personality over substance. People care more about the details of Spears' child-custody case than they do about where the billions the U.S. government has poured into Iraq have gone. It's time for a discussion about whether the news media have chucked their responsibilities and run off to Tabloid Disneyland...
...these cinematic features again. “Every time you jerk off to porn, on some level you are jerking off to some woman’s misery,” Dines said. Dines lambasted the very icons of American “slut culture,” from Britney (“the trash can of our culture”) to Pamela Anderson (“no woman has done more to conform to patriarchy than Pamela”). Even Sports Illustrated, generally not considered the raunchiest of magazines, earned her wrath. “They ignore women?...
...Ross delivers an update from the New York City picket lines in the Comedy Central show's signature faux news style, conceding the producers' point that it's hard to measure the value of online content: "Online, intrinsic worth is measured in things like number of tears shed over Britney Spears by a heartbreakingly gay teenager," Ross says, before he is interrupted with a note that Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, is suing Youtube for $1 billion for using its content online. After a news clip featuring Viacom head Sumner Redstone, Ross explains, "When you're not paying...
True, in terms of Britney Spears, she's still fairly young. When you were young, fame sort of screwed you up a bit, didn't it? The difference is that Britney is now famous for being famous. Her sales have gone down with almost every album, bigger and bigger jumps, so that nobody really cares about her music anymore. They care about the tabloid headlines and whether or not she's wearing panties. I mean, is this an issue that the American public needs to turn its brainpower on? Britney Spears' lingerie, or lack thereof...