Word: britneyness
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...Antigone?” or “What is the Maginot Line?” (as she should, given that money and a Volvo are at stake), but I wish she’d ask him some of life’s more important questions: why Britney sells more records than X-Tina, or why the Olsens have taken over the world while Uncle Jesse has contributed little more to the American popscape than Rebecca Romijn’s second surname. Or perhaps, in Double Jeopardy, why I even know who Paris Hilton is. The answer might prove elusive...
...Take Britney, who debuted as a borderline blonde in “…Baby One More Time,” quickly adapted to pop life and reemerged permanently blonde in “Sometimes.” Okay—perhaps “permanent is a bit of an exaggeration.” In the British Elle recently, she described her 2003 relapse into brunette-hood in classic Britneyspeak: “I was having a huge brain fart when I did the dark hair.” A huge brain fart, indeed. Britney, let me explain...
...let’s not be too hasty in discrediting Britney or the Olsens. While accounting for their fame absent the blonde locks would be difficult, it’s theoretically possible (each is, after all, a triple threat in her own right—singer, dancer and actress). No such alternate explanations exist for the fame of my latest blonde obsession, hotel heiress Paris Hilton. She is so devoid of talent that she inspired equally talentless B-list comedian Jeffrey Ross to announce at Carson Daly’s Roast how proud he was to be on a stage...
...what some kids call them. "Mom," my daughter wearily explained, "basically, every girl at school is wearing a thong." The only viable alternative, one that my daughter favored, was an item called boyshorts, a low-riding pair of short shorts loosely, or should I say tightly, based on Britney's stagewear. Either way, it was going to be 8 to 20 bucks apiece, not three for $9. "But who sees them?" I sputtered. My daughter explained that besides the locker-room scene, girls liked to wear their overpriced thongs with a silky strap showing--not unlike the way they wear...
Where this thing for thongs comes from is obvious: Britney, Beyonce, The Real World, even PG movies like Freaky Friday. When a 12-year-old wears a thong, "it's not about rebellion against adults," says child therapist Ron Taffel, author of The Second Family: How Adolescent Power Is Challenging the American Family (St. Martin's Press; 2001). In Taffel's view, the adult establishment has become too weak and weary to inspire rebellion. Getting thongs or tattoos or body piercings, he argues, is actually a "statement to other kids that they are part of this very, very intense, powerful...