Grr (aka headaches & Britney Spears)

[only_more_love]

My head is killing me. I just downed a couple Acetaminophens, and they can't kick in fast enough. Headaches, headaches, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways...

So the latest Entertainment Weekly arrived in our mailbox a few days ago, and lo and behold, Britney Spears is on the cover. That really pissed me off. Britney Spears pushes my buttons--the wrong ones. It drives me crazy that this no-talent, faker than fake "singer" gets so much attention. Maybe if we ignored her, she'd disappear. I know, wishful thinking.

I'm sorry, but taking off one's clothes and doing staged "lesbian" kisses do not a talented singer make. I have nothing against lesbians, but that stupid, exploitative kiss was clearly just meant to titillate and garner her a little more attention. "Oooh, I can't sing, but let me make out with Madonna on tv so I can extend my 15 minutes of fame!"

And if I have to hear that "this is the real Britney" or "I'm all grown up now" crap one more time... She's just one huge, gimmicky publicity stunt, which would be fine except for the fact that she supposedly wants to be taken seriously as an "artist." Honey, this isn't the way to do it.

Give it a couple years, and she'll be doing porn flicks. That's my view of her career trajectory, anyway.

Now all that having been said, I get that some people like her; we all have our guilty pleasures. But for me, Britney Spears just isn't one of them.

Comments

[chrisleeoctaves.livejournal.com]

Give it a couple years, and she'll be doing porn flicks

Bwah! ha!ha!

Sorry to hear that you're not feeling well, sweetie. Nothing like a headache to bring out the rant, eh?

*smooch*

[lerdo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the sympathy, C. Poor, poor me. :P

Heh. Yes, there is a definite connection between feeling icky and posting rants about Miss Spears. ;)

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

Amen re: Britney. Our local newspaper did a whole thing about how wonderful it is she's showing the "real" Britney and this is her "artistic expression" - bullshit. It's not artistic - she does *nothing.* She's a pawn, and a very obvious one. The people that dress her and put words in her mouth and synthesize her music and create these marketing ploys around her - the puppetmasters that pull her strings - yeah, they might be geniuses. She herself though, is a tool. And an extremely irritating one at that.

That said...I don't have a problem with people liking her music. Because it's been manufactured to make people want to hear it - they hire people to create hooks that will be stuck in your head for days, get a studio to synthetically create the voice we call "Britney Spears" to make sure it's pleasing to the ear - it's all done specifically to *make* you like it. What irritates me is when people like it, but don't recognize that it's not her. The people that call her talented or an "artist" or call what she does "music" rather than what it is - a big three-ring circus - are the people that irritate me, because it then cheapens the work of *actual* musicians, who do write their own music and play their own instruments.

/rant. Hi, by the way. :-)

Linzee

[lerdo.livejournal.com]

*waves hello to Linzee* I love how you put it--what Britney makes isn't music, it's a "three-ring circus." Going along with the circus metaphor, I wish one of the tigers would go berserk and make a nice snack of her. Ahem.

As for people who like her "music," I can accept that. But it, and she, still make me want to poke my eyes out and run around screaming "La la la la, I am not listening to you!"