Britney Spears lip-synched her comeback performance but it's her looks that have the vultures picking at her career's corpse. This speaks volumes about the superficiality of the pop-music culture that Rolling Stone, MTV, and top-40 radio have cultivated. Spears says she is embarrassed. She should be, but not for gaining a few pounds after having two kids. She should be embarrassed about lip-synching for a live audience. Alas, unlike pop-divas Christina Aguilera and Amy Whinehouse, Britney never really had any real singing talent. Live by the figure die by the figure, I guess.
well said, i just told my wife the same thing. this girl is going to be the next anna nicole smith.
Doesn't really matter does it? Now she's just like a lot of talentless people who are celebrities for the sake of celebrity and she'll be be handled accordingly by the tabloids and the pop culture news reports. A reality show is not far in the future.
I think you are missing the real scandal here, Dan. Can we be so sure here hair is real? I mean, could it really have grown back that fast - after all, wasn't it just a couple months ago that she went all Sinead on us?
Voice was fake, but that is no loss. But the (seemingly likely) fake hair is the real scandal. At least her body is real.
She should be ashamed of lip-synching???
Let's back up a bit. One could point to a number of "big breaks" for her, but I think that her stint on Disney -- specifically the Mickey Mouse Club -- was the platform that launched her career. Disney pushed her star way up - through her show and videos. But remember that, back then, she was a cute little singing kid. Remember how she was the idol of little girls everywhere, and told everyone how she would practice abstinance until marriage, etc. Then watch as she was gradually slut-ed up by Disney, by her subsequent labels and eventually became the real "reason the terrorists hate us" (IMO).
And now in a comeback performance, she strips down to nearly nothing, and like some scene from "The Great Divorce" fails to move anyone even to arousal. Rather, she's ridiculed by the very media machine that brought her to this degrading moment. Of course she's embarrassed. But she should be more embarrassed that she succumbed to these people that treat all women as disposable. "Sorry, Miss. We're done with you. Next!".
They love her while she's hot. While she's making them money. Or while she's turning them on (or selling papers/ad space/etc while making a fool of herself).
She's been tossed away like an empty beer can -- and make no mistake: this is the END for her.
Take a look at the other Disney girls: Hillary Duff - gradually slutting up. Poor little Hannah Montana (they even gave her a porn star name), whose pictures are all over my local Wal-Mart is getting gradually sluttier. She'll be the next Hillary Duff/Britney Spears, sadly.
If we learn anything from this, it should serve as a study of how Disney and other major media companies corrupt and destroy these poor little kids.
She will soon be on Celebrity fit club or that other show on VH1 about washed up performers just like Vanilla Ice.
As usual, Honorable Fong, you add some clear perspective.
You are, of course, correct about Brittany Spears and Disney's stable of budding girl stars. There is a bad past and present there and the new reality is that Disney is not the Disney that we all used to know and love. The junk they turn out now is high on slick production, political correctness, (so-called) diversity and entertainment that is less kid oriented than it should be and seems to be designed more for propelling developing young things into a warped semi-adulthood.
When you look at the “Disney Girls” past and present, it’s clear that they’ve somehow lost their way. And they drop right into a culture that is more than happy to relish their failure to become sane adults and normal young women.
In my house, unless they’re cabling classic or new cartoon features, The Disney Channel is turned off.
At least Vanilla Ice's hair was real (even if overloaded with goop).
BTW, why is it that the comments mecahnism here will not "remember [my] info" no matter how many ways I try to convince it to do so? I have no similar problem anywhere else.
Batman just doesn't care about Brittney.
But he is all about socking it to Disney, that is one malevolent empire, from its pinko-commie "It's a Small World After All" ride to its promotion of the very cultural agenda that will ironically kill itself off, namely the increasing sterolization of the country (and middle class in particular) in lieue of conspicuous consumption and unnatural sex.
I'd still do her.
Me too.
