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30 August 2007
I hate to admit it. Britney "Cheetos McPantsless" Spears' new single isn't nearly as horrible as I was expecting.
I must say, Brit has got a pretty sophisticated grasp on webdesign; most of the sites on myspace aren't that well put together. Maybe her pantslessness came after a long night of coding. What can you say? She's an Artist.
Ugh. May I please retract my "hit" on the myspace page? I don't want to be 1/billionth of somebody's carefully crafted web analytics report which demonstrates Britney really is making a comeback, pay no attention to the smoking debris and this crater here.
No, that was rubbish. It's not helped by the endless gossip-rag/newspaper photos of her looking like some trailer-park crack whore and then hearing this where she's trying to be all sexy. Don't get me wrong, when Britney's on form she can perform songs really, really well. This, though, is terrible.
Fair play, miss lynnster. I wasn't hatin on you... just the open sewer that I often refer to as "The Florida Music" (i.e. anything produced by the Disney Machine).
Doesn't have that "Toxic" hook that Max is so known for, so I don't think it's him. Holy crap it's like they stole the new wave eighties sound effects, added Toyah and Kim Wilde but not their sex appeal, then added the voices from Madonnas Sex CD - and churned in a blender with cheetos.
The MySpace page wasn't designed by her or her people - it was thrown up in a second by a fan who wanted a place to store the songs. I'm sure she has a MySpace though...I mean, who doesn't ;)
What fun would that be? Hopefully she'll do like she did that year where she was wearing clothes and she ripped 'em off. Or better yet, she could come out all naked and crazy like, and then put ON clothes as the number went on. And by the end she'll be normal and clean and they'll hand her the babies and we'll all cheer the transformation.
Well of course, without producers and engineers she couldn't make a decent answering machine message though. That's the problem nowadays with singers, technically they don't even really have to know how to sing if they hired the right team of people. Kinda sick.
Well, I think it's kinda true what miss lynnster says. I've always admired (shameless plug for someone who is a really nice person to boot) Stephanie Rice's voice, but you don't see record deals raining all over her. Probably because she keeps her pants on! Ha. I just wish I could hear that on MTV one day.
Plenty of people don't get record deals- why, I know a thousand girls my age (young, thin, sexy girls!) who can't get record deals. It's not a right guaranteed by the Constitution; that's why I find any whining along the lines of "Oh, I can't get a record deal because I'm X and not Y" really lame.
It ain't about rights or the constitution, TPS, and I think you know that. But since all pop musicians appear on TV nowadays, record company execs care more about headshots than demo tapes, like they were casting directors or something. Shit, even classical musicians have to be purty and skinny now (maybe not all, but the skinny ones sell all the records though they might be far from top-notch. I call it the Anna Kournikova effect, and it's real). Seriously, finding it lame or not wont change the fact that it's a fact.
Well, I suppose for me it's not about wanting a record deal, rather it's about something else. I know when I've been in the studio & nailed something in one take, the engineers are always making comments like, "Oh hey, people can still do that? Wow, you just made my life easier!" But in the past, it was REQUIRED to hit notes and be able to sing things without assistance if you were a singer. It was your JOB. Now it's not. You miss a note and they snap it digitally to the nearest one. The skill isn't required.
I see that as a problem. And as really sad. Why ever work to be good at anything anymore? It's like it doesn't even matter.
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