Rules Of The Game #4: Britney Shows Brain
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Rules Of The Game #4: Britney Shows Brain
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poptasticuk, I quote Britney Spears, I mention the headshave, I use the phrase "creation myth." Comment here, there, everywhere (still don't know how consistently comments will go through on the Las Vegas Weekly site).
(Contains my answer to Jessica's question "How did you end up liking teenpop? Why don't you like what you're supposed to like?")
Apparently, LVW think "fuck" is a sacred word that cannot be spelled in full without offending the gods. Also, LVW dropped my italics, at least online, but I'll try to get them to change that.
EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.
UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:
http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html
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(Contains my answer to Jessica's question "How did you end up liking teenpop? Why don't you like what you're supposed to like?")
Apparently, LVW think "fuck" is a sacred word that cannot be spelled in full without offending the gods. Also, LVW dropped my italics, at least online, but I'll try to get them to change that.
EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.
UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:
http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html
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Date: 2007-06-28 03:07 pm (UTC)the headshave signalled the moment when i noticed black foax here (ie UK) paying attention: my friend ______, and a woman behind me on the bus on her mobile (yes yes absurd to draw any conclusion from such a poll, numbers-wise -- but she has NOT been a topic of "black concern" heretofore, in my hearing)
my friend ________ (a brilliant brilliant singer, who works in the complaints dept in a london hospital) is intensely attuned to "women under pressure and how they deal", but has nothing invested in britney per se (she never mentioned her before)
the woman on the bus -- in between teasing her phonefriend for watching meerkat manor -- passingly referred to brit as a WARRIOR, which made me think of ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO!
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Date: 2007-06-28 03:18 pm (UTC)You're either on the bus or you're off the bus
Date: 2007-06-28 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-28 03:39 pm (UTC)Lindsay, with no current product out, is still prime celeb fodder for fitting into so many categories.
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Date: 2007-06-28 03:56 pm (UTC)no you're right in the sense that when tabs tell these stories they don't out-and-out say "this is all just commodity nonsense" -- nevertheless i think there's a kind of don't-ask-don't-tell compact between the writers (who after all know they making up up, often very hurtful) and the readers (who after all -- plenty of them -- know this at some level) and are enjoying the gossip "just as a good story".. the compact basically being "no hurt no foul" as these folks hire ppl to spin us a line all the time -- as if to say, it's all unreal, it's all a game, we're allowed, don't worry
at the same time -- at least in the uk tabs -- there's a curious kneejerk hangover of aesthetic puritanism which distinguishes the wacky wildness of men-with-guitars and and the obviously-unhinged/unfit-parent wildness of women with microphones (and fit bodies) -- which defines the wild women as either and the wild men as "business as usual wacky lad rockers"
publicity-stunt-wild or actually certifiable, and then
(and tab reviewers and commentators here routinely attack the american idolisation of pop as a step into what's "wrong with everything", with titbits of frankfurt-school-style crit of the leisure industry cocooning us with controlled blandness)
(disclaimer: given that i don't read newspapers -- except occasionally on a pub table or over somone's shoulder in the bus, or a headline on a newsstand -- i'm not sure a detailed study will back me up here: but this is general impression i get)
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Date: 2007-06-28 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-29 08:25 am (UTC)uk tabs patrol london clubs, but london being so super-dominant, sleb just never go to a student bar in norwich, so avoidance is harder (and yes, they're nastier)
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Date: 2007-06-28 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-06-28 04:11 pm (UTC)Simon R taking the same position towards Paris' jailing as the NY Post (our Murdoch tab) is I think a good example of what you're talking about.
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Date: 2007-06-28 03:26 pm (UTC)Although I have an affection for mental female popstars, I still can't think of Britters as anything but broken-lightbulb dim. This seems to feature with a fair number of child stars now grown-up (hi dere Fergie) who are v sharp in some respects (eg business acumen) but have 0 clue about dealing with 'social' problems (ie booze-druqs-men) because of sheltered/working childhood or whatever, and suddenly being let off the leash (or sacking their manager/parent) to do what they like. This earns the popstar in question my respect for their vitality but not their intelligence.
So anyway, I'm less than convinced that this was actually Britney that produced this barb - perhaps she had the idea and got someone else to execute it for her? "Write something scathing on my website for me, Jeeves! And make sure it sounds like it was me!"
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Date: 2007-06-28 03:43 pm (UTC)sugarshocksneakpeek!
Date: 2007-06-28 05:01 pm (UTC)[Lambert] delivers the hilarious preemptive antidote to Paris Hilton’s forthcoming PSA with “Dry Town,” in which she stops at a quickie mart to buy a sixth of Miller and a cupholder so it won’t spill while she’s driving.
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Date: 2007-06-28 04:00 pm (UTC)(Tho of course I'm being unfair in that I only look at BS' site when someone links to it going ZOMG READ THIS whether in horror or praise)
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Date: 2007-06-28 04:24 pm (UTC)(and, really, of all the people she'd be mocking -- lindsay? not hilarity 'dignity' duff? how thick are these people?)
"why don't you like what you're supposed to like?" is a really interesting question, isn't it.
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Date: 2007-06-28 05:52 pm (UTC)"I'm very curious", said one of the other people going, "as to what music you actually like".
THAT, plus this idea, makes me REALLY wonder what sort of music people would expect me to like, or think I should. How one would find that out I have no idea.
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Date: 2007-06-28 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-28 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-28 10:01 pm (UTC)[sorry frank, that's all i've got to add to the debate ;)]
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Date: 2007-06-28 05:16 pm (UTC)I really need to learn more of Britney's story; I've paid so little attention. Maybe she's had Grace Slick's mouth all along but owing to her image no one quite noticed.
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Date: 2007-06-28 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-28 05:18 pm (UTC)The poll is still up (as of June 28)
Date: 2007-06-28 05:13 pm (UTC)People like I
Date: 2007-06-28 06:38 pm (UTC)Re: People like I
Date: 2007-06-28 06:39 pm (UTC)Re: People like I
Date: 2007-06-28 07:03 pm (UTC)"People like me do!"
(Love me do. Etc.)
(OMG I missed a pun opportunity -- opporpunity -- in my column: WALK-ROCK!!!!)
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Date: 2007-06-30 08:42 pm (UTC)