Britney Spears is ready for the VMAs
Britney Spears looks amazing in her little black dress as she holds a glass of champagne.
So ready for this night ✨💃🏼#VMAs pic.twitter.com/Py2IOB2YxT
— Britney Spears (@britneyspears) August 28, 2016
Britney Spears is ready for the VMAs Britney Spears looks amazing in her little black dress as she holds a glass of champagne.
Britney Spears unfiltered and unaltered – ouch! We live in a world where reality is often blurred. We see it with the use of Photoshop, which can make anyone look better with tool like the blur function. Of course we hear in in music with the Autotune function, which apparently can make anyone sound good. Keep that in mind as you watch and listen to Britney Spears, as this video purports to have the unaltered feed of Britney’s voice. Britney still looks hot, and of course she can be the ultimate party girl as well. We’re glad she’s around. But is she a real singer or just a sexy package put out there to sell records? You be the judge. UPDATE: Here’s an article with a photo that shows how Britney’s body is being “fixed” in her videos as well. 21st Century Breakdown: David Medsker’s Songs of the 2000s I used to have a thing about my musical tastes. I so desperately wanted them to be cool, or at the very least be something that only a handful of people were privy to. (I was tempted to say ‘hip’ instead of ‘privy,’ but you can’t spell ‘hipster’ without ‘hip,’ and God knows I’m not hip enough to be a hipster.) My friend Kathi, she has obscenely cool taste in music. I’m surprised she’s friends with me, since I surely bring her cool factor down by a good 20 points. Then a couple of years ago, I realized – who the hell cares? A great song is a great song, and it doesn’t really matter how popular – or unpopular – it is. I can’t tell you how freeing that was, and I have a very well-known blogger to thank for it. When she admitted to me in private how much she enjoyed a band at Lollapalooza, only to dismiss them a few days later in her column, I realized that it was completely pointless to pander to hipster elitism. You’re being dishonest with yourself, and the hipsters are only going to turn on you in the end, anyway. So I turned a blind eye to what was a pop song versus what was a “pop” song, as it were, and realizing that there was no distinction between the two made everything soooooo much easier. So here we are in 2009, and as part of our recap of the best music the decade had to offer, I have to try to apply this whole revisionist history viewpoint to the entire decade, which is no mean feat, to say the least. It therefore makes sense that assembling one big-ass list of songs will look like the work of someone with multiple personalities, so instead they are cut up into bite-sized lists for easier consumption, with YouTube links for the uninitiated. Top 10 Modern Rock Songs of the 2000s 9. “Galvanize,” Chemical Brothers 8. “The Bleeding Heart Show,” The New Pornographers 7. “Sometime Around Midnight,” Airborne Toxic Event 6. “American Idiot,” Green Day 5. “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor,” Arctic Monkeys 4. “Chelsea Dagger,” The Fratellis 3. “Laura,” Scissor Sisters 2. “Never Miss a Beat,” Kaiser Chiefs 1. “Knights of Cydonia,” Muse Top 10 Pop Songs of the 2000s 9. “Drops of Jupiter,” Train 8. “Music,” Madonna 7. “Is It Any Wonder?,” Keane 6. “Shut Up and Let Me Go,” The Ting Tings 5. “Chasing Pavements,” Adele
3. “Crazy,” Gnarls Barkley 2. “99 Problems,” Jay-Z 1. “Umbrella,” Rihanna Big in the UK 6. “Nearer Than Heaven,” Delays 5. “Boyfriend,” Alphabeat 4. “Digital Love,” Daft Punk 3. “Plug It In,” Basement Jaxx featuring J.C. Chasez 2. “Never Be Lonely,” The Feeling 1. “Kids,” Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue Best Pop Songs You Never Heard
“I Believe She’s Lying,” Jon Brion “Mine and Yours,” David Mead “She’s Got My Number,” Semisonic “My Name Is Love,” Rob Dickinson
“io (This Time Around),” Helen Stellar “Buildings and Mountains,” Republic Tigers “The End of the World,” Gin Blossoms “Fragile,” Kerli “Road to Recovery,” Midnight Juggernauts My sincere apologies to the following bands, who also deserve mention: Posted in: Lists, Playlists, Songs Tags: Adele, Airborne Toxic Event, Alphabeat, Arctic Monkeys, Basement Jaxx, Britney Spears, David Mead, Delays, Duran Duran, Eat Sleep Drink Music, End of Decade Music, Fratellis, Gin Blossoms, Gnarls Barkley, Green Day, Helen Stellar, Jay-Z, Jon Brion, Kaiser Chiefs, Keane, Kerli, Kylie Minogue, Lily Allen, Mandy Moore, Midnight Juggernauts, Muse, OutKast, Republic Tigers, Rihanna, Rob Dickinson, Robbie Williams, Scissor Sisters, Semisonic, The Feeling, Ting Tings, Top Songs of the 2000s AskMen readers rank 99 Most Desirable Women, inadvertently create world’s worst playlist Our friends at AskMen.com have unveiled their annual list of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women, as voted by their readers (who cast a staggering 10 million votes), and it is every bit the cornucopia of babeness that you’d expect it to be. We obviously can’t tell you who’s at the top of the list, but on a personal note, I was thrilled to see that my girl Anne Hathaway went Top Ten, even beating out smoking hot Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio to boot. Kristen Bell and Megan Fox made the top ten as well, and given the performance by the former in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Heroes,” and the performance by the latter’s stomach in “Transformers,” this should surprise no one.
Being the site’s head music geek, I looked at the list of rock babes – and we admit that we use the word ‘rock’ loosely, as these women are all pop stars – and imagined someone assembling a mix of their music and only their music. Along with Rihanna, Beyoncé and Xtina, you can add Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger (#65), Jessica Simpson (#70), and, gulp, Britney Spears (#90). Aiiiiieeeeeeeee! That’s the iPod from hell, right there, though I do think “Umbrella” is a monster jam. Still, imagine going to a party, and all they played were the above artists. Admit it: you’d leave the party. However, if those women were all present at the party, you’d stay, which means that while the voters were asked to look beyond sex appeal and rank the women that have the qualities they would most like in a companion (intelligence, humor, character and ambition), it’s clear that when it comes to music, sex appeal is still driving the car, intelligence is in the back seat, and character is tied up in the trunk.
The sad, unspoken part of all this is that the performance of women rockers on this list is certainly a ripple effect of how much we devalue music these days. Ten years ago, this list would be crawling with singers. Twenty years ago, there would have been more singers than actresses. Today, we get Katy Perry. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fine list of women overall – hard to argue with Keeley Hazell, after all – but the music fan in me feels like this list serves as a stinging indictment of how completely screwed up the music business is these days. Sigh. |