Word on the street...

Confessions of a not-so-teenaged drama queen...

Sep 13, 2007

Hit me baby one more time.

I'd like to write this in respects to the career of Britney Spears. May it R.I.P.
Britney lived a short, drama filled career. Many of you remember a bright eyed, in shape, energetic Britney of VMA's gone past, or even a fresh faced virginal Britney of VMA's way past. What happened? Kfed, two kids, rehab....is that enough to do a multi-millionaire superstar in? You'd hope not. But it did, it did big time. An out of shape, glassy eyed, wig wearing Britney embarassed herself this past weekend at the annual VMA's.
This was her big break, she had rid herself of Kfed, and now was her time to start the kick ass comeback everyone expected of her. She didn't dance, she forgot the words of her song and stopped lypsinching, and everyone in the media has had a heyday every since. What's the appeal? I think we all look to Britney as the little innocent girl still in the Mickey Mouse club. She dated Justin Timberlake, who would never get caught up in half the shit Britney has done since then. We've watched her grow up, succeed, get married, have kids and now go downhill. It's somewhat like a car accident, where you don't want to look but you just can't turn away.....

Let's talk about lypsinching...In my opinion it's totally okay if you are dancing your ass off, sweating buckets and breathing so hard there is no way you'd be able to sing. Everyone likes a show, so that is excusable.
If you are going to sing live, belt it out, and not dance? That's cool too, everyone likes a performance.
But to do neither? Britney barely danced at all, lypsinched terribly and did I mention, had gross hair?

It's over Brit, you've done the unthinkable......let the world think Kevin Ferderline is a better person than you.




Lowes out.

Sep 12, 2007

"Give a black man a chance"

Ahh Kanye West...never at a loss for words. On this article fromPerez Hilton, the notorious big mouth is quoted saying “That’s two years in a row, man … give a black man a chance. I’m trying hard man, I have the … number one record, man.” This is in regards to him not winning at the VMA's for the second year in a row.
This article is simple, just a picture of Kanye, and his quote. But it's so much more. Perez does not give his opinion or present anything other than the facts. The readers are left to make their own opinion about Kanye.
He's playing the race card again. What does that have to do with not winning? He must be pretty confident about his record that he thinks he should have won. His record must be great....and so on.
Perez Hilton often has articles like this, where the reader is left to make up his or her own mind about the stars not wearing panties or the racial slurs or the brawls, etc. Simple, but effective.
Let's delve into Kanye though....
Why is he continually playing the race card? By bringing up these non-issues of race he is only drawing attention to the fact that it's still a problem! Now, I don't know George Bush, but I'm sure it was his simple mindedness, and not his racistness that made him forget everyone in New Orleans, prompting Kanye to verbalize his infamous quote, "George Bush doesn't care about black people". Even though I'm not a fan of the man, he probably cares about black people.
As for not winning the MTV video music awards for the past two years.....is it the end of the world, 'man'? NO! Maybe MTV just didn't like your music....they play other black artists!
I know, I know, positive comments only. I like Kanye, I really do, I just think the race issue needs to die, along with Kanyes career, perhaps?


Lowes out.