Britney Finished?

[LikaNui]

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There's a fine line between schadenfreude and just plain mean and nasty, and most of the Britney (Paris, Lindsey, Nicole) talk I hear is so far past mean and nasty that it sickens me far beyond the behavior that inspires it.

Amen to that!!! Who among us would want to live under the intense microscope she does? Where every single minute of her life is scrutinized and pseudo-analyzed by evil paparazzi.
If I was King Of The World, paparazzi would be eliminated totally.

[Pomai]

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About Britney -- is there a link to YouTube or somewhere that shows her so-called 'performance' last night?

Go directly to MTV.com. They have it there (with just a short commercial before it).

[LikaNui]

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Or this url will bring you directly to the Britney Jumps the Shark article.

We really felt that the crowd was pulling for poor Brit. It's really hard to watch someone who was once so talented (at least talented at making us want to watch her), fall on her face. Publicly. Again. We wanted her to kick ass. We wanted a comeback. But obviously, based on that apathetic and sloppy performance, Brit's not coming back anytime soon.

Geez, I remember when that happened to Joe Cocker. Various addictions (mostly alcohol) had pretty much ruined his musical career, and he kinda vanished for a very long time. Then he purportedly cleaned up his act, and went for a grand comeback by doing a concert at The Roxy in Hollywood, attended by lots of VIPs and many in the media and in the radio biz (including yours truly). Sadly, Cocker was soooooo nervous about the event that he drank himself into a near stupor just before going on stage. Falling down drunk. Very very sad. (And unlike Britney, most of Cocker's crowd that night were really pulling for him to succeed.)
Cocker and his wife now own and manage The Mad Dog Ranch, a bed-and-breakfast inn in Colorado.

About Britney -- is there a link to YouTube or somewhere that shows her so-called 'performance' last night?

[scrivener]

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I haven't seen the performance, but based on the stills, I have to say she looks better than I've ever seen her, at least physically. There's a certain tiredness in her face that a woman that age should not have, but it's been a rough couple of years.

I am no fan of her type of music, but I think she's good at it, and yes, she can come back if she wants to. The reviewers say the song itself sounded pretty good.

Deborah Gibson: Say what you want about her, but she wrote all her own songs -- music AND lyrics -- and how many bubble-gum teenie-bopper acts can you say that about, outside Hanson?

Madonna showed that it can be done. Britney will be back, and I hope she comes back strong, if only to shut the haters up. There's a fine line between schadenfreude and just plain mean and nasty, and most of the Britney (Paris, Lindsey, Nicole) talk I hear is so far past mean and nasty that it sickens me far beyond the behavior that inspires it.

[TATTRAT]

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I think Jello Biafra said it best, "MTV Get off the air"

[tikiyaki]

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Oh great. A Britney-bashing thread. This will be long-winded.

Bash MTV first. Last night's VMA's (as a whole) sucked!

MTV hasn't been worth salt in MANY years.
Remember they used to play Music Videos ?
MTV, Britney, Justin Timberlake.... How many times can these people try to re-invent the same boring wheel ?

Let's Review
Lame, overproduced dance pap song (yes PAP, not POP)
The, "look, I'm almost naked" outfit.
The "watch me simulate humping" dance moves.
800 dancers onstage, doing all the cheezy coreographed "Cats" moves.
Alot of lights to distract you from the crappy music, which she isn't even singing to.
The only thing she didn't do was something "edgy" and "controversial" like have someone pull down her top, or blasphemize a religious icon (ie: Madonna)

This is the VMA's every year.

Isn't it time for something different ?

Sorry, but anyone watching the VMA's expecting anything different is delusional.

[MatildaRose]

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That "statistics" can be malleable fun!

My thought exactly!

[Lei Liko]

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No big loss, imo.

Does MTV play music anymore?

Actually, they do.

Maybe not on MTV or MTV2, but on MTV Hits (MTVH on your digital listings).

[TATTRAT]

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No big loss, imo.

Does MTV play music anymore?

[zztype]

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Does she have to?

...tick...tick...tick...*DING!* Of all people, she should know the term for when your fifteen minutes of fame has elapsed - it's called "crossing the federline."

They also call it "Jumping the Shark."

Or this url will bring you directly to the Britney Jumps the Shark article.

We really felt that the crowd was pulling for poor Brit. It's really hard to watch someone who was once so talented (at least talented at making us want to watch her), fall on her face. Publicly. Again. We wanted her to kick ass. We wanted a comeback. But obviously, based on that apathetic and sloppy performance, Brit's not coming back anytime soon.

[Mokihana]

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Ainokea.

[Lei K]

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It was her dancing, or lack there of, that blew me away. She just sort of walked through the whole thing and wiggled here and there. She was on some other planet during that whole performance.

Britney is FAR from fat, or even chubby, but she could have chose a better outfit. It's one of those things she really should have thought through considering it was her big "comeback."

[Leo Lakio]

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What would that prove?

That "statistics" can be malleable fun!

[sinjin]

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Maybe we should take a vote and ask, "Who cares?"

What would that prove?

[Leo Lakio]

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Oh dear, LL...it's DEBORAH Gibson now.

I know that - but even the shopping malls won't book her (or Tiffany) these days.