Britney/Out
Out.com recently blogged about Britney's comeback, just thought I'd share it with ya'll. The following article comes from out.com's Popnography blog:
She's baaaaaaaaaaack! (The return of Britney Spears)
We admit it: we took a little pleasure in seeing Britney Spears board the crazy train a few years ago. There was something thrilling about witnessing one of the most famous women in the world not only crumble, but have a full-on head shavin', hospital admittin', attackin'-an-SUV-with-an-umbrella meltdown. But after reading umpteen stories about her custody hearings and seeing countless photos of her hoo-ha splayed out all over the Internet we started to feel guilty about feeling giddy when she was so clearly unstable and -- what's more -- unhapppy.
So then we started rooting for Britney to get her act together. Because if there's one thing we love more than a breakdown, it's a comeback. Last year's Blackout album got our hopes up (from a production standpoint it might be her strongest offering to date) but that tepid, sloppy 2007 MTV Video Music Awards opener and a lack of promotion left us questioning if Brit could ever really turn it out again.
Now, with the release of her new single "Womanizer," we're happy to admit we wrong to even consider abandoning the pop princess. Here's everything you currently need to know about the road to Britney's long overdue return:
> The song -- an aggressive hypnotic chant about being done wrong that I've heard an equal number of people argue is either her most or least vocally digitized effort in years -- went straight to #1 on iTunes. This proves the music-buying public (AKA mainstream America AKA mostly tweens and teens who haven't figured out how to just steal the tunes they want from the Internet yet) loves it.
> The video for "Womanizer" premiered on ABC's news program 20/20 Friday night. The clip was directed by Joseph Kahn, who also helmed the video for "Toxic," and it shows -- it's basically "Toxic Part II." A pack of Britneys (a fiery waitress, a black bob-clad admin, a dare devil limo driver, and a prototypical blonde Brit enjoying a sauna) enact their revenge on a cheating boyfriend. It's everything you could want (and were desperately craving after the majorly sucky Blackout videos) from the newly toned and glowing Ms. Spears -- there's dancing, there's saucy xerox copies being made, and there's hot male model Brandon Stoughton playing the philandering beau. What follows is the director's cut for "Womanizer" -- even steamier than the clip that was played on 20/20 (and even that version was deemed "inappropriate" by YouTube and forced to reside behind a parental guidance gatekeeper page):
^the part in italics linked back to breatheheavy
> Britney teamed up with MTV to produce a 90-minute documentary titled "For the Record," which details her "return to the pop-music spotlight." "I sit there and I look back," she says in the film, before asking rhetorically: "I'm a smart person, what the hell was I thinking?" The doc will air on November 30, two days before the release of her new album, Circus, on December 2. Here's a sneak peek:
* MTV
> Finally, if you find documentaries just aren't personal enough and you want to get the real, unfiltered dirt on what happened to Britney during the past few years straight from the horse's mouth, why not just give her a call? Like several artists before her (Madonna, Fall Out Boy), Britney has launched her own phone line -- the B Line. By dialing 310.341.4438 you can hear exclusive updates from Britney and leave her a message. Or in our case, a heartfelt apology for ever doubting that she could -- and would -- regain her throne.
http://www.popnography.com/2008/10/shes-baaaaaaaaa.html
