Britney Spears

The Five Worst Cover Songs Of All Time

Taking a classic song that's perfectly fine as is and exhuming it for financial gain is awful enough, but when the result comes out sounding excremental, you want to cover the new artist with a blanket and make them stop. Here are my 10 least favorite cover tunes: (1) Britney Spears, "(I Can't Ge ... More >>

Dan Fishback's The Material World

The 10 Most Unrealistic Sex Scenes In Movie History

Sunfiltered at sundancechannel.com has compiled a list of the 10 movie sex scenes that got it extremely wrong (though some of them are a tiny bit hot despite themselves). The linked photo starts with the number 10 choice (From Here To Eternity, in which two major stars carried on like beached whale ... More >>

Britney's Acting Weird Again! Yay!

Britney Spears curbed her bizarre public behavior a while ago and the result was that she pulled her act together while remaining a viable music star. Good for her. But an unfortunate side effect of this wonderful development is that the headlines stopped! Without all the messy stuff happening, Br ... More >>

The Year Ravers and Pop Fans Learned to (File) Share

Celebrities' New Year Resolutions For 2012!

I've exclusively gotten these resolutions from famous people who are hoping to stay famous in the new year. *Justin Bieber "I'll smile for the first time! Even when people say I impregnated them!"

Radio Hits One: How The Whistle Became Pop's Secret Weapon Of 2011

​After Billboard released its 2011 year-end charts on Friday I pored over them, looking for patterns and trends with which I could make sense of the year in pop. If someone asked you to pinpoint "the sound of popular music in 2011," there are countless fads and running themes that you could po ... More >>

100 & Single: What Billboard's Rule Changes Mean For The Britney, Michael And Gaga Albums You Bought

When you go see a movie at a Saturday half-price matinee, should it count toward that weekend's box office? You paid less than the guy who saw the movie Friday night. Does that mean your viewing shouldn't count? What about if you see an old movie at a revival house: Should that count toward the box ... More >>

If Adele Found A Solid Relationship...

​Her career would be over! WTF would she have to sing about? "I met the man of my dreams and he loves me right back"? Blech. Boring. That would go down the charts with a bullet. And here are some other potential career killers for top music stars:

Toxic Shock

Britney Spears and the artlessness of the chase

Live: Britney Spears And Nicki Minaj Turn Up The Bass

Nate "Igor" Smith​ Britney Spears w/Nicki Minaj Nassau Coliseum Tuesday, August 2 Better than: Being trailed by party photographers. I spent a lot of last night's Britney Spears set stressing out. That was partially by design, I suppose; the "plot" of the show had Britney being chased by a ... More >>

Britney Spears Is Anti-Media, Pro-Kicking Butt In Her New Video

​Britney Spears gets to show off her comedic chops in the clip for "I Wanna Go," in which her supporting cast is a bunch of droid paparazzi, an inexplicably milk-doused Guillermo Diaz, a bunch of dogs and babies whose mouths are manipulated into whistling (creepy!) and a police officer who loo ... More >>

Britney Spears Covers Madonna, Because Hey, Why Not

​Perhaps trying to corral back the "next Madonna" territory that Lady Gaga has gained in recent months, Team Britney Spears has released a version of the Material Girl's 1983 single "Burning Up"; the studio version seems to have been leaked as a way to jolt interest in her looming tour, the se ... More >>

Salem "Remix" Britney Spears, To Disappointing Ends

What's the music industry equivalent of a Razzie--the top spot on our year-end worst songs countdown? 2010 honorees Salem may have just taken the top spot on this year's list with their "remix" of Britney Spears' apocalyptically catchy jam "Til The World Ends." It's hard to even call their version ... More >>

Big-Name Remixes: The Sound Of Labels' Panic Buttons Ringing?

​Britney Spears' "Till The World Ends," the Ke$ha-penned second single from her album Femme Fatale, hasn't been out for very long. (Six weeks, give or take.) But already there's a splashy remix of the tune featuring both Ke$ha and Brit's future tourmate Nicki Minaj, who seems particularly ener ... More >>

Nicki Minaj Will Reportedly Give Britney Spears' Tour A Bit Of Fire

​In what a lot of think pieces will probably herald as the passing of some sort of "leading lady of pop" torch, Nicki Minaj has reportedly signed on to open for Britney Spears' tour this summer. (The tour hits Nassau Coliseum Aug. 2, and the Izod Center Aug. 5.) Minaj's lap-dancing, sex-toy-as ... More >>

Britney Spears Runs on (American) Idol

Famous for being a famous singer, she shows up—and that's about it

Jesse Serwer on Wiz Khalifa, Rich Juzwiak on Britney Spears, Edd Hurt on Those Darlins

Darren Ankenman In this week's issue, Jesse Serwer examines why Wiz Khalifa isn't Snoop Dogg, despite his spindly six-foot-four frame and self-estimated $10,000-a-month weed habit. "But where Doggy Style and Chronic 2001 were standard dorm-room issue during my college years a decade ago, today's f ... More >>

Behold, Britney Spears Is Coming To The Tri-State Area in August

It's been some time now since Britney Spears was plucked from her pleasant Louisiana life and transformed into the world's foremost pop-robot. The seductive ...Baby One More Time came out twelve years ago, it's success crowning Britney as the prototypical, twenty-first century pop star. In the years ... More >>

The Five Best Pop Songs To Lip-Sync To

​Let's keep this gender-unspecific ---i.e., this isn't just about drag queens, but about anyone who loves mouthing along to a song. (And who doesn't, especially if you're unemployed?) Let's also stay within the relatively modern era. I'm not including "Don't Rain On My Parade," OK? And so, t ... More >>

Britney Spears' Femme Fatale: Is That a Good Title For Her?

The linked mtv.com piece wonders if Femme Fatale is an apt name for a Britney Spears album, seeing as that's precisely the one they've slapped on her upcoming assortment of suggestive pop songs. Naturally, I'm one of the experts quoted in the item, and I'm rather proud of one of my quotes:

Laurel Nakadate, Pickup Artist

It's panties and panting at P.S.1's 'Only the Lonely'

Presenting Popdust, A New Pop-Music Blog Costarring One Maura Johnston

​The birth of any new music-writing outlet is cause for ecstatic celebration, particularly when it happens to involve writers we know and love. So please welcome Popdust, the new concern of former Blender/Billboard dude Craig Marks, featuring the blogging talents of one Maura Johnston, who yo ... More >>

TOXIC OPERA

Britney does it again, and again

Mel Gibson Has Britney, Whoopi On His Side

​In between spewing rants against Jews and blacks, Mel Gibson lent a helping hand to Britney Spears when she was undergoing her last pulic breakdown a couple of years ago. So now comes the speculation--will the pop tart return the favor and help the hatemonger?

Bulls on Parade: Live From MSG's Arena Rock Rodeo

Where the soundtrack is more Jock Jams than Red State

At Last! My Essay on the End of the Decade!

​CLICK HERE to enjoy my stunning cover essay looking back on the aughts, which trenchantly details the economic downslides, rabid terrorism, gay marriage setbacks, and Britney Spears records that made us run for our lives.

Britney Spears Celebrity Nude, Almost

We and several generations of burlesque club operators' lawyers agree that pasties = non-nude, but a scan of this morning's news and gossip sites reveals that as far as these leaked pictures from Britney Spears' "Gimme More" shoot go, brown contact paper is not clothing. So: celebrity nude! Those ... More >>

Your Prayers Have Been Answered: Harvilla Has a Twitter Account

In the immortal words of Mickey Factz, "Fuck with me on Twitter." The official Harvilla account is open for business, a splendid cornucopia of musical insight, NBA playoff chatter, and random bullshit. Delightful, all of it, I assure you. And while you're at it, dig the official Sound of the City im ... More >>

Kate Havnevik

On the Bad-Sex Revenge Fantasies of Lily Allen

A starlet finds 50 ways to insult your lover

The Teenagers Are Grade-A Asshole Material

Britney Spears's Brilliant Parenting Skills

ROBOPOP

T-Pain in the flesh

What Do Marilyn Monroe and Paris Hilton Have in Common? Celebrity News Roundup

My Ssssmokin' Scrape With the Law!

Sex and Guilt and Britney Spears

Ugly, Dirty, Redundant, and Toxic

Tales of disgust, depression, and ballot regret we're already feeling

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 12

Britney Spears, Almost Triumphant

Britney Spears's Blackout

Much, much better than you had (justifiably) feared

Ashy Forehead Cred Sheet: The K-Fed Curse in Three Parts

British Folk's Own Hendrix Enjoys New Friends, Old Excellence

Changing Station: Clothes for a Pregnant Britney

Fake French Britney-pop for all the dads he loved before

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Going Down to Rosedale, Take My Karaoke Mic by My Side

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