The Telegraph article: Everything about Britney is fake but that's what makes her fascinating

[confidentnotcocky]

So Britney Spears can’t sing? Quelle surprise, as the French say. The leak of a dull, flat, wobbly vocal exposed as utterly inept without the aid of autotune is just the latest opportunity to mock her minimal musical ability, as if that was even a consideration in a contemporary pop career. But if you have been paying any attention to the career of Spears at all, you would know by now that she can’t really sing, can’t dance and often can’t be bothered even making an effort to pretend otherwise.

Personally, I think Britney is the very worst kind of modern pop star, which is, of course, part of what makes her so fascinating. She is not famous for any particular charisma or talent, she is famous for being sexual jailbait who made a very public transition from cherubic Mickey Mouse Club starlet to provocative schoolgirl fantasy figure with the video for her 1999 hit single ‘ … Baby One More Time’. She was the Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus of her time, a teen crush who also fed dark adult desires, promoting an American dream of apple pie chastity whilst performing risqué songs with revealing costumes and dance moves, the latest incarnation of a bizarre cultural fascination with the virgin whore. She achieved such an incredible degree of fame in the early 21th Century (she has sold over 100 million records worldwide) that her career since has been one long public burn-out, a fairly standard pop soap opera narrative of extreme fame exposing family dysfunction, romantic disasters, drug addiction, weight problems, depression, breakdown, recovery and comeback.

She has, along the way, made some absolutely fantastic pop records, punchy, plastic, shiny assertions of identity packed with ear-catching hooks, each essentially the creation of top backroom writer-production teams cynically playing with the public image of the star and delivered by Spears with a kind of robotic blankness then tarted-up with slick, big-budget soft-porn videos. You can’t argue with tracks like Toxic (by Swedish duo Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg), Womanizer (by Atlanta production team Outsyders) and most recently her collaborations with will.i.am (Work Bitch and Scream & Shout). And if the star at the centre of the promotional campaign often seems dazed, damaged and disinterested, well, that only adds to her allure. The vulnerability of Spears is the most human part of her. Airbrushed, choreographed, produced and manipulated to within an inch of her sanity, Spears is a vacuum into which fans, producers and brand managers alike disgorge sexual and idolatrous fantasies. She is an emblem of everything superficial and fake in celebrity culture. Of course she uses autotune. It would almost be disappointing if she didn’t fake her vocals as well. 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/10959206/Everything-about-Britney-is-fake-but-thats-what-makes-her-fascinating.html 

 

Are you kidding me? The most ignorant piece of shit by an inarticulate music snob, What a twat!

 

[Dragneel]

Respected as an artist by half of the planet and totally hated by the other half...

One thing is for certain...Britney Spears is eternal and if she was indeed so fake and plastic and promoted then she would have been devoured by a gigantic hole directly to hell in one year...But that never happened, so...

[EnjoyTheRide]

Her videos are softcore porn? Wow, I wonder what his opinion would be on Madonna.

[S.S.S]

The guy has issues 

[LiaLovesGodney]

This idiot... A simple search on youtube will show Britney can very well sing and dance and has been doing it for 15 years. Primeney says hello... Lots of portions of 2008-2014 say hello as well.

[BritCR]

The telegraph=piece of shit 

[Goten21]

Worst article written in a looong time

[confidentnotcocky]

His come they never mention blackout?

 

Cos it's a cheap way to get it's for his article, but it is clearly based on ignorance

[confidentnotcocky]

he does make some valid points though and its not entirely negative.

 

All back handed complimentments in which he's still saying she's shit

[Veronica the witch]

funny think is that the general pubic says she has no talent yet about 2 years ago some business men where talking about proposing Britney a vegas show.

 

Look at her now, selling out shows (earning about 300,000 at night)   and she doesn't care about what they  , I want to see a person with  no talent (as they say britney is) do that 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[ashley]

They seem so pressed lmao

It's hilarious how far the media will try to bring down a person who actually worked to get to where they are and then there's people like the kardashians. They completely ignored her past too? I meant can't dance, can't sing? There many videos that prove that isn't true

And the fact they put her on the same level as beiber and Miley that was the biggest insult

[1981]

I agree with the headline. :MGLOL:

[carlitos'crib]

what a superficial and ignorant article.
that link is not working by the way, I wonder why???

[confidentnotcocky]

what a superficial and ignorant article.

that link is not working by the way, I wonder why???

 

Hopefully it they fucking pulled it

[carlitos'crib]

Hopefully it they fucking pulled it

 

MTE

[confidentnotcocky]

MTE

 

It's till there  

 

If you go on the website and search her name it's the 2nd one on the page

[Lsuboi89]

Same story, different media source really....They have all been saying the same stuff about her for years, yet they are still writing about her, still interested in her life and what she's doing, still making her that more famous, still keeping her name in the headlines, etc. She sells stories point blank, and they all know it. It just goes to show you her relevancy in the entertainment business is still there. What other artist do you know out ther that can take over facebook and media front pages like she can? I can agree that everyone is fascinated with her one way or the other, and for that it will keep her legacy alive. 

 

So i say let them write about her, it's not going affect her either way. Just an extra promo to keep her in the spotlight that she didn't have to pay for.   

 

Any Artist that can still sell out shows after all of the scrutiny she goes through with headlines, (lip syncs, uses autotune, wardrobe malfuctions, not as good of a dancer, robot, and whatever else they are saying) is doing amazing. Her legacy is still going on strong. Other artists careers would already be over if they got half of the "bad" press she does.    

[confidentnotcocky]

Same story, different media source really....They have all been saying the same stuff about her for years, yet they are still writing about her, still interested in her life and what she's doing, still making her that more famous, still keeping her name in the headlines, etc. She sells stories point blank, and they all know it. It just goes to show you her relevancy in the entertainment business is still there. What other artist do you know out ther that can take over facebook and media front pages like she can? I can agree that everyone is fascinated with her one way or the other, and for that it will keep her legacy alive. 

 

So i say let them write about her, it's not going affect her either way. Just an extra promo to keep her in the spotlight that she didn't have to pay for.   

 

Any Artist that can still sell out shows after all of the scrutiny she goes through with headlines, (lip syncs, uses autotune, wardrobe malfuctions, not as good of a dancer, robot, and whatever else they are saying) is doing amazing. Her legacy is still going on strong. Other artists careers would already be over if they got half of the "bad" press she does.    

 

Flawless post and very well put  

 

 

It's just sad they alway have to mock her (obvs the Alien thing will make that happen but they do it anyway)

[JhoNey]

 Everything about Britney is fake

 

her 15 year old carreer

her sold out shows

her huge ass bank account

her huge ass

 

are not 

 

[James]

I wonder what will happen if the Myah Marie drama goes viral

[ashley]

I wonder what will happen if the Myah Marie drama goes viral

It already did. Multiple times actually

[James]

It already did. Multiple times actually

Alien has more impact tbh

[heather]

Any Artist that can still sell out shows after all of the scrutiny she goes through with headlines, (lip syncs, uses autotune, wardrobe malfuctions, not as good of a dancer, robot, and whatever else they are saying) is doing amazing. Her legacy is still going on strong. Other artists careers would already be over if they got half of the "bad" press she does.    

[Lsuboi89]

Flawless post and very well put

 

 

It's just sad they alway have to mock her (obvs the Alien thing will make that happen but they do it anyway)

They will mock her for a long time to come tbh. I mean they have still never let the cheetos thing go. I'm sure next week she will order the wrong thing from starbucks and it will set the internet ablaze. lol.  Luckily she is smarter than most people though, instead of snapping back, she just makes them look dumb. 

 

Example: Perez Hilton talked mad crap about her. What did she do? She made him part of her tour and now he kisses her ass every moment he gets. 

 

She doesn't let people get to her anymore, and it drives them nuts. That's why she is still relevant, because no matter what they throw at her, it doesn't nor will it ever phase her or her fame. 

[confidentnotcocky]

They will mock her for a long time to come tbh. I mean they have still never let the cheetos thing go. I'm sure next week she will order the wrong thing from starbucks and it will set the internet ablaze. lol.  Luckily she is smarter than most people though, instead of snapping back, she just makes them look dumb. 

 

Example: Perez Hilton talked mad crap about her. What did she do? She made him part of her tour and now he kisses her ass every moment he gets. 

 

She doesn't let people get to her anymore, and it drives them nuts. That's why she is still relevant, because no matter what they throw at her, it doesn't nor will it ever phase her or her fame. 

 

Awesome man, so well put again