Articles tagged "britney spears"

Sound Affects

One Hit Wonder: Mandy Moore

by Tommy Marx

[24.Jul.09] :. In the beginning, there was Britney Spears, dressed as a Catholic school girl with a bare midriff, short skirt and pouty lips, selling sex and CDs to the tune of “Baby One More Time”. It...

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Why are we so fascinated with that train wreck named Britney Spears?

by Jon Bream [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[1.Apr.09] :. Never in the history of pop music has anyone achieved so much with so little talent as Britney Spears. That’s a big claim, isn’t it? Five of her six studio albums have climbed to No. 1...

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Music Review

Britney Spears: Circus

by Mike Newmark

[10.Dec.08] :. Released just 13 months after the pissed-off Blackout, Circus catches Spears on a relative upswing, flush from Blackout's positive critical reception and the release of her MTV documentary, For the Record.

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Britney Spears’ comeback takes disturbing twist on ‘Circus’

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[2.Dec.08] :. “What happened?” Britney Spears mutters during what is easily the most disturbing song of her career, “Blur.” It arrives in the middle of her sixth studio album,...

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Crazed by the Music

Zorn and Britney: The strange dance between artist and press

by Jason Gross

[10.Mar.08] :. When composer/saxist John Zorn invited journalists to a pair of weekend shows, his one request was that they would not write about it. Of course, the next thing that happened was that a flurry of...

Crazed by the Music

 

Music Feature

In Defense of Britney

by Josh Timmermann

[5.Nov.07] :. There’s nothing but guilt surrounding Britney -- guilt for secretly enjoying “Gimme More”, guilt for tuning in to see what sort of trouble she’s gotten herself into today, guilt for not having the balls to use the word “misogyny“.

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Too bad Britney can’t black out this phase of her career

by Glenn Gamboa [Newsday (MCT)]

[31.Oct.07] :. The new Britney Spears album “Blackout” (Jive) is terrible. But how could it not be? After all, music was never really the strongest part of the Britney Spears package in the first...

 

Britney Spears: Blackout

by Mike Schiller

[29.Oct.07] :. Britney is reduced to a disembodied voice hung robotically over the top of these tracks, purring disinterestedly into a microphone until someone tells her to stop.

 

Former Disney stars are making ‘Mickey’ proud

by Joseph Dionisio [Newsday (MCT)]

[26.Oct.07] :. It was called “The All New Mickey Mouse Club,” but a better title might have been Tomorrowland. During its 1989-96 run, the Disney Channel variety series delivered a major peek into...

 

Britney Spears fleeces fans with 12-minute ‘performance’

by Ben Wener [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[7.May.07] :. Sometime after her baby-endangering driving incident but before that video that showed her seemingly stoned out of her gourd or her infamous crotch-flashing night out with Paris Hilton, I came to the...

 

Crossroads (2002)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[14.Feb.02] :. Unlike the audiences at most movie previews, these folks at 'Crossroads' were amped.

 

Britney Spears: Britney

by Nikki Tranter

[5.Nov.01] :. Britney. Yeah, Britney. “All I need is time,” sings Britney Spears on Britney, her third album in as many years, and while three years really isn’t much time to...