Okay, heres the rub, for those interested. This is the draft proof.
The other night on tele there was a documentary about pop star Britney Spears. It was titled ‘For The Record’. I only saw the last 15 minutes and… from what I viewed it looked pretty much as I expected i.e the no make up, she really is the plain girl next door type schtick.
There is no doubting that Brit666ney—as a modern pop star—is an efficient-of-the-moment-pop-star artifact. Recently, her newly found sonic frequency keeps her transistor radio airwave enhancement relevant. Her videos create a fictional stratosphere of sexual-over-suntanned, bladerunneresque-shopping-mall frenzy—whilst managing to unwittingly re-interpret Less Than Zero ennui, and this is not even an intellectual observation. Everything produced by the Britney camp is effectively brilliantly Pop; the dancing, the sexual tension, the Britney/Madonna dildoesque connection (complete with lesbian spank bank fodder that keeps the guy quota-attention-sic-market).
Anyway, I’ll cut to the chase. The Britney documentary is incorrect as being titled ‘For The Record’, because it is not complete. The missing part is the piece that her and her marketing team failed to explain. Which was how they targeted the buying public of 12 to 14 year old teenage girls with sophisticated visual imagery and lyrics complete with candy girl whore packaging. A sexual proposal with a potent sexual dynamic far beyond the comprehension for whom it is/was intended.
At the outset Britney and her team delivered a visual-fashion-politic/message to under-developed girls which spoke in monotone “I am available”! Young females—almost teenage—could not possibly understand the dichotomy of sending out a visual image (attitude and dress code) which says yes I am sexually available but I’m sorry it’s really a no! Umm… err… I look like a slut but I’m not really a slut. Read up on Camile Paglia to get the full low down. Guys have been frustrated by the conflicting message which woman utilise. Moreover, how can a guy navigate what Paglia refers to as ’…womans cold eyed comparison shopping…’ of men—while looking enticing, nubile, available (maybe this was all sorted in American Beauty?). The politic of Britney’s release Womanizer, is the flip side of the slut chic she has made her career out of. She’s got a nerve she has, to critique men in Womanizer the way she does.
My beef is about the unstated piece of ‘For The Record’. I mean, fuck you Britney… if you don’t mind, because now you’ve tried to go for and exploit the hearts of people, where do you get off? Glitch.
