I slowly gathered, through the process of pop culture osmosis that begins as soon as I wake up each morrning, that Britney Spears’s new single was called “My Prerogative.” I didn’t realize until I heard it that she was actually covering the old Bobby Brown song. It was bad enough when lame pop singers were covering decent songs--Samantha Fox doing “Satisfaction,” and Spears herself doing “I Love Rock and Roll"--but what’s up with lame singers covering lame songs from over a decade ago? And the lame songs sound even worse the second time around.
Fifteen years from now, the hot new singer Young Eve X MC Fresh will cover Spears covering Brown’s “My Prerogative” and it will basically sound like someone coughing up a phlegmball.
In other Spears news, I read an article in which she claimed she’s taking two years off and then will return with a “new, shocking image.” I’m not sure what that could be: her makeout partner Madonna has already used all the shocking image reinventions. Here’s some thoughts about what she might return as:
A garbanzo bean
A blue state
A high school graduate
Condoleeza Rice’s long-lost sister
A line of human embryonic stem cells
The wife of that Federline guy, high on two years of monogamous, married bliss
Mandy Moore’s personal assistant
A singer/songwriter
I heart you!
I bet she goes the soap opera route and comes back with an evil twin. They’ll do an Islands In The Stream duet. It’ll be bigger than Hey Jude.
D’you think she’ll make out with her evil twin?
how about Stedman
Britneybanzo and her ALL STAR Hummus Band.
It’s definitely going to give the Jessica and Nick variety show a run for the money.
a singer/songwriter
I love it!
yeah, that last one made me laugh. I’d call it the most unlikely.
I was hoping she might take the time away for some soul searching and come back and really break down some societal and musical boundaries.
I’m thinkin’ the world’s first Amish electonica gangsta rap polka artist.
Stumblemouth- I believe that she would be the SECOND Amish electronica gangsta rap polka artist—the first being Wierd Al Yankovic.
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Stedman?
i’m glad i haven’t heard that cover (yet). it’s one thing to cover songs from the 80s. it’s a very different decision, to cover songs that SUCK. who makes these decisions?
i bet she comes back as barbie. she’ll have gone through the radical stage and changed her image, then deconstructed the change and gone back to the original, but in an ironic way.
failing that, maybe she’ll just return as a brunette.
Oh. mah. gawd.
Frank, I stand corrected.
Well, actually I sit corrected since I’m at my desk as I write this.
Greg’s singer/songwriter bit was
way funnier anyway.