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Preview Of Britney Spears In Harper’s Bazaar

May 16th, 2011
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Britney Spears will cover an upcoming issue of Harper’s Bazaar and she’s doing pretty well for someone who was just declared ‘mentally incapable’ of walking and talking by her own parents. It’s been pretty widely noted that Spears is phoning in the entire promotion for her latest album. She’s been doing interviews over Twitter, by email, by phone, and her team is demanding pre-approval and editing rights on shows that offer no such thing. She’s doing very few sit down interviews except that heavily-edited I Am The Femme Fatale thing for MTV. She’s doing even less live television as she lacks the hand-eye coordination to make that happen. But she’s mentally sound enough to sit still and gawk as a photographer shakes a Wiggly Worm at her like some toddler. This is the singer’s issue, I think it’s for June or July 2011 after Lady Gaga covered the May issue.

There are more photos from the Alexi Lubomirski shoot and an excerpt below.

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Britney Spears Engagement Report Misleading

May 4th, 2011
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Reports of Britney Spears being engaged for a third time are untrue. The singer was photographed wearing a diamond ring on her engagement finger during her eldest son’s Little League game. However, the reports were misleading. As often happens, it was the photo agency itself who started the rumour with its lazy captioning. She could have had a gumball machine ring/ sodey pop ring pull on her finger and they’d have written the same caption. ‘What’s this ring on Britney Spears’ finger?’ asked Splash News. It’s jewellery for jewellery’s sake. Her spokesperson suffered RSI of the pinky, typing a denial one letter at a time on their iPhone, telling GossipCop.com ‘She is not engaged.’ I’ve added a Femme Fatale promotional interview from the singer below. She pretends her album has anything to do with empowerment, and sounds like she needs a decongestant.

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Britney Spears Bans Cookie Dough Ice Cream

Apr 26th, 2011
by Amy Grindhouse.
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There have been all kinds of stories floating around, since about 2007, intensifying in 2009, about the assorted things Britney Spears is not allowed to be in the same room as. For the most part, the rumours were around druggie dancers who were not to sniff glue in her general direction. Or whatever. They were to fart their glue fumes upwind, so as not to get her hooked on the smell, first thing in the morning. Ignoring the firing of dancers for refusing to take drug tests, and asking them to sign over their first born in convoluted gag-orders, let’s move along to today’s reports. According to the UK’s Sun newspaper, who use divining rods to find stories, Spears has to be physically kept away from fatty food, because she has no impulse-control. ‘The singer has given caterers strict instructions not to make any junk food because she’s not allowed it,’ claims the newspaper. ‘Alcohol, hot dogs, pizza and cookie dough ice cream have all been blacklisted.’ She’s not requesting or banning anything unusual. You should see some artists’ riders. They ask for packs of condoms, weed, LOTS of booze and more. So, yeah, not weird. That stuff sounds gross anyway. I’ve not had cookie dough, nor seen it sold here. Nor anything of that flavour. Why one would want to eat that is kind of beyond me. It always makes me think of Cher from Clueless… burning it in the oven. Something I’d probably manage too, before picking off the burnt bits and eating it anyway out of pure idiocy fascination.

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Till The World Ends Feat. Nicki Minaj & Ke$ha

Apr 25th, 2011
by Amy Grindhouse.
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So, on Good Friday, as every one of you slipped into a preemptive or sympathy chocolate coma, this was released. I missed it too. I’ve been farting chocolate, three days straight, and my vision’s going a little blurry from chocolate poisoning. While I raise the alarm, you can listen to the below. It’s the remix of Till The World Ends by Britney Spears. The remix features Nicki Minaj and the song’s writer, Ke$ha. Dare I say, Ke$ha should have been the one to release the song, possibly with Minaj as featured artist. This probably shouldn’t have gone anywhere near Spears. Her whole approach to the project has been phoned-in and lethargic; the song and the video. I wish I could c&p Ke$ha into the whole thing. Baring in mind I don’t even like Ke$ha. But she at least sings her song with some life, some energy. You can judge for yourself, by listening to the below audio. In related news, Minaj announced she’s not going to use her butt cheeks to clean the laps of unwashed fans (otherwise known as a lap dance). She told Power 106’s Yesi Ortiz and Felli Fel, ‘When I go [out] with Britney, no more lap dances.’ The two also spent time together, without Ke$ha, at the The Factory nightclub in West Hollywood, for Minaj’s after party (also attended by the singer’s boyfriend, Jason Trawick, and Khloe Kardashian). Photos and clips below.

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Britney Spears Till The World Ends Music Video

Apr 6th, 2011
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Because the two-step won’t bring itself back, Britney Spears can be seen below in the music video for Till The World Ends; one of the notably weaker songs on Femme Fatale, based on its free, live streaming (find the link to the whole album’s legal streaming on AOL). I’m still kind of lost, as to why she’s releasing this as a single. It’s lackluster and forgettable. She has some decent pop songs on her album and this is not one of them. I struggle to remember the melody, and it’s not something that makes on tap one’s feet. It’s just there, on, and then it’s not. Well, Spears is running with it. And by ‘running’, I mean chest-pumping and shrugging her shoulders almost in time with the beat as though that’s choreography. The video’s supposed to be post-apocalyptic. Or something. But it lacks the clarity of treatment/ scale. So it’s… not. Whatever. It’s below.

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Britney Spears Till The World Ends Sneak Peek

Apr 5th, 2011
by Amy Grindhouse.
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Because she found releasing a music video five seconds at a time as annoying as we did watching the clips, Britney Spears has gone a little easier on the promotion for her second single from Femme Fatale. Building up to this music video release, Spears did a Vegas show and a Good Morning America performance. She also went on Jimmy Kimmel Live and phoned in that badly-staged skit with a stunt-double, where she wasn’t in the potty for that poo cocktail thing (I mean, really, did people buy such a poorly-edited stunt and think it was her getting splashed with… water?) This week’s airing of I Am The Femme Fatale, an MTV documentary, was also uneventful and contained nothing but shots of Spears being flanked by bodyguards to walk from one side of a room to the other as she lethargically croaked rehearsed answers to softball questions. It’s not much of a build up, but the documentary did give seconds of sneak peeks into the Till The World Ends video. Below is its 30-second preview. It’s underwhelming, but gives an idea of the amount of editing it takes to make Spears look like she’s moving without strings. In news that will excite no one who realises this means there’ll be a slightly different mix of cuts and nothing more, it’s reported this will have two videos; the director’s cut and Spears’ own cut.

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