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Britney Makes Public Appearance On Lousy TV Show

I went back and forth on whether to watch MTV's Rock the Cradle or not, but after suffering through one episode, I gave up. It turns out the show went on without me, crowning Kenny Loggins' son as the winner last night. While the show wasn't as exciting as I had hoped, Britney Spears was apparently a fan, as Access Hollywood reports that she sat backstage with her staff during the taping. My only hope is that she discussed a possible duet with Lil' B. Sure, but that's probably asking for too much. After the cut, an MTV compilation of the young Loggins and his performances. More »

the last word

Britney Tries A TV Channel Other Than E! For A Change

Now and again, we round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. This installment covers probably the most talked about music news of the day, for better or worse: Britney Spears' career-rehabbing stint on last night's episode of How I Met Your Mother. More »

videodrone

Cartoon Cyber-Britney Sent From Future To Replace Faulty Flesh And Blood Model


Explosions, random make-out sessions, incoherent plotting, a cliffhanger ending that suggests this thing is just gonna go on forever: In case you missed it in the comments for yesterday's announcement post, Brtiney's new anime-style video for "Break The Ice" debuted about 15 hours ago on the Internets. And while the directors were probably right to shy away from the "monstrous living-flesh baby that uncontrollably devours everyone in its path" angle, at least cost-cutting cartoonery spares us the awkwardness of watching real-life '08 Brit kickboxing with hitmen and trying to blow up cyberpunk riot police while wearing thigh-high boots. [YouTube]

Okay, two Britney posts in one day is probably excessive, and yet I'd be slacking (more so) if I didn't mention that her new video premieres tonight at 6:30 EST. On a Web site. And you can only watch it once. And only after you "discover and enter the correct two passwords" on that Web site. Which seems like a lot of work. But "the fully animated video was created in South Korea in anime/Japanimation style." Which is admittedly pretty clever cover for Brit being permanently indisposed. Oh, and the passwords are "it's really nice outside today" and "walking is a healthy activity we all can enjoy." [BlackoutBall]

Given that she's attempting a return to normalcy, it makes a kind of cosmic sense that Britney Spears is guest-starring on How I Met Your Mother. Back in the glory years of the sitcom, nothing was more normal than a past-their-prime popstar dropping lame zingers in front of a live studio audience. How I Met Your Mother is a fairly traditional sitcom, but like Britney, it does new things with an old form, making this seem like a good match. On the other hand, putting Neil Patrick Harris and Britney Spears in the same room may cause some sort of irony supernova to form. [Yahoo! News]

your daddy don't know

Pot, Meet Kettle: Another Old White Man Tries To Explain Britney

Always say two nice things first, the writing workshoppers tell me, so I'll grant that Rock and the Pop Narcotic author Joe Carducci makes a good point about Rolling Stone's Britney issue: Jann's other rags are indeed as responsible for the Britpacolypse as the tabloids. (Though who cares about Rolling Stone's hypocrisies anymore? Haven't we all come to terms with that?) And yes, the possibly Wenner-penned sentence comparing Britney to George W. is gaggingly bad. But then he tries to explain Britney, and suddenly there's not enough hand-waving in the world for this bitch to take flight: More »

wtf redux

Britney and Heidi: The Story Gets Stranger

Well, either someone's not telling the truth about Monday's Britney Spears/Heidi Montag musical trainwreck/duet or someone is editing our troubled celebrities together in duet tracks that were never meant to be! I prefer the second possibility, but I can't really get my hopes up for a Larry Birkhead/Lil Wayne track in the near future, can I? Either way, the denials started rolling in today, and thank goodness, we have Ryan Seacrest around to sort things out. He believes the song originated from Montag's "camp", which seems probable as Britney's entourage is bound by the Mental Health Professional's Code of Conduct, which prohibits media leaks, even if the single is totally bangin'. [AZcentral]

wtf

Britney Spears Drops New Single, Falls Even Further Into Post-Post-Postmodern Hell

A new Britney Spears song just premiered on Ryan Seacrest's soon-to-be-nationwide radio show, and for some reason Britney, who still has a whole album's worth of good dance-pop tunes to release to radio, is now lowering herself to duet with that chick from The Hills who made the really crummy music video a few weeks back. The song, "Dramatic," doesn't sound like a "duet" as much as it sounds like "Heidi Montag singing over a half-finished Britney song that someone left behind at the studio," which lends some credence to Dan's theory that it could a leaked track from Jive Records' forthcoming Britney Spears - Duets collaboration. But I think it's just Britney trying to hitch her wagon to that of a fellow tabloid star, thus proving that she's the ultimate 21st-century fameball, someone who knows that the only way her Google News hits will go up is by forming some sort of silicone-and-spray-tan Wondertwin alliance with her counterparts from Us' table of contents. [KIISFM.com]

"Ms. Spears's label, Jive Records, continues to promote singles from "Blackout," without her active participation. (The recording industry has much experience with artists who have become incapacitated or unavailable or dead.)" So does this mean that we should expect a kinda self-indulgent video where a bunch of C-listers are coming together as one unified Britney when the clip for "Break The Ice" premieres in the coming weeks? [NYT / Photo: Getty]

rock-critically correct

"Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears

Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, he contrasts the Britney Spears cover stories in the new issues of Rolling Stone and Blender: More »

on the rack

"Blender" Openly Admits To Using Photoshop On Its New Issue's Cover


on the rack

Britney Spears To Return To Her Cover-Girl Heights Again (Sorta)

The next issue of Blender will reportedly feature Britney Spears on its cover, with whatever poor sap who was contracted for the story spending "a month on a Britney safari, following her actions and talking with those closest to her." (When I think of the words "Britney safari," I think of the 2001 VMAs, but that could just be the PTSD talking.) While this does square with those reports of the mag needing a Britney body double a few weeks ago, and it certainly will sell copies off the newsstand, wouldn't an expedition like this be better suited to a blog? Or is the whole story going to be prefaced by an explanation of the concept of "lead times" for less savvy readers? [Page Six / Photo: Getty]

idolator's 2007 top 40 list of awesomeness

Idolator's 2007 Top 40 List Of Awesomeness: The 10 Tunes That Almost Made It

Naturally we heard more than 40 great songs in 2007. And so before we get to the top two slots, here are 10 tracks that might have made it into our list of awesomeness on another day, from Radio Disney to Brooklyn art-rock to Euro-techno to Britney: More »

art brutes

The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament Advises You To Put On Some Sunglasses

We turn now to the "Bad Photoshop" bracket of the Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament, which should probably be temporarily named the "My Eyes" bracket in honor of the aesthetic travesties facing off in this installment of the contest. Yiiii! In one corner, we have Satellite Party's Ultra Payloaded, which shows that Perry Farrell's facility for titling albums is almost as bad as his ability to not abuse the drop shadow. And in the other, we have Britney Spears, who continues her quest to be the queen of Google News with the blink-and-you'll-be-blinded cover of Blackout. Which deserves to make it on to the next round? Vote after the jump! More »

videodrone

Britney Spears: Another Day, Another Drama (Only This One Is (Sorta) Scripted)


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(30 Seconds Of) Britney Spears' New Video: Watch Those Hair Extensions Fly


100 and single

"No One" Here Gets Out Alive: Sales Malaise Spreads to the Hot 100

Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on the Billboard Hot 100 in the latest installment of "100 And Single":

If you, current pop act, are not an Oprah-anointed permhead with a name rhyming with "Lohan," you are not having a fun week: A mid-holiday-season malaise has settled over the Billboard charts. That's clear from the current results on the Hot 100, where Alicia Keys holds on to the top spot for a third week even as her sales fall considerably.

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art brutes

The Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament: Britney Takes On The Bugs

Our second entry in the "Bad Photoshop" bracket of our Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament pits dance pop against prog rock, Auto-Tuned studio magic against Berklee-trained musicianship, and most importantly, a dazed divorcee in a fedora against the might of the insect kingdom. In the one corner, the disorienting orangey-yellow and fuzzy-pink of Britney's Blackout, a cover created by scientists for the purposes of secret epilepsy studies. In the other corner, there's the equally orangey-yellow and "mysterious" skyline of the "special edition" sleeve to Dream Theater's Systematic Chaos. You know, you would have thought a post-apocalyptic world where the evil ants have taken control of the traffic lights would seem a little scarier than Brit's hypnotic, insectoid stare.

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