Britney Spears, who's now apparently handling her own publicity in addition to her styling and choreography, requested a sit-down interview and photo shoot with the tabloid
OK!, which took place yesterday; according to sources, Brit Brit "looked dead" during the shoot,
didn't close the door when she went to the bathroom, and wiped grease from some fried chicken she was eating on a Gucci dress. (Which, we suspect, is tougher to get out of fabric than, say, Cheez Doodle dust.) Anyway, there was some question over whether
OK!, which recently bought photos of Nick Lachey schtupping his girlfriend in a hot tub for the sole purpose of suppressing them, would even run the interview at all. But in the end, "journalism"—and not our culture's fascination with the meltdowns of young women who at some point used to be considered hot, and definitely not
OK!'s desire to not look like a wimp in the face of a thousand gossip blogs—won out:
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Ah, trend stories, the bane of every journalistic enterprise. On the one hand, they are handy for editors who want to know what "the kids" who will be taking their jobs and houses are up to. On the other hand, they're generally vacuous glosses on subjects that are way too surface-gleaning to even be called "superficial." Greg Sandoval at CNet took the world of "music blogging" under his trend-story wing this morning, and if nothing else it's a primer in how not to tackle this admittedly knotty, yet way too often completely misunderstood subject. Five anti-lessons after the jump.
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What better way to show that DIY music videos uploaded to YouTube are the new way that bands are promoting themselves than by conducting an interview with your own brother, who just happens to be in a band that posted a clip of its own on Sunday? And here I thought trolling for sources within Facebook friend listings was a lazy tactic for trend-story-generation! [
