Idolator

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 »