Idolator
Former teenpop star Deborah Gibson has some career advice for the current crop of partying tartlets out there, particularly the increasingly beleaguered Britney Spears:
The 36-year-old, who still holds the record as the youngest person to write, produce and sing a number one hit, has handed Britney Spears a subtle message: 'Give up your vices.' The stunning Shake Your Love singer, who is now a respected Broadway stage star, says, "Clean living, baby (is the answer). I've never touched a drug, I don't smoke, I don't smoke. I love getting my sleep. "I'm in tune with myself and my body and I never push myself to a point where I'm in danger of being so run down that I just don't feel like me."
She's got a point—although you'd think she'd have also mentioned that clean living now makes the Playboy airbrushers' job later so much easier.
GIBSON URGES MODERN POP PRINCESSES TO 'CLEAN UP' [contactmusic.com]
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Idolator, you don't link to a STORY about Gibson's Playboy pictures. You link to the PICTURES! So disappointed.
"Don't have fun now, so later people can laugh at the idea that you're a 'respected Broadway stage star.' No amount of cocaine is worth that!
@brasstax: I think that sort of linkage is reserved for Fleshbot.
Strange that there is a 'death of the record industry' post later today. This thoroughly mediocre performer's pap being shoved down America's throat may have prompted the undertakers to start digging. Yes, there have been plenty of scams before, but I can't think of one remotely as BOGUS as Gibson.
Her A&R guy should be sentenced to listening to her 'music' for eternity. That would be like rubbing a dog's nose in its turd, and would serve as a message to future generations: NO!
Ah, but "Only In My Dreams" was the "Since U Been Gone" of the mid-1980s: the commercial teenpop that even college radio fans liked. Maybe that was just my college town.
(Monday has apparently become Show Your Age Day. Sit on Gramps' lap and I'll tell you all about that old-time group, Some Velvet Sidewalk.)
@mike a: "only in my dreams" is a masterwork.
Is TurdsAndWhey some sort of elaborate art project?
You know what the most underrated part about Debbie was? Her back-up dancers. Who, nowadays, could boast consistently touring with a middle-aged gay black man (also sharing in back-up vocal duties) and semi-retarded looking middle-aged gnome who could do back-flips? Nobody.
I'm going to go out right now and record a new single called "Clean living, baby (is the answer)"
This makes me miss Mojo Nixon. Anybody else down with "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child"?
Anyhow, at least Gibson has some punk cred from jamming with the Circle Jerks.
If you want proof that Debs can still throw down with the best of them (and, really, better than most of them) - check out a track called Famous where she calls out the current crop of celebretards for being, well, total wastes of space.
Tiffany>Debbie Gibson
Debbie was a much better singer than Britney will ever be -- and a much better songwriter than most of the people who write songs for Britney. She was also washed up at 22.
Sad to say, but if Debbie were 1/10 as interesting as Britney is, she might still be doing more than driving tourists across Broadway to the Disney store to buy Belle dolls.
@Cam/ron: I love that song ("I Wanna Destroy You")!
I'm not gonna lie...all my friends had Alyssa Milano pictures in their lockers back in the day, and I had one of Debbie.
No she was doing broadway and off-broadway shows for a lot more money than she ever made recording record.
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