<![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:42:12 EST Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:42:12 EST http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4140273 Monster is great, and just to be a completist, it came out in the fall of '94, not '95. Though they did do the huge tour in '95 (where Bill Berry had his aneurysm).

MrStarhead

]]> 33:354121:c4140273 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:42:12 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4125010 @Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee: Yes.

joemono

]]> 33:354121:c4125010 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:36:54 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4123145 RS is really going for a Cobain '94 thing with that cover shot, aren't they?

For God's sakes, she's not dead...yet.

ddb4

]]> 33:354121:c4123145 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:32:44 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4121202 blender w/ some pitchforkian lil wayne coverage in the past 4-5 months

jordan_s

]]> 33:354121:c4121202 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:27:07 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4116576 2. Kevin Federline is known amongst his bros as "Meat Pole" (Gross reports that Federline called his brother after his first night with his bride-to-be, remarking "you're not going to believe whose back I broke").

I totally misread the meaning of the phrase "Gross reports" at first.

Al Shipley

]]> 33:354121:c4116576 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:43:51 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4115939 [joins pro-Monster chorus]

Bob Loblaw

]]> 33:354121:c4115939 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:20:33 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4114954 @femstix: These magazines and their content are so self-aggrandizing and repetitive, I wouldn't ever be bored enough to even read one of them while defecating.

There's a new Denny's commercial with Paulie Walnuts. He's at the counter of some fast food place paying for his breakfast, and the kid goes, "Sir, this isn't real money." Paulie Walnuts says, "Yeah? Well this isn't a real breakfast."

RS and Blender aren't real breakfasts.

loudersoft

]]> 33:354121:c4114954 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:45:51 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4114835 @Maura Johnston: Meh, who isn't?

jobsworth

]]> 33:354121:c4114835 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:41:55 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4114521 @jobsworth: Apparently JT is not above the occasional game of "Smell My Finger."

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:354121:c4114521 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:27:18 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4114431 Wait, what was in the RS story re Justin Timberlake that was too disgusting for them to print or some such shit?

jobsworth

]]> 33:354121:c4114431 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:22:48 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4114353 There must be some reason Rolling Stone used up their In Memorium Britney cover.

belltolls

]]> 33:354121:c4114353 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:19:32 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4114322 "2. Kevin Federline is known amongst his bros as "Meat Pole""

I am never going to feel clean again.

sparkletone

]]> 33:354121:c4114322 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:18:07 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4114294 @DHMBIB: "No Code" FTW.

Jack Irons Pearl Jam was the best Pearl Jam of all.

Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee

]]> 33:354121:c4114294 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:17:17 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4114007 I totally want to read those articles about Britney. They had me at "breast augmentation at 17." But I would feel better about buying the Blender ish. Grigoriadis was on the Today Show this week and something about her really bugged me.

OJS

]]> 33:354121:c4114007 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:03:29 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4113984 @extracrispy: Agreed with YB and the catcalls at Ten in general. "Jeremy" (of course) and "Black" still stand out tho.

And most music lovers/critics think that Vs. -- or whatever-the-hell that album was called -- was 100x the best PJ album.

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:354121:c4113984 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:02:14 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4113911 @Lucas Jensen: Ten was cringe-worthy when it came out.

extracrispy

]]> 33:354121:c4113911 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:58:46 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4113844 @loudersoft: I've never bought an RS or Blender in my life, but I honestly might buy one of these.

I find it hard to even believe they've survived this long under the pretext of music journalism. I never understood why you would read a magazine to find out about good music to listen to. Britney nonsense just seems somewhat more intriguing than the promo-shot-of-some-standard-manorexic-white-boy-indie-band with a half page write up of why I should care about them.

stix

]]> 33:354121:c4113844 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:56:00 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4113805 a portly beggar sans makeup

All too true, sadly.

Ned Raggett

]]> 33:354121:c4113805 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:54:09 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4113671 Yeah, Britney is sooo played out. Save it for the obits.
"Respectful of artists" is a terrible idea. Let's hope Levy doesn't totally ruin Blender.

magneticfields

]]> 33:354121:c4113671 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:47:45 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4113669 I suspect that many of the people who now dis 'Monster' haven't heard it in a while. It's pretty kickass.

Chris N.

]]> 33:354121:c4113669 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:47:40 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4113621 re: the love for Monster...

I have never been an R.E.M. fanboy, but Monster was -- and still is -- a fantastic record. At the time, my GF was a huge R.E.M. fan, and she hated that record. That was actually a sign for me that it was good.

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:354121:c4113621 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:45:19 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4113460 Jon Dolan may be on crack with the five stars, but I think Monster holds up better than most every single grunge record. Has anyone listened to Ten lately? It's cringe-worthy. At least Monster has "Let Me In".

Hasn't Christgau written for Blender for a while? Maybe I'm wrong there, but I thought so...

Still, the dual Britney stuff is pretty ludicrous. It all just makes me sad more than anything. It's not just "slow down to ogle the car wreck from the highway." It's "let's take the jewelry off the dead bodies to sell on eBay." Enough.

Lucas Jensen

]]> 33:354121:c4113460 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:38:07 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" And "Blender" Face Off Over Britney Spears]]> http://idolator.com/354121/rolling-stone-and-blender-face-off-over-britney-spears#c4113179 Here's what I don't get:

Why does the Joe Levy at Rolling Stone or the Joe Levy at Blender think I would give a shit about Britney, much less either magazine when they have her on the cover? I thought the idea was to be taken seriously as an outfit whose journalistic integrity goes unquestioned when it comes to music. How do you convince an already over-Britney'd public to purchase either of these rags unless you put them on a roll and perforate them first?

loudersoft

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