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Ex-bodyguard reveals Britney Spear's drug addiction, terrible hygiene - Entertainment - DNA→
04/01/12
I’m not sure why it’s legally relevant that Britney “did not fix her hair” and “was constantly and gratuitously loud and profane in her speech,” but it certainly makes me like her even more than I already did.
02/01/12
The other interesting thing about Vorticist Britney Spears was the experience of spending an afternoon making the macros. When the connection between Britney and vorticism occurred to me, I looked through BLAST for quotes and through Britney fan sites for pictures and then started trying to fit the text on the pictures. This meant trying to find an aesthetically pleasing arrangement of text in an image the composition of which was usually determined by the curves of Britney’s body; that is, it involved an odd sort of typographic eroticism. And a rather dubious sort of eroticism it is, too, as it involves me actively arranging meanings around a passive and mute young woman. This dubiousness is appropriate in a way, though, as the Britney/Vorticism connection lies in the relation between modernism, industrialism, and populism, which is not necessarily a combination that has been especially pleasant for the women caught up in it.
01/24/12
Of course back in the late 90s everyone was just dressing up as cyborg gladiators all the time like it was no big thing.
(Source: itsbritneybitch)
02/27/11
sometimes i wish the internet as it exists now, meaning in this case i guess my tumblr dashboard and some feminist and pop blogs, had been around in 1999, just for the epic shitstorm this photoshoot would have created[…].
[…] As far as the weird infantilization? It didn’t even register, and it would have — this was an age when brains are magnetically drawn to innuendo, when the line “I’m so excited” in “Crazy” was the height of suggestiveness. It’s not that it wasn’t there, but that it was so mundane as not even to be noteworthy. I mean, this could basically be half of Terry Richardson’s shoots ever; for all I know it really is Terry Richardson.
I was recently looking at a number of David LaChapelle’s photoshoots (for it is he who is the culprit here), and saw these pictures, which I don’t know that I’d seen more than in passing since back when they were published. I remember at the time (I’m about the same age as Britney, FWIW) I thought that they were kind of weird, but what never occurred to me, but now seems obvious, is that they’re intentionally creepy; I just thought they were trying to be sexy but maybe not quite getting it right. It’s a bit worrying that something this over-the-top creepy could/can pass as normal.
01/28/11
Title for hypothetical future post on Britney: “The mirror of immaterial production.”
(Source: mrhoax)
01/23/11
One of these days I’ll get round to writing something about financialization and the dizzying proliferation of Britney Spearses.
