Aside from the disastrous VMA’s performance that was somewhat out of her control, all attempts at a comeback for former pop princess, Britney Spears, have been rather… nonchalant? Yes Britney is stalked by paparazzi and yes she’s under a microscope, but why has she done nothing to shake the waning public image of her as a white trash mother of two? I really don’t get it, honestly.
The VMA’s fiasco was so much more than just “oh, she sucked.” I really feel that the general public was (once again) willing to put aside EVERYTHING bad, negative, and disconcerting about Britney and start anew. I really believe that. Even the first 10 seconds of her on stage with “It’s Britney, BITCH!” people were ready to make fresh. After that, well, the rest is history. Literally.
The problem from then on seems to be this half-assed attempt at a comeback. Combined with the prospect that Britney Spears has done virtually no promotion for her album, Blackout, that fact that it's certified GOLD is actually an accomplishment. *GASP* A flop is so “in.” Countless artists have flopped in recent years like its another notch on their belt. With Britney’s album, I was so surprised to hear the label didn’t even HAVE a promotional plan or marketing strategy for Blackout. This comes partly from her being on Jive Records which was absorbed by Zomba in 2002 and then Sony in 2004. For those who still don’t see the connection, tired-ass Clive Davis sits as Chairman of BMG Sony and still thinks that an artist can just throw a record out and have it sell. Clive Davis deserves a betchslap banana *POW* for thinking it’s the 90’s.So Britney was basically fucked from the beginning. She’s battling Fed-X and Jive in addition to WHATEVER she’s going through; a bad spell of motherhood perhaps? Oh, you self-medicating southern woman! I feel bad for her because Blackout is by far her best effort, and during a most tumultuous time in her life. That’s why the songs have such an edge to them. It’s oblivious pop star with a twist of tweaked-out whore, the best of both Britneys! Even with the success of the lead single, “Gimme More,” peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, there has been little interest in anything associated with Brit’s music, only her image. And that’s a sad thing really: America created a star only to inevitably destroy it.
