Slog - Comments on If You Read Only One Nine-Thousand Word Essay About Britney Spears This Year... http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e ...make it this one. If there's a Britney-specific Pulitzer for 2008--and there should be--Vanessa Grigoriadis will win it. (I'd excerpt a "favorite" bit, but excerpting anything skews the balance of salaciousness unfairly, so if you're at all interested, read the whole thing. Trust me.)... Copyright 2008 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:53:01 -0800 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:26:47 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe "She is not ashamed of her new persona — she wants us to know what we did to her."

Uh huh. Did Claus tell you to write that, Vanessa?

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947787 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947787 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:20:42 -0800 Comment by Aislinn I think I'm going to stick with reading no nine-thousand word essays on Britney Spears this year. Or, at least wait until the end of the year, and pick out the best one.

]]> Aislinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947795 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947795 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:25:55 -0800 Comment by Andrew I am waiting for her death (I am betting she is gone by August 2008) and instead of an essay I will watch the montage of her life during the Grammy's AND listen to people say how talented (cough cough) she was and how much of a loss her death is to all our lives. (puke)

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947799 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947799 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:28:52 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Seriously great article. The story of our age. Britney is now the only celebrity who matters.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947809 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947809 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:37:18 -0800 Comment by Fnarf One thing I don't like, though, is the non-specificity of articles like this. It's all "managers" and "handlers" and "the suits" and "the machine" that did these things, but they don't mention their names. I mean, they DO, in a general way, some of them, but I think the businesspeople in Jive and her management company and so on are just as important as individuals as the paparazzi are. That's more interesting to me than a bunch of cars driving up and down Mulholland -- when "management" made her push on instead of taking a break, WHO? What exactly did they say? Were there meetings? Or did some guy with a cigar just tell some other guys to get her out of her trailer, we're going to Minneapolis? I mean, Britney didn't just HAPPEN; she is a manufactured product. By whom?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947857 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947857 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:02:34 -0800 Comment by D I love how the whole article is filled with quotes from "close friends" of Britney.
I also love the first paragraph about Betsey Johnson, I mean, what a coincidence that the "journalist" was there to catch all that!

]]> D http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947858 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947858 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:03:02 -0800 Comment by get real If she is an American Tragedy, why does she have milllions of dollars more than me?

]]> get real http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947950 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947950 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:44:50 -0800 Comment by povertyrich Does the articley mention how Rolling Stone prominently displayed Britney's 17-year-old ass cheeks in their pages in 1999? Or is that not part of the tragedy?

]]> povertyrich http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947969 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947969 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:56:12 -0800 Comment by greg this is the ad that was running when i clicked the link:
http://aycu07.webshots.com/image/45926/2002493450861732207_rs.jpg

]]> greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947984 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947984 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:03:11 -0800 Comment by Reverse Polarity I'm with Aislinn @2. I'm sorry, I just can't bring myself to read this article, or any other article, about Britney. I just simply don't care one whit.

]]> Reverse Polarity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947989 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c947989 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:09:11 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe @10

You aren't missing anything. Don't fret.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948002 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948002 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:14:21 -0800 Comment by clarkj "Dude, smell my fingers."

]]> clarkj http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948023 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948023 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:28:57 -0800 Comment by David Schmader "Meat pole."

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948048 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948048 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:37:35 -0800 Comment by It's Mark Mitchell @10 and 2 I was sorely tempted to read it when it showed up in the mailbox, but couldn't do it.

]]> It's Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948053 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948053 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:39:53 -0800 Comment by David K. You're right David, it is a fabulous bit of reporting. And I'm loving Rolling Stone more and more lately (Matt Taibbi anyone?) And Brit's latest album Blackout is wonderful too. Would of thunk it possible?

]]> David K. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948113 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948113 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:15:20 -0800 Comment by Meagan David Schmader. Every time you turn the lights out, I just wanna go that extra mile for you.

I'm so glad you are around to share these gems with me. Nothing ruled harder than when Britney screamed, "I don't want her talking to me! I don't know who you think I am, bitch, but I'm not that person." Brilliant!

]]> Meagan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948125 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948125 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:23:12 -0800 Comment by Bauhaus Nope...sorry...can't read anymore than half. Besides, most people, I think, could see this coming.

What life has a happy ending that involves only a junior high education, bent parental guidance, selling yourself as the promise of heterosexual, wet, virgin pussy at sixteen or seventeen, and trying to cope with the perception of being damaged goods once you aren't seventeen (or virginal) anymore?

She should have taken her millions at twenty, dropped out of sight, attended the Sorbonne, and enjoyed the fruits of all that bumping and grinding in quiet dignity. If she'd been older when she started, she might have had the life experience (and observational skills) to know that nothing lasts forever.

]]> Bauhaus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948360 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948360 Media Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:44:06 -0800 Comment by Matt from Denver Andrew @ 3, she's going to hang on til the end of the year so she can join the club of dead 27-year-old rock stars (article sez her birthday is 12/02/1981). So anytime between this year's birthday and next's.

]]> Matt from Denver http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948792 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/if_you_read_only_one_ninethousand_word_e#c948792 Media Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:26:47 -0800