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Nick has a good post about Britney's VMA performance as a deliberate act, one planned by MTV to generate precisely the reactions it's been generating--they knew she would fail, and consciously chose to open with a failure. Though Britney herself wasn't in on the joke. All programming as reality programming!Labels: britney, pop, quicklinks, reality tv
posted by Mike B. @ 10:14 PM
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Hmmmmmmmm (strokes chin).
Haven't seen the performance, though, weirdly, I watched the entirety of the Idolator=linked Zapruder film play-by-play that shows her breaking her heel (puhleeze, Beyonce can do a nosedive down a flight of stairs and STILL nail her moves).
I'm either not cynical enough to think MTV did it intentionally (bzzzzt), or so cynical (ding) that I think that MTV is full of a buncha idiots that aren't smarter than the blogosphere; that is, everyone's being an idiot. (It's in the same sense that I have about Disney, the country, and most stable bureaucracies/institutions I've come across being run by a buncha bullying morons.)
(Would have also liked to see an example or two of this rapid downfall of intellectual discourse in the past few months; he's not reading enough locked LiveJournals.)
The only thing I took from the whole mess, really, is that Rihanna's a bitch. And I don't care who she was actually laughing at (I figured she was beforehand, anyway).
OK, just watched it for the first time. (What's all the fuss about again? That's about par for the course as far as recent VMA performances go, isn't it? Heck,remember Brit with the GIANT BOA CONSTRICTOR or whatever?)
Also, I apologize to Rihanna who was so not obviously laughing at Britney (you saw her for like half a second). People are projecting onto this performance like crazy.
Holy shit, I was 10000x wrong about that Boa Constrictor ref. I just watched for the first time since it aired.
WOW.
Uh, first thing that stands out is how shitty her production values were this time out by comparison. Damn.
The ironic thing for me was that this performance happened on the same night as Alicia Keys's cover of Freedom '90, maybe the greatest song about Fame ever written. The performance happened because she hasn't seen that we don't belong to her, and she doesn't belong to us. Yeah, Yeah!
Honestly, that's what she gets for changing her mind after all this time.
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