Posted on 09/09/2007 10:19:58 PM PDT by dayglored
[ Please note, I'm posting this as a commentary on our increasingly decadent culture and the either impossible or undesirable goals it sets for our young women. ]
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) -- Somewhere, Kevin Federline is laughing. An out-of-shape, out-of-touch Britney Spears delivered what was destined to be the most talked-about performance of the MTV Video Music Awards -- but for all the wrong reasons....
She walked through her dance moves with little enthusiasm. It appeared she had forgotten the entire art of lip-synching. And, perhaps most unforgivable given her once-taut frame, she looked embarrassingly out of shape....
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But.... what's she doing in her underwear???? THAT ought to be the issue. God forbid my daughter appeared in public dressed like that. Luckily I don't think that'll ever be a worry for her, but still...
I am annoyed that the above is considered in good taste for public view. Not her body shape, her choice of outfit.
She needs to grow into her role of being a woman and now a parent. She needs to dress accordingly.
I don’t think she’s in shape to do that act. But she is in fine shape to be a human female.
In good taste for public view? Didn’t you mean “pubic view”? With Britney, Lindsey, Paris, etc., one should generally refer to the pubic view.
After this disaster tonight, MTV is done.
Spears in done, (thank goodness).
Now maybe we can get back to good music!!!!!!!!!!!
One problem is much of our entertainment and fashion industry is gay men. Who view androgynous shapes as sexier. Which imo is anti-fertility. Women dont’ want to allegedly wreck their figure by having more children.
In some ancient cultures a pregnant woman was viewed as a sex symbol of fertility.
I agree about that underwear.. I saw a video of Britney on youtube and she was in sweat pants, and a wool hat and t-shirt.. and imo she looked great. I was like wow I didn’t realize she was that good looking. Somehow the way they dress her and do her up seems to take away from her natural sexiness to me.
Yes, precisely!
Britney jumped the shark years ago.
I missed the act itself, so I can't say about your first comment, but I'll agree with your latter assessment.
When I was a kid, "I can see your underwear!" was a taunt that could make a girl break down and cry. Now.... oh, don't get me started...
I agree 110%!! As a healthy heterosexual male I look at so many of the “Twiggy” females in fashion magazines and wonder what is the appeal?? Even if it were not terribly unhealthy for these girls and women, reason enough to put a stop to it of course, it’s also completely unappealing to most semi-’normal’ males..... The skin-and-bones androgynous look certainly doesn’t appeal to me! Then I read and hear about the extent to which gay males dominate the sensibility of a large portion of the fashion industry and it all fits — they want stick-like women who look like teenage boys!
It wasn't too bad when it was new: music videos and Liquid Television with Aeon Flux and Beavis and Butthead, et al.
But now it just sucks. It's completely unwatchable.
I saw a video clip of Britney’s “peformance”. She looked stoned out of her mind.
So I contend that what she did on the VMAs was really no more incompetent than anything she's ever done before, except then she was doing it with a slender body, tight abs and a much firmer butt. That just kept most people from noticing how talent-deficient she really is. Take away the hot looks, and there's very little left.
For God's sake, they were in Vegas: they could have hired any one of 25 Britney impersonators or 5,000 strippers, and any of them could have done that routine better. After all, they do exactly the same thing for a living that Britney does: dance around with their clothes off to a prerecorded Britney Spears track.
Agreed. When I was younger, an undressed or under-dressed female was something rare and highly desirable. Now, I find this sort of tawdry display something between tasteless and boring.
If they're going to dress "sexy", I think a really pretty outfit does wonders that a bra and panties can't touch. A bikini is nice, but inappropriate to a dance number. Lingerie belongs in the bedroom, not on the performance stage.
"I don't know. I'm not attracted to boys."
Kid Rock punched Tommy Lee in the mouth at his table because Lee was heckling Pam when she was trying to do an intro for Kanye West.
Timberlake yells into the mic that MTV needs to stop airing reality programs and start playing music videos.
Duh..we have only been saying that for 20 yrs dipshit.
“An out-of-shape, out-of-touch Britney Spears”
Out of shape? What kind of crack is the author smoking? Does he mean she isn’t a twig, but actually looks like a woman? No s**t sherlock... she isn’t 18 anymore.
She popped out 2 rugrats in the last few years and looks better than most women who have never given birth.
Excellent points. What she does is physically demanding, and I'm willing to give her credit for stamina, but it's a stretch to call it "dancing" except as the term has been redefined by music videos in general.
Britney Spears? Sarah Silverman? Glad I missed it.
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