Britney Spears is an Idiot: SHOCKER!

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The Popbitch "pramface"-style snobbery and misogynism that lie behind this thread I find pretty nauseating.

Of course it's perfectly acceptable for, say, Jaz Coleman to have ill-informed right-wing opinions, hmm?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 8 September 2003 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

Marcello, that's the worst instigation attempt ever (which of course means Alex will be all over it like white on processed rice, hah).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:28 (twenty years ago) link

Of course it's perfectly acceptable for, say, Jaz Coleman to have ill-informed right-wing opinions, hmm?

To which I responed, who has more influence? Jaz or Britney?

To answer your question, whether you agree with Coleman's opinions or not, you'd be the minsinformed one to write him off as the idiot of the same caliber Britney Spears proves herself to be.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:33 (twenty years ago) link

minceinformed.

kaliber.

sorry, nothing of use to add. nothing at all. not just me, I mean.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

In my ire, I mistype. Sue me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:38 (twenty years ago) link

you'd expect more people to dismiss britney-opinions pretty readily.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:44 (twenty years ago) link

readilier?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:45 (twenty years ago) link

caliber

What's your problem with this word?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

tony hancock.

no, I know this is how it is spelled in the USA. it reminds me of kaliber is all.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

people like britney so much more than george w. i'd say they like either more than people who slate britney though.

that's people though.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

...misogynism that lie behind this thread I find pretty nauseating.

This thread would be no different had the quote been made by one of Britney's male counterparts, from Timberlake to Rob Thomas. Idiocy knows no gender distinction.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

(I am OTM.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:55 (twenty years ago) link

Why, if it's the same opinion? And why is that opinion necessarily "wrong" or "idiotic"?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 8 September 2003 14:56 (twenty years ago) link

Are you familiar with our current sitting President George W. Bush, Marcello?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link

Yes. Are you?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 8 September 2003 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

Alex, why are you even replying to Marcello?

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

Hahahahahaha.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:00 (twenty years ago) link

marcello makes a good point.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link

That being?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link

Ally, you are perilously close to raining on my parade.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link

what's wrong with what marcello is saying?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

Do you agree that people in authority should be enthusiastically supported without question and without reservation? Is every decision made by a person in power automatically the right decision?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

Britney's kneejerk acceptance and blind faith in the doctrice of the Bush administration implies abject idiocy to me. If that quote came from Bono or Jaz Coleman or Gavin Friday or Phillip Glass or Laurie Anderon or Sporty Spice or Jon Spencer or Phyllis Diller, I'd feel the same way towards them. But, it didn't. It came from Britney, so she becomes the lucky recipient of that derision.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

(oh no i'm being sucked into the vortex help me mommy)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

It's true. The jaw-dropping stupidity of her statement isn't in the politics of it. A comment like "we should just trust __________ in every decision that he makes and we should just support that" is mind-numbingly simean no matter who she's talking about.

― shut up, Monday, 8 September 2003 15:09 (twenty years ago) link

simean!!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:09 (twenty years ago) link

Calling Britney Spears an idiot is misogynistic is it? Oh fuck off.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:13 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think it's misogyny to laugh at Britney's comments. If anything, I'd rather that female performers not act like a bimbo in public.

Don't forget that Fred Durst made some equally dumb vague "anti-war" statement at some awards show.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:13 (twenty years ago) link

simean, indeed,

I love music!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:14 (twenty years ago) link

''Do you agree that people in authority should be enthusiastically supported without question and without reservation?''

does it actually make any difference either way? Lets face it, ppl can support or disapprove of the person in power but its all to do with what happens during the election, or which name you cross at the ballot.

If she criticised him there would be lots of cynicism round here too.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link

does it actually make any difference either way?

No, it doesn't. Well, I'm glad we got that cleared up.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

julio i know i am risking turning this idiotic thread into some sort of half-assed political debate here, but: do you honestly think the only political action that matters is voting?

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

If she criticised him there would be lots of cynicism round here too

Actually, you couldn't be more wrong about that one Julio, she'd have shot up in my estimation exponentially - it would have been a genuinely brave and surprising thing to say whereas no-one's suprised or cares if some tit like Thom Yorke or Damon Albarn does it.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

Dixie Chicks to thread!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:20 (twenty years ago) link

It's not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing; it's a matter of thinking. She openly said she'd rather not. That is idiotic, and calling it so, is not misognystic in the least.

― David Allen, Monday, 8 September 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

''Actually, you couldn't be more wrong about that one Julio, she'd have shot up in my estimation exponentially''

er, have you actually read the threads on some of the 'left' wing bands round here keith?

jess: no I don't. But she has always been a pop star first.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

TS: imaginary misgynony vs actual condescension

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:29 (twenty years ago) link

What right wing opinions has Jaz Coleman spoke about?

― Rabid Rob, Monday, 8 September 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

Nothing recently, although he's expressed some frankly bizarre conspiracy theories in some recent interviews.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:35 (twenty years ago) link

she has been doing the pop star thing all her life so is her opinion (that we shouldn't criticize bush) surprising?

she maybe wrong but an idiot?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

Perhaps "idiot" is a relative term here. From the perspective of the left, she comes across as an unquestioning pawn (i.e. idiot), whereas if you were a hardline conservative, you might wish she was a bit more eloquent in her espousal, but generally think she was on the right track.

That said, however, I still think "idiot" is applicable due to her adherence to supporting "EVERY decision" by the President. That doesn't show any deep understanding or concern about specific issues, but rather a voluntary decision to let someone else sweat the hard stuff and not get involved...or even informed...at all.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

David Allen, OTM.

Oh, and Gang of Four album covers to thread.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 8 September 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

She should make out with Condi onstage

― Sam J. (samjeff), Monday, 8 September 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

"me and tipper against the music"

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 September 2003 16:55 (twenty years ago) link

Jesus god you people are actually arguing semantics of whether or not Britney is stupid or just all of her opinions are stupid=just name the board ILArguing and be done with it already.

More pix of Bush throwing dogs!

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

''just name the board ILArguing''

its taken you three years to figure that out? you must be stupid ;)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

More pix of Bush throwing dogs!

OTM.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

Julio, you're a misogynist!!!!!

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:11 (twenty years ago) link

If Britney is an idiot does it change anything? Then let's move on.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 8 September 2003 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

I like candy bars
and baseball cards
and superstars
Grace Jones and a pack of Twix
and pack of Donruss '86

I like candy bars
and He-man
and motor cars
Skeletor and the Milky Way
and a rat-tat hot-rod Chevrolet

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 8 September 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

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rubbish

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Her career is pretty much over, isn't it?

― darin (darin), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

great minds at work in this thread

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I love pop as much as the next guy, but Britney waiting "a few years" to make music = career suicide.

― darin (darin), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Please tell me that Courtney Love pic has been photoshopped.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Britney could disappear for two or three years and re-emerge as Faith Hill.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Does the world really need more music from Britney Spears? Give the spotlight to someone new. She's old news.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, she should stick to the political punditry.

― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Friday, 16 June 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

what a bizarre person to be a celebrity. she isn't even remotely talented, and she's incredibly stupid.

oh. wait. yeah.

― Emily B (Emily B), Saturday, 17 June 2006 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

and yet, i heart 'toxic'. still dance around in my pajamas to it.

― Emily B (Emily B), Saturday, 17 June 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i kind of like her new double-chin, deranged aviator spex look.

― lf (lfam), Saturday, 17 June 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link

She just needs a cigarette holder and a fishing hat.

― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Saturday, 17 June 2006 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Let's be honest here -- we ALL need that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 June 2006 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link

yes the courtney has been photoshopped...remember elvis had 3 distinct careers, this is the end of britneys first, we can still have the comeback special followed by our lady of sorrows/las vegas division

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 17 June 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

She's going goth:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2006-06/23/xin_270603231446257304311.jpg

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link

that's a slight improvement over the fat & trashy look she's been sporting of late (and, yes, i know she's preggers, but i think the flab is more than just the critter she's carrying)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 24 June 2006 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

remember elvis had 3 distinct careers, this is the end of britneys first, we can still have the comeback special followed by our lady of sorrows/las vegas division

I can't wait for her "Suspicious Minds."

And her "dead-on-a-toilet" phase, as described in Wayne's World.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 24 June 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to hold off on Britney fat jokes until at least six months to a year after she's done having babies.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Saturday, 24 June 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

So you're holding off for a long time then?

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 25 June 2006 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno, I just think there's no challenge in making fat jokes about a pregnant (or recently pregnant) woman.

― Marmot 4-Tay: forth-coming, my child. forth-coming most righteous champion (mar, Sunday, 25 June 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

I can’t believe the right has not seized upon a narrative that Britney’s rights were taken away because she gave a pro-bush interview to tucker

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Sunday, 18 July 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link

I doubt today’s “right” is looking to pull Bush/Iraq out of the memory hole (or dredge up a Britney comment no one remembers)

― aging goth couple™ (morrisp), Sunday, 18 July 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link

Bush dropped a dog on its head? I don't remember that..

― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 09:09 (two years ago) link

Neither does the dog :(

― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 09:16 (two years ago) link

Oof this thread title

― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link

Alex In NYC very much in character.

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 23 July 2021 10:04 (two years ago) link

Yeah, somehow I've only noticed this thread title today and was a bit... startled !

― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 23 July 2021 12:20 (two years ago) link

Why the fuck is this bumped instead of 100 million other britney threads

― treeship., Friday, 23 July 2021 12:32 (two years ago) link

not to be all schoolmarmish but come on

― treeship., Friday, 23 July 2021 12:48 (two years ago) link

it would be so funny if we freed britney and she immediately endorsed trump for the next election
— 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗯 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗻 (@calebsaysthings) July 23, 2021

― akm, Friday, 23 July 2021 13:35 (two years ago) link

toQic

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 23 July 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link

It was how I felt then, and it's how I feel now. Do I feel bad about her conservatorship situation? Sure, but that doesn't mean I suddenly think she's eligible for Mensa membership.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 26 July 2021 13:42 (two years ago) link

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