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leftyladyfrommo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:33 PM
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Why Is Brittany Spears Famous? And worth millions?
Does anyone really know?

Was she a good performer in her day? I never saw her perform. She used to be pretty. But when I heard her talk she sounded not very bright.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:35 PM
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1. Uh, she has a nice rack
Sorry to be harsh but I think that was the major part of her appeal
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:36 PM
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4. What is she? A deer?
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:51 PM
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11. The one that kept magically changing size?
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leftyladyfrommo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 01:11 PM
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15. That is pretty funny. But she was a really cute little kid.
Kind of morphed into a porno type star.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:35 PM
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2. She had good management
She can sing and dance. I don't understand why people hate her so much, she is just an entertainer like millions of other people. I'm not a fan, but she doesn't affect my life like it seems to affect other's.
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Divameow77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:36 PM
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3. She's not too bright
she doesn't sing well (IMO), I think she does put on a decent concert, costume changes, special effects, etc.

She had a really good PR person :shrug:

I personally used to enjoy watching her perform, before she got so white trash.
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nosillies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:50 PM
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9. I think she was always white trash.
One can only suppress white trash leanings for so long. I, too, am from LA, so I know of which I speak. The WT side of me (no, I didn't mean to say ME, I'm talking hypothetically, really!) seems to creep out when least expected. I must go now, as there is a Nehi and a bag of pork rinds calling my name.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:36 PM
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5. She used to look really good in a schoolgirl uniform
It's a very lucrative skill
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leftyladyfrommo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:43 PM
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6. Wasn't she a little young?
I remember that a whole lot of parents were upset with her - for wearing really trashy clothes. Little girls wanted to look just like her.

I don't have anything against her. But she is always in the supermarket rags and I just wondered why.

I did see where she she made something like 29 million one year - and this year she is down to a measly 4 mil. Must be tough.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:45 PM
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7. Isn't that the whole point?
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leftyladyfrommo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:49 PM
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8. I wouldn't know. I'm not into young big boobed girls in school
uniforms.

I'm kind of more into big, tatooed biker dudes. Well, from a distance, at least. Most of them are really not very nice people when you get to know them.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:50 PM
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10. When popstars appear in the unis they're not trying to look old
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:52 PM
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12. I never got it, really.
I think she's always been pretty average looking (albeit very athletic), not especially talented vocally, and yeah, kinda' dumb. Of course, I'm not male, or a twelve year old girl, so...
:shrug:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 12:58 PM
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13. My dad asked me the same thing about Dylan back in the stone age.
It's the present culture...vapid, shallow in selective denial. She's like a shiny thing, dangling in front of the eyes of an infant.
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leftyladyfrommo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 01:01 PM
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14. Is She a "Stupid Girl"?
I happen to really like Pink - isn't that odd. She is really sharp.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 01:12 PM
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16. I love Pink. She's not in the same league as Brittany.
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leftyladyfrommo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 01:14 PM
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17. I saw her on Ellen and she was really interesting
and really intelligent. I've never heard her music but I would like to.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 01:25 PM
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18. Then you'll like this
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leftyladyfrommo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 01:28 PM
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19. Hey thanks. I'll listen to it tomorrow.
This computer I'm on now doesn't have sound. But I use a friends' of mine in the mornings and hers has speakers.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 01:33 PM
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21. Pink subverted from within
She came in as a Britney clone, but quickly became the Pink we know today as soon as she was "in."

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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 01:32 PM
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20. She was the first "Barbie Girl Superstar Playset"
Edited on Thu Sep-07-06 01:32 PM by Taverner
And surprisingly, she was the first to be this - a completely manufactured, focus-group tested, studio enhanced princess of pop royalty.

The Spice Girls kind of laid the way for this, but there were 4 (or 5?) of them and only one Britney.

Don't get me wrong, her stuff is crap and I have no love for her.

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