As someone who thinks both Britney Spears and Radiohead are both genius entities, it’s always strange when the two converge. It throws my little pop culture world off its axis and I don’t know which side is up or down. I mean, these two things just don’t make sense. It’s like fire and ice or peanutbutter and caviar. No, like Paris Hilton and The Bible. It just doesn’t make sense!

But wait, it’s not the first time!

She apparently loves “Pablo Honey, too! Just when I thought a day with Britney couldn’t get any better — y’know with all the drama and papparazzi and crazy (yes, it’s a noun) — it can now be carried out to the sounds of Radiohead. I wonder if she listens to “Weird Fishes/Apreggi” on her visits with Sean Preston and Jayden James or “Nude” when she’s contemplating suicide.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Too much Madonna on this blog, but I can’t help it. The woman is the embodiment of all things pop music. If it wasn’t for her, there would be no blog, seriously. Anyway, if you’re going to interview the Queen of Pop, what do you ask her about — besides her Malawian son, her daughter Lourdes or her marriage? Why the Britster of course!

When asked about the media’s obsession with Britney, Madonna told “Yo on E!” satellite radio show:

This morning I had a conversation with my mother about not having any laundry. I joked that I might go commando because

Um…I think this is the new Britney video.

Even though Britney Spears has managed to grace the cover of every single magazine in probably the entire world, Rolling Stone’s eerie black and white cover seems to capture the downfall of America’s biggest star perfectly. The magazine calls the once-pop princess an “American tragedy” — something usually reserved for dead rock stars or horrific events. Every time I glance at it, I expect to see 1981-2008 written underneath her name.

I’ve been a big fan of Rolling Stone covers, mostly because they manage to capture an actor or musician’s personality in a creative way that accurately defines them. Even though the magazine has changed a lot over the past few years — moving from authentic artists to talentless pop icons –every now and then they get it right. I’m not saying that this cover is perfect. All they did was recycle an old picture of the Britster. In fact, I kind of hate it. It seems like Rolling Stone took note of the reports on how well the celebrity tabloid industry is doing. They’ve realized that they can only ignore the cash cow for so long and finally opted to leave all dignity behind (whatever dignity that was left) and jump on Britney’s crazy train to hell with the rest of the US Weeklys and OK Magazines of the world. They also may have felt a bit defeated after Blender beat them to the punch.

But nevertheless, exploitation for profit aside, I love the cover, too. The expression on Britney’s face seems to communicate a cry for help. Instead of placing a trashy photo of her flashing her crotch with words like “BASKET CASE” plastered all over it, Rolling Stone went all serious and artsy on us and I like that. I guess what I’m trying to say is I never thought I’d see a tasteful cover of Britney Spears throughout all of the hoopla but here it is. Someone finally took Britney seriously, as far as covers are concerned. Because, as much as we enjoy reading about the mess that her life has become, we often forget that’s she’s human as well. (Wow, Rolling Stone, it’s really working on me.) But most of all, it shows us just how far she’s fallen in such a short time. The once charismatic pop princess with the heart of gold has now become the most profitable tabloid soap opera ever. I’m curious to see whether Time Magazine will pick up on this. I mean, they shouldn’t be far behind, right? I can see it already — maybe a side profile of Brit-brit gazing into the sky. Let the exploitation continue!

Update: I totally spoke too soon.

Update: And if you want to have a laugh about it.

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Photos courtesy of Rolling Stone

This weekend, I spent a lot of time catching up on my bad reality TV obsession The Real Housewives of Orange County. (What can I say? Watching tanorexic, blonde, botoxed-to-death faces whine about turning 40 is entertaining to me.) In one particular episode, we see two spoiled-beyond-belief teenagers exiting a car in short skirts. One of them warns the other, “Don’t pull a Britney!”which literally made me LOL. But it also made me think about what “pulling a Britney” used to be and what it is nowadays. Pre-K-fed, pulling a Britney meant getting your abs like steel or stripping into a sparkly, nude-colored outfit at the VMAs. These days, it means something completely different.

For example:

1) Using a grimy, gas station bathroom barefoot. I’m sure the world can recall the infamous paparazzi photos of the Britster stopping at various gas stations (which she loves to do) with no shoes on. At that time, it was the most disgusting thing she had ever been caught doing. But even though a normal person wouldn’t be caught dead doing something so uncouth, I could hear myself uttering the following sentence: On the way home from the beach, I decided to pull a Britney at the gas station cause my flip-flops were covered in sand.

2) Eating cheetos. Unfortunately, I’ve probably lived most of my life pulling this Britney move because I actually love Cheetos, no matter how unhealthy they are. Which is why I like to say: I’ve been soooo tempted to pull a Britney on my low-carb diet.

3) Shaving your head. This is probably the most disturbing of them all but probably the most accessible. And I find myself and others referencing it when I get frustrated with my hair on a hot day. Sometimes I say: It’s so freakin’ hot outside that sometimes I just want to pull a Britney to cool off.

4) Flubbing something, anything, preferably the VMAs. How can anyone forget the most disappointing 3 minutes of the entire year? We got to see Brit-brit screw up the most important performance of her life! It was like that episode of My So-Called life when Rayanne auditions to become the lead singer of the Frozen Embryos and finally gets on stage and forgets the words, only she runs off and Britney actually carries on. But I guess this could probably apply to every other thing she does in her life. For example: I was so nervous about my presentation that I pulled a Britney. Now I’ll never graduate!

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Photos courtesy of the paprazzi, and the Cheetos Web site.

Apparently, Britney has been rushed to the hospital on a gurney after a custody dispute with K-Fed. Read about the insanity below.

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Police were called to Britney Spears’ home Thursday night in a custodial dispute that lasted nearly three hours before an intoxicated Spears reportedly turned over her children to ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Officers were called to the home around 8 p.m., and the 26-year-old singer turned over the children around 10:50 p.m., Officer Jason Lee, a police spokesman, told City News Service.

Aerial footage from KTLA-TV showed Spears being lifted in a gurney into an ambulance. It was unclear where she was being taken.

Lee said Spears was under the influence of an unknown substance, and no injuries were reported.

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What do you think of the Rizzo Rough remix? Better than the original?

Oh Britney, it wasn’t until I sat here counting down the minutes to the premiere of your “Piece of Me” video that I realized that I was a bigger Britney fan than I thought.

For anyone who ever wondered what it would be like to have a few drinks with Kanye West, watch this. And Kanye, if you’re out there. Call me. We should hang.

Madonna might give herself a world tour for her 50th birthday. Wouldn’t it be great if she did Molly Shannon’s Sally O’ Malley skit from Saturday Night Live on stage? Cause she’s 50!!

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