The Wednesday Canon: BRITNEY

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The most-requested canon ever - with Brit riding high in the Now Polls it seems a good time to overview her curious career. You get SIX picks so choose wisely.




[Poll #735177]

Comments

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I'm curious as to what zenith's comment about class war means, I've missed this aspect to her work!

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Was there an earlier celebrity whose critics revealed their fear and loathing of "white trash" to such an extent?

[celentari.livejournal.com]

Dolly Parton?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

dolly parton has no critics!

the answer = jade goody (er except for the "earlier" bit)

mysteriously i do not seem to have received her biography as a freeby yet

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

actually parton does have her knockers (*gets coat*)

[koganbot]

Thought the "white trash" epithet came later; the early ones were "plastic" and "crass" and "pop" and "mainstream" and "cheerleader" (which are as class-related as "white trash" is, just more elusive as to what the class in question is).

[koganbot]

(I'm referring to epithets directed at Britney, not Dolly.)

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Elvis (I have no idea)?

I never noticed any white trash talk among the blizzard of "queen of new pop!"/"New pop suxx!".

[thenipper.livejournal.com]

Greil Marcus is prolix on this matter re: Elvis (and, especially, the Goldman biog).

[juror8.livejournal.com]

Lynyrd Skynyrd?