This made me cry

[koganbot]

The Elvis imitation at the start was great, and the amount of flesh on her body is actually quite attractive. But this is really really sad.

Britney at the VMAs

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Winehouse's Mercury performance - another high-profile train-wreck/scared little girl going out in front of an industry audience, but she manages to pull something special off, and saves the aimless wandering for after she's finished singing.

[koganbot]

Oh, Amy's performance is fine, though in a way I worry for her because if she can perform that well fucked-up, then she has less motivation to get help. But she doesn't look blasted out and emptied from the inside, the way that Britney did.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

The problem is that while I thought Amy was the star of the show at the dismal Mercurys, the gloss that has been put on her performance is almost that it was remorseful - "help I am so fragile and have been ruined by the drugs but I will try to be good now"... Whereas Britney being shambling but also kind of shameless is, wait for it, exactly the kind of behaviour that has been getting male rock'n'rollers adoration for decades - but it makes Britney a fat wasted skank lol hurr hurr...

[andthatisthat.livejournal.com]

exactly the kind of behaviour that has been getting male rock'n'rollers adoration for decades - but it makes Britney a fat wasted skank

I couldn't agree more. If I see one more comment on the internet calling her a skank, I'm going to explode.

*explodes about thirty seconds after posting*

[koganbot]

Oh, I'm totally with you guys on this; I've been extolling Britney in print this summer, here and here.