textsound:: an online audio journal is online

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with work work from these folks:  Joel Levise, Cathy Wagner, Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, Chris DeLaurenti, Cindy Lynn Brown, Edwin Torres, poul g. exner, Jan Hjort, Linh Dinh, Viki, Christine Hume, Leslie Scalapino, Dorothy Albertini, and Martin Johs. Moller. 

Britney Spears Shaving Head

I couldn’t identify with Britney Spears’ Oops I did it again. I was too old to be able to see myself being a bad girl in a school uniform and pig tails, but Toxic and Slave were more explicitly sexual and that was exciting. In the Toxic music video she’s in a nurse’s outfit. I’m not sure that I can more easily see myself in a nurse’s outfit playing the bad nurse, but maybe that’s just because I haven’t tried it on long enough and am in too much of a foul mood to fantasize. Maybe that’s just what someone needs in a foul mood, a good role playing fantasy!

But I do identify with Britney Spears’ latest public foot-put-forward. On pop radio they were making fun of her and saying she’d “lost it” and now looks like Sinead O’ Conner. So, I ask:

A) What’s wrong with “losing it?” Maybe she’ll learn something about herself.

B) Sinead O’ Conner looked awesome when she shaved her head, but I guess everyone thought she was a freak, and still does?

I’m glad Britney Spears is acting out. I wish the media were more sympathetic to the humanity of our dear superstars. But I guess the media is only about sympathy when sympathy turns a profit (political/ monitary).

If you write a poem for Britney Spears, I’ll make a BritneyShavedHerHead zine.

          
or, if you send your photographs of yourself w/ your head shaved to submissionsaudio@gmail.com then I’ll post them here.

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