MTV Set Britney Spears Up
When I was in high school, Washington D.C. was the murder capital of the world.
The mayor, Marion Barry, was a rumored coke fiend.
Whenever he was on television, no matter how cold it was in the studio, he’d be drenched in a coke sweat. It was rumored that whenever the cops tried to pull a drug bust, they’d have to call it off, because the mayor was partying with the drug dealers.
Tired of his B.S., the feds wanted to take him down. So they entrapped him in a hotel room by having an ex girlfriend promise to have sex with him if he smoked some crack. He wanted to get laid, so he smoked. And got arrested. All he could say for the next fifteen minutes was:
“B*tch set me up!” (Washington Post)
The morning after Britney Spears’ horrid MTV VMA performance, we’ve learned that Marion Barry wasn’t the only one set up. According to Dlisted:
The Palms Casino also reportedly axed Britney’s planned magic crap with Criss Angel for insurance purposes. Britney was supposed to disappear and re-appear through several floating mirrors, but the Casino found it too risky.
That’s the reason why she was so flabby. She thought magic and mirrors would hide her weight and loss of skills.
She was upset, but a professional. As she got ready to perform, MTV told her that Sarah Silverman would be making jokes about her kids.
Surely Britney remembers what Silverman said about Paris Hilton months ago. She probably regretted telling the nanny to have her kids watch mama perform on t.v.
MTV knew that people would be watching and wanting a train wreck. And they got one.
Before you pooh-pooh the conspiracy, here’s one glaring fact:
Ratings have been sinking steadily since 2001, when the show peaked with nearly 12 million viewers. Last year, the VMAs drew 5.8 million viewers, its smallest audience in 10 years.
Let this be a warning to celebrities who are approached by MTV to perform on next year’s VMA show:
They might make you next year’s Britney Spears!
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September 10th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
You cannot believe the weak attempts at damage control. Do you?
Do you really believe a permanently built theatre in Las Vegas would prevent Britney from performing the kind of act that’s performed every night on the Strip?
Do you really believe Britney, knowing her career was on the line, gave any consideration to what Sarah Silverman might say?
I guess it’s as believeable as Britney showing up for a performance underrehearsed, flabby, and indifferent. Carry on.
September 10th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Are we writing about the same Britney Spears? Or are you referring to a Britney Spears from an alternate reality that doesn’t have the attention span and mental might of a day old fruit fly?
September 10th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
I agree with you. I thought the same thing. That’s why they followed her with Sarah Silver-Nasty-Skank-Jew-Bitch.
They figure Britney’s such a mess it will be fun to watch her bomb. It’s a sick new media-executive philosophy, aka Ok! magazine, and it’s just another sign of the lack of any semblance of ethics or professionalism in the US high-dollar markets. Capitalism unbridled. When we can’t sell our pop stars for their entertainment value, let’s dismember them and devour them.
September 11th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
What’s up with Meredith’s racial slur?
Britney is a sad case.
September 12th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Britney should bring us together, not tear us apart…
September 13th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
hey i agree… her performance was pretty bad but it kind of seems like she was set up by mtv for the ratings!!! oh and i found this funny video parody thing about britney… check it out at:
http://www.hollywoodsquared.com/videos/britney-spears-vma/
September 14th, 2007 at 4:34 am
MY EYES!!! Now I’m stuck with visions of that guy and the “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE” dude dancing in my head like the 12 Days of Christmas….only they ain’t sugarplums!
September 14th, 2007 at 6:11 am
Oh I really doubt that anyone had to conspire to make Brit look bad
She does it perfectly on her own. I am not buying the damage control spin put on it.
November 23rd, 2007 at 2:38 am
Eric…
I couldn\’t have said it better myself….
December 1st, 2007 at 7:32 am
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