There's something engagingly crap about Britney and her 'trailer-trash-with-a-budget' aesthetic that is hard, try as you might, to resist. True, some of the tunes are complete pony plops, but beneath the occasional reek there beats a solid gold pop heart. The only faulting is that like her femme idol Madonna, she just tries too hard with too little. It's like Rik Waller trying to convince us there's a soul singer inside him (probably many more judging by his girth). Desperation is never an attractive quality, but beneath that pleading voice are some quality teeny tottering towers of continue...

Do you think that ol’ Britney Spears is trying just a bit too hard to copy her apparent idol, Madonna? Yes, the whole smooching thing at the MTV Music Awards last year was overblown and goofy, (and probably done more to revive Madonna’s sagging record sales than it was to boost Brit or Christina - who also shared saliva with that Material Girl that day) and was the same shock value schtick that Ms. Ciccone used to successfully use in the early 90’s.
But what worked for her may not do the same for Britney. Where Madonna did campy stunts and acted fairly obnoxious continue...