It's Britney's Music Bitch

Who doesn't have an opinion on Britney Spears at the moment? She's like the human version of 9/11 -and we're all watching the nightmare unfold. Articles about the star have been done to death and all follow a pretty similar structure, referring to her as "troubled Britney Spears" so frequently it wouldn't surprise me if her friends and family start calling her that too out of habit. They all discuss how hard it is to believe that the girl who burst on to the scene in that iconic school girl's outfit could now be the woman who is involved in police stand offs and psychiatric care. One thing has been lost in the whole affair though (beside Britney's marbles) and that is the music. The great pop songs that are defining the noughties, and have been the background to our lives for almost ten years are now hardly mentioned amongst the media frenzy of Spears' train wreck of a life.
'Baby... one more time' is one of the most, if not the most, important pop song of our generation, and since then the hits have come thick and fast. Right up until the present day, where 'Piece of Me' comes on in a club people go wild for it - people may be sick to death of hearing about her - but they aren't sick of listening to her just yet. In my opinion her most recent album 'Blackout' has been her best to date. How exactly she managed to record this album, packed full of sizzling RnB anthems, whilst she was busy having a full time breakdown is a mystery that will intrigue popologists until the dawn of time, but this doesn't mean we shouldn't aknowledge it.
The third cut off the album 'Break the ice' will be released next month, and the video (which you can check out on youtube) is all in japanese animation. And we all know why. In it, we see an animated version of the Britney we all wish was still with us, fighting some bad guys in order to prevent an inevitable explosion. Perhaps intended to symbolise her contstant struggle against the media and those around her who control her. Or maybe a cop out so that she doesn't have to hit the gym, wash her hair and toss out a dance routine for the video herself. People will no doubt scrutinize it, but amongst the critisisms and speculations they will forgot to judge the song, which I predict will be burning up dancefloors within weeks.
To me Britney is still as relevant to music as she is to the tabloids. Any artist who can take the phenomenal interest that the world has in her and put the pain and frustration that comes with it fearlessly into her songs is creating the soundtrack to a fame hungry society - and isn't holding anything back.
"I'm Mrs Most likely to get on the TV for slipping on the street when getting the groceries, for real - are you kidding me? No wonder there's panic in this industry I mean please... do you want a piece of me?"
You tell 'em Brit.
One day the events that trail Britney's tragic life will be a thing of the past, saved only for those shitty top 100 most shocking moments on channel 5. And whilst they fade in the public's memory, the songs won't. They'll be played again and again and again. Because good music never goes out off fashion.
So as we moan about how we're sick of hearing about her, how they shouldn't let her kids near her and blah blah blah - let's not forget the music, after all, that's the only reason we're interested in her in the first place.