March 24, 2011

  • Britney's Femme Fatale Album

    There is a thick, defined line between trashy music promoting "trashy" women and music inspiring or celebrating independent women.  Then far from the two, there is the lethal, seductive villain (femme fatale).  You really see the evolution in Britney's albums - Sweet, seductive, independent, attitude, promicuous, trashy.  Unfortunately, that's what the post-90's kids like to hear.  Kids, independence certainly does not mean promiscuity, and promiscuity does not necessarily mean trashy either.  Unfortunately, the two are always directly linked throughout history.  Is the idea of having some class and self-respect passe again?  An album with no melody but moans and a woman rolling around begging for sex to Jack, Joe and Jill will certainly sell - mostly to young women too.

    "If it is too loud, you are too old", eh?  To each its own.