Borillar
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posted on July 20, 2001 12:24:29 PM new
I've been going to the matinee features lately and around here, they are showing advertisements onscreen - up to six of them now before they show the previews of coming attractions (trailers).
They show this one Coke or Pepsi ad with Brittany Spears in it doing a sort of music video in it -- with Bob Dole and his dog watching on TV. It's been on TV in recent months as well.
Did you know that they are making a movie about her? Yes, her biography -- so far. But is it just me, or does anyone else think that her voice is annoying? I don't think that she's pretty - just kinda average looking and much too skinny to have a healthy look about her, rather repulsive in fact. Without a great voice, she needs the looks and they aren't there in my opinion. So why is there so much hype about her? Why not promote a person with a REAL voice, like Streisand or Bette Midler or Janice Joplin or a hundred other "real" musically-inclined voices we all have heard and loved?
So, is she just teeny-bobber material -- acne'd-faced boys and training-bra girls all looking up to and after her? What's the deal? Yecck!!! is what I say!
And if she is being promoted towards our youngest kids, what kind of an image is it that will have our kids feel so inadequate if they are not good looking enough to meet her (so boys at that age think) or girls starving themselves to look like her?
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hepburn
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posted on July 20, 2001 12:33:31 PM new
Once upon a time, the same things were said about those long haired freaks, the Beatles. And not too long ago, Madonna. Give it time..someone will come along and replace the current teeny bopper.
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spazmodeus
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posted on July 20, 2001 12:45:22 PM new
Spears is an alumnus of the Mickey Mouse Club. It's always been my understanding that her rise to fame was sponsored by her Disney connections, and that she is a Disney product.
And I agree -- her voice sucks.
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ZiLvY
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posted on July 20, 2001 06:21:43 PM new
Buppa buppa ba, buppa buppa ba...that's what I remember from the commercial except for her butt in shiny skin tight pants? So what's new...SEX SELLS!!
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krs
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posted on July 21, 2001 03:40:50 AM new
She's a teen idol. What business is it of you old fogies?
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Borillar
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posted on July 21, 2001 12:13:01 PM new
"She's a teen idol. What business is it of you old fogies?"
An interesting bit of rhetoric there. 
To reiterate: if the media is going to hype someone into a teen idol (pre-teen idol?), then it is our business as "old fogies". Do we really want our kids looking up to this person? Do we really want the "values" that are being proposed by this media image to capture the imagination of our kids?
What does she give? A tight butt, zilvy says. A lack of talent I say. Worse, she is so skinny that I wonder how they can blank out from their consciences the deaths of young girls who starve themselves trying to look like her? I think that this is the EXACT wrong image that we want out kids to have growing up into adulthood. I think it will be harder on women as they try to live up to this image and the men who will think that this is what they want (in contrast to the buxom, curvaceous women that men end up enjoying). Is it worth the damaging of our young daughters for a fist full of dollars by a careless media?
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krs
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posted on July 21, 2001 12:31:36 PM new
Think Twiggy.
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ZiLvY
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posted on July 21, 2001 12:37:20 PM new
Yup, just about the time that many were made aware of anorexia, think Karen Carpenter.
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kraftdinner
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posted on July 21, 2001 02:29:12 PM new
One part of me thinks back to my own childhood when the only thing I imititated was maybe the way someone dressed or held the microphone  .
To girls, I think they'd like to imitate her outfits and they way she sings, but to BOYS, mainly because of her boob jobs and plastic surgery, I think she's saying "do me".
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ThriftStoreQueen
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posted on July 22, 2001 03:55:59 PM new
I am surprised that so many think she is "skinny". I think she has a very "dancer" athletic figure and looks great! You KNOW she has to when the comments that she is "fat" goes around! Seriously, she has been called fat! On the other hand, Christina Aguilera is what you could call skinny and anorexic looking!
In any event, I think *finally* this teen phase is going away. Or maybe it is just wishful thinking on my part. Am 32 yrs. old and hell, I just feel so old when I watch TV nowadays!
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MrsSantaClaus
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posted on July 22, 2001 08:51:32 PM new
I used to think that Christina Aguilera was the wild one - and Britany Spears was the wholesome one.
Was I in for an eye opener! To borrow a phrase from the Wayan Brothers - all the way from the Mickey Mouse Club to the Strip Club!
My daughter saw both ladies in concert last year. I saw Christina. My hubby and his friend took Hayley and her babysitter. The girls wanted to leave - the guys wanted to stay  But then, Britany was poorly lip 'nsync ing (pun intened) with no visible band behind her.
Christina's show, however, was incredible. She has an amazing voice! Christina was totally live - and repeatedly thanked her parents for all they did for her. She stopped the show to point out her parents and thank them and tell them how much they meant to her. I think she made an impact on the young girls in the audience that night!
OK, so I will skip her new video for Moulin Rouge
BECKY
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jamesoblivion
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posted on July 25, 2001 01:35:28 PM new
Britney Spears is very curvy. She's not skinny in an unhealthy way at all.
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Borillar
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posted on July 25, 2001 02:19:59 PM new
James, you missed your chance to shop for women at Auchweitz! Being skinny is not healthy -- being in shape is! I'd much rather see young women striving for good muscle tone and not too much fat (meaning a normal, healthy amount). Same for men too. This obsession to lose all muscle mass as well as fat is unhealthy in reality as well as appeal.
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RainyBear
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posted on July 25, 2001 03:29:25 PM new
I think Britney is very attractive, but that voice - aiyeeeeee!
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arttsupplies
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posted on July 25, 2001 03:39:30 PM new
>...<
[ edited by arttsupplies on Sep 7, 2001 09:46 AM ]
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Borillar
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posted on July 26, 2001 01:32:18 AM new
What's really scary is that the real person is much thinner in real life than on screen. Being a 3D object photographed on 2D image flattens out the object making it appear 20 to 30 pounds heavier. These poor women are paying a huge toll healthwise for their careers and are not n the least attractive to me.
If you really want to know what men think of as attractive, visit your local porn site or shop. Most men do not salivate at very thin women, but prefer the buxom types more often. Maybe a woman is attractive without being attractive to men? Probably. Women may have different standards for women than men have. I wouldn't know about that.
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Femme
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posted on July 26, 2001 07:30:47 AM new
Heck, I don't need to visit a porn site or porn shop to find out what a lot of men have always liked in a woman's figure.
What kills me is that some men who have a breast fixation don't even care if the breasts are fake (think Pamela Anderson).
What disgusts me is the women who go to those extreme measures to please those men.
Remember...
Anymore than a handful is a waste. 
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spazmodeus
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posted on July 26, 2001 08:10:56 AM new
James, you missed your chance to shop for women at Auchweitz!
I can't decide whether Borillar's comment is just utterly tasteless or kind of scary.
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Femme
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posted on July 26, 2001 09:00:55 AM new
If Auchweitz is a reference to Auschwitz, then my vote would be for "utterly tasteless."
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julesy
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posted on July 26, 2001 09:27:48 AM new
Just more of the same.
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toke
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posted on July 26, 2001 10:25:02 AM new
If it wasn't meant as an insult, and therefore utterly tasteless...I find that scary.
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uaru
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posted on July 26, 2001 10:44:56 AM new
Femme Remember... Anymore than a handful is a waste.
I don't think that's how the saying goes, but it did pass the moderators. :P
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arttsupplies
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posted on July 26, 2001 10:52:25 AM new
>...<
[ edited by arttsupplies on Sep 7, 2001 09:46 AM ]
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jamesoblivion
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posted on July 26, 2001 12:05:41 PM new
One meets all kinds on the internet.
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Femme
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posted on July 26, 2001 04:45:40 PM new
uaru,
I think we have a generation gap here.
I never heard the other version.
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