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July 2003

Thursday, July 31, 2003

Britney May Be In The Dukes Of Hazzard

Posted by LordBiO at 8:17 PM | Discuss

Ananova reported that Britney Spears is rumoured to be a candidate for the role of Cousin Daisy in the movie version of The Dukes Of Hazzard. Dude, Where's My Car? star Ashton Kutcher is also being tipped to star in the film. Kutcher may star alongside Paul Walker, who appeared in The Fast And The Furious and its sequel 2Fast 2Furious. The Dukes Of Hazzard originally ran on TV from 1979 to 1985. Anthony Anderson, star of US TV series All About The Andersons, is tipped to take the role of Boss Hog, according to Hollywoodreporter.com.

Britney On The Lycos Top 50: Week 206

Posted by LordBiO at 8:11 PM | Discuss

Britney went down 4 spots this week to #10 on the Lycos 50 for the week ending 07/26/03. She has been on the list for 206 weeks. This will change soon though, expect Britney to move up on Lycos 50 as we get closer to her album being released as interest in her grows!

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Britney Bares All For Elle Magazine

Posted by LordBiO at 10:33 PM | Discuss

SUN reported that Britney Spears bares her soul — and her body — to tell of her love for ex Justin Timberlake. She posed in skimpy black knickers for Elle magazine and said in an interview: “He’ll always have a place in my heart.” Britney, 21, also claimed she’s really a very shy girl. Imagine what the pictures will be like when she decides to become a show-off. Check out all the raunchy and pictures here! Britney sure knows how to get people's attention, perfect timing to with her fourth album coming out so soon. We want to hear what you think about these pictures, so drop by our forum!

Tuesday, July 29, 2003

Join Us At BritneySpearsForum.com!

Posted by LordBiO at 7:48 PM | Discuss

Are you looking for a fun place to talk and discuss things with other Britney fans? Well there is a place where thousands of fans come together and it's called BritneySpearsForum.com! It's the only forum on the internet back and supported by BritneySpears.org, so stop and and say hi! All you need to do is quickly register here and let the fun begin! Starting next week and each week, I am going to be featuring a topic here and hopefully all of us can get into a fun discussion.

NASCAR Project

Posted by A51JM at 4:44 PM | Discuss

MTV reports: While Britney Spears puts the finishing touches on her upcoming fourth album, her film career is getting a tune-up as well. The pop singer's next movie finally has a title as well as a finished script. Previously referred to as the "untitled NASCAR project," the racing movie is now called "Trading Paint," according to an announcement from Britney Spears Productions. The script was written by James V. Hart ("Contact," "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life") and centers on the family of a NASCAR racing dynasty, using real-life NASCAR drivers, teams, tracks and competitions to tell the story. Spears will co-star as the daughter of a driver who quits racing under mysterious circumstances. "Spears' character uses her knowledge and expertise in the family business to help him return to racing," the statement said. This is purely a dramatic role for Spears, as there are no plans for her to sing or race in the film. In addition to co-starring in the movie, Spears is also producing via her film production company with her co-manager Larry Rudolph and Ann Carli (who produced "Crossroads"). This is the producers' first feature under the joint venture. After finalizing their financing, they plan to announce a director.

Britney, Blige to Rock NFL Kick-Off

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Billboard.com reports: Britney Spears and Mary J. Blige are on board for a Sept. 4 free concert at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to kick off the 2003 National Football League season, Billboard.com has learned. Organizers are eyeing additional acts for the event, including Kid Rock and Aerosmith. The show will precede the first NFL game of the year later that evening between the Washington Redskins and New York Jets at D.C.'s FedEx Field. ABC will broadcast the concert from 8-9 p.m. ET, followed by the Redskins/Jets game. An NFL spokesperson would not confirm the concert lineup, but acknowledged the league was exploring plans for "an entertainment-driven" event to kick off the season. To open last year's season, the NFL staged a similar event in New York's Times Square. Bon Jovi, Enrique Iglesias, Alicia Keys and Eve performed before a crowd of 500,000, preceding the San Francisco 49ers' matchup between the New York Giants. Bon Jovi also played at halftime during the game. Spears, who also has plans to appear at the Jets' training camp next month, will release her fourth Jive album in late fall, according to her spokersperson. The set is expected to include contributions from the production teams the Neptunes and the Matrix.

Britney May Perform Matrix Song For NFL Kickoff Concert

Posted by LordBiO at 10:30 AM | Discuss

We already knew about Britney performing for the opening of the first NFL game but some new news comes from Billboard.com. They mentioned that Britney's set might include a song from the Matrix (the producers behind Avril Lavigne), which could likely mean that could be her first single off the album. I guess we will find out on September 4th. Britney Spears and Mary J. Blige are on board for a Sept. 4 free concert at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to kick off the 2003 National Football League season, Billboard.com has learned. Organizers are eyeing additional acts for the event, including Kid Rock and Aerosmith. The show will precede the first NFL game of the year later that evening between the Washington Redskins and New York Jets at D.C.'s FedEx Field. ABC will broadcast the concert from 8-9 p.m. ET, followed by the Redskins/Jets game. An NFL spokesperson would not confirm the concert lineup, but acknowledged the league was exploring plans for "an entertainment-driven" event to kick off the season. To open last year's season, the NFL staged a similar event in New York's Times Square. Bon Jovi, Enrique Iglesias, Alicia Keys and Eve performed before a crowd of 500,000, preceding the San Francisco 49ers' matchup between the New York Giants. Bon Jovi also played at halftime during the game. Spears will release her fourth Jive album in late fall, according to her spokersperson. The set may include a contribution from the Matrix. Blige's upcoming Geffen album, "Love & Life," is due Aug. 26. thanks josh

Saturday, July 26, 2003

Britney #20 On 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons

Posted by LordBiO at 8:33 PM | Discuss

VH1 is counting down the top 200 greatest pop culture icons of all time. Britney earned the #20 spot on the countdown. Just behind The Brady Bunch and Bill Clinton. That is just amazing and shows you the type of impact that Britney has made on our culture. Take a look at this cartoon illustration of Britney made by VH1. They said this about her too: "Britney Spears: Self-made, talented, beautiful and often a prisoner of her own fame." Check out VH1 tonight (Saturday, July 26) at 9PM EST time to see them countdown number 20 to 1.

Britney Gives Her New Music A Test Run

Posted by fan2001 at 5:32 PM | Discuss

Who needs focus groups when you've got New York City's bump-and-grind crowd? On a recent night Britney Spears slipped into Manhattan nightspot Show with her bodyguard and a friend to conduct her own marketing research. Spears gave the deejay and advance CD of her new album, due this fall, asking him to play the second and ninth tracks. She retreated to a raised VIP area to gauge the crowd's reaction and drink a Red Bull (the pop princess told a club insider that she swears off alcohol when she's recording). The same source tells me the two untitled songs were 'very cutting-edge with a lot of bass that made you want to move.' Satisfied with the response, Spears left after 25 minutes, holding the CD aloft in a victory pose as she exited. People.com (Special thanks to xStevenx from our Forums)

Friday, July 25, 2003

2003 MTV Video Music Awards

Posted by A51JM at 12:31 AM | Discuss

Britney is nominated for "best video from a film" at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. Other nominees include: JC Chasez - "Blowing Me Up [With Her Love]" from Drumline Eminem - "Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile Madonna - "Die Another Day" from Die Another Day No word yet if Britney will perform or present at the award show. But rumors say that she might perform her first single at the awards show.

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

Official Statement From Britney Spears Productions On Nascar Movie

Posted by A51JM at 1:51 PM | Discuss

Here is the official statement from Britney Spears Productions about the Nascar Movie. The film production company formed by Britney Spears with Larry Rudolph and Ann Carli -- announced today that, contrary to recent rumors, their NASCAR themed feature film project is alive and well. The movie, titled Trading Paint, has been developed specifically for Spears. She is attached to co-star and also to produce. Ann Carli, who also produced Spears' first film project Crossroads, expressed amusement at the rumors. 'Britney herself was surprised to hear that she had allegedly said she would not be making the movie,' said Carli. 'We have a wonderful script by Jim Hart and we are concluding our financing. We'll be announcing our choice of director shortly.' Trading Paint was written by James V. Hart (Contact, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Tomb Raider, The Cradle of Life). Carli also says, 'There was never a plan for Spears to play a driver. Her role has always been, as was announced last summer, to play the daughter of the head of a NASCAR racing dynasty.' The story is about a NASCAR driver who drops out of racing under mysterious circumstances. Spears' character uses her knowledge and experience in the family business to help him return to racing. Thanks to MotorsportsTV.com for giving us the statement.

Last Call for Rudolph & Beer Law Firm

Posted by A51JM at 1:37 PM | Discuss

Yahoo NewsEntertainment law firm Rudolph & Beer, whose clients have included such pop acts as Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and Britney Spears, will shut its doors at the end of the month after a decade in business. Founding partner Larry Rudolph will launch a new artist management unit -- ReignDeer Entertainment -- which will handle Spears and singer Nick Lachey exclusively. Co-founder Steven Beer will segue to multinational law firm Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder and head of its film practice. Rudolph also is a principal in Spears' production outfit, Britney Spears Prods. Rudolph & Beer launched in 1993 and racked up a long list of burgeoning pop-star clients along the way, including Spears, Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, Aaron Carter, Nick Carter, 98? and O-Town, as well as rap acts DMX, Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim, Keith Murray and the Sugar Hill Gang. The firm's clients also included director Barbara Kopple, actor Rosario Dawson, model Linda Evangelista and MTV host Quddus, as well as indie film outfits Lot 47, Myriad Pictures and Solaris Entertainment. Beer said Monday that he expects to take his client roster with him to Greenberg Traurig. Rudolph's ReignDeer will be handling exclusive management of Spears and Lachey, as well as co-management of recording artists Dream and Nikki Cleary. Bryan Spears -- Britney Spears' older brother -- will share offices with ReignDeer and will rep the Spears family interests, as well as exploring entrepreneurial ventures with Rudolph. Beer will head up the New York film practice at Greenberg Traurig starting Aug. 1. The firm's entertainment and media department has more than 40 lawyers in broadcast, music, film and digital media and has 975 attorneys overall in 20 offices internationally. Rudolph executive-produced Spears' first feature vehicle, "Crossroads," and is producing MTV's reality show "The Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica," starring married pop stars Lachey and Jessica Simpson. He also is helping Spears build a television production company, through which Rudolph will executive produce "Holly," a two-hour back-door pilot for ABC Family. "Holly" is based on the book "A Mother's Gift," by Britney and Lynne Spears. Other TV projects slated under the Spears banner include an animated TV series on cable outlet Noggin and a syndicated talk show called "Blend." Last year, Rudolph and Spears Prods. forged a category-exclusive agreement with NASCAR to develop and produce a dramatic ensemble film set in the racing world.

Special Nickelodeon Magazine 10th Birthday Issue

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PRNewswire reports Nickelodeon Magazine, the number one humor and entertainment magazine for kids, marks ten years in publication this August. The 10th birthday will be celebrated with a special anniversary issue that hits newsstands today and includes birthday wishes from celebrities who have appeared in the magazine over the last decade including Britney Spears, Avril Lavigne, Jeff Gordon and Shaquille O'Neal, as well as the original comics, jokes, pranks, puzzles, and substantive features on science, history, sports and pop culture that grace the pages each month. The birthday will also be supported with a special half-hour birthday party airing on Nickelodeon August 17. "We're thrilled to celebrate this special tenth birthday and recognize the contributions of our partners and the people who brought us steady growth and success over the last decade," said Dan Sullivan, group publisher, Nickelodeon Magazine Group. "Here's to decades more fun and rewarding accomplishments beneficial to kids."

Monday, July 21, 2003

Britney Gets Ready For Some Football

Posted by fan2001 at 10:23 PM | Discuss

Britney Alert. Miss Spears, that diva of pop music, is headed to Jets camp at some point this summer. It's part of her promotional duties for the NFL Kickoff Weekend concert she'll give in Washington on Sept. 4, when the Jets and Redskins open the season at FedEx Field. Spears is also scheduled to make the scene at Redskins camp in the coming weeks. Source:Sports Illustrated.com

Sunday, July 20, 2003

W Magazine: The Complete Truth

Posted by A51JM at 1:06 AM | Discuss

Here is the complete article from Britney's tell all interview done with W Magazine. Most of her contemporaries may have traded in their tube tops for corporate uniforms, but Britney Spears is still looking very much like Britney Spears—which, for a woman of 21, is a little alarming. Even with 50 million records sold, Spears should be quaking in her candy pink, jewel-encrusted Skechers right about now. With her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake riding the success of a hit solo album and touring this summer with Christina Aguilera, teen pop seems to be having a more sophisticated second coming—without her. After a somewhat narrow evolution across three albums—from corruptible schoolgirl to dazed, wholesome Southern stripper, and with a glimmer of something edgier and more expansive on her third effort, Britney—Spears has no choice but to push past the middle ground she sang about in her last hit single, the growing-pains ballad “Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman.” But in a quadruplex apartment on Lafayette Street in downtown Manhattan—a dozen flights up from a sea of NYU undergrads, many of whom helped drive the teen-pop phenomenon of the late nineties—Britney Spears is her not-so-old familiar self: the iconic girl-woman, sprightly and almost frighteningly perfect looking (more so in person than on TV), with blooming skin and big, sparkling eyes buried somewhere under a jailbait smear of dark mascara. She’s decked out in classic Britney-wear: a dramatically cropped black-and-white striped halter top and, below seven golden inches of midriff, baggy black pants held up by black and pink suspenders. There’s an oversize white Patricia Field baseball cap on her head and a long rhinestone pendant hanging from her navel. (She does not, like a few of her rivals for Billboard domination, go in for Fred Leighton bling bling.) Don’t be fooled, though: The new Britney is currently being forged at a studio in the Flower District—and that’s where Spears has been all day, hard at work on her fourth album. “This whole album has been a huge experiment for me,” she says, settling into a lawn chaise on her terrace—then falling right through to the floor as the cushion gives way. “Rental,” she notes with a laugh that she’s never afraid to direct at herself. “Everyone I’d go work with, they have this perception, this vision of me, and a lot of times I’m like, ugh! It took me a while to figure out the right vibe and find producers who really got me. I’m nervous. I’m excited, but whoa!” Recording artists feel a constant pressure to maintain what the folks at Spears’s label, Jive Records, call Q-factor: the burst of commercial heat at the outset of a singer’s career. No one has had more Q-factor than Spears, but she seems to understand, young as she is, that pop stars age in dog years and that she’ll need some new tricks if she wishes to snatch her crown back from the 18-year-old Canadian anti-Britney, Avril Lavigne. “I f---in’ love Avril’s stuff,” Spears insists. “It f---in’ rocks.” But she goes on to reveal a touch of competitiveness. “Avril doesn’t really dance, but whatever. It’s weird. My third album sold as much as her first one, which is very funny to me because everyone thought it didn’t do that great.” It’s clear, in any case, that Spears’s new record, which debuts in late October, will either carry her closer to that pop Valhalla whose only current spirit is Madonna, or prove with a decisive stroke that the bubble of bubblegum pop has finally burst. Spears prefers not to overponder her place in the pop pantheon. “It’s not that deep,” she says, laughing, as she extends her fingernails to a manicurist who has suddenly appeared on the terrace. She is not quite the apple pie she seemed nearly five years ago, and yet there’s no specific career gambit—no obscure force other than the force of adolescent development—working to make Spears into a more complex and sophisticated act. Still, the turning point in her career seems all the more noteworthy at a moment when some critics are beginning to wonder whether Madonna has finally lost her edge. “Madonna, over?” Spears shrieks, incredulous. (Heightened emotion tightens the twang in her Louisiana accent.) Then she reflects for a moment. “Honestly, that’s why I work so hard—because that’s a fear I have for me,” she says. She pauses and swills her Red Bull. “There are always gonna be people that don’t love you, and actually, I kind of like the people like Madonna, who makes such a statement that people either love her or hate her. I don’t want to be in between. I think that’s boring.” Only the most jaded tabloid reader would be bored by accounts of Spears’s life over the past few years. Her two-year relationship with Timberlake was the most famous musical coupling since Kurt and Courtney, and she has clearly been wounded by the breakup and the ensuing media storm. “The most painful thing I’ve ever experienced was that breakup,” she says. “We were together so long and I had this vision. You think you’re going to spend the rest of your life together. Where I come from, the woman is the homemaker, and that’s how I was brought up—you cook for your kids. But now I realize I need my single time. You have to do your own thing: be self-loving, you know. I know it sounds cliché and cheesy, but I really believe that if it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be.” For a young woman whose avowed virginity has been examined under the media microscope, Spears is surprisingly frank about Timberlake. “I’ve only slept with one person my whole life,” she asserts—shattering the dirty dreams of Humbert Humberts everywhere and veering at long last from the oft-repeated soapbox talk about no sex before marriage. “It was two years into my relationship with Justin, and I thought he was the one.” She pauses and her voice leaps an octave. “But I was wrong! I didn’t think he was gonna go on Barbara Walters and sell me out.” Spears, as every amateur pop-culture critic knows, has mastered a kind of in-your-face sexuality that seems to hedge in the same hot breath. She has worn a nude body stocking onstage and talked about her prayer diary in interviews; she has sung about how she’s “not that innocent” while regularly inveighing against premarital sex. “It’s an oscillation—that’s what she’s done so adeptly,” says Barry Weiss, president of Jive Records. “Britney’s a good girl, but when the mike comes on in the studio, she becomes a vixen. Music literally transforms her. It’s a wild thing to watch.” That’s the erotic charade mounted by most child stars, who peak before they become consenting adults, and then find themselves frozen, as adults, in childhood. “The fun thing about my new album is there was a sneak peek of sexuality on Britney, but on this one I can kind of go there a little more, push the envelope a little bit,” she adds, then raises her voice. “But it’s not tacky! It’s kind of sensually done. I think when things are too much in your face, then there’s no subtlety in it.” She pauses, backpedaling. “Tacky can be fun, though, sometimes.” True enough, but the moment calls for something a bit more cosmopolitan. The photos accompanying this article suggest that it is J.Lo, after all, whom the grown-up Spears may be looking to emulate. “I love J.Lo,” she says. “I’m totally inspired by her. The whole put-together thing is usually where I’m a little off, though. I don’t like it so contrived. Normally I just do the tight jeans and the little shirt, whatever. But sometimes I want to wear a sequined dress and be a freakin’ girl! W is all about seeing yourself in a goddess sense, so I totally wanted to go there.” Which isn’t to say she’s not still Britney. “Honestly, though,” she hastens to add, “if everyone thinks I’m gonna come out and be a woman, they’re wrong.” Along with a heightened glam factor, the new album finds Spears making a more ambitious use of heavyweight producers (or, more accurately, composers). Their role can’t be underestimated, and in Spears’s case, nearly every big name in the business lobbied for a piece of the pie. She stayed away from the ubiquitous Neptunes—who fashioned her house-inflected hit “I’m a Slave 4 U”—instead giving Redzone, an Atlanta collective, an opportunity with a few thumping dance songs that define the up-tempo feel of the album. Spears is especially pleased with the collaboration: her words, their rhythms. “They’re the first people I’ve ever worked with where it’s like I’m listening to it off the radio,” she says. “Where I’m, like, yeah! I’m jamming…with myself. And it’s weird. I’ve never done that before.” The record is also likely to include tracks by Metro, the English producers responsible for Cher’s nightmarishly successful single “Believe,” and the Matrix, engineers of Avril Lavigne’s biggest hits. P.Diddy and Moby have also weighed in. “The song we did is kind of brooding and atmospheric,” Moby writes in an e-mail. “It’s very simple and, for lack of a better word, sexy.” A far cry, certainly, from the rousing version of Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” that a nine-year-old Spears once offered from the family trampoline in Kentwood, Louisiana (population 2,500). By that age, Spears had proven herself such a determined performer that her mother, Lynne Spears, decided to say goodbye to Kentwood and bring her daughter to New York to attend the Professional Performing Arts School. Within a year Britney had landed a part in an off-Broadway play and won a Star Search competition. Then at age 11 she moved to Orlando, Florida, to join future teen-pop stars Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera on TV’s The Mickey Mouse Club. “That was the best childhood experience you could possibly have in your whole life,” she says. “I mean, you live in Disney World!” A few years later, the Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls were saturating the airwaves, and Spears landed a contract. “I would have gone nuts in a classroom,” she says. “That wasn’t for me. I started homeschooling after the eighth grade, and I didn’t experience a real high-school thing. I think, when I went through a little party phase last year, it was because I didn’t get a chance in high school to party—to go out and be stupid.” Which is a shame, since Spears loves to be goofy. She burps before offering a ladylike “Excuse me,” snorts when she laughs, loves to put on silly accents, and says things just because they sound funny to her. “Why do I keep saying ‘in the hizzy?’” she asks, giggling. “I don’t know what it means. It’s like my ghetto form or something.” (Fans of Snoop Dogg will know that it’s hip-hop slang for “in the house.”) “She’s 21, and that’s what people forget,” says her best friend, Jenny Morris, who may sing backup during Spears’s next tour. “We joke about it all the time—she always says, ‘If they only knew what a big dork I am.’ She loves to poke fun at herself. I think she honestly forgets how big her life really is.” The media also tend to gloss over Spears’s youth when they catalog her barroom escapades: Stories about Britney getting sloshed and dancing on tables have made New York tabloid headlines ever since she began spending more time in the city just over a year ago. She swears the truth is less interesting. “I wish my life were like that!” she says. “Honestly, I would much rather go to Crunch or lie in my tub and look at the bubbles.” Really, Britney? “Well, there was one night three weeks ago. I didn’t dance on the table—it was the sofa. And everybody was standing up, the whole club was, and I stood up for a few seconds, and so now I’m a wild girl and I stand on tables. Julia Roberts, she did that too! Listen to me, I’m venting. Yes she did—hell, yeah!” It’s hard not to believe Spears when she insists the press has embellished her wild side, if only because—these days, at least—she makes so little effort to hide her less demure behavior. “I was never hiding anything,” she says, holding up her pink, rhinestone-paved Versace lighter to a cigarette and shrugging when asked why the tabloids made such a fuss recently over her smoking. “It was the people around me that were hiding me. The publicists would call me and they were like, ‘Oh, my God. This was in the newspaper.’ And I’m like, ‘Cool.’ I mean, what are you going to do? I think if I sat there and tried to hide it, it would look kind of stupid. Honestly, because I know I’m not supposed to do it, it makes me want to do it.” And as for her sex life, Spears has some news that may cause a national outbreak of chest-beating. American boys (and Fred Durst especially) aren’t really her thing anymore; Spain and Australia, she says, boast the most alluring and least “fuddy-duddy” men. Oh, and Ireland—via Hollywood. The Colin Farrell rumors were true, she acknowledges: “Yes, I kissed him. Of course I did! He’s the cutest, hottest thing in the world—wooh! He’s such a bad boy. But it was nothing serious.” Since Farrell, her needs have gotten even more basic. “Seriously, I haven’t had a boy in a really long time, and I’m really craving…just a kiss, man. Just a kiss would be nice.” Just a kiss? Now that the innocent act has supposedly gone the way of glitter makeup and Spears seems rather like the woman she threatened to be at age 17, a sweet little peck sounds almost regressive. Indeed, she has a big chance right now to emulate her professed idol, Madonna, by redefining herself—sharpening the talent, tightening the image and reflecting the emotions of her grown-up fans. It was Madonna, after all, who said Spears had been a victim of the same snobbery with which she was greeted in the eighties—and if Madonna has had the last laugh, so can she. Spears clearly relishes another chance to defy her critics. “If the record’s good—if it’s hot and you see the video and we’re working it, it’s basically saying the F-you to everyone out there,” she says. “And I think that’s cool.” By: Robert Haskell Thanks to style.com for giving us access to the article on the Internet.

Britney To Open Hotel?

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According to News Interactive, the Sydney Confidential is reporting that Britney is being considered among the many singers to perform at the grand opening of the new Sidney Hilton Hotel on George St in June or July next year in Sidney, Australia. Other stars rumoured to be on the guest list for the grand opening are Justin Timberlake, Eminem, and Tom Jones.

Spears: 'I Love My Food'

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Pop beauty Britney Spears often fears she's putting on too much weight - but she loves food too much to cut down. The stunning Oops I Did it Again star - who's often been hailed as having one of the most beautiful bodies in the world - insists she is not happy with her appearance all the time. She says, "I judge myself sometimes, just like anyone else, when I'm having an off day. I'll think, 'Maybe I should be a little slimmer.' "But then, I'm certainly not the type of person who can starve themselves. I love my food and I have to eat well." And the pop vixen isn't entirely about some of her features either. She adds, "My feet are ugly! And I hate my nose - it's really big! I hate it!" Reported by TeenMusic.com

Love's Second Thoughts On Britney Collaboration

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Courtney Love's proposed collaboration with Britney Spears is under threat - the rocker is unsure whether the pop star could interpret her lyrics correctly. The former Hole frontwoman, who has just finished recording her debut solo album America's Sweetheart, commented last month she was considering giving some of her surplus material to Britney, who is attempting to revamp her squeaky-clean image on her upcoming LP. However, despite being turned onto the idea by her song-writing partner Linda Perry - who has worked with Christina Aguilera and Pink - Love is scared of her lyrics being misinterpreted by the 21-year-old. She explains, "I'm looking for new artists to write for. Linda tells me Britney is looking for some rock. She passed on it. I'm thinking I probably would too. "Not to be snobby but what's the point of giving up my lyrics to someone who may not give a s***? "I remember doing Top of the Pops (British music show) with All Saints covering (RRed Hot Chili Peppers' drug lament) Under the Bridge. Those girls thought it was a love song and didn't care and hadn't asked. That freaks me out." Reported by TeenMusic.com

Spears Of Influence

Posted by A51JM at 12:40 AM | Discuss

Last August, when Britney Spears announced a hiatus from the music business, her detractors enjoyed a snigger or two. She's finished, they chuckled, a washed-up hotpants diva whose simmering harlot act had overstayed its welcome. The teen-pop craze seemed, at the time, fatally wounded and a few heartbeats from a bright pink toe tag. And if this corpse were buried, well, that'd be the end of Ms Spears, wouldn't it? By January, an 18-year-old Canadian lass named Avril Lavigne was being hailed as the Britney-slayer, lauded for writing her own songs, playing an instrument and dressing in anti-showbiz, unslutty duds, such as T-shirts and jeans. A new era of substance seemed to be dawning, an era that would wipe away all the froth that had so enraptured 12-year-olds for so long. Thanks for playing our game, Miss Midriff. Don't let the door hit your career on the way out. But 11 months after announcing her hiatus, look who's laughing. True to her word, Spears hasn't released any music lately, but the world of female singers is today more Spearsified than ever. The Britney Brigade just keeps growing. And here's the funniest part: few of these recruits belong in this army. Remember when Jewel was a preachy folk poet who wondered "who will sa-aa-aa-ve your soul"? She's been rah-rahed off the field by a perky cheerleader with a mesh shirt that doesn't cover her bellybutton. On her latest, 0304, Jewel regresses to the mentality of a high school student, her do-gooder sentimentality buried under mechanised beats and the Abba-esque group harmonies that are pop's favourite cliche. "If you want me let me know/I promise I won't say no," she sings on Intuition, a tune that could have been an out-take from Spears's Oops! ... I Did It Again sessions. Jewel even resorts in the liner notes to instant-message glyphs ("Would U like 2 come along?") and brings aboard a producer named Lester Mendez, whose previous credits include work with the Spice Girls and Shakira. All this is so shocking that 0304 comes with an explanation. "This record may seem different to you," she writes in the liners. "To me, it's close to what's been in my head for years." What, you thought she was mulling the Greenpeace agenda all this time? Nope. Britney is the soundtrack to Jewel's life. Jewel isn't the only singer doing back-handsprings. Liz Phair took five years off from fame and emerged with a decidedly grit-free, sunny rock album. You'd think a single mum of 36 would have some grown-up things on her mind, but within a minute of the album opener, Extraordinary, Phair is offering to demonstrate her love-worthiness by jumping into a car and running stop signs in the buff. Four of the 14 tracks - including Extraordinary - were co-penned by the Matrix, a Los Angeles songwriting trio that writes three-minute pop songs to artists such as the Backstreet Boys and Lavigne. (Yes, it turns out she doesn't really write her songs, either.) The Matrix excel at what they do, but they sell a formula that Phair's long-time fans would be surprised to learn she's buying. This is the woman who in 1993 released Exile in Guyville, a sexually blunt album intended as a song-for-song answer to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. Guyville is idiosyncratic and raunchy enough to seem like the work of just one febrile and highly original imagination. Not true of Phair's new album. It sounds a bit like Lavigne after five beers and a couple of heartbreaks. Jewel and Phair might have been cribbing, in part, from the notes of Sheryl Crow, whose last album, C'mon, C'mon, was released before Spears's cool-off period began. On C'mon, Crow resisted the urge to act her age - 40, at the time - and let rip a rock album for gals half her age. As a sales gambit, it paid off. Crow's album went platinum. Jewel's has done well, too, rising to No. 2 in the US and lounging in the Top 20 a month after its release. It's too soon to tell about Phair's album - she's never been a chart-buster. But even if it's lucrative, there's something striking about the apparently endless, Spears-ward lean in female pop. It has yet to generate a backlash. Typically, when the musical Zeitgeist languishes in the fluff realm for a while, something brainier launches a counterattack. After the early '60s reign of the Brill Building songwriters, when Matrix-like teams wrote for all-but-interchangeable singers, artists such as the Beatles and Bob Dylan arrived and made vocalists who didn't write their own material seem like lightweights. It's a pattern so consistent you can view the history of pop as a non-stop bout for the upper hand, with producers, songwriters and impresarios in one corner and singer-songwriters in the other. The former have been in control for years now, at least on the female side. So even if Spears's next album bombs - there are reports she's collaborating with, who else, the Matrix - those eulogies back in August seem pretty silly. She has won. And all efforts to out-Spears her are doomed to fail because she does herself better than anyone. If you're looking for a heroine to sa-aa-aa-ve pop's soul, your wait could be a long one. Reported by The Washington Post.

Tuesday, July 8, 2003

I'm Back

Posted by A51JM at 3:25 PM | Discuss

Sorry about not updating the site with news for a while; I was out because of my birthday and I couldn't get near a computer for more than 10 minutes without being dragged to go somewhere. However, I'm back now so you can expect updates as they happen.

Lycos 50

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Britney fell another 3 spots to number nine on the Lycos 50, the top 50 searches on Lycos, for the week ending July 5, 2003. Britney is one of the longest members to be on the list with 203 weeks.

The Tell All of Miss Britney

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NEW YORK (AP) -- After years of saying she'd wait until she was married to lose her virginity, Britney Spears is acknowledging that she had sex with her ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake. "I've only slept with one person my whole life," the pop star tells W magazine for its August issue. "It was two years into my relationship with Justin, and I thought he was the one," she pauses, then adds, "But I was wrong! I didn't think he was gonna go on Barbara Walters and sell me out." Spears, 21, and Timberlake, the 22-year-old 'N Sync singer, met as kids while performing on TV's "The Mickey Mouse Club." They were pop's high-profile power couple for three years before breaking up in spring 2002. In the video for his song "Cry Me a River," Timberlake gets revenge on a Spears look-alike for a betrayal. "The most painful thing I've ever experienced was that breakup," Spears says. "We were together so long and I had this vision. You think you're going to spend the rest of your life together. Where I come from, the woman is the homemaker, and that's how I was brought up -- you cook for your kids. But now I realize I need my single time." The singer also discusses her rumored fling with Irish actor Colin Farrell, whom she accompanied to the premiere of his movie "The Recruit" in February. "Yes, I kissed him. Of course I did! He's the cutest, hottest thing in the world -- wooh! He's such a bad boy. But it was nothing serious," she says. "Seriously, I haven't had a boy in a really long time, and I'm really craving ... just a kiss, man. Just a kiss would be nice." Reported by The Associated Press for CNN. Picture by AP Photo/Michael Thompson,W Magazine

Britney Says She, Timberlake Were Lovers

Posted by LordBiO at 2:10 PM | Discuss

Yahoo News reported that after years of saying she'd wait until she was married to lose her virginity, Britney Spears is acknowledging that she had sex with her ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake. "I've only slept with one person my whole life," the pop star tells W magazine for its August issue. "It was two years into my relationship with Justin, and I thought he was the one," she pauses, then adds, "But I was wrong! I didn't think he was gonna go on Barbara Walters and sell me out." Spears, 21, and Timberlake, the 22-year-old 'N Sync singer, met as kids while performing on TV's "The Mickey Mouse Club." They were pop's high-profile power couple for three years before breaking up in spring 2002. In the video for his song "Cry Me a River," Timberlake gets revenge on a Spears look-alike for a betrayal. "The most painful thing I've ever experienced was that breakup," Spears says. "We were together so long and I had this vision. You think you're going to spend the rest of your life together. Where I come from, the woman is the homemaker, and that's how I was brought up — you cook for your kids. But now I realize I need my single time." The singer also discusses her rumored fling with Irish actor Colin Farrell, whom she accompanied to the premiere of his movie "The Recruit" in February. "Yes, I kissed him. Of course I did! He's the cutest, hottest thing in the world — wooh! He's such a bad boy. But it was nothing serious," she says. "Seriously, I haven't had a boy in a really long time, and I'm really craving ... just a kiss, man. Just a kiss would be nice." Thanks Marisa.

Monday, July 7, 2003

Britney Named Number One Teen Idol

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Ananova reported that Britney Spears has been named the number one teenage idol in a new poll for music channel VH1. The singer beat the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, David Cassidy and NSync to top the list of all-time greats. Others making the top ten included Tom Cruise, The Jackson Five, the Spice Girls and '90s boy band New Kids On The Block. 50 Teen Idols will be shown in full on VH1 on July 9 at 9pm.

Britney Gets A New Stylist

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The Times of India reported that Britney Spears is lauded for her outfits in the future, the credit must go to Lori Goldstein, a stylist. Britney's dress sense is widely considered a fashion disaster, but all that may change soon as the US pop princess has hired the services of Lori at a cost of 75,000 pounds-a-year. And Lori, who has received widespread acclaim for dressing Madonna as a Spanish seductress in her new video Take A Bow, has got down to business immediately, by picking up several Chanel dresses for Britney for a recent showbiz event. However, it's another thing that she instead preferred to wear a ra-ra skirt and cut-off top, reports The Sun.