Born 16 years ago in Kentwood, Louisana, Britney Spears always wanted to sing.  Performing since early childhood in local dance reviews and church choirs, she auditioned for the Disney Channel’s Mickey Mouse Club series at age eight in Atlanta.  Too young for the series but too talented to dismiss, a producer on the show helped her secure an agent in New York, where she spent the next three summers studying at the renowned Off-Broadway Dance Center and at the Professional Performing Arts School.  She then began appearing in national commercials and Off-Broadway shows.  At 11, she was accepted into the Mickey Mouse Club and spent two years performing on the popular children’s TV show filmed in Orlando.  When Britney turned 15, she auditioned for an all-girl vocal group that led to her developing a solo career as a pop singer, while continuing her high school studies with tutors.  Early this year, Britney was promptly snapped up by Jive Records.  Britney Spears is ready to make her own special mark on the world.  “I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that’s young, happy, and fun,” she says.  With Britney’s ambition and true talent, success will be hers. 

Little did then know back exactly what mark sweet little Britney would go on to leave on the world!!  And then my favorite part, which was on the back of the single:

Untamed and untarnished as they come, the bright, beautiful teen Britney Spears is poised to liven up the pop world with the irresistible collection of songs on her Jive Records self-titled debut release, due out this fall. 

Britney untarnished!!  Haha!  Ah, the good ol’ days!  But we do have to give our girl Britney props for cleaning her life up, and wish her the best for her latest album coming out December 2nd!

I’ve got some words for you, Russell. You were here to host the VMA’s, not to preach to us about your political opinion, which was grossly out of place on that stage. But even if it weren’t, we couldn’t care less what you have to say about our choices for president anyway because you’re British, and have no idea the issues we’re facing here in the USA because you’re admittedly too busy putting cherry chapstick on your schlong (a lovely bit of knowledge he informed us of later in the evening). We don’t elect a president so you or the rest of the world will like us better, we’ll elect whichever man we feel can best run our country, regardless of what race he is. MTV, excellent choice of a host… you really outdid yourselves with that one. Brand was easily the worst excuse for a host the VMA’s have ever had. After his thud of an opening, he didn’t improve.  Brand had nothing even remotely funny to say the rest of the evening either, usually just nervously recapping all the night’s earlier performances.  The funniest line of the night actually came from presenter Jordin Sparks who fired back at him on his purity ring joking at the expense of the Jonas Brothers. 

As a matter of fact MTV, I have a suggestion for you. Why don’t you just pull the plug altogether on the VMA’s? You have successfully managed to destroy a once meaningful and important franchise. They’ve been around 25 years, you had a good run. Just save yourselves the trouble and give up. Does MTV really have any credibility anymore when it comes to music anyway? They certainly don’t play videos. Who are they to tell us which videos are the best? YouTube should put on some sort of video award show. Wouldn’t that make more sense? I mean really, MTV picked “Piece Of Me” by Britney Spears as Video Of The Year. Now I love Britney as much as anybody, but c’mon, was that really the best video made this year? Either way, I’m done with the VMA’s. If MTV does make the mistake of holding them again next year, I won’t be wasting any more of my time watching.

Wanna know more about Estelle, the voice behind the song “American Boy?”  Then listen to my interview with her!  Find out how she met Kanye.  Where is her favorite spot to perform in the US?  Has she seen The Dark Knight or Step Brothers yet?  All these questions and more answered!  By the way, if you don’t have her CD “Shine” yet, go get it, it’s great!

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Listen to or download my interview with the Jonas Brothers

Here’s some pix of me doing the interview!