Even though Britney Spears’ new album is apparently the greatest career resurrection since AD33, she still manages to spend half of the video for Womaniser with her tits splashed all over the screen.
This is because:
(a) she’s so empowered by her own sexuality or motherhood or whatever that she even co-wrote one of the songs on the album – just like a real artist!
(b) sticking the microphone up her snatch and throwing her voice would have been calling a spade a spade, but was probably one step too far for MTV
(c) she has a slightly better grasp of irony than Alanis Morissette and anyway Circus is a much better comeback album than the miscarriage that was Flavours of Entanglement so there
(d) she’s trying to deflect attention from the fact that in the other half of the video it’s obvious she purchased a couple of wigs and at least one outfit from the Tori Amos post-American Doll Posse World Tour Everything Must Go Fire Sale
(e) she’s determined to keep on keeping on despite the fact that somewhere in a darkened cupboard there’s a portrait of Brittney that looks very much like this:
Discuss.
