{"id":1385,"date":"2007-09-11T11:17:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/09\/11\/in-defense-ofbritney-spears\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T11:23:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T15:23:56","slug":"in-defense-ofbritney-spears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2007\/09\/11\/in-defense-ofbritney-spears\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of&#8230;Britney Spears?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of the former Mrs. Federline. Although &#8220;Baby, One More Time&#8221; was a catchy little diddy, her limited vocal range, her computer enhanced voice, and her nasal &#8220;needing a squirt of Flonase&#8221; voice actually grates on me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also not been a fan of her stupid moves over the last few years: marrying Jason Alexander for a few days, marrying K-Fed, driving with babies on her lap, shaving her head, saying &#8220;ya&#8217;ll&#8221; way too much.<\/p>\n<p>I also agree with much that was said about her recent performance at the 2007 MTV Music Video Awards. She looked bored, she barely was capable of lip-synching to her own lyrics, and her &#8220;choreography&#8221; reminded me of a 4th grader&#8217;s dance recital (well, a porn-loving 4th grader from a broken home).<\/p>\n<p>What I disagree with is everybody calling her &#8220;fat&#8221;. Nearly every critic has commented on her weight. I&#8217;ve not seen the word &#8220;paunch&#8221; used so much in my life. Granted, her abs were not made of steel&#8230;but this woman did give birth to two kids over the past three years. If we&#8217;re considering her current appearance as overweight&#8230;what is that going to be saying to teenage girls around the country who already have self-esteem issues. Hell, most females I know would kill to have the body Britney bared to the world the other night.<\/p>\n<p>Her outfit was trashy, her song crappy, her performance subpar&#8230;but her size? Give me a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a fan of the former Mrs. Federline. Although &#8220;Baby, One More Time&#8221; was a catchy little diddy, her limited vocal range, her computer enhanced voice, and her nasal &#8220;needing a squirt of Flonase&#8221; voice actually grates on me. I&#8217;ve also not been a fan of her stupid moves over the last few years: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}