The Shrine

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,3838 ... Britney</a>

The Anti Britney? I wouldn't go that far...this article's informative but a little too self serving for my tastes</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>just a different kind of marketing strategy, nothing wrong with it if it works.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Truth be told, Avril Lavigne is no different than 80% of every other Canadian band going right now.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>I did respect the girl until i read a few interviews and noticed she was as dumb as a rock. The stupid ties with her tanktops has been done before too.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>so? who said she was completely originally? She says in there anyway that once she saw people emulating her on the street she stopped wearing the ties</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>so? who said she was completely originally?  She says in there anyway that once she saw people emulating her on the street she stopped wearing the ties</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Eminem's very vocal about his disrespect for everything/one</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Courier New"; text-align: left; '>I find it funny that I once cared about people tarnishing punk, now I couldn't give a shit less. Britteny Spears could just as easily start playing a guitar and get a band and call herself punk and I wouldn't give a damn... in fact she'd probably sound alot like Avril Lavign (or whatever the dumb little girl's name is).</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Pah! More like Anti-CHRIST</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>My man took the words and made a poem.</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>She's produced "punk" garbage. It's so sad seeing these kids running around thinking they're being "punk" hehe</div>

<div style='font: 14pt Calligrapher; text-align: left; '>She's as packaged as Britney...just a different wrapper...</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Kids, what are you gonna do....the not too old people who moshed to anything on FAT or Epitaph, us semi-older people who grew up on Dead Kennedy's, Dayglo, Rancid, etc. and the old, old folks who were fucking rotting with the Sex Pistols are all just as dorky as this new generation of commercial punk lovers.

Punk is funny...to be true to the scene, you have to sell out it's ideals.

I'd still fuck Avril though...

KO-</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Will someone tell her to get a new pose? I've saw her on two mag covers at the grocery store (and was annoyed then)and now in this and she's got the same exact mongoloid jump-up-in-the-air-show-my-teeth pose. Geeze. Is that all it takes to be anti-Brittany? She's just more mass marketed garbage.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Now who you'd fuck and being called on bullshit are two COMPLETELY different issues. No way should one ever imply something about the other. ;)</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Comic Sans MS"; text-align: left; '>To remark on a remark: I swear punk is just one of those things...you either sell out or go normal. Fucking weird...</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Courier New"; text-align: left; '>LoL, how old is she like 16? You dirty old man. :P</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Courier New"; text-align: left; '>I'm a poet and didn't know it.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Geeze, that sure sounded better in my head.

KO-</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I almost can't believe I'm agreeing with you all. She's Canadian and that hurts. Why can't our good bands break through in the US instead of this Shit.</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Oh, I'd do her too. :) She's 17, I believe. Legal by age of consent in MD. heh</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Heh, she actually has some catchy tunes and a good look, I don't know what everyone hates her for.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>She's popular but doesn't fit the standard pop image. The horror.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>That's probably it, the same reason why people hated Alanis Morrisette back in her jagged little pill days.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Courier New"; text-align: left; '>It's like the recording industry is throwing her at us and saying "look she's RAW, untamed! That's what you want isn't it? NOW BUY!" and we're just laughing.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!!! DIE! Actually, pose nude on Playboy and then DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!! DIE!! DIE! DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, going "Hey, look it's punk!" and then a few punkheads beat the living shit outta her (and the record industry).</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Article claims she's 18. I'd hit it...</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, at least this is something everything can agree on. :) Kupek must love the branch this conversation went off on.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Manaman said it. Her "image" is completely formulaic. Think "Poochie" from the Simpsons.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>So you hate her based on how her music is marketed?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't think so; and besides, why would it even matter anyways?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>You don't think so? Have ya seen her? I can just see some marketing exec watching her on a TV screen saying "Alright, looks good, but I think we need to up the punk by about 40% and the skater by 20%." And it pisses me off but it doesn't really "matter" to me. It's not like she's ruined my life.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Generally, a gimmick is a part of modern music, and has been for the last 50 years; but I'm wondering, why does it piss you off?</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Why exactly shouldn't it piss me off, Seeker?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>This is all true, but she's also really fucking catchy when you're forced to listen to it (like at the gym).</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Dude, the first video I saw her in, those glossed lips, I damn near died.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I think Esque put it best. Pop will change direction again in a few years.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Oh, and this girl is not the anti-Brittney. The anti-Brittney is a 200-pound butch lesbian biker chick who no one's ever heard of.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I don't think anyone has said they hate her. They just hate the whole "Look at our new product - I mean pop-phenomenon" thing.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Comic Sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Like Michelle Shocked minus 150 pounds.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Courier New"; text-align: left; '>I don't like her, that doesn't mean you can't... There have been formulated rock bands since the beginning of Rock & Roll. In fact, MOST of the early rock groups and alot of the Mo-Town stuff was created by record companies and professional song writers who you never saw. The record company in this case is just trying to cash in on the negative vibe caused by the bad economy. In the late 80's when the economy took a dive, the successfully sold Guns N Roses to a country who the year before was eating up pop and New Wave. Then a few years later when the economy was doing bad again they sold your favorite band Nirvana to a disenchanted public. It's a pretty simple pattern really... Good economy = happy sappy pop music. Bad Economy = rawer angrier music.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I'd hardly call Avril Whateverherlastnameis "rawer angrier music." She's for the pre-teen and teenage girl market, that's different from the rest.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt ; text-align: left; '>Her name sounds like it's a brand of perfume...........don't ask me why. :)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>because there is no logic behind why it should piss you off, it seams to me like you're just looking for something to be angry at.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Quoth my 10 year old niece: "She's not like the others. She's a rocker!"</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>He's already explained rather succintly why it pisses him off.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Courier New"; text-align: left; '>In comparison bubble gum pop she is.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I'm with Seeker on this one-- I enjoy her music and I find nothing wrong with her look</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>His reasons seam quite odd to me.</div>