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Drugs are bad.  Drinking and staying up all night for days (weeks?) (months?) in a row is bad.  Bad things happen when you do this. 

The now infamous Britney VMA Performance was beyond sloppy.  It is clear now, she's forgotten why she's doing this.  It's not fun for her anymore.  She's just afraid if she doesn't stay on the work train 'they' won't let her into the club anymore?  When people stop wanting her in their clubs or parties she WILL stop.  But it's gonna get worse before it gets better.  Think Andy Dick.

Britney should have sang George Michael's "Freedom" instead of Alicia Keys.  THAT would have been powerful. Try these lyrics...
"I won't let you down
So please don't give me up
Because I would really, really love to stick around."
Or how bout this...
"But today the way I play the game has got to change"

Let's listen shall we...

LISTEN: GEORGE MICHAEL "FREEDOM '90" [mp3]
LISTEN: GEORGE MICHAEL "FREEDOM '90 (BACK TO REALITY MIX)" [mp3]
WATCH: BRITNEY'S VMA PERF
WATCH: ALICIA'S VMA PERF
READ: EVERY EXCUSE / REASON FOR THE VMA MESS

"Dancing and singing all the time just like a little girl should."

Alex Blagg at Best Week Ever Blog just sent this to PopMuse.  And I must agree... "This Video Contains All Of The Reasons Why Our Society Is Doomed".  As Alex wrote, "Today on E!'s "Sunset Tan" this nutjob Hollywood mom takes her 4th grade daughter to the tanning salon (which is funny enough in and of itself), but goes on and on about wanting her to look "just like Lindsay Lohan" while the E! crawl on the bottom of the screen displays the Lohan arrest/coke story AT THE SAME TIME. The result is, as they say, priceless." Priceless indeed... watch above.

And I just want to make sure you've all seen Britney Spears Latest Open Letter to her fans.  It is a reason to learn how to read, seriously. 

As PopMuse friend MRS wrote me earlier:  "It's a sermon! She better start putting this together as a one-woman show immediately. If she performed this at the House of Blues, I'd fall in love with her all over again. "Being in that vulnerable state and taken to dinners and parties with friends and finding out later you paid for everything was a huge learning lesson for me."  Who knew she was so cheap?

READ: BRITNEY'S ATTEMPT AT SINCERITY [link]

Britney Shaves Head in Valley

Britney left a Caribbean rehab clinic after only 24 hours, flew back to LA (in coach) on American Airlines, landed and drove straight to Tarzana (?) stopped at a hair salon, aggressively shaved her own head, then went to Sherman Oaks to get a few tattoos, lips and a cross.  When asked about her new haircut she said "I don't want anyone touching me. I'm tired of everyone touching me."

Oh.
No.

I thought it was just blow and drinking, but driving to the valley straight from the airport indicates something a little more, um, serious?

READ MORE DETAILS ON TMZ.COM

It gets worse, Britney's Ex-Assistant sent a letter to Brit's ex-fansite webmaster Reuben, READ IT, it seems as if this downward spiral may in fact get worse.  Sad. 

Excerpt below:
There’s just so much you can do to help a person-I don’t dare want to be an enabler, and I cannot love her enough for the both of us. I cannot convince her in ANY way to love herself. All I can do is be a friend, someone that loved her for MANY years unconditionally, and PRAY. That, I have decided is the most and best I can do for my friend. I cannot save her from herself, nor can I commit her to any type of treatment program against her wishes and will. I am throwing my hands up and realizing that I am helpless over another-ANYONE!
It’s been a hard reality for me to face. I have lived my best example daily, and that is ALL I’m capable of. To see what’s transpiring now, makes me feel a failure, defeated. I LOVED and BELIEVED in what I was a part of for the past 10 years and was so incredibly proud of Britney and all she’d become.
All that to say this Ruben–I’m so Southern, and the BEST way for me to tell you how I feel is to say-You can just kick an old Dog so many times before he gets off the porch. I, FELICIA, am OFF the porch!!

[pics from tmz & x17online]

Daniel is the Father

Seems like everyone I speak with has an Anna Nicole theory.  With the amount of drugs she was doing (have you been reading TMZ, holy shit, what pregnant woman does Demerol and Methadone???) anything is possible.  But the latest buzz in Hellwood is that Daniel (her son) is the father of her daughter  Danielynn.  And with that many drugs floating around in that family, it's entirely possible.  When the room gets that cracky, all bets are off.

My favorite Podcaster Ragan Fox did a funny rant on Anna in his latest Podcast, here's a sample:

LISTEN: RAGAN FOX ON ANNA NICOLE [mp3]

But I think I'm ready for this Anna Nicole hysteria to end, when the drug use leads to dangling babies out of windows or under-feeding them so they look 'sexy', I generally check out, which I will, in, 3, 2, 1.

WASTED.

Filthy.
Club trash.
Coke whores.

Let's stop talking about comebacks people, this is the end.   Who wears a micro-mini with no panties?  That kinda transcends slutty, if you can make Paris and Lindsay look clean-cut, you have achieved something extraordinary.

I could go on and on about this latest turn in the Britney Legacy but everything you need to know is in the latest Justin Timberlake single (smart timing JT). 

LISTEN: "JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE "WHAT GOES AROUND" [mp3]

MORE PICTURES AND COMMENTARY ON BRITBOYLA AND DRUNKENSTEPFATHER.

Straight Marriage is so 5 minutes Ago

Britney filed for divorce from K-Fed.  Yup TMZ reports, she has filed the papers and hired the attorney.  Funny, K-Fed was on Tyra but 2 days ago claiming he'd be with Britney for the rest of his life, ooops.  Must be divorce season, Reese and Ryan, Whitney & Bobby, Chris Rock...  Yadda blah. 

It's a good thing Britney's done with her Sean Penn Phase.  Now let's pray for her Like A Prayer Phase, ya know? 

Watch Britney's guest Appearance on Dave Letterman last night.  She doesn't look too devastated to me.

Anyway, in other news, I've been very busy finding amazing new music on Music D'Load Blogs (see left column links).  Listen to some of this HOT shit...

LISTEN: KELLY ROWLAND "IN LOVE WITH MY EX" [MP3]
LISTEN: AVANT FT. NICOLE "LIE ABOUT US" (DAVE AUDE MIX) [MP3]
LISTEN: JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE "MY LOVE" (HANI MIX) [MP3]

[thx to afterhours, aftsah]

Revolta & Caan???

Can you imagine Camp Travolta this morning???  Scientologists are having a really crappy year, huh?  And what is this nonsense about 'an unidentified man'?  This is clearly Scott Caan, no? 

[pic from A Socialites Life]

Whitney Houston's Greatest Hits

I'm sure you've read the latest on Whitney Houston right?  Well, Bobby's sister (Whitney's previous crack buddy) outed Whitney's EXCESSIVE crack use to the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.  The highlights...
- Cracky spends days locked in her bedroom amid piles of garbage, taking drugs and using sex toys.
- Cracky's so paranoid she sees evil apparitions and once drilled a spy-hole in her bathroom to look for 'demons'.
- Cracky beats herself till black and blue, then blames bruises on said demons.

SEE: More Pics of Whitney's Bathroom

This brought to mind one of my favorite pieces of media in the PopMuse Archives. Back in 2001 Whitney made a surprise phone call to Diva Shock Jock Wendy Williams.  In this 5 part interview Whitney swearing her head off, blasts Mariah, Monica Lewinski, Jungle Sex with Bobby, Diane Sawyer, drugs, drink, chicken, it's all there and IT'S INSANE!!!

LISTEN: WHITNEY VS. WENDY
PART 1 [mp3]
PART 2 [mp3]
PART 3 [mp3]
PART 4 [mp3]
PART 5 [mp3]

Janet's Got a Secret Too

This morning on Fox's Good Day Live they reported that Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri were Pregnant.  Scandal?  Not really, the scandalous part of the story was that Janet's 18 Year Old Secret Daughter was about to tell all. 

Yup, you've been hearing the 'Janet's Secret Daughter' rumors for years... Ya know, the daughter she had while married to Debarge, the one Papa Jackson took from her teenage arms and placed in the care of older sister Rebbie.  Some newspaper in Philly is reporting that this daughter, now legal and free to speak out, is upset that Janet never publicly recognized her existence.  Yeah, that could sting a bit.

PopMuse feels a great sense of relief at hearing this story, because, yes, PopMuse has actually seen this daughter.  On the set of one of Ms. Jackson's music videos PopMuse spotted a sullen teenage girl, sorta chubby, kinda thuggy, very dykey, hanging around set with a backpack on, looking very bored.  The set was closed, due to Mama Jackson's state of undress, only gays and entourage allowed to watch, so I started to wonder, who is this kid sitting with, but ignored by, Janet's entourage?  When I made a snarky joke to someone on Janet's Glam Squad, "Who's that kid with the backpack? Staff drug dealer?"  The response I got was a stone faced, "No, that's the daughter."

What you thought Michael was the only one with secrets?  I've told you kid's before, Papa Joe's like a mafia Don who holds twisted family secrets over his children's heads in a blackmail stylee.  There's some crazy shit going down in that clan and I'm thrilled that girl's exposing some of the madness.  Speak your truth lil' Janet, PopMuse's got ur back!

This is what happens when you get too much Botox...

...it's gotta suck when Jack Black dumps ya. 

PopMuse operatives have confirmed that Jack Black and Laura Kightlinger have split-up.  Black has been seen canoodling around town (including the Tenacious D. Movie Wrap Party) with a new unidentified pretty young thing. 

I've always thought Laura Kightlinger was hysterical (seeing her name in the credits of Will & Grace was just about the only funny thing on that show.)  And I always felt the two of them made a cute anti-Hollywood, Hollywood couple.  I guess, not so much?

I wonder if Mike White is behind all this.  History Lesson:  White and Kight were roomies who lived next door to Black in their Salad Days.  White wrote a few of Black's Flix (Orange County, School of Rock.)  They all rose to big commercial success together, blah blah...

Have I ever told you about the time White came onto me at the Virgin Megastore Bathroom?  I know, I know, who didn't he come onto in that bathroom?  T-rash!

This new Black & White Film Collabo looks funny though.

PopMuse wishes all parties great love, success, and prosperity.  Karma kids, Karma.