Britney Vs. Slipknot

With 5 days left to vote, Britney is still in front of Slipknow although Slipknot fans are doing their best to keep Britney of the top spot. Don't Let them win!

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Britney.com To Get A New Look

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me when "Blackout" was going to be removed from the top of Britney.com, I'd have... I'd have at least $15. Don't laugh. That's enough to get me three Starbucks. Anyway, yes, the powers that be have heard your requests, and tomorrow, they will be granted.

BSweekly... love it. They also must've gotten sick of my whining 'cause now I've got double the blogging space on the home page for my mindless dribble. Jive? I love you. xx♥

PS Sorry, bbs! No more tickets to give away on here on Britney.com for Brit's GMA performance. My inbox has reached capacity. But we have NOT contacted the winners yet, so don't freak, k? You'll know soon enough.

Source: Britney.com

Britney Spears Heads to Europe for Circus

The following italicized article is from www.people.com:

Although a long holiday weekend is right around the corner, Britney Spears is getting to work promoting her upcoming album, Circus, in Europe.

The singer boarded a flight from Los Angeles to Frankfurt, Germany on Monday for several appearances in support of the album, which is scheduled to be released Dec. 2.

Spears is traveling with several close associates and family members, including her father, Jamie, and manager Larry Rudolph. According to an eyewitness, the singer – dressed in a brown fedora, black sweatpants and a pink top – jumped out of her white Cadillac Escalade smiling and holding her dad's hand at the airport.

After a short time in Germany, Spears is expected to appear on the French program, Star Academy, and on Simon Cowell's X Factor in England before returning to the U.S. next week. She is scheduled to go on a worldwide tour in the spring of next year.

Spears's candid new MTV documentary, Britney: For the Record, airs Nov. 30.

Source: People

Britney Performing At The Bambi Awards

Spears will mark her first live performance Wednesday night at the Bambi Awards in Germany - her first since that disastrous turn at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2007.

Source: Perez Hilton

RS Magazine Photoshoot Preview

New "For The Record" Commercial

Source: Yahoo!

Britney Gets Muzzled by Daddy Spears

The following italicized article is from www.eonline.com:

Maybe Britney Spears' impersonation of her dad, Jamie, was a little too spot-on?

A week after video surfaced of Brit poking fun at her pop, Papa Spears wasn't about to let his little girl take another crack—literally putting his hand over her mouth as the two made their way through LAX airport.

(Britney's on her way to Europe, where she'll promote Circus in Frankfurt and then perform on France's Star Academy Friday and the English show X Factor on Saturday.)

There's also a report that the pop star and her conservator dad have been fighting over her wanting to see Adnan, go clubbing and take the kids out in public.

Unfortunately, it looks like if Jamie gets his heavy-handed way, we're never gonna get to find out what the family beef is really all about.

Source: E! Online

Britney Spears Jets Off to Germany

The following italicized article is from www.celebrity-gossip.net:

Ready to start promoting her upcoming album “Circus,” Britney Spears and her dad were spotted at LAX airport to catch a flight to Germany on Monday (November 24).

One of the more interesting moments during the airport arrival was when Britney received a ticket from the traffic police, leading her security staff to take the quite unpleasant disposition towards paparazzi on-the-scene.

After squeezing her way past the crowded masses, the “Gimme More” singer finally got to the security checkpoint, disappearing into the International terminal.

According to press reports, Miss Spears will be uniting with her backup dancers upon arrival - proceeding on with a mini-tour before heading back to the States.

See more pics here!

Source: Celebrity Gossip

Rolling Stone Cover!

The following italicized article is from www.usatoday.com:

Nearly a year after a breakdown, Britney Spears says she feels as if she has matured.

To be exact, "I feel like an old person now," she says in Rolling Stone's next issue, out Friday. "I do! I go to bed at, like, 9:30 every night, and I don't go out or anything."

Spears turns 27 on Dec. 2, the same day her album, Circus, hits stores. "This is going to be the album that cements her legend status," says her manager, Larry Rudolph.

Indeed, the pop star has come a long way from her two trips to hospital psychiatric wards this year, the magazine says. After the last trip, in early February, her father, Jamie, filed for legal conservatorship so that he and attorney Andrew Wallet would oversee her finances and personal affairs.

Interviewing the star is a "rigorously micromanaged process," according to Rolling Stone.

"We were never left alone together, and my questions had to be submitted ahead of time for approval," reporter Jenny Eliscu writes.

Rudolph says, "Her job is to be Britney Spears, and unfortunately, that job bleeds into her personal life and creates this odd situation where she needs to have security people around her all the time."

That goes for dates, too. Recently, Spears was accompanied by her assistant, Brett, and Rudolph's colleague, Adam Leber. "Right when we got there, we just knew it was just bad," Spears says. "He looked like an older version of Harry Potter, but skinnier. … So I had to get dessert first. And the other date I had, the guy was really, really tall and a lot older. … We're trying to ask him questions, like, 'OK, you're into martial arts, so what kind of martial arts are you into?' And he was like, 'Oh, all kinds.' … But you know how silly we are, so we were just cracking up."

She turns serious on the topic of her children. Despite losing custody of her sons, Preston, 3, and Jayden, 2, to her ex-husband Kevin Federline, Spears has been able to see them more often, thanks in part to the conservatorship.

"Every time they come to visit me, I think about how they're such special people," she says.

She is critical of her ex and says the children "are starting to learn words like 'stupid,' and Preston says the f-word now sometimes. He doesn't get it from us. He must get it from his daddy. I say it, but not around my kids."

Source: USA Today

Britney At The Grocery Store

The following italicized article is from www.x17online.com:

X17 photogs spotted Britney Spears leaving Pink Dot, where she was driven by an assistant late last night.

Better get some rest Brit, only a couple of more days 'till the whole 'Circus' hits town.

See more pics here!

Source: X17

Britney Spears: Circus

The following italicized article is from www.telegraph.co.uk:

The metaphor in the title of Britney Spears new album, 'Circus' (out in the UK Monday, December 1) is not exactly subtle.

Her life has been a 21st century version of greasepaints and spot lights, a three ring media circus in which she has been both beautiful high wire star and tragic clown (but never, one suspects, the ringmaster).

Her very public breakdown made for an unedifying yet compelling spectacle, as the former Mickey Mouse starlet visibly melted under the glare of the lights, while the paparazzi slavered. She put her head in the lion's mouth and came out bald and deranged.

Yet the old showbusiness axiom that bad news is better than no news seemed to hold horribly true. Psychiatric problems, weight issues, divorce, driving offences, the loss of custody of her children, the loss of control of her own financial affairs (to her father) and a frankly second rate, auto-tuned and dialled in album (last year's dismal 'Blackout') failed to put her in the bargain bin. Indeed, the Britney brand was so strong, the more she put it at risk, the more fascinated the public became, perhaps because we actually got a glimpse of the real person beneath the machine-built pop babe.

'Circus' has been touted as the return of the super trouper, as a freshly aerobicised Britney gets her career back on track. With its simplistic yet relentless hookline and borderline pornographic video, lead track 'Womanizer' put Spears on the top of the charts. The album should continue the momentum: it's packed with gimmicky pop, yet somehow sweeter and more subtle than the sexually aggressive 'Blackout'.

But for all its slick electro grooves (provided by the best production teams her record company can buy), the real Britney remains very tangibly at the centre, and it is not always a pretty sight.

Where Britney's teen pop was imbued with a kind of candy floss excitement, a hormonal joy in the freedom to dance and flirt, Circus is paranoid, defensive, angry and aggressive, shot through with self-pity. Song titles like 'Mannequin' and 'Shattered Glass' are explicit in their sense of entrapment, but there is a strong dose of self loathing in her relationship with fame. On paparazzi-baiting 'Kill The Lights', she snaps over a glam stomp: "you don't like me, I don't like you either, it don't matter. I think I'm ready for my close-up'.

To the clockwork synth stomp of 'If U Seek Amy' (which, sung fast, becomes 'If you're sick of me', or is it 'Eff, you, see, kay me?') she presumably deliberately hints at the crash-and-burn image of Amy Winehouse, while singing "love me, hate me" and crafting a hookline out of manic laughter ("ha ha hee hee ha ha ho!"). It's not something I would want to play as a character reference to a psychological review board.

Spears's deep ambivalence towards her stardom (which she recently described as "worse than prison") extends to the packaging. On the front cover, she plays to type as a kitsch, soft-focus, airbrushed blonde princess, but the images of her in various circus roles throughout the CD booklet grow progressively more off-kilter and disturbing. On the back, an over-made up figure reclines in gaudy costume, laughing crazily, while a dwarf clown hands her a gaudy birthday cake. This is David Lynch territory, where Spears is trying to have her cake and eat it.

In the fiercely competitive manufactured pop world, you are only as good as your production team. Established hitmakers including Bloodshy and Avant, Max Martin and Dr Luke create some quite boldly weird electro R'n'B tracks that help distinguish Britney from the guitary power pop that seems to be the prevailing trend amongst US starlets from Avril Lavigne to Katy Perry.

Revealingly, however, they don't trust her to sing. Her vocals are liberally doused in robotic effects throughout, which make everything slightly mechanical and uniform. Only British producer Guy Sigsworth (sometime Bjork and Madonna collaborator) turns off the Autotune for a tender, sentimental ballad, 'My Baby', which reveals Spears to have a fragile, thin tone that is weak yet genuinely human and affecting.

Another Sigsworth production, 'Out From Under', is a lovely, understated ballad of escape, while the sweetly bewildered 'Unusual You' has Britney expressing her amazement at a lover who is kind to her ("Didn't anyone tell you / You're supposed to break my heart?').

But for every such subdued and touching moment, you get a blast of almost psychotically upbeat plastic pop, such as 'Mmm Papi', a bonkers go-go tribute to parental devotion that is so over-the-top it is either sarcastic or borderline incestuous, with a cheerleader chant of 'Mmm papa, love you!"

'Circus' is overlong, and overstuffed with gimmicks, but it is still a much better album than anyone had a right to expect from the persecuted star. The pop grooves are nimble and sleek, the ballads understated and touching, the electro ambience modern and strange, the packaging witty and seductive.

Yet it is the strain between these surface pleasures and Britney's psychological torment that actually makes it interesting. The overwhelming impression is of a woman incarcerated in an asylum, playing a game to convince onlookers of her sanity. The cracks are clearly visible beneath the forced smile.

Source: Telegraph

Britney Wants Daddy to Lay Off

The following italicized article is from www.tmz.com:

Britney Spears wants daddy Jamie to become more like Barack Obama, and forget the words, "No You Can't!"

We're told Britney has been fighting with her dad quite often and one of the sore subjects is the dreaded Adnan. Britney wants to see him, but Jamie absolutely refuses. She is still in touch with her douchy ex, but they haven't spent time together -- even though Brit has been asking to see Adnan for months.

She's also been complaining that daddy won't let her go out, especially when she wants to go clubbing at night. Britney also doesn't understand why Jamie won't let her take the kids out during the day.

Bottom line -- she doesn't like her dad as her conservator, but as someone put it, "she likes others even less." On Friday, we're told Britney was complaining about Jamie in court to the Commish -- to the point where she called Brit into chambers with one of the lawyers and spoke with Britney for 45 minutes.

So here's what we're told. Britney is acting like a 15-year-old and isn't very "contrite" about the behavior that led to the conservatorship in the first place.

The good news -- she seems to appreciate what Jamie has done to get her business affairs in order.

Source: TMZ

Britney To Get Luxury Treatment From Cowell

Simon Cowell is said to be giving up his luxury dressing room for Britney Spears.

Normally guest artistes stay in a luxury Winnebago close to the studios, but the supremo will give up his personal X Factor room to ensure that Britney gets the star treatment for her appearance next Saturday, says a report in the Star.

Simon has reportedly agreed to give up his huge private dressing room for Britney, to ensure her appearance on the show, where she is due to perform her new single Womanizer.

An insider on the show said: "Simon has the most impressive room of the lot and he wanted to make sure Britney got the real star treatment.

"He wanted to impress Britney on her first visit to The X Factor. Simon can be quite territorial over his dressing rooms and even Leona, who is his star protégé, didn't get a look in.''

Britney has said that she will give the "raunchiest performance" ever on The X Factor when she performs on the American Hits Week.

Brian Friedman, show choreographer and friend of the megastar, says that Britney will prove she is back to form.

He said: "I'm not choreographing her routine this time but I've heard it will be spectacular.

"She's going to be super sexy and at her raunchy best."

Source: News.stv.tv

Bow Simon bow.

Brit's in Britain

The following italicized article is from www.thesun.co.uk:

BRITNEY SPEARS will play her smallest ever UK show on Saturday.

The Pop Princess is to make a brief appearance at G-A-Y after jetting into the country for one night only to perform on The X Factor.

The legendary London club night, now at Heaven in Charing Cross, is having a Britney-themed evening.

G-A-Y has played host to some of the biggest divas on the planet, including KYLIE, CHRISTINA AGUILERA and MARIAH CAREY.

My source close to the delicate negotiations over her appearance revealed: “It’s an extraordinary coup that Britney has agreed to perform at the nightclub.

“It has taken months of very patient planning but the hard work has been more than worth it.”

Source: The Sun

Britney Spears Invites Superfans To Times Square Circus Bash

The following italicized article is from www.mtv.com:

If you've ever dreamed of running away and joining the circus, December 1 is your night. Assuming, that is, you're near New York's Times Square and you are a Britney Spears superfan. A post on Brit's MySpace page invites her supporters to be part of "Britney's Greatest Fan Contest & Birthday Celebration," asking them to congregate outside the Virgin Megastore in Times Square to celebrate the release of Circus, which hits stores December 2. Britney's looking for her biggest fan, so contestants are being encouraged to "sing, dance, imitate or even profess their love for Britney Spears."

The winner -- to be determined by a panel that includes Heatherette's Richie Rich, Daniel Vosovic of "Project Runway" and other guest judges -- will get a pair of tickets for Britney's "Good Morning America" performance at the Big Apple Circus on December 2. Sign-ups for the contest begin at 9 p.m. that night, and the contest will run from 10 to 11:30, with contestants also getting a chance to score some autographed items.

"Afterwards, help us celebrate Britney's Birthday with a countdown to midnight for the release of her new CD," read the post. "Cupcakes to the first 100 fans to purchase the CD from Billy's Bakery. Special guest DJ Xavier will be spinning Britney mixes and tunes all night long with your hostess for the evening, 'America's Got Talent' 's Shequida!" That afterparty will last until 1 a.m.

And that's not the only Britney contest that's going on. Britney.com and Buzznet are sponsoring a Photoshop contest in which fans are invited to slip themselves into one of Buzznet's Circus-themed layouts, with the singer's label judging the best efforts and awarding a popcorn machine and other Britney-related prizes. And if none of that floats your boat, since Britney's birthday happens to be December 2, she's also invited fans to sing "Happy Birthday" to her and post it on YouTube, with the winning entry possibly getting posted on Brit's YouTube channel.

Source: MTV