Brit Having a Blast With Her Boys on Tour

The following italicized article is from www.ok-magazine.com:

Britney Spears might be working her butt off on her comeback tour, but this busy mom is also taking time out to play with her sons during their visiting time.

On Friday Brit, Sean Preston and Jayden James headed down to the pool at the Mohegan Sun Casino – where she performed Saturday and Sunday night – for some fun in the sun. The trio had a great time together, an eyewitness reports.

"[Sean] was running around the pool and jumping in off the sides," the eyewitness tells OK!. "He was a great swimmer. Both kids had floatees on. Britney was playing with them in the pool."

As much fun as she has with her family, Brit is also dedicated to staying in fighting form, even with the high-energy workout she gets every time she performs – she worked out at the gym at the casino which was closed off to the rest of the public on Friday and Saturday.

At least it's not all work and no play!

Source: OK Magazine

Lawsuit against Britney Spear's ex-manager postponed

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

A lawsuit by Britney Spears' ex-manager against the pop star and her parents will not go to trial until next year, a judge ruled today.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Zaven V. Sinanian scheduled the trial of Osama "Sam" Lutfi's lawsuit for March 8, 2010. Attorneys for Jamie Spears, the singer's father, said his client is considering bringing a countersuit, while a lawyer for Lynne Spears, the entertainer's mother, said he may seek to dismiss the defamation claim against her on grounds it interferes with her free- speech rights.

However, attorneys on all sides also told the judge they will see if the case can be resolved with the help of a private mediator.

Lutfi's lawsuit alleges the pop star's mother defamed him, that her father assaulted him and that the singer owes him money for management fees.

Lutfi's court papers allege that Jamie Spears punched him in the chest at the singer's home in January 2008.

In the defamation claim, Lutfi's court papers cite passages in Lynne Spears' book, "Through the Storm, A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World," which he said contain false information, including a claim that Lutfi admitted he threw away Britney's phone chargers and disabled her house phones.

The suit was filed in February, four days after Spears was granted a temporary restraining order against Lutfi, her 36-year-old former boyfriend Adnan Ghalib and attorney Jon Eardley, forbidding all three from having contact with her, her parents and her two young sons.

The order was later extended until 2012 against Ghalib first, then later until the same year against the other two men as well.

Source: Contracosta Times

Video: Britney Kisses Her Boys

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Mediabase Chart Update

Britney's new single 'If U Seek Amy' is currently at #10 on Mediabase with 6206 spins and 47.0 est. million listeners.

Click here to vote for 'If U Seek Amy' on your local radio station!

Source: Break The Ice

'If U Seek Amy' Released In The UK

Britney's new single 'If U Seek Amy' has been officially released to retailers today in the UK.

You can purchase it at your local CD shop or online at Amazon here or at HMV here!

Also, you can purchase it on iTunes by clicking here!

Source: Break The Ice

Review - Britney Spears - 'If You Seek Amy'

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

Forgive me for taking the obvious, rather tabloidy approach to this review, but: oops! She did it again. Dame Britney, of course, has been courting controversy with this song and its suggestive lyrics. My job, however, is to strip away the controversy around this song and work out whether it is actually any good.

Except you can't, not really. Because the whole point of this song is to be cheeky, titillating and blatant. I can't imagine the impression was ever for anyone to not guess the 'hidden' meaning in the lyrics (though a few notable commentators were convinced that the song was about Amy Winehouse at first) - essentially, Britney and Max Martin are playing a little game with us. Kind of "I know what I'm saying, and you know what I'm saying - d'you wanna make something of it?"

It's quite a juvenile sentiment, and therefore the melody is appropriately juvenile too - from the playground-style taunting of "na na na na na na na na" at the beginning, which basically underneath the majority of the song mixed with a thumping bit of synth, to the couldn't-be-bothered-to-think-of-any-lyrics-to-go-here build to the chorus of "ha ha hee hee ha ha ho".

That's just part of it, though - structurally the song is very interesting, because the verses, despite the chanting undercurrent, are rather soft and pleading. Britney's vocals sound as unnatural as ever, but once the chorus hits, it's like being hit by a double decker bus loaded with sass, as Brit thumbs her nose at her critics with a "love me, hate me, say what you want about me" refrain.

Once the middle eight hits, however, things get very subdued again - it's a nice counterpart to the brash, narcissistic chorus, maybe even a suggestion that through the numerous tabloid reports we've devoured over the years we've seen many different Britneys, all of whom are probably equally real - just like here, there's the domineering, aggressive Britney and the quieter, more vulnerable Britney.

Which leads nicely onto the video (there are clean versions out there, if you look hard enough), with its risqué sequences of Britney dressed in not-very-much and clearly up to sordid shenanigans in a house with lots of similarly-attired friends - until the point two thirds in where she slips on a twinset, bouffants her hair like she's about to timetravel back to the 1950s, and walks outside to greet the paparazzi with her picture-perfect husband and kids.

At once it's a wry dig at the way people have questioned Britney's lifestyle, as well as also suggesting that those who race to criticise her are probably not so squeaky-clean themselves. The fact that it's bookended with mock news reports based on real 'outraged parent' items from US news channels is the cherry on the cake.

So what we have here is essentially something far cleverer than the initial cheap innuendo would have us believe. Either that or I've read far too much into it and it's exactly that - a cheap innuendo with one heck of an earworm of a melody built around it. And even if that's true, what's wrong with that?

Source: BBC