SmartButPsycho
Sep 4th, 2006, 08:56 PM
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3786317a5620,00.html
1. Britney Spears
For pop culture trend watchers, her dominance is no surprise. Spears has been Google's most-searched for a couple of years and consistently features strongly on Lycos's Top 50. Trash mags aimed at the younger demo would be hard-pressed for headlines if she didn't exist. Why? The former hit maker is now a hit taker, copping it for everything from driving with her baby in her lap to serial appearances eating junk food in shopping strip car parks. Add ballooning weight, a personal blog providing an awe-inspiring insight into the bizarre workings of her mind, a wayward, wannabe-pop star husband in her former backup dancer Kevin Federline and baby No.2 on the way, and her place is assured. Spears appeals to one universal truth: we're fascinated by celebrity, but we're more fascinated by celebrity showing frailty and fallibility.
1. Britney Spears
For pop culture trend watchers, her dominance is no surprise. Spears has been Google's most-searched for a couple of years and consistently features strongly on Lycos's Top 50. Trash mags aimed at the younger demo would be hard-pressed for headlines if she didn't exist. Why? The former hit maker is now a hit taker, copping it for everything from driving with her baby in her lap to serial appearances eating junk food in shopping strip car parks. Add ballooning weight, a personal blog providing an awe-inspiring insight into the bizarre workings of her mind, a wayward, wannabe-pop star husband in her former backup dancer Kevin Federline and baby No.2 on the way, and her place is assured. Spears appeals to one universal truth: we're fascinated by celebrity, but we're more fascinated by celebrity showing frailty and fallibility.