TIDBIT

Today, I'm only blogging a tiny tidbit, a passing thought. When scanning blogs today, I found an interesting Rolling Stone news piece about how Britney Spear's new single, "Hold It Against Me," debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making her the second artist in history to have multiple singles debut at the top spot, without any publicity, aside from her recent tweets. The magazine found this odd, calling the feat something only expected from "icons" like "Madonna and Michael Jackson." That's what Britney Spears is: an American icon. She's the only artist from the nineties still considered a megastar. Sure, JT now acts and P!nk still delivers hit singles, but Spears is pumping out more hits than she did when she was eighteen. "Womanizer," "3," and "Hold It Against Me" became instant guilty pleasures, probable pop classics from their era. You probably only remember a few Backstreet Boys songs, and when was the last time they recorded a hit? Britney's one of the most successful singers in history. All she had to do was buy a decent weave, record a few songs, and get back and shape and in eight months after her visit to UCLA's mental ward, she was back. Only icons do that. Sure, she lipsynchs and never writes her own material, but her name's iconic. She stands for something I don't understand, but people respond.