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Robert Hsu The Casual Observer I am a music snob and a proud one. Real singers possess vocal talent, do not lip-sync and have a unique identity. Unfortunately, these characteristics are hard to come by. In recent years, the number of superficial musicians has increased faster than Ke$ha can chug a bottle of Jack. What do artists like Katy Perry, Selena Gomez and Britney Spears have in common? They are all cash cows waiting to be milked dry by the recording labels that care more about the masses than the music itself. Music today has reached an all-time low. Perhaps I sound bitter because I lack any musical ability, but that is not the case. I took piano and violin lessons for a combined 17 years, so I do know a little about music. Although I grew up mostly surrounded by Mozart, Beethoven and Bach, I did uncover some universal truths about music. Notes were never just there for you to play, they were meant to be interpreted with integrity. A performer’s goal was to play notes ...

Britney Spears is allegedly set to marry fiancé Jason Trawick, 40, on Valentine's Day and reports claim she is getting quite the birthday gift from her father: her fortune. The pop star's father, Jamie Spears, is looking to end his conservatorship over the 30 year old's finances as a wedding gift to the star, Sunday Express reports. "Jamie wants to go to court in early February so Britney will be a free woman in every sense when she marries," a source close to the family told Sunday Express . Jamie Spears first gained control of his daughter's finances through a court order following the pop star's meltdown in 2008. Spears split with her husband of the time, Kevin Federline, and lost control of her two children, Sean Preston, 6, and Jayden James, 5. The public meltdown did not stop there. In fact, Spears was seen attacking paparazzi photographers with an umbrella and shaved her head in an act of rebellion. Like us on Facebook Since her public melt...

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Christie Whelan gets into character for Britney Spears: The Cabaret . Picture: Morganna Magee Source: Supplied IN THE return season of Britney Spears: The Cabaret, the charismatic and mischievous Christie Whelan still makes us laugh and cry at her depiction of the vacuous but troubled pop star. Whelan, with her versatile voice and wearing a frighteningly brief, black frock that reveals her knickers more than once, lights up the stage with Brit’s own hit songs and Dean Bryant’s mercilessly satirical versions of them. Britney’s personal life is now less controversial with her upcoming third wedding, but her past remains absurd and chaotic. Her stage mother steered her into child stardom which led to drug and alcohol abuse, losing her children in a court battle, being hounded by paparazzi, weight loss and gain, appalling relationships and embarrassing public appearances. Whelan, with director Bryant and pianist Matthew Franks, compels even the most anti-Britney people ...

Britney Spears is allegedly set to marry fiancé Jason Trawick, 40, on Valentine's Day and reports claim she is getting quite the birthday gift from her father: her fortune. The pop star's father, Jamie Spears, is looking to end his conservatorship over the 30 year old's finances as a wedding gift to the star, Sunday Express reports. "Jamie wants to go to court in early February so Britney will be a free woman in every sense when she marries," a source close to the family told Sunday Express . Jamie Spears first gained control of his daughter's finances through a court order following the pop star's meltdown in 2008. Spears split with her husband of the time, Kevin Federline, and lost control of her two children, Sean Preston, 6, and Jayden James, 5. The public meltdown did not stop there. In fact, Spears was seen attacking paparazzi photographers with an umbrella and shaved her head in an act of rebellion. Like us on Facebook Since her public melt...

The tubby singer was rushed to hospital on Monday after collapsing with chest pains while filming a weight-loss TV show in Australia. Thankfully he hadn't suffered the heart attack that was initially feared and the former backing dancer was released after further tests. Arriving at the doctor's yesterday, Kevin, who was 17st at the start of the series, appeared cheerful and said he still had his sights set on winning Excess Baggage. Fremantle Media said in a statement: "Kevin Federline has been given the all-clear after spending the day in medical care. After more tests, he was released. "Kevin is now at home with his family and will undergo further investigation with a cardiologist today. He is expected to be back on set Friday." Hospital dash ... Kevin Federline collapsed while training with a Sydney Aussie rules football team Frank Thorne Kevin split with Britney in 2006, after two years of marriage. They have two sons together â€" Sean Preston...

Did You Hear? :: Things are starting to look up for Britney Spears and her fiancé , Jason Trawick. The conservatorship that was placed on the singer’s finances in 2008 will soon be lifted, and it’s rumored that her wedding will take place in Maui on Valentine’s Day. C’est romantique! [ Pop Crush ] :: You know who won’t be getting married on Valentine’s Day? Aretha Franklin. Just weeks after announcing her engagement to beau Willie Wilkerson, the Queen of Soul released a statement saying they won’t be tying the knot any time soon. Reportedly, the singer thought the relationship was moving too quickly. [ ONTD ] :: Rihanna has toppled Lady Gaga as the most viewed artist on YouTube. Fear not Little Monsters, Gaga is only 24 million views behind the “You Da One” songstress. [ MTV ] :: Demi Lovato is taking her own advice and giving her heart a break from Twitter. After a set of cryptic tweets about her relationship with Wilmer Valderrama, the tattooed singer wond...

The UCLA Health System at the UCLA Medical Center has the dubious distinction of being home to some of the most notorious HIPAA violations--employees snooped in the personal health records of singer Britney Spears, actor Tom Cruise, and former California first lady Maria Shriver . No question that kind of data breach--and the negative publicity that goes along with it--is a CEO's nightmare. But UCLAHS CEO David Feinberg, M.D., sees the positives in the situation. He tells HealthLeaders magazine that the experience was a wake-up call for the health system. "It definitely was a crisis that we turned into a great opportunity," Feinberg says in the article . "We had a very, very lax culture around privacy, and because we happened to treat an A-list of celebrities, it got national attention. But the reality was we were sloppy not only with celebrities, but also with a nurse looking at another nurse's records to see if she was really sick yesterday. That was our cu...

Vaski performs at Dub Nation's 3 Year Anniversary show,… (Handout photo, Handout photo) January 23, 2012 | By Wesley Case, The Baltimore Sun At the 2:17 mark of Britney Spears' 2011 hit single "Hold It Against Me," dubstep entered the mainstream. It had been bubbling around pop's surface before Spears put her glossy touch on it, but this was Top 40's most blatant â€" and effective â€" use of the increasingly popular electronic dance music sub-genre. As Spears' vocals cut out, the track builds to a climactic "breakdown," signified by dubstep's trademark bass wobble. It's deep enough to crush your chest, and it's a huge part of what makes the genre so appealing: A song builds and builds until the rug is suddenly ripped from under it, only to re-form. It's dance music that constantly rewards listeners with its ebb-and-flow design. Now, dubstep's fingerprints are everywhere. Whether it's Kanye West an...

Britney Spears The bride to be is said to be about to take control of her assets again before her wedding. It almost sounds like an advert for Mastercard… Toaster: £25 Towels: £15 Gaining control over your £65 million fortune again? Priceless. Yes it looks like four years on from her well publicised meltdown, Britney Spears dad is planning to ask a judge to end the injunction that saw him take control of the singer’s assets by the time she marries Jason Trawick. The couple are tying the knot in Maui on Valentines Day. The Sunday Express reported a source as saying, "Jamie wants to go to court in early February so Britney will be a free woman in every sense when she marries." Another source talking to RadarOnline said,  "Britney now recognizes that if her father hadn't stepped in and taken the action that he had, well... Britney is now crediting Jamie for saving her life. Britney's relationship with her dad is in a very, very good place now....

Kevin Federline suffered the heart scare while filming for fat camp reality show Extreme Baggage (Picture: Splash) The 33-year-old, who has piled on the pounds since splitting from the Toxic singer in 2007, was taken to hospital after falling ill during an Aussie Rules football challenge. While his condition was originally thought to be serious, after a series of tests Federline was given the all-clear and discharged from hospital. After returning home to recover with his family, K-Fed visited a cardiologist for a check-up today. A spokesman for the reality show told the Herald Sun: 'Excess Baggage contestant Kevin Federline has been given the all-clear after spending the day in medical care.' Britney Spears and Kevin Federline split in 2007 (Picture: Getty) 'Kevin and producers became concerned with his extreme pulse rate and abnormal heart beat during a week six challenge of the program.  The program medic took the action of calling an ambulance so that a hospital...

January 24, 2012 08:24:36 GMT The ex-husband of Britney Spears is recovering at home after being rushed to a hospital in Australia for displaying symptoms of minor cardiac arrest during a challenge for 'Excess Baggage'. Photo credit: Holden Jay/WENN is seeking help from a specialist after suffering yet another health scare during a filming for Australian weight-loss show "Excess Baggage". A spokesman for production company Fremantle Media says that the ex-husband of is set to "undergo further investigation with a cardiologist" on Tuesday, January 24. Federline was rushed to a hospital on Monday, January 23 after displaying symptoms of minor cardiac arrest. He was released later the same night and is recovering at home. About his release, Fremantle's spokesman said, "Excess Baggage contestant Kevin Federline has been given the all-clear after spending the day in medical care." On what sent Federline to the hospital in the first plac...

At the 2:17 mark of Britney Spears' 2011 hit single "Hold It Against Me," dubstep entered the mainstream. It had been bubbling around pop's surface before Spears put her glossy touch on it, but this was Top 40's most blatant â€" and effective â€" use of the increasingly popular electronic dance music sub-genre. As Spears' vocals cut out, the track builds to a climactic "breakdown," signified by dubstep's trademark bass wobble. It's deep enough to crush your chest, and it's a huge part of what makes the genre so appealing: A song builds and builds until the rug is suddenly ripped from under it, only to re-form. It's dance music that constantly rewards listeners with its ebb-and-flow design. Now, dubstep's fingerprints are everywhere. Whether it's Kanye West and Jay-Z's "Watch the Throne," a blockbuster album with multiple songs full of breakdowns and bass drops, or the half-time tempo of Katy Perry...

K-Fed, 33, was training with a Sydney Aussie rules football team as part of Australian hit Excess Baggage. At first it was feared the former backing dancer was suffering a heart attack. Paramedics gave the star oxygen before taking him to hospital, where an ECG indicated he hadn't in fact suffered cardiac arrest. Kevin, who was 17st at the start of the series, was kept at Sydney's Mt Druitt hospital for further tests. A spokesperson for Channel 9 said: "Kevin was at Doonside with the Giants, completing an AFL-related challenge. "He did his challenge, which was running and catching the ball, then while his (in-series weight-loss partner) was taking the same challenge, he reported chest pains and a racing heart. Health scare ... Kevin Federline became ill while filming fitness show Frank Thorne "Obviously on this show we have a lot of paramedics on standby and they treated him for the first signs of a minor cardiac arrest, called an ambulance and had him...

Matthew Simmons, Getty Images While Britney Spears put her ex-husband Kevin Federline under a lot of fame-induced stress while they were an item, it’s unlikely that she’s the cause of his latest health hazard. Federline was rushed to the hospital on Monday (Jan. 23) after suffering a minor heart attack. According to Zap2It , K-Fed was hustling his way through a football challenge, Aussie style, when he started to experience chest pain. Federline, who fathered Brit’s two active little boys , is currently Down Under trying to drop some extra weight as a part of the weightloss show ‘Excess Baggage.’ A spokesperson for Australia’s Channel Nine said that though their medics treated K-Fed on site, they had him taken to the hospital via ambulance anyhow. “He did his challenge, which was running and catching the ball, then … He reported chest pains and a racing heart,” the rep reports. “Obviously on this show we have a lot of paramedics on standby and they treated him...

Britney Spears will not only be marrying fiance Jason Trawick on Valentine's Day, reports say, but also she will be getting an especially meaningful gift from father Jamie Spears -- control of her finances and business decisions. A source close to Spears tells the Sunday Express that Jamie Spears is looking to end his conservatorship over his daughter's affairs in time for her wedding, which reports say will be taking place on Feb. 14 on the Hawaiian island of Maui. BRITNEY SPEARS AND JASON TRAWICK ENGAGED BRITNEY SPEARS 'CAN'T STOP LOOKING' AT ENGAGEMENT RING WireImage Britney Spears and Jason Trawick show off their engagement ring. "Jamie wants to go to court in early February so Britney will be a free woman in every sense when she marries," the source tells the paper. While Spears' rep refutes the reports on the wedding date and location, Spears' camp has not responded to claims that her conservatorship may soon end. Jamie was grante...

At the 2:17 mark of Britney Spears' 2011 hit single "Hold It Against Me," dubstep entered the mainstream. It had been bubbling around pop's surface before Spears put her glossy touch on it, but this was Top 40's most blatant â€" and effective â€" use of the increasingly popular electronic dance music sub-genre. As Spears' vocals cut out, the track builds to a climactic "breakdown," signified by dubstep's trademark bass wobble. It's deep enough to crush your chest, and it's a huge part of what makes the genre so appealing: A song builds and builds until the rug is suddenly ripped from under it, only to re-form. It's dance music that constantly rewards listeners with its ebb-and-flow design. Now, dubstep's fingerprints are everywhere. Whether it's Kanye West and Jay-Z's "Watch the Throne," a blockbuster album with multiple songs full of breakdowns and bass drops, or the half-time tempo of Katy Perry...

New documentary Me @the Zoo chronicles web celeb Chris Crocker's rise to fame, both before and after his "Leave Britney Alone!" viral video. Image courtesy HBO Documentary Films PARK CITY, Utah â€" We are witnessing the coming of age of the first true internet generation, people who barely remember a time before “social networking” was a buzzword. For some members of that generation, their real identity is almost inseparable from their online personality. In the new documentary Me @the Zoo , directors Chris Moukarbel and Valerie Veatch examine the lives of these young people through the eyes of Chris Crocker, whose “ Leave Britney Alone! ” YouTube defense of pop star Britney Spears in 2007 made him the kind of internet famous that’s only been possible in the last seven years. The filmmakers, who didn’t set out to make a movie about Crocker, give the young man the lion’s share of credit for inspiring the film. “Chris [Moukarbel] and I began this...

Britney Spears will receive a special wedding gift from her father this February. According to a report in the Sunday Express , by the time she says “I Do” to fiance Jason Trawick on Valentine’s Day, she will be in full control of her finances for the first time in almost four years. After her life spiraled out of control during the months that followed her split from first hubby, Kevin Federline, her father, James Spears, was granted a court-ordered conservatorship over his daughter’s “personal and financial affairs.” Britney has credited her father in the past for “sav[ing] her life” after he took on that responsibility, and now it seems that the pop star’s recent personal and professional turnaround has re-instilled his faith in his daughter enough to  “go to court in early February so Britney will be a free woman,” a source told SE . As for the wedding, it will be a private ceremony with the option to have a larger ceremony later, a source tells the Nation...

Category: Music Author : James Johnson Posted: January 23, 2012 Tags : Britney Spears , Britney Spears Conservator , Britney Spears Control , jamie spears Four years ago Britney Spears spiraled out of control to the point where a judge ordered her father as the conservator of her estate in 2008 and while Jamie Spears has been hailed as an excellent executor it now appears that he is preparing to hand over control of his daughters finance’s back to Britney. According to the  Daily Mail   Britney Spears could be back in control of her own finances as early as February. Reports state that her father believes that her life is back on track and that fiance Jason Trawick will keep her on the straight and narrow. If all goes as planned Jamie Spears will let go of control over the estate before his daughter’s Hawaiian wedding that’s set to take place on Valentine’s Day. According to a source close to the singer: “Britney now recognizes that if her father hadn’t ...