plus 3, Courtney Love Claims Britney Spears Was Molested By Her Dad - All Headline News

Courtney Love Claims Britney Spears Was Molested By Her Dad - All Headline News
Britney Spears' ex Adnan Ghalib sentenced to jail - AZCentral.com
On listening ... and listening ... to 'Party in the U.S.A.' - The State
Adam Lambert furor spreads to gay community - canada.com

Courtney Love Claims Britney Spears Was Molested By Her Dad - All Headline News

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:55 AM PST

November 26, 2009 5:58 a.m. EST

Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Courtney Love has unleashed a bizarre tirade on her Facebook account. The former "Hole" singer accuses Jamie Spears of molesting his famous daughter Britney on the social networking site.

The widow of Kurt Cobain wrote: "britneys dad molester her , imagine the father that molested you owning you for slavery while your forced to sing songs picked for thier sexual content every night, insane right?"

"i have it on First had authority, and fight as hard as she is and does she still didnt pull that card, it's a pride thing i can relate to, However they want to play dirty, lets go, Im SO not affraid of the little trolls who hit this when i was f***** up who are called lawyers. lets GO. [sic]"

The comment came after she posted that "lohans rapist convict daddy" is trying to put Lindsay Lohan under his conservatorship. Someone replied that Michael Lohan loves his daughter the same way as Jamie loves Britney.

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Britney Spears' ex Adnan Ghalib sentenced to jail - AZCentral.com

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 02:51 PM PST

LOS ANGELES -- Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib is being sent to jail for 45 days for leaving the scene of an accident.

Los Angeles District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison says Ghalib was taken into custody immediately after being sentenced Friday.

He pleaded no contest last month to leaving the scene of an accident that injured a man who was trying to serve him with a restraining order. The order was sought by Spears' father and was eventually granted.

The process server has sued Ghalib, a paparazzo. That case is still pending.

Robison says Ghalib was also ordered to serve three years of formal probation and perform 45 days of roadside cleanup duty.

The 37-year-old was facing up to a year in county jail.

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On listening ... and listening ... to 'Party in the U.S.A.' - The State

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 10:36 PM PST

And the Jay-Z song was on.

Who else has pondered which Jay-Z song Miley Cyrus is referring to? Which tune by Jigga could cause Miley to sing, "They're playing my song"?

More on that in a moment, but here's another number: 17.

As in the number of consecutive times I listened to "Party in the U.S.A.," arguably the most polarizing song of the year. Cyrus will perform it and others at the Colonial Life Arena Saturday.

Why 17?

That's how old Cyrus turned Monday. (And, yes, I really did listen to the song 17 straight times.)

The song can be summed up in one sentence: A coming of age starlet moves to the West Coast and struggles to adapt to life in a new place.

The song would be a pity party if it weren't for a DJ - and a taxi man, too - who plays her song.

Her song is pop perfection. I'm convinced, though, you might read that as confusion or that I've now been brainwashed.

Let's forget the sound (or the YouTube video where she says she's never heard a Jay-Z song before) and concentrate on the lyrical meaning: music is therapeutic. Who can't relate? Who hasn't been put into a better mood when your song comes on the radio?

And the Jay-Z song was on.

While you might not be nodding or moving your hips "like yeah" when the song is played, you get the point.

But which Jay-Z song could the writers possibly be talking about? At that point in the song, Cyrus has gotten off a plane at LAX and she already feels uncomfortable in the land of fame excess.

Maybe it was "Change Clothes," which is about changing externally and internally. Could it be "Dirt Off Your Shoulder," which is about swatting at problems as if they were dandruff? Or perhaps it was "99 Problems," an anthem about not letting things get to you. (The preceding are popular Jay-Z songs, if you don't know.)

I know that I should be asking the credited songwriters, Jessica Cornish, Lukasz Gottwald and Claude Kelly. They are at fault for the clunky comparison to Britney Spears.

And a Britney song was on.

And the Britney song was on.

A homesick Cyrus, in her cowboy boots and short shorts - the look in the video - feels like an outcast in a crowd of stilettos. I'm not going to speculate what Britney song it could be, but I'm certain which song it isn't: "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman," Brit's woeful coming-of-age attempt.

Britney was trying too hard.

Miley is just trying to have fun.

"Party in the U.S.A.," which begins with simple guitar strokes, quickly opens into a jam. If you don't know the secret to the infectious beat, it's the warbling synthesizer that's playing hide-and-seek with the bass line. Auto-tune, the voice manipulator popular in hip-hop and R&B, has a similar grasping effect.

Whether or not you like the song, you notice it. You have to confront your feelings about it.

If you've listened to it once, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

At the 14th consecutive time is when the delirium began to settle. Maybe it was the time of night. I began rubbing my eyes. I started this very sentence you're reading three times.

The 15th time I started the song I almost lost count.

The 16th time, I actually nodded my head like yeah. As in yeah, I'm almost done.

On the 17th and final listen, these words got me yet again:

And the Jay-Z song was on.

The repetition is clever and her vocal phrasing is spot on.

Guess what I listened to next? Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind." That's my song on the radio right now.

But I didn't get through the whole thing; I hear it too much as it is.

IF YOU GO

WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday

WHERE: Colonial Life Arena

TICKETS: $42.25 to $82.25

INFORMATION: www.TWCtix.com or (877) 489-2849

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Adam Lambert furor spreads to gay community - canada.com

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 10:22 PM PST

"American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert on Wednesday admitted he got carried away during his racy American Music Awards performance, as furor over his singing and dancing stoked a wider controversy in the U.S. gay community.

More than 14 million people watched the gay, glam rocker close the live AMA telecast on Sunday with a performance that included Lambert kissing a male keyboard player and pushing the head of another performer into his crotch.

Complaints poured in to the ABC TV network that aired the show, and it canceled the Lambert's appearance on its "Good Morning America" news and chat show set for Wednesday.

Yet rival network CBS put him on its "The Early Show" program, where Lambert claimed he had not intended to provoke audiences but declined to apologize, saying: "I'm not a baby-sitter. I'm a performer."

"I admit I did get carried away, but I don't see anything wrong with it. I do see how people got offended, and that was not my intention," he said.

"If it had been a female pop performer doing the moves that were on the stage, I don't think there'd be nearly as much of an outrage at all," Lambert added. "I think it's because I'm a gay male."

The "Early Show" also ran video footage that blurred Lambert's male kiss, and doing so caused the network its own problem. Gay rights groups accused CBS of hypocrisy by also playing unedited video of a kiss between Madonna and Britney Spears at 2003's MTV Video Music Awards.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) said the CBS decision "reinforces an unfortunate double standard that is applied to openly gay performers."

CBS said it had thought hard about the issue. "The Madonna image is very familiar and has appeared countless times including many times on morning television. The Adam Lambert image is a subject of great current controversy, has not been nearly as widely disseminated, and for all we know, may still lead to legal consequences," a CBS News spokesperson said.

The broadcast of material deemed obscene or indecent can leave U.S. TV networks open to fines.

Some members of the gay community also scorned Lambert.

Jennifer Vanasco, editor in chief of website 365gay.com, said his performance hurt the cause of gay marriage in the eyes of mainstream Americans "who think gay life is exactly what (he) portrayed on the American Music Awards."

Lambert, 27, took a flair for showmanship, powerful vocals and sexual ambivalence all the way to the finals of top-rated U.S. TV show "American Idol" in May.

But his weekend performance at the AMAs has drawn mixed results. ABC received more than 1,500 complaints, but sales of Lambert's debut album "For Your Entertainment" are strong.

Released on Monday through Sony Music Entertainment, "For Your Entertainment" was No. 3 on the iTunes U.S. album chart by Wednesday night. Music industry sources told Billboard magazine it is outperforming expectations and could sell about 225,000 units in its first week.

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