What do John Lennon and Britney Spears have in common?

I mean it.  What do they have in common?

Besides their both being more popular than Jesus Christ.

I'm over-reacting, I'm sure, but I can't help feeling that everything that's gone wrong with America in the last twenty-eight years is epitomized in the fact that Britney Spears is on the cover of the issue of Rolling Stone that will be on the stands on the anniversary of Lennon's death.

Just the fact that she's on the cover of Rolling Stone, period, is a sign that things are seriously out of whack.

She's not even naked and wrapped in a snake!

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[Linkmeister]

Nor is she photographed by Annie Liebovitz, in my book the only possible excuse for putting her on the cover of RS.

Jann Wenner, when you moved the HQ from SF to NY you sold out, ya bum!

(My my, look at all that lovely initialization!)

[Ken Houghton]

"She's not even naked and wrapped in a snake!"

G-d, you're old. And so are those of us who understand that reference as more than a Bloom County in-joke.

Come to think of it, those of us who remember Bloom County.

Or Richard Avedon.

Or saw Tess in the cinema.

And are now thinking about a possible remake of the remake of Cat People with Britney and, say, Mariah Carey. (Bowie can play Bowie again.)

[Strudel guy]

Have you ever really, I mean REALLY, listened to the electronically scrubbed caterwauling that is packaged as her musical product?

[Ken Houghton]

is Strudel Guy telling us that it sounds like Lennon ca. "Woman is the Nigger of the World," or Ono/Lennon ca. Double Fantasy?

[Kit Stolz]

Rolling Stone once was an interesting magazine, back in the days when it actually ran more than one article an issue, but today has become a sort of bisexual Maxim, with little but gossip, lists, and large pictures of barely clothed famous people. Even if you want to read the magazine, you can't, anymore than you can read television. I'm not sure if it's the readership or the publisher who is at fault, but it's a drag either way.

[actor212]

In fairness, Lance, two things:

1) It's an odd anniversary: 28. If this was 2010 (the 30th) RS would have a huge double issue on Lennon.

2) Spears, for better or worse, is a huge music phenomenon and seems to have undertaken yet again one more comeback. See the tree lighting this evening? She opened the nation telecast.

[Jason - Total Cleanse Review]

This is hilarious... Britney just never quits. Great blog, I've bookmarked it and I'll be back again!