Kanye: MTV exploited Britney for ratings
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Kanye West blames MTV for Britney Spears' less than stellar performance at the Video Music Awards. "Man, they were just trying to get ratings, and they knew she wasn't ready and they exploited her," the 29-year-old rapper said Tuesday on Sirius Satellite Radio's "The Morning Mash Up."
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Britney Spears will be the opening act at this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
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The public's appetite for those "Oops! ... I Did It Again!" moments involving pop princess Britney Spears shows no sign of waning as she scooped the number one celebrity viral video this year.
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When MTV kicked off the annual Video Music Awards in 1984, they were seen as a kind of anti-Grammys, almost a spoof on the self-serious awards show format.
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Britney Spears is to make her first major public performance in three years at the MTV Video Music Awards.
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Sarah Silverman still is responding to the negative reaction to her Britney Spears jokes at the MTV Video Music Awards. "The joke that everyone was upset about &#151; me calling the kids `adorable mistakes' &#151; was the most innocuous joke," the 36-year-old comedian tells Us Weekly magazine in the issue that comes out Friday. "It never occurred to me that would be deemed hurtful or over the line."
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Britney's comeback wasn't pretty, and that just kicked things off. Music critic Josh Tyrangiel sat through every excruciating moment and grades all the performing acts
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The Drudge Report on Wednesday carried a banner headline proclaiming âMedia Tricked Again: Brit Faked Wedding.â It cited âdocumentsâ uncovered by US Weekly that âshow Britney Spears
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Britney Spears' manager Sam Lutfi was interviewed by the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Chartreuse says, &#145;&#145;If Madonna was Marketing 1.0, then Paris Hilton is Marketing 2.0.&#146;&#146; Why? &#145;&#145;Because she is the queen of links.&#146;&#146; Paris never really talks about herself. She talks about other people . . . the designers of her clothes, the clubs she goes to, who she hangs out with. She has garnered what marketers want, attention. But when ...
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Britney Spears' new single, "Gimme More," came roaring out of the gates on CHR (contemporary hit radio)/top 40 radio, debuting at No. 25 on Billboard sister publication Radio & Records' format chart for the week ending September 2 and endowing Spears with the second-best start of her career. But that was before MTV's Video Music Awards (VMAs).
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Britney Spears was the subject of intense media scrutiny Friday: Had the 25-year-old pop star checked in &#151; and quickly out of &#151; rehab? Larry Rudolph, Spears' manager, couldn't be reached for comment late Friday.
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MTV loves its Video Music Awards. It gives the youth-culture channel an annual opportunity to strut its biggest stars and thumb its nose at the adult establishment -- maybe even moon it.
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Endlessly mocked in the mainstream news media and the blogosphere, Sunday nightâs fiasco has left Britney Spears's fans and her handlers bewildered.
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Television's "Dr. Phil" McGraw has pulled the plug on plans for a one-hour show that was to examine Britney Spears' latest public meltdown. In a statement posted Monday on his Web site, McGraw said the 26-year-old pop star's situation was "too intense" for him to go forward with the show. He didn't say whether he planned to reschedule.
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A restraining order aimed at Britney Spears' friend and manager Sam Lutfi alleges that he drugged her, took over her life and finances and controlled the paparazzi who pursued her for months.
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Britney Spears. She&#039;s so easy to make fun of. Even her song titles conspire to mock her: &quot;Oops, She Did It Again!&quot; But the latest headlines about America&#039;s most maligned mother are evoking a new sentiment from fellow moms.