I feel I’ve been remiss with the pop culture opinions lately.
I really feel like I need to post the Lindsay Lohan Boob Song. It’s kind of horrible, but surprisingly catchy. (The indierock handclaps get me every time.) (Which I found on Defamer.)
Has everyone seen the new video? So bad. Or is it? There’s about 10 seconds of her in a cage, clearly symbolizing her feeling trapped by all the rumours startin’. And then a lot of her dancing around in lowcut shirts, clearly symbolizing her courting public attention by being trampy. It ends ambiguously, as she flies off in a helicopter, as she rises above the pettiness of the rumour mill, but does so in an enclosed space. When she throws the camera with the pictures of the hot boy off the helicopter, it seems to reveal her understanding that she must throw away normal life (including romance) as long as she is in the spotlight, but at the same time, the pictures no doubt refer to the paparazzi photographs that make her life so difficult.

Also, I have to say, I’m kind of liking Xtina’s new look. It’s not really Marilyn, and she still wears too much makeup. Remember when Britney came out and everyone started comparing her to Madonna? I think Xtina’s following a much closer path. Only postmodern. She does the shocking thing, (Madonna wishes she thought of “Dirrrty”) and now she’s doing the retro sexpot thing. (But her concept of “retro” is pretty vague. The video for her new song with Nelly is a prime example. I dig the song itself (but it’s no “Dirrrty”), but the video is all over the place. She’s a fifties-style movie star, very Mariynesque. She’s wearing flapper clothes. But with a hat and veil that feels really forties. And he’s wearing a zoot suit. The aesthetic is all over the place. Pick an era, Christina.
That said, I hated the video for “Dirrrty” when I first saw it, but now I think it’s a postmodern masterpiece. It’s amazing if you think of it as pastiche.