Naturally, the newspaper reports that come out of this Jive Records announcement will land on Jay Leno's "Headlines." The "Tonight Show" writers are probably already working on a punch line that involves underwear. The news: Britney Spears' "Blackout" will be released on Oct. 30 instead of in the middle of November.
The unspectacular Video Music Awards drove the point that so much of modern music is disposable.
Highlighting songs with the shelf life of bread crumbs, Britney Spears' ill-prepared, lip-synch performance provided the perfect distraction. While Kanye West, Justin Timberlake and Foo Fighters will have long careers and make some of pop's most memorable songs, there's little sense that these will be remembered as classics a decade from now. Good as Kanye was, there's only one "Jesus Walks"; Timberlake could get away with remaking "Sexy Back" for his next four albums and fans would probably not notice.
Meanwhile...
While West's performance was one of the better ones on the show, he says he will not appear on the network again. Ever.
Roger Friedman says Britney Spears' horrid performance kills off hopes for significant sales of her Nov. 13 release - and he blames her manager.
Mark Caro come up with advice for other pop tartlets who see the VMAs as a comeback arena.
Time magazine's blogger had a good take on the deterioration of MTV.
Like an episode of "Cops," one scraggly tattooed longhair dude is charged with beating on another scraggly tattooed longhair. Rather than fighting over some crack addict, this gal was pretty.
New York's Z100 is playing Britney Spears's single "Gimme More" on the all-things-Britney portion of the station's website. Jive confirmed Friday that it will release her first full-length album in four years on Nov. 13
The New York Daily News reports that Spears will perform the song at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 9 while illusionist Criss Angel makes her disappear.
The Set List is written and compiled by Variety associate editor Phil Gallo. Gallo, based in Los Angeles, writes about the music business for Daily Variety and reviews concerts, television shows and theater.
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