Gratuitous Britney Spears Posting (TM)

I'm going to go ahead and agree with both Miss Sadie and the Chez Diva that the recent wailing about how awful a mother Britney Spears is because of the car seat incident and the near dropping of baby incident has gotten out of hand.

I happen to think Britney is going to make a horrid mother.

But I don't think she's going to make a horrid mother because she's got the furshlugginer car seat in backwards or because she fumbled the kid. These incidents, so breathlessly reported, go in the category of Things That Just Happen To New Parents Sometimes.

No, I think she's going to be a horrid parent because she seems to be a horrid person, thoroughly enmeshed in the horrid cult of celebrity that passes for culture these days.

What li'l Baby Shawn really needs is a stable home life and a real father and maybe somebody to teach him that there's more to life than getting paid to act like an idiot in public. But of course, you won't see the Hollywood press corp clamouring over that because it would cut into their stock of K-Feddy Bad Boy antics.

Sing along, ever'body:

Someday I'm gonna be famous
Do I have talent? Well, no
These days you don’t really need it
Thanks to reality shows
Can't wait to date a supermodel
Can’t wait to sue my dad
Can't wait to wreck a Ferrari
On my way to Rehab

Cause when you’re a celebrity
It’s adios reality
You can act just like a fool
And people think you’re cool
Just cause your on T.V.
I can throw major fits
When my latte isn't just how I like it
They say I've gone insane
I'll blame it on the fame
And the pressures that go with....
Being a Celebrity

I'll get to cry to Barbara Walters
When things don't go my way
I'll get community service
No matter which law I break
I'll make the supermarket tabloids
They’ll write some awful stuff
But the more they run my name down
The more my price goes up!

Cause when you’re a celebrity
It’s adios reality
No matter what you do
People think you’re cool
Just cause your on T.V.
I can fall in and out of love
Have marriages that barely last a month
When they go down the drain
I'll blame it on the fame
And say it's just so tough...
Being a Celebrity

So let’s hitch up the wagons
And head out West
To the land of fun in the sun
We’ll be a real world bachelor
Jackass Millionaires hey hey Hollywood
Here we come!

Yeah when you're a Celebrity
It’s adios reality
No matter what you do
People think you’re cool
Just cause your on T.V.
Being a Celebrity...
Yeah Celebrity!