I guess my problem is that I really have difficulty with the way you attempt to glamorize these people, or it would appear that way, especially in context of your dogmatic LDS attitude... that questions nothing... It's kind of like.. you question nothing.. and, don't get overly offended, but it just comes across as really shallow to me.

I never lived that lifestyle.. like I said, I really never listened to that type of pop music past the age 17-18. it actually would be 17 because i stopped partying with my high school buddies at age 17 and focused on getting myself into college. But between the ages of 15 and 17 it was all the music you discuss at pot parties.. beer parties.. people vomiting.. not much talking because the music was so loud that type of music only sounds good real loud... to this day.. i cannot listen to 1970's pop music.. I can still smell the vomit I kid you not and I get a sick feeling in my stomach... to me that music epitomizes a high school wasteland and all my HS friends who were too stoned to ever think of doing anything much with their lives past selling dope.. . and past that the only places I have ever heard that music being played were more places people smoked a lot of dope or did heroin or in shops that sold witchcraft and/or drug paraphanalia.. not my crowd either but you do stumble into stuff on life's journey... and as far as I can tell the only people who still listen to that stuff are still into the same old mess and have yet to leave adolesence behind. so, it may seem glamorous to you but it's effect on a big sector of society has not been all that glamorous in reality.

I don't understand your perception of britney spears that's for sure. It's not that I approve of her, far from it but she is only doing the same thing many off the edge rock musicians have done before her. the drugs the drinking the slimy character.. except she is a woman. yeah i'd say I have seen bigger harlots for sure, male harlots, some of whose names you like to mention... I think you are being rather sexist in this case really i do. and I also think you are looking at her as a parent but fail to recognize that probably your parents, my parents for sure, saw your idols the same way. The long dirty hair.. the dirty jeans falling off their behinds.. their sexist drug and booze enamoured music.. the men in eyeliner... stroking their private parts onstage for the whole world to see.. need I say more? Britney Spears is not original in her behavior.

I don't know.. it's all just very high school to me, it's mass appeal is to that age group.. a very rebellious and impressionable age group. An age group where many fall victim to the darker side of our culture with your idols singing in the background as their anthems... I truly fail to see where any of it glorifies God even in the least. I don't find it/them amazing or inspiring at all. downright gross if you want my honest opinion of that genre of music as a whole. honestly, and I am not just saying it, the only thing it inspires in me is this feeling that i am going to puke or pass out from the smell of opium.

Madonna looks like heck of late, so much for the gracefully aging stick thin popstar. My daughter pegged britney as a slut at the tender age of 7. I really don't worry about her being influenced by stuff like that.