Gaga & Britney, Teaming Up

GAGA AND BRITNEY team up, read the neon headline, on the front page of every internet homepage, and probably on all the supermarket tabloids. Its more fun to skip the article below, and speculate. The best guess is that they intend to team up to make a album, or a CD, or whatever they call a collections of songs reproduced electronically. Or maybe a two hundred dollar ticket concert tour, complete with slick aluminum pipes and exposed skin. But it really could be anything. A team to circulate through the party curcuit. A team to raise awareness of eating disorders, or drug addiction. The hope is that its something which won't do any more damage than a few minutes of insipid, keening lyrics, and tired, hackneyed melodies. It might be best if they were planning something political; celebrities have a high rate of bleeding heart liberalism, and people pay more attention to them in America than the politicians who are supposed to be doing such things, but generally don't. Celebrities are prettier than politicians, and always less boring. American politicians are too busy stopping traffic, and spewing venom at each other, or rasing funds for the next reelection campaign two years hence. When celebrities join forces, te earth trembles more virilently. Madonna is just now escorting female Russian rock singers onto American stages, to discourage Putin from further repression. It may be too late for that, but the expression of good intentions is the essence, and our glittery gods and goddesses can always use a little more attention.