Re: Music Documentary Thread

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Pretty different probably from the other stuff ITT but the recently made Framing Britney Spears is interesting. It's sort of a recap of her career but focuses on her "meltdown" and subsequent placing under conservatorship, particularly how this was treated in the media at the time. It functions as a good reminder of how disgusting tabloid journalism is since you get several years worth of it in one single dose.

What I liked about it personally is that to a young teenage me, Britney Spears became a symbol of everything wrong with music and I would get angry just thinking about her. I'm not thinking about any of this watching the docu. I feel compassion for her and her fans.

Also there is a clip of her singing as a child and I'm like damn. Her voice appears heavily underutilized in her songs. Not that they necessarily would have been better even doing so, but you know.
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Re: Music Documentary Thread

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The Rowland S. Howard C/NC inspired me to look for Autoluminescent, which used to be on YouTube in full, but apparently no more. I'll have to try and dig out the DVD-R that I probably still have somewhere.

In the course of a six-month-long-and-counting PJ Harvey K-hole (initially catalyzed, as it happens, by last year's Teenage Snuff Film reissue) I discovered this wonderful Rid of Me-era doc that I'd never heard of, featuring a fiery cameo by our host:



On a slightly less "highbrow" note, I suppose, last weekend I watched this delightful bit of early-'80s weirdness for the umpteenth time:

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