Exit good taste.

And "Enter Britney."

Ben: Did you see that cover of Entertainment Weekly?

Me: I know! Who in their right mind would wear that much turquoise?

Ben: Um, that's not exactly the point. "Enter Britney?" That's not too subtle.

Me: Oh my gosh! I'm sure that little trick of headline placement sure made some designer's day. "It says Enter Britney, huh huh."

Ben: That's some classy stuff.

Comments

[Dawn]

I was disgusted by that cover. So disgusted, I tore it off. We usually have EW sitting on our coffee table and I didn't want to look at that for a week. No. No. No.

[Paul]

Any respect I had for EW - which is a very appropriate acronym, I might ad - has been lost. Come on. "Teenage Sex Kitten"? And this is what little girls look up to. No wonder we're so screwed up.

That said, that Buffy musical episode looks delightful! (okay, okay, I'm joshing.)

[Mena]

The worst part of this magazine cover -- is the little white box on the left-hand corner... I covered our address.

Yes, we actually subscribe to EW! I'd like to blame it on CDnow -- they tricked me into getting four free issues. But, we did renew.

[Jennie]

It's pretty nasty. And, I admit, staring up at me from my kitchen table right now. They scammed me when I bought Nosferatu at Suncoast - and I renewed, too. Dammit.

I was drinking coffee when I saw the ad for "Buffy: the Musical" the first time, and I nearly spewed it via nostril across the room.

[Paul]

Yeah, what's the deal with covering your address? Don't you trust hundreds of thousands of people you've never met before?

[Faithy]

There's actually an even more hilarious and disgusting photo in her article. It's just a photograph of her hip and torso while she was wearing a black halter top.

The title to that should go something like, Britney: One Headless Fuck.

[Ed]

I just saw it at a magazine stand and I'm not terribly surprised. Keep in mind that the publishing market is in the shits right now and that, as a result, you're going to be seeing magazine covers that are the basest possible photos and taglines imaginable. The whole "teenage sex kitten" routine is just shameful and laughably tired. Another hilarious cover I espied was the current edition of People and the "Madonna's Men," which is a beyond tired topic.