The pressure was too much! Those aggressive soccer moms are not to be trifled with. Brit is going to record a new version of If You Seek Amy titled If You See Amy. Personally, I think it should be If You See Amy (tell her I want to fuck her), but whatever.
My two cents: Once you start letting the public dictate your content, it’s all downhill. Do you think this re-record is a good idea or does it compromise her creative integrity?
Above, Brit in her (hopefully) pre-Seeking Amy days.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
“if you seek amy” made brit brit seem more clever than she actually is, and now its being taken away. BOOO YOU SOCCER MOM WHORES.
It may seem clever, but it’s just a rip off of an old song from the ’80s called “If You See Kay” by April Wine. There’s nothing clever or creative about stealing someone else’s idea and trying to pass it off as your own unique brilliance.
I absolutely agree with you, in re. “once you start letting the public dictate your content, it’s all downhill from there.” It completely compromises the artist’s creative integrity, most definitely. Fuck the moral majority, who are soccer moms to censure art?
She has no creative integrity or any other kind of integrity that I’ve witnessed.
Yes, but she is SO hot
No, I think the “fuck” should be in “who the fuck cares about Britney “Psycho” Spears?”
that was awesome yay you !
I still don’t get ‘If you seek Amy’. How does it sound dirty?
If Laurel’s response below doesn’t make it clear, try saying “if you seek Amy” aloud.
It’s kinda like I’m sofa king we todd ed.
ef yu see kay me = f-u-c-k me
Thank you – I needed that!
I didn’t get it either! thanks, I went so far as to listen to the song.. lol.. I could have saved time and just read this post ;)
Geez these are some hip soccer moms. Or they surf porn sites too much. I wouldn’t have gotten that in a year of trying. Thanks Laurel.
Seriously, if you are old and wise enough to work out the hidden meaning in those lyrics you are old enough to hear them.
I mean, come on, its not exactly the most profane thing you could find on the radio is it?
Jeez!
my thoughts exactly. kids dont get it until adults start censoring it. it isnt the most obviously suggestive song on the radio.
Singing about fucking. Now that’s creative and artistic. No creative, would be writing a song about fucking and people wondering if that is indeed what you were writing about.
Creative integrity? Surely you kid. Singing about fucking. Now that’s creative and artistic. No, creative would be writing a song about fucking and people wondering if that is indeed what you were writing about.
hahah embarassing
Britney editing her song is just as wrong as Taylor Swift changing her Picture to Burn song/video. Where was the outrage there?
Leave them as they were originally written and let the chips fall where they may.
Completely, wholeheartedly agree.
sure whatever:)
Given the Prop 8 backlash and all the awards Taylor has been racking up are you really that shocked? No way TS was going to bite the hand that feeds. The song edit to take out the verse “That’s fine, I’ll tell mine you’re Gay” was predictable.
I just about fell out of my chair laughing when I read the headline……hehe…….well done…….
I just about fell out of my chair laughing when I read the headline……hehe…….well done…….
Thank you Laurel! I honestly did not get that until you spelled it out (and I know that sounds sarcastic but I’m being completely straight). I’m a little slow, lol =P
I don’t understand why people were getting so het up about it – it’s easily possible to pronounce the original title without it sounding dirty. As evidenced by the fact that every time there’s been a post on this I’ve said it outloud to myself and STILL NOT GOT IT.
And did anyone click on the link to the news story? It said the problem is that seek sounds like the word fuck, obviously they didn’t understand the song either!
I for one appreciate the education I am getting from Brit. I didn’t know about the” If You See…” thing. And when did she get the boobies? They are very nice!
I kind of get how parents wouldnt want their kids singing along to this in the playground…but now the song lyrics dont even make any sense.
Kids who are too young to hear such naughty word won’t understand it, and kids who understand it are probably old enough that they’re going to have heard it somewhere else already…
I’m confused. I assume she doesn’t write her songs, some old Jewish dude does, right? IDK. I’m 20ish and I wouldn’t have gotten that if you seek amy shit, I’m also not a tool douchebag (debatable) sorry. I’m surprised Moms figured it out.
not that i’m for censoring, but it does make me angry that songwriters (cuz we all know britney didn’t write it) try to slip in the subliminal messages. We don’t like these kinds of tactics in advertising so why are we upset when they get pulled from lyrics? if you ask me, the songwriter(s?) was operating under the assumption that “all press is good press” and they just wanted this issue to be a big deal in the media.
It’s not a subliminal message, I guess it’s intended to be a clever little thing.
Why don’t they just censor the K sound….? Recording a whole new version seems like a ridiculous waste of time/money.
what?
this song isnt any worse than that “slave 4 u” song. i dont see what the big deal is. there are plenty songs out there worse than this one on the subject of fucking.
LATE. I love Evil Beet Gossip a lot but I read about this at least four days ago. Love or hate her, it’s BRITNEY SPEARS. So instead of getting all your Paris Hilton news on time (SHE’S FAMOUS FOR NOTHING), try getting real stars’ info. You know someone with 8 albums, 4+ tours, 89 million albums sold etc. Not someone who has the mental capacity of a 15 year old slut. Thanks
I think you just got a tardy notice Beet…
You’re right. DAMNIT Beet I am so upset I didn’t hear about this the very minute it started happening, what am I going to do with my life now?!?
Lmao. That is a witty and funny response.
I went all psycho bitch, but I was just kind of perplexed by why coverage of c, d, z listers is more on time than that of people with actual careers.
eh, it doesn’t sound like it was a groundbreaking piece of musical history to begin with.
Meh a re-recording was done for Superman by Eminem…not that big of a deal.. =\
Soccer sucks ball hairs, but I am a football/basketball mom and I for one am happy they are making this change. Go ahead and attack me now, but there is no way I want my kids hearing these lyrics wether they know the meaning of the word or not! Knowing what fuck means is NOT THE POINT!
Ugh, I’m uber disappointed. I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG.
If your kids can’t listen to this, go ahead and turn off Disney channel as well. Why? Because most of the kids on Disney are FUCKING EACH OTHER. All your kid’s gotta do is search “Vanessa Hudgens” on google and her NUDES are sure to eventually pop up.
The industry isn’t there to provide you and your family with wholesome, ‘safe’ content. Smash your car’s stereo, sell your TVs, and deny the existence of the internet – OR BE SUBJECT TO REALITY! The media doesn’t give two shits about maintaining your child’s innocence. So play the damn song already (as written!).
Awesome post! I LOLed at your first paragraph, there. Yes, you’re absolutely right, Michelle…
Creative integrity my ass. Her handlers knew exactly what they were doing when they made her record that song. It got TONS of publicity, didn’t it? It’s all about the public drama… and it was successful. Don’t y’all feel used and shit? I feel soooo used and I didn’t even want to know Amy! Cheap publicity stunt, kids. In all ways.
Creative Integrity? What a joke! That twisted fuck didn’t right the song and besides, she doesn’t have any integrity to stifle. I like Britney, truly I do, but she is just another cute, marginally talented, Mississippi mud cat eating mother fucker that should be thankful for anything and everything she has at this point.
OOps I meant “write”. Those of you that remark about the mistake can say what you want but I’m still right.
F you soccer moms. What do you think “hit me one more time” means. You know she is provacative so let her do her thing and go see barney and stfu!
And yeah, let your kid here slave for you, but not F***, real smart. Just let them be a slave for a man, bu t not let them think the world wants to F them, real smart soccer moms!
I like Britney but her Slave for you song was disgusting.
Why not just release one of the other songs as a single? If this one is “strong” enough (and I use the term loosely) to be a single, it probably won’t be once it’s re-recorded. Just pick another song off the album to be a single and be done with it. What a waste of time, money and energy to please a handful of people.
Exactly.
OH.MY.GOD.
Hi, Parent here….
If I don’t think something is appropriate for my son to listen to, watch, or whatever. I shut it off, or remove it. I think the Pussycat Doll song When I Grow Up is way worse…” when I grow up i want have nice clothes, I wanna have boobies”… And that’s just one line!
get over it already if we can expose our kids to a bunch of trannies looking strippers talking about needing to have tits to be famous, then why not let them seek amy?
PurpleMonkeyPaws — The line in the song is “Drive nice cars, I wanna have groupies.”
No boobies.
Regarding Brit — She should tell them to shove it and sing Fuck Me proud. :D
I swear to god I’ve listened to that one quite a bit, and I always hear boobies…but then again I work all day with a head set on answering phones, so I’m probably half deaf now.
Eminem re-records everything so that his kids can listen to his music. If he can do that, I think everyone can shut up about the evils of re-recording a fucking Britney Spears song.
I am a “soccer mom” and I don’t think the lyrics to that song are appropriate for my 11 yo daughter to listen to, let alone sing. So, I simply won’t buy the CD and if it were to come on the radio, I would *gasp* turn off the radio or switch stations. And this “well, there are worse songs or they are going to hear it anyway on the playground” is a bunch of b/s. Maybe she does/will hear worse, but she sure as hell isn’t going to get it from me. It seems to me it was Brit’s camp that made this decision, it’s not like a bunch of soccer moms threatened to beat the shit out of her if she didn’t re-record it. It’s just a way to generate more publicity.