Naturally, when I found that there was to be an Onion movie, I ran out and got it. It was...well, not as good. It was kind of a hodge podge of short bits glued together with a thin story line, and ended up feeling like a weak copy of the much funnier Amazon Women on the Moon or Kentucky Fried Movie. Don't get me wrong - there were things in there that were funny. It just was off balance a bit.
One bit they did that was pretty funny was a Britney Spears parody, where they had segments of these videos of her basically acting like a whore, and then cut to an interview where she explains that she's an innocent, all-American girl, and that people just misunderstand her lyrics. It was funny, but honestly I felt like they took the lyrics a bit too far.
Well, once again, The Onion has proven themselves to be far better at this stuff than I could ever have imagined. Britney has released a song that is so preposterously hussified that parents groups are actually wetting themselves over having such an easy target. The song is called If You Seek Amy. Say it to yourself a few times if you don't know why parents are upset, but not out loud at work. It's...well, frankly it's ridiculous.
I don't mind that she tried, it's that she did such a miserable job of it. This is the actual offensive line of the chorus:
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy
Look hon, I know you've caught some flack in the recent past for being bat%#$@ insane, and that there are those who claim that you're not the brightest bulb, but this? This is just lazy. It's not even a damned sentence. These shenanigans only work if there is a legitimate use of the words you put together. If you need the attention so badly, then just come right out and say it.
Well, that or put a sex tape online like everyone else.
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