Britney Spears, apparently, can't sing

Well, of course she can't. Her whole thing was always that she was this barely 18 year-old girl that you'd love to fuck. Now, her thing is that she used to be this barely 18 year-old girl that you'd love to fuck and now she just looks like shit, and she's not even that old. And maybe she'll commit suicide - which would almost certainly be caught on camera, given how swarmed she is with paparazzi at all hours of the day and night.

I'm not sure if it's common knowledge though that it's not actually her singing on her records. Er, not entirely her. According to motherfucking Henry Rollins, who must record his angry spoken word shit in the same studio, they have an older black woman come in and sing Britney's lines for her. Then Britney records her lines over them and they mix the two together. Kinda like what they used to do with Milli Vanilli back in the day, but much more technologically advanced.

(Oddly enough, the one gulliest guy from Milli Vanilli ended up killing himself as well. Remember those episodes of Behind the Music? That was the shit.)

Here's the operative bit, from a recent interview with Henry Rollins:

“They have the black chick come in and sing, and Britney sings over it, and they mix them together. (Britney) gets her phrasing basically from this older R&B woman. I found that out talking to an engineer. Britney apparently isn’t actually the worst singer, she just has no feel. So they bring in this older black woman who sings the song, then Britney sings to it, and they kind of make a mix of the two voices, and that’s what you hear on the records.” (via)

Only thing is, I doubt this will be as big a deal as when Milli Vanilli got caught cheating (how obvious was that, in retrospect?), since I doubt she has any Grammys she would need to give back, and since I think you have to take it for granted these days that any singing you hear on the radio is done with the aid of a computer.

Checkit: Henry Rollins Claims Britney Spears Didn't Sing Alone on Her Album [Cleveland Leader]

And after the jump is some Henry Rollins ranting re: technology in music that I think is particularly relevant to the hip-hop community.