I've been getting a lot more traffic lately. Yay me- everyone's starting to catch the fever. Turns out, though, the increased traffic is really due to the fact I happened to mention a certain Skanky Pop Star right next to the word nude. Most of my increased traffic are from people searching throughout the Web for naked pictures of Skanky Pop Star. Unfortunately, most people who are searching for these pictures don't really take the time out to read about my whacky little life.

First of all, ick. No really. She's just ick. Besides the fact she's already half-way to a Michael Jackson like breakdown, it's that she's so skanky looking right now that even ho's are watching her videos and saying "girl, put some clothes on." She's so icky she thought looking like Dee Snider in that "Lady Marmalade" video was a good thing.

Even worse, is the fact that it's working. People love seeing pictures of her and talking about her. It doesn't really matter what her talents are or how good here songs are, if she shows up in a video wearing pretty much a bikini and glittered chaps, people will pay attention. After all, there is no such thing as bad publicity.

Just look at the quickly disappearing career of Skanky Pop Star's main rival, Wannabe Skanky Pop Star. When her fifteen minutes are officially up and she'll be doing "Hollywood Squares" to earn a buck, historians will note that she had two claims to fame- her dressing up all kiddy-porn in a Catholic School Girl outfit in a video and her barely there faux strip-tease from the MTV Video Music Awards. Nobody will notice that the girl really can't sing or that her singing during her performances are completely taped or even that "Ooops, I Did It Again" is almost completely identical to "Baby One More Time," they'll just notice that all she really did was show off wave her tits a lot.

All of this means that it'll only encourage Skanky Pop Stars and others of her ilk. The whole innocent pop star moving into adulthood by making soft-porn videos was such a cliché years ago and it's not gonna stop. And that's the shame, that it's the accepted artistic norm for a young artist to show their maturity by making like a stripper. Artistic maturity, creative maturity, or hell, even just plain old I- don't-wanna-be-a-pawn-of-the-Man-maturity is not even a question.

I really don't think the world needs Skanky Pop Star to come out with an album dedicated to Third World poverty and freeing Mumia, but wouldn't it be cool if they did something maybe a bit more, umm, mature. After all, the average early 20 something is usually busy hating everything, trying everything, and experimenting with everything. I'm just saying that wouldn't it be cool if say Wannabe Skanky Pop Star announced that she's been digging Joni Mitchell lately and was gonna do an acoustic album that honestly depicts her heartbreak from being dumped by Justin Timberlake? Or announce that Coke & Pepsi are responsible for the bad nutritional habits of kids everywhere and taste like shit anyways, so they won't do any commercial endorsements? Or maybe announce a fascination with Radiohead and do a completely experimental album with absurdist lyrics recorded with all sorts of effects to help convey they're alienation from everything? Or hell, I think I'd even be okay with an album about their bitter breakup from one of the stars of Full House and how pissed they are because they used to go down on them in a theater?

I didn't have to say it would be good.

By the way, double ick to whoever did a search looking for naked pictures of Hermione Granger. Two words: jail and bait.