The best thing about Greg Kot’s SXSW wrap-up in today’s Chicago Tribune was not his dis of The Arctic Monkeys. It was this little tidbit about the launch of Britney Spears’ musical career:
“She had a bad complexion and small breasts when she came into my office and warbled a song,” said one former record company executive, Michael Caplan, of Britney Spears. “I couldn’t wait to get her out of my office.”
The exec who eventually signed Spears, Jive Records’ Jeff Fenster, said he based the decision not on a song in particular, but on a picture of the then-teenage Spears. She was sitting on a picnic blanket, wearing cutoffs and cuddling a puppy, Fenster said. “She looked like the sweet, All-American girl that you just wanted to defile and do bad things to, and that appealed to me.” (full story)
Niiiiiiiiiiiiice…