Pop Culture: Bobby and Whitney; K-Fed and his music
Apparently, Whitney Houston is just as tired of her husband as we are of his self-titled and truly awful reality show. The Grammy-winning singer filed for separation from Bobby Brown, her husband of fourteen tumultuous (but always entertaining) years, for the second time. Married in 1992, the often troubled couple spent much of their union fighting criticism and answering questions stemming from their bizarre public behavior and frequent run-ins with police. Brown has been arrested several times for his problems with drugs and alcohol, and once for assaulting his wife.
Yet, over the past few years, Brown became the more stable of the two former superstars, who have one daughter, while Houston's recent battles with drugs, her rapid weight loss and her peculiar antics in television interviews made her the butt of many late-night television jokes.
Houston checked into rehab twice over the past few years, announcing in 2005 that she had turned to prayer to help overcome her drug problems. Pray harder, Whitney; pray harder. Brown, at the time, said he was doing what he could to help her with the addiction. Apparently Brown's idea of help meant cheating on his wife and the mother of his children. Houston's filing for separation is expected to become a full divorce claim next month, and it's safe to say this can be considered a nominee for least shocking news story of the year-right alongside Paris Hilton's DUI and Mel Gibson's drunken anti-Semitic tirade.
The debut album by Kevin Federline-Britney Spears' soon-to-be-ex-husband and aspiring gangsta rapper-is due out this Halloween. Apparently scaring his own two children wasn't enough for Mr. Federline; he's now trying to scare the candy right out of every kid in America. K-Fed's record is primed to make former American Idol-wannabe William Hung look like Justin Timberlake.
For God's sake, who in their right mind let Mr. Spears into a recording studio? What good could come from this? It was bad enough that someone-the government is still searching for the culprit-told him it was okay to procreate, but the Federline Experiment has gone too far!
One message for any one of K-Fed's 71,114 MySpace friends (surprisingly more than his wife has): You're only encouraging this kind of behavior. I call upon every one of these people to un-friend Kevin Federline. Send Mr. Britney a message that Americans and the rest of the world will no longer be terrorized by untalented pothead backup dancers.
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