Yeah, but, she's cute when she's drunk.
Posted on 09/27/2006 5:54:26 AM PDT by Mike Bates
Several years ago, I wrote a column praising a sweet and talented Welsh girl named Charlotte Church. A singer of arias and sacred songs, she possessed an uncommon sense of modesty and decorum in the skin-baring age of Britney Spears. Charlotte had the face and voice of an angel. Her signature piece was "Pie Jesu" (Blessed Jesus). Her favorite keepsake was a rosary blessed by the pope.
Or so she said at the time. Now, alas, the once-charming Charlotte is the new face of skankdom. And you won't believe what she's saying about the pope.
The 20-year-old entertainer has rebelled against the wholesome image that brought her fame, fortune and worldwide respect as a rare role model for young girls. She has traded in "Pie Jesu" for "Crazy Chick" — a lousy pop anthem even Ashlee Simpson wouldn't be caught performing. Charlotte's gone from pure-hearted to pure crap. These days, she drinks, she smokes, she curses, she fights, she parties, and she tries very, very hard to shock and offend — like a trashier Lindsay Lohan, only with better pipes.
Charlotte has a new talk show in England, where she plays a profanity-spewing hostess who is part Rosie O'Donnell, part Keith Olbermann (she has bashed President Bush as "clueless" and a "twat") and completely unhinged. The pilot episode featured Charlotte calling Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi, dressing as a nun and pretending to hallucinate while eating communion wafers imprinted with smiley faces (symbolizing the drug Ecstasy). The Catholic News Service reported last month that the pilot also showed Church smashing a statue of the Virgin Mary to reveal a can of fortified wine. To top off her anti-Catholic snit, she stuck chewing gum on a statue of the child Jesus.
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Yeah, but, she's cute when she's drunk.
Who are you? The resident, limp-wristed liberal?
Some of us= good catches. Women who embrace God, Family, Country, the Flag, apple pie, the Pledge.
Beautiful! LOL
Can't get to YouTube from work, but what the heck is wrong with this, as a concept? If I ever cheated on my wife, I would expect far more than a busted up car, and she is a VERY good girl!
She's not singing of cheating on her boyfriend, she's singing of dealing with it's consequences. Which God-fearing country singers have been doing for, oh, 70 years or so...
Not neccesarily. In HS / college, I rebelled against my PEERS. But keep in mind that during HS, the preppy fad was in full swing (and who wouldn't rebel against THAT?), and in college, all the kids were full of daddy-issues type angst. My band billed itself as the "alternative to alternative" and advertised that people should come to see us because "we didn't hate our mothers".
I went through the whole "it's my life, get off my back" thing with my parents, but I NEVER questioned their values.
Well, there you go.
Most of the definitions you have provided are things that shine brightly from your soul.
Just be yourself, and never compromise your principles.
Remember, whatever else happens in your life, you do have love. Your parents, your children, your crazy dog. Your friends and neighbors.
Some are living without any of that love surrounding them.
Consider yourself blessed and complete, and eventually you may run into someone who will love you for what you are, and for your completeness. Someone who can live without you, but chooses not to.
(and yes, your definitions do sound like the Boy Scout Oath)
I went through the whole "it's my life, get off my back" thing with my parents, but I NEVER questioned their values.
Kids rebel against their parents, which is a natural thing. How much they completely toss the values of their parents is another issue, isn't it?
I'd speculate that probably relately few completely toss their parents' values out the window -- but the media has changed a lot in twenty years. It's possible for a kid to completely immerse themselves in a subgroup, i.e. like goth or heavy metal or rap via a half dozen different technologies.
Although I reject "realism" as a one-word oxymoron, I will say that this is EXCELLENT advice. I teach my kids to view every person they see on TV (whether news, entertainment, or advertisements) in light of these four questions:
1)Who does the person represent (and are they paying him)?
2)Who is the intended audience?
3)What are they selling?
4)What form of manipulation are they using to sell it?
" TRASH SELLS."
To and for those who value MONEY over PRINCIPLE.
Let me introduce my wife:
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Sorry, I couldn't help it! I am proud of her. She was on Fox News Channel in the second pic!
Seriesly, try attending a conservative political rally for hugh prospects like this:
Yeah -- the first thing I would teach a kid is how TV works. What is being sold on TV? The answer: You, the viewer. Television makes its money by selling ads. The more people watch, the more they can charge for ads.
Gotcha. Thanks.
I agree. This is a real shame. I have her Christmas album, and my family and I pull it out every Christmas.
I agree sunvalley. Been alone most of the last 10 years. Choose the quiet life. Will end up out of California and moving to the country somewhere. I've given up competing with the "fakes." This is actually a rather scary story. Where have all the morals gone?
Hey! The good girls are still out here. We're just harder to find. We tend to be quieter, show less skin, and you typically can't find us at bars. We get overlooked because the skanks get all the attention.
You can find them by the thousands at nursing homes ,but they don't get out much.
Hey! The good girls are still out here. We're just harder to find. We tend to be quieter, show less skin, and you typically can't find us at bars. We get overlooked because the skanks get all the attention.
You can find them by the thousands at the nursing homes.
They don't get out much.
they are located in the nursing homes by the thousands.
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