Estelle’s been moaning to Celebs On Sunday about being misquoted by The Guardian – if you remember the story, she apparently dissed both Duffy and Adele for not being soulful enough. Run that through the headline-o-meter and the context seemed to imply that she was saying that them there white folks had no business singing soul songs.

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I couldn’t go through today without talking about the furore Britney Spears caused at the MTV Video Music Awards. It’s all over the Internet today.

First, let me point out that it’s been a couple of years since Britney released a single. She’s not been ‘news’ in the music world in those years.

Instead, Britney’s taken the sideways move toward being gossip column fodder. And she obviously sells papers and the Internet gossip columnists regularly pick over her latest gaffes like the vultures they are.

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