Friends In Low Places

In case you didn’t hear about it, there was something posted on YouTube involving Britney Spears this past week and it didn’t contain any crotch shots. In fact, it was a song!

Since "Fed-Up" was posted on You Tube Wednesday, the clip had received more than half a million hits. By Thursday, the song was getting radio play and ring tones were available for download.

There was only one slight hitch in all the YouTube, K-Fed, Britney, download madness. The song wasn’t her. It wasn’t written by her. It wasn’t sung by her. And now that the alleged Britney Spears song has turned out to be a phony, YouTube has yanked it from their site.

Here’s the twist! It turns out the song was in fact penned by NYC-based songwriter/musicians Adam and Jesse Blockton and sung by Amy Miles. Yes, that Amy Miles! Sister of A.D. Miles (Wet Hot American Summer, Dog Bites Man). And yes, that Jesse Blockton! Lead singer/guitarist for The Vitamen. Amy is a musician whose music many of us associated with the NDA have raved about and followed for several years now. And The Vitamen (who were an amazing band that broke-up last year) played Slum-B-Q 2 and slept on my couch. Crazy, huh!?

Apparently they recorded this song as a demo in order to try to sell it to Jive Records for Britney to actually sing on her next record. They claim that they are not sure how it leaked to the internet as there were only a few copies handed out to select friends.

"The fans like it," Blockton said. "We wanted to get it to her. But not like this."

So, it wasn’t a joke and I guess it wasn’t a scam. I still haven’t decided if I want to laugh or cringe (OK, I'm laughing). Regardless, I hope that Jesse and Amy find success through their own music and aren’t negatively linked to this somewhat embarrassing incident forever, because they both actually rock.

The news reports (thus their names) are everywhere:

-- Bogus Britney
-- Britney Spears Not Actually Fed OR Knocked Up
-- Britney's new single not hers
-- Britney Spears 'Fed-Up' with K-Fed. Or Not

Maybe they can use this to their advantage??