APRES LE DELUGE, C'EST MOI MOI MOI

The music industry reaction to Katrina continues with a mixture of the heartfelt and the photo op; it's the latter, we fear, which is making Britney Spears consider auctioning off her childbirth to raise her profile ("millions of dollars"). She'd really hate to have a camera there at the birth, but, she figures, she forgot to film the conception and it could do some real good for... uh, yeah, those people:

"Britney has been horrified by what has happened in new Orleans, she's a good Louisiana girl and she loves her home state. She's not particularly keen on filming the birth, but with all this talk of money she had to stop and think about what she could do with it. All she's concerned about is that the programme is tastefully done and she gets her privacy."

The producers are promising they'll ensure her privacy is maintained - they're offering to pixelate out Kevin Federline in every shot.

While Michael Jackson repeats the promises he never kept after 11th September 2001, Prince quietly goes into the studio, records a couple of tracks, and makes them available as a download from his website, and Fat Joe throws $25k in the hat and arranges a fundraiser for today.

Meanwhile, Kanye West hints that the NFL have made his participation in the kick-off concert dependent on his not being outraged by Bush's fumbled reaction to Katrina:

At a news conference publicizing Thursday's NFL Kickoff concert, West said it won't be until Sunday that he can "go down to you-know-where and help."

And he says until then, he "can't say anything about it or wear any T-shirts that say anything about it."

While we can understand a sports franchise being run by a bunch of opinion-squashing spineless morons, could they really have been so strict as to stop him from even mentioning Katrina?

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