Sugar-Coated Pop Is Over

Newsweek spoke with ten-year-old Hallie Wilson used to be a Britney Spears fan, who now is a fan of Avril Lavigne. Recently, Hallie made a Frankenstein-like collage of her former idol from magazine clippings, pasting various girlie body parts together—legs in high heels, a torso in a push-up bra—and gave the singer an almond for a head. “Brittney Spears is such a nut head,” she wrote next to her artwork. “Well, she is,” explains Hallie. “She’s so fake, like Barbie, and sings really stupid things like ‘I’ll be your slave.’ Not even the fourth graders like her now.”