Salon on acid on Britney

Have you ever taken acid and posted an article to your website? Me neither, but now we can enjoy the experience vicariously through Salon.com. Here's an excerpt from an article on Britney Spears' first album:

I began having uncomfortable visions. I began, in fact, in some murky part of my mind, to have inescapably awkward and then downright ugly pictures in my head of what was going on in these songs. They sounded, after a while, like sounds emanating from elaborate S&M dens, or from lands of sexual purgatory and destruction...

It sounded... as if Britney was getting hurt as she was singing, as though someone were forcing her to sing these words at gunpoint."

The article goes on to note that "her appeal hinges on a confusion between, and an overlap of, sex and violence. Her secret weapon, as it were, is in some frightening and unspoken but also real way, abuse."