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Divas shooting
from the lip



By TRACY CONNOR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER


Madonna and Britney Spears' lusty lip-lock on MTV has set tongues wagging - and might whet the public's appetite for their music.

Britney, who hasn't had a hit since "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" in 2001, stands to get the biggest boost from the babe-on-babe buss, industry watchers said.

"She's been looking for her Olivia Newton-John in 'Grease' moment for the last couple of years," said Sean Ross, editor of the trade magazine Airplay Monitor. "Everyone thought 'I'm a Slave 4 U' would be that, but maybe this is it."

Spears, 21, has tried to shed her teenybopper reputation for some time.

She writhed with a snake in the "Slave" video, revealed she had sex with ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake and has been spotted drinking and smoking.

But the pop tart's tonsil-hockey scrimmage with the Material Girl on Thursday night's MTV Video Music Awards may have finally burst her bubblegum-pop image.

"I don't think most people who watched that kiss were thinking about Britney on 'The Mickey Mouse Club,'" said Teen People music editor Zena Burns. "Based on the reaction of the men I was surrounded by, I think they saw Britney in a whole new light. It was like, ‘Hello, nurse!'"

Madonna, who also planted a big wet one on Christina Aguilera on the show, is used to that kind of reaction.

Her stunts - the raunchy "Sex" book, crotch-grabbing performances, her smooch with a saint for the "Like a Prayer" video - have made headlines for years.

But these days, she could really use the publicity.

"Hollywood," her latest single, "didn't even make the list of the most-40-played records its first time around," said Ross. "But I would be very surprised if the VMAs don't give that song a new lease on life."

Something for the boys

Burns said the smooch may earn Madonna some younger fans - but others think the TV threeway impressed a different demographic.

"Most of the men in America enjoyed it," said John Schoenberger, an editor at Radio & Records magazine.

The kiss may have been a surprise to MTV viewers, but it was well-rehearsed, according to insiders.

Aguilera said she got up close and personal with Madonna at every run-through before the live show, but Spears was a little prudish.

"I had no problem in kissing her every time," Aguilera told "Access Hollywood."

"Britney was a little shy at first. Madonna kept having to go, 'Britney, kiss me, kiss me,' and, of course, Britney gets on there trying to do the open-mouth thing."


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Mikky

"since INAGNYAW" lmao...after that weren't so many....lol of course brit was shy first but her live kiss had much more passion in it than xtina's

Michael Myers

t4p

ManSlippers

LMAO the complete article is bullshit. It started off with saying INAGNYAW was a hit. LMFAO...

Tom_ea

Yeah, and she was with a snake in the Slave video ? but INAGNYAW was a hit outside US.

It's funny to see no one gives a shit about Christina's kiss

And they said people looked at her in different light and stuff.. that was true.... It was just crazy that I expected everything.

justsotypically

That's MTV's fault. Not Christina's. They cut away to Justin, and blah, blah, blah. Everyone is making a big deal out of Britney's kiss basically because 1) she was first, and 2) Christina's got cut. It's not that people don't care about Christina, it's that they didn't even get to see her kiss Madonna.

All this negativity about Christina... I think I'm becoming a fan.