Time Magazine
Kissing Her…
September 8, 2003

Girls Gone Wild video-series creator Joe Francis was at last Thursday’s MTV Video Music Awards, no doubt feeling infringed upon. He realized long ago that you can make two uninteresting women a lot more interesting by having them give each other an open mouthed kiss. So for the first number, Madonna, coming off a poorly selling album and an even worse-selling movie, played tonsil hockey with Britney Spears, who has had some sales struggles of her own. Then she Dietriched over to Christina Aguilera and gave her some sugar too. If the Material Girl’s Gap ads don’t move some merch, we might see her yanking up her top at the Grammys.

--Joel Stein