Porn Valley- In the race to the porno finish line, it’s our guess that Britney Spears gets there before Paris Hilton. Even if Paris already has a couple of homegrown vids to her credit. If, nothing else, Spears scores points on technicalities.
Spears’ ascendancy to the porn throne was predicted as much in a prescient article written in L.A. Weekly four years ago. Titled The Devil in Miss Spears, it reviewed Spears’ then new video, “From the Bottom of My Broken Heart” which was directed by none other than Gregory Dark, described by The Weekly as “a triple-threat writer, director and producer known not only for his work on videos by bands like Orgy and the Melvins, but for a 15-year-plus career as a groundbreaking pornographer.”
Dark, said The Weekly, was a former film-school student at both Stanford and NYU and renowned for crafting the most decadent XXX on the market. The Weekly then quotes Hustler: “Dark’s movies are more like nightmares. Twisted and fevered . . . Every treat has a gooey center, but beware the few that slip past containing the occasional jagged piece of glass.” The Weekly wondered aloud if Spears would sully the slipper and make her fans eat glass. Apparently she already has since at the time The Weekly piece was written, the best of the semi-clothed Britney had yet to come.
As if looking into the crystal ball, The Weekly wrote: “…is Spears just fluffing the world for a future in the baser professions? Maybe her career trajectory is destined to lead her in the opposite direction to that of Traci Lords, another former Dark protégé. Eventually uncovered as a real-life Lolita, Lords made her bones in Dark’s most acclaimed production, New Wave Hookers, a film lauded for combining avant-garde film technique, punk music and nubile underage girls. Dark provided just the springboard Lords needed to become a pop-cultural presence, going on to star in a John Waters film and even scoring a record deal. There’s no question Spears would be a major presence on Lords’ former circuit, especially now that porn is rapidly being mainstreamed. How long until a skinflick gains the imprimatur of the men that run Main Street USA? Let us not forget Spears’ seediest former calling, as a Disney Mouseketeer.