why Hollister sucks

I was shopping at the mall last week, and I went into Hollister to browse around. I've only bought one or two things from there in the whole time the store's been in the mall, mainly because that shit's way too expensive for me to drop money on. But this time, I had some spending money from my tax return, and I was looking to do some clothes shopping.

And now that I actually have some money to do some shopping from there, I still wouldn't. Why do people shop there? I don't know if it's just my age speaking, but I realized that I don't like being in that store. First of all, the music is way too loud. Second of all, the lighting is craptacular. And third of all, the random placement of displays in there (along with other things) make it difficult to look for something you like. I actually saw a shirt I was interested in trying in and buying. But was I able to get to it? No! It was on a built-in rack in the wall, but there was a table with folded-up shirts on it in front of the rack. To get to the shirt I was looking at, you'd have to go in between the table and rack. I couldn't even do that because there were two huge planters on either side of the table, blocking the rack! Why do they set up their store like this?! It's jut shitty feng shui! It certainly didn't make me want to buy their wares any more.

Oh, and the sales associates seem more interested in socializing with each other than actually helping the patrons. I'm just saying. At least Hot Topic rearranged their store a little better and improved the lighting in there. To me, the lighting and bad arrangement of stuff in Hollister screams, "Yeah, our stuff is overpriced and we'll make it inconvenient on you to actually do any shopping, but we know you'll buy our stuff anyway because the kids on "Laguna Beach" and "The Hills" made us look cool."


....Yeah, it's early, and I had to get that out of my system.

Christina Aguilera FINALLY puts out a new video...and I'm not thrilled.

Oh, Christina. *shakes head*

I'm a fan of hers. Don't get me wrong. As a matter of fact, whenever there's a Britney post at ONTD, I get irritated whenever anyone starts up the "Britney the Living Legend™/Floptina" shit because WHY do they always have to drag the Christina insults into the Britney posts?! The Britney/Christina rivalry is soooo 2000, stan wars are fucking ridiculous, and it's seriously making me want to remove myself from ONTD. And I try to ignore the Britney-stans who shit on the Christina-fans. Hell, I just try to ignore those posts all together, to be quite honest.

But wow. This video just.....ugh. I think she's trying too hard. Quit trying to copy Lady Gaga. And quit denying that you're copying her, because no one's really believing that.

I just keep telling myself that this is only the first single and video from Bionic, and I hope the next single and video is much better than this.


And everyone needs to quit shitting their pants over the Britney Spears demo of "Telephone." It was an early demo, so of course the quality isn't great, and there was a reason it wasn't put on Circus (either Britney didn't want it, or Jive didn't want it, or Britney wanted it too MUCH....whichever reason you want to believe).

*sigh* STANS.



*edited* Okay, the video isn't all that bad, after you've watched it a few times. She just rips Madonna off a bit too much for my liking.