Keep Pounding Rhythm by Maggie (NC 17)

[zaneetas.livejournal.com]

Previously on Popslash: "Leaning against the steel refrigerator, his hands twisted in Rick's hair, JC felt like Mick Jagger. Except younger and gayer and better looking."

Today on Popslash: Keep Pounding Rhythm (NC 17)

Fandom: Popslash...no, het...no, gen...no, slash... It's Pop!AU madness, is what it is.
Pairing: Justin/Britney/Joey
Author on LJ: stubbleglitter
Author Website: ..unaware..
Why this must be read:

Keep Pounding Rhythm is an AU so unique and intense as to make other AUs cower before it. In it, Justin, Chris, Joey, and Lance live, work, and struggle to keep their lives together in the Caribbean -- all under the watchful eye of Britney, who will use her mind, her body, her sensuality, and whatever other skills she has at her disposal to maintain life as she likes it.

stubbleglitter writes some of the most intriguing fiction in the popslash fandom. Her subject matters are almost always unexpected. However, even when she's dealing with the mundane -- uh...if "the mundane" actually exists in this fandom where the main characters are routinely turned into girls, cats, dogs, winged creatures of the night, otherworldy spectors, and small aquatic vertebrates -- she does so in amazingly interesting, funny narrative that never fails to make me want to know what's going to happen next.

If that praise alone doesn't win you over, though, please note that it also has the most fascinating explanations I've heard so far for Britney's sway over the youths of North America and for Lance's sudden transformation from Dobie Gillis into the shiny, gleaming "Laaaannce (squee!)" of today. Plus, you know, there's a threesome. If you're into that kinda thing.

Loud, energetic, sweaty, and so good. Go!


Additional Information:

1. According to The American Heritage Dictionary Online, obeah is:

NOUN: 1. A form of religious belief of African origin, practiced in some parts of the West Indies, Jamaica, and nearby tropical America, involving sorcery. 2. An object, charm, or fetish used in the practice of this religion.

ETYMOLOGY: Black and West Indian English, of West African origin; akin to Efik ubio, anything noxious, something put in the ground to cause sickness or death, bad omen.

2. Britney Spears is a popstar who, I'm only just discovering, is hard to adequately describe. She's hugely famous and very wealthy -- both products of her immensely good albums sales and sometimes brilliant, sometimes horrible PR team. She has fans as rabid as that of any of her popstar friends, and is set to release a new album this fall. She's Justin Timberlake's ex-girlfriend and a frequent character in *Nslash, playing a number of different roles in fics -- anything from maternal gal pal, extistentialist lesbian, brainless pop-culture puppet, or chain-smoking motorcyclist to...well, to Lance's new girlfriend.

3. Justin/Britney:



Monday on Popslash: "THERE WILL BE NO TOUCHING OF THE TOPIARIES."

Comments

[zaneetas.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I'm glad to hear that you agree with the rec choices I've made so far -- it's been said before, but there really is so much good writing in popslash that it's sometimes hard to know where to begin choosing stories.

By the way, your icon? Love it.

[flyingtapes.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :) And I dig that icon too. Seems to be a favorite among those on my friends list.