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Britney Spears was weaponised to be used against Somali pirates

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In a report published in October 2013 it was revealed that supertankers off the east coast of Africa would routinely blast music by Britney Spears directly at would be pirate attackers as a deterrent.

The report claimed that her hits “Oops! I Did It Again” and “Baby One More Time” have proved to be the most effective at keeping the bandits at bay.

A merchant navy officer is quoted as explaining: “Her songs were chosen by the security team because they thought the pirates would hate them most. “, adding, “These guys can’t stand Western culture or music, making Britney’s hits perfect” and “As soon as the pirates get a blast of Britney, they move on as quickly as they can.”

The officer claimed that the practise was so effective that the ships security rarely had to resort to more more traditional firearms.

When questioned about the practise, a representative of the Security Association for the Maritime Industry confirmed “Pirates will go to any lengths to avoid or try to overcome the music,” adding rather wryly that, “I’d imagine using Justin Bieber would be against the Geneva Convention.”

Britney Spears’ “Toxic” is probably about a vet

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“Toxic” was co-written by British singer-songwriter Cathy Dennis around the time she was splitting from long term boyfriend Noel Fitzpatrick who was a vet.

Although it was around this time that he was acting in small Tv parts (while already a qualified vet). In 2004, he appeared in two episodes of British Tv drama Heartbeat (once as a vet, the other as a sheep rustler) and one episode of Casualty in 2005; and around that time he appeared on a BBC documentary Wildlife SOS which prompted complaints from the public that they had got an actor to pose as a vet for the show.

He had earlier speared on ITVs London’s Burning and in two episodes of The Bill.

Five years later in 2009 Fitzpatrick became the first vet to attach prosthetic limbs to a cat. The cat was called Oscar. The following year he debuted on television as The Bionic Vet and subsequently as The Supervet.

Around the same time as “Toxic”, which was originally offered to Kylie Minogue and rejected, Dennis co-wrote “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” which was a smash hit for Kylie, and given the timing quite potentially about the same vet!

Cathy Dennis began her musical career in the late eighties with a couple of hits with D-Mob.

Her biggest success came in 2008 with Katy Perry’s smash hit “I Kissed a Girl”