Britney Spears Breaks Out a Bikini to Read David Letterman's Top 10

As she revs up for her Circus tour's big return to the States, Britney Spears appeared in an evidently pre-taped segment on Late Show With David Letterman last night to present "The Top 10 Ways the World Would be Different if Britney Spears Were President." It felt more like Spears was campaigning on a "check out my bikini body" platform rather than "health care reform for all," but that probably didn't come as a shock to anyone — including Letterman, who read the topic and joked, "Whoa ... think about that." We are, Dave, we are. Highlights included "We would only invade fun places like Cabo," "Three words: Vice President Diddy" and the standout "Free pie for everybody." Watch the full clip after the jump and check out photos of Spears' sexy Circus show here.

• 
  MUSIC Exclusive Live Chat With Linkin Park and Incubus
• 
  MOVIES & TV Peter Travers: 'The Avengers' Has it All
• 
  POLITICS Matt Taibbi: Jon Corzine Is the Original Zimmerman
• 
  VIDEOS Exclusive Premiere: Tenacious D's 'Tinnitus'

Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

More Song Stories entries »

Twitter