Scholastic Strikes Back (at Meg Cabot)

Note the Star Wars reference.

 We've got another pop-culture update by scholastic from the original PD1 to the New Edition.

The first was an attempted removal of Britney Spears references.

Original Edition had this passage. 

"He taught himself how to play the guitar - and 

he writes all his own songs! The one he played for me is called "Tall Drink of Water."  It's about this very tall pretty girl who doesnt know this boy is in love with her. I predict that one day it will be number one on the Billboard chart. Michael Moscovitz could one day be as famous as Puff Daddy."

And the new one and the 3 in one have this.

"He taught himself how to play the guitar - and he writes all his own songs! The one he played for me is called "Tall Drink of Water."  It's about this very tall pretty girl who doesn't know this boy is in love with her. I predict that one day it will be number one on the Billboard chart. Michael Moscovitz could one day be as famous as Kanye West."

I'm quite hard to anger but NO! NO! NO!

They've done this through out the whole book and I don't understand why. Putting aside the fact that neither of them play the guitar (according to wikipedia), I suppose Kanye is a bit more revelent? It does lack the comedic flair of Puff however. 

Still the people who brought us cheap Tamora Pierce books and $2 editions of The Dark is Rising have totally betrayed our trust. 

Maybe I'm nitpicking though?

Look What Scholastic Did to Meg Cabot!

Ok so here is a passage from Princess Diaries #1

"My favorite CD right now is the latest Britney Spears, which I know is kinda dork, and I could never tell Lilly, but secretly I sort of want to be Britney Spears. Once I had a dream Iwas Britney, and I was performing in the auditorium at Albert Einstein and I had this little pink minidress on, and Josh Ritcher complimented me on it right before I went onstage. Isn't that an embarrassing thing to admit? The funny thing is while I know I could never tell Lilly about that  without her going all Freudian on me and telling me how the pink dress is a phallic symbol and and being Britney signifies my low self esteem."

But in the Princess Diaries Collection (1 - 3 in one book) they have removed the Britney references from that paragraph (they did forget one).

They have this on page 167 - 168:

"My favorite CD right now is the latest Hillary Duff, which I know is kinda dork, and I could never tell Lilly, but secretly I sort of want to be Hillary Duff. Once I had a dream Iwas Hillary, and I was performing in the auditorium at Albert Einstein and I had this little pink minidress on, and Josh Ritcher complimented me on it right before I went onstage. Isn't that an embarrassing thing to admit? The funny thing is while I know I could never tell Lilly about that  without her going all Freudian on me and telling me how the pink dress is a phallic symbol and and being Britney signifies my low self esteem."

I really hate when publishers modernize things. Meg Cabot isn't even out of date. Neither is Britney Spears. They didn't even do a good job (the next page it's Britney again). This is really upsetting.

Not sure whether this bothers anyone else or it's just my pet peeve.