So Jordin Sparks had a big moment last night at the MTV Video Music Awards, defending herself and the Jonas Brothers after British comedian and host Russell Brand (who you probably remember from Forgetting Sarah Marshall) made some cracks about purity rings.

Before her introduction of rapper T.I., she said (in video you can watch here):

“I just have one thing to say about promise rings. It’s not bad to wear a promise ring because not everybody –- guy or girl –- wants to be a slut.”

She got a few cheers from the audience and Brand tentatively apologized later in the broadcast.

But here’s my beef: As I began to question a few months ago, why is it that every time Jordin Sparks makes the news, it’s always about her chastity pledge?

Answer: Her songs are among the garbage that is polluting my radio station. Her debut album after winning American Idol totally bombed — scoring the worst sales for any AI winner since the show’s inception — and it seems to me like she needed a hook.

But bringing up her virginity at every opportunity doesn’t make her seem like an abstinence advocate, it makes her look like a marketing tool. Not to mention the irony that it just puts more sex front and center in the news.