Losing It?
No not me, Britney Spears. We don’t normally comment on the news, too much naughtiness about for that to get a look in, but sometimes a story just has to be remarked upon.
What is the poor girl up to? It doesn’t take a psychologist to realise she’s in need of some help and support right now. Sadly as with many celebrities she’ll probably not find it amongst her current circle of friends. If the gossip columns are to be believed those friends include Paris Hilton and the partying glitterati who have been keeping Britney from returning to what we know and often love (or at lest enjoy) her for, making pop records.
I’m not a huge Britney fan, in fact I think she has produced some utter bilge. FYI my favourite song to date was “Toxic”, penned by Cathy Dennis, perfect song for her at the time and a very provocative video.
Anyway, back to my point. Yes I do have one. Everyone in the entire world knows Princess Britney has been a little lost for a couple of years, and my heart goes out to her, it truly does. I know everyone calls her trailer trash, and that might be true, but she’s a working mother with two kids to support and her relationships, if they can be called that, seemed destined to fail.
Boy does she pick em though. Everyone in the entire world seemed to recognise K-Fed as an escapee from the band in the Muppet Show. No strike that Dr Teeth’s band was entertaining and talented.
The SMS dumping of the hapless Kevin was a classic piece of tabloid fodder, ready made and shrink wrapped to become part of the Britney legend.
The problem with the rich and powerful is two-fold. Firstly they tend to be surrounded by friends/advisors/hangers-on/parasitical freeloaders (delete as applicable) who have agendas of their own. The second is that if they do go off the rails, they have the resources to go waaaayyy of the rails.
Consider this. If you or I go on a bender we get drunk, fall down, throw up and either crawl home to bed or have our friends/the local constabulary drag us off. To repeat that the next night and the next … you’d run out of money and/or lose your job, thus limiting the scope of your excess. When you’re rich and famous you can really trash your career, relationships and reputation by a constant string of drink, drugs or simply hedonistic binges.
I for one hopes that Britney gets some real friends around her and that she has access to someone she can trust, someone who has her interests at heart. She needs guidance and celebrity friendships, from this side of the looking glass at least, are the sort that simply reinforces this sort of nihilistic behaviour.
Tags: Britney Spears,Kevin federline,Paris Hilton,Muppet Show, Doctor Teeth,Celebrity Friends,Cathy Dennis
She may, of course, have just realised how gorgeous Sinead O Connor looks in the ‘Nothing Compares to You’ video?
P’raps not. The girl needs help, bless her.
I agree with your post but, only until a certain point. If you’re a spoiled never grown up child, you will never learn, moneywise or not.
I do feel sorry for her but although this type of behaviour wasn’t expected, it’s still not surprising after the 50 hours first wedding and all the rest. She’s deeply depressed, she therefore needs medication. Many American people can’t afford a proper health insurance. She can. She doesn’t need “friends” to find a good psychologist.
Gosh she was scared about what mama would say after the haircut. She’s lucky to still have a mother with, let’s hope, both feet on the ground. Forget your glitter friends little girl and go get a hug from mum. Go back to a simplier life, for your and your children sake.
You know, rich and famous or not- Britney is just a down home girl. She married bad, she gained weight with her pregnancies, and now getting out of that marriage, she’s gone a little nuts. She’s just like a real woman!! It happens to women all the time- God knows it happened to me. So she shaved her head!- big deal. Most of my major milestones are marked with a haircut, I’m just not brave enough to go so far. She’s got a pretty face regardless- and it’s just hair. It will grow back. I say more power to her!!
I’m not a really a celeb-watcher either so I’m amazed at how much airtime is given to Britney shaving her head – almost as much as Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton’s predilection to go knickerless! We all fall off the bandwagon at some point. I can’t imagine how tough it must be to do that in front of the whole world!!!
As much as I would like to believe that Britney is genuinely disturbed, I can’t help thinking that every one of her moves is choreographed by publicists who are bent on keeping her front and center in the tabloids. To save their own livelihoods as well as hers.
I sometimes think that she needs guidance when it comes to partner selection. Guidance in the form of a boot camp perhaps? Who, in their right mind, would select a person (Fed-Ex lol) who was partnered with two children, who them dumps their partner for them? That’s the pathology right there. Anyone with any common sense will sense that if they do that to their then partner, then they’ll do it to them. She doesn’t appear to have high doses of common sense.
Okay the baby drive incident was dumb as, but when she tripped over her jeans while holding the baby (the media coverage) it was over the top, and I felt sorry for her. Maybe those reporters/journalists have never worn bootleg jeans to stack it every now and then, or come close. Maybe they’ve never held a toddler to see how precarious it can be to carry a child, and wear a pair of heels with bootleg jeans.
The one thing I can’t get over is the fact that she went and had a second child with that loser of a man, and had a giggle when she dumped Kev by SMS.
Now the word is that she is in rehab, and I hope she gets the help she needs. I actually feel badly for her, it can’t be easy growing up in the spotlight like that. We all think we could handle it better, probably, but think back to when were the age she started in show business. How smart were we?
Well spoken lass. I personally never cared for the “Britney Phenom”, but it is a tragic story. I was going to give ya hard time till ya corrected your position on “Dr. Teethe’s” band though……:)
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Miss U, well she’s in and out of rehab faster than Robbie at the moment.
Froggy, I hear you but fundamentally, if you make the effort to change I believe anyone can turn themselves around with the right support.
Cherrie, I must have more faith in human nature. I don’t believe she’s such a rabid self publicist, I mean what sort of person wants to be plastered all over the worlds media looking acting like a twat.
Ana, I agree, there’s some good, some bad in her. And some very mixed up, nobody is black and white.
Mr Fab, I wish I could remember that age LOL
Zig, LOL @ Dr Teeth. 🙂