Poor Britney

Part of me feels a little embarrassed about the subject of this blog, but I can‘t help it. Britney is staging a comeback and it is working. Now I have never been a Britney fan, even in the early Britney years, when it seemed like every fourth grader loved her. I did not hate her, I just didn’t care. I did not like her music. So about two years ago when her life went to hell, I had sympathy for her, but more along the lines of what a sad and stupid drug out ex star. But then when her first “come back” happened, I along with the rest of the world laugh at her terrible performance. This indifference, with a mild sense of piety, has really been my stance on Britney ever since.
So when a documentary on her new record came out I had really no interest in watching it. But Saturday, while doing some work, I left the TV on and “For the Record” started playing. I will be honest, within ten minutes into the show I had to stop all other work and sit down and watch. It was truly troubling, that poor woman seems to have no control over her life and the worst part is she never had a chance. Especially troubling was the scene with her in New York were the media just hounded her. They followed her by car, bike, skateboard and foot. Yelling at her, screaming, she had to have bodyguards to hide behind, she really could not go any where. Now I know that at some point in her career she asked for this media attention. This even morning I saw her on the cover of at least three magazines. We are talking magazines not tabloids, national magazines, like the Rolling Stone. It is apparent that she does play the media as much as the media plays her. What I find so sad is that she became a star at 15 when her mother was throwing her at the media and now at 26 she is a victim of her mother’s success and has no control over this monster which started 11 years ago. There is so much money in the name Britney Spears, she is a franchise. I watched in the documentary as she got carted one place to the next by producers, managers, agents and even by her father. The whole time she has no clue as to where she is going. They are all making so much money off of her. That is also what is driving the photographers; so much money can be made off of just one good photo. I was surprised at how upset I got about someone who I was a few minutes before indifferent. Poor Britney.