Here’s the thread to use to discuss the documentary that aired on MTV tonight.
I won’t discuss specifics here in case people haven’t watched it yet, but, in general, it confirmed that Britney’s basically who we always thought she was: not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, but charismatic and sweet and funny and vulnerable, just like the rest of us. I don’t know that it will ever become entirely clear precisely what set of circumstances culminated in this particular young woman being perhaps the biggest celebrity of all time, but I think damn near anyone would have gone crazy under the pressure. As Madonna herself pointed out, Britney never had the opportunity most people — even famous people — have to make some mistakes without the whole world finding out about it. Britney’s been under a microscope since she was sixteen. Hell, I didn’t even really start making mistakes until I was sixteen. Britney still has a lot to learn — that much is clear — but it’s looking like she’s gonna be alright.
Oh, and Papa Spears?
Love him. What an awesome dad. I hope he sticks around.
She seems like such a sweetheart. I hope that everything works out well for her. I love new Britney <3
Where can I watch it if I missed it? I don’t get MTV and I REALLY want to see it.
Same…unless it’s on MTV in Australia…can’t say i actually checked…
madonna looks ROUGH.
I have so much respect for Britney..after seeing this it’s almost like we should just forget about all those bad things that were said about her and let her START OVER.
I am glad she is rising above the things that were clearly so painful in her past. She seemed so sad throughout most of this. It was sad to watch.
I wish that the paparazzi would just leave her the hell alone. I do NOT think that it should just “come with the job”…
What they do is ridiculous and it was really scary to watch to be honest. There is a scene where she tries to get out of a car but had to jump back in..and all you could hear was the people yelling..and then her voice saying “I’m scared…I’m scared”. In that moment I felt so bad for her. No one deserves that.
I wish people would let her do her job..which entails the things she loves to do: dance, sing, and perform. She should be able to promote her shows..and still have privacy.
She is surrounded by wolves.
This has nothing to do with her, as much as it does with the image the people who currently surround her want the public to have of her, to fall in love with again.
She’s 30. Has 2 kids. She looks beat without the 19 year old Britney makeup (which at times doesn’t match her other body) Who are they kidding? Why are they stuffing her in the same old clothes and poses for mags and interviews, like she didn’t grow up. That can wreak havoc on a person.
She’s only coping with her prison to get back control and her kids. The reference to the prison is not only in reference to the past as it is to the present. It’s the only way. She loves her kids. you get the impression she thinks if she plays good, they will let her free.
You can tell she has no intentions of “spiritually” dancing her way to the top to make Larry Hyena Eat Rudolf money. She’ll do enough to get by. All he did was take her Blackout, which he didn’t stand behind in creation, and water it down a bit to make Circus. There is no creative talent in it.
Sadly the only genuine person in that was the one dancer, she can’t see, and A-Rod’s new catch, who is powerless to do anything. She is completely disconnected from everyone in that documentary, and forced in other moments.
She is not happy. It had and has nothing to do with a medical illness.
This can either go up, but I’m afraid the road is wayyyy longer for her.
MHO
“you get the impression she thinks if she plays good, they will let her free.”
That about sums it up.
1. she never once spoke about her mother.
2. she spoke in weird, pointless analogies all the time. Things like “sometimes you go to a really bad place, and then you shine like the sun, you know what i’m sayin? you just have to keep rolling with the punches. i’m going to go at life like a karate kid.” What? Whhhhat?
3. I feel a legit sense of sorrow for Britney. Homegirl can’t go outside without being swarmed. But, she should take her millions of dollars, and go on vacation for a few years. Come back when she is better.
4. she’s just a puppet. she went about trying to unclip her strings all wrong in the last year, and now she has to butter up her image again before she can move forward with her life.
I felt so bad for her during the part where she broke down and she said “I’m sad”. When the guy was doing the fake tattoo’s on her arm and she’s trying to tell ppl how she feels and they are just like, ok britney, sure whatever. I felt her pain when she said people hear her but the dont listen. Im sure that was a big part of the problem. People ignored her cries for help until it was too late. I really hope that she finds happiness.
I thought the documentary was really sad. She doesn’t seem to know what she wants- one minute she wants to be alone on an island, the next minute she’s chasing awards and magazine covers and new albums and videos. She also doesn’t seem to fully understand how bad her life got- she referred to how if she could “just get rid of all the lawyers and doctors”, then she could be free. No, honey, without those people, you’d probably be dead. Which might make you free, but I don’t think that’s exactly what you meant.
:::sigh:::I love her.
It does seem that she still doesn’t want to own up to much other than “I went through a really hard time”. Yeah, we got that. What about that crap that went down where she was hospitalized? I was expecting the interviewer to ask about that (or did he? maybe I missed something?).
And add me to the list of those tired of all the pointless and random analogies.
I felt like the only times she was being herself was when she wasn’t answering questions. She seemed more real when she was just goofing off and having fun. It reminds me a lot of myself and my friends.
But I still love her and hope she doesn’t get “lost” again.
Her dad? Yeah. He kinda rocks. Reminds me a lot of my own redneck daddy.
@Australian Beet Readers:
In Australia (NSW) it will be on Channel 10 at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night.
I really do love Britney Spears. I ended up saying that in front of people my own age (27) this weekend and people looked at me like I was a nutjob.
I really think she just is trying to do what makes her happy, which is sing, dance and be loved. The other stuff she has to deal with is just shocking. I mean those paps would drive me absolutely crazy.
I really hope she gets everything together with her life and yes December 2nd I will be buying her album.
Cheese grits…
I gotta be honest- i kinda feel for her…
However, she is still not very stable…
and Madonna looked REALLY rough… I thought it was CHER.
I was like… gurl, maybe you should not be in this doc. This is not I’m gonna Tell Britney a Secret (that I did botox and lip pump).
I think I cried, not because of Britney, but Madonna looked so Cherisque.
ps- maybe I’m jealous that my dad left me…
I’m Asian American, and I want a red neck dad like that too.
Cheese with rice… not grits.
pss- ok, and was Britney talkin in tongues… ditto on the whole analogy crap. It is sad to say that her album was waaaaaaaaay better when she was HIGH and SHAVING her head.
Circus was very blah. Gurlfriend (i mean her team) is running out of tricks… Is she gonna be in HSM 4 next?
um, has madonna had cheek implants?
also re “is she gonna be in HSM 4 next”
more likely the DSM4 !!!!!!
Yeah I could hardly understand Papa Spears but loved when he said something about velveeta and grits being the breakfast of champions. It was heart breaking though when she said, “I’m sad.”
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i missed it!!!! Anybody knows where i can watch it??? i looked for it on youtube but i couldn’t find it… HELP!!
If everybody really cared about her getting “better” and “stable” they would not be getting her to tour, do photo shoots, dart around the globe, give interviews…
why are they doing this to someone who is so unstable? And why are people who supposedly “love” her all excited about concerts, albums, performances and the like?
You “fans” should be writing her letters, telling her to move back to Louisiana and take a damn break already.
This girl is going to be irreperably broken, at this rate.
HR – Madonna has indeed had scary cheek implants, among all her other work. Look her up on awfulplasticsurgery.com. I love that site!
Leave BRitney ALOOOOOOOOOONE!!!!! (Sob)(Sniffle)
HR- thank you for making my day… regarding HSM 4 and… DSM 4
so questions ya’ll- should i buy her record? I bought BLACKOUT cuz it was actually kinda good…
but Circus is ZZzzzZZZzzzZZZ.
I want to support gurlfriend out… but her material aint that good.
I have been a hardcore fan of DARKCHILD aka Rodney Jerkins, but this Circus album is as exciting as the LA Zoo.
OK, this was a total waste of time! I learned NOTHING about Britney! She said nothing specific except that she was dealing with pain. i want to know what drugs she was on!!
i just watched part 1 on youtube and omfg, that girl is still in a bad bad bad place
and i heart her dad too, Beet, so sweet, and calls britney his baby, aaaaahhhhhhhh
her very first sentence is sooo SNL material!!! tina fey gold!
i think i wanted to make the film because *gulps* i started to feel like i wasn’t being, erm, seen in the light that i wanted to be seen in, erm, i don’t know exactly what light that is, but i wanted, i felt like there were things (in) out there that have been said about me that aren’t completely true or… and not that i care about what the tabloids and all that kind of stuff say about me but, erm, there’s a lot that people don’t know about me that i want them to know *starts nodding*
it’s just hysterical
and the rest is just unbelievably sad
Eek! All this doc confirmed to me is that Madonna has had some serious work done and it ain’t that good!!!!
All that poor girl is to those vultures is a cash cow..
she appeared on UK tv on Saturday. Lipsynced the performance and looked terrified. Tragic.
> “I don’t know that it will ever become entirely clear precisely what set of circumstances culminated in this particular young woman being perhaps the biggest celebrity of all time”
Rather easy to figure out. Good little Disney girl turned slut. She sold the schoolgirl image to pedophiles.
After that she went psycho and started marrying losers. It quickly became obvious how vapid she was. It was fun to watch the train wreck.
@donkey punch
your summary of britney spears is as dense as one of the turds you shit, and as foul too.
BRITNEY ISN’T 30! she’s 26. get it right or pay the price.
I have never been a fan of Britney, and watching her demise was always a bit amusing for me, I’ll admit. However, after watching last night, I felt really sad for Britney, and realize that we are all really just a few blinks shy of a mental breakdown, no matter how famous or how much money we have.
I also kept thinking of her video for her song “Everytime” while watching. It really was like deja-vu…
I watched the brit docu today on youtube, it totally broke my heart when she said the bit about even prisoners having release dates! She was so earnest and sweet when she said that bit about people hearing but not listening, Its so sad to see her pushed into the work to make her better (i.e. normalise her), when its the work that is fueling the media frenzy that prevents her from living a normal life. Poor brit, She’s a really sweet girl, and I second the comment about her needing a break, she should do a Richard Branson and buy a private Island!