Am I the only one seeing some irony here?
Britney is marginally talented at best. She lucked into a good situation, a good song, and a good producer. Apparently, she's ill-equipped for the pressures of fame. That's fine - it happens. Ideally, she should just slink back into obscurity and try her best to try to build something resembling a life. But she can't. Something is preventing her from doing that.
Her fans.
Since blundering her way to the top of the pop heap, her fans have done everything in their power to keep her there. When anything negative happens to her or her career, they're immediately on the case with excuses and finger-pointing. "Her heel broke!" "Her label MADE her do that!" "She has issues she's dealing with!" All basically saying "It's not her fault!"
But when something positive happens, all the praise and accolades are heaped on HER shoulders. I especially liked the poster who said "I really like the interesting things she's done with her voice on the new CD", as if she accomplished it all with vocal technique rather than some guy in a room futzing around on a computer.
She's a nine-day wonder on her third or fourth week (if not month). And still, the fans keep clamoring. "We love you, Britney!" "We support you, Britney!" "We're behind you all the way!" And so, the record label shrugs their shoulders, puts out another album, and keeps her in the spotlight for another six to twelve months.
Apparently, she's finally cracked. After living her life in a spotlight for over eight years - five more than she probably deserved - she lost it. And her fans, conditioned as always, turned their fingers outwards.
"The media won't leave her alone!" they accuse, forgetting that they're the ones Googling her name and desperately sopping up all the dregs the self-same media chooses to get on her.
"You haters drove her to it!", they exclaim, forgetting we "haters" probably wouldn't even remember her name by this point if her fans didn't keep clamoring to keep her famous and in the spotlight.
"She's got a mental condition!" they cry, forgetting that by insisting on her fame continuing far beyond its expiration date, they probably contributed to making the condition as bad as it is.
So I have a suggestion for all Britney "supporters" and "fans". Take a tip from Chris Crocker.
And leave Britney alone.
Let her be. Stop reading about her, stop demanding new material, stop pushing her back into the spotlight that appears to be fucking her up so badly over the past several years. Let her leave fame behind, and learn how to be a human again.
Or don't you think she deserves that?
Lex