Letters to the Editor
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I guess I'm the only one.
I thought she looked pretty damned good in that outfit and I'll also say that she could probably use 10 or 20 more pounds. Women are supposed to be soft.
If you want something skinny and muscled, get yourself a teenaged boy.
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Thanks
I didn't watch the VMA; instead, I saw coverage of Spears's performance on Good Morning America. Seeing her perform made me feel both sad and sick. Thank you for so clearly explaining your own reaction. I think I understand my own feelings better after reading this article.
I also saw a bit of the hot topics on The View where Joy and Whoopi discussed their own reactions to the performance. The two women seemed to agree that they felt horrible for Spears, and Whoopi (if memory serves correctly) said that she felt Spears didn't know how else to live. Spears had been raised in the limelight, constantly seeking affirmation through performance, and even if she didn't want to perform at the VMA, she didn't know what else to do. Spears (according to Whoopi) doesn't know how to say know and leave this lifestyle behind.
(Any errors of fact or understanding in my summary of The View are my own and I apologize. If I've failed to correctly remember the comments made, I also apologize.)
I think Whoopi brings up a very good point about Spears--what is it that she wants in her life now? I remember an interview she did many years ago with Barbara Walters where Spears explained how eager she was to have kids. Now she has kids, no husband, and a career that doesn't seem to provide the same joy it used to. I sincerely hope that she can rediscover goals in her life--watching her drown is painful and horrible, and, sadly, we have no way of getting her out of this deep water and into someplace safe.
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I'm a fan
I am a fan of Britney Spears only because of what I have seen the media do to her and what the media has become.
I think she was talented enough to earn her success. Madonna was just as silly and trite in her day as Britney was in a schoolgirl uniform. And, I liked Britney even more on the Vanity Fair cover when she had body fat. I like her now just to spite Sarah Silverman.
Let's talk about Sarah. She is not funny, she is asinine - kids in my 8th grade class were funnier, and more creative; her husband is talentless unless as a sidekick; and what the hell was Jeff Ross doing on camera? What does he have to do with MTV?
Britney made much more of herself in 25 years than Sarah has in 40. And she gave the world much more creative and enjoyable art.
The comedy scene is being over-run by adolescent idiots who think saying "vagina" 15 times in row is the most hilarious thing ever done. And they are making millions doing it.
Hollywood is being overrun by SNL hacks and bitter fags like Perez Hilton and the TMZ guy, whose nose is so far up Paris Hilton's ass it would break if she ever crossed her legs.
I say go, Britney! I dig your curves, and I hope you and your kids can emerge from the cesspool that is Hollywood and the modern music industry.
Oh yeah, we were talking about music, weren't we..
Heard any lately?
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I FEEL VERY BADLY
for that poor, poor moose. People are shit.
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It reminds me of Lolita
The reaction to Britney's body reminds me of the way Humbert Humbert feels when he sees Lolita as an adult.
I feel for her. She built her career on the edge between entertainment and child porn. The world wanted her to look like an adult but only while she remained in a child's body. Now that she has an adult's body, they want nothing more to do with her.
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Thanks for saying it out loud
This sort of thing is why I only turn on my TV if I've shoved in a video or DVD first. Beat the Clock was one thing, the embarassment was minor and most of the stunts were fun.Candid camera was based on the same sort of thing but mostly they stayed within reasonable limits.
I wasn't a big fan of either of those shows. And these extended hyped amateur hour close-up filled exercises in advanced humiliation -- suffice it to say I don't know why psychologists call it but it's not my idea of good clean fun.
Lets bring back Little Moron jokes using real people!
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Spears, Petraeus, et al...
You cannot tell me there is no relationship between this failed cultural icon, and the failed political establishment recently witnessed. To do so is only to participate in further denial. To do so is only to make sure that whoever makes that claim is to continue to live off a society careening out of control similar to a parasite uses a ill host.
What was more theatre, actually?
Here we have an actual war as out of control as one can be hidden from view by propoganda and its cousin, threats of treason. But no one lifts a finger to stop it.
NO ONE!
MoveON.org was "brave" enough to try, I guess. I appreciate their efforts to inform me that the General may be biased. I would've never known if not for their vigilent fucking AD!!!
IN THE NYT THEY HAVE SO OFTEN COMPLAINED ABOUT, NO LESS!!!
Brittany is a child. A damaged human being on a psychological level bordering on breakdown that this country is cranking out in droves. We use to make autos. Now we just drive them beyond our means and forget all the while these are efforts that define us. Refuse, actually, to accept that America has problems. I have tears for Brittany Spears. I have disgust for the average citizen who sees her failures as a requiem for cruelty.
Ask your fucking selfs!, what camp do you belong in?
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Britney Spears is Ready For Her Close-Up
And she's only 25! We sure chew 'em up and spit 'em out fast these days!
What a sad, sad train-wreck of a performance. And it's not the extra weight. She's still probably slimmer than half of the couch potatoes in America. It's the utter joylessness she exhibited. A few half-hearted pelvic thrusts, some limp girl-on-girl action - she might as well have been sleepwalking.
That drowning moose analogy is pretty horrifyingly apt. Yes, I suppose she is complicit in her own public humiliation, but I really wonder if she has any awareness of this.