Setting the Record Straight

So today I watched Brit's MTV "documentary" on Youtube. It was supposed to be a no-holds-barred, no-question-left-unanswered, tell-all documentary, which it most certainly was not. All I could picture was Madonna in "I'm Going to Tell You a Secret" getting her hair and makeup did, driving from location to location dropping wisdom bombs, having fun with choreographers and dancer auditions, and showing a bit of a vulnerable, sad side to celebrity life.

Britney went much further and had a couple breakdowns, shedding tears and revealing how lonely she is, and how boring her life is.

Alright. Enough is enough. I am broke, along with my boyfriend, family, and friends. We do not have dream lives, getting whisked all over the world without a care, or dropping everything (including your children, who can be easily dragged and dropped into the hands of a caring Mexican nanny) to take a vacation or trip somewhere on a whim.

I'm so sick of celebrities crying about how miserable celebrity life can be. They can get out, if they want to. Guaranteed, if Britney would've gone back to Louisiana after K-Fed, within 6 months to a year she would be a nobody, just like the rest of us, just like she pretends she wants to be. I'm sick of celebrities crying about how the paparazzi hounds them relentlessly. You know, without those crazy photogs pushing and shoving, snapping blinding pictures in the night, chasing on motorcycles at breakneck speeds through tunnels... well, you celebrities would be nothing. No one would be interested in your life.

I saw a clip from gossipgirl.com today about Britney leaving a dance rehearsal in tears. One simple snapshot tosses her back up to a head story on Fox News with no explanation whatsoever. Forget Iraq. Forget the economy. Forget gas prices. Why in God's name is Britney Spears crying?? Poor, poor Britney! We'll never know why, but everyone wants to gawk at the photos. To say that she's sick of the photographers is just ridiculous. These celebrities live for publicity, sales, and getting their name out there. Just ask any startup band, singer, artist, etc... and they'll all want the same thing: having their name dropped. And whether its in a positive or negative way, who gives a rat's ass. Publicity today disregards either side for the sake of getting a name drop and maybe an extra few thousand record sales.

I felt bad for Brit for a few minutes, but then I just realized I was getting sucked in to this little circus (no pun intended). Its only intent is to boost record sales 2 days before the album dropped.

The only highlight was an appearance from Madonna, who stiffly acknowledged her motherly devotion to Britney (although I imagined a conversation between the two and laughed, Madonna would have nothing to say to Miss Spears...she's too... dense). Please, I love Madge, but this is all an attempt to have her name dropped as well, and right at the end of her Sticky & Sweet Tour. But whatever, Madonna knows how the game works, and has worked it extremely well for over 25 years in her favor. Funny that when Madonna sat and hugged Britney backstage before the San Diego show started, she really had not more than 5 words to say to pop princess. Very awkward.