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EVERYONE AND THEIR FREAKING BROTHER is collectively tearing Britney Spears apart over her MTV video music awards show performance. I would have felt it unecessary to post my two cents as well, if it weren't for all of the comments about her weight. But first - she can't sing. We've all known that forever. The only people who ever watched her videos and bought her albums for their musical accomplishment were her fanbase of 13 year old girls who just don't know any better. And if that weird thing she half-heartedly attempted to lip-synch is the best song on the whole album? Then, well...ouch. Second - her personal life is a mess. Too much "celebrity" too soon, too little positive influence by her "people", including her own greedy mother, not enough people there to talk some sense into her when she was about to make some of the most disasterous career and personal decisions and her inability to deal with the repercussions of those same decisions...all add up to the bald, crazy-acting, emotionally wrecked Britney of the past several months. It's sad. And people just lap that up. We like to see people who should be doing so well - since they are, by all accounts (according to the glossies and tabloid shows masquerading as entertainment "journalists"), so much better than we can ever dream of being, in every way - doing so very badly.
But for people to come out and say she's fat...Seriously? And
I'm not the only one scratching my head over the criticism, either. She's not the 16 year old engenue that she used to be, sure. But she's had two kids, and she's been through the emotional ringer, all in the harsh spotlight of the public eye, and that has taken its toll. I'll be the first one to make fun of her choice of wardrobe, and her choice of men. But her weight? No. Of course I can see where gossip columnists and bloggers might snipe and say that for someone with her money, and the time she would have had to prepare for this, she should have looked a little more like her old self in her career "prime". But a twenty-something with two kids is NEVER going to look exactly like their young teen self again. Ever. Celebrity or not. All the tummy-tucks in the world can't correct what babies and time can do to change your physique. I'd like to see what half of those columnists writing nasty little missives about her weight look like.
All the perfect people squeal "OMG! Britney Spears is a WHALE, har har!"
Also - Kanye West can shut up now with his "greatest album release in the history of ev-er". Over-hyped, over-produced hacks stand up and be counted.
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I actually think she looked pretty good. Better than before, even. I prefer real women over...you know, whatever she was before.
What she was before - you mean a tarted up lolita for the masses? But, yeah, I agree. She still can't sing, though. Only now not only can't she sing, I think she's lost what might have been left of her mind, and she also seems to have lost the will to lip-synch even. I wish people would stick to picking on her based on that. I swear - the Fark thread was vicious, and I kept thinking that she probably looked better than a lot of those folks' model girlfriends from Canada.
K.West needs to catch the stigmata.
after he put a crown of thorns on his head on the cover of Rolling Stone, I've been wishing him a slow, painful death from the blasphemy he has incurred.
may he burn in his own little hell, and may they play polka and country for an eternity.
You can catch the stigmata?!? Great, just great...not only do I have to worry about the germs everywhere and mono from door knobs, I have to be concerned about miraculous fleshwounds, too? Damn. Can't seem to catch a break.
And I kind of like polka. Accordians are hawt.
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