“How Could We Have Ever Been So Cruel to Britney Spears? The Truth We’ve Been Ignoring!”
The more miserable Britney Spears is, the greater the public’s interest in her, people have witnessed the “pop princess” gradually collapse and slide to the point of irretrievability.
The beginning of a tragedy
It all started in February 2006, the image of Britney putting her first son – baby Sean on her lap and driving a car, causing unsafety for both mother and daughter and especially the child, caused her the first big trouble.
It all started in February 2006, the image of Britney putting her first son – baby Sean on her lap and driving a car, causing unsafety for both mother and daughter and especially the child, caused her the first big trouble.
As a public figure, Britney’s every action is observed. Immediately, children’s rights activists condemned Britney for acting too recklessly for her child’s safety. Britney later explained that at that time, she was afraid of being followed by paparazzi so she tried to drive away, although she also admitted that her behavior was wrong.
After giving birth to her second son in September 2006, Britney filed for divorce from Kevin Federline in November 2006. In February 2007, she went to a rehab center but only stayed for less than a day.
The next night, Britney shaved her head in a hair salon, then went to rehab centers. In the face of the uncertainties of a mother like Britney, her ex-husband won full custody of their two sons together.
Britney shaved her head in a hair salon, then went to rehab centers.
In January 2008, Britney was hospitalized after police arrived at her home and noticed that the singer was not normal because of the influence of drugs. Britney continued to be deprived of visitation rights to her two sons, but she had opposition surrounding the court’s decision. After that, she had to be hospitalized for psychological treatment compulsorily because of abnormal disorders that were difficult to control.
It was from here that the court put Britney in need of a guardian, and that person was her father – Jamie Spears. Together with the lawyers and under the joint supervision of the authorities, Mr. Jamie Spears has the right to manage his daughter’s assets… That is how a long tragedy that has never ended in the life of the “pop princess” began.
We used to laugh when we saw Britney Spears “fall up, fall down”
Recently, a talk show in the program “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” led by American MC Craig Ferguson caused a fever again after 14 years.
In one episode of the broadcast, after witnessing a series of information surrounding Britney Spears’ instability explode on entertainment news sites, after seeing too many disparaging comments, criticisms, and ridicule around the unbraked decline of a music star, Craig Ferguson has announced that he will not join the trend of using Britney as a joke:
“The way we’re laughing, mocking her slippery slope is like we’re laughing at our own child, who is learning to walk and keeps falling up and down, and we just let it be? Those who have become parents will definitely run back to help their child. What’s wrong with you?
No father or mother just laughs and holds a camera to record the scene of their child learning to walk and falling up and down to the point of misery. And I saw that we were the ones holding the camera and watching the young Britney fall up and down. We’re so bad, are we really that bad? She’s living in a tragedy, I’m afraid she’s going to die.”
When Britney declined, there was a “forest” of photojournalists who followed her day and night to capture “unbeautiful” moments.
In that talk show, the audience present at the studio listened and… laughed at Craig Ferguson’s guidance and analysis of the problem.
Finally, Craig Ferguson had to stress that he was not joking and did not mean to make fun of Britney’s analysis of the story at the time – in 2007: “This is not a joke, folks!”.
It must be understood that the 2000s was an explosive period of entertainment news about the stars. Paparazzi in this period was an extremely “lucrative” job, photos of stars if sold exclusively to entertainment news sites could reach a price of several hundred to several thousand dollars.
When Britney declined, there was a “forest” of photojournalists who followed her day and night to capture “unbeautiful” moments: Britney ate and drank right on the street; Britney burst into tears, screamed, and quarreled with the paparaz; Britney let her sit on her lap while driving; Britney got out of the car, revealing that she was not wearing lingerie… All those photos were at that time… are all very affordable.
Britney’s psychological crisis at that time attracted great attention from the media – the public, it happened at the most unfortunate moment, when the paparazzi profession was operating at a “stormy” level. The early days of the life of “netizens”, of the development of online news were associated with stories about the star world.
Ironically, Britney’s slip and fall was completely in that moment, the paparazzi followed her non-stop, to nurture a hit news, to “bring down” a “pop princess”, so that fans were shocked to see that their idol “turned out to be like that”…
The way of reporting and posting photos of the entertainment news at that time aimed to cause a fever, shock, erase the distance between the star and the public, so that the public can see that behind the perfect images there are many such moments, such hidden corners of private life…
Women who have been beautiful again… good and rich, will always suffer injustice?
Now, Britney Spears is seen as an icon of pop music, a figure of pop culture, she has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, is one of the most popular singers globally, ranked 8th on the list of the most popular singers of the 2000s by Billboard music magazine…
All of this shows a fairer perspective of Britney’s career, that she has the charm and talent to achieve a big career, not just a “lucky” female singer and a good “molding” crew.
Even at the peak of her career, Britney still had to endure detractors that she was an “industrial” singer, without reality, a symbol of “luck”…
But even at the peak of her career, Britney still had to endure detractors that she was an “industrial” singer, without real talent, a symbol of “luck”… It is a prejudiced way of looking at it, when the success of a female star can be doubted, slandered, and denigrated so much.
In the 2000s, prejudices about mental health were also very large, when female stars who were famously beautiful and sexy fell into a state of collapse, the media – the public did not have the sympathy as now.
Female stars who are beautiful and hot, if they have to go through a slip because of personal life crises, are mercilessly “drowned”, as if the achievements they have achieved before are indeed … not worth it. The collapse is seen as evidence full of “laughter”, affirming the incompetence of a star.
The Atlantic newspaper even generalized that people always seem to have a persistent hatred for women who are both beautiful, good, and rich, simply because people can’t stop observing these women, but still have negative emotions in their hearts.
The Atlantic cited reality TV star Kim Kardashian, a female billionaire who started her career from being exposed… “hot” clip. People once ridiculed Kim Kardashian as a low-level “farce” that has just appeared in the entertainment world, only to constantly witness this woman go from one step to another over the years.
When it was no longer possible to deny this woman’s strength, the tone of ridicule and ridicule decreased to a certain extent. It seems that famous women in the entertainment industry have always suffered from a very harsh prejudice from the majority.
An American TV game show once included a question in the challenge contest: “What did Britney Spears lose?”. Answers such as “hair”, “marriage”, “sanity” are all correct answers. Both the host, the players and the audience laughed at that time, because they found the question very funny, very “trendy”…
Over time, the perception of the media and the public has become more civilized, but it should be reiterated to see how “cruel” both the media and the public were once “cruel” to the decline and collapse of Britney’s private life.
“Don’t attack someone who is in misery”
Kathryn VanArendonk of Vulture News (USA) also pointed out that Britney’s heavy slippage occurred after she had two children born in 2005 and 2006, respectively, at that time, Britney had not yet turned 25 years old.
At this time, not many people talked about postpartum depression, but looking back, female journalist Kathryn VanArendonk said that the way Britney reacted angrily to the paparazzi or the fact that she suddenly shaved her head, perhaps Britney also experienced psychological problems after giving birth.
The more miserable and depressed Britney becomes, the greater the attention of the media – the public for her.
At that time, any eccentric and unusual actions of Britney were exaggerated, exaggerated and appeared all over the entertainment news sites, and the public was especially interested in Britney’s miserable struggles at that time.
The more miserable, depressed Britney becomes, the greater the media interest — the public interest in her, the more people wait to see what happens next, wait to see how far Britney slips. The more depressed, the greater the pressure on public opinion on the “pop princess”.
At that time, a magazine had an article that “praised” Britney’s act of shaving her head, that it was the “most interesting thing” she had ever done, and even asked a question in the article: “Did she get drug shock or commit suicide?” The public “held their breath” to observe and wondered “is that possible”…
In one of his books, the French philosopher Michel Foucault once talked about a form of torture, which is when a person becomes the object of attack by the masses, constantly scrutinized, commenting on every little detail wherever he is. at any time that person appears…
Britney Spears has endured such crisis scrutiny by the media and the public. Soon after, she had to endure shocking and shocking guardianship that lasted for many years.
Looking back on all of this, The Atlantic concludes that the American media still has a long way to go before it reaches true civilization and progress, but it should also be noted that now, the stars of a crisis have been viewed with sympathy by the media – the public. much more generous than in Britney Spears’ time.
Moreover, the way the media reports on female stars has also changed in a much more respectful direction. In his talk show in 2007, when talking about Britney’s collapse, TV MC Craig Ferguson once said: “Don’t attack people who are in misery”, which is a sympathetic and generous way of looking at the media – the public today.
Mr. Ferguson’s view in 2007 was ahead of the view of the media at that time, in him there was kindness and sympathy worthy of respect. It took many years before everyone saw the same as him, saying: Don’t attack when others are in misery!
