Some 20 years later, her court appearance put her in a similar position. Spears’s early career was an important reminder of how much derision is aimed at the intelligence and taste of girls, even when they do have the power to determine what is popular and make money for others.įraming Britney Spears included clips from her famous old interviews with Diane Sawyer and Matt Lauer, in which she comes across as surprisingly lucid and funny even in the outrageous circumstances-a young woman being grilled by adults for her supposed sins. You’d be hard-pressed to find an American woman who hasn’t felt compelled to do this. Presenting with a teen girl’s affect-uptalking, a bit of vocal fry, a lot of apologizing-is a way to ask for something without ruffling feathers. It might be why she sounded so much like teenage Britney when she spoke on Wednesday. The allegations she makes are truly stomach-turning, and her portrayal of her life is bleaker than perhaps even the most assiduous followers of her story were prepared for. “I truly never expected what we heard from Britney in court today,” he tweeted. (She declined to comment, save for one cryptic post in which she said she cried after watching it.) After Spears finished speaking on Wednesday, even Joe Coscarelli, the Times reporter who has followed the case closely for years, was surprised. For years now, Spears has remained silent as the conservatorship she was placed under in 2008 became a matter of public debate, even as the oddity of her legal arrangement was laid bare by the February New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears. Still, in its scope and its pathos, the 23-minute speech was like nothing we have ever heard from her. “Especially when you can’t walk out the front door.” She sounded exasperated, angry, and rushed, but it’s clearly Britney. “Ma’am, I will tell you, sitting in a chair 10 hours a day, seven days a week, it ain’t fun,” she told Judge Brenda Penny in the hearing, describing meetings she says she was forced to attend. Her slight Southern lilt is still there, as is her affection for sarcastic understatement. "That's one of the lowest points of her life.Speaking in a virtual court hearing on Wednesday, Britney Spears sounded quite like the person who used to banter on the set of TRL or in Radio Disney interviews. "It must be really hard for Britney to be photographed while in rehab," said Jill Dobson, Star magazine editor. Photographers captured shots of Spears at the rehab center. Wednesday, Spears was seen leaving the office of a Hollywood lawyer, Blair Burke, who has represented other celebrities in law suits against the paparazzi. "There's very few people who can live that way that flamboyant out-front sort of lifestyle and survive," he said. Stillwell said that Spears will be ready to change when her life becomes too painful. "Things are not looking good for Britney in the custody battle," family law expert Joshua Forman said.īut perhaps the threat of losing her sons will push Spears to recover. Meanwhile, Spears' estranged husband and father of her two sons, Kevin Federline, has called an emergency hearing in family court and Spears' custody battle may have been severely damaged by her hard partying and what some people say was a nervous breakdown when she shaved her head over the weekend. "I could give you a laundry list of bigger names than Britney Spears that have been clean for years and no one ever heard about it because they had the burning desire to remain private about it," he said.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |