I love Britney Spears

It’s funny how our lives revolve around celebrity gossip. Everywhere I turn, tabloids, E! News, or the school paper, Britney Spears, regardless of what she does, manages to break headlines. It seems like half of the time it is never positive press. Isn’t there a saying, “Even bad press is good press?” I am a huge Britney fan, and really could care less about what tabloids say. Sure they could be right, but I am also sure they are an exaggeration of the truth in order to sell magazines. I am sure a vast majority of the claims made about her would have never been made if the paparazzi just left her alone. It seems like we have nothing better to do than tear celebrities to shreds.

Would we care so much about the bad things Britney has done if it was publicized for people who weren’t celebrities? Would Joe Nobody make the news for driving with his child on his lap…would it be such a huge deal? Probably not. Why do we care so much about every move Britney makes? Does it really make people sleep at night knowing she is struggling?

I love my round of gossip as well, but really, if I never saw another article about someone not wearing panties, getting pulled over, getting a DUI, or doing the cool new celeb thing by going to jail, I would still sleep as soundly as I do now. Surprisingly, my life does not center around celebrity gossip.

What was the most positive bit of news we have heard about Britney? Does anyone care that she has launched a new perfume called Believe available in stores in early October at Macys? Do we care that her album, Blackout, hits stores October 30? Do we care that earlier this month she held dance auditions for her tour in California? Why isn’t there media on the positive events?

It surprises me that the media would rather tear down a popstar who once dominated the music charts and was the biggest female artist in the world. Why doesn’t anyone want to put a positive spin on her trying to get things in her life back to normal? I mean the first positive thing she did was actually perform on the VMAs in September. She showed up, it may not have been her best performance, but considering the past year she has had, props to her for sticking with something. This is still the same Britney who was a mouseketeer with Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and J.C. Chasez.

I hope her album just blows people away. I really think it is going to be a fantastic album and I will be that person who actually goes into the store and proudly buys her album. I have purchased a hard copy of every CD Britney has put out, and am damn proud of it. Sure she has undergone several issues in the last year, but let’s think about it, maybe she needed to go through all of this to get to a place she really wants to be. Maybe in the end the shaved head (which I think she did to rid herself of K-Fed...which to me is a smart, smart move), will be one of the smartest moves she has ever made. Who else would shave her head to rid herself of toxic situations? I am a full supporter of Britney’s career…and maybe everything she has done is to get her name in the tabloids, and if that’s the case, she surely nailed that one…she is probably the most talked about celebrity ever and well hey, that’s publicity, right?

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/10/29/140828.php (Link to publication)