Comments on: Britney Spears’ backup dancers require drug tests to tour with her

By: Codzilla

Codzilla — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:45:03 +0000

xiao: You make a lot of really good points. But I still believe that she’s driven, at least in part, by her own self-importance. I think it’s her atrocious behavior as a mother that makes it hard for me to accept that she’s a decent person underneath all the madness. Rather than comfort her own child when he’s in distress, she passes him to the nanny and then waves them both off. Maybe because I have two sons almost the same age as her boys, I’m being overly sensitive. Who knows.

Oh well, I won’t go on and on. I suppose we can just agree to disagree on this one.

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By: Lway

Lway — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:30:29 +0000

I think that her father keeping an eye on her is the best thing to happen to Ms Spears.

On these pics she looks clean and pure for a change and not as trashy as she did a couple of months ago. There were pics of her at Clubs and she has these torn fishnet stockings and dresses so low cut they might as well not be there *ugh* much better now though

I don’t blame daddy for the drug testing either. He got Stubborn Spears this far, i’m sure he’d be pissed if he had to start back at square one with her.

Don’t get me wrong. I love this girl, i am one of her biggest fans, but she has proven that she is incapable of making adult decisions by herself and daddy is getting her back to where she was 10 years ago when she was HOT

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By: DLR in Canada

DLR in Canada — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:43:59 +0000

I presume this drug-testing policy also applies to Britney and her family and everyone that is traveling around with them?

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By: MB Travis

MB Travis — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:30:24 +0000

@xiaoecho: Well said on all points.

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By: LondonParis

LondonParis — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:19:48 +0000

One question: why the hell is the assumption that Jamie Spears is FORCING Britney into doing anything?
I watched the MTV documentary, and it seemed like the performing was exactly what she wanted.

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By: dovesgate

dovesgate — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:47:58 +0000

The kid has been performing for most of her life. I think what some people have a hard time understanding is that she was not raised like you and me, in a mostly normal home. She was turned into a performing monkey (thanks whoever said that earlier, its so apt!) at an early age so this is what she knows.

Look at how weird Michael Jackson got after a childhood of performing. Look at all those other child stars who have imploded, with drugs or whatever. Children growing up in the public eye who survive it unscathed are very few and far between. They were never taught how to be normal people, they were taught how to be celebrities. They don’t grow up around people who don’t want to use them. I dare say most of them have screwed up senses of self that revolve around how strangers view them.

Btw, mental illness and drugs do go hand in hand. Not every time does someone mentally ill choose to self medicate but it happens alot. Alcohol is as much a drug as meth yanno.

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By: xiaoecho

xiaoecho — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:49:56 +0000

It seems clear to me that Britney feels powerless Codzilla. Think of it this way – a whole infrastructure has been set up around her ostensibly for her own good – she has been completely infantalised, sleeping and waking when she’s told, eating what she’s told.Wearing and rehearsing when and what others have decided is good for her. She has been completely re-socialised into ‘Good Britney’ The army re-socialises people in exactly the same way. A mentally strong person would have a job finding the resources to rebel.If she says NO!, contracts are broken, fans disapointed,jobs and money are lost and the fallout goes on and on. Britney is in a psychologically weakened state and to make the psychological pressure not to rock the boat worse, it’s all for her own good.

phew!!

poor Brit

But you’re right – she loves the applause – did she EVER have a choice, considering it’s all she knows

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By: Codzilla

Codzilla — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:16:27 +0000

xiao: I definitely see your point, but I don’t understand WHY Britney can’t choose to lay low for a while. Maybe not in the country, but how about in her LA home? Is the judge going to punish her for not going on tour? Of course not. The girl has a choice and she’s opting to reinstate her stardom rather than work on rebuilding her personal life. As I said many times before, unless she has a gun to her head, Britney can say no to the whole comeback debacle. But I honestly believe she wants the popstar glory as much as anyone.

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By: xiaoecho

xiaoecho — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:01:40 +0000

that’s just it Codzilla, she can’t make her own choices; she cannot even choose her own meals and she has just had a world tour arranged around her by “britney spears inc”.

rudolph is just as controlling as all the other blokes that use her for their own ends. After a severe psychological meltdown you don’t trust your own mind but as you recover, like any healthy person, you want your independence back. It is a mechanism for re- building self esteem. Britney is not trusted to make wise decisions and so, kept on a short leash – she cannot decide to ‘lie low’ in the country with the boys – she needs permission – or the police will bring her back forcibly – she only has ‘permission’ to perform, hence the world tour.

Imprisonment can take many forms including forced labour

I just feel so strongly about this

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By: dr.grrl

dr.grrl — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:05:27 +0000

bang on codezilla…

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