The Britney Spears Obsession

All over the news, all over the internet, all over gossip sites. Everyone has their opinion on Britney Spears and the situation she is in these days. And when I say everyone has their opinion, I mean... ranging from words of hope for her to people calling for her death.

It is no secret that our society is entirely too celebrity focused. But the extent that some people go to, to stay "up" on these people's lives is an atrocity. I'm sorry, what makes it more of an atrocity is how many people are "experts" on this girl, Britney Spears, and the extent of the insults that are thrown in her direction... though none of them really know her.

I am a Britney Spears fan. I enjoy her music and I have in the past very much enjoyed her shows. I was 15 when her music hit the radio waves and have been a fan since. I have always thought that she was beautiful and had such a fun, cuteness about her. From what I saw of her, she seemed a lot like me and my friends. It has been 10 years since she came out (wow) and I still hold the same opinion of her.

I think that it is sad that people who want to judge this girl (this girl... of which we only know of by what the media shows us) forget to take into account that well, they don't know her. Yet they want to call her trash, they want to call her a whore, an idiot, an unfit mother.

I think for the most part, the only thing that has been proven in terms of what the media has shown us is this: Britney Spears is going through something. Possibly a nervous breakdown? The beginnings of one, or possibly the climax of one (I hope this is the climax, as it would be even sadder if things get worse for her). She has grown up in the spotlight, with celebrity status. She was adored and loved for so long. Then she REALLY grows up. Starts hitting those growth speed bumps that most of us hit. And "everyone" is watching all along. She goes through a break up (with her quoted "first love") that is chronicled by tabloid magazines every step of the way. She hits the ages that hey, most of us haven't hit without making or coming across regrets, mistakes, sillyness. (How else do we learn?) She takes some tumbles, all the while, "everyone" judging her on these tumbles with judgmental, unforgiving eyes. Now she seems to have hit the worst tumble of all. I don't know what is going on in her life but I feel for her. I can not imagine going through the times I've had with people trailing me with camera's and judging me on every move that I made. You could equate the tabloid gossip that she has received for the past few years as emotional abuse. I don't care who you are, if you have someone telling you terrible things about yourself over and over and over again, you run the risk of beginning to believe these things, you run the risk of losing who you are, ESPECIALLY in these crucial years. And with what I have seen... it is definitely probable with what she has been through, that she is having what they call a nervous breakdown. I suppose everyone is different... that is why I say that we "run the risk".

What I'm really saying is, that I think that she needs to be left alone (by the paparazzi and media). I don't know if it's true what they are saying about her calling them, but I just find it hard to believe that with what she's going through in terms of custody issues with her children, that she would do so. If so, well then it's true that the blame is on her. I suppose I've just gone into overload from reading people trash her from the purse that she uses all the time to the person that she is. It's disgusting and quite revealing about the majority of our society. Hypocritical and judgmental.