Britney Spears – the new Michael Jackson
Britney Spears is the “new Michael Jackson”.
That’s the expert opinion of American addiction specialist Dr Drew Pinsky.
He was discussing the “traumas in Britney’s past – her father’s substance abuse, and a family history of mental imbalance – and how they may explain her current mental state,” says US Magazine.
How does he know she’s an addict? Like, has he treated her?
“We know that she is a drug addict because she’s been admitted to a treatment center,” he’s quoted as saying. “You can’t be admitted unless you’ve met criteria for addiction.”
Oh.
Below are a couple more Q&A’s from the Q&A >>>
US: We found out that her paternal grandmother committed suicide at the age of 31 because she was depressed for years after the death of her baby. Could that mean anything?
DP: It means that there is a long history of serious mental illness in the family. Britney is behaving very bizarrely, she has been admitted to a chemical dependency program, she has a stressful career, she’s divorced, she has childcare demands, and she is in denial and is paranoid. She has a mom with the proxy relationship and a dad with drug addiction and alcohol problems. When you add that up you get the recipe for where she is today.
US: One thing we’ve seen Britney is that she has arrested social development. Do you agree?
DP: She’s sort of our next Michael Jackson. It’s understandable that developmentally they don’t have the usual skills. She doesn’t have the usual responsibility; she doesn’t understand the coping strategies of an adult.
AND …
US: How much of this dysfunction did Britney create herself and how much of it is a product of her life and upbringing?
DP: Yes, the circumstances in her life and her genetics have contributed to where she is today. There was no sinister plot to make her this way. Now she needs to change and that is where you have to hold her accountable, particularly because she has children. An adult shouldn’t be blaming anyone other than themselves. She can get better, she just doesn’t want to.
Now you know …….
Also See:
US Magazine – Britney Spears’ Childhood: An Addiction Specialist Explains How It Shaped Her Behavior Today , November 17, 2007
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November 24th, 2007 at 9:46 am
the only difference is michael have amazing talent and sing live like no other, and britney has no talent only taking off her clothes and she never sang live!!
November 24th, 2007 at 9:51 am
maybe they are on the same level mentallly but when it comes to talent britney have noone. she is just a product, a lipsynching product. michael in the other hand is the leader of this whole generation of music.
November 24th, 2007 at 10:22 am
I agree. I think both (especially Michael) deserve alot more respect then what he has been getting in recent years. Hes the guy who started it all! Britney, well she can definately sing and dance but she no mj!
November 24th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Weird !!!!!!!!!!! People defending MJ to bash Britney.
November 24th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
MJ basically invented music videos. Before “Beat It” people just stood around singing. With Beat It, it was like the first synchronized dancing with a plot to the story.
November 24th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
MJ was in charge of everything he did. He wrote his most famous songs and co-produced his videos. If only he took that much control of his finances instead of letting others take care of it they wouldn’t have stolen so much money from him.
November 25th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Well, at least Britney is no pedophile.
November 25th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
@Bana: No, “Beat It” was absolutely not the first modern music video featuring dance and special effects, Queen did it seven years earlier (1975) with “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Watch it on YouTube.
November 25th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Whatever else he may or may not be, give the man credit for having talent. He spent many years developing that talent from a child on.
Britney has the “I wanna” and that’s about it. Even that isn’t enough to compenstate for a serious drug habit. When you have nothing in the line of great and developed talent, you have to get “groomed” to look like you do. That doesn’t replace true talent.
The best thing that could happen to Britney was whenever someone heard that word that the answer came back, “Britney who?”.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Britney has NOTHING to be depressed about! Ungrateful bitch. If she doesn’t like poperazzi she can just retire and we’ll all forget she existed. She’s no Beetles.
It’s sad to see MJ accused of pedophelia. He does do some charity work (or so I read).
P.S.
Briney is AGAINST filesharing:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1457802/20020926/spears_britney.jhtml
November 26th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
The article isn’t comparing michael and britney in terms of tallent or their careers or whatever. It’s saying that they are similar in being socialy under-developed…that when you combine a bad childhood and massive celebrity you get a constilation of wierd personality factors and super paranoid behaviour.
“Britney has NOTHING to be depressed about! Ungrateful bitch.”
The author references Britney’s grandmother who killed herself. He references her family’s numerous problems. He seems to be saying that Britney’s problems are partly due to her childhood, partly due to her money acting as a buffer against responsibility, and, because of the family history, partly genetic. Its always hard to separate environmental factors from genetic factors, and it was bold (silly? careless?) of him to say such a thing so easily, however, the point is, if she’s inherited whatever genetic factor her grandmother had (i doesn’t know, a brain that doesn’t produce as much serotonin and dopamine maybe) it wouldn’t matter how good her life was. The depression would be hardwired into her brain. In these cases, a good life only seems to compound the problem by heaping guilt on top of the depression.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:32 am
There are people in this world who have it a whole lot harder than Brittany Spears. If her brain is hardwired to be depressed she can get antidepressants, counseling, or check into a depression clinic. She can afford it. Maybe she needs to be forced into one of those clinics for her own good. She needs to stay away from certain people too. Fame and money attract sleez. Dumping Federdork was a good start.
I’m not going to feel sorry for Spears when there’s people in third world countries, homeless people, people going bankrupt and losing their houses, people going to jobs they hate, people who get shot at on a daily basis, and so many more miserable people in much worse situations.
November 27th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
i agree, she certainly should do all of those things. but she’s an adult, and cant be made to do those things. Britney’s getting-better process will be long and hard and painful, (am i allowed to make a sexual pun here?) and somewhere she’ll have to come up with the internal resources to do that before we can all enjoy an opera special where she smugly explains that inside every woman there is tremendous inner strength or something gay like that.
i don’t think you should feel sorry for her. its not like there’s anything anyone outside her immediate social circle can do for her, short of holding a nation-wide intervention where every man woman and child in the country shows up at her doorstep to explain that they love her and her behavior is really worrying the nation.
i think the reason this is getting so much publicity is that its actually good for your americas collective mental health. it makes it easier for people to believe in a pervasive karmic justice that runs through the world. its not true, but the thought that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get makes it easier for people at the bottom to endure.
January 8th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
hope she has a suicide attempt go horribly wrong making paralyzed and in pain then she will know what real suffering and trauma is!! people in Africa starve to death, family’s in Burma are tortured and killed, we have wars, famines, plagues!! yet she with all her wealth and fame has to be the poor old Britney heck give me her money ill be very happy!!