Comments on: Britney Spears – the new Michael Jackson

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:32:06 +0000

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!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:47:06 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:32:32 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:56:44 +0000

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.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:41:28 +0000

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

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:23:13 +0000

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?”.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:46:03 +0000

@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.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:36:15 +0000

Well, at least Britney is no pedophile.

By: Bana

Bana — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:06:02 +0000

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.

By: Bana

Bana — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:02:33 +0000

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.

By: Coconut

Coconut — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:01:58 +0000

Weird !!!!!!!!!!! People defending MJ to bash Britney.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:22:21 +0000

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!

By: karen

karen — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:51:03 +0000

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.

By: jayson

jayson — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:46:55 +0000

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!!