BRITNEY SPEARS ISN’T UNUSUAL
Posted by anthonynorth on January 10, 2008
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BRITNEY SPEARS ISN’T UNUSUAL
The recent antics of Britney Spears are not that unusual – for a celebrity at least. Stretchered away from a situation where she held her children hostage, she now seems to have lost her visiting rights.
What is it about such people that they can so easily self-destruct in such sensational fashion? Well, I suppose the first thing we have to highlight is that the word ‘people’ maybe doesn’t apply.
Do I mean Britney Spears isn’t a person?
In effect, yes, I’m saying exactly this. Rather, brought up from childhood in the glare of media publicity, such celebrities do not have a true grasp of life through which to make sensible decisions.
If we take someone like the British entertainer, Michael Barrymore, he got himself into all sorts of trouble. Yet, he admits he only really lives when he is in front of an audience. Without an audience, he is but a shell.
I think Barrymore nails the problem on the head.
Moulded into something they are clearly not, their media image becomes what they think themselves to be. Such an image is all-pervasive, and I’m sure takes away a definite form of co-ordinated thought.
As such, once they are out of the media, and become ‘real’ people again, they simply do not know how to make proper judgements or react. Of course, we laugh about such celebrities often. But I suppose we should ask, is this the beginning of what will one day be recognized as a media-created mental illness?
© Anthony North, January 2008
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January 10, 2008 at 8:47 am
Britney Spears isn’t unusual, that’s for sure….how many celebrities do end like she did? Lots. How many “unknown” do end up like she did? We don’t know since they are not celebrities. Probably still lots.
What is at the base of this brutal transformation? Being in that sort of enviroment since childhood? Where are their parents? Where is what they have learnt up to that moment? When Britnay Spears became a mother why did she keep doing drugs and getting drunk….who took care of her kids? Why if I go out at night without my son (and it doesn’t happen often - my choice -)I feel inadequate if i’m a bit tired and i’m not at my top shape to play with him the next day? Noboby taught me this cause my mother is quite differnt; it was just natural with becoming a parent….
January 10, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Hi Rome,
As the parent of seven, mainly grown up now, I know very well it is not that easy now, in normal life. We try our best, but media influences are very great today.
When someone becomes part of the media, I’d say it is almost impossible for a parent to have much influence - no matter how hard they try. Couple this with popular drama that demeans parenthood, showing how the child is always right …
But as I say, we try our best - and hope for the best. And proper guidance can still, hopefully, come out.
January 11, 2008 at 10:40 am
I feel a bit sorry for Britney. So much of her life is driven by publicists and media hype that it must be hard for her to differentiate between her ‘real’ self and her media-created persona. No wonder she seems bewildered most of the time. The pressure on her would be enormous. She has obviously made a bit of money during her career but the personal cost of that career seems far too high. She may never recover. Perhaps it is her most ardent dream to live in the suburbs with a cat, a dog and a budgie, do her own housework and help her kids build things from Lego.
January 11, 2008 at 11:07 am
Hi Selma,
I suppose we can feel sorry for celebrities who fall into it so young. Maybe they didn’t realise what they were doing. But I have no such sympathy for those who went into it later in life. I suppose throwing yourself in the media spotlight is like a pact with the devil. It offers you dreams, and then can so easily destroy you.