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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Feb 15, 2021 13:05:11 GMT -5
Anyone else watch this yet? It covers a lot of ground I already knew, but the clips of paparazzi smothering her during her worst days are seriously scary to watch. There were points where they literally cornered her and Britney looked so helpless.
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Post by salz4life on Feb 15, 2021 13:12:28 GMT -5
Anyone else watch this yet? It covers a lot of ground I already knew, but the clips of paparazzi smothering her during her worst days are seriously scary to watch. There were points where they literally cornered her and Britney looked so helpless. Yeah.... I remember that. I would LOVE to be rich, more so to ensure that everything my family needs they have without a worry. But I would never want to be FAMOUS like that. I couldn't handle it at all.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2021 13:36:14 GMT -5
Justin Timberlake was called out over the weekend and replied, around the same time the Free Britney movement cried out "WE ARE BEYOND JUST BRITNEY AND HERE'S WHY"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2021 16:28:13 GMT -5
Being young and famous is like trying to survive a vampire movie while everyone and everything around you is imbued with evil magic.
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Post by thechase on Feb 15, 2021 16:30:16 GMT -5
...I see "Cry Me A River" has aged like a fine wine...[/sarcasm]
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Post by zrowsdower on Feb 15, 2021 17:07:11 GMT -5
I'm sorry but is Britney being held captive?
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Feb 15, 2021 17:25:45 GMT -5
I was as guilty as a lot of people back in the day were of making comments about her antics from that time. But the way some of the media treated her was something else. At the time, her father stepping in and taking control was probably a good idea as had he not done so, we could be talking about the tragic end to her story.
But that was then. It’s only fair now she should have control of her life back.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 15, 2021 18:02:52 GMT -5
Maybe we should have listened to Chris Crocker...
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Feb 15, 2021 18:07:13 GMT -5
I'm sorry but is Britney being held captive? Her father had conservatorship over her since 2008, around the time of the shaved head incident, which means a total control of her life and her career.
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Post by schizo on Feb 15, 2021 18:33:02 GMT -5
"Who Framed Britney Spears"
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 15, 2021 18:33:43 GMT -5
Even on the Simpsons DVD commentary, they said Britney was sweet and polite and friendly, but all the people were around her were insane and refused to let her say “songbird”.
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Post by agent817 on Feb 16, 2021 12:48:56 GMT -5
Unlike many people around me, especially during the early-2000s when I was in high school when the hive-minded hatred of Britney Spears was at its height (or is it herd mentality?), I never hated her nor did I ever pay much mind to her antics at the time. In fact, I was a closet fan. I might watch this, but this video review of her movie, Crossroads really showed some early signs of stuff, and that movie is practically two decades old.
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Post by James Fabiano on Feb 16, 2021 12:53:18 GMT -5
Do I think she got over with reasons other than music talent? Yes. So does everyone these days, though.
Does that make her a bad person? Nah.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2021 13:12:02 GMT -5
Do I think she got over with reasons other than music talent? Yes. So does everyone these days, though. Does that make her a bad person? Nah. That's not just these days. There's a reason the black artists that actually created rock n roll died poor and Elvis' family is still rich. He was easier to market.
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Post by James Fabiano on Feb 16, 2021 14:15:18 GMT -5
Do I think she got over with reasons other than music talent? Yes. So does everyone these days, though. Does that make her a bad person? Nah. That's not just these days. There's a reason the black artists that actually created rock n roll died poor and Elvis' family is still rich. He was easier to market. It's more blatant now, what with pin-ups pretending to be musicians. As usual, the women get it worse.
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Post by The Legendary Ring Troll {BLM} on Feb 19, 2021 1:00:49 GMT -5
This thing is proof that the way we lived in the past was just outright detrimental to us. I remember thinking like everyone else at the time. Now watching it back, it’s sickening. If I was in her shoes, I would have been having massive panic attacks, too. This poor girl was terrorized while suffering mental illnesses for entertainment. Holy shit.
For the people who say people are too soft these days and everyone gets offended at everything, this doc shows why that cultural shift was necessary.
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Post by Cyno on Feb 19, 2021 1:09:12 GMT -5
I think the scary part of all this is that the South Park episode about how the masses just feast on the media gaslighting these famous women was years ahead of its time. Especially when they predicted that they'd eventually go after Miley Cytus.
Really makes you wonder how many famous people, especially women, you've been manipulated into hating by tabloids and gossip sites using misleading headlines and out-of-context, well, everything.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Feb 19, 2021 3:48:05 GMT -5
I think the scary part of all this is that the South Park episode about how the masses just feast on the media gaslighting these famous women was years ahead of its time. Especially when they predicted that they'd eventually go after Miley Cytus.
Really makes you wonder how many famous people, especially women, you've been manipulated into hating by tabloids and gossip sites using misleading headlines and out-of-context, well, everything.
Meagan Markle would be one modern example.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 19, 2021 4:18:25 GMT -5
I hate the paparazzi and harassing press with passion.
I read a book by an RAF Tornado pilot who got shot down and captured in the Gulf War. His parents couldnt leave their house for weeks because of knobheads from the media harassing them.
Then of course paparazzi chasing Diana likely leading to the crash.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Feb 19, 2021 9:15:53 GMT -5
I think the scary part of all this is that the South Park episode about how the masses just feast on the media gaslighting these famous women was years ahead of its time. Especially when they predicted that they'd eventually go after Miley Cytus.
Really makes you wonder how many famous people, especially women, you've been manipulated into hating by tabloids and gossip sites using misleading headlines and out-of-context, well, everything.
Meagan Markle would be one modern example. The tabloid treatment of her in the UK is horrific. I have no great love for the royal family (quite the contrary) but it's appalling, she's trashed publicly for everything she wears, what she eats, allowing people to photograph her, not allowing people to photograph her, sending the wrong Christmas cards, sitting down wrong, shutting her own car door, anything. Of course, her real crime in the eyes of tedious royal watches on Twitter and hacks at the Daily Mail is being merely upper-middle class as opposed to upper class, foreign, and black.
I've not seen this documentary yet, but none of what I've read in here or elsewhere about it is remotely shocking. It's not just the tabloid and paparazzi exploitation that's grim either, but the entertainment industry as a whole treating its stars as commodities to be used and then disposed of when they've ceased to be useful. The stuff in this is probably only the tip of the iceberg, I hate to think what might have happened to her and others in the industry that we don't know or talk about as much. I know there have been rumours about her sister and the TV producer Dan Schneider for quite a while.
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