Mental Quandary: Britney Spears
February 18th, 2007 RachelI can’t decide if she knows exactly what she’s doing, or if she really is on the verge of truly losing it. Somewhere in the back of my mind whenever Anna Nicole Smith came up in the news I always hoped that she really was smarter than that. That she was ‘dumb’ because it was profitable and in the end all the people who snickered at her antics, vapidness (vapidity?), and ‘issues’…didn’t matter because she was the one laughing all the way to the bank. But even if that was once true, it’s becoming more and more apparent that there were systemic problems that couldn’t be waved off…couldn’t be silenced by painkillers and champagne…couldn’t go away.
Is she rebuilding herself from scratch in front of a media presence that wouldn’t leave her alone regardless? Or is this a further pitiful step down a dangerous path…that can only end badly? I’m hopeful for the former - for the kids, and oddly enough for her. This is getting harder and harder to laugh at because it’s one thing to be rich and acting stupid…and it’s quite another to be losing your sanity in public. Let’s hope she gets it together and in six months is on the cover of People magazine talking about how she “hauled herself up from despair and regained her sense of who she is”…or something like that.
