Poor Britney...

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Damn...I hated her stuff when I was younger...but now I feel so sad for her. She was a product of the generation for sure, but at what cost. Poor girl went insane and last I looked up she's under conservatorship...so she can't even just spend her own money she has family members and lawyers involved....ahh poor girl. Like I never liked her music, but damn poor girl...I'd hate to have my money controlled by other people. But also not sure what happens if they just unleash britney to her own devices. Part off me feels like 'free britney' but on the other hand I don't want her to kill herself in some weird publicity stunt. And not sure how mentally stable she is now...But IDK its sad to see what became of a popular star when I was growing up even if I didn't care much for her songs.

Like even if I hated her songs, its still kinda messed up what happened to her and how the media just went crazy attacking her because she had a freaking mental breakdown after so much BS. Like if it were me I would have had a mental breakdown much sooner its kind of amazing how long she lasted in that industry before losing her mind. But yeah as I say poor Brittney the industry f****d her up. But outside things I have heard of people who actually got a chance to talk to her she was down to earth and a cool girl...a friend of mine says he once got to meet with her and talk a bit more in depth and from what he says she was really cool. So yeah its just sad what happened to her...like she was one of the biggest pop stars and now no one even remembers her aside from some of us millenials. I even hated her music but still kinda concerned/interested where she has been or what she has done since then.

Like goddamn I am just a metalhead but, I don't think Brittney deserves the s**t she got...she was a pretty girl who got exploited, no wonder she went a little crazy. Like I hated her music but hell I'd still smoke a bowl with her or just hang out to talk.

Sorry if I am obsessing on this but just seems the girl got more s**t than she deserved. She was just trying to be what everyone wanted and it drove her insane.

I hadn't heard about this and found a relatively lengthy USA Today article about it.

It sounds like there's an expectation that talent and ability in one area transfers to other areas. There are MIT graduates who can't tie their shoes and can't tell left from right. One thing this gets me curious about is whether, to some degree, there might be specific alignments of things like borderline personality that might make people artistic or performance lightning-rods because they can taste the flavor of the social weather and condense it with great prowess into what they do but then again that gift may have come precisely because of something like borderline personality where they had to come up with a work around for a lack of internal cohesion.

If its true that she wants to remain under conservatorship it would be fairly obvious that she's deeply disoriented or has come to identify certain limitations and vulnerabilities that she can't do much about.

Nothing wrong with empathizing and sympathizing with someone ...even if they are famous for making cheesy music.

My girlfriend is a liberal with little love for the W administration, but she was quite indignant about how the media made fun of Dick Cheney when he had that gun accident. "He is grieving because he accidently shot his friend. So why cant the media leave him alone?". And I agree.

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Oh, yes ... I really feel sorry for a famous multi-millionaire who has people relieving her of the need to make any tough choices or difficult decisions while living in a mansion, eating the finest cuisine, wearing designer clothes, receiving the best medical care, et cetera...

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Except for the fact that he didn't give a flying frack. Dick Cheney didn't care at all, I am not sure your girlfriend was being serious.

I didn't follow the story very closely. Don't know how callous Cheney was about it. I just laughed along with everyone else.

Dick Cheney doesn't know the meaning of the word empathy, thus.

Also finding the time to tweet about wealth redistribution.

i saw an interview some talking head did with Britney, and i was struck by just how fragile [psychologically] she seemed. it seemed that if the wind blew on her wrong that it would rock her world. it seemed like she was not quite intelligent enough or sufficiently present-of-mind to make enough sense of this hellworld to be able to keep her head above water in rough seas. she reminded me a bit of some halfway house folk i knew at Western State.

I think she's probably intelligent enough, she's certainly not Jessica Simpson, but people have been exploiting her most of her life. Start them young, take their money, sell their body, have them make music that certain people like. Don't give them a say in matters, it just seems her mental health has taken another nosedive.

i hope she has at least one good person in her corner.

Either her Mother or Father, and her children. I am not sure which parent is the horrid one.

I didn't know about this either, but I agree it's very sad. I remember when she shaved her head and was screaming for help but the tabloids just butchered her.

Her story reminds me of Judy Garland. Unfortunately it may have the same ending.

judy died way too young [47 in 1969].

Well those are not the things that make me feel bad about her...its more her mental and emotional state. Not saying she has it worst of anyone in the world, but just seems kind of sad how she just couldn't handle it all. I never even liked her really but at least to me her over-all story is kind of sad. Like IDK I just don't think wealth necessarily can bring happiness and kind of seems for her it certainly didn't.

I don't think her story is the saddest most tragic thing I have heard of, but she was popular when I was an adolecent and even though I didn't like her it's still just kind of sad to see how she deteriorated. I mean when it comes down to it all we're all human and even if she did get a lot of money did that really improve her life? That said this is just a sort of sentimental thing, like oh what happened to that big pop star from my adolescent days. Its not the biggest issue on my mind just a bit saddening I suppose.

i heard they are worried about her younger sister also.