Captiosus
Shared on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 17:23In all honesty, I'm not the tabloid reading kind of person. I honestly don't care about the day to day bullshit of the random celebrity.
However, when I read yesterday's article on MSNBC that Britney Spears will have to pay most of her ex-husband's court and attorney fees - essentially paying for losing her kids - I cracked a little smile. Maybe it's because I've had to deal with custody and support issues on a personal level and have had to support friends who have also dealt with support and custody issues, but the article actually swayed me into a small bit of laughter.
At the end of the article, however, it linked to a related opinion piece from October 1st regarding the loss of her kids and how it may be what she wants. In said opinion piece, the writer comments the following: "Sean and Jayden were her snotty-nosed, diaper-wearing accessories."
The sad thing is, a month later, when Britney's new album dropped, this statement was practically proven fact. Case in point, let's examine some of the lyrics from track 2, "Piece of Me":
I’m Miss bad media karma
Another day, another drama
Guess I can’t see the harm
In working and being a mama
And with a kid on my arm
I’m still an exceptional earner
You want a piece of me
See what she did there? She uses her own kids to promote herself. She views herself as a perfect mother who does nothing wrong and, in fact, deserves to be even more "recognized" because she has kids. Not even Madonna had that kind of audacity and Madonna had some balls, metaphorically speaking, when it came to the media.
Not sure where I'm going with this but it could end up devolving into my rant about the generation which suffers most from an utter lack of responsibility are now having kids and proving, beyond any shadow of a doubt, their inability to be responsible. All I hope is that when or if she ends up in court trying to get the custody situation changed these lyrics come back to bite her in the ass as further proof of her shallow self-centeredness. She can argue that they weren't written by her all she wants, but she sang them, she put the public face on them and they're a great example why she lost custody to someone who is admittedly unemployed with no tangible future.
However, when I read yesterday's article on MSNBC that Britney Spears will have to pay most of her ex-husband's court and attorney fees - essentially paying for losing her kids - I cracked a little smile. Maybe it's because I've had to deal with custody and support issues on a personal level and have had to support friends who have also dealt with support and custody issues, but the article actually swayed me into a small bit of laughter.
At the end of the article, however, it linked to a related opinion piece from October 1st regarding the loss of her kids and how it may be what she wants. In said opinion piece, the writer comments the following: "Sean and Jayden were her snotty-nosed, diaper-wearing accessories."
The sad thing is, a month later, when Britney's new album dropped, this statement was practically proven fact. Case in point, let's examine some of the lyrics from track 2, "Piece of Me":
I’m Miss bad media karma
Another day, another drama
Guess I can’t see the harm
In working and being a mama
And with a kid on my arm
I’m still an exceptional earner
You want a piece of me
See what she did there? She uses her own kids to promote herself. She views herself as a perfect mother who does nothing wrong and, in fact, deserves to be even more "recognized" because she has kids. Not even Madonna had that kind of audacity and Madonna had some balls, metaphorically speaking, when it came to the media.
Not sure where I'm going with this but it could end up devolving into my rant about the generation which suffers most from an utter lack of responsibility are now having kids and proving, beyond any shadow of a doubt, their inability to be responsible. All I hope is that when or if she ends up in court trying to get the custody situation changed these lyrics come back to bite her in the ass as further proof of her shallow self-centeredness. She can argue that they weren't written by her all she wants, but she sang them, she put the public face on them and they're a great example why she lost custody to someone who is admittedly unemployed with no tangible future.
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Submitted by pp2 on Wed, 11/07/2007 - 19:59