More scandals than successes. Britney and all her problems

Yes, but now we need music, maybe a hit or, who knows, even a finished album. Instead, Britney Spears continues to do just the opposite, making life harder and easier for those who live by gossip. And to think that this 1981-born, Mississippi-born, Louisiana-raised “country girl” was indeed a pop treasure from the age of eighteen…Baby shuffled the cards once more with the (then) best…selling a teen history album . He came from Disney world thanks to The Mickey Mouse Club with Justin Timberlake (then her passionate boyfriend) and Christina Aguilera (then her passionate opponent). At the time, she was a model American girl: “I was the point guard on the basketball team. I had a boyfriend, I came home and celebrated Christmas.” But “I wanted more.” He had it in every way.

And he proved it on that day in 2007, when, after leaving the rehabilitation center, he went to the hairdresser and cut his hair to zero. Since then it has been a series of successes (less and less) and scandals (more and more). Now she is more than a singer, she has become a hashtag, an aggregator of gossip, speculation, malice. The latest news is that she is now involved with a criminal (Paul Richard Solise) and that along with him she forgets her third husband (Sam Ashgari), who married in June 2022. A marriage that lasted less than marriage to rapper Kevin Federline (from 2004 to 2007), but much longer than childhood friend Jason Alexander: married January 3, 2004 in Las Vegas and divorced 55 hours later because she “couldn’t understand his actions”.

In the midst of this collection of wedding and pregnancy announcements (their two sons, Sean Preston, 16, and Jayden James, 15, don’t want to see her anymore) and less and less music, there are an avalanche of photos on social media, spiced with occasional rants. statements, sometimes dreamy but always strange, like one of the last in which Britney extolled her pepper omelet, complaining that it wasn’t even served in restaurants. All this extravagance was accompanied by a dispute with his father, Jamie, who was the first manager for over a decade and then became number one in public danger. “My client told me that she was afraid of her father. He will no longer perform while his father is responsible for his career, ”his lawyer explained several years ago, asking him to remove the title of“ tutor ”from him, and even assigned to him after another emotional breakdown. The case has gone international, with the #freebritney hashtag going viral thanks to the support of many celebrities. Result: father refused custody, she married a third husband, and the second tried to participate in the ceremony to ruin her marriage.

Now we have it all over again.

A few weeks ago Will.i.am, rapper, producer and founder of the Black Eye Peas, announced the release of the song Mind your business, recorded with Britney Spears. The title is apt: Mind your own business. But everything else is wrong, and the song actually did not enter the most prestigious Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. Objectively, it was a failure. And this is not accidental, because Mind your business is more like a waste of time, it does not have a winning melodic line and, in general, it goes unnoticed. “This is a bad sign,” wrote Forbes, who knows a lot about success and career. And despite the well-informed Page Six announcing a new million-dollar deal with Sony and the subsequent release of a new record (after so many years), the prospects for Britney Spears are slim. In recent years, the world of pop music has changed dramatically, the public is becoming less and less “loyal” and therefore more volatile, and above all, it is live performances, concerts, tours, no matter how colossal, exaggerated, provocative, that make the difference. She, not endowed with a flexible and memorable voice, has not appeared on stage for a long time and, although she seems to be looking for new songs authored by famous composers, she is increasingly accompanied by the words “decadence” or “decadence”. “failure”.

The only one who specifically helped her was last year Elton John, who shared Hold me close, a reimagining of the classic Tiny Dancer, a super-famous 1971 piece listed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 500 most beautiful songs of all time. Pleasant cooperation. Excellent results on the radio. But for now, for now. Everything was immediately crushed by the usual avalanche of antics, disputes, empty statements. Now the classic ritual of the Mississippi girl who “wished for more” and managed to get it, but still hasn’t learned how to deal with it.