Britney Spears

[JeremySpears]

Lmao the accuracy tho

[PromoSpears]

Hey Britney Army! Let's vote for Britney Spears in this battle!!

[lambforever]

Voted

[PromoSpears]

Britney Spears "Lucky" is on iTunes US main chart at #84

[JeremySpears]

Art peaked here

[Eugine]

Britney has been very quiet lately.

[JeremySpears]

Britney has been very quiet lately.

You would be quiet too if you were working on your comeback album, visuals for every song from that album, a stadium world tour, re-releases of all your albums, B in the Mix Vol. 3, next year's Halftime Show and photoshoots for all the biggest publications in the world.

[InFamous]

I think it is a good thing that she is quiet. THE public daily meltdown era got old fast.

[breatheonme]

You would be quiet too if you were working on your comeback album, visuals for every song from that album, a stadium world tour, re-releases of all your albums, B in the Mix Vol. 3, next year's Halftime Show and photoshoots for all the biggest publications in the world.

I’m sure all she does is wake up in the morning, take a shower, have breakfast, watch tv, have lunch, masturbate when Sam is not around, do some yoga an exercise, spend an hour or two looking for new inspirational pictures for Instagram, have dinner, fall asleep watching something.

[JeremySpears]

I’m sure all she does is wake up in the morning, take a shower, have breakfast, watch tv, have lunch, masturbate when Sam is not around, do some yoga an exercise, spend an hour or two looking for new inspirational pictures for Instagram, have dinner, fall asleep watching something.

You really think she can just sit at home and chill when she has a huge comeback era that will be the biggest era of her career, a global promo tour for her book, a Super Bowl Halftime show and a 25th anniversary celebration coming up? That doesn’t sound realistic

[Eugine]

I do think she might be working on music here and there just for fun.

[Eugine]

[breatheonme]

You really think she can just sit at home and chill when she has a huge comeback era that will be the biggest era of her career, a global promo tour for her book, a Super Bowl Halftime show and a 25th anniversary celebration coming up? That doesn’t sound realistic

Now that you mention it again, yes it does sound way more realistic

[Artoo]

You really think she can just sit at home and chill when she has a huge comeback era that will be the biggest era of her career, a global promo tour for her book, a Super Bowl Halftime show and a 25th anniversary celebration coming up? That doesn’t sound realistic

No, but she will stay at home and twirl whilst ignoring all that she could be doing

[Lookingfornews81]

I do think she might be working on music here and there just for fun.

One can only dream....

[PromoSpears]

This is important information about her certifications

[JeremySpears]

Britney is everyone’s mother yeah

[JeremySpears]

The cultural reckoning we faced during #FreeBritney is already dead

The way we talk about mental illness has regressed since the end of Britney Spears' conservatorship

On January 25, the Ventura County sheriff's office conducted a wellness check on Britney Spears, whose fans called the police concerned about her. Their concern? She had suddenly deleted her Instagram profile, which fans and the public have intrusively analyzed for years.

Britney is no stranger to this kind of surveillance — her mental health has been at the centre of an enormous and unforgiving media circus for nearly two decades. Despite being released in November 2021 from the conservatorship she had been under for 13 years, she continues to endure often-malicious speculation about her sanity.

The seemingly sudden deletion of her Instagram came after months of "peculiar" posts, including the memed-to-death videos of Britney dancing, which seemed to evoke both confusion and disgust in viewers. On Twitter, she said that her privacy was invaded by the wellness check and "things went a little too far." Britney's Instagram is back up as she regularly posts outfit-of-the-day videos, inspirational quotes, and AI-generated art — but the comments are turned off.

When they were still on, people cast vicious judgments framed as genuine concern for her, ranging from outright shaming to a patronizing kind of pity. The worst comments went so far as to question if she should still be under a conservatorship. It's no wonder she decided to delete her Instagram altogether — all the comments showed that little seems to have changed in the year and a half since the #FreeBritney movement.

The discussion about Britney's Instagram posts frame her perceived mental illness as uncomfortable to even look at — as though the public's discomfort, which comes out of sheer ableism, is more important than Britney's autonomy and freedom. It proves that we didn't meaningfully learn the ways that both misogyny and ableism worked in tandem to hurt Britney. The current perception of Britney Spears is just one example of our societal failures when it comes to the treatment of mad and disabled people — and if this is how we view Britney, one of the most successful pop stars in history, what hope is there for ordinary mad people?

We need to #FreeBritney again — for real this time.

I've lived with mental illness for as long as I can remember. Despite disability and mad justice being so integral to my own understanding of madness and my experiences, sometimes I'm still made to feel like something is wrong with me. This feeling has come out of disrespectful interactions in almost every personal, academic, and professional space; I've encountered endless evidence of the fact that our societal infrastructure actively works against people like me to make us feel like mental illness is something to be ashamed of. This especially comes out when I talk openly about my mental health and reach out for support. Since ableism has touched every aspect of my life, I hide.

When the documentary Framing Britney Spears brought attention to the fan-led #FreeBritney movement in 2021, it seemed to cause a cultural reckoning that made me hopeful. It felt like the conversation around mental illness was changing. As fans brought the reality of Britney's conservatorship into the public eye, people looked inward and assessed how quickly they believed — and contributed to — the narrative of a "crazy" female celebrity.

"We were all complicit. I know I was," Anne T. Donahue wrote for CBC Arts, reflecting on how the media's mistreatment of Britney trickled down to everyday people also normalizing a misogynistic and ableist attitude toward her. "I was far from the only one who indulged in the perverse speculation and judgment … As the decade progressed, so did the prevalence of outlets like TMZ and Perez Hilton, whose payroll hinged on ripping apart famous people in a bid to leave them powerless and to fuel our own resentments."

It appeared as though there was a burgeoning understanding that the media and public's ridicule of Britney was a key factor in her mental health deteriorating. Journalists and media personalities were criticized after interviews resurfaced of them humiliating Britney on television; Perez Hilton and Justin Timberlake publicly apologized for mistreating her years ago. The 2000s tabloid stories about Britney got a 2021 treatment, and reviewed with a new perspective, it seemed clear to everyone that the media failed her.

But this reckoning has already lost steam, as factions of the media and everyday people are back to making assumptions about Spears that are unsubstantiated, voyeuristic, and wildly ableist — enough to make her want to avoid the comments altogether. When you Google "Britney Spears Instagram," you'll find many articles mocking the pop star for posting "alarming" videos online. "Britney Spears Posts Bizarre and Animated Video, Fans Concerned," reads one TMZ headline. In another article, Ken Seeley from the A&E reality show Intervention says, "Everybody is getting to see the consequences of releasing that conservatorship." As insensitive as that comment is, it unfortunately echoes what many people have said about Britney in recent months — that she was "better off" under a conservatorship.

Though I can't relate to Britney's specific experience, I know how it feels to not be taken seriously when you are honest about your mental health needs. In a series of since-deleted tweets after fans called the wellness check, she shared, "I shut down my Instagram because there were too many people saying I looked like an idiot dancing and that I looked crazy. Honestly I was doing my best but it disturbed me to see people freely talk about it on TV ... yep it hurt my feelings."

Honestly, I was doing my best. I hear the frustration in those words. Britney is aware that those who look at her as an insane person think they know her better than she knows herself. They would rather scrutinize her social media with the same twisted fascination of true crime enthusiasts than just let her be mad. Because, of course, we can't be crazy and in control of ourselves. Autonomy is for the sane. We must be controlled until we prove we're no longer crazy.

Comments suggesting that there is something "wrong" with Britney, and that she deserves the abuse of a conservatorship, are beyond callous. They prove that we can't fathom someone being mentally ill and still deserving of agency.

The people who want Britney to stop "embarrassing herself" online when she posts dancing videos or scantily clad photos only see her as sick, not as a woman who may be trying to reclaim her personal expression after spending 13 years under the total control of others. In fact, given the reaction to her freely expressing herself, it's clear that people view a noncompliant woman as unhealthy, and neurodivergence itself as embarrassing. They wanted to "free" Britney, but only the version of her that they felt was palatable to them.

A person with mental illnesses shouldn't have to measure up to arbitrary standards of respectability in order to deserve empathy. So what if she's mad? It doesn't make her any less deserving of freedom.

What Britney deserves is to be fully and openly mad and whatever else, instead of having to live with people casting their own projections of who they want her to be. She doesn't deserve to have her behaviour constantly dissected just because she's in the public eye.

If we can't imagine something else — something better — for Britney, we continue to fail all the mad people in our communities. We continue to have to free Britney, again and again.

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/britney-spea...ning-1.6784718

Standing ovations from me for this amazing article

[JeremySpears]

She really gave birth to all the pop girls oh wow

[Eugine]

Britney posted 2000 VMAs rehearsal footage, we love to see it

[mitchuzu@gmail.com]

I think it would be nice to highlight how Britney has impacted pop culture as a whole.

Style, charisma, aesthetic, sayings like “y’all” y’all know, and overall scope of her celebrity.

I think she surpassed the men, Bc when we think of the biggest male stars of her generation, and since, even Eminem, we primarily think of their music.

Britney, however, has perfume, clothing, Barbie dolls, authored multiple books, starred in multiple movies, changed the way we discuss virginity, talk about personal relationships, and professional relationships (how much control did she have, was she worked too hard - pre-conservatorship included).

Her legacy extends outside of her songs, her concerts, and her music videos.

Ppl discuss her, the person, the artist, the mogul, the entrepreneur, the one who had a charity for a summer arts camp, which was highlighted a couple posts above the comment about even Taylor Swift.

The impact of Britney, is beyond her career.

Her life became a public figure as much as her products.

How and what do we think of that? Because it led to what we saw in that article about everyone weighing in on her.

If the Spice Girls imploded Bc they were too commercialized, Britney’s personal life imploded Bc things outside of her control, and outside of her music were too publicized.

They never asked Justin about his virginity, even as we all assumed his relationship with Britney meant if she was, he was too.

Instead, we saw the tabloids make a literal business out of her personal business.

TMZ started in 2005, and Bc that was the start of her personal tabloid fixture in a negative way, they literally have been making $ off of her stories since their inception.

This led to bias articles attempting to skew personal perceptions of Britney during and post-conservatorship, SUCH AS THE AUDIO-REVERSED RESTAURANT VIDEO, designed to trick the public into thinking she was talking gibberish, when she was not.

It is as if TMZ, Perez Hilton, were established to push Britney into a public spiral and continue to pick on her like it’s still 2007.

Perez Hilton literally sold t-shirts that read “Why not Britney?” After Heath Ledger died of an overdose.

Britney was the blueprint for a new kind of sick media, first the blogs like Perez, then the tabloid websites like TMZ, mockery on YouTube for her 2007 VMAs, and even now the social media we have conspiracy theory videos like we saw on TikTok impacting her actual life with “wellness checks”.

People justify their own curiosity as concern, when it’s “why aren’t you working and being done with the complaint posts?”

In every way, Britney is impacting the framework of pop culture media.

For better or for worse, at her own detriment - the media didn’t just fail her, they market her in a way that treats her like a villain to her own victimhood “she is free but does not know what to do with it” mentality.

We should discuss, what Britney deserves, and what we can do to highlight what she means.

[JeremySpears]

Good Morning America, I'm excited to tell you on Tuesday morning March 29th I'II be performing for the first time ever in a special concert in San Francisco's historic Castro district on Good Morning America and I promise you it'll be a morning to remember! See you soon!

[breatheonme]

Good Morning America, I'm excited to tell you on Tuesday morning March 29th I'II be performing for the first time ever in a special concert in San Francisco's historic Castro district on Good Morning America and I promise you it'll be a morning to remember! See you soon!

I love the bible

[JeremySpears]

Britney and Janet showing love to each on Instagram again Her REAL mother!

[breatheonme]

Britney mentioning in one of her captions that she looks younger without any makeup on!

She went to the light and finally saw Jesus!