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Joanne Lee
Straits Times Online Editor
The Circus is in town
November 26, 2008 Wednesday, 04:25 PM
Joanne Lee looks forward to Britney Spear's new album - and life chapter.
I'LL admit it publicly: I like Britney Spears. It's not cool, I know, but I've always been partial to a catchy tune and a performer with good moves. So it was with great sadness that I watched her spiral into Hollywood Hell in the past year. Her divorce! Her babies! Her body! First, there was that awful Kevin Federline business. I couldn't believe she actually proposed to him. Then there was that disastrous reality show replete with upsetting bodily sounds. Add in all those pictures of her driving with her baby on her lap, almost dropping her other son, shaving her head in front of the paparazzi, going mental at photo shoots, falling out with her parents, taking up with a dodgy papp boyfriend, performing in a suspiciously stoned state, losing custody of her sons, et cetera, and I was quite ready to take her for psychiatric hospitalisation myself. The entertainment media obviously went to town with all the drama. Her fans got sick of it all. Those who weren't fans to begin with vilified her. But it all made me admire her all the more - even before she recorded her new album, Circus. (Which, by the way, looks like it's going to rock when it's released next week - compared to the last album at the height of her psychodrama anyway.) We all mess up. Goodness knows, I have. Maybe not quite on a global scale, but I've still had my let's-just-forget-I-did-that moments. So it was easy to feel her pain of such a public break-up, the subsequent can't-be-bothered behaviour and the self-destructive tendencies. Much has been said about how, at 26, she's been a terrible role model for the generation that grew up with her - some say her life is as bizarre as Michael Jackson's. Still, I think her slow climb back to sanity has been something to learn from. And I'm not the only one. There was that famous Leave Britney Alone YouTube video, of course. But in many recent online articles, Rolling Stone for example, comments from readers have expressed sympathy with her meltdowns - quite a few declaring that they are mothers themselves. Celebrity breakdowns don't always have happy endings and I'm watching this one with fingers crossed. Lots of people might think she's a waste of space and the media should just shut up about her already, but a Britney Bounce-Back will certainly be encouraging for the rest of us. Let's just hope she doesn't, oops, do it again. Tags: entertainment 
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when ordinary people make a mistake, it is only to a certain degree where it is amplified. For Britney, or any other celebrities, if a mistake is shown to the public, the ramifications is amplified many times more.
Well, I like britney,
Look.
Britney Spears is extremely rich and famous.
She has many options in life.
But she squanders them away, and complains that her life is a mess.
There is no human lesson here.
Oh, everyone hates me, someone wrote a book about me, had an unglamorous pregnancy and divorce....oh everyone look I'm rich and famouse, a party goer, drunkard...come and pity me.
How much of Britney Spears is enough before we put the real attention to....ah, nevermind.
I bet no one could rise again so fast if you were put in her position.
Think about it. It's hard. Her mother was writing a book about her(why isn't it in Singapore?), K. Fed was just using her, her sister was getting pregnant at 16, her whole world was going crazy...
Of course she had a breakdown. Who on Earth wouldn't have one if their life was like that? Her life was so perfect and suddenly, everything goes wrong.
She just needed some time to herself. But the stupid paparazzi wouldn't give her that.
....nah, I'd rather say it eventhough some people will castigate me.
In Singapore, eventhough the government is not perfect, they've done their best to ensure our women, and the people in general don't end up sending their daughters to wash dishes in other countries for a meager SGD300 / month (no day-off).
But I hope women in our country don't become complacent and dumb.
Britney Spears is on the news simply for entertainment's sake. Let's not say there is a lesson to be learned here about womanhood...I learned a lot more from the maid working diligently in my home. That's where the real struggle is.
She's going back home this Christmas. She earned it.
I hope my fellow Singaporeans....ah, nevermind.
I'm sure everyone thinks celebrities are special, that special rules apply to them, and that there is a lesson to be learned from their pampered life, and their trivial rise from their insignificant struggles.
Despite the fact that the real effort are by their managers, PR staff and the recording companies.
I'm sure Britney Spears deserve an award from MTV.
But let's not glorify the triviality of her melo-drama....shallow and insignifcant compared to the daily struggles of real women.
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But then again, this is Singapore, what do we know about the real struggles fought by women in other parts of the world?
Women from other countries face discrimination and marginalization. And despite their education, still end up as maids or prostitutes in countries like ours.
If there is a lesson to be learned....ah, nevermind.
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