<p>After the “performance” (or non-performance) at the MTV Awards show Sunday night (check Google News and search for Britney; also go to mtv.com), I was surprised that no thread popped up here. The critics were vicious, the audience stunned, and Sarah Silverman joked on stage, “How about that Britney? She’s only 25 and has already accomplished everything she’s going to accomplish in her life.” However, later that night, a photographer caught her out on the town, panty-less again, so I guess she really didn’t care how it went.</p>
<p>It really is painful seeing this meltdown take place in the public eye.</p>
<p>Clearly she needs help…but what do you do with a 25 year old adult who, reportedly, has bipolar disorder and refuses to address it? It is very sad.</p>
<p>What I want to know is this. Doesn’t MTV have standards? Weren’t they monitoring her dress rehearsals which were supposedly very bad? Of course they do, and of course they knew EXACTLY what was about to go down live in front of millions of people. (After all, Sarah Silverman didn’t think up that little ditty about being washed up at 25 on the fly.) So why didn’t MTV pull the plug? Oh yeah…because even if she bombed, they made money. Even better if she goes down in flames, because people be back for more next year.</p>
<p>Kanye West, the big crybaby, was exactly right…MTV exploited the situation.</p>
<p>When the Britney shaved head/Anna Nicole mess/Paris Hilton DUI were all swapping places as the “breaking news” on CNN, FOX, etc., I had an epiphany…“I really, really, don’t care.” It has saved me hours and hours of following non-news stories about selfish, rich, spoiled celebrities!</p>
<p>I didn’t really follow the story, but the outlines were enough. It’s just sad when a young person falls apart and there’s just no way to help them straighten out. For the rest of the world, though, it’s a huge morality play, obvious enough to sink in on even the most resistant to learning life lessons from others. Young people tend to feel personally invulnerable, but as the father of a 17 year old girl, I don’t mind having Britney and Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton as examples to bring up from time to time about how wealth and fame don’t necessarily bring happiness, and how a certain degree of modesty and moderation may actually be a good idea.</p>
<p>Kluge, that’s about the best way to look at the overall current celebrity game. I was in Las Vegas for other purposes this weekend and read many local stories of the overall wretched excess of the awards weekend. I knew I was getting old when I no longer could identify 90% of the groups/singers up for awards. The pop music industry is in a downward spiral.</p>
<p>“why does she still have those kids…if reports of giving them booze are true, why are those kids still in that house?”</p>
<p>If they take hers, they’ll also need to take about 20% of the population for the same thing. </p>
<p>Anyway, from the brief bit I saw, a couple of things Stage fright. She was not up to game speed. It was like watching the first series of several football games yesterday… the timing was off.</p>
<p>Second, too much body for too little and too small an outfit. Her body isn’t bad, really it’s not. However, who ever put her in that outfit should be fired. While I enjoy skin as much as any man, she looked “painfully” dressed. The outfit didn’t fit her correctly. </p>
<p>The folly of the rich is they often employ those around them who lie, rather than provide truthful insight. Ya can’t tell me, nobody but me looked at that outfit and went two sizes too small?</p>
<p>I read this morning (ok, yes, I did seek information) that Britney chose the outfit herself and rejected a more modest outfit selected by the stylist of MTV. I find this so damn sad. </p>
<p>I think I read that she gave them caffeine to keep them up late so they would sleep in…not sure about alcohol</p>
<p>I remember when my son was real little, I put aluminum foil over his window. He’d be up at the crack off dawn in the summer, so I faked him out a bit to get him to sleep past 6 am. I clearly remember the first day he got up by himself, got the bowl of dry cereal and turned on cartoons. I slept until 7:30 and thought I’d gone to heaven. We had a small apt so he wasn’t too far from me at any time. I guess he was about 3 when that happened…</p>
<p>probably 20% or more of the population does really, really bad things to their kids. I’m married to a 30 year elementary school teacher, the stories I could share… </p>
<p>It’s a big bad world out there with a quarter of our kids failing or dropping out of school. Most common reason? boredom. </p>
<p>When you’re bored, what’s there to do besides make unwanted children and then raise them without care, without love… Brittany’s just the tip of the iceberg…look around.</p>
<p>There’s mommies and daddy’s giving kids alot more than booze these days.</p>