It's Britney B****?

It seems that the most popular person in today's music media is Britney Spears. Everyone wants a "piece" of her and at first she loved the publicity. Now you can see her new video which clearly indicates that she just wants to go back to being a regular celebrity, if there is such a thing. She started her career way too young and has never really had a really childhood so as soon as she got out of the spotlight she wanted in and once she got in she couldn't get out. This almost destroyed her career and put her through a lot of stress. People still have websites where users be on when she will commit suicide and people still think she is crazy. She does have some problems but I think I would be a little crazy too if I got a record deal when I was 17. Regardless of what is happening in the life of Britney now, it all started back in January of 2007.

Spears' close aunt died of cancer and Spears was heavily into drugs. She checked herself into a rehabilitation centre on February 16 and left lass than 24 hours after.The next night she went to the local hair cutters and got her head shaved. On February 20 she checked into a treatment centre, left and then returned on the 22nd and was released on March 20th after successfully completing the program. This is where the battle for her two children began. Her ex-husband Kevin Federline wanted custody of the children as he thought Spears was not a well suited mother. Throughout 2007 she received much attention from the media because of her behavior and her constant battle for custody of her children.

Her performance at the 2007 MTV music awards received a lot of attention. I think that this attention was for all of the wrong reasons. Reporters were saying that she looked horrible and there were many jokes made about her weight and her appearance. This, of course shouldn't effect the performance. Although her performance was mediocre as she lip-synced and sometimes stopped singing all together and her dance moves were horribly choreographed most reporters wrote about her appearance. This teaches us that most media is based off of appearance. If you don't look a certain way they will make you look that way to fit the persona that the media gives you. If Spears didn't show up she would be called a coward so she did and everyone still found something to make fun of even though it was completely unnecessary to make fun of her looks. This caused her a lot of stress and she was quickly back into drugs and alcohol.

As the battle for her children continued she was issued to take random drug and alcohol tests as well as attend a parenting class. Not more than a week after the hearing she was found guilty of a hit-and-run and driving without a license. On October 1 she lost custody of her children to Federline. Earlier this month after refusing to give her children up to Federlines "people", she was checked in to a hospital and appeared to under the influence of an unknown substance. Her new song "Piece of Me" is an excellent interpretation of how the media followed her looking for every wrong move. The video for the song portrays this very well and it is a big comeback from her performance at the MTV music awards.

What does this teach us? What does this teach little children who look up to people like Britney Spears. We're old enough that we can understand and break down things like this but children might take this the wrong way thinking it's alright to do drugs and drink if you're a celebrity. The media today not only influences us, it influences the next generation and whether they're supposed to see it or not, they will eventually see it and it's up to our generation to show them that sometimes what they see celebrities do is wrong. Maybe Spears had no one to tell her this and shes been a star for so long that it is natural for her to be acting the way she does. Here's a clip of her new video for "Piece of Me".