Soooooo as if anybody needed any introductions/reminders, Britney Spears' pseudo-documentary Britney: For The Record aired last night, promising to answer all our questions about the pop princess' rather erratic and weird last few years.
Don't me wrong, I loved British-accent-Britney (Babs?) but am glad she has finally got her shit together and is returning to 2003/2004-era, even if it does translate as a generous helping of sugar coating applied to all aspects of her life.
She definitely comes across as pretty well-grounded at the moment - telling jokes, having a laugh, but also not afraid to show some real emotion. Unfortunately it's hard to know how much of this was real and how much was scripted to perfection.
The sugar coating was particularly annoying, as the questions that most people would have asked her were not even touched upon. I for one would have asked her about (I swear I'm not obsessed but) the British accent: who was her vocal trainer? I mean c'mon it was amazing! WHY did she pick a British accent? Just cos Madonna does something doesn't mean it's cool...
Speaking of Madonna - I really think somebody needs to stage an intervention before she pulls a Maryann (bring back Cybill!!) and becomes completely unrecognisable.
Papa Spears came across as quite irritating - it's clear he cares about his daughter but you couldn't shake the feeling that she was essentially a cash-cow to him. Throughout the interview she clearly despises his influence on her, mocking him and at one stage reducing him to tears, which was a tad harsh but who knows the level of emotinal complexity operating in a family that constantly lives under the spotlight.
I've put part one at the end of this post; at the moment the other parts are on Youtube but only in a random-gay-pointing-a-camcorder-at-his-TV form. Hopefully some higher quality ones will be up soon.
Oh and they played this! C'mon get together...
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