Mark's Britney Spears Thread

[Guest LiquidSky]

but she wasn't shaved like Britney :s

[TraceOddity]

Sorry Mark. If there are photos of me around from that time, I'm not aware of them,lol. I wouldn't mind seeing it again myself.

[mc_squared]

Sorry Mark. If there are photos of me around from that time, I'm not aware of them,lol. I wouldn't mind seeing it again myself.

 

Well that's very convenient, isn't it??:rolleyes:

[TraceOddity]

Well that's very convenient, isn't it??:rolleyes:

Not really. A bunch of my photos were lost in a basement flood a few years ago, along with the reel from my first album...not convenient at all. There was a photo in the newspaper of me busking wearing a fedora. THat's all I'm aware of. If I could find it, I'd post it.:)

[mc_squared]

Not really. A bunch of my photos were lost in a basement flood a few years ago, along with the reel from my first album...not convenient at all. There was a photo in the newspaper of me busking wearing a fedora. THat's all I'm aware of. If I could find it, I'd post it.:)

 

Is that the bald truth??:rolleyes:

[Sheepish]

What a funny shaped head she's got.

[Guest Grace]

 

those pics already look like they're from a film :D

[mc_squared]

^A porn film??:rolleyes:

[blackchickintheback]

:freak:

 

But seriously, I think she's buckling under all the stress of her divorce, the kids, the media and all that partying.

I feel sorry for her. :\

[Guest Grace]

^A porn film??:rolleyes:

must be a very bad porno then ...

[TraceOddity]

Is that the bald truth??:rolleyes:

Well, it's not a bald-faced lie,lol.

 

Most people seem to think that fame and money will automatically make you happy. Brit's proof that that's not true.

[mc_squared]

Well, it's not a bald-faced lie,lol.

 

Most people seem to think that fame and money will automatically make you happy. Brit's proof that that's not true.

 

Same goes for Robbie Williams and Wacko Jacko.;)

[TraceOddity]

Same goes for Robbie Williams and Wacko Jacko.;)

Some people even think it's getting to Chris. His behaviour's been a little odd lately, I admit. But it's not on a par with that lot. Although, he has shaved his head in the past...uh-oh...if he turns up somewhere asking for a piercing, I'll worry.:lol: :lol: :lol:

[mc_squared]

Some people even think it's getting to Chris. His behaviour's been a little odd lately, I admit. But it's not on a par with that lot. Although, he has shaved his head in the past...uh-oh...if he turns up somewhere asking for a piercing, I'll worry.:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

As I've said before - I think "fame" is a bit like a cancer which will eat you up in the end if you don't manage to step out of the limelight before it's too late.

Being a pop star must be tough, as you're expected to be on form and come up with the goods the whole time.

People think it's all glamour and riches, but I'm sure that's far from the truth.

If you read the Robbie Williams biography, "Feel", you will get a taste of what it's really like.

Andrew Ridgeley had the right idea - he made pots of money with Wham! and then retired to the coast 20 years ago. Nobody really cares what he's up to any more................................

[TraceOddity]

As I've said before - I think "fame" is a bit like a cancer which will eat you up in the end if you don't manage to step out of the limelight before it's too late.

Being a pop star must be tough, as you're expected to be on form and come up with the goods the whole time.

People think it's all glamour and riches, but I'm sure that's far from the truth.

If you read the Robbie Williams biography, "Feel", you will get a taste of what it's really like.

Andrew Ridgeley had the right idea - he made pots of money with Wham! and then retired to the coast 20 years ago. Nobody really cares what he's up to any more................................

Heh heh...I don't know if you've read any of my recent posts with regard to Chris's behaviour in Chile, but I've said much the same thing. You're expected to be kind and polite and "on" all the time, and being only human, that's implssible. Fame enables all sorts of actions most of us could never get away with...just look at the Rolling Stones,lol. But your every move is so scrutinized it must drive you crazy! Like I've said before, being a pop star is VERY hard work. I know people in the industry and I know the personal toll fame can take on a person. Alot of my favorite bands aren't together anymore, but at least they got out with most of their dignity intact.

[mc_squared]

Heh heh...I don't know if you've read any of my recent posts with regard to Chris's behaviour in Chile, but I've said much the same thing. You're expected to be kind and polite and "on" all the time, and being only human, that's implssible. Fame enables all sorts of actions most of us could never get away with...just look at the Rolling Stones,lol. But your every move is so scrutinized it must drive you crazy! Like I've said before, being a pop star is VERY hard work. I know people in the industry and I know the personal toll fame can take on a person. Alot of my favorite bands aren't together anymore, but at least they got out with most of their dignity intact.

 

I personally think it would be far better to be a writer and remain in the background, like Guy Chambers. That way you could at least be your own boss and "switch off" when you wanted.;)

[TraceOddity]

Hmmm...that's hard to do if you're a performer though. I like playing in front of people, and if anyone's going to butcher my songs, it's going to be me,lol. But I've gotten into my thirties without fame, and I'm old enough now to realize that's probably a good thing.:)

[mc_squared]

Hmmm...that's hard to do if you're a performer though. I like playing in front of people, and if anyone's going to butcher my songs, it's going to be me,lol. But I've gotten into my thirties without fame, and I'm old enough now to realize that's probably a good thing.:)

 

Yes - you're far better off........................ :cool:

[TraceOddity]

Yes - you're far better off........................ :cool:

I wish I was sellling more records, but other than that, I'm content. My temperment's almost as unpredictalbe as Chris's,lol. The press would tear me apart.:lol: My whole world is about the music. None of the bullshit. Of coiurse, much as I feel sorry for Brit, I can't say her life's all about the 'music',lol.:P

[mc_squared]

I wish I was sellling more records, but other than that, I'm content. My temperment's almost as unpredictalbe as Chris's,lol. The press would tear me apart.:lol: My whole world is about the music. None of the bullshit. Of coiurse, much as I feel sorry for Brit, I can't say her life's all about the 'music',lol.:P

 

I think that's a major understatement!!:P

[mc_squared]

Is Britney about to self-destruct?

 

Last updated at 00:19am on 19th February 2007 Comments

Britney Spears: While psychologists speculated that her behaviour was a cry for help, her shorn locks were being auctioned on eBay for $1million

 

Fears were growing for Britney Spears' mental health yesterday after she shaved her head and branded her body with tattoos a day after quitting rehab.

While psychologists speculated that her behaviour was a cry for help, her shorn locks were being auctioned on eBay for $1million.

If her life hadn't been touched by stardust, putting her on VIP lists at places where no girl from the Louisiana backwoods should expect the red carpet, Britney Spears might have considered a job at Esther's Haircutting Studio in Tarzana to be the epitome of success.

 

Check out...

Gallery: Britney going bald • Bald Britney 'Shears' walks out of rehab

Britney strips off with lapdancers

 

As it is, a career which reached the show-business heights may have finally crashed and burned for all the world to see, as Miss Spears wielded a pair of clippers at the back of the San Fernando Valley salon.

As a crowd of curious passers-by pressed their noses against the plate-glass window, the scene took on a ghoulish, peep-show quality. Inside, a clearly troubled Miss Spears, a recent fugitive from rehab, hacked at her own once famously golden locks until they were gone.

Shaven-headed, she left to get some tattoos. Her only companions on this weird odyssey were a pair of burly bodyguards. Later over the weekend, the singer reportedly admitted herself to a Los Angeles hospital.

Friday evening's 'makeover' cost Britney less than £80. The price of the damage to her image is considerably higher and, as a statement of rejection of everything fame has thrust upon her, it was as articulate as it was disturbing.

Certainly, the look she now sports is a million miles from the pigtailed, schoolgirl temptress who skipped and pouted to international superstardom only nine years ago.

Last night, Spears' official website was out of action for the second day running. It is hard to see how it could respond positively to the latest blaze of publicity.

Meanwhile, as well as alleged clumps of her hair, a three-quartersfull can of Red Bull and a blue Bic lighter Britney left in the salon are being auctioned on eBay.

Someone, at least, is benefiting from a very public stumble. Alas, for Miss Spears, it is not the first, merely the worst, such incident.

It follows the breakdown of her second marriage and months of hard partying in the company of such louche luminaries as Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan.

Beyond the nightly images of dishevelled excess was a wider problem of declining record sales, a failed marriage, struggles with motherhood, parental splits and a number of incidents of erratic behaviour in public.

So, having reached the grand old age of 25 only two months ago, is it really all over for the one-time teen pop princess?

More importantly, can she recover herself sufficiently to be able to look after her two children, over whose custody she is battling her soon-to-be ex-husband, Kevin Federline?

Whatever the outcome, the story thus far is of a sweet girl from the sticks who was thrust at an early age into the showbusiness grinder by an ambitious mother.

Britney Jean Spears was born in Mississippi and grew up in Kent-wood, Louisiana, a small town north of New Orleans. Her father was a building contractor and her mother Lynn, the daughter of an English war bride, a teacher.

From an early age, Britney could sing and dance. Having been judged too young at eight to join the cast of the TV show The New Mickey Mouse Club, she spent much of the following three years with her mother in New York, seeking theatrical jobs.

In 1993, she became a Mouseketeer, alongside future pop stars Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera.

Her breakthrough came in 1998, with the massive worldwide hit Baby One More Time, which saw the 16-year-old Spears cavort as a Catholic schoolgirl in a video which was more Lolita than Mickey Mouse. The video was her idea, she has insisted.

Dubious speculation about a breast implant operation (she hadn't had one) and her virginity (until marriage she said, though she lost it to boyfriend Timberlake) went hand in hand with her demure yet provocative image. It worked.

For two years, she was the biggest pop star in the world and still not out of her teens. But by 2002, she was feeling constrained - having her navel pierced was a big deal, as was being caught smoking - and aiming for a more adult and overtly sexual image.

It was clear from album sales that many fans still wanted the Catholic schoolgirl, rather than a barely clad slavegirl or the pseudo-lesbian who gave Madonna a full-blown kiss at the 2003 MTV Awards.

By then, the showbiz world was beginning to wreak destruction: after 30 years of marriage, her parents divorced, citing in part the pressure

caused by their daughter's career. Perhaps this had some bearing on what happened in January 2004 when Spears, wearing a baseball cap and jeans, took part in a spur- ofthemoment wedding ceremony to a childhood friend, Jason Alexander, at a chapel on the Las Vegas strip. A bellhop served as their witness.

Within 55 hours, her horrified family and management had managed to get an annulment. Spears later explained that she just wanted to know what it was like to be married.

Shortly afterwards, she met dancer Kevin Federline in a club. He already had a child by his girlfriend, who was pregnant with a second. Nevertheless, the couple were soon engaged, getting married later that year and moving into the isolated splendour of a Malibu beachfront mansion.

Spears announced a career break. She had her first son, Sean, and a second, Jayden, almost exactly a year later. And yet within weeks of his birth, she ended her marriage.

The feckless Federline, who fancies himself as a rap star and goes under the ridiculous soubriquet K-Fed, was apparently dumped by text.

Spears filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences, and applied for child custody. Federline counter-sued. In the light of the weekend's events, it promises to be a dirty fight.

Since the break-up, Britney has embarked on a mammoth bender, partying almost nightly and often without underwear. Few in Los Angeles were surprised when it was reported that she had checked into Eric Clapton's Crossroads Centre rehab clinic on the island of Antigua on Valentine's Day - only to check herself out 24 hours later.

Then came the visit to Esther Tognozzi's salon. Britney had spent ten minutes crying in a car outside before going in and asking for her head to be shaved. The owner refused, fearing a writ from the star's management company for ruining Miss Spears' image.

'I tried to talk her out of it,' said Ms Tognozzi. 'I said: "Are you sure you're not having a bad day and tomorrow you'll feel differently about it? Why don't we wait a little bit?''

'She said: "No, I absolutely want it shaved off now." Next thing, she grabbed the razor, went to the back of my salon and was shaving off her own hair.

'Afterwards, she just looked in the mirror and said with tears in her eyes: "Oh, my God, I shaved it all off. My mum is going to be so upset with me." '

Wearing a hoodie to cover her bald head, Spears went to the Body & Soul tattoo parlour in the nearby suburb of Sherman Oaks. She stayed for 90 minutes, during which time she was given a tattoo of red lips on her wrist and a small black, white and pink cross on her hip.

Emily Wynne-Hughes, who was in the parlour, said the singer looked 'distraught and disturbed'.

'She just said she was tired of having things (hair extensions) plugged into her. She said she was tired of people touching her. It seemed like she was kind of sick of it all, whatever it all is. She was very scatter-brained and upset. I think she wanted to be left alone.'

A few hours later, Spears is said to have gone to the Cedar-Sinai Medical Centre in Beverly Hills, wearing a dark wig. Unconfirmed sources said she seemed detached and anxious.

There have been other signs of a life in turmoil this week. It was reported yesterday that Spears has put her Beverly Hills mansion up for sale, just two months after buying it, fully furnished, for $8 million.

After quitting the marital home in Malibu, the singer had been so keen to move into her new house that she gave the former owners five days to vacate after the first viewing. Local estate agents say she is likely to lose half a million dollars on the deal.

Last month, Spears posted a message on her website acknowledging the negative publicity, but adding: 'I look forward to coming back this year bigger and better than ever and to reaching out to my fans on a more personal level.'

However, these recent events are a sad distortion of that wish. One of her former assistants, Felicia Culotta, posted an e-mail on a gossip blog expressing her concern.

'I am crushed/saddened/ heartsick by the way her life is unfolding,' she said.

'We (as her family and nearest and dearest . . . not on the payroll any more) are doing everything in our power to get help for Britney.

'There's just so much you can do to save a person. I cannot save her from herself, nor can I commit her to any type of treatment programme against her wishes and will.

'When she does, indeed, hit rock bottom, she'll stand up and walk away from this whole fiasco a new, confident, changed, career-driven Britney like we all knew and loved.'

Spears' mother was reportedly flying to California to try to stop her daughter's freefall. The girl from Louisiana is looking increasingly lost in La La Land.

Showbusiness took most of Britney Spears' childhood. It made her a $100 million fortune, but now threatens to ruin her life.

[TraceOddity]

My feelings about parents shoving their children into show business at too early an age are a matter for another thread, but suffice to say it's a good way to ruin your children's lives...and in this case, maybe your grandchildren's too.

 

What kind of life are Brit's kids going to have if this keeps up?Neither she nor K-Fed is fit to raise them right now.:cry:

[mc_squared]

My feelings about parents shoving their children into show business at too early an age are a matter for another thread, but suffice to say it's a good way to ruin your children's lives...and in this case, maybe your grandchildren's too.

 

What kind of life are Brit's kids going to have if this keeps up?Neither she nor K-Fed is fit to raise them right now.:cry:

 

I doubt K-Fed would ever be, as he's quite obviously on another planet!!:rolleyes:

[TraceOddity]

I doubt K-Fed would ever be, as he's quite obviously on another planet!!:rolleyes:

On one or from one? This is not a win/win for any of them. I honestly hope she can pull it together for their sake.

[mc_squared]

On one or from one? This is not a win/win for any of them. I honestly hope she can pull it together for their sake.

 

If she really cares about the kids, she should bow out of the limelight, move away from California and concentrate on raising them. After all, she certainly doesn't need the money....................... ;)