Funny like a hole in the head
“Lard and Clear.”
That was the headline on Monday’s New York Post describing an unfit and scantily clad Britney Spears’ train wreck performance at MTV’s Video Music Awards over the weekend.
That’s really mean, unfair – and funny.
But no one will be laughing if she winds up like Anna Nicole Smith – dead. Sure, Brit’s given us plenty of fodder these days, but behind the laughs it appears her life is falling apart. I’m the first one to admit it’s easy to forget that when you’re busting a gut.
And I’m the first to admit it’s hard to feel bad for celebrities. But we have to either love them or hate them. No more kick ‘em while their down and hug them when they pick themselves back up. No more flip-flopping.
If Britney doesn’t get it together, and winds up like all the rest of Hollywood’s cursed, we can’t take the easy way out and feel bad – we should have felt bad while it was happening. It’s an insult to speak or act otherwise. Instead, I say we force ourselves keep laughing, and see how that feels.
But that would be mean, right?
September 17th, 2007 at 9:24 am
As much as I would like to laugh, I know that this behavior on Ms Spears part is evidence of a life out of control. Drugs, alcohol, and exessive everything is making her life so unmanageable. In truth, I never really thought of her as being a “wholesome” entertainer from when she broke through the pop barrier. I saw she was in trouble then, acting like an exotic dancer instead of a 16 year old.
It is obvious that music is not what has driven her in her career. It is money. The old saying goes: “money is at the root of all evil”. I am sad for her as she is now receivimg the rewards for her desires.