November 18, 200816 yr TWO NEW PROMOS courtesy of Sky1! :o http://sky1.sky.com/britney-on-marriage http://sky1.sky.com/britney-art-is-my-therapy :heart:
November 18, 200816 yr Author Britney Spears Calls Her Life Worse Than a Jail Sentence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From People: Britney Spears says that since her breakdown, her life has been worse than a jail sentence – but that she's slowly healing one day at a time. "I have really good days, and then I have bad days," the singer, 26, admits in a new fly-on-the wall, 90-minute documentary, Britney: For The Record, to air in the U.S. Nov. 30 on MTV and in the U.K. Dec. 1 on Sky1. Struggling to gain control of her life again after her public meltdown earlier this year, she says candidly: "Even when you go to jail, y'know, there's the time when you're gonna get out. But in this situation, it's never ending. It's just like [the Bill Murray movie] Groundhog Day." She adds, "I'm having to pay for it for a really long time." Spears was hospitalized for mental evaluation in January, which resulted in her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, being granted sole custody of their sons, Preston and Jayden. Her father, Jamie Spears, also gained legal control over her affairs. Not Being Heard "If I wasn't under the restraints that I'm under right now, I'd feel so liberated," she says in the film, which follows the singer as she records and promotes her new album Circus. "When I tell them the way I feel, it's like they hear me, but they're really not listening." A camera crew followed the singer for three months as she moved to pull her life back on track. "I wanted to make this film because I started to feel like I wasn't being seen in the light that I wanted to be seen in," Spears said. "This is an opportunity to set the record straight and talk about what I've been through and where I'm headed." Overall, she says, "I think I've learned my lesson now, and enough is enough."
November 21, 200816 yr Author Britney Makes You Happy, Sad, Sympathetic And Hopeful In This Gripping Documentary n5B75b0LtHQ&eur On Thursday November 20th, Hollywood Bubble was invited by Britney Spears’ management to an exclusive screening of her new documentary that will be airing on MTV on November 30th titled “Britney: For The Record”. As a matter of fact, to my knowledge, at around 5:45 PM PT, only a handful of people were in the screening room with us as Larry Rudolph, Spears’ manager introduced the audience into what he said was a “remarkable and amazing intimate look into her life”. He said the documentary took 3 months to make, and begun the day she would appear at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, where she took home three awards, for the first time ever. The lights dimmed, and the screening began with a backdrop of downtown Los Angeles faded out, and on top they put a “disclaimer” type text that read something along the lines of “Nothing was left off limits, No conversation was censored, No topic was too much”, which was of course a relative statement. What we were about to see was approximately 30 minutes of a 62 minute documentary, where the producers had spliced up the best parts in no chronological order in order for us to get a taste of what you guys will see on November 30th. Without further ado, here are the highlights: Life and Troubles Interviewer: Do you know your life is weird? Britney Spears: Do I know my life is weird? It’s all I’ve ever known. She was then asked if she felt ready to put herself in the spotlight again, which followed by awkward silence, and Britney just staring into space, not saying a word. One of the most depressing parts of the entire documentary was the underlying (and honest) tone that even though this was her comeback, and even though everything is going as planned, she still remains sad and a prisoner of her own castle. There is a part where she breaks down and tears start running. She says something like “I have realized that it’s better to not have feelings, and not feel anything at all, because when you’re happy, everyone takes that away from you, they hear me, but they’re not listening, it’s sad. I’m so sad” and she begins to cry. Adnan Ghalib and Sam Lutfi Even though their names weren’t mentioned, there is a part where Britney began talking about her rocky past and the consequences of letting certain people into her life. She said “I totally lost my way, lost focus, lost myself, all I wanted was to feel free”. She goes on and says “It came to a point where I ended up letting the wrong people in because I was lonely” and how due to that, she is going to have to pay the consequences of it for the rest of her life. Romance For the first time, she opens up about the break-up with Justin Timberlake saying how her relationship with him was the magnitude of what she had become and how when he was gone, she didn’t know what to do. She went on to say that she handled the break-up with Justin, better than she handled it with Kevin Federline. “I married for the wrong reasons and it led me on a weird path. I never really faced it and I just ran.” She said things started to get bumpy with Kevin Federline the moment he began focusing on recording his album. She said she would never see him anymore because of it and when that happened things got weird, and she even contemplated moving to Miami. Family Britney Spears lost the beauty of being spontaneous in life, she says. She mentioned how when she was younger, the family would just randomly go on a trip to Biloxi and it didnt take an army of security or strategic planning to pull such thing off. She says she misses being able to do that, she can’t move, she can’t go anywhere, she is a prisoner. It is clear that Britney Spears finally has a father figure with her in the current trenches. This is the same man who chose to not be part of her fame and her career, and stay back in Kentwood during her rise to stardom. Nevertheless, it is also the same man who many will say saved her from what could have been certain death. Nowadays, Jamie Spears has almost assumed the role of a manager, and he’s shown making her a traditional southern breakfast he calls cheese griddles and the part that shows him tasting the goo right out of the pot was most likely my least favorite part of the screening. Her making fun of his accent, posture and behaviour later sure made me laugh. That didn’t stop Britney from taking a smooth jab at the situation with the conservatorship. She said “If I wasn’t under the restraints of doctors and lawyers, I would feel liberated, but now I’m stuck in this place. How do I cope?” Her Fans Following criticism that she at one point stopped caring, she explained that the first two years, the fame that she achieved was overwhelming and exciting, but that as time went by, it became torture for her. She said “After 6 years, I wanted everything to stop” and they had her voice saying this as a fan was on the other side of her SUV’s tinted windows begging for an autograph, to which Britney would just stare at, almost fixated, like she was frozen. All in all, this documentary will show you the gruesome truth of what it feels like to be in Britney Spears’ shoes. This is not a goody two shoes “let’s make the Britney image look good” endeavor from her management or record label. It lives up to the words of Hunter S. Thompson who one day said: “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.” In the end, as an audience, we are left with sympathy, but sad sympathy over the fact that no matter what happens, Britney Spears will never have nor achieve the thing she wants the most, and what that is, is something you will have to figure out once you watch this gripping documentary.
November 21, 200816 yr It seems like most of it will be pretty sad. :( I feel bad for her already reading about all of these sad descriptions about the documentary!
November 22, 200816 yr Awww :cry: I just want to give her a great big hug! The part that left a lump in my throat was reading this particular bit... One of the most depressing parts of the entire documentary was the underlying (and honest) tone that even though this was her comeback, and even though everything is going as planned, she still remains sad and a prisoner of her own castle. There is a part where she breaks down and tears start running. I really can't wait for this to air and show the 'Haters' and Paps who she REALLY is!
November 22, 200816 yr Reading this just makes my view that Britney's heart really isn't in it any more seem all the more likely. I really don't think she'd mind at all if she didn't put out another record for five years and just sat back and lived life... Jive are clearly using her as a cash cow which is really sad. Nobody deserves that, and especially not Britney given what she's been through and how hard she works. I hope once all of this era is over she has a few years off. She's young enough to be able to do that. Maybe if she does the passion for her career will come back to her...
November 22, 200816 yr Reading this just makes my view that Britney's heart really isn't in it any more seem all the more likely. I really don't think she'd mind at all if she didn't put out another record for five years and just sat back and lived life... Jive are clearly using her as a cash cow which is really sad. Nobody deserves that, and especially not Britney given what she's been through and how hard she works. I hope once all of this era is over she has a few years off. She's young enough to be able to do that. Maybe if she does the passion for her career will come back to her... I can 100% see what you are saying. She just needs to get the Papparazzi out of the bloody way, then she can probably concentrate even more on getting her life back together with the kids and everything! She needs to settle down! And I have to agree with you, about her taking a long break.
November 22, 200816 yr Author I think that she loves what she does. She loves to record and she loves to perform, but she hates the paparazzi and all the flack that comes with being a star of her magnitude. She also says that the passion and her life are both re-building as she continues to get better. If she didn't want to do this album she wouldn't have, she has said herself that dancing and entertaining is her way of expressing herself and her form of therapy. See here: U7BpD-IcshU Also bear in mind that this was recorded over the span of 3 months and so far everyone has said that they have seen her passion and determination for her career grow again.
November 23, 200816 yr Author Britney: For The Record trailers on Times Square gHs7aJC1mp0 7RwGgMlcQck they are promoting this ALOT.
November 23, 200816 yr Actually this is the time where she has to show the world who she really is... IT'S NOW OR NEVER
November 24, 200816 yr Looks very insightful! :o I love Britney's attitude towards all of it, she seems to be very strong considering what she's been through. I look forward to it muchly.
November 24, 200816 yr can't wait to see this! where's getting this the 3th really really sad but soooooo good of her to do this! now people like us can see how life's like as a popstar!
November 24, 200816 yr Looks incredible, but so sad. :wub: I agree... So promising (as a documentary), yet so sad...
