The Emancipation of BRITNEY

I have to admit: In the past, I never liked Miss Spears.

Always felt that she's got no voice (both singing voice and personal opinion of life and direction) ...and packaged.

Packaged, she definitely is. Her image and music are all Jive Records' work and of course top producer Max Martin's.

Direction? I, now know, she definitely had.

Let's all agree that we have always had this opinion of Britney: 'She's singing something that is more 'us' than it is 'her'. That it is all her producers' idea of making sure that her music 'connected' with audiences...'

NOW , seeing her in and out of rehab, messily divorced, 2 kids in tow at such a young age, an absolute free-loading cow of an ex-husband, ... and all shaved and tatooed .... and acting the part of trailer trash, we now see her free from the gloss sheened around her by Jive.

Suddenly, her past hits make sense.

....'I'm not a girl, not yet a woman'( grown-up and a mum but is still so young and lost), 'I'm a Slave for you' ( she's not sexing it up for herself but for us who love it.. damn us!), 'Over-protected' ( she's needs to be free to make mistakes so that she can learn, not constantly 'puppeted'), 'Everytime' (she wants wings to feel big and to fly away from all the fake-ness and scrutiny)... and of course ... 'Stronger' (she 's ready to grow up and was going into a relationship (albeit a wrong one) to becomes a 'whole' and normal person; filling a void in her lonely-star life;
' Lucky'. ) And, she's definitely proven recently, that she needs to live her own life as she sees fit ' My Prerogative'.

Yeash, finally, Britney is emancipated.

I don't know if 80 million albums (in such a short time!) later, with all this trailer-trash fiasco going on, its hard to fathom if she's got a career left come this September 2007.

But, at least, she's tasted mega success. AND is free, finally.


(In a way, she's fortunate. Madonna and Cher are still chasing fame at their grand dame-age, took so much mess and 14-years with Bad Boy Bobby for Whitney to figure it out, a very bombed out but still-at-it-desperately Mariah; to see her slowly get crushed by it, while younger and direct rivals like Beyonce and Aguilera incessantly trying to out-sing each other and are still lost and dazzled in the fame-game.
Yeash, Britney can at least say, she's been there and done that and can move on with her life... peacefully. And normally... away from the first 20-odd years that were others' rather than her's.)