I agree (on both counts). The moment being organized or harnessed was me building from your speculation. I don’t think the FreeBritney swarm is being harnessed though. I see more stan culture and cultural reassessments mixing than Britney paying people to have the whole thing happen.

Let me put it this way: I think the Free Britney movement is at least as organic as the people who swarm you on social media if you whisper “Michael Jackson was a pedophile.”

... yeah, why would she do that?

“She can make millions but not care for herself” is such bad logic, though. The skills it takes to perform for 90 minutes are different from the skills it takes to get through daily life. Just look at all the performers who kept working through devastating addictions. Or for that matter, look at Howard Hughes. Successf…

I don’t think your position is completely unreasonable either, but I’m skeptical that anything much would have leaked that Britney didn’t want to get out. There’s a lot of legal protection for private health information; additionally, celebrities tend to use NDAs liberally. If Chadwick Boseman could keep his cancer…

Her current man is spinning this giant narrative about her and pushing this, and a court rejected it so he’s not pushing to win the court of public opinion. If Britney is doing so well right now, why would it need to be changed? I can’t help but think that people are conspiring to gain control of her from her dad so…

Yes to this a million percent. Like leave the lady alone already. The NYTimes creating this documentary is just another greedy bite at the Britney apple all dressed up as highbrow journalism. Also, Justin Timberlake is a dick, but bad relationships and revenge songs don’t give another person a mental illness. That’s…

She did cheat on him though, no? Of course she wanted to keep things private if she was the one cheating. So you could argue she publicly humiliated him first. If anything, out of all the crap he’s done since (Janet, cheating on his wife, etc), publicly slamming his first serious girlfriend for cheating on him is…

Exactly. I’ve seen people suggest Jamie Spears is bribing judges, which seems...unlikely.

Oh yeah, I don’t mean to say I don’t think she needs the conservatorship. Occam’s razor is that she does — if it were as easy to get one instituted and upheld as half the internet seems to think, it would be the go-to for every rich family with an relative they couldn’t control. The fact it’s so enormously rare…

The thing that stands out to me that doesn’t seem to get talked about as much is the fact that as recently as November a judge denied her requests to make changes to the conservatorship. Not some shadowy record executive or people trying to profit off of her or her dad. An actual judge in a family court. Even one of…

Completely agree with all of this.

Thanks. I know all about it and I’m still not feeling the outrage all of you are. And I still can’t manage any kind of strong feelings toward Timberlake, good or bad. Like you said, he’s banal. Sure, he’s a weasel but no more so than a ton of other people. He’s not even an interesting villain. As for cheating on his…

I don’t understand this website or some people’s obsession over the demonisation of Justin Timberlake. Maybe I was never enough of a Britney fan and I’m a few years too old to have given a shit about their musical heyday or about when they dated but it seems pretty fucking psychotic to be blaming Timberlake for even…

My new conspiracy theory is that Britney Spears’ people are guiding this whole Framing Britney/#FreeBritney phenomenon. Not to say she wasn’t treated unfairly and doesn’t deserve better — she very much was, and of course she does — but the way it’s all SO positive for her and all the voices make the exact same points?…

Yeah, having witnessed how incredibly hard it is to get an adult psychiatric help when they go off their meds, go manic, refuse all treatment, and go in a permanent downward spiral (in my friend’s case, ending in suicide), I’m concerned about strangers diagnosing this situation. The system is incredibly reluctant to…

If you haven’t read the books, sure why not - despite the sleaze, the acting just gets better although the final season is shit but then this has happened to so many other shows and it’s not about the destination but the journey. If you have read the books, think about the worst film rendition of one of your favorite…

For the record, I wasn’t a GoT fan and don’t give a shit about Weiss and Benioff. But I hate the terrible logic in articles like these. I’ll focus on two issues:

Well that’s bullshit. California is an at-will state. You can be fired with or without cause any day of the week with no notice beyond, “hey, you’re fired. Get out.”

He’s subbed Vio the girl who made the accusations, not Hassan. I think you need your eyes checked mate.