“Yes, She Can”? What, exactly, “can” Britney Spears do, Rolling Stone? According to your reporter, the answer to that question is not “talk to reporters without another person around”:
Interviewing the star is a “rigorously micromanaged process,” according to Rolling Stone.
“We were never left alone together, and my questions had to be submitted ahead of time for approval,” reporter Jenny Eliscu writes.
Or “have a normal life at all”:
“I feel like an old person now,” she says in Rolling Stone’s next issue, out Friday. “I do! I go to bed at, like, 9:30 every night, and I don’t go out or anything.”
And it’s definitely not “be trusted to make decisions about her personal life”:
Rudolph says, “Her job is to be Britney Spears, and unfortunately, that job bleeds into her personal life and creates this odd situation where she needs to have security people around her all the time.”
That goes for dates, too. Recently, Spears was accompanied by her assistant, Brett, and Rudolph’s colleague, Adam Leber. “Right when we got there, we just knew it was just bad,” Spears says. “He looked like an older version of Harry Potter, but skinnier. … So I had to get dessert first. And the other date I had, the guy was really, really tall and a lot older. … We’re trying to ask him questions, like, ‘OK, you’re into martial arts, so what kind of martial arts are you into?’ And he was like, ‘Oh, all kinds.’ … But you know how silly we are, so we were just cracking up.”
So, then, what can she do? Hmm. It doesn’t seem like any of those bits of the story would indicate that her life is happy…
Oh, right! Obviously, the answer is, “yes, she can… show off her midriff on the cover of a magazine again.” Yay America!
Britney tells “Rolling Stone” that she has picked up the pieces [USA Today]
Also, could it have killed the art department to line up “Skanky Brits” with her crotch tattoo?
Recently, Spears was accompanied by her assistant, Brett, and Rudolph’s colleague, Adam Leber. “Right when we got there, we just knew it was just bad,” Spears says. “He looked like an older version of Harry Potter, but skinnier. …
Britney went on a date with Nick Sylvester?!?! OMG
There should be a coffee-table book collection of photos in which a slightly aging starlet has been cajoled into awkwardly scrunching her shirt up for one photo on the cover of a magazine, presumably after hours of protesting that she doesn’t do that anymore. The move turns the message from “I’m just a regular gal who wears ugly, boring clothes and has no interest in selling magazines” to “I’ll show some skin and laugh awkwardly if it means I get to go home and cry myself to sleep”.
@Maura Johnston: Mange We Can Believe In?
Really Rolling Stone? Is the album that good? Has she managed to tour for any length of a time without cracking up? Can she dance and put on the show she used to put on? Seriously, isnt too premature to celebrate Britney? I’m glad she’s not walking around barefoot in gas station bathrooms but I’ll cheer for her when she is able to hold herself together beyond a few publicity blitzes….
Hey, it’s a start! I assumed she’d be dead by now.
And so begins the onslaught of “Britney’s Comeback!” coverage, complete with chaste yet provocative photographs, and the same hook for each profile: “I’m sane, but I’m bored.”
I keep wondering if Britney Spears still has a place in today’s music market. Sure, she’ll never reclaim that early ’00s glory but I question whether we need her at all.
I think it is silly to debate Britney’s relevance or importance. I don’t like womanizer, but it was #1. Her last 2 albums were fantastic I thought, certainly better than anything she did in her glory years. I dont know what having a “place in today’s market” means really, but she is still popular and plenty of people are enjoying her music, so what difference does it make?
The new album isn’t great, but it’s not bad. There are some really good pop tracks on there (about half of it). And she is still popular. The leak of “Circus” caused sites to crash and general ruckus. I agree she hasn’t proven if she’s legitimately back to normal yet, but she’s definitely still got popularity.
@Zatzbatz:
IAWTC. I mean come on people, “IT’S BRITNEY BITCH!”
Sorry.
Oh c’mon Idolator, you gotta give it to Britney. She’s somehow turned her life around under the media/world’s unapologetic scrutiny and recorded one of the best pop records of the year (maybe only second to Lady GaGa’s “The Fame”) in, what? A year?
And she looks fucking hot again, too!
Britney as she should be, is back.
An older version of Harry Potter, but skinnier… damn, I didn’t even remember going on a date with Britney Spears! It’s been some month.
@Luiis: have you seen an interview with her lately? is it ‘back’ if she’s so overcontrolled that she can’t even go on a date by herself?
i mean, i know leaks of her album are helping your traffic, but come on.
I have a longstanding bet with an old friend that Britney would get desperate and do Playboy before Christina Aguilera. And man, I really thought that bet was gonna pay off around this time last year. Now I’m not so sure.
Britney IS back.
Back to 2001, back to smiling chastity, back to teen bubblegum.
I hope that by 2010, she’s back to Blackout and the road to some type of maturity.
“turned her life around”?
It’s called: MEDS. Lots.
How many 27 yos do you know that have to be monitored 24/7 by their pops?
If he took a nap it would be all be pink wigs/adnan/redbull-cosmos in 5 seconds.