Britnesia

The holidays are nearly upon us, and do you know who is back? (No, I am not talking about the holiday tourists again.) In the immortal words of the woman herself, "It's Britney, bitch." On Dec. 02 the new, improved Britney Spears comes out with her new album Circus. Dec. 02 also happens to be her 27th birthday. Is it just me, or doesn't it feel like we have been hearing about Britney for much longer than 27 years? I think that all of the intense minute-by-minute media scrutiny of the past 12 months just made her time in the spotlight seem so much longer. It is like dog years. Britney years.

Anyway. Part of the comeback is the Rolling Stone cover story on newsstands now. I saw an interview with the journalist who wrote the story. Part of the conditions of the interview was that the journalist could not ask any questions about the past year.

Pause.

Um, what else is there to talk about? There is only so much that can be said about an album that has yet to be released save for the Womanizer song and video--which, I have to say, I don't love. It is kind of catchy but way too repetitive. Let me see if I understand. The man that she is singing about is a womanizer? Is that it? Let me listen again. Well, yes, she does repeat the word "womanizer" roughly 200 times during the song. I guess that it is Britney's "man done me wrong" song. It is no Oops, I Did It Again (currently in rotation on my iPod), I will say that. Give me a little Beyonce Sasha Fierce instead--but I digress . . . .

In the interview Britney does talk about her ex, Sean Federline. I think that it is fair to say that at the beginning of the relationship no one would have thought that K-Fed would emerge as that stable spouse and parent. That does in fact seem to be the case, though. However, Britney is trying to spin it a little differently. Brit tells that RS journalist "I didn't think that my husband was going to leave me."

Huh? Don't we all remember the fact that Britney left Kevin? It was well-publicized. Besides, it doesn't even make sense the K-Fed would leave her. She was the meal-ticket. Any woman who can take an entire year to go off the rails spending buckets of money and still be worth a mint clearly has more bank than and ex-back up dancer and failed rapper. Kevin leave Britney? I think not.

Britney goes on to criticize Kevin's parental skills--Kevin, who, let's remember, a court determined was a better parent than Britney. She says that her boys, Sean P. and Jayden James are starting to say words like "stupid" and that "Preston says the f-word now sometimes". Brit says that the boys "must get it from their daddy" because she doesn't say those kinds of words around her children.

Yeah. Well, someone needs to replay the video of Britney in her SUV, boys strapped in and crying in the back, as she screams and curses at the paparazzi. I think that Preston might have picked up the f-word in one of those incidents.

I respect the fact that Britney--who, though I am no doctor nor do I play one on TV, I personally believe was suffering from a wicked case of postpartum depression after giving birth to two children in the span of something like 20 months--has pulled her life back together. She is working again, has stopped her public tirades, has her father overseeing her affairs (though I don't know how much that is her choice as it is a court order) and is trying to be a mother to her children. Still, does she think that we are suffering from Britnesia, that we have forgotten the last Britney year entirely? Not so much. In order to get past it, Britney first needs to own it.

The first step is admitting that you have a problem, Britney.