WILL BRITNEY HAVE A MARIAH MELTDOWN? Britney Spears' bizarre behavior only seems to escalate. With the added stress of her The Onyx Hotel tour, some worry the 22-year-old is headed for an emotional breakdown -- just like the one Mariah Carey, then 31, notoriously suffered in a NYC hotel in July 2001. Just last month, Britney broke down during a pre-interview for a national TV segment, says a source. "You could tell she was afraid of saying the wrong thing," says the source. "Britney didn't seem in control. She was being pushed around by the people with her. Then all of a sudden, she burst into tears." Now touring, "Britney is canceling dates in cities where she's not sold out, I think because she's too embarrassed to perform in half-empty venues," says another source. "She wasn't prepared to start this tour, emotionally and physically. I'm afraid for her. Justin Timberlake told me he's worried about her, too." Britney's rep declined to comment on her mental state, but more may come: A source says Britney is thinking about posing nude for Playboy! Though the magazine didn't return calls for comment, the source says,"It's in the works. Britney wants to shed her good-girl image completely." -- MAGGIE HARBOUR, ALI MARCUS & CAROLE GLINES http://www.starmagazine.com/news/61342 I know I'm not the only one here hoping this happens.
OK. Settle down and consider the source before we all get excited here. But man I hope that they are right.
I say they both go for it at the same time DOUBLE ISSUE Id drop down some extra cash for that... wakkoman
yes! you can tell she's been circling the slide down to skankiness for a long time now. once you lose popularity with the teens like she has... i guess the only way to claw your way to staying on top would be something like this. i'm not even really looking forward to the issue. i mean what does she have, that she hasn't shown to various magazine already? she's been posing semi-nude for years. i'm not really exactly desperate to see some nipples a maybe a tuft of pubic hair. i dunno about those celeb pictorials anyway. recently they've not been great. i guess the rachel hunter one was okay and a while ago they had shannon dougherty... the pam anderson and jaime pressley ones i barely even looked at. anyway... if I weren't saving all these issues for my kids, i'd have canceled already, i don't have time to read them.
I'm not complaining or anything, but what good-girl image does the article speak of? I'm pretty sure she shed that a while back.
Turning to Playboy to keep you in the headlines is like so, yesterday. What she needs is a good ol' sex tape. Preferably one with another female.
I don't like this. I don't like it one bit. As soon as Britney poses nude, she loses forever the mystery that makes her sexy. Britney's all about the naughty-nice girl, the leggy blonde cheerleader that has to be home by ten. She's hot because she's inaccesible. Even though she skanked out in recent photo shoots, her image is still wrapped in a layer of that "oops!" flirtation. Why did we get so excited about a possible nipple in her last video? (Well, besides the fact that we're all pigs and need counseling?) Because she doesn't show us her nipples. Not officially. We can see Pamela Anderson naked. Boring. We can every square inch of Rachel Hunter's body. [Yawn]. But we're not allowed to see Britney! That's what makes us want her. We covet that which we can't have. When we can't have naked Britney--at least not offically--we pretend to be above it but secretly we drool over every image on MTV. We pause her video to see if the slight discoloration is indeed a nipple. When she poses nude for Playboy? Sure, it'll be fun to see at first. But then that's it, game, set, match, career. We won't care any more. Think about why Britney is hotter than Christina Aguillara. Objectively, the latter is just as attractive. And certainly more talented. But she's a ho. She's a card-carrying skank. She's a walking petrie dish. Therefore we don't even raise an eyebrow if she exposes a breast. Who cares? It's just the ho. Britney, though . . . there's still the illusion of purity. (For crystal-clear proof of this distinction, think about the reaction to the Britney-Madonna-Christina kiss. We were shocked by Britney. The cameraman barely bothered to record Christina). It's like when a relationship loses its sexual tension. (Think Bruce Willis and Cybill Cheppard in Moonlighting. That show blew after they hooked up.) This would be a bad move. (Um, I don't even want to reread my post, because I have a feeling it sound really creepy).
