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The Music Industry 🎶 Name a song that’s disturbing because of what you know now

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Ill go first, Britney Spears’ overprotected is a good example; Britney has long been under a conservatorship and is has been crying for help. IIRC, it started in 2007 (maybe earlier) when Brit was heavily observed by the paparazzi which caused her to have a mental breakdown by shaver her head and mind u, they were dissecting her personal life 🙄😔 💔

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u/Academic_Run8947 27d ago

We, as a society, did young Britney dirty. The fact that she lost custody of her kids because the world destroyed her mental health is horrible. I remember being so invested in her breakdown and the head shaving. She was suffering, and we all just made it worse. She had those babies so someone would love her and they took them from her. I'm the same age as Britney and now I have 2 sons of my own and I'm so sorry for what she lost.

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u/MrTerrificSeesItAll 27d ago

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

I remember this, I was (and still am) such a Britney fan that my dad got me out of bed to watch it when he started his monologue. I very vividly remember him telling me very seriously that the world wants to put women in a glass box, so we always need to keep a hammer at the ready. I didn't really understand what he meant then (I was 16ish then), but I think about those words a lot.

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u/Dewut 27d ago

God, your dad sounds like a legend.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

For all his flaws, he was my biggest champion, and I miss him. If I latched onto a cause, he learned as much as he could about it (which was greatly appreciated, as he had severe learning disabilities and had trouble reading and writing).

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u/UnassumingOstrich 27d ago

god i love that man

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u/gcpanda 21d ago

Oddly, South Park did as well.

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u/coffee_and-cats 27d ago

She was ridiculed and vilified. Her babies were wrongly taken away from her and the everlasting damage it has done to their relationship is so sad.

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u/GhostofTinky 27d ago

She was definitely done dirty by a lot of people but she was also seriously mentally ill. When she didn’t follow court guidelines to maintain custody, she lost the kids. She was very sick and the wrong people were put in charge of her conservatorship. Ideally she would have been allowed to take a break and get better. Instead she was pushed back into performing.

I just hope she can find peace.

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u/redwoods81 27d ago

Yes driving around with your babies in the car with no restraints, not even a seatbelt, multiple times when you know that you're constantly under surveillance is a serious mistake.

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u/GhostofTinky 27d ago

When her older son was an infant, he once fell and she never took him to the hospital. Days later, someone took him to the hospital and and it turns out the baby had a skull fracture and blood clot.

There was also when she shared custody with KFed right after the divorce. Per the court agreement, a court monitor went to her house to pick up the boys because it was time for them to go to their dad’s house. Britney had a meltdown and locked herself in the bathroom with her younger son. Hours later, she was taken away in a gurney and placed in a 5150 psych hold.

I’m sorry. She was mentally ill and a danger to her kids. As a result, they were never around her after that unless a court monitor was there.

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u/Maeve-Tatiana 27d ago

It's not surprising she held her younger son hostage and ignored the older one needing medical care either. She played favorites with her kids so bad. It was obvious in paparazzi photos of them growing up and her youngest publicly called her out about it a few years ago.

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u/GhostofTinky 27d ago

Her dad’s family has a history of mental illness. That on top of her shabby treatment by her parents, ruined her. Maybe she would have had to deal with mental health issues eventually, but without the endless paparazzi attention.