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Britney Spears Is Tired of Hearing Us Talk About Britney Spears


 

Britney Spears said gimme less.

Well, not in those words. But Spears has made it clear (again) that she’s uninterested in hearing the public discuss her past.

Earlier this week, Spears posted a video compilation of herself dancing on Instagram, and in a lengthy caption, she addressed the ongoing pipeline of documentaries rehashing her career ups and downs. Her post came days after the BBC released a documentary titled The Battle for Britney: Fans, Cash and a Conservatorship, and a few months after FX dropped their own headline-grabbing doc, Framing Britney Spears.

Interspersed with repeated punctuation marks and emojis, Spears called the documentaries “hypocritical.” “So many documentaries about me this year with other people’s takes on my life…what can I say…I’m deeply flattered,” she writes. “These documentaries are so hypocritical…they criticize the media and then do the same thing.”

Spears should add media theorist to her resumé, because she’s right. In February, The New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears premiered on FX, igniting a maelstrom of retrospectives on the pop star’s early career success, treatment by paparazzi in the aughts, and subsequent court-ordered conservatorship. Among those interviewed are a former paparazzo whose car she famously swatted with an umbrella and hosts of the podcast Britney’s Gram, known for analyzing suspected hidden messages in Spears’ Instagram posts.

Framing Britney Spears mainstreamed the #FreeBritney movement, a campaign driven by fans who believe Spears should be freed of her conservatorship. Under a legal agreement in place since 2008, Spears’ personal and financial affairs are controlled by her father Jamie Spears and a third party, Bessemer Trust. Celebrities who voiced their support for Spears following the doc’s release ranged from previously critical comedians, like Sarah Silverman and Howard Stern, to fellow musicians Hayley Williams, Hayley Kiyoko, and her old pal Paris Hilton. Even Sarah Jessica Parker tweeted #FramingBritneySpears.

The doc won over many fans, but Spears wasn’t one of them. She addressed the documentary in March, again on Instagram. “I didn’t watch the documentary,” she wrote. “But from what I did see of it I was embarrassed by the light they put me in…I cried for two weeks and well…I still cry sometimes.”

Still, following Framing Britney Spears’ success, Netflix announced that a forthcoming documentary on the singer was already in production. As Spears wrote on Instagram this week, she isn’t here for the reinterest in her “tough times.” “Why highlight the most negative and traumatizing times in my life from forever ago? I mean DAMN,” she writes.





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