Framing Britney Spears, The New York Times’ documentary which premiered in the states over the weekend. Billed as a deep dive into the knotty reality of Britney Spears’ controversial legal conservatorship under her father, and a look at the subsequent #FreeBritney campaign, it is not just this murky potential exploitation she finds herself entrapped in that horrifies.
It is, in fact, everything that leads up to that. It’s the media coverage before and around her public breakdown. It is how that breakdown was reported.
And then, most uncomfortable of all, it’s us. We idolised Britney as pop teen royalty and then just as gleefully watched as she unravelled before our eyes, shaved her head and smashed up a car with an umbrella.
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