Does the media owe Britney an apology for the VMA 2007 performance?

[Hooked-On-Knee]

Just now, JackSProductions said:

They’re so ******* lucky that she’s still here today. Else they would have that on their conscience...

If Britney passes away, the media is going to act all innocent and like they never did anything to her.

[DollyParton]

28 minutes ago, Thelegendarybritney said:

Sarah Silverman really showed how unfunny and tasteless she was making that stupid joke  

 

Didnt she apologized years later?

[JackSProductions]

Just now, Hooked-On-Knee said:

If Britney passes away, the media is going to act all innocent and like they never did anything to her.

Oh yes. Like they always do. They’ll make out that they adored her and no one could ever say anything bad about her. That poor girl.

[Thelegendarybritney]

2 minutes ago, JackSProductions said:

It makes me sick. 
They’re so ******* lucky that she’s still here today. Else they would have that on their conscience...

 

1 minute ago, Arianna said:

It is INSANE that people called her fat looking back at photos now. 

I absolutely agree and it makes me so sad that she had to come home and read all these things on top of what she is already going through in personal life

[JackSProductions]

2 minutes ago, Thelegendarybritney said:

 

I absolutely agree and it makes me so sad that she had to come home and read all these things on top of what she is already going through in personal life

If they degraded someone like they did to Britney in 2007 they seriously wouldn’t get away with it in this day and age. Thank god Britney was strong enough to deal with it. Imagine if they had constantly bullied and tortured another celebrity but someone who suffered even more than Britney....

[Thelegendarybritney]

3 minutes ago, Needleney said:

Didnt she apologized years later?

She did apologize but watching this video which happened a day before the VMAs, she obviously knew that joke was offensively and distasteful but she still carried on with the joke 

 

[justiceforglory]

I am as confused today as I was back then!! It was a good performance for Britney. The only disappointing thing was her hair. Wish she wouldve rocked a short style instead of those extensions. Otherwise I feel like it was a good show. It's so iconic now and had good dance moves, and she danced better here than in some POM shows, let's be honest. Most of the critiques were just fat shaming and bullying and that would never happen in 2020. 

[JackSProductions]

1 minute ago, Thelegendarybritney said:

She did apologize but watching this video which happened a day before the VMAs, she obviously knew that joke was offensively and distasteful but she still carried on with the joke 

 

‘I’m excited to see Britney’ ‘Maybe we’ll only have to hear her song once’ 

So in other words, you couldn’t wait to make fun of someone who tried her hardest to recover from her personal struggles and can’t wait to degrade them. I’m so glad the worlds moved on from that toxic mindset.

[Jamie Lynn Forever]

This performance wouldnt have been so criticized if it had happened in our current day and age.. The zeitgeist was very different back then. The level of stage presence in the mainstream ppop scene has dropped so much in the last few years that nobody would care about it, almost no Western artists are doing choreographies/dance routines anymore. I mean... popstars don't even make the effort to perform at all nowadays. Today everything is so boring. 

It's insane how much she got fatshamed, it truly doesn't make sense to me. Beyoncé always had a very curvy size and she never got fat shamed for it. Thank god now we have plus-sized singers like Lizzo, Christina Aguilera, Meghan Trainor and Adele to change mentalities a bit. 

[dran]

The media is now starting to feel bad for the conservatorship - this is them half assing an apology to her

[Tiago]

Most pop girls of today would not be able to beat her dancing skills here.... that's all i have to say

[Thelegendarybritney]

52 minutes ago, dbagswag said:

I am as confused today as I was back then!! It was a good performance for Britney. The only disappointing thing was her hair. Wish she wouldve rocked a short style instead of those extensions. Otherwise I feel like it was a good show. It's so iconic now and had good dance moves, and she danced better here than in some POM shows, let's be honest. Most of the critiques were just fat shaming and bullying and that would never happen in 2020. 

The media was so toxic back then. I am glad she got through it with all the mean words and rumors they were throwing at her 

[justiceforglory]

25 minutes ago, Thelegendarybritney said:

The media was so toxic back then. I am glad she got through it with all the mean words and rumors they were throwing at her 

I honestly forgot just the extent to which the media was using her as a punching bag. I don't know how 1 she got through that and 2 how these people could live with themselves knowing they were feeling self-righteous by putting her down for not even any good reason. 

[Thelegendarybritney]

1 hour ago, dbagswag said:

I honestly forgot just the extent to which the media was using her as a punching bag. I don't know how 1 she got through that and 2 how these people could live with themselves knowing they were feeling self-righteous by putting her down for not even any good reason. 

She was simply just a headline to them and the media used her for to sell news and all the tabloids jumped on the bandwagon to defame her reputation. It was just horrible  and it makes watching for the record so much harder because you know she just freshly got out of that mess and was still trying to cope with everything that happened. 

[Thelegendarybritney]

2 hours ago, dran said:

The media is now starting to feel bad for the conservatorship - this is them half assing an apology to her

Now they know the consequence of contributing to her breakdown in 2007. She was so fed up with how the media tried to portray her life and followed her everywhere.

[Thelegendarybritney]

2 hours ago, JackSProductions said:

‘I’m excited to see Britney’ ‘Maybe we’ll only have to hear her song once’ 

So in other words, you couldn’t wait to make fun of someone who tried her hardest to recover from her personal struggles and can’t wait to degrade them. I’m so glad the worlds moved on from that toxic mindset.

Her apology was very half-*** as well. She claimed it was just for fun and not harmful or offensive at all.

[icybaby]

I mean they all knew she was in a bad place and yet gave her opening. They got that they deserve-ppl were talking. Still unfair all the 2007 media coverage of Britney. All media deserves her apology for the way they treated her even if she was responsible for the things-she deserved a lot more compassion amd she had 0

[nthenwkiss]

I think the people who allowed her on stage owe her a bigger apology.

[AmyIsMyDrunkAlterEgo]

5 hours ago, Thelegendarybritney said:

I was watching For the records again and in one scene after Larry told her that they were playing all of her past VMAs performances, she got nervous and asked if they played the one from the previous year which was Gimme more. I honestly feel so bad because personally, I love that performance and like Britney said you have good performances, ok performances and bad performances.

The media tore her down so fast after that. People were rushing to call her a mess, a party animal but no one wondered why she was acting that way. She went out almost every night because it made her depressed and sad to stay at home and think about the divorce. She was in a dark time but people still let her on stage and the VMAs got what they wanted: a news worthy performance. 

Now the VMAs are coming again and they are doing the countdown which they do every year and of course Britney's performances were mentioned because of how iconic and timeless they are. Gimme more vma performance seemed to go into a black hole as no one would even mention it or think of it as like the worst performance ever.

I think it is not fair for people to criticize her so much for the performance as she was not mentally and physically ready to take the stage. It was a lack luster performance yes but she was in a dark place and it didn't help that people were calling her fat, overweight and harassed her every move. The media was doing what they did best, tearing down someone as fast as putting that person on a high pedestal. 

I don't want Britney to feel ashamed of it because it was not the worst performance out there. The fact that she asked for a tape right after the performance was probably to see how it was because she had a feeling the media was going to give her a **** show for it. 

The performance became iconic and well perceived among the fans now but compared to all the criticism and name calling Britney got during that dark and lonely time, it could never make up for it.

I think the performance deserves better not some disaster people were deeming it to be. I just hate how people always think of it as the worst performance ever and lock it away like some bad thing. Let me know what you guys think! 

 

Yes they do... so sad.. this didn't need to happen- she wasn't ready. Like, as in, I am pretty sure a few months before this it was ruled overnight she had dementia and put into the cship -- now she is on stage? Even if she was partying the night before - she shouldn't have even been there in the first place, then she wouldn't have had these mix reviews on the performance, then get the backlash.. 

I work in the industry and it's sad because you know there are so many people in production behind this and they just go along with it bc Brit's "team". Then later everyone picks it up and her team acts "surprised" it got bad reviews or something. The girl needed something called A BREAK. Sure she came out with Blackout then (praise), but that doesn't mean the promo needs be on the VMA stage (and if you notice only real "promo" for Blackout) .. Media def owes Brit a HUGE apology.. 

[Thelegendarybritney]

1 hour ago, zenden said:

I mean they all knew she was in a bad place and yet gave her opening. They got that they deserve-ppl were talking. Still unfair all the 2007 media coverage of Britney. All media deserves her apology for the way they treated her even if she was responsible for the things-she deserved a lot more compassion amd she had 0

 

57 minutes ago, nthenwkiss said:

I think the people who allowed her on stage owe her a bigger apology.

They got what they wanted from her, a news worthy performance that got them the ratings they needed