Big #FreeBritney article in the Los Angeles Times newspaper today!

[Urbanney]

 

 

Update via @Jordan Miller : BreatheHeavy is featured in this! Here are those highlights:

 

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1. ‘She had that star quality’

At the tender age of 16, “The Mickey Mouse Club” alumna from Kentwood, La., catapulted into fame alongside fellow teen-pop pin-ups Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync with her debut album’s first single " ... Baby One More Time” and its now-iconic music video.

Jordan Miller (founder of BreatheHeavy.com, a Britney Spears fan site): I saw the CD at Borders [a former book and music retailer]. I picked it up and flipped the CD over. I remember seeing a song called “Soda Pop” and the rest is history.

 

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2. ‘Every table was talking about it’

Spears’ carefully constructed image as the virginal girl next door began to unravel as her romantic life made her a tabloid fixture in the early aughts. Her relationship with ‘N Sync’s Justin Timberlake ended in 2002, as rumors of Spears’ infidelity stoked sl**-shaming headlines. In 2004, she wed childhood friend Jason Alexander in Las Vegas — the marriage was annulled 55 hours later. A few months later, she married backup dancer Kevin Federline. They have two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James.

Spears’ marriage troubles, mothering practices, alleged substance abuse issues and mental health challenges received wall-to-wall tabloid coverage. In February 2007, Spears shocked the world when she marched into a Tarzana beauty salon, grabbed a pair of clippers and buzzed her hair off in front of a parade of paparazzi. Days later, she hit a photographer’s car with an umbrella.

Miller: I was immediately questioning the conservatorship. My posts were angry; I didn’t have a filter — I was 19. I wrote a post [in December 2008] with the headline: “Prisoner Forbidden Phone Privileges.” It detailed allegations [reported by other outlets] that Britney was unable to have access to a cell phone and that Jamie Spears was receiving a raise — $16,000-plus a month from something like $10,000. I was outraged and wrote something like: How can she be on tour, put out music, do interviews and be deemed incompetent by the courts? Then I signed off with “Free Britney” in a big font. In other posts I wrote throughout the next few months, I kept saying it: “Free Britney, Free Britney.”

 

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5. ‘It was just wild. And heartbreaking’

On June 23, 2021, Spears addressed the court remotely about her conservatorship arrangement, requesting the call be open for the press to hear. In her emotional and blistering 23-minute statement, the singer said she desperately wanted to terminate her conservatorship, describing it as an abusive system in which she was drugged, pressured to work against her will and denied the ability to have her IUD removed. It was a flashpoint in the #FreeBritney movement, with her testimony confirming the worst suspicions of her devoted fans.

Miller: I was right here in my little office [in Las Vegas], on Exhale [a message board within BreatheHeavy.com where fans can interact], refreshing the thread — there was 20 replies every 10 seconds. As Britney was saying everything, fans were commenting about what they’re experiencing. It was bittersweet. You’re listening to terrible, awful happenings that have taken place, but at the same time, I felt like I was a part of this community — we were all together in this moment.

 

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6. ‘The fight for her rights continues’

There’s hope among fans that Spears is closer to reaching that freedom for which they’ve been fighting for more than a decade. On Aug. 12, Spears’ father, Jamie, filed a legal response stating he intends to step down as conservator of the singer’s estate — though not immediately.

Miller: I personally welcome the end of #FreeBritney, and I don’t think that equals us stopping our support. It means that we channel our support in other ways — celebrating her music, if she decides to return to the stage, or challenging people who try to tear her down.

 

Full article on the LA Times

 

 

[femmepop]

Spoiler

you guys...... this is so cute. 

 

[Matou]

Good but Lisa is trying to hard imo to be in Britney's case

[Jordan Miller]

I see my name

[turquoise]

[PokemonSpears]

[rennen]

Love the quotes from Jordan.

[Moscow]

[queenofhearts]

this is good press

[rennen]

19 minutes ago, Prachi said:

Have you malfunctioned? 

[Jordan Miller]

If any of y'all feel inspired to help me fend off some of these trolls in the comments

 

 

[gapeach704]

3 hours ago, Matou said:

Good but Lisa is trying to hard imo to be in Britney's case

Agreed. I love her but it’s becoming cringe. And TSW has been showing some red flags imo

[joe sp]

[Jefferson Silva]

4 hours ago, Jordan Miller said:

I see my name

not jordan being called by penny to depose the same day as Miss Taylor and Mr Parnell

[Jefferson Silva]

35 minutes ago, gapeach704 said:

Agreed. I love her but it’s becoming cringe. And TSW has been showing some red flags imo

i think TSW is more of a famehoe than Lisa with all due respect

[Jefferson Silva]

that girl in the drawing looks nothing like Britney lmaao

[gapeach704]

4 minutes ago, Jefferson Silva said:

i think TSW is more of a famehoe than Lisa with all due respect

Honestly same. Like she’s done some good work but it’s becoming cringe (in my opinion). I appreciate her helping the movement forward, but like when she went against rosengart a few weeks ago, that was a red flag to me 

[Heitorzinho]

Can someone please copy and paste the full article in here? I can't read it :(

[ConceptD]

31 minutes ago, gapeach704 said:

Honestly same. Like she’s done some good work but it’s becoming cringe (in my opinion). I appreciate her helping the movement forward, but like when she went against rosengart a few weeks ago, that was a red flag to me 

It would be a red flag if she did trust him 100% tbh. From what we’ve found everybody in this case is connected and they all have an angle. He’s doing a great job but we shouldn’t just blindly trust him. 

[gapeach704]

38 minutes ago, ConceptD said:

It would be a red flag if she did trust him 100% tbh. From what we’ve found everybody in this case is connected and they all have an angle. He’s doing a great job but we shouldn’t just blindly trust him. 

True but I mean we need to trust him until he gives us a reason not to.