pop cultured

I’ve never particularly been a fan of Britney Spears, but I was intrigued when, after all the trouble the Spears girls have gotten into the past 2 years, their mother, Lynne decided to pen a book. Titled “Through the Storm”, I can sum this book up in a couple of words: snooze fest.

I thought Mrs. Spears’ book would be interesting, but it’s written in a semi-defensive mode, with lame excuses for just about every faux pas the Spears family has made. Some of the choices were just plain stupid: Lynne, allowing her teen daughter to go on the tour without either of her parents (a family friend acted as guardian). Britney’s parents, allowing Rolling Stone to do a photo shoot of a teenage Britney, in her bedroom in a bra and shortie shorts. Then acting shocked when RS puts the shot on their cover (Lynne  thought the family would have a say in which photos were used). The family, standing by dumbly as Britney’s then-companion Sam Lufti allegedly threatened them and drugged their daughter (even more wacky is how Spears met Lufti—he crank called Lynne and she actually met with him!).

The book left me feeling depressed, to be honest. It’s sad that the Spears family didn’t have better guidance, more trustworthy advisers and handlers. And their family definitely suffered because of it.

This book may be interesting to die-hard Britney Spears fans but to me it was just sad.