The Life Of A Showgirl.
The song not the album.
The words “They gave her the keys to this city, Then they said she didn’t do it legitly..”
My heart flips over everytime I hear that line because even if it’s not the ACTUAL meaning (art is subjective remember….🙈🙈🤣) it’s ABSOLUTELY Britney coded in my head.
I think of her being freed from her conservatorship (they gave her the keys to this city) and then people saying she didn’t do freedom correctly (Then they said she didn’t do it legitly)
It’s the bit about her not doing it legitly that gets me….
How do you do freedom legitly….?
If what you’re doing isn’t actually harming anyone….then freedom as a 43yr old woman can look like anything you want.
And before you come at me saying it’s harming her sons……what’s she meant to do with fractured relationships that wouldn’t have been fractured in the first place if it wasn’t for the dismal men in her life….? Is she meant to turn off all social media and bake cookies in the hope that they might visit regularly…?
No.
They’re adults now.
What happens between mother and sons is up to them.
But she doesn’t need to put her personality on hold.
She’s performed ALL her life.
She’s still performing.
Albeit, in a different way to what we’re used to.
Did you clutch your pearls when she was selling out stadiums in provocative clothing…?
No, you didn’t.
Because that’s acceptable.
But bizarrely, her own creative outlet isn’t…🤷♀️
I don’t know if people notice….but here’s the thing. Sandwiched inbetween the dances that have so many of you screaming “SHE’S UNSTABLE” there are sponsored posts.
Posts that pay the bills.
Britney isn’t as stupid as you think.
The more views she gets, the more she’ll be offered for the sponsored posts.
And they’re quiet. Not aggressive.
She’s not going “YOU NEED TO BUY THIS”.
She doesn’t need to.
She’s quietly clever.
She probably doesn’t want to make a comeback because the whole thing would probably be quite triggering considering what she was going through in her most successful years.
I dance half naked in my bedroom.
Maybe not with knives.
I don’t have the dexterity to dance with a glass of wine in my hand never mind knives.
I also don’t film it.
But I probably would if I had her body.
I have mental health issues too.
But I don’t need “saving from myself”.
And the LAST thing she needs is a gaslighting ex who pretends he’s “concerned”.
He’s not.
A real man would be silent in his endeavours to help her.
IF she needs it.
Not writing a book and profiting from past trauma and hurt.
I’ll finish this post with more lyrics…..
“They ripped me off like false lashes and then threw me away….”
