Britney Spears says that she wants to step away from her music career; Credits: Et Online
As popularly said, fame is a dangerous drug. So many people wish to achieve the heights of popularity, lay claim to expensive vacations, clothes, food, and other luxuries, but not many that several celebrities who have already experienced can claim otherwise and actually take a break from being famous.
Of course, one person we can all relate to this notion is Britney Spears. The singer had a pretty terrible experience with fame, and now to show how devastating it could be to become a victim of being famous, the celebrity has shared that she will be stepping back from creating more music.
Notably, this decision does not come because Britney wants to spend some me-time or chill out after long years at work. The decision actually comes because the singer was exploited by her family and near ones for years because she was famous, and she famously had no rights to the fame and money she earned through her music. It is only fair that the singer gets to have her final say now that she is free of her conservatorship and can do just what she wants.
"Not doing my music anymore is my way of saying 'F--k You' in a sense," said the singer through her Instagram. The singer had previously released the song "Me Against the Music," and looks like she finally got to do what she always wanted to. Needless to say, doing something that she so loved but only for the benefit of the others and her captivity would have turned her bitter for the very art she adored.
Several fans had previously been speculating if the star was coming back to the music industry, but Britney chose not to delve any further just yet. The singer has just been freed from her conservatorship that she endured for 13 years under the reign of her father, who barred her from a good lot of things.
The singer had first wanted to "perform new songs and remixes of my old songs" but could not do so while she was under the conservatorship.
"I guess it seems odd to most now why I don't even do my music anymore...that's just the surface issues," shared the singer. "People have no idea the awful things that were done to me personally...and after what I've been through, I'm scared of people and the business!!!!"
Hence, the "Toxic" singer is presently "staying clear of the business," and continued, "Which is all I've ever known my whole life…which is why this is so very confusing for me." While Britney is laying bare the many atrocities she faced in her conservatorship, post by post, her father only denies the facts more vehemently. His lawyer had once said, "All of his actions were well within the parameters of the authority conferred upon him by the court," and that the man "devoted his life to helping Britney," his daughter.
Still, the singer is putting on a brave front and slowly trying to tread waters that scare her. She said, "My goal for this year is to push myself a bit more and do things that scare me but not too much. I do know what makes me happy and brings me joy, and I try to meditate on those places and thoughts that enable me to experience it!!!!!"
Britney Spears is not the only celebrity who has to struggle with fame, especially as she was a teenage star whose life plummeted so fast out of control that being famous did not even matter anymore. Amanda Seyfried shared that fame and its pressure "feels like life or death," as she talked with Willie Geist on The Today Show and explained about her fame-induced anxiety.
"That's what a panic attack is, really," Seyfried explained. "Your body just goes into fight or flight. The endorphin rush and the dump that happens after the panic attack is so extraordinary. You just feel so relieved, and your body is just kind of recovered in a way. It's so bizarre because it's physiological, but it starts in your head."
Apart from the fact that Daniel Radcliffe shared that he knows of instances where very small kids or old people would tackle his security to get close to him, he shared that photographers are not better. He said, "As a kid, the thing that sucked, and the thing that did, you know, burrow its way in there and was really unpleasant was getting booed."
He explained, "If you would be going into an event and the professional autograph hunters … There are some people who can do it, and they go about it in a way that is okay, and they're not d---- about it, and they're fine. But there are also some people that will boo and shout at a child." He shared, "If you just hear people booing and shouting stuff at you and about you, that, as a kid, sucked. I do remember that being very disheartening."
Daniel Radcliffe says that he is afraid being famous make him less humane; Credits: Pinkvilla
The actor also shared that he felt scared to experience normal humane feelings thinking that would make him bad at managing his fame. He said, "You have a great job, you're wealthy, you don't have a right to not be excited about the thing all the time. I think that's a pressure as well. You suddenly start to feel, 'Man, if I am just feeling some human emotion of sadness, does that mean I'm doing this wrong? Am I not good at being famous?'"
