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When I first saw Britney Spears’ latest Instagram post, I honestly thought it was a child’s diary entry about their seaside vacation.
The stream-of-consciousness-like run-on sentences are a fine display of what anyone’s diary would have looked like when they were a tween, going from one random thought to the next without any regard for grammar or proper comprehension.
Look, I am not bashing the woman. I understand that she was not given a regular teenhood and proper opportunity to study, as her career skyrocketed in her mid-to-late teens when she was supposedly in high school. She couldn’t have been taking books like The Scarlet Letter or The Catcher In The Rye very seriously at the same time that she was belting out her iconic songs ‘Oops!… I Did It Again,’ and ‘I’m a Slave 4 U’ on stages all over the world.
The ‘Piece of Me’ pop singer always wanted to go to college, bless her heart, but only ended up graduating from high school via distance learning from the University of Nebraska High School. I mean, that is more than some cadres in the ANC, so she’s done just fine, I suppose.
It just gets a little concerning when, as a 42-year-old, she is still writing like she’s 15.
Alarm bells also start ringing when in the long-winded summary of her beach vacation, she also bizarrely claimed she’s having trouble understanding her native language English since she suddenly changed her name.
“Since I changed my name to XILA I actually am having a hard time understanding English,” she wrote.
It’s hard to tell if she has a few screws loose – understandably, since, you know, she’s been through a lot – or if her sense of humour and satire is so advanced that she’s duping us all. An earlier post might provide some clarity: “When people say stop talking shit … my response is … sorry I don’t speak English…” she wrote. Fair enough.
Read it to believe it:
This is amongst her usual fully nude to half-naked posing in the shallow-end shenanigans that we have all become familiar with on her Instagram page: “I post to feel protected,” she once captioned a post.
While Spears’ Instagram handle remains @BritneySpears, the name on her account reads Xila Maria River Red. She added “Xila” in front of her Instagram moniker in February with no explanation, Yahoo notes.
Elsewhere in Wednesday’s post, the ‘Gimme More’ popstar, whose behaviour on Instagram has continued to concern fans even after the end of her 13-year conservatorship in 2021, also claimed she wants to open up about her struggles but says they’re “too offensive to share”.
“There are a lot of other things that happened on this trip that I’m not sharing as well,” she wrote about her recent days in the sun. “Nothing is what it seems sometimes!!! I portray that everything is completely perfect but trust me I’ve been through it as well and I would share those struggles but they are too offensive to share.
“It would make other people extremely sad and honestly there’s not a damn thing I can do about it,” Spears concluded. “So just know my life is not as perfect as it seems … and remember my beautiful friends you’re not alone.”
Her posts often disallow comments, but for a very brief moment last night, the comment section was rampant and wild for this diary-like post, and I had a chance to check out what folks were saying. Interestingly, most people were incredibly supportive, giving her words of encouragement and wishing her all the best, saying she shouldn’t listen to the hater and just live her best life.
Others were blatantly worried, and wondering why they were being shut down by the die-hard Britney fans when they just hoped someone was around to look after her.
It’s a fine line, it seems. Britney looks happy and she’s not hurting anyone, so why should people complain if she’s a bit off her rocker? (Even though she just kind of suggested she’s not so good).
Her posts are unsettling though. Whether she’s developed her writing skills or not, the dissonance between how she behaves and how she should behave for her age feels like a red flag for many.
[source:yahoo]