Britney Spears was freed from her conservatorship — as everyone in the world by now knows. And Britney feels free. A visit to her Instagram, where she likes to dance joyfully in various levels of clothing, is proof that this once caged bird is singing now.
But, as Spiderman fans know, with great freedom comes great responsibility.
Britney’s loose freedom is great and powerful most of the time, fans believe, but recently Britney posted an old Rodney Dangerfield joke that got a brutal reception in this PC moment of 2022. “This one is a no” wrote one fan, and another says “Britney PLEASE don’t do that way…”
The feedback condemnation was swift, but Britney left the post stand — probably because in her own way she’s trying to use it to tell her side of the story, about what didn’t happen. Still, it doesn’t come across well, as even her most ardent fans are saying.
Britney posted the joke, which reads: “I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.” Britney explains, kind of, writing: “I mean if I had Christina Aguilera’s dancers I would have looked extremely small…Don’t you think my confidence would have been a bit better if I could choose where I lived, ate, whom I called on the phone, dated and who was on stage with me…”