Brittany Spears - Mayhem #1 Review

To begin we will start our Mayhem with the ultimate woman in mayhem at the moment Brittany Spears! Of course it was a toss up between, Lindsay Lohan - "As in Party Like a Lohan" ... but ... she can be next! There is just so much more juicy news on Brittany!

Soooo you know I want to ignore Britney Spears, I really do, and in fact we lasted a whole two weeks here without a Britney story, but the woman makes it impossible. I think there’s a master plan behind her bad behavior and that it’s all orchestrated for maximum publicity. Normal pop singers who aren’t headcases, like Hilary Duff and Mandy Moore, don’t get coverage until they break up with a boyfriend or go public with personal details about their eating disorders or insecurities. Britney just acts like a spoiled primary school student every day and people can’t resist talking about her.

So whether Britney really is that obnoxious and self-centered or if she’s playing it up for the paps and gossip rags is up debate. She’ll always be known as a trainwreck, even if by some miracle she cleans up her act and can convincingly return to her gyrating and lipsynching act. If Britney can get back to some semblance of her pre-baby self, without any daily drama (and there was hope for her when she first dumped K-Fed) she’ll still always be known as that woman who made a spectacle of herself for months. It seemed to start with her series of four crotch reveals last November, a byproduct of her brief friendship with Paris Hilton. It culminated in her public head shaving and is still going on nearly nine months later. Maybe she should look to Paris for advice again, because at least the bland heiress realized that it’s time she acted like she cares about someone other than herself, even if that’s not the case.

Here are the Britney stories which certainly seem to be coming at a fast pace today.

Britney paid for her own video shoot
You know that video where Britney was pole dancing, but burst out in tears and left after acting weird and taking too many bathroom breaks? Well, word is that she paid $30,000 for it herself because her record label, Jive, wasn’t ready to foot the bill. It seems like they realized that it was a bad idea for Britney to start making a video for that pac man song at this point, and they were obviously right.

Britney is now continuing to shoot the video, and was at a club in Venice, California working on it yesterday.

Assistant Alli, Britney’s “cousin” is back, and Britney has new manager
Britney fired the assistant who was said to have caused trouble at her OK! photoshoot, Shannon Funk. While Funk has publicly defended Britney, saying “she loves those babies to death,” it is rumored that she might help K-Fed in his battle to get full custody of the boys. There was a story a short while ago that Funk was planning a tell-all interview about Britney, but Funk’s mother has denied this.

Alli Sims, who is launching a pop career of her own, has been hired back by Britney.

Britney has also hired a new manager, Jeff Kwatinez, who formerly worked for Kelly Clarkson.

Britney bails on Allure Magazine too
Britney is on the cover of this month’s Allure magazine, but bailed on the interview, missing four separate appointments. As usual, she acted weird during the photo sitting. She “stripped down to the waist, for no apparent reason, before sitting for hair and makeup.” She was said to be cooperative at the photo shoot.

Britney similarly walked out of a perfume shoot too
Britney only stayed for a short while for a shoot for her new “Believe” perfume with Elizabeth Arden, and they only had good photos of her head. They had an assistant on set dress in her clothes and will be putting Britney’s head on that woman’s body for the ads. It’s a better body anyway.