My significant other has this morbid fascination with reality television. So, when she decides to watch some trainwreck on T.V., I'm forced to watch it also.
Last night, MTV aired the Britney Spears documentary. I use the word documentary loosely because it had few features of a documentary; it resembled a p.r. video.
Here's what I learned about Britney from Britney:
1) Britney is sad.
2) Britney hates the paparazzi.
3) Britney loves her kids.
4) Britney likes to drive around.
5) Britney wants to go out without being followed by cameras.
6) Britney likes to work.
That's about it.
MTV chose to up the stakes before the show by displaying a text prologue saying "Nothing was off limits, what we see is the real and raw truth."
That load of bullshit was designed to give people the impression that we'd be watching a real nitty-gritty, hard-hitting documentary where all warts and foibles would be on display.
The problem with nothing being off limits is that someone must actually ASK the appropriate questions. No one did.
Now, don't get me wrong. I feel sorry for Britney. I think she's been unfairly maligned as a result of her life circumstances.
This so-called documentary was nothing but a load of crap that provided no more information than what was already out there.
In essence, a total waste of time and footage designed to be an hour long commercial for Britney's record label.
MTV was punked.
They tried to convince their viewers to buy the bullshit to cover their butts for passing off some asinine puff piece as real television.
Can't we go back to the days when MTV was actually about music?
1 comment:
Wow. Why does that not surprise me? Someone get Biography to do a piece, they would get it done right. Course, perhaps the PR people dont want that, because heaven forbid people get to see what things are truly like for Britney. How awful would it be if everyone actually saw Britney as a human, and not a pop princess robot with a bad attitude?
I hate reality tv.
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