The latest in jaw-dropping news is that Britney Spears has shaved her head, inked herself up and is helping the rest of the country think they’re more normal in comparison. And her chopped locks have since surfaced for sale at Esther’s Salon site, www.buybritneyshair.com, for a cool starting price of $1 million.
Since her lip-lock with Madonna, Britney has been traveling down the road of rebellion, but this time it feels different. Though she has been paralleled to the mega-star, Britney’s crossed the Borderline this time. She’s not reinventing as much as destroying; removing the traditional symbols of femininity to expose a raw version of herself.
She’s showing us what she feels inside, and doesn’t want to be perceived on the outside as a beautiful, young, famous starlet anymore. She feels sick and out of control, and is crying for help. People do publicity stunts all the time, including Britney. But this time seemed uncalculated and desperate.
There are lots of factors in the mix, I don’t know the girl. I’m just guessing from the bits of unconfirmed details that are out there. But the pictures don’t lie. There is a troubling, sad look in her eyes that spells HELP ME. It’s not hard to guess why; what with the pressures of stardom missed with a highly-publicized divorce, being a single mom and her substance abuse problems. She checked into rehab yesterday, and checked out again today.
The salon owner has claimed that Britney cried in her car for 10 minutes before coming inside. She wouldn’t buzz Brit like she was asked, afraid to be sued for ruining her image. After Brit did it herself, she teared up worrying what her mother would say. And she asked for her mother, but managed to reportedly open the blinds to let the paparazzi see the show.
The media frenzy surrounding her perceived breakdown is yet another example of Schadenfreude on display. The past weeks have been a real crowd pleaser what with the death of Anna Nicole Smith and the stirring of the tragic Marilyn Monroe syndrome. The pleasure we find in the pain of others is demented and sad, but hey, it sells ... Especially on eBay.
EBay joins Esther’s Salon in peddling locks of Brit’s felled hair, but credibility is always an issue. It costly to run a DNA test to prove it’s real. But then again if you have $1 million to throw away on a pile of someone else’s dead skin cells, then you might as well throw a little more out there to make sure it’s legit. And if the salon’s selling the clippings on their own site for that much, you can be pretty sure they haven’t let any go for $1 starting bids.
But some other items posted are a new bald Britney Spears doll, which comes with baby Sean on its lap in an SUV. Someone even “found” a shaving cream and razor that Brit supposedly used in a Taco Bell bathroom. Hey, at least you get her empty can of Red Bull and a Bic lighter from the salon’s site.
So is she really going off the deep end? Will she come out with her own wig line? Why didn’t she donate her locks to charity? That always makes for headlines if you’re going for a comeback. There are plenty of questions, but especially, wtf is the lucky psycho that buys her hair going to do with it?
