After her disasterous performance at the Video Music Awards this past Sunday night, Britney Spears took a lot of heat for looking out of shape. According to US Weekly, Britney herself may agree with this sentiment. US claims that, after completing her performance and walking offstage, Britney said, "Oh, my God, I looked like a fat pig! I looked like a fat pig!"
Britney's problems at the VMA's may be her own fault. Allegedly, Britney chose her own outfit, and yelled at her hairstylist, causing him to quit just 30 minutes before the VMA's started.
Also, it seems that Britney passed on the chance to share the VMA stage with Justin Timberlake. Producer and frequent Timberlake collaborator Timbaland told MTV that a Britney-Justin performance would have been "the best thing that ever happened" and would "help her out a whole lot."
He added:
It'll never happen. Nah. It could've, but it won't.
Timbaland went on to offer some career advice for Spears:
She needs a story. She has no comeback story. That's the problem. She has to have a team. She needs to come back with Justin doing records; [then we'd see headlines like,] 'She went back to her ex and she's making smashes.' [But instead she got] so big-headed and [was] like, 'Screw you, screw you, I don't need nobody.'
She should humble herself and make a phone call and say, 'I'm sorry.' She knows what she's sorry about. She needs to say, 'I was wrong,' and it'll definitely move forward. That's all she has to say.
This explains a lot. It looked like the VMA's were thrown together the night before. Hell, I've been to beer pong tournaments that were more well planned out. But perhaps it wasn't MTV's fault. Maybe they had a plan, but Spears refused to participate in that plan. Who knows? That would make sense, though. Spears recently fired her manager, and she's launching her "comeback" attempt when many people think she should take some time off. Now she's turning down Justin Timberlake collaborations and firing her hairstylist? It's highly possible that she just does whatever she wants, regardless of others' advice. When is the last time someone said "no" to her about anything? Someone needs to step up and say "listen bitch, you're embarrasing yourself, now shut up and follow the plan that your record label and management have laid out for you so you don't end up looking like a two-dollar stripper on Xanax on national TV again." OK, maybe they should phrase it differently, but you get the point.
As for the "fat" thing, I may be in the minority here, but I think Spears looked fine. Sure, she was thicker as compared to old Britney Spears (i.e., "The Snake"), but if you put her on the street with a random collection of girls, she still would have been 95th percentile. I would challenge any female from US Weekly or any other tabloid to put on those same clothes and dance around on stage, and we'll see how they look.
(This isn't to prove a point. I just want to see more girls dancing around in stripper clothes.)
