Perhaps the two documentaries "Billie Elish: The World of Obscurity" and "Framing Britney" should not be discussed together, their protagonists are characters of different eras, and today's situation is very different, one is the hottest girl singer in the world, and the other is the star of yesterday, whose personal and financial freedom is restricted.
In February 2021, two documentaries "Framing Britney" and "BiLi: The Fuzzy World" were launched one after another.
Like the style of two documentaries, one is a lazy, clear, undesigned life record; the other is a suspenseful review of everyone with a suspicious face but a clear theme. Similarly, the feedback received by the two documentaries is completely different, Billy (Billy Elish) "Fuzzy World" has won almost all the mainstream media praise, although it is a private record that does not have much novelty, but no one wants to offend a popular darling at this moment, just like no one can deny her talented creation; "Framing Britney" about Britney is a controversial film, and her fall process involves many factors such as American media power, public perception, vanity fair rules, etc. Today it is the subject of a social movement.
The reason why these two documentaries are talked about together is not only that their star path has gone to two extremes, but also because the two of them have almost the same career starting point.
Pear's luck comes from the care and love of others
If you take the debut album as the boundary, Bripley and Britney are under eighteen years old debut, before the album, there are popular singles that have swept the world, and they are the same image of the girl next door, just a weird darkness, a sweet sunshine, the same is, they all lead the trend of teenagers. When we talk about Pear today, we will treat her as a phenomenon. She is the darling of the data age, music playback platforms, social media data are emphasizing her impact on the current pop culture, after the launch of "Fuzzy World", APPLE TV's young subscribers increased by 30%, APPLE TV even replaced the Twitter account avatar with Pear's iconic fluorescent green. At this moment, Pear is both a gesture for young people to distinguish their kind, but also a ticket to the new wave, and her data is the ticket stub left by this carnival to the Internet, and people watch themselves use data to create a myth, which is participated by the media and the public, and twenty years ago, people created Britney in the same way, and then joined forces to destroy her. To this day, he has worked hard to speak up for her in order to obtain a kind of political correctness and personal salvation in the present. Bi Li did not experience the latter, and hoped that she would never experience it, but under the appearance of revelry, it was always accompanied by a dark tide of another force.
"Fuzzy World" records The daily life of Bi Li, and her parents and family have been accompanying her growing up.
In "The World of Blur," Katie Perry and Britty's idol, Justin Bieber, tells her to enjoy the madness of the next decade; her mother advises her to publish works on drug themes with caution; her brother is always encouraging her to create... Although Bi Li did not accept all the suggestions, the care and affection behind it can be felt, and warmth and tolerance will be important themes in the process of idol formation. Britney's debut is also mentioned in "Framing Britney", the MV in school uniform makes her a new generation of American sweethearts, and her poor family and singing talent revealed in her childhood add more filters to her success. Singers such as Michael Jackson and Madonna have shown their affection for Britney, who was still a newcomer in the music world at the time, and her courtesy and achievements have made her an American icon after the release of the first album, a top of the times.
Britney and Michael Jackson.
Britney's "everything" became a commodity
"Fuzzy World" is based on the creation of Pear's first album, and as of the end of the 2020 Grammy Awards, she is the biggest winner of the night, her brother also won the Producer of the Year award, and in the moment of great joy, idol Justin Bieber congratulated the brothers and sisters through video link.
At the Grammy Awards in early 2020, Bripberry won five trophies.
Outside of the film, Justin Bieber said about his friendship with Pear that he was also young and famous, walked many detours, and almost destroyed himself, and Bieber hoped that his experience could help Pear avoid those bad things. Justin Bieber and Pear are discovered and cultivated on the Internet, and achieve achievements in the adult world at the fastest speed, but he almost became a male version of Britney, and after becoming famous, he was focused on by the media, and all kinds of negative news were entangled, the difference is that Justin Bieber's prodigal son who is difficult to distinguish between true and false has turned back and saved a lot of good feelings, but Britney does not have this luck. She has always been the target of hunting, her family, her marriage revolves around her huge wealth, her super popularity makes her food, clothing, housing and transportation a commodity that sits on the ground, which makes her an assembly line, all the jobs on the line are creating wealth, Britney once expressed dissatisfaction in an interview, "Everyone around me will listen to me, but they don't care what I say." When a street photo of Britney can sell for 100,000 US dollars, no one will take the initiative to stop until this assembly line is warned, out of control, destroyed, and people still do not disperse, and continue to grab harder in the cracks of the scars.
"Blurry World" records The first meeting between Bi Li and her idol Bieber, who also used his own personal experience to warn Bi Li not to take a detour.
The documentary combs through Britney's "going crazy" process, and when she is chased and blocked by the camera, she has to deal with it in a friendly and pro-people image, because the price of expressing anger is to intensify the interpretation and amplification. In the interview, people are also unabashedly asked about her privacy, and as she becomes more and more perfect as she plays the American sweetheart, the dark tide is even more humiliating, and all this begins to erupt after her and Justin Timberlake's open love affair and bloody breakup.
Justin Timberlake released a new single after the breakup, and the MV chose a heroine who resembled Britney, suggesting that she suffered a betrayal in the relationship, and Britney became the object of a thousand fingers overnight. The previous sunny and sexy image has become the basis for sexual innuendo, and even a woman in an interview believes that Britney has brought a bad teenager, and if she stands in front of Britney, she will not hesitate to shoot at her. This kind of parental, dogmatic accusation is not uncommon, but the spearhead is usually directed at the rock musician who is a wandering skeleton, Britney's music and image at that time, and even her scandals, are far from being bad teenagers, but she has completely stood against the public mood, and people are waiting for her no longer an aura, but an ugly.
Justin Timberlake, who was still consuming the relationship after the breakup, shared intimate topics with Britney to the public, and Britney's image plummeted even more. All of this seems to be a foreshadowing, and the documentary intercepts some of Britney's private remarks as a starting point for later humiliation. But back in that time, after Britney's private remarks were published, the bookmakers were quick to set odds for that. Yes, everything she has is a commodity, represents interests, can be sold, sold. According to the law of profit maximization, squeeze britney's sunny sexiness, and then squeeze her depravity.
Britney did not disappoint the onlookers and slid into the abyss that awaited her. She married her childhood friend and paid $4 million. Eight months later, he remarried and had children with his accompaniment, then divorced again, lost custody of two children, and was threatened by her ex-husband with a private videotape, paying $13 million, becoming a talking point and a laughingstock. During this time, she became rebellious, smashing cars, shaving her head, holding her child and driving dangerously, and her emotional breakdown was out of control, everything contradicting the image of the former Sunshine Girl and meeting people's expectations of her depravity. Even if her various behaviors are unavoidable resistance, the reasons behind these have been blocked, verifying her unwillingness in the interview, "Everyone around me will listen to me, but they don't care what I say."
After she finally dared to express her anger to the world, in exchange for not freedom, but a harsher reality. Her "indecent" performance was judged to be mental illness, and her father, who had been absent for a long time since her youth, reappeared in her life, becoming the de facto controller of her life as a "lifelong custodian". The "custodian" is usually set for people with dementia and life inability to take care of themselves, britney is obviously not one of them, but her huge commercial value has turned her negative emotions into mental illness, and she has lost control of her life ever since. Her finances, medical treatment, work, and even travel all need to be approved by the "custodian" or she will be sent for treatment. To get out of regulation, you need to prove that you are not mentally ill, and the documentary mentions that no one has succeeded in this logic. This was also the beginning of the "Liberation of Britney" movement, which is still ongoing today.
"Framing Britney" documents the "Rescue Britney" campaign that is still ongoing today.
For the past 13 years, Britney has almost become her father's printing press, and she has never been able to escape this nightmare. She applied for a replacement of the "custodian", which was rejected by the court. She reopened the lawsuit last year, and with the support of the outside world, Britney expressed confidence, but the verdict was that her father and the trust fund became her custodian, and her father's regulatory status will continue, and the lawsuit is not completely over.
Times have not changed, only needs and tastes
"Framing Britney" is not a perfect documentary, it lacks Britney's perspective on the movement, nor does it present the identification process of mental illness, which makes the emergence of "unsolved cases" unclear. The New York Times, as the producer, noted a message at the end of the film that they had sent Britney an interview invitation without a reply, and were not sure whether Britney had received the interview email. In a way, the core of this documentary is more like a simple mood, in line with the universal sense of morality and the current trend, but we can't ignore that some of the people who want to liberate Britney today are also the people who once hunted Britney, including the New York Times. Last month, Justin Timberlake publicly apologized to Britney and Jenny Jackson, another woman he had humiliated, in addition to reflecting on his own words and deeds, but also mentioning the privileges of men in Vanity Fair, but the apology was so correct that it was hard not to suspect that it was a disguised form of self-preservation.
After becoming famous, Britney was the focus of public attention.
There is a universal explanation that times have changed, in fact, times have not changed, but needs and tastes are changing. Since Britney's debut, there has always been an independent aesthetic and opinion, she is not an artist at the mercy of others, and this is also mentioned in the documentary, but at that time, the market needed a sweet idol, and the characteristics that did not conform to this person's setting were covered, so she quickly went to the top, and therefore quickly went to the other side of life.
There is such a plot in "Fuzzy World", in the car, Bi Li told her mother that she was not willing to take a photo with the industry bigwigs after the performance, and her mother promised her, which is the luckier place for Bi Li, the family will listen carefully to her requirements, and Britney's growth is more required. Last year, Bi Li was also angry because of being secretly photographed and was on the news, but the public chose to stand with her, criticize the photographer, understand her anger, and work together to protect the new Chosen Daughter. This is not something that can be summed up in terms of "progress", the more essential reason is that people need a rebellious, mournful idol at this moment, and Pear is the best carrier of this temperament, just like britney was chosen when the public needed american sweethearts, so after "Blurry World" was launched, the praise and praise that flocked to it always felt familiar. Britney, like her, had cashed in on her talent early and collected thousands of favors, while her fate afterwards was dictated by something other than talent. Talent cannot be copied, but there are traces of what is not talented.
These two documentaries are easily reminiscent of another female singer, Amy Wynnhouse, who is about the same age as Britney, similar to Britley's rebellion, and the same genius, and finally fell completely and became a member of the 27-year-old legendary club. Four years after her death, her documentary of the same name was released, with keywords similar to this one, insatiable father, bad boyfriend, childhood idol, Grammy, media, fans...
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Wu Dongni, chief editor of the Beijing News, proofreads Zhao Lin
Source: Beijing News