How did BRITNEY SPEARS become one of the biggest stars of all time? Yes she's a good entertainer/dancer but that's it. She can't act and I don't even have to say this because everyone knows...SHE CAN'T SING!!
She tries too hard to be like MADONNA and it's not working. Although her new cd is her least selling cd, it's had the most promotion. Britney is doing KABALA or whatever that is, she kissed MADONNA, she wrote a song about masturbation, she got married in Las Vegas for a day, her videos started having "meanings" and on talk shows she trying to act so cool and so mellow...and everyone knows that's not her. I saw her live concert on MTV, and she started singing "EVERYTIME" LIVE! And she absolutely cannot sing! And she was sitting at a piano like she knows how to play...and as if she's a real artist.

Is anyone else sick of her?

Monarch

Well, when she first came out, I liked her. I was also into the 'pop' music back then, so I thought she was pretty good. Her first signels "Baby One More Time" and "Sometimes" were one of her best songs. I really hate admitting this, but I actually liked her music at the time. In order to answer your question, we have to go back in time to when she first came out when she was at the tender age of 16-17. She had songs in which I could relate to. About love, crushes, and current situations that were happening in my life. I know it may sound far fetched, but that is what happened to me. I can't speak for everybody else.

Actually, from concerts that I have seen (not to mention all of the publicity) she lip sinks live. This has been a problem for many years with Britney. People have accused her of lip sinking live, and she does lip sink. She does this because she can't 'dance' and 'sing' at the same time. It's either one way or the other with her. She came out big because her music was what girls (young girls) could relate to. She even became a role model to some.

This 'kiss' with Madonna was an act to get her back into the spotlight and to enhance her career. It sort of worked. She got lots of attention, but not for the reason she wanted it to. She is not as big as she used to be, but when something happens to her (one day marriage, new engagement, kiss with Madonna) she does get attention.

I'm not really sick of her, I just don't pay attention to her. I have grown up now, and her music just doesn't suit me. So when there is some sort of program about her on TV or the radio, I turn the station, or I ignore it. I really could care less about her. That doesn't mean I'm cold hearted or anything, it just means I don't have any ties or feelings towards her.

Well, that's my opinion.

Well, everyone has to make a living somehow i guess.... She's managed to make a heap of cash despite having no real discernable talent, so i suppose that makes her kinda smart And we can always take heart in the fact that if she can do it, pretty much anyone can.

I simply LOATHE Britney Spears! She can't sing, and she STINKS at acting! Someone should tell her!

Or maybe one day, the Mafia will be driving around in a car, and one of them will bump the radio, switching the station from opera to one that plays Britney Spears...I'll let your imagination take it from there...

~theoryman14

The idea that Britney Spears has become a role model for young girls fills me with a strange mixture of loathing, fear and spite all at once. What a disgusting thing it is that teenagers have that type of image to live up to. I'm not old, and at 28 I had my fair share of female pop-star images to live up to in the early 1990's, but it strikes me as a terrible turn of events that girls think they should look like glammed up prostitutes and boys look at Britney and agree. Forgive me if I sound like a bit of an old fogey.

Well, I AM an old fogey and all things Britney make me crazy! I really hadn't heard of her as I don't ever watch MTV but I remember this discussion I had with my neice at the turn of the century when there was much discussion as to who the most influential person of the 1900s was. Her parents and I pretty much agreed that it was maybe Hitler or maybe Kennedy or maybe Einstein. My neice's response (and she's actually a very bright teenager) was that Britney Spears was the most important person to come along in the last 100 years. After I fell on the floor and after I realized that the kid had probably never heard a Beatles song in her life I gave this Spears lady a look. I wasn't impressed. I can't remotely compare her to Madonna (who I assuredly don't think was all that influential, either) BUT she has at least lasted for 20 years now and made a significant impact on the music industry and pop culture in general. I think Ms. Spears is a mostly harmless bit of fluff/eye candy/tabloid fodder. That so many give her more credit is alarming! We gave my neice a quick lobotomy, by the way. It didn't help much. She now thinks Frodo is real and that there is still hope that she may marry Harry Potter someday. OK, she's not quite that bad...

I regret that I am influenced by names. Anyone who goes by the name of Britney (I mean, I ask you, Britney???) has not a lot going for her. I despise invented names. I despise attention seeking little nonentities. Especially those who have no talent and little intelligence.
(People are always telling me I should come down off that fence and state my views in a more forthright manner)

How did she make it big? Plastic surgery.

I wonder how far she would have gotten if video hadn't killed the radio star. Or if Rolling Stone Magazine hadn't decided to feature strip-tease artists (Britney, Christina, Justin, etc) on their covers & throughout their rags, uh I mean mags. But this guy doesn't even think she's pretty. She looks so artifical. Not a sleeze like Christina but she's no beauty like her peer, Mandy Moore.

I heard a cover of her "Oops I Did It Again" by a punk/garage band called The Shakes, which was really fun. As far as I know, she didn't write that song, if she writes songs at all (I couldn't care less if she does).

Now , this is beauty, both out and in. No plastic surgery, masses of talent and the most beauty possible in one small person Natural beauty

Very well said, Ren!

i honestly don't know! she is a horrible singer and she only lipsyncs. Another person that i don't know why is famous is Hilary Duff, she sounds like a computer and also lipsyncs. I don't know why people like these singers that have no talent.