If you look closely, you may be able to see the last bubbles rising to the surface as Britney Spears' career slips beneath the waves.
An overly-grim assessment from the Crabster? Not giving Brit enough credit for resilience? Under-estimating the public's capacity to forgive a celebrity almost any transgression? Maybe. However, evidence to suggest that Britney has completely lost control of matters is mounting on a daily basis, and this particular objective observer can't help but conclude that the end is nigh for the former pop princess.
Take her recent collapse at PURE in Vegas. We all know the Britney version of the story - she was exhausted and needed to be dragged off to get some sleep. A new National Enquirer story alleges, however, that something a little more serious than being tuckered out was behind Britney's sudden succumbing to gravity that night - a drug overdose. According to the story, Britney was under the influence of a combination of cocaine, vicodin and ecstasy at the time of the collapse. Really, Britney, just the three drugs? Didn't feel like tossing in a little blotter acid or exotic Oriental shark-blood extract mixed with flakes from the rare Nepalese death-poppy? Well, admirable restraint on your part.
All right, so it's an Enquirer story. Still, if the truth, as the wise-man said, usually lies between two extremes, then somewhere between "she was a little pooped" and "she was hopped up on the entire contents of an average-sized pharmacy" we would find the real answer, which is still not what her lying reps say it was.
Perhaps more solid (and significant given the direction Brit's career has been going) than the sensationalistic Enquirer story is another little tabloid tidbit, this one courtesy of the Star. According to this story, Britney, who is supposed to be getting her recording thing back on-track after a long, barefoot-and-pregnant hiatus, has infuriated big-time music producers Scott Storch and Pharrell Williams by failing to show up for sessions they had planned. Britney, a source says, was scheduled to be in the studio a week ago, but still hasn't shown up. And this comes on the heels of a November blow-off, where Britney was supposed to be in the studio with Storch but canceled because of an ear infection.
I don't know Brit, it seems to me that, if you're trying to re-kindle your recording career, the first thing you might want to do is actually show up.
Bottom line: Britney has no interest in recording anymore (if she did she'd be in the studio working her tail off, not running around getting loaded on drugs and screwing every piece of desperate man-meat that throws itself at her). Whenever Britney tells us how committed she is to getting her career back together, she's lying - not only to us but herself. This is an unprofessional little twat who made millions and now just wants to spend it. She will never pull herself together and do anything of any significance again. She is o-v-e-r over.
