Britney Spears Arrested, “First Step In Long Overdue Change”

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4:00Hell, I listen to her music all the time, especially when I'm running She has been a part of our lives for as long as most of us can remember And we have watched her decline, spiral Have problems And I feel like most people are rooting for her We want the best for her We want her to make more music to feel her own strength and her own power She's been through so much And to me, the one thing that really stood out That could be a positive note in all of these negative headlines She has suffered through for the past two decades I loved this line, we'll read her full statement But I loved this line Hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change That needs to occur in Britney's life And I do feel like from what I've seen online She has a huge fan base that is hoping for the best and rooting her on

5:00But this is a tough, tough situation And thankfully, no one got hurt Again, if you haven't gone beyond the headlines, we will tell you what happened This is reportedly on Wednesday evening out in Los Angeles And Southern California, of course, not too far from where she has a home In thousand oaks, it's out there people are aware of this But the report was of a Black BMW driving erratically and at high speeds Police were able to catch up with his vehicle She did pull over She was given a feel sobriety test that apparently the officers thought she failed She was taken to jail, she was booked at 3 a.m. She was out by 6 a.m. But that is the story, we have not heard directly from her short of At least we see a move she has made and I don't keep up with it Roads But a lot of people are familiar with her Instagram account Yes, I have, I am among her millions and millions of followers But yes, she has deactivated her Instagram account She did that on Thursday

6:01And look, I think that's also a positive sign A lot of people have only been keeping tabs on Britney Spears over these past few years Since she was, since that conservatorship was removed by a judge in 2021 So for the past five years or so We have been watching her basically through her Instagram feed And frankly, a lot of what we see on that Instagram feed has been concerning Deeply concerning, not just in the videos she's posted But even in some of the captions where she's gone after family members and friends And had kind of a stream of consciousness type of caption She's gone through a messy divorce online So we've only really been able to gauge how she's doing based on her Instagram account And frankly she's, it's been tough to watch at times I mean, but then I have other people coming to me and say Oh my goodness, you've got to follow Britney And I think Robes, and again, you want to say she's an adult

7:03And she's responsible for her actions, she's a mother, all right? To two boys Robes, so many people have pointed to you, you should check it out Not because it's entertaining, not because it's fun But because they think it's so disturbing that you'll be entertained by how ridiculous it is It's almost making fun of her is how I have been told to follow her It's not described as, like it's our entertainment We are watching this play out And I think a lot of folks have used it as their entertainment I'm not suggesting you, but you know what I'm saying Everybody who has suggested I follow her We're not doing it for a positive reason They go, oh, you got to check this out It's crazy, it's wild, you got to see it It wasn't in a positive light is what I'm saying Exactly, I would say I would liken it to people watching a train wreck People would say that that has been what they have seen over the past several years Because this is Brittany, it's her, it's her Instagram, she can do what she wants

8:05But if you haven't followed her basically, she has a series where she had Because again, that account has been deactivated But she's had a series of, she is dancing by herself A lot of times she's barely clothed And sometimes she's rolling around a beach with no clothing And she has her nipples exposed And she puts stars or hearts to cover anything so it won't be indecent But she looks out of control Her makeup sludge, et cetera, like she just looks like a wreck But I don't know how much, I don't follow it so I can't speak on it It sounds like a lot of stuff I see on social media It sounds performative by some artists Again, I understand that some people are saying this is different But I don't know, we don't hear her explain her actions, we don't hear any of that So all of this stuff, and we don't hear from Brittany When was the memoir two, three years ago? 2023, I believe, she put out her memoir So I don't remember her doing necessarily rounds of interviews She did not know, she did not know, not at all So we don't hear from her at all

9:06And then the time we hear from her and she's in the headline has to do with the DUI Yes, people are going to speak and speculate and try to put things together with robes This, I hate she's going through it again I am a huge Brittany Spears fan and I am just I'm devastated at the life I have seen her live From the moment I saw that first video of her dancing around bad past high school lockers Right? That's how we got introduced to her Oops, I did it again And she has, the moments of victory of us celebrating her in the past several years I've been just few and far between She should be at every Grammy Awards, she should be at every award She is an icon, an iconic royalty type figure And she's just 44 I know, she came up on the Disney Channel with Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera

10:07She was a part of that group And she was wildly talented The fact that her music still still lands, still works, still gets me moving, gets me smiling You know what her music, you can poo poo it all you want and say she sounds auto tuned And her voice isn't that great That girl could dance, that girl could perform, that girl could entertain And every time I hear her music I feel joy She's one of the best we've ever seen in our lifetimes She absolutely is like it, love it She was a whole part of that new poppy I guess that pop got a little cuter Right, it was a whole era of those guys Yes, is that what it's called? Yeah, I mean that's what I've always heard it referred to And you know what, I am unabashedly a huge fan of it The thing is we all are Put on a Britney Spears song today It works Put on a Backstreet Boys song It works today That was that era Yep And she was the queen of it And it's just devastating that we continue to watch this person who played a role in all of our lives with her music

11:11And roles who want to root for, always rooting for But we don't, we rarely have something to celebrate for We're always pulling for We are But there's not, it does seem to be victories, the conservatorship That of course was a big deal She got at it What the free Britney movement? The free Britney movement She actually, yes, I didn't realize how long it had lasted But her father sought that out in 2006 And it ended in 2021 So 13 years, she was under a conservatorship And look, she has just sold, I believe, rights to her music But she has hinted certainly in her memoir That she was going to start creating more music I think there would be nothing better than to see her put Look, she is a creative force And to see her be able to put that energy and to put some of that genius into new music into art That would be the best case scenario But I think a lot of folks just realized from the outside looking And look, we don't have any sort of internal knowledge But from the outside looking in just from what we've been given a window into her world

12:14That she's put out there on social media It does look deeply concerning And then couple that with the fact that you know she's estranged from her father, from her mother, from her sister You know, you wonder when you don't have family People who are supposed to love you no matter what around you Because you don't trust them And whether they earned that or not That's not for me to say But that also just makes your heart go out to her Because who is there for her? Who is her safe space? Who is her cushion? Everyone needs one Well, we are being told that family is on the way Stay here, we'll let you hear the statement from her own people That seems to suggest a change is coming, stay here This is Bowen Yang from Los Cultures of St. Matt Rodgers and Bowen Yang We all know the feeling when life gets really busy Taking care of yourself can feel impossible That's why premier protein shakes are my go-to They have 30 grams of protein, 160 calories, no added sugar, and they taste amazing

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16:20We're talking about the latest unfortunate headline for Pop superstar Britney Spears She has been arrested, booked and released on suspicion of DUI after police pulled her over They say she was erratic in her driving, she was driving at a high speed They pulled her over, they say she failed a field sobriety test And so charges are pending But we did get a statement from her people that actually provides a glimmer of hope, I think, for people And I do believe more people are rooting for her than are celebrating her continued downward spiral Was this our manager? Yes, yes, and so we'll read it for you And I got a lot of hope out of the statement You know, you go ahead and read it, I'm not sure how I felt about it Okay, all right, this is the official statement from the Britney Spears camp This was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable

17:23Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law And hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney's life Hopefully she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time Her boys are going to be spending time with her Her loved ones are going to come up with an overdue needed plan to set her up for success For well-being And again, it sounds like it's coming from somebody outside of her Telling her once again what's going to happen is getting on to her about her actions I understand that it didn't seem collaborative It didn't seem like she was a part necessarily of that You just continue to wonder what is going on Look, all of that sounded good I hope families around I'm hoping her dear friends are around I hope she's okay Quite frankly, she hasn't been charged with anything We don't know for sure What this was about, what was going on with her at the time So we have to leave room for that at the same time But the headlines are there

18:23And it's just I hate her having to go through another round of this stuff in her life And Rose, the part we talked about it Right, if we were back in our own mainstream news, big broadcast network newsrooms How this story would be covered And the way we feel about it now Is much different in this coverage The last thing I want to do is go back and rehash And say, yes, she did this and then she did this thing back And remember back then, and to stack all this stuff up I know, I guess, Rose, that's a part of the story and you're supposed to do But it's something about piling on or reminding people of her troubles Feels awful And I don't know, want to look forward, want to be forward thinking and forward Looking and future and hope for this young lady, but man, I just, I hate it for her But that makes a lot of sense because I think if you can't outlive your past If every time you do anything good or bad or neutral

19:26They're always going to bring up that thing you did that made the headline So people will click, so people, ears will perk up So people will feel like, hey, at least my life isn't as bad as hers I really do think there's some psychology to that and I do think it's important that we do recognize that And remember that as we choose not just what to cover but how to cover it And to cover this with compassion and empathy and not to bring up Only, I would say only in the context of the fact that this woman, this 40, I want to say young lady Look, she's 44 years old but in some way she'll always be 16 It's just how we remember her But ever since 2006 and even probably a little bit before then You're talking 20 years of this woman who has, I feel like been crying for help And I am just hoping, look, it brings tears to my eyes to hear reports that her sons who are now 20 and 19 Are going to now be spending time with her because some of what she put on on social media was just this aching of not being able to see her sons

20:28Not having a relationship with her sons, being angry but not having a closeness with her sons Her mom, you know, there are reports that they're reaching out If this could bring, sometimes it does take tough times to bring people together to re-center people's agendas And to recognize that I, this is my daughter, this is my mother Let's figure this out Okay, that's fine and I hope I just, I know it's her responsibility, she is an adult An adult is not supposed to get behind the wheel, impaired, somebody could have been hurt, somebody could have been killed Yes, you should be held responsible for those things I just, Robes, how do you, in a situation like this? Well, yes, she possibly is the person who did wrong But Robes, there's a way to still look at somebody as a human being and not throw them away Because of the mistakes they make or even continue to make

21:29And to, I think you're right, yes, there's some so stupid headline that people try to be cute about some song of hers And incorporate that into this DUI headlight Yep, that kind of crap is going to happen But how do you just be a human being to this woman who is struggling once again? It appears and I just, I don't know, she's not on a playlist of mine But I love every single song, she's, I'm a fan of hers, I'm a fan of her music And I just, how did we let this treasure of ours, which I will say she is Yeah And we almost do feel like she belongs to all of us, she's just such a part of our lives And I'm only, I'm 48, she's 44 Yeah I feel like she's 15 years younger than I am Because she was a kid when I first saw her And I didn't realize, oh yeah, I was kind of a kid too You were I can't say I don't have the right words, ropes for how to do and how to handle and how to view and how to cover

22:29And how to reach out and how to be compassionate, not just to her But to other people that we are so quick to take their worst moment and turn it into our punchline Or our opportunity to get followers I just hate it Yeah, because, because no matter if you're Britney Spears or if you're Joe Smith next door When people say negative, horrible, awful things about you, it hurts, it matters, it affects you, it impacts you, periods So I would say maybe we take this, we root for her We send her positive energy and love and if you're going to make a comment online Say we're with you, we support you, we hope you find the help you need That's the spirit in which to look at this story And I hope we can all maybe do that and remember that When we see not just this story about Britney Spears but other folks in the headlines Who maybe are now having their worst moments displayed for the world to tear apart, dissect and have a comment on So anyway, we do wish Britney Spears the best and we hope that this is a turning point for her

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