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At the Billboard Awards 2016, Britney Spears surprised her fans with her fiery performance on stage. It was a complete change after her breakdown.
It’s been quite a while since we’ve seen the blonde and talented singer light up the stage with fire by her performances. Remember the peppy numbers ‘Baby One More Time’ and ‘Oops! I Did Again’.
Now she’s back in the news after performing at the Billboard music awards 2016. The music awards kicked off with Britney performing on a medley of songs that she sang while she was the reigning pop star.
Things were different for her a couple of years back. We’ve heard several stories of celebrities not able to handle stardom and their careers coming to a gloomy end. Unfortunately Britney became a victim too, succumbing to the pressures of fame, stardom and wealth. In her case, fame struck very early.
After dominating the musical charts for years, we heard stories of the ‘Pop Princess’ going on an angry rampage, destroying a photographer’s car, shaving her head, visits to the drug rehabilitation center and acting unusual. She had failed marriages and lost the custody of her two sons. She was not the same ‘Pop Princess’ we knew. She vanished from the musical scene.
In December 2008, she released her sixth studio album ‘Circus’. From there on she gained stability and took charge of her own life and behaviour. When we pause and reflect on her life, we realize that one needs to have a very strong personality to handle fame. It surely comes with a price.
As human beings can we really handle the personal stories that the paparazzi and the media circulate, in the open ? How much are we ready to give up – our time, values, family to achieve fame ? Can we handle the negative and psychological consequences ? These are questions that would certainly creep into the minds of youngsters who want to travel the road to fame. There’s a lot at stake.
Touch wood, things are now different for the ‘Blonde and perky’ singer. Britney is a changed person and appears to be at a happy place. She’s a doting mother to her two sons. Her persevering nature has to be applauded.
She stands as a source of hope to so many women who are fighting their own inner demons. She was honoured with the biggest award of the night – ‘The Billboard Millennium Award‘ – only two artists have received this award before her.
I think she’s been a strong warrior in dealing with her past demons and now she’s emerged as a strong individual.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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