Britney Spears to regain legal control of her estate

Britney Spears is on course to regain control of her life when her father Jamie Spears seeks to review his conservatorship over her estate.

The conservatorship has been in effect since February 2008 and means that Britney has the rights of a child, with her father overseeing every aspect from curfew to finances.

Jamie Spears can not ask the judge to end the conservatorship, just to review it. It is then up to the judge if it comes to an end or not, reports TMZ.

It is believed that November is the soonest Jamie Spears can apply for the review, as all the businesses involved in the outing were assured he would be in charge for the whole tour.

‘Britney Spears Saved My Life’
Or so say her biggest groupies in a new BBC documentary. But can a pop princess really heal you?

By Jessica Bennett | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Jul 22, 2009

Lynsey sits in a bright pink room talking about some of the darkest moments of her life. She was suicidal, and she spent time in a London hospital recovering from severe depression. Now 23, she is a dance instructor in North London and works during the day in a local dentist's office. She is pretty, poised, and intelligent, and she's a Britney Spears fan. Actually, she's a superfan—she says Spears helped her recover.

Over the past few years, Britney Spears has given new meaning to the phrase "Oops, I Did It Again." From her breakup with Justin Timberlake to the 55-hour Vegas wedding, to K-Fed, the head shaving, the pink wigs and so on, she's had enough drama to give Lindsay Lohan an ulcer. It's clear the 27-year-old pop princess hasn't always been able take care of herself (or her children for that matter). So it's ironic that some teens and 20-somethings find salvation in Spears. These groupies emerge in a new documentary, Britney Spears Saved My Life, which had its debut on the BBC this month. In the film, fans describe how the star has guided them through the deepest, darkest, most confusing moments of their lives, from eating disorders and depression to coming out to family members as gay. It culminates in a mass reenactment of "Hit Me Baby One More Time"—complete with Catholic-school-girl skirts and pink-tasseled barrettes.

Music is one of the oldest art forms, and it certainly has its therapeutic benefits; that's why moms have their kids listen to Mozart in the womb. The right melody has the ability to calm or excite, console and sooth, lift us from sadness or bring us to tears. As Eddie Vedder, my own teen idol, told me recently, "The best songs are the ones that make you feel something." Celebrities have long influenced fans, too, often in ways they never intended. The Beatles, Elvis, Madonna, Zac Efron—each has had the power to make grown women (and men) faint or cry. Teens are particularly susceptible to the power of music, says neurologist Daniel Levitin, because of the way their bodies and brains are changing: a combination of raging hormones and neuron activity that tends to make just about everything seem OMG-worthy.

That's part of the reason Britney has such a special power—and why many are so obsessed with her. Britney came of age during the '90s, at a time when there were few other young female pop icons for the media to focus on. Her fans have grown up with her, from the cutesy redhead of The New Mickey Mouse Club to the sexy schoolgirl of 1998's "... Baby One More Time," to the writhing, greased up, fully formed sex symbol of "I'm a Slave for You." The critics hated her for being a tease—or for being too sexually provocative—but that only empowered her. And sure, her songs may be cheesy—but they're inspirational to teens who can relate to Britney's own emotional struggles: decisions about chastity, first love, insecurity, loneliness, and rejection. "Her lyrics really address a lot of core issues in the lives of her fans," says Levitin, the author of The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature. "In a way, it's the same connection my generation had to the Beatles."

Among the teens featured in the documentary who say Britney helped save them is Sam, a gay 18-year-old from Wigan, a working-class town in England who says the songstress helped him find the courage to embrace his sexuality. There's 15-year-old Shannen, who overcame an eating disorder and says Spears "has been there for me when nobody else could be." And Luis, a 16-year-old Jehovah's Witness from East London who says the song "My Prerogative" inspired him to question his faith—and ultimately leave the church he'd grown up in. "It just always seemed that when she was going through something, the words that she would sing would mean something to me," says Lynsey, the dance instructor.

Perhaps it's so easy for fans to sympathize with Britney because they've seen so much of her—and we're not talking about her underwear indiscretions. Just as Marilyn Monroe encapsulated the '50s, Britney was the first tabloid star of her time. "This is a woman who has the ability to knock the Iraq War off the front pages of the mainstream press by her choice in underwear," says Vikram Jayanti, the film's Oscar-winning director. Her rise and fall was chronicled by a 24-hour stream of paparazzi photos, celebrity blogs, and cable-news networks devoted to covering every detail of her life. We've seen her coming out of a gas-station bathroom barefoot, driving her infants around L.A. without a car seat, shopping at Wal-Mart, buying tampons and a pregnancy test and, of course, being wheeled out of her Hollywood mansion strapped to a gurney. None of this was glamorous, but Britney didn't seem to care: she frequently appeared in public without makeup, her face splotchy with acne and her hair extensions falling out. "It's like every day you open a paper, you read something new about her," says Sam, the 18-year-old featured in the documentary. "So if you are a fan, you feel like you actually know her."

In many ways, it's that feeling of closeness that makes her such an inspiration to these teens. As they are interviewed in front of the camera, many of them come across as awkward, emotional, and at times hard to watch. But Britney fills a void for them in a way that no one else can. "It's the idea that even Britney Spears, this fabulous star, this huge celebrity, this beautiful woman, even she has problems—and big ones—that are just like mine," says Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture at Syracuse University. In other words, no matter how bad it gets for the rest of us, Britney probably has it worse. And despite all that, she was still able to pick herself back up again. "In a sense she's unstoppable," says Village Voice pop-culture critic Michael Musto. "She has her hair back, she has her career back." And now, she's even a role model.

© 2009

It was revealed today that after less than one year in circulation, "Womanizer" has officially become Britney Spears' best-selling single of all time. The track has sold 2,777,614 copies since being released on Oct. 7, besting "Baby One More Time" (1 million) and "Toxic" (500,000). It is also the No. 39 best selling download single of all time.

I think it's time for Britney to retire. The majority of her fans have outgrown her and fame has worn her down.

Going to "The Circus" again on September 27, which is the last date of 2009's highest grossing tour. One of our daughters couldn't make the April concert as it was her high school prom, so why not go again?

Britney Spears "Circus" Tour Could Become 3-D Concert Film
September 17, 2009 5:48 p.m. EST
Anthony Jones - Celebrity News Service Contributor
Las Vegas, NV (CNS) - Britney Spears fans can soon be seeing the pop star in another dimension. Spears is reportedly planning to film her sell-out "Circus" tour in 3-D.

Perez Hilton reveals that sources say Spears is planning to film the Las Vegas dates of her "Circus Starring Britney Spears" tour in the special format, scheduled for September 26th and 27th at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. The celebrity blogger appears in the show himself as part of a macabre circus introduction video.

Spears' camp has been providing clues to the announcement, including a cryptic blog posting last week using the number 3. "So sit back and relax, be patient one more tim3/the answer can be found within this little rhyme," it read.

They planned on making it official in a week or two. "Very exciting announcement that many of you have been waiting for coming soon," said manager Adam Leber in a Twitter update. "Might be a week, and it might be 2 so stay tuned."

There's no word on when the 3-D concert film would be released. It would be Britney's second concert filmed in Las Vegas, when her "Dream Within A Dream" Vegas concert date premiered on HBO and later DVD in 2001.

Exclusive: Yoko Ono: Britney Spears Is a Survivor
Friday – September 18, 2009 – 5:38pm

Britney Spears has come a long way, but Yoko Ono, John Lennon's 76-year-old widow, thinks the pop star deserves more respect.

"I think that the world was not fair to her, and they're just using her and not dignifying her," she told Usmagazine.com at the ThreeAsFour Homage to Yoko Ono on Thursday in NYC.

Up until last year, headlines bearing Spears' name reported on her bizarre psychotic behaviors, drug use, and a tumultuous custody battle with ex Kevin Federline over her two sons, Sean Preston, 4, and Jayden James, 3.

Now, Spears, 27, is hard at work promoting her sixth album, Circus, on a sold-out international tour.

"I think she's a survivor and she's doing very well," Ono told Us.

Will we all be able to glimpse DanO and family in 3-D sometime soon?

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Britney Spears becomes the first artist in over three years to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, to be released tomorrow (Oct. 15), as "3" opens at the pinnacle of the chart. Her new track, a racy paean to the joys of three-way sex from the upcoming hits set "The Singles Collection," due Nov. 24, shifts 255,000 downloads in its first week of release, also propelling it to No. 1 on Digital Songs. The title also jumps 38-25 on the Pop Songs chart and debuts at No. 49 on Radio Songs/Hot 100 Airplay, which ranks songs based on airplay audience on all radio formats.

"3" is the first title to debut at No. 1 since Taylor Hicks' "American Idol" victory song "Do I Make You Proud" did so on the chart dated July 1, 2006. In fact, the last four songs to open at No. 1 were all "American Idol"-related. Prior to Hicks, Carrie Underwood's "Inside Your Heaven" (July 2, 2005), "I Believe" by Fantasia (July 10, 2004) and Clay Aiken's "This Is The Night" each debuted at No. 1. The last non-"Idol" song to open at No. 1 was Lauryn Hill's "Doo Wop (That Thing)" on Nov. 14, 1998. "3" is Spears' third Hot 100 No. 1. Her debut single "...Baby One More Time" spent two weeks at No. 1 in 1999 and "Womanizer" spent a sole frame at the top, exactly one year ago this week, on the chart dated Oct. 25, 2008.

That photo JohnG posted is so hot. I will await a good hardcore R movie that she will star in. Posing like that tells she is ready. It is just matter of time she follows in the steps of Tiffany and Debbie Gibson.

Rick A.