Imposing Some Rules
Sam Lufti devised paparazzi guidelines to protect his new client. According to the code of conduct set up by Sam, photographers were to stay off private property, stop following Britney into stores, not run red lights to chase her, and always give Britney a parking spot when they followed her. If journalists and photographers agreed, they would be given copies of Britney’s schedule. Britney’s life continued to crumble despite her new manager’s best efforts…
Imposing Some Rules
Continuing To Fall Apart
In the months following the head-shaving incident, Spears released her fifth studio album, Blackout, and many assumed she would quickly recover from her problems. She debuted her new single “Gimme More” at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, where she had previously wowed audiences. Unfortunately, this time it would be the wrong kind of splash. “no one was prepared for Sunday night’s fiasco, in which a listless Ms. Spears teetered through her dance steps and mouthed only occasional words in a wan attempt to lip-synch her new single,” said the New York Times. The Toronto Star called her “lumbering, in slow motion, as if somebody had poured cement into her streetwalker boots”. According to BBC’s David Willis, her performance will “go down in the history books as being one of the worst to grace the MTV Awards.” Not only had her return failed, but things were only about to get worse.
Continuing To Fall Apart
