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

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It is Friday, March 6th

You've probably seen the headlines by now

Britney Spears has been arrested

For suspicion of DUI

With that, we want to welcome you to this episode of Amy and TJ

That, frankly, we were reluctant to do for a number of reasons

But Rose, she's a big star

This is a big deal

But man, it sucks

Because yes, you can argue she brought on herself

But this is going to be another round of headlines

And everybody talking about her, what she should do

And so on and so forth

Yes, I think, look, we hesitated because we don't want to pile on

This is clearly a woman who is celebrated and loved

Hell, 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

But 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

And 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

And 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

But 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

And 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

She 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

And 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

That 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

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Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ

We'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

Britney 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

And 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

They'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

Not 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

And 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

And 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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