Britney’s VMAs Performance A Public Execution?
Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day said that watching Britney’s “Gimmie More” performance on the VMAs was like witnessing “a public execution”. He told Rolling Stone magazine:
“People want blood. They want to see other people thrown to the lions. How could the people at MTV, the people around her, not know this girl was f**ked up? People came in expecting a train wreck, and they got more than they bargained for. She is a manufactured child. She has come up through this Disney perspective, thinking that all life is about is to be the most ridiculous star you could be. But it’s also about what we look at as entertainment - watching somebody go through that.”
I couldn’t agree with him more. I understand that the people at MTV only cared about their ratings, but why the people around Spears haven’t told her not to do the performance?
