Some of Britney Spears’ former friends are calling for a boycott of her latest album “Blackout.” They want folks to stop supporting Britney in hopes that it’ll send the message that she needs to shape up.
“Our message is simple,” says one of the organizers of the Be Proactive to Help Website. “Don’t buy her stuff until she’s better.” The page on MySpace was created by former members of Britney’s entourage including a former bodyguard, backup dancer, makeup artists and some old friends.
“We’ve all hung out with Britney a lot,” says our source. “We’ve seen her at her best and at her worst. And we aren’t doing this to be mean. We’re doing this out of concern, for herself and for her boys. They need a mother figure and right now, they don’t have that.”
The group accuses record executives and other business associates who make money off of Spears as acting as enablers, turning a blind eye to her erratic behavior because she continues to make them money.
“They can see she’s in pain, and they don’t care,” says the former associate.
There was no immediate comment from Jive Records, which plans on releasing Spears’ new album, Blackout, Oct. 30.
I think the intentions here are honorable, but I don’t think it’ll do a damn bit of good. If anything should have kicked her ass into gear it was getting her kids taken away, and has she changed? No. Her former friends feel her record label needs to get involved and tell her how to behave, instead of enabling her.
The new site, boasting the Heroes-channeling headline “Save the Popstar, Save the World,” urges fans to contact Jive, MTV, her management team and her music publishing house.
“Let them know you’ll buy her album, but not until she is clean and sober and realizes the amazing life she has created for herself…
“Let them know you’ll be around to buy her music, her merchandise, when she sets a better example of how to be a performer…It is every employer’s job to make sure their staff is doing their job to the best of their abilities.”
Spears caused some grief in the Jive ranks when she no-showed at two auditions for backup performers. Spears was supposed to personally choose the hoofers for her next music video and upcoming tour but failed to turn up at the L.A. dance studio.”She kept saying she was sick, but then the paparazzi would catch her out and about, smiling and buying latte drinks at Starbucks,” an insider tells E! Online.
Staffers at the studio say word was sent to Spears, from her label, to get back to work.
“They say that,” the former Spears colleague says. “But in reality, they let her act any way she wants, as long as her records sell. Every time she’s on a tabloid for embarrassing herself or being a bad mom, what do they care? They don’t.
“And it’s sad that people around Britney care so little about someone who makes them so much money.”
Sad indeed, but I feel at this point the only one who can help Britney is Britney.
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