Madonna Seals Britney Spears’ Fall

Lynn Crosbie of the Globe and Mail sounded off on Britney Spears’ problems after the singer was married and annulled to ring in the new year to childhood friend Jason Alexander. Crosbie says, “The slow yet certain plunge of Britney Spears is difficult to assess. More prudent observers would track this decline through sales figures, yet numbers convey only the starkest of narratives. I believe it was the exact moment she kissed the Madonna-viper (who had courted Spears for a long time, wearing her T-shirts and remarking on her, obsessively) that her descent began. Madonna is infamous for a kind of cruelty that always seems to originate in seduction (Sandra Bernhardt is painfully articulate on this subject), and her affection usually culminates in vicious, public cuts.”