Jive Stands Behind Britney

Britney Spears & Jive Records logoObviously, Britney Spears hasn't had the best run of publicity lately. Even though she (or whoever wrote the "mea culpa" on her website) might think the media has been unfair to her -- there's no shortage of people who agree she's been on a downward spiral. Indeed, some fans seem to be jumping ship from the USS Britney -- and reports claim that no PR flacks will work for her since her most recent publicist went overboard.

There are some folks sticking with Brit: her record label. Despite reports circulating to the contrary, a rep for Jive Records tells TMZ that there are no plans to drop Britney from the label, saying, "Jive's relationship with Britney is just fine. She continues to be one of our biggest worldwide artists and we remain 1,000 percent committed to her career."

No doubt Brit's latest web missive, which includes her expressed desire to finish her record, is meant not only to reassure her fans, but is likely an attempt to assuage any possible doubts at Jive about her commitment to restart her career. I have no doubt that when the new stuff hits the stores, she'll still be able to move some units. However, there is no word on when the record will actually see the light of day. Until then, we'll just have to keep our pants on ... now if only Britney will do the same!



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16. #15....leave Jessica out of the Paris, Brit, Nicole, Lohan clan....she's not out partying like them......they are all alcoholics, dui drivers, crotchless vixons......at the very least, Jessica has shown some respect for herself......

Posted at 8:52PM on Jan 5th 2007 by Brooklyn chick

17. C'mon people!

Jive will continue to support Britney as long as she makes them money. If her new album sucks, they'll dropper faster than Mariah Carey's label did! As long as she's a cash cow for them, they will continue to "remain 1,000 percent committed to her career."

Posted at 9:03PM on Jan 5th 2007 by Angelina Jolie Pitt

18. Hi y'all,

I know it's been a while, but listen -- I've been real busy with things. And I know a lot of y'all think I've been acting real trashy since Kevin and I split up, but listen, it was a ROUGH TWO YEARS THERE. Sometimes a girl just need to take her vagina out for some air, and that's all I was doing, so maybe you shouldn't judge me so much because if you'd been married to Kevin Federline for however long we were married, you would go on a binge later too. Anyway, I had this whole thing planned out where I explained WHY I stopped wearing panties for a little while and WHY I was pole-dancing with Paris Hilton and stuff, but then I found this, and I need to take care of it, first:

LISTEN PARIS: YOU STAY AWAY FROM MY MAN. I mean it. YOU STAY AWAY. OR I WILL TOTALLY CUT YOU. Everyone thinks I'm so dumb, but these are things I know:

a) Justin is single again

2) You and I are friends all of a sudden

3) you totally love to hook up with your friends's ex-boyfriends. Like you took Stabby Nachos, if that is in fact his real name, from the little tiny Olsen. And then you did the same thing to like four other girls and their boyfriends that I can't remember anymore.

d) ERGO: You are TOTALLY going to try to hook up with JUSTIN NOW. DON'T DENY IT. I KNOW YOU ARE. I KNOW IT. AND THAT IS BULLSH*T. IF ANYONE IS GETTING BACK TOGETHER -- OR TOGETHER...OR WHATEVER -- WITH JUSTIN, IT IS ME. ME! ME ME ME ME ME.

So I mean it. Stay away. Get away. Get far away. Because that skinny little Olsen girl is too little to screw with you, but I am NOT. I have still got some baby weight and I will use all of it to RIP OUT YOUR SKANK EXTENSIONS. You MIGHT be able to talk me into pole-dancing naked in your rec room or whatever, but I am NOT going to let you get away with THIS. I have been PLANTING THE SEEDS OF REUNION (I heard that on a commercial for Days once) for like FOUR YEARS and you are not going to UNDO IT ALL. You might have a deal with the DEVIL -- oh, I said it. I think you're THE BRIDE OF SATAN and I really mean that like FOR REAL, not metaphorifically , I think you ACTUALLY WENT INTO HELL and took Satan's hand and pledged to serve him for ALL ETERNITY and wore a veil and everything -- but I sang "Oops, I Did It Again," and I'm just as rich as you are and if I have to fight THE DEVIL to get Justin back, I WILL.

FROM:

Britney

PS: I really mean it.

Posted at 10:00PM on Jan 5th 2007 by Bitchie McSnit

19. If Jive records gets rid of Britney Spears from their label for her lifestyle who is going to replace her Tara Conner?

Posted at 10:34PM on Jan 5th 2007 by George B Vieto

20. The true history of Britney Spears, and to the Britney fans who have been posting on some websites lately that she is worth $300 million. She is NOT worth $300 million. The following is the true history of her career, money and downfall. The most she ever had was about $150 million which Forbes magazine and some other publications talked about, and they probably pushed it up a bit for PR reasons. She has not put out a new CD in years and has not toured in some time. She has been spending a lot of it for the last few years, K-Fed (cars, recording his CD, crating his record company, Federline Records, etc), limos, houses, lawsuits, lawyers, managers etc.

She also lost the lawsuit that she filed against the ten insurance companies that she was trying to get payment from. She wanted them to pay her when she canceled in the middle of her last tour to cover the major losses. She ended up having to pay major amounts of money for damages, canceled arenas, promoters, investors etc. (in the millions). She was also loosing a lot of money on her last tour since about half of the arenas were about half full, a quarter about a quarter full, and only about a quarter of the shows were full. This compared to her first few tours where every arena was full at the height of her fame. If you don't remember go back and take a look at the records (and not the PR her publicists put out). She was also, already becoming unstable at that time. She did not show for two of the shows when the fans were already in their seats for the onyx tour. No reason was given to the fans, and they were understandably upset. Then she came off stage crying at some of the European shows because they were less than half full. Then she cancelled in the middle of the tour because of her knee. She also had her knee operated on in 1999. So that is two times her knee has been a problem for her tours. Since her shows are based on dancing and putting on a big show while she lip-synchs, that makes her knee a big problem to the record companies, promoters, and investors. They are not willing to back her at this time since she is so erratic and unprofessional from her track history, and especially at present. She made one movie that she starred in, Crossroads, and has not been in one since as a lead. In fact she has been turned down many times by Hollywood and has not gotten a starring role in over five years now, and won’t.

She was already in decline by the third CD “Britney” which sold less then half of what “BOMT” did within the same amount of time from its release. Her first CD “BOMT” sold about 11.5 million US when it came out. OIDIA sold about 7.5 million within the same amount of time from its release. Her third CD “Britney” sold about 3.5 million in the same amount of time from its release. Her fourth CD “ITZ” sold slightly above 2 million in the same amount of time from its release. Her “Best Hits CD” although not a studio CD, sold about 1 million in the same amount of time from its release. Not once did her statistics go up, it was a straight downward trend. If you look at it, she did her best when she had a clean and sweet image, on stage, on her CD’s, The more she pushes the sex/slut image, and now the trailer trash image, instead of the sweet girl image of the beginning of her career, the less CD’s she sells. She does not seem to understand this. She has now gone down to crotch shots, and a real dirty image in order to get attention and try to revive her career. That is a real shame since all she had to do at the beginning of her career is show up and be sweet. She sold millions, and millions loved her back then, she had integrity, or at least it looked like it back then. From a business point of view she should have not gone the way she did. It does not work and has ruined her career. She now has only a few fans that are left that are interested in her for skanky reasons, tabloid fodder, and partying, and not for the beautiful Pop Star image that she had some years ago that so many loved. In actuality, the Britney we are now seeing IS the real Britney. The industry is not there to put her together like they used to since she does not sell like she used too (not even close). She is now falling apart at the seams, and has been for some time: 55 hour marriages, marriage to K-Fed, child accidents, erratic behavior, canceled tours, child neglect, law suits, constant bad decisions, crazy partying, crotch shots on purpose (three different times), disrespecting her fans and the industry she is supposed to work in, psychiatric drugs while drinking alcohol, and drinking and driving (which can kill someone, including her) etc.

Her perfume is not doing well now because of her image. Check the latest figures. Even Elizabeth Arden made comments in one of their recent bulletins. They have been cutting back on it and only releasing smaller amounts. There are also rumors that Elizabeth Arden are thinking of suing her because she has not been keeping up her part of the deal, and has not done the amount of advertising she was supposed to do for them. She also has not kept up the “far better image” of herself that she had years ago which DOES help sell the products she backs. Her trailer trash image has done major harm to her businesses (perfume, CD’s, tours, any possible movie career, etc.). She IS a business and needs to act like it with her image. Her image is her business. Major magazines are not putting her on their covers all the time anymore like they used to, which paid her big money. Now she is only on the covers of the tabloids, which do not pay her at all. It also damages her career a lot, and her image, to be in the tabs all the time, and not in major paying magazines (who make her look good).

She should have done Playboy if she wanted to show the world her privates. They would have made her look good and paid her a lot of money Instead she did it for free to get attention which did a lot more damage to her image then any kind of “help” for her comeback. With the C-section showing and rashes further down (check the large images on the net, not the small ones where you can’t see); it looked really gross and desperate, and IS a turn off. And being with Hilton only made it worse. She does not have any professionalism to her tactics and it hurts her image and business a lot. Everyone looks at a train wreck, but that does not mean anyone is going to pay cash to buy it.

She gets involved in a lot of lawsuits (which she creates), and has bad business dealings a lot also. Her restaurant NYLA went broke. She was sued by NIKE some years back and lost. She was sued by a t-shirt company (the only one she won). She sued US magazine and lost and others she has been in. Suing, lawyers, and court cases cost a huge amount of money. She does not have a large income at this time. She has been spending far more in the last three years then she has brought in. If you check all of her divorce papers, other filings, and documents, she only has about $32 million left. She has gone from $150 million about four years ago down to $32 million. That is a loss of $118 million in four years. She is not acting smart, and I am sure a lot of people are taking her money all the time, not just K-Fed, since she is always partying and going crazy. When a star falls, it is not uncommon for everyone to take a part of the pie (their money). Look at Michael jackson, Elvis, and many others.

She may even loose her kids, which is up to the judge and not her fans or their opinions. I work in the legal profession and see how the courts and judges rule all the time. She does not know how to manage her money or kids and be a good and stable mother. The children came out of her; they instinctively know she is their mommy. A Nanny is not the biological mother. The images that the tabloids constantly print of her and her actions can be, and will be, used in court. And it will damage her greatly. In fact, the tabloids are doing her far more harm than any of her “past fans”, or “haters”, can do all together. The courts will not care about the “past fans”, or “haters”, opinions. But they will care very much about the pictures and films the tabs have shown which can be used in court. If she keeps going like this, she will also loose the rest of her money in a few more years (around five years or so).

The current Britney fans seem to only care about image (hair color, makeup, clothes, and partying all the time, etc.), and not substance (such as facts, or Britney’s kids, or professionalism for Britney’s business). And for the fans that keep saying Britney’s life is nobody’s business, you are wrong. She became famous because of us. She puts herself out there all the time and shows off her “supposed” personal life on purpose. She wants the attention. We can judge her anytime we want. There is no law against it. If no one ever judged then no one could ever correct a wrong or point out something destructive, or see the difference between right and wrong, good or bad. It is everyone’s right to judge. She is acting such a fool lately that many should judge her, and they do. She is a celebrity shoving her personal life in everyone’s face on purpose and in a gross and desperate way. She makes her money by selling us all her products. If we do not want to buy her products anymore because we don't like her anymore, or what she or her products stand for, then that is our right and we do not have to accept her or her tactics. We can say what we want, and judge her all we want. Just like Britney’s fans can have their say and judge her as fit or not doing anything wrong by neglecting her kids, etc.

And just because her kids are not your kids does not mean we can’t care about their well being when she is being such a flake about it. She parties almost every night from around 6 PM to 5 or 6 AM. She then has to sleep, probably 10 hours or so to get over the hangover. She also stated “herself” in a couple interviews that I saw of her some years back that she loves to sleep about 10 to 12 hours threw the day. Then we see her out in the afternoon shopping a lot without her kids. Then she goes back to partying all night. She is not spending much time at all with her kids. If you are a mother and truly love your babies then you instinctively want to be with them all the time because you love them. They are the most important of anything to a real mother. It is so funny how the current Britney fans always scream about how the rest of us should not judge, or don't have the right to judge, when they are far more judgmental then anyone else, and they judge everyone else that is not a Britney fan.

People that party all the time and do crazy things a lot are not professional and do not have their life in control. They are also not responsible and end up loosing a lot in life and loosing control of their lives eventually. These are the same people that don’t care about kids, such as Britney’s kids, and justify what Britney does so they can hope she will give them another CD. That is so sad that you would prefer a CD from her over her kids being raised properly by her, the actual biological mother, and her love. It seems that the current Britney fans are far more selfish then they are aware of. And by the way, she is looking more and more trailer trash everyday, she does not look beautiful. Check a bunch of her current pictures against the ones from years ago when she was doing great and still looked fresh and young. She really was happy back then and her smile showed it. Now her smile is hiding a lot of pain and misery. Just look deeper and you will see it there. The problem is that she has caused this all on her own, with her selfishness and stupid tactics. She has gone crazy and really needs psychiatric care. I used to be a really big fan of hers. But the Britney now is literally someone completely different. This is not even the same person. Just like Justin said, he does not even know who she is now, and all the fans that have left, which is the vast majority, don’t know who this woman is now. Britney left some time ago, Sad.

Posted at 2:11AM on Jan 6th 2007 by anonymous

21. I think that Jive will stick with Britney Spears, regardless of some of her craziness. I hope that her upcoming songs with producers Sean Garrett, the Neptunes, Dr. Luke and other possible names are exciting for her next album. I'm looking forward to hearing it, but she's going to have to make a strong enough release to compete against the Beyonces, Fergies, Nellys and others. Even Katherine McPhee's upcoming album in January recalls some of Britney's fun dance pop. So Britney and her musicians, producers and writers need to compose some challenging songs that stand out from others in music.

Posted at 2:20AM on Jan 6th 2007 by Preston

22. Seriously, if the paparazzi and celeb bloggers didn't talk about Britney, people would've forgotten who she was by now! If she would have had a career twenty years ago she wouldn't be any more famous than Debbie Gibson and Tiffany (from the 80's)

Britney is ONLY famous (today) because of celebrity gossip mongers. The girl needs to sort out her personal life, spend some time being a mother before her babies get too old to baby (they grow up very fast, Britney, this is the only time you can have them this age) Then maybe in five years try another come back, as a more mature and well rounded person.

Posted at 4:50AM on Jan 6th 2007 by ~K.

23. #22 You idiot ! Stop posting novels! This is a site for comments, not short books.

Posted at 10:22AM on Jan 6th 2007 by very important

24. Don't wish death on anyone....karma is a bitch.

Why does Britney still have fans?

Why would anyone be a fan of Britney?

Hasn't she done enough damage?

Posted at 11:24AM on Jan 6th 2007 by Deede

25. You know seriously folks, SHES FLIPPING YOUNG for one, for 2 she spit out 2 kids in 2 years with a loser husband that was never around. Sorry why in the f..k cant she do what she wants for the first time in her life without everyone criticizing. DONT BE foolish you think YOUR kids dont or didnt do this your nutzo.

Anyway, she will come back better and larger than life. Leave her alone for once and quite putting her under the magnifying glass, you dont do this to anyone else but her. Watch one of those clips and f..king paparazzi is on her ass so much she can hardly move. STAY away and let her be, this too shall pass, you dont like it, dont read it and move on.

The saddest part of this all is Federline not being a good husband and not spening more time with Britney on a constructive level. He was all about himself, ya sure he loves the kids but thats it, theres more to life, marriage and relationship than that.

With that I say screw Federline, hes a user and screwed Britney over royally and used her for his own gain, even if she was so blindly in love with him not to see him for who he really is..15 minutes is up and gone Fed, ya you get the girls now you loser.

Posted at 12:35PM on Jan 6th 2007 by Cynic

26. Britney Spears is the ultimate white trash with no morals, no iintelligence, no brain, no wisdom, no education, no singing talent, no beauty, no nothing!!!! Most Americans despise Britney Spears for her ugly face and voice that make most people vomit, and her brainless socially retarded behavior that violates all decent good Christian values. If you want to really know the honest to God truth on what most people really think of Britney Spears – visit the Website UrbanDictionary.com with over 1,000 negative public opinions on Britney Spears
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Posted at 3:14PM on Jan 6th 2007 by Dr. Patrick Hill

27. This shows that even no talent trash can get a record deal, she cant sing, she has no talent, just a expensive recording studio and fancy computer work. Shes not even pretty with out computer digital help and mackup by a professional.

Posted at 4:07PM on Jan 10th 2007 by Crystal

28. Britney became a mother at a very young age sure she is going through some difficult times right now she is not perfect everyone makes mistakes but you guys are not in her home you don't know what's going on in her home and life all you know is what the media is feeding you please leave her alone I am sure she is a wonderful mother whom love her children dearly and if her record label believe in her and her talent enough to stick with her boy they are number one in my book that's who I would do Business with you don't turn your back on a artist you claim you love because they are having a bad year and knock them while they are down if you love Britney when she was up you should hold her hands and stick with her while she is going through this tough time do you guys think it's easy going through a divorce it's hard not being able to wake up to someone she loved for so long each day now she has to take care of her babies alone that's alot for a young unexperience Mother please give her a break you guys are not God so how dear you judge her take care of your own skeletons in your own closets I hope someone realize one day that some of the comments that some of you are displaying about Britney are offensive and disrespectful If you have nothing nice to say well don't say nothing at all it is alright to voice your apinions but such foul language should be band from the internet I love her I am a fan of hers sure she might need some help but instead of negative feed back why not try to uplift her this kind of comments can really distroy her self esteem don't know how some one feels when the cameras are turned off and they are home all alone behind close doors becareful how you treat someone you don't know how strong they are or what their breaking points are remember she is Human please give her and her children some respect

Posted at 11:36AM on Jan 10th 2007 by Kimberly

29. This is what happens when a whole family is making money off of their offspring. This girl is a pawn in a big game of money for all. She has never developed any kind of moral code or boundaries or sense of self beyond being used by everyone. She is pathetic because that is how she was raised to be. I feel terribly sorry for her, and more sorry for her kids who may have inherited the ex husbands IQ. God help all of them. And Jive, hello, its a business. They will do whatever is in their best interest. Brittany is not even on their radar, just their bottom line and if they think she is washed up she will be out the door in moments not matter what they say in public.

Posted at 3:00PM on Jan 10th 2007 by maggie mae

30. Jive should just stick behind her? Yea Britney had made huge mistakes in the past 2 years along with dope ass Kevin Federline - Dropping her baby almost to the ground in NY - She knows she is a good mother, just leave it at that would you. Critizing her is not going to help you anyway - Just leave her alone.

Thanks,
Annonymous

Posted at 11:05AM on Jan 11th 2007 by Annonymous

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