#BritneySpearsInterview #FramingBritneySpears #FreeBritney Citizen Abels discusses Britney Spears and her confusing state of affairs brought to light by the new documentary series by The New York Times called “Framing Britney Spears,” as well as by Britney fans who launched the #FreeBritney campaign. The Citizen reminds his fans that it’s hard to escape strings being pulled on you when it’s the very powers that be you might be turning to to set you free. The video features a Britney Spears interview from 2003, five years before things changed for the pop star. Rolling Stone Magazine described the whole Britney situation as follows (https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/freebritney-britney-spears-legal-829246/): On April 22nd, 2019, around 50 Britney Spears fans wielding neon posters bearing the hashtag #FreeBritney gathered outside of West Hollywood City Hall. The collection gathered peacefully, wearing her merchandise, playing her hits and explaining to the news teams on site that they were collectively concerned, specifically about the state of her long-running conservatorship. Tess Barker and Barbara Gray, originators of the #FreeBritney movement, probably never had such a scene in mind when they launched their podcast Britney’s Gram in November 2017. Barker and Gray gathered with fellow #FreeBritney supporters again shortly thereafter, this time on May 10th outside of Stanley Mosk courthouse in Los Angeles, the same day a hearing would take place on the status of Spears’ conservatorship. That hearing, as with previous and subsequent hearings concerning her conservatorship, did not end in Spears’ favor: In 2008, her court-appointed advocate Samuel Ingham stated that she was
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