MOLI VIEW™

The experts are flummoxed by the vast meltdown in the Arctic, which has broken records the way Britney Spears once sold them, said an expert I can't find.

Not a coincidence: Spears has just lost custody of her children. She now dwells in the ninth circle of the hell created by the ferocious interaction between fashion and celebrity. We can no longer think of fashion as something to do with clothing. We no longer think of celebrities as having to do with performing. There can be no more questioning this. Call this meltdown of public image, "image warming." But while global warming had to be turned into an expensive feature film to have dramatic impact, Britney has done it herself: Image by image, she has melted down her image to the point of no return.
See? I am not saying "I fear that." I have decided to exercise my sense of worst case scenario. To get used to it.
I see the reporters, snarky or otherwise, as the weatherpeople. The stylists as the scientists who may have an answer. The superstar as the world.

In terms of fashion, Britney effectively used it to self-destruct. I use self in a general sense, since really, no celebrity is in charge of herself, just — and in Britney's case this added to the tragedy — of who decides what she wears. Like the late '90s sight of all those SUVs on the road, many blatant visuals immediately come to mind. Just consider those awful weaves and wigs she chose to sport, and not just after the head-shaving incident. Consider that bikini mess at the MTV awards. Of course her fashion choices were signs of things being off upstairs (and in her heart), but in this present tense of extreme and instant visual dissection, signs = truth = pronouncement.

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