What are you trying to shed?
It’s because my eyes are perfect. I blink and they renew. In the future, my eyes will be the only steadfast aspect of my appearance. Everything else gets scrapped. Like all stars, I will shift through aesthetics with chameleonic grace. Nobody wants to fix their attention on something that continues to look the same. Do you want to know why Britney Spears shaved her head? Not because she was crazy. It was a semi-unconscious act of symbolic renewal. When her public role as the pig-tailed little girl reached its expiration date, her options were limited. Spears could’ve gone the natural route and allowed her face to shrivel, or, alternately, botoxed it into stillness and gone on living like a wax statue. But nobody wants to dredge through the last three quarters of their life as an ex-Lolita, which is why Spears picked the seldom remembered option. She chose to go backwards, if only because going forward would be suicide a la Ruslana Korshunova, for whom, baldness would’ve been tantamount to death anyways. So, with tantrum tears and a few strokes of the electric razor, Spears transformed herself back into a baby, as if to start over.
It was the attention trick of the century and, suddenly her image was up there with Napalm Girl. Like all women who make themselves after celestial objects, Britney would have to compete with every other human atrocity for attention, stealing fractions of their horror and inflicting them upon herself.
The image of her metamorphosis continues to hold people hostage. Why? Because it is disturbing, but not too unsettling to look at. How so? Because at the root of the image of the elderly young-girl morphing into a baby lurks the question- Why would anyone want to go backwards? And, What are they trying to lose in the process? But, on a brattier surface level, I saw the picture and thought I could do better at being best. Not only that, but I will.
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