At the end of the day, we really don't know what's going on. Obviously, I don't want to make any assumptions about Spears's situation. They're not moneymaking machines or objects for our entertainment but human beings who deserve freedom-in whatever form that takes. And just as The Handmaid's Tale multiplies our political climate by a thousand, maybe seeing this Black Mirror episode will make people examine how we treat women in music. Her situation is, if anything, a grossly exaggerated version of Spears's. That being said, I don't think it's a coincidence we're seeing Ashley O.'s story now. The former movement started months after Black Mirror wrapped shooting unless the showrunners are psychic, there's no way they could have predicted a real-life situation would so closely resemble one of their episodes. To be clear, the parallels between #FreeBritney and Ashley O. can't do that and, according to #FreeBritney truthers, neither can Spears. Gomez was able to deviate from the glossy sheen of her Disney background and live life on her own terms. and Britney Spears have in common is an intense desire to rebel from seemingly inescapable circumstances. "They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be." What Ashley O. "They pressure me, 'You gotta be sexy, you gotta be cute, you gotta be nice, you gotta be all these things,'" Selena Gomez said in 2014. Nearly every woman in music has opened up in some way about industry politics. There are less extreme examples of this elsewhere in pop. Both she and Spears (according to the #FreeBritney movement, that is) are confined to the expectations the world has for women in pop: to be affable, beautiful, likable, calm, and above all, malleable. "Even when you go to jail, you know there’s the time when you’re gonna get out." I have no doubt that Ashley O. "When I tell them the way I feel, it's like they hear me but they're really not listening," she also says in For the Record, likening her situation to prison. What does track is Spears feeling like the people around her don't take her requests seriously.
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