Miley and Justin and Jimmy and the 2013 VMAs.

In essence, nothing is ever new vis a vis the smelling salts/outcry of Offended Elders over Miley Cyrus at last night's VMAs being similar to Britney Spears at the same ceremony thirteen years earlier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RWkAkUWsaA&feature=c4-overview&list=UUcn5FcctiRiiU4EGPpnYLPg

Britney Spears' punishment for acting out: resuming the career that caused her to act out.

I didn't bother to watch the Britney Spears MTV documentary on Sunday where she allegedly moaned about being imprisoned in an overly-controlled lifestyle.

And it appears that manager Larry Rudolph and father Jamie Spears are excessively concerned with returning Britney to the era where she made a lot of money for a lot of people--Britney's personal health and welfare (and apparently by extension, the current raising of her and Kevin Federline's sons) being acceptable collateral damage.

Here's the LOS ANGELES TIMES' take on Britney and the "comeback" album CIRCUS--
First, Elizabeth Snead's DISH RAG blog entry: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2008/12/well-we-all-wat.html
Ann Powers reviews CIRCUS:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2008/11/album-review--1.html