Dear Fans,

I just wanted to reach out to all of you and explain some of the things that I have been faced with recently.

It’s so funny how many stories are put out there about people. It’s like we all want our side of the story out there as well, but at the end of the day only a few people care to hear what is really going on since the bad is always so much more interesting than the truth. I don’t know why, but this is so weird to me. I used to be angry at the tabloids for printing horrible things about me, but now I try to just be numb to what I see. I saw Tyra Banks once get really upset and cry on her show because they made her look fat. We all want a certain image of ourselves out there, and at some point we all do really care what other people think or we wouldn’t be here.

Recently, I was sent to a very humbling place called rehab. I truly hit rock bottom. Till this day I don’t think that it was alcohol or depression. I was like a bad kid running around with ADD. I had a manager from a long time ago come in and try to direct me and my life after I got my divorce. I was so overwhelmed I think that I was in a little shock too. I didn’t know who to go to. I realized how much energy and love I had put into my past relationship when it was gone because I genuinely did not know what to do with myself, and it made me so sad. I confess, I was so lost.

This letter is to not place blame on anyone, although I do see the world with a completely different set of eyes now. Being in that vulnerable state and taken to dinners and parties with friends and finding out later you paid for everything was a huge learning lesson for me. I think the whole problem was letting too many people into my life. You never know another persons intentions or what another person wants. I feel I was too open and looking for answers when I had it all to begin with. I have had to cut so many people out of my life. It is so sad, because if anyone is a family person…it is me. When I was little I remember every night watching movies with my family and feeling so at peace. Dancing and singing all the time just like a little girl should. Now recently I find with my children that I want them to have that feeling all of the time. I am having to face a lot of things right now since I have children of my own. A lot of insecurities from when I was little are coming up again. It is like we are never good enough.

I know everyone thinks that I am playing the victim, but I am not and I hate what is going on right now so much. Maybe this is the reason for this letter…to maybe allow people to look at me differently. It is like when you are a real woman and say what you feel and how you think things are supposed to be, that people just say you are a “bitch.”

I feel like some of the people in my life made more of some issues than was necessary. I also feel like they knew I was beginning to use my brain for a change and cut some ties, so they wanted to be in more control of my life than me. I think it is actually normal for a young girl to go out after a huge divorce. I think it was a bigger issue because I had not gone out in such a long time. I am 25 and I do still have a lot to learn, and I am going to make mistakes everyday, and I am sure every mistake I make will probably be on CNN or Good Morning America. I am only human people and I love you for still loving me.

I am sitting here at home and it is 6:25 and both of my sons are asleep. I am truly blessed to have them in my life. Everyday is so surreal. Life in general is so surreal and crazy.

I just hope this letter made some of you think a little bit more of me and where I am coming from. I just want the same things in life that you want…and that is to be happy. It is just so weird because everyone has their own perception of me and how they think I really am. It is so weird how stories are told. There is your side, my side, and the truth. Somebody has to figure it out. I guess we will never really understand or figure out life completely. That’s God’s job. I can’t wait to meet him…or her.

Love, Britney

Quote of the month…
It is ok to disagree with people regarding certain issues. You’re not being true to yourself if you succumb to others opinions because you feel guilty.

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In a new message posted Wednesday on her official Web site, Britney Spears is thanking her fans for their support.

The singer, pictured wearing only a blonde pageboy blonde wig and long white gloves, writes: “The reason for this letter is to let everyone know that their prayers have truly helped me. I am so blessed that you care enough about me to be concerned and [i] will continue to live in this brighter state with all of you by my side during this trying time.”

Spears, who checked out of rehab in March after a month-long stay, continues: “We are all lights of the world and we all need to continuously inspire others and look to the higher power. You are all in my prayers. Godspeed. Love, Britney.”

The singer, 25, has been easing back into performing after a three-year absence in which she got married, had two kids and got divorced.

She had been working on a new album before she checked into rehab, and two weeks ago she performed four shows at House of Blues clubs in Southern California. She’s also been working out at a North Hollywood dance studio to get back in shape.

Songwriter Kara DioGuardi, who is working with Spears on her upcoming album, tells PEOPLE that she was in the recording studio with Spears Monday and that the singer “works really hard.”

“People don’t realize what a good singer she is and she has the incredible ability to put herself in the music and it elevates the song because she really brings her own vibe to it,” DioGuardi said at BMI 2007 Pop Music Awards Tuesday. “I just hope her comeback is awesome because if anybody deserves it, it’s her.”

Source: People Magazine

Us Weekly Magazine has put up a feature on its website showing how Britney’s hair will look over the next few months. We can see how long it will be (check out the month underneath the pictures) and also a professional hairstylist gives some ideas about some styles she could experiment with.

Check out the slideshow here!

Britney’s show which is scheduled to take place this Saturday night at the House of Blues in Orlando sold out in just two minutes!

Get your tickets for the Miami show while you can…

BMI Repetoire has confirmed that Bloodshy & Avant are working on the new album! They co-wrote and produced Toxic, Do Somethin’, My Prerogative, Showdown and I’ve Just Begun Having My Fun for Britney.

The site tells us that they have co-written the track Freakshow, which was earlier confirmed to have been written by The Clutch.

Check out the info here.

Britney has added another date to her ongoing mini tour. As well as performing at the Orlando House Of Blues on Saturday, she will perform at Mansion nightclub in Miami on Sunday. This is the first performance Britney has done that isn’t at a House of Blues venue.

Get your tickets here!

So now the tour schedule for the rest of May looks like this:

19/5 - Orlando
20/5 - Miami

Britney and the “M+M’s” are going to perform another show next Saturday night in Orlando, FL.

You can buy tickets and view the details here!

Don’t expect any insight on Britney’s breakdown on her forthcoming album — yet another collaborator says the LP will just be about good times.

“She didn’t let none of her personal life into what she was doing,” Nate “Danja” Hills said. “There was no, ‘I need to let it all out.’ She said she deals with that in another way.”

As one of Britney Spears’ main collaborators, Danja has co-written and produced seven to eight songs with the singer so far, in sessions with songwriters Keri Hilson and Corte Ellis. Other songwriters and producers on the yet-untitled effort include Pharrell, Sean Garrett, Scott Storch, Dr. Luke, J.R. Rotem, Ne-Yo, T-Pain and Kara DioGuardi (see “Ne-Yo Gets Frisky With An ‘Ex,’ Avoids K-Fed Songs For Britney” and “Britney’s New Music Is ‘The Next Level,’ Producer Says”).

Hills’ sessions with Spears started in July — before the divorce, the all-night partying, the head-shaving and rehab (see “Britney Spears, Kevin Federline Reach Divorce Settlement”). He says that despite all the bumps in her personal life, her professional life has remained right on track. “As far as her work ethic, I haven’t seen anybody come in like that and do what you go to do,” Hills said. “Boom, boom, boom, and get it done. So as an artist? She’s ready to go.”

Spears’ game plan to make a fun, danceable album has also remained steady, Hills said. Instead of scrapping tracks and starting over once her life started changing, the singer stuck to her strategy to keep the tunes as high-energy, uptempo — and decidedly private — as possible. “She wanted to stay away from being personal,” the producer said. “It’s fun, it’s basic and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s about feeling good, celebrating womanhood. And if you don’t dance to it, I really don’t know what you’re listening to.”

While the song titles have yet to be “100 percent” determined, Hill said that overall, Spears’ sound is “bigger” and “more mature” than what we’ve heard from her before. “It’s a new Britney,” he said. “I come from hip-hop, so it’s underlined with hip-hop, but I throw it down. It’s got everything, it’s electric, it’s just wild.” One song sounds like it belongs in a video game, while another has a hook and chorus that makes him laugh just thinking about it: “It’s weird! It’s catchy, but it’s weird. It’s hot.”

Now that Hills is moving into the mixing stage, he’s just waiting to find out if any of his songs are contenders to be the album’s first single, which is due to impact around the end of the summer, according to Spears’ record label. “It’s ready to hit the clubs,” Hills said. “You’re going to hear it getting ready to go to the clubs, while you’re getting your clothes on, in the car on the way to the clubs, everywhere. You’re just going to hear it. Be prepared.”

Source: MTV News

Britney Spears has been keeping her newly-short haircut under wraps in public – but one of her backup dancers says the pop star’s buzz cut looks great.

“She looks so good she should model,” dancer Crisilla Crossland tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The famously self-shorn singer, whose hair is now now about 2 inches long, even jokingly asked her dancers: “Would y’all cut your hair?” – though none of them took her up on the offer, the dancer says.

So, what about Spears’s upcoming album? Crossland tells the paper that Spears has been rehearsing two new songs, which she calls “amazing.”

Meanwhile, Spears who performed four shows last week, has returned to the dance studio to continue her rigorous workouts.

Donning fishnet stockings and a cowboy hat, Spears was seen at Millennium Dance Complex in North Hollywood Tuesday carrying her 1-year-old son Sean Preston.

Her reps won’t comment on whether the pop star has any more shows scheduled in the near future, but her associates say she’s not slowing down after her club appearances in Southern California and Las Vegas.

“I’m just so happy for her right now,” says Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin, who saw Spears’s dancing last week. “She’s been working really hard. She choreographed all of those shows herself. She’s such a talented girl.”

Source: People Magazine

So now we can see that she can still come back this year with hair… it just might not be real hair! Britney looked amazing last night, she looked just like when she had brown hair for the Onyx Hotel Tour in 2004!

Before a raucous crowd that chanted her name, Britney Spears continued her comeback mini-tour Wednesday night, performing the identical lip-synced routine of older hits from her show the night before.

“Thank you so much!” Spears told the audience at the Anaheim, Calif., House of Blues, after finishing her 12-minute set. She acknowledged her backup dancers, blew a kiss and left the stage.

The performance followed her return to the stage Tuesday night at the House of Blues in San Diego after a nearly three-year absence from live performing.

Security was tighter in Anaheim – it took the crowd nearly two hours to get through the metal detectors – with guards seizing cellular phones in an apparent reaction to the flood of pictures and videos of the San Diego show on the Internet.

As the crowd chanted, “Britney! Britney! Britney!” the lights dimmed at about 9:35 p.m. and Spears, wearing a wig over her famously shaved head, launched into “Baby One More Time” in a carbon copy of the San Diego show – down to the at-times bad lip-syncing. At several points, she was seen chewing gum during songs.

Shunning new material, she also performed her hits “Do Somethin’,” “I’m a Save 4 U,” “Breathe on Me” – which featured Spears giving a lap dance to a man brought on stage from the audience – and “Toxic.”

“She was a little off, a little slower than her dancers,” said Kelly Weston of Orange County. “If I hadn’t heard about last night I would probably be disappointed.”

But a group of young women expressed themselves on their tight pink tank tops, which read, “Bald Ambition” on the front and “The Comeback 2007″ on the back.

Spears’s last major performance was in June 2004 during her Onyx Hotel Tour in Dublin, Ireland, which was cut short when she injured her knee.

Spears is also planning several other performances this week, including shows at the Los Angeles House of Blues on Thursday and the House of Blues Las Vegas inside Mandalay Bay on Sunday.

Source: People Magazine

Here are a few low quality videos taken with camera phones from Britney’s show last night in San Diego:

Breathe On Me (TMZ.com)
Toxic (YouTube)
Slave 4 U (X17Online.com)
BOMT, Slave 4 U, Do Somthin’ (X17Online.com)
Toxic (SplashNews)
Do Somethin’ (SplashNews)

At Britney’s 16 minute “concert” last night, she performed 5 of her biggest pop hits:

Baby One More Time (Remix)
I’m A Slave 4 U (Remix)
Breathe On Me
Do Somethin’
Toxic

Britney mimed all 5 songs and only spoke to the audience at the end of the show to thank them for coming. A lot of fans are dissapointed that she mimed and that there was no new material, but most seem to be happy to see her back on the stage.

Britney was at the House Of Blues in San Diego tonight… more info coming later!

Britney just left her house in her own car, met up with a tour bus filled with dancers in a parking lot near her home, and they’re off to San Diego! M+M fans, get ready!!!! BRITNEY’S BACK!!!

Source: X17Online.com

Get ready everyone… sounds like it’s going to be a great show so far Have an amazing time if you’re going to the concert tonight… this is Britney’s first show in 3 years, her last one was in Dublin on June 6th 2004.