David LaChapelle speaks about Make Me leak...

[edurance]

“This is some of my footage, this is not my edit,” he said. “I find it very suspect that the video was ‘leaked’ while Britney was ‘away.'”

“The video/song wasn’t released because Britney didn’t like it. Her voice as an artist, should be respected. The only direction Britney ever gave me for this video is for me to film her in the cage. At the time I didn’t understand why would you want to be filmed in a cage? At first I envisioned to film her as a tigress, but she wanted to be filmed more timid, like a kitten. For everyone on my team, at least, we could tell something was off….”

“For the video ‘ever time’ [sic] the only direction Britney gave me for the video was that she wanted to die, that she wanted to die in the video…. for the commercial for the ‘Onyx Hotel’ tour Britney never showed up. She was getting married in Vegas….”

“I have known Britney since she was 17. I shot her first cover, Rolling stone, it was shot in Louisiana at her family home, filled with her pageant trophies. I could tell even back then something wasn’t right.

 

Maybe her team leaked the video to divert attention from her personal situation? He also uses the hashtag #freebritney on his post

[heather]

I find it curious he chooses to say something NOW and not years ago when fans were crying for this video. He's not saying anything that we don't already know tbh. Britney has been unhappy with her career for a long, long time. Especially during the ITZ era when they worked her far too hard. At least he's admitting what some of us were trying to say since the video got scrapped, Britney didn't like it. And that statement alone goes against the "she can't make her own decisions" narrative. Apparently, she can. He didn't say her team didn't like it and scrapped it, he specifically said BRITNEY didn't like it.

[btmyhbrit99]

I've been lurking here for awhile now but felt the need to sign back in to comment on this particular post. The one thing that has been missing in the free britney saga is that we have not heard from many who worked with her or who are contemporary to her, like a Lady Gaga or a producer. Shit even Lance Bass hadn't said anything and he's exactly the kind of blast from the past who I'd expect to chime in at this point.  That is until LaChappelle wrote his out his suspicions. I fully want her to be well and hope that she will take her time be happy once again but I FULLY DO NOT TRUST HER TEAM. I don't think they're operating in her best interests by suppressing her and then conveniently parading her around how they feel is best.

Of course she can make a decision or two for herself, she can probably make more than a few and she definitely has agency over herself BUT her career is another story, her team gives her some freedoms, she writes from time to time and she makes some editorial decisions in terms of her videos but clearly she's been wanting to say more and they won't let her. LaChappelle doesnt need to insert himself into this so why would he? I think he's the start of more people speaking out about the abuses she's faced to be where she is today. Now LaChappelle is saying that he thinks her team at the label recut the footage without his knowledge (very unprofessional of them) and dropped it after news came out that she checked into the facility to distract people which is messy because they knew how much people wanted to see that from before but they choose to be sneaky and do something like this  dangling her like a carrot (btw i knew from jump that was a terrible video but the principle stands). More industry insiders have definitely heard more about what's happening and probably have been told to not say anything or choose not to for privacy reasons but the lack of evidence is not the evidence of absence, something is definitely wrong and Britney deserves to be heard in her own voice on her own terms whenever she is ready to and again I hope for the best. But she needs a new team ASAP.

[JoshLee]

It's a lot to comprehend especially since I saw fake screenshots of his comment on posts... so at this point I don't know...

[MakeMySugarFall]

15 hours ago, JoshLee said:

It's a lot to comprehend especially since I saw fake screenshots of his comment on posts... so at this point I don't know...

The one screenshot that started this, where he commented on a fan’s post that it wasn’t his video - that one was real. I saw it in the comments and saw the original post and people kept asking what he meant and he never responded. Then the poster deleted the whole thing. 

 

As for this one: I have no clue. I’ve seen the screenshot, not the original if it exists.