Britney Spears May Never Perform Again, Manager Says

[RandySF]

Britney Spears’s longtime manager Larry Rudolph says the singer may never perform again. Speaking to TMZ, Rudolph said, “As the person who guides her career — based on the information I and all of the professionals who work with her are being told on a need-to-know basis — from what I have gathered it’s clear to me she should not be going back to do this Vegas residency, not in the near future and possibly never again.”

Rudolph has managed Spears for most of her career, going back to her first album, “Baby… One More Time,” in 1999. “I’ve been with her for two-thirds of her life,” he tells Variety. “I look at her almost like I look at my own daughter. It’s very emotional for me … and really rough. Personally, I want for her to just find a peaceful, happy place — whatever that means for her. It’s not about a career anymore — it’s about life.”

The singer is scheduled to undergo psychological evaluation after postponing her Las Vegas residency in the wake of her father’s recent treatment for a ruptured colon. Rudolph says that, though Spears had rehearsed the show (the residency was due to launch on February 13), the Vegas engagement is effectively off, which is what prompted his speaking out in the early hours of May 15.

The decision was made “not to move forward with the Vegas residency,” he explains, adding that the question of what she’s going to do next is not the focus Spears or her family is concerned with right now. “She’s taking time to regroup and get her head together,” says Rudolph. “She’s putting herself ahead of everyone else, and I’m proud of her for that. If she never works again, she never works again. My role is to handle her career when she wants a career. If she comes back strong and full of desire and passion and wants to do it, great. If she takes off six months or six years, it’s totally fine. To me, it’s about her finding her happy place.”


https://variety.com/2019/music/news/britney-spears-may-never-perform-again-manager-says-1203215676/

[LyndaG]

1. Poor woman

She's been working since she was just a kid. Hope she can find peace and recover.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I don't get what "residency" means in this story.

Then again, I don't know much at all about her.

[Freddie]

4. She performs a daily or almost daily

Show at the casino for a certain length of time.

[mainstreetonce]

5. Residency

Means she would stay in Vegas and do shows only there instead of touring.

[Aristus]

7. Vegas residencies can net their performers staggering amounts of money.

A one-to-two shows per night contract can yields dozens of millions of dollars, far in excess of what ticket sales alone would yield, because prospective concert goers would like drink heavily and stay afterward to gamble. Las Vegas is a well-oiled machine for separating fools from their money quite efficiently.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. She has been exploited since she was a kid. Like you, I hope she finds peace.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. Meh

[Midnightwalk]

8. Go away please

Doesn’t anyone remember her opinion on the the Iraq war?

I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that.

I remember. It sounds even stupider today than in 2003.

[RandySF]

10. Have you ever given of yourself to the point of neglecting yourself?