As my roommates and I sat together to watch “For the Record,” the documentary on Britney Spears’s life, I was left wanting more. Most of the questions asked of her were vague as well as some of her answers. She never went into many important facts such as how it was like to be in a metal institution and why everything became so awful with her and her babies daddy, Kevin Federline.

The documentary aired on MTV on November 30th. It gave Britney fans an inside look into her life. This is important because we’re all fascinated with everything she does. It also answered some questions that Britney never had a chance to explain herself. I estimated that 85 percent of the content was old information and the other 15 percent were questions she answered for the first time. Her reasoning for doing this documentary was "there is a lot about me that people don't know, that I want them to know," Spears said.

The interviewer asked her if she thought her life was weird and then the film cuts to images of Britney dancing with elephants for her new music video, "Circus," and paparazzi falling to the ground to get the money shot of her. She just laughs and explains that she doesn't think it is weird because it is all she has ever known. This is so true. Britney became famous at such a young age that she has never really known a life different than the one she is living, circus animals and all.

"I really feel for her. She started out so young, and went through all her problems in the public eye. She never had room to breathe, this should have been expected," said Lea Wiviott.

She goes on to explain in the documentary that no one can really prepare him or herself for what stardom brings. Her career has been going strong for the past 10 years. This year the 2008 VMAs marked the beginning of her come back, said her manager Larry Rudolph. Although, she doesn't like it when people say she is "coming back" because she feels like she is still doing what she has always been doing. Britney has continued to be in the spot light even though she wanted so freedom and space, unfortunately this just caused the media to want to get into her life even more.

This marked the first time Britney has openly spoken about Justin Timberlake, her former boyfriend. She explained that he was a part of who she had become, and that she was very young and very famous when they publicly broke up. She said, "I didn't know what to do with myself.”

"That's when I became a goer, I just always wanted to be out, doing things, the party girl,” Spears said.

She explained that she had some bad people in her life, but she allowed them in because she felt lonely, and she has to pay the consequences for that, for a long time coming.

This is when she needed the most private space but the media wanted to see even more of her. She felt like she wasn't being portrayed the way she wanted to be seen. The media has become obsessed with Britney; she couldn't even go to a store because there was so much paparazzo outside of her car.

"It’s good she is finally getting good publicity again. I feel like she really let fans down last year, because she exposed a side of herself that they didn’t want to see,” said Rhonda Aburahma, a fourth year communications major.

"I'm no longer interested in her personal life. I like her music, and I am still a fan, but I feel like she really needs to take a break and concentrate on her kids. I am happy she has improved from last year, but the publicity she got last year did not help her personally," said Tara Haghighi, journalism major.

Britney explained that "normal" is different for everyone. What she really wants from her life is simple things, such as, walking outside at the Grove with a friend and feeling the air on her face; she said these things are the hardest for her to have. She doesn't want to be seen as a victim of her success, even though that's what is happening. She said she has to remain positive.

Her Choreographer has been with her for eight years and explained that the only place she is really safe and free is in a closed four by four place. To him this is a tragedy. He said she has to find freedom someplace else. She explained that dancing is a very spiritual thing for her and with certain movements she lets go of some emotions.

She said that she used to be a pretty cool chick, but the paparazzi took that away from her, by exposing a lot of her life to everyone. Her documentary took a turn when she explained that even when you are in jail you know when you are going to get out. She feels trapped in her life, bored and that her life is to in control, there is no excitement.

Students at SF State had mixed ideas about the documentary.

"I'm no longer interested in her personal life. I like her music, and I am still a fan, but I feel like she really needs to take a break and concentrate on her kids. I am happy she has improved from last year, but the publicity she got last year did not help her personally," said Tara Haghighi, a journalism major.

"I don't think she had to make this documentary to answer to her fans. People will love her regardless, as long as she keeps making good music. Celebrities that are concerned with getting hurt are very smart, it is only when they are in a downhill spiral that they feel like they lost control, and whatever it is they wanted. She was defiantly vulnerable when she shaved her head and that's when she needed the most privacy but the media went crazy," said Wiviott.

“I have heard psychologists say that since she became a star so young, she didn't have an adolescence and that's why she started lashing out in her 20s, instead of early on," said Aburahma.