Green Day: Britney Spears Is Being Thrown To The Lions

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong has expressed sympathy for Britney Spears, saying she is a victim who is being “thrown to the lions.”

The 35-year-old singer was commenting on the brutality of pop culture nowadays and used the ever troubled Britney Spears as a prime example who is a casualty of the system. 

Referring to the MTV Awards performance back in September, he said: "People want blood. They want to see other people thrown to the lions. Do audiences want rock stars? I can't tell. You have information coming at you from so many areas — YouTube, the Internet, tabloids.

“Watching Britney Spears was like watching a public execution. How could the people at MTV, the people around her, not know this girl was ****ed up? People came in expecting a train wreck, and they got more than they bargained for.

Asked by Rolling Stone whether he thought Britters was a willing participant, Armstrong continued: “She is a manufactured child. She has come up through this Disney perspective, thinking that all life is about is to be the most ridiculous star you could be. But it's also about what we look at as entertainment — watching somebody go through that.”