made Spears more appealing to audiences is up for debate, but there’s no doubt that the album kept her brand accessible. Spears may have been publicly flailing, but her music was bumping, and the money kept coming in. There were enough dollars to pay off the bloodsuckers on her team, who made sure Spears honored her contractual commitments, despite the artist needing much more than just some encouragement to get back in the vocal booth.
When a member of Jocelyn’s visual team, Xander , asks one of her managers, Nikki , about the bracelet, he wonders if including it romanticizes mental illness. “Absolutely,” Nikki replies. Xander tries to object, before Nikki cuts him off. “You people are so out of touch—you college-educated internet people… mental illness is sexy.
“If you live in Sioux City, Iowa, you’re never going to meet a girl like Jocelyn,” Nikki says. “She’s not walking down the street, she didn’t go to your high school, she doesn’t work at the bar or the diner, and she did not marry your best friend. And if—on the off chance—she did, she is still never, ever going to fuck you.Her conclusion: “And that, right there, is why mental illness is sexy.
Not much later in the episode, we find out that after Jocelyn’s hospital stint, her team pushed her world tour back and refunded the tickets sold, only to put the tickets back up the moment Jocelyn was cognizant enough to perform again. The artist’s team is composed of masters of the spin, and they have decided that Jocelyn owning her interior battle in the public realm is the best possible thing for her image.