Perhaps we were just being uncharacteristically optimistic, but it seemed to us that Britney Spears’ life was finally back on track. She’s burning up the charts with her new single, early reviews of her upcoming album are positive, and her hair no longer looks like something birds try to lay eggs on. But it’s possible we cracked open the celebratory Red Bull and Cheetos too early.

In a new documentary, Britney Spears: For the Record, the poptart reportedly expresses dissatisfaction with her current living arrangement, which is overseen by her father and court-appointed conservator, Jamie.

“I think it’s too in control,” she confesses to the cameras, according to NME. “If I wasn’t under the restraints I’m under, I’d feel so liberated. When I tell them the way I feel, it’s like they hear but they’re really not listening. If you do something wrong in your work, you can move on, but I’m having to pay for a long time. I never wanted to become one of those prisoner people. I always wanted to feel free.”

According to the 90-minute doc, which is set to air Nov. 30 on MuchMusic, Spears also admits that writhing around in skimpy costumes while lip-synching has lost its appeal: “There’s no excitement, there’s no passion. I have really good days, and then I have bad days. Even when you go to jail you know there’s the time when you’re gonna get out. But in this situation, it’s never ending. It’s just like Groundhog Day every day.”

Poor Brit-Brit. If she really wants to break the cycle, she should learn to play piano, take French lessons and, if possible, sleep with Andie MacDowell. Hey, it worked for Bill Murray!

Britney Spears has waited a long time to tell her side of the story about the chaotic last few years of her life, but now she is ready to “set the record straight,” according to MTV.

In a new 90 minute documentary set to air on Nov. 30, the singer is opening up about everything from her new album to her mental breakdown.

According to People magazine, since her breakdown, Spears, 26, says her life has been worse than a jail sentence.

“Even when you go to jail, y’know, there’s the time when you’re gonna get out. But in this situation, it’s never ending. It’s just like [the Bill Murray movie] ‘Groundhog Day,’” People quoted Spears as saying.

Spears, who in January underwent a mental evaluation, lost custody of her two sons, as well as control of her affairs, People said.

“I sit there and I’ll look back and Im like, ‘I’m a smart person. Like what the hell was I thinkin?’” she says in an MTV promotion for the documentary.

But she has spent the last few months steadily working on a comeback, and with her new album “Circus” due in stores in December, she allowed a camera crew to document her road to recovery.

“I wanted to make this film because I started to feel like I wasn’t being seen in the light that I wanted to be seen in,” People quote Spears as saying.. “This is an opportunity to set the record straight and talk about what I have been through and where I’m headed.”

But through it all, Spears says that she never stopped loving her work.

“It never stopped being fun for me,” she said. “I really always liked what I did.”

Britney Spears’ tenth comeback in as many minutes is about to take a turn for the Robyn this weekend, according to online rumors. Several websites are reporting (and several sources are confirming), that the no-longer toxic singer will be performing at this Saturday’s mammoth Diesel bash off the coast of Brooklyn. I mention Robyn — who recently reinvented herself on her own terms as an indie dance queen — because if Spears actually does take the stage at the circus-themed megabash, she’ll be sharing a bill with acts like M.I.A., N.E.R.D., Franz Ferdinand, and Hot Chip.

And while this isn’t exactly an intimate showcase at SXSW (5,000 people are expected to attend), it’s a significantly more credible bill than the Hot 97 concerts of Britney past. Then again, celebrity Hilton daters Benji and Joel Madden will be DJing the event, taking a considerable amount of edge off. I’ve got my tickets right here, and after the announced lineup, it does say “… and many more.” Mandy Moore, perhaps?

Britney Spears said she plans to make her first international tour since 2004 to support her highly anticipated new album, “Circus.”

In an interview broadcast on Monday by New York radio station Z100, Spears was asked if she planned to tour.

“Oh definitely, next year,” she said, adding the tour would probably take her “around the world.”

That would mark her first major concert tour since 2004.

Last year, Spears performed in a handful of club shows in Southern California under the name the M+M’s but did not go on the road to promote her last album, “Blackout,” which had a good chart debut in November 2007 but faded quickly.

After more than a year of making headlines for shaving her head, attacking paparazzi with an umbrella and two admissions to psychiatric hospital units, Spears, 26, is preparing for a comeback.

Her last live public performance was a much-ridiculed rendition of “Gimme More” at the MTV Video Music Awards a year ago.

The singer’s latest single, “Womanizer,” was released on Friday and is the first single off “Circus,” which will be released on December 2 — her 27th birthday. She told Z100 she spent six months working on the album

Simon Cowell has confirmed Britney Spears will appear on his British talent show “The X-Factor,” admitting she’s the “number one booking in the world.”

Spears will perform on the show to promote her comeback album “Circus” and the music mogul, who has always been a big fan of Spears, can’t wait.

He says, “We have the number one show in England. It’s the best show for her to perform on. We’re absolutely thrilled to have her.

“Everyone wants to work with her because she’s a star. She’s the number one booking in the world at the moment for a show. … The fact that she goes a bit crazy occasionally makes her more interesting.

“And, if she wants to shave her head before she comes on the show, she’s welcome to. I don’t care.”