Britney Spears is known for her confusing social media posts, but her latest is really throwing her followers for a loop. In a post she shared on Wednesday about her recent vacation, Britney shared that she has changed her name to Xila … and strangely enough, the change is supposedly making it harder for her to understand English. Needless to say, after this unexpected Instagram post, fans are more concerned than ever about the singer's well-being.
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Britney shared an all-text Instagram post on Wednesday.
She titled the post "summary of my trip," but it was all over the place. She started by writing about going to the gym and riding bikes with friends before launching into a story about seeing crabs at the beach.
Then, she said something a bit alarming: "Since I changed my name to Xila I actually am having a hard time understanding English."
She didn't mention it again after that.
The rest of her post was focused on more seemingly random thoughts. She talked about her favorite hairspray and how much she enjoys eating dinner by herself before ending on a pretty sad note.
"I portray that everything is completely perfect but trust me I've been through it as well and I would share those struggles but they are too offensive to share," she wrote. "It would make other people extremely sad and honestly there's not a d— thing I can do about it so just know my life is not as perfect as it seems."
Fans are truly confused.
On X (formerly Twitter), fans are trying to decipher what the name change means, but many of them are simply coming up empty.
"This womans cheese has slid off her cracker. Sadly, unless she asks for help, hurts herself or someone else nothing can be done," one person wrote.
Many others tweeted to ask if Britney was OK.
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One fan has a theory about the name change.
"'Xila' is a reference to the Zapotec term for 'woman', more specifically women who support and empower each other. And 'River Red' is a film about a child that murders their abusive father," he wrote.
That would make a little more sense, but what about the part about her not understanding English?
Britney's posts have been pretty normal otherwise.
At least, for her, anyway.
Maybe she'll give us more of an explanation soon enough – and explain if this name change is permanent. Hopefully, everything is fine over there — Brit's been through enough as it is.
