Tag: Britney Spears birthday
Crossroads and Britney Spears As Unwilling Method Actor
Of all the films Britney Spears could have “gone all Method” for, a “frothy” (but actually fundamentally deep) teen road movie called Crossroads probably wouldn’t [Read More…]
Britney: The Pop Star Barbie America Turned Into Its Fucked-Up Voodoo Doll
Britney Spears was never given much of a chance in the way of being “taken seriously.” From the beginning, she was written off as another [Read More…]
Britney Saying She’s Turning 12 Instead of 41 Has Everything to Do With Retreating to a “Safety” Age
Being that tabloid-type publications still enjoy the parading of a headline that makes a celebrity come across as unhinged, OK! Magazine frequently weighs in on [Read More…]
The Bisection of Britney’s Personality As Likened to the Norman Bates Defense Mechanism
As everyone continues to cry #FreeBritney on her thirty-ninth birthday, wondering how much agency this woman approaching forty really has, it bears noting that Britney [Read More…]
Britney Spears’ “Mannequin”: A Mantra for How to Unemotionally Detach
While Britney Spears’ oeuvre is frequently deemed maudlin to the point of excess (earlier tracks like “From the Bottom of My Broken Heart” and “E-Mail [Read More…]
Britney Spears’ “Alien” Speaks to the Outsider In Us All
Britney Jean, the forgettable 2013 album that might have stayed buried were it not for “Work Bitch” and “Perfume” is arguably one of Britney Spears’ [Read More…]
“Toxic” & “Womanizer”: The Anti-Male Anthems of Britney Spears
Though Britney Spears is typically pegged as the embodiment of a conventional Southern girl, all femininity and belief in the heterosexual dynamic of the twentieth [Read More…]
