Spears evolves into something more compassionate and complex, I join commentators exploring the gender inequality trapping Britney. Media messaging was almost exclusively damning of the young star, delighting in relentlessly castigating her.Īs the narrative describing Ms. Then we watched as she was pilloried by talking heads, hounded by paparazzi, and publicly unraveled.
Many reading this grew up with Britney Spears' music as the soundtrack to our adolescence and youth. We watched her explode into the pop music scene, writing and singing outrageously catchy tunes with a striking confidence for one so young. 1 single "Baby, One More Time," her work continues in conversation with the culture – mysteriously arriving even on my dresser in 2021.īritney has been on a lot of people's minds lately, in the aftermath of the documentary "Framing Britney Spears" and the widespread news about the oppressive terms of her father's conservatorship. Just this morning I noticed I was resting my coffee cup on a disposable coaster advertising Mugaholics with the tag line, "Sip me baby one more time." Over 20 years since Britney Spears released the No.