Tag: Britney Spears
The Selling of a Myth That Can No Longer Be Bought: The 2001 Britney Spears Pepsi Commercial & Justin Timberlake Reemerging in the Present
With Justin Timberlake set to perform at this year’s fifty-second Super Bowl, the usual unquenchable thoughts of his long ago defunct relationship with Britney Spears [Read More…]
Keep Your “Supplies,” Or: What the Fuck is Justin Timberlake Doing?
With what will soon amount to five albums in sixteen years, former boy band staple Justin Timberlake has never bothered to get very political, relying [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…]
Note to Paris: Madonna Invented the Blueprint for the Modern Selfie
As is the case with most things that Generation Z has come to take for granted, Madonna invented the blueprint for all the pop culture [Read More…]
Blackout & Its Relationship to the Tabloid Culture of the 00s
In 2007, Britney Spears was having a bit of a downward spiral. And for the first time in pop culture history, the media was not [Read More…]
My Loneliness Is Killing Me (No, Really)
Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time” might have been written off as “a little tween ditty” when it was first released–with Spears herself regarded as [Read More…]
The Simple Life as Blueprint for Borat, Ire for Rich White Girls
The Simple Life was not exactly lauded critically in its time. It had a larger viewership at the outset, sure, with thirteen million viewers tuning [Read More…]
Stop Giving Credit to Taylor Swift for Something Britney Spears Did Sixteen Years Ago
Everyone is really amazed by Taylor Swift’s ability to guilefully wield a snake–and yes, it is a snake, despite much scientific debate. How clever, how [Read More…]
A Few Concept Ideas for the Britney Spears Musical
The notion of Broadway turning the oeuvre of Britney Spears into a musical sounds both like a taste of a poison paradise and exactly what [Read More…]
Britney + Vegas = Over
For those of you who were sitting on your chance to see the legendary Miss Britney Spears in Vegas, your time is officially expired. Spears’ [Read More…]
