Canadians Can Finally Watch The New Britney Spears Doc. We Have Some Thoughts About Justin (And Journalists)
When journalists made it acceptable to ridicule Britney Spears, we also made it acceptable to do that to any young woman. Stacy Lee Kong Updated
February 25, 2021
Britney Spears with Diane Sawyer in 2008. A few years earlier, Sawyer had grilled the pop star about her breakup with Justin Timberlake. (Photo: Michael Loccisano/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
It’s November 2002, and Justin Timberlake is doing a radio interview with Hot 97’s Star and Buc Wild, the shock jocks who hosted the radio station’s morning show at the time. It’s a big deal for the former NSYNCer as a member of a boyband, he would never have scored coverage by the station, which had been an influential force in hip-hop and R&B since the early ’90s. But he had a Neptunes-produced solo album, dance moves appropriated from Michael Jackson and a new haircut that didn’t look like rame
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Superstar Britney Spears has long lived a life in the limelight.
Shining an illuminating light on the pop star, Framing Britney Spears, examines the singer’s career and the resulting conservatorship under father Jamie Spears following her public breakdown in 2008.
With The New York Times Presents documentary peeling back the curtain on Spears life, fans and celebrities alike are abound with new perspectives regarding the star’s estate with a rallying cry of #FreeBritney trending worldwide for days after the unauthorized documentary’s release.
Here are 5 things we ve learned from Framing Britney Spears.
1) Photos of Spears were selling for upwards of $1 million at her peak
Titanic and Spears’ sophomore album (also called
Oops!. I Did It Again) upon their respective releases in 1997 and 2000, there was just no escaping that song or that video homage or that
dance.
Which isn’t to say that I haven’t dug into Spears’ catalog: “Piece Of Me” and “Work, Bitch” are always in rotation, and on speakers, no less (no earbuds necessary when working from home). And I got a kick out of
RuPaul’s Drag Race’s recent nod to the pop princess in a lip sync to “If U Seek Amy” (a song title that took me far too long to grasp). But “Oops!. I Did It Again” is downright transportive for me, taking me back to the days of frosted tips, metallic eye makeup, and Spears’ pop dominance.
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