Sex, Lies, and Britney Spears: on Illusions of Power
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This post was originally published in February 2021. Britney Spears is having a remarkable 2021. She’s the subject of a riveting new documentary. The courts are open to reassessing the controversial conservatorship she’s been under for a third of her life. Her contemporaries (Britney’s 39, either a very young Gen Xer or a very senior Millennial) are pumping out half-a-dozen literary and journalistic reassessments of her influence a day. Britney has become a yardstick for measuring how far we’ve come as a culture in the 22 years since she became a pop icon at 17.
Sex, Lies, and Britney Spears: on Illusions of Power
Sex, Lies, and Britney Spears: on Illusions…
Sex, Lies, and Britney Spears: on Illusions of Power
This post was originally published in February 2021. Britney Spears is having a remarkable 2021. She’s the subject of a riveting new documentary. The courts are open to reassessing the controversial conservatorship she’s been under for a third of her life. Her contemporaries (Britney’s 39, either a very young Gen Xer or a very senior Millennial) are pumping out half-a-dozen literary and journalistic reassessments of her influence a day. Britney has become a yardstick for measuring how far we’ve come as a culture in the 22 years since she became a pop icon at 17.