If you were a teenage girl back then, watching people watch Britney was the education of a lifetime
If it’s been awhile since you watched the video for Britney Spears’s “Baby One More Time,” I really recommend it. It’s hard to describe the defcon-one frenzy that the song created when it was released in pre-YouTube 1998, except to say that an entire generation lost whole weekends on the sofa waiting for MTV to play it. Even now, there’s something both jarring and thrilling about the choreography and the costuming worn by a crowd of beautiful teenagers.
Eventually, she publicly imploded as we’d all essentially demanded she do — the shaved head, the Vegas wedding — and her father ultimately forced her into a repressive conservatorship, the details of which became public a few years ago. She had no control over own money, her own schedule and even her own body. She was forbidden from removing her IUD when she wanted more children.
We spent the 1990s and 2000s asking what was wrong with Britney and it took too long to realize the answer was us.
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