February 16, 2007: In Los Angeles, Britney Spears asks to have her head shaved. The hairdresser refuses. The star then grabs the mower and mows her head herself in front of the greedy lenses of seventy photographers. The next moment, she decides to get a tattoo. The pop star enters a living room, greets the owner of the place who asks her for explanations on her new look. Britney answers him lunar: “I do not want that any more that one touches my head, that one touches my hair. I’m sick of people touching my hair. ” There is obviously something wrong with the kingdom of the princess of pop … Since October 2006 and her divorce, the life of Britney Spears is indeed a spinning top. Drugs, alcohol, scandals … the singer ticks all the boxes of the star in distress. The worst ? The whole world is witnessing this downfall as Britney is being chased 24 hours a day by the paparazzi. And this surrealist sequence illustrates so much this descent into hell … How did the singer get there? February 1991: the Spears family takes the train from New Orleans (Louisiana) to New York. Britney is 9 years old and she has a date with one of the most prestigious agencies in the United States. The little girl has just narrowly missed the casting of the Mickey Mouse Club (MMC) in Atlanta (Georgia) but, there, producers advised her parents to meet a Big Apple agent. Since she was 3, Britney has been singing and dancing to the point of becoming a microcelebrity in Kentwood, the Louisiana town where she grew up. Lynne, her mother, pays her singing lessons and the little blonde expresses her talent in the city’s Baptist choir. The Spears’ trip was funded by Uncle Reggie, as the family is going through yet another financial mess. And Jamie, Britney’s father is counting on his daughter’s talent to get out of the trap. Vaguely alcoholic, completely angry, domineering, failed entrepreneur, Jamie is a loser who accumulates bankruptcies and galleys. “People don’t know how poor we were,” Britney confessed to Rolling Stone Magazine in April 1999. The audition in New York is going well. Britney began working in stride in Broadway plays while appearing in commercials. A year later in 1992, she was 11 years old and finally joined the MMC where her work colleagues of the same age were called: Ryan Gosling, Justin Timberlake or Christina Aguilera. The adventure will last two years before Britney returns to Kentwood to finish her schooling while approaching music producers … On the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in April 1999, she plays the pin-up and poses with her mouth open, lying on a satin sheet. She is wearing a mini-short and a bra. Since the box of Baby One More Time, released in 1998, the reference magazine of pop culture sees in the artist the future star of the next millennium.
“People don’t know how poor we were”
His career
BABY ONE MORE TIME The single was released in 1998 and Britney promoted it on the sly in shopping centers. A year later, it is the absolute hit thanks to a clip how to say… catchy?
OOPS… ! I DID IT AGAIN This second opus in the same vein as the previous one is even more successful. The single Oops…! kicks off the 2000s.
IN THE ZONE Carried by the very effective Toxic, this fourth album brings about a rapprochement with Madonna on the occasion of a duet. The sound is more R’n’B, lyrics always sexier …
BRITNEY AND KEVIN: CHAOTIC (TELEALITY) In a relationship with Kevin Federline, the duo offers themselves a reality TV. The hype thing that had to be done in the 2000s …
BLACKOUT An album that will sell a little less than the previous ones but which benefits from good reviews from the cultural press. The single Gimme More reached the top 5 in 14 countries.
CIRCUS She found scores close to her debut thanks in particular to the single Womanizer, which became a global hit.
FEMME FATALE AND THE X FACTOR (TV) A moderate success compared to the previous album. Britney seems less involved. She tries her hand at TV playing jurors in The X Factor.
BRITNEY: PIECE OF ME Kicks off a series of residency shows in Las Vegas. Each concert earns him more than 445,000 euros. Juicy…
FRAMING BRITNEY SPEARS (AMAZON PRIME DOCUMENTARY) This documentary highlights the disturbing daily life of a Britney Spears under guardianship. The film will act as a shock wave around the world.
Chaotic loves before landing with Sam
With Justin Timberlake (1999-2002), she lives an apparently chaste teenage romance. The interpreter of Cry me a River will prove to be a little manipulative by victimizing himself at the time of the breakup, making Britney look like an unreliable girl. Not classy. She changes gear with the dancer-rapper Kevin Federline from 2004 to 2007: marriage, babies, divorce: a depression on arrival and a big slump. Britney then went out in 2008 with a paparazzo villain named Adnan Ghalib. Very, very bad idea… Brit-Brit gloomy more and more. Then it will be Jason Trawick who, from 2009 to 2013, will help him go up the slope. With David Lucado (2013-2014), a seemingly reliable guy, she believes in it. No luck, Lucado is cheating on her as best as possible, next! Then comes the Charlie Ebersol case in 2015. Britney wanted to sit down and marry the producer, but he seemed a bit reluctant. With him, love will last eight months. Since 2016, she has shared her life with dancer and sports coach Sam Asghari. Last September, they announced their engagement. We’re talking about a wedding in Hawaii and a baby to follow… A little brother or sister for Sean (16) and Jayden (15)? Baby one more time… mortgaged because of yet another crappy daddy lose plan. The years pass, Britney connects the gold records, the monumental sold-out tours, the rewards. She is also looking for love and thinks she has found it in the person of Kevin Federline with whom she will have two sons: Sean Preston and Jayden. Is she satisfied? Not at all. Already in 2001, she confessed to the camera of a documentary devoted to her: “I am the most lonely person in the world.” This (too) sudden badly managed notoriety will act negatively. His marriage collapsed in 2006 for, according to the formula, insurmountable disagreements. Depressed, the young woman plays immature party girls with her friends Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. She will leave feathers there: the abuse of drugs, alcohol, junk food gives her an image of a dirty white trash girl. She goes on high-profile escapades and ends up losing shared custody of her sons in 2007. From a “bad girl”, Britney now passes for a “bad mother” in the eyes of the world and of a press that never ceases to track her down, to judge her, to laugh at her. Britney hits rock bottom. On January 31, 2008, Jamie Spears once again entered the scene. He planned an operation he called The Package. Objective: kidnap Britney and have her interned against her will. With the help of the police, he succeeded. At the same time, he requested and obtained guardianship of his daughter from the court. Britney is diagnosed with bipolar in a rush and must undergo lithium treatment. Everyone is relieved, Jamie passes for the model dad who saved his little girl, but the reality is much more complex. Because with this tutelage, Britney will live thirteen years in an air-conditioned hell. She releases records, tours, she seems appeased but, in reality, she suffers a sweet abuse. She cannot dispose of her money, nor plan to have a child with her new fiancé because she is prohibited from removing her IUD. If Britney rebels by refusing to take her medication, she is then interned… “My father loves having control, the total power to hurt his daughter. I am traumatized. My situation is crazy ”, declared the singer last June in the court of justice of California. In 2019, Britney goes on strike and cancels her residency in Vegas. Or a first step towards freedom. A year later, the New York Times published articles criticizing this abusive supervision. The hashtag freebritney is broadcast, fans and people are mobilizing and on November 12 justice is finally done: Britney Spears is definitively freed from the paternal shackles. As said
His brilliance
Britney Spears will embody the 2000s. In a few appearances that will be remembered. There is this performance at the MTV Video Awards in 2001, where she walks on stage with a snake. Then the same year, it will be this duet with the king of pop: Michael Jackson. Like a dubbing… Then in 2003, the famous French kiss with Madonna. A whole era …
Already her low-waisted jeans look, apparent thong, tattoo in the small of the back is flourishing among young girls (to the chagrin of some parents), while the new pop star squats the pages of the then booming press people. Rolling Stone got it right: two years later, Oops!… I Did it Again sells more than 20 million copies and has established her as an exceptional showwoman. Britney is rich, she pays off her parents’ debts and offers her mother a house on condition that Lynn divorce Jamie. No way for Britney that this gift will be one day or the other
Confucius: “We have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one. ” At 40, since December 2, Britney Spears intends to take her own. She has already begun to settle accounts with all those who spoiled her. A truth interview with Oprah Winfrey is in the works. Its rebirth is underway. ¦ Renaud Leclercq
His father, that crook?
RAZZIA SUR LA THUNEÉ As a child, Jamie Spears had a sociopathic father who regularly had his wife interned, who ended up committing suicide in a cemetery… Hence a major trauma at the base among the Spears. Did Jamie reproduce a family pattern by interning Britney forty years later? Anyway, this tutelage, probably saving for a depressed Brit-Brit originally, has gradually turned into psychological torture. Another aspect to be addressed: money. The pop star’s fortune is currently estimated at 51.2 million euros, which doesn’t seem like much. Because in addition to concerts, albums and residences, the artist’s brand earns tens of millions each year thanks to his perfumes. According to specialists, its capital should exceed 310 million euros. In which case, there would be a slight hole in the body. What roles did not only his father, but also his mother, brother and sister play? It smells of a future trial and dirty laundry to wash with the family …
Oops !!!
During her dark period, she multiplied the bad buzz in front of journalists and it was not pretty, pretty… In 2007, she shaved her head in lost girl mode, sad hair and cloudy eyes. Not in great shape… Flickering, she almost drops her baby or takes the wheel with one of her sons on her knees. Drink or drive? It’s necessary to choose. She will then hit a paparazzi car with an umbrella. Appraisal: she is placed in isolation in HP …