New Britneyology

There have been a number of documentaries about Britney in the last few years, but this one has taken a different line. Rather than recataloguing her moments of madness, it concentrates on the egregious nature of her treatment by the press, and on the conservatorship under which she’s been held…

Britney Spears once received an extraordinary accolade from the UK’s highly respected top broadsheet newspaper the Daily Telegraph: “Amid all the fretting and frothing about her sanity…it’s easy to forget Britney’s pop brilliance. Sweeter-voiced than Beyoncé, Christina and Pink, she has had a string of classics to put the pretenders…

All of us, as fans, can look back over the years since Britney Spears first impacted on our lives, and see very clearly a whole set of milestones – key events that drew us closer and closer to Britney, the person and the star. If we think a little harder,…

In these days of Glory it’s an oft-expressed opinion that Britney’s best album – so far – was actually In The Zone. But back then, when Britney entered that Zone, it was an oft-expressed opinion that her best album was Britney. And back when she was no longer a girl,…

Before we begin our consideration of Britney the songwriter, there are two side-issues we need to address. One – can a singer only be regarded as an “artist” if he or she writes his or her own material? Two – is it even true that Britney writes less of her…

The Noisey website’s Lauren O’Neill in a new article about her Britney stanship describes her heroine’s voice thus: On “…Baby, One More Time,” Britney Spears sings as though she’s chewing a piece of toffee or a soft pillow of bubblegum too large for her mouth. Her Louisiana twang drips with…