Spears dominates the scenes, unlike her 2007 performance where backup dancers were needed to make up for where she lacked. ‘Womanizer’ succeeds in choreography and dance performance, where the other two videos lacked. As a woman in the work place, her cut resembles that of Uma Thurman in ‘Pulp Fiction.’ As a sexy waitress, she wears a spicy red wig, which she flips around seductively.Īfter a disappointing video for ‘Gimme More’ and the improved, but still shaky ‘Piece of Me’ performance, a full comeback was questionable.Īlthough ‘Piece of Me’ did win three MTV Video Music Awards, including video of the year, the old Spears who once dominated the pop scene was not there. The result was an album that stood as a middle finger to Spears’ critics and established a dark, danceable sound that influenced pop for years to come.Spears dons a number of wigs as she personifies her various characters. Collaborators and friends - from Teresa LaBarbera, the A&R rep who was one of Spears’ closest allies, to the producers like Danja and Bloodshy & Avant who crafted visceral hits like “Piece of Me” and “Gimme More” - join Rolling Stone Senior Writer Brittany Spanos to tell the story of how Spears made classic songs in the eye of a hurricane. The latest episode of our Amazon Original podcast Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums revisits Blackout at a time when Spears’ music - and the raw treatment she received from the public and the press - is being revisited and rethought in a major way. In the midst of madness, Spears began recording an album that would become her defining statement, 2007’s Blackout. But when you’re a platinum-selling pop princess, the show goes on even when you desperately need an intermission. Paparazzi swarmed Spears’ home and her family, turning the singer into a tabloid punching bag. But as she began to stumble in her personal life, the price of the public’s fascination was more than just a few nasty late-night jokes. In the mid-2000s, few people were more famous than Britney Spears.
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