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"content": "\u003cp>Where were you when Britney Spears shaved her head?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't exactly a world-changing event, but for many of us, it was certainly memorable. I happened to be in San Francisco's Bill Graham auditorium, interviewing bands at the Taste of Chaos festival. I remember because Britney's new 'do was all anyone—bands, fans, roadies—could talk about. Which is pretty weird for an emo-rock festival, but a solid indicator of just how obsessed everyone was with her meltdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twelve years ago, there was a ferocity attached to how Britney's mental health issues were consumed by the world that is disturbing to look back on. Photos of Brit in hollow-eyed crisis—in the barber shop, with the umbrella, handcuffed to that gurney—were splashed across tabloids and newspapers for our entertainment. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFF_DUvGP4w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Footage of her leaving her home\u003c/a> in an ambulance, escorted by a number of police vehicles, is nothing short of grotesque—a sea of photographers, busy-bodies and fans blocking the street as emergency services attempt to get her to hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We laughed at him at the time (\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?biw=1240&bih=528&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=r5O_XOjeAoqt0PEPjv-pkAw&q=leave+alone+meme&oq=leave+alone+meme&gs_l=img.3..0j0i7i30l9.27752.28828..29451...0.0..0.72.476.8....3..1....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i8i7i30.ZIh4VqEj4Oc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some people still do\u003c/a>, actually) but before his infamous \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqSTXuJeTks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"Leave Britney alone!\"\u003c/a> meltdown, superfan Chris Crocker made a lot more sense than you probably remember. \"I know it's hard to see Britney Spears as a human being,\" he said, \"but, trust me, she is. She is a person, just like you or I... What really bothers me is thinking of those people out there who don't see her as a person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to the present day and Britney has been in a mental health facility for most of this month, purportedly to help her cope emotionally with the ailing health of her father, who has been her conservator since 2007. Brit has been seen in public only once since, photographed leaving a Beverley Hills hotel looking more disheveled than we are accustomed to these days. 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What's more, it's much harder to make fun of celebrity nervous breakdowns when we can see the likes of Jim Carrey and Ariana Grande on Twitter, publicly \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1120141695893377024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exchanging strategies\u003c/a> to handle depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compounding this shift is the knock-on effect of a spate of tragic celebrity deaths. We recently lost Alexander McQueen, Robin Williams, Chester Bennington, Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, Chris Cornell, Keith Flint, Margot Kidder and Mindy McCready to suicide. We also lost Prince, Heath Ledger, Whitney Houston, Tom Petty, Mac Miller, Lil Peep and Britney Murphy to self-medication. All those tragedies have left an indelible mark on the culture, and left the general public in a heightened state of sensitivity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to all that, Generation Z is the \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@erharve/the-super-empathy-of-generation-z-how-weve-all-been-wrong-11280562bc67\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most empathetic\u003c/a> in history thanks to growing up online, being the most diverse generation ever, and facing down increasing economic, environmental and political doom. 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Even after a litany of terrible behavior, the public was quick to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/21225/forgiving-justin-bieber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">forgive Justin Bieber\u003c/a>, understanding the pressures fame can wreak on child stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America has become less inclined to revel in the misery of celebrities and more inclined to offer support. 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"content": "\u003cp>A jukebox musical, based on the music of Britney Spears, is in the works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>That sentence makes sense. Tell me more. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Said musical, titled \u003cem>Once Upon A One More Time\u003c/em> (get it?), will be about Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Um, that's random, but okay.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four princesses are in a book club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Wait, you're starting to lose me.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bored of the only book they own—a collection of the Grimms’ fairy tales—they wish for a new book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Part of being in a book club is wishing you had picked a better book, so this checks out.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fairy godmother appears and grants them their wish in the form of Betty Friedan's feminist classic, \u003cem>The Feminine Mystique\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What the fuuuuuuu....???\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This premise might sound like fan-fic written by a women's studies major who did a hit of acid while watching the Disney channel, but it's actually the basis of a real production, set to start previews on October 29, 2019 at the James M. Nederlander Theater in Chicago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jon Hartmere, who wrote the book for the musical, \u003ca href=\"https://nyti.ms/2F71LXW\">expanded\u003c/a> on the show's themes:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>\"These women have been in this hermetically sealed world, and then they start to get deeper into modern ideas — second and third-wave feminism — and also explore how stories are passed down to us, and where we get our norms from.\"\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Britney Spears has to do with princesses getting woke is still unclear, but the more I think about it, the pairing does have promise. Here are a few connections the musical will hopefully take advantage of:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>If the dwarves don't sing, \"Whistle while you work, bitch!\", I will riot.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"Toxic\" could easily be spun to be about a poisoned apple.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"Overprotected\" is Rapunzel's situation in a nutshell.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"Stronger\" could be twisted into being Sleeping Beauty's anthem about the replenishing power of a long ass nap.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\"I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman\" could easily be about any of the princesses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And lest we forget that Britney already has a song called \"Cinderella\"?\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTY_nvmC-PI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, I've managed to convince myself that this wackadoo musical is going to be stupendous. Consider track seven from Britney's debut album my RSVP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcVNx1VxJ2Y\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Friday morning, Mac Miller was found dead of an apparent overdose, after years of openly struggling with addiction. One of Miller's most endearing qualities as an artist was his willingness to share his vulnerabilities and fears around his own struggles with sobriety. \"\u003cem>I'm hoping not to join \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ranker.com/list/members-of-the-27-club/famous-celebrity-deaths-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>the 27 club\u003c/em>\u003c/a>,\" he rapped on \"Brand Name.\" In the end, tragically, Mac Miller only made it to 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuCyrtGQhAk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller's fame—and the amount of public scrutiny he was put under—grew when he got into a relationship with Ariana Grande in September 2016. When the longtime friends and collaborators officially split last May, and Grande went public about her whirlwind romance with Pete Davidson just a couple of weeks later, Miller fans weren't happy. Some were quick to blame Grande for Miller's addiction issues, to the degree that she felt the need to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/999314187384901633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hit back on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13840493']For his part, Miller publicly stated that he was fine with the break-up and his ex-girlfriend's new relationship. At the end of July, in \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/ariana-grandes-mac-miller-breaks-silence-engagement-pete/story?id=56780176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an interview with Zane Lowe\u003c/a>, he said \"I was in love with somebody. We were together for two years. We worked through good times, bad times, stress and everything else. And then it came to an end and we both moved on. And it's that simple, you know?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Instagram, \u003ca href=\"https://www.etonline.com/everything-mac-miller-and-ariana-grande-have-said-about-their-relationship-109253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grande stated:\u003c/a> \"This is one of my best friends in the whole world and favorite people on the planet. I respect and adore him endlessly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, on Friday, as the tragic news about Miller broke, Grande was not left to grieve in peace. Instead, her Instagram page became a battleground between Miller fans pointing the finger and Grande fans rushing to her defense. There were multiple fans who pleaded with her to \"turn off the comments\" hours before she finally did. By that time, the damage was already done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_105664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 355px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-105664\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/horrible1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/horrible1.png 355w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/horrible1-160x105.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/09/horrible1-240x158.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comments posted to Ariana Grande's Instagram account on Friday, September 7, 2018.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the time of publication, Grande has yet to speak publicly about the death of Miller, though she did post a touching photo of him to her Instagram account over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Bneu_dCHVdn/?hl=en&taken-by=arianagrande\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public attack on Grande is horrible but in no way surprising. It's not even the first time in the last few \u003cem>weeks\u003c/em> that a woman has been blamed for a famous man's own longterm, personal struggles. Ben Affleck's current girlfriend, model Shauna Sexton, was accused of landing the 46-year-old actor back in rehab late last month after she posted a photo of herself enjoying a glass of wine. Admittedly, her timing wasn't great; the pic went up just three days after Affleck's ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, staged an intervention. But when accusations started flying in the comments, Sexton quickly and directly pointed out that her boyfriend's ability to stay sober had little to do with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sexton \u003ca href=\"https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2018/09/shauna-sexton-you-think-i-sent-ben-affleck-to-rehab/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I love to drink and party! Absolutely dude. Most 22 year olds do… [Does it] mean i would disrespect someone’s hard earned sobriety by drinking with them or in front of them? Hell no… Ben is a grown ass man, baby. He makes his own decisions. Blaming a 22 year old for someone’s 3rd time in rehab is just ridiculous...He is human. I am human. You are human. We all are going to f**k up it’s just a matter of learning from it. Don’t be so quick to throw shade on people. Take a step back, accept that we are all on our own journey, and be a little less critical.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So where does the compulsion come from, to hold responsible anyone other than the dead celebrity in question? The root of it is in the public's great sense of personal attachment to famous people, especially musicians. Pointing the finger at someone else means propelling our own sadness out and away from us. \u003ca href=\"https://www.shape.com/blogs/shape-your-life/why-we-take-celebs-deaths-so-hard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Therapist Patrick Wanis told \u003cem>Shape\u003c/em> \u003c/a>magazine: “We grieve them … because we feel they can no longer continue to contribute to our lives—we have lost out on their next musical creation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other factor is an unwillingness to blame the deceased person themselves, for being gone too soon. No one wishes to speak ill of the dead, so we absolve them of responsibility and shift blame to the next nearest living person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_107245']What the blame game ignores, of course, is just how complex addiction is. The causes of drug and alcohol dependency differ wildly depending on the individual. As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.centeronaddiction.org/what-addiction/addiction-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center on Addiction\u003c/a> points out: \"Addiction disrupts regions of the brain that are responsible for reward, motivation, learning, judgment and memory.\" Relapses can be caused by anything and nothing. And for partners living with an addict, there is no perfect way of dealing with it. If they exercise tough love and leave, they are accused of abandonment. If they stay, they are accused of enabling. It's a no-win position to be in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing to keep in mind is that the only person that can keep an addict sober is the addict themselves. Assistance can come from sponsors, organizations and, yes, partners. But if it feels too uncomfortable to pass judgment on the addict, it should feel just as unjust to direct it at their loved ones. 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That didn't happen; the canned food filling doomsayers' remodeled bomb shelters presumably was thrown into casseroles for the next family holiday. Something did shift, though, in the early months of the year 2000. It happened on the pop charts: the twelve-week reign of Carlos Santana's \"Smooth,\" featuring the suave, mumbled cat-calling of late-'90s rock heartthrob Rob Thomas, finally gave way beneath the force of Christina Aguilera's \"What a Girl Wants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What a Girl Wants\" is a power ballad deeply emblematic of the Y2K moment, when old forms of expression were being reshaped by the young generation immersed in the emerging era's fundamental restructuring of social and neural networks. On one hand, Aguilera's manifesto is old-fashioned: She fortified her teen pop with 1960s soul inflections, and the song's lyrics about a sensitive (and monogamous) tough guy could have come from the Maybelline-streaked lips of the Shangri-La's. But the title-bearing chorus — a list of prerequisites delivered with supreme self-assurance, leading to the central assertion, \"Whatever makes me happy sets you free\" — is purely, deeply, indicative of where cultural feminism would go in the new millennium, especially in music. The conflagrations set by women out to remake rock in the mid-1990s had calmed — many said that the spirit of movements like the feminist Riot Grrrl been co-opted by a \"girl power\" strain of capitalism that doused their radical potential. In retrospect we can see how artists like Aguilera, who emerged in the final years of the 1990s, not only touched on innovations that would become the center of millennial music, but addressed central feminist concerns of autonomy, pleasure and self-determination in complicated and wide-ranging ways, resetting the parameters for women as agents of their own expressiveness and values in ways that are still playing out now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpspGHeLOPE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unrest on the rock scene in the first half of the 1990s felt to many like a paradigm shift, but it was really a blast pattern: a series of eruptions that added up to real damage but which only partially reached pop's cultural foundation. Into this fractured landscape came a diverse array of artists who took on the challenge of expressing self-aware womanhood in very different ways. The messages these artists sent were mixed. Some seemed almost retrograde: the teen pop stars whose tanned-and-taut young queen was Britney Spears, and who expressed a self-confident sexuality that was hard to read as wholly self-cultivated, but which has been fully claimed as such by today's pop rebels from Taylor Swift to Lorde to Charli XCX. Others explored how the defiance of women in rock could work within less openly anarchic musical genres, refashioning old norms instead of discarding them. The Dixie Chicks epitomized this in country: The trio played into classic rural romance fantasies with songs like \"Cowboy, Take Me Away,\" but buried those same dreams with the anti-domestic violence anthem \"Goodbye Earl\" – on the same album. Today, Miranda Lambert and Kacey Musgraves perform the same balancing act. In R&B, Destiny's Child came to embody the girl-group ideal by forthrightly embodying what independence feels like for women who still strongly valued their own conventional sex appeal for men. That same tension is playing out in ever more complicated ways in the music of current groundbreakers like SZA and Kali Uchis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw7gNf_9njs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did the late 1990s represent a backlash when it came to gender, or a necessary move toward the center? There's still disagreement on this point. But most pop historians would agree to mark the turning point with the platform-sandal footprint of the Spice Girls. Glittering the landscape in 1996, the English quintet seemed to embody a flighty femininity that the time's fierce zeitgeist-rulers, like Polly Jean Harvey or Queen Latifah, actively opposed. Yet the Spice Girls' career-setting anthem \"Wannabe\" giddily leapt ahead of its time: I vividly remember hearing it for the first time in an English hotel room, bubbling out of the television like an exploding packet of Pop Rocks spit out by these cute but absolutely normal-looking girls rampaging through a fantastical nightclub. They were yelling about women's friendship! They kissed the boys and just kept on going! One of them was jogging pants and a sports bra! I was a devotee of the time's most confrontational rock and hip-hop, but there was something to this idea that women's solidarity wasn't just for the boldest and the most bohemian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Spice Girls were outliers, but not by much. Their massive popularity presaged a new wave of American teen pop also spearheaded by a tricky sweetheart: Britney Spears. Today, Britney has become a first-name-only goddess revered by dance music mavens for her willingness to take chances with experimental producers while still owning the center of the pop charts. As a feminist icon, Spears remains nearly as problematic in 2018 as she was when her authentic schoolgirl pout made her a star with \"...Baby One More Time\" twenty years earlier. She's still one of the most powerfully charismatic pop stars of our age, and deserves respect not only for being the indelible voice of a pop juggernaut, but for her longevity in the face of every major pitfall celebrity can create. Yet since a public breakdown made her an official pop tragedy in 2008, a debate has raged about whether Spears has been the prime agent in her own success, or an exploited asset, and she herself is only now emerging as an artist in ways that might clarify matters. The story of Britney Spears couldn't have been less suited to the story of women toppling male power structures that dominated the 1990s. Nonetheless, her importance as both a musical and cultural influence is undeniable. Like Elvis, Britney Spears embodies a seismic shift in American culture – not toward the cultivated rawness of rock and roll, but away from it, into an era dominated by new technologies that throw into question the very nature of the authentic. A voice in league with new technologies\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>Britney Spears embodies something fundamental about our time. Every artist working in the pop realm reckons with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The troubled iconicity of Britney Spears can overshadow just how much other women changed popular music just before and after her emergence. Before her, there was Gwen Stefani, who like every cool kid's favorite Spice Girl Mel C decked herself out in clothes as sports-functional as they were sexy, and who sang about the very limits placed upon her as a woman fronting an all-male band in No Doubt's \"Just a Girl.\" (Stefani, like a few others who debuted in the 1990s, makes our list because her solo career commenced in earnest in the 2000s.) There was Jewel, singing about addiction and the the sexual exploitation of young women in a hit, \"Who Will Save Your Soul,\" that critics dismissed as teenage flowered-notebook rambling. A year later there was Fiona Apple, who made her revelations about sexual trauma and its aftermath — her song \"Sullen Girl\" was a #metoo moment decades before its hashtag — but whose very (slender) physique seemed out of step with the time's feminist mores. \"I'm a little torn,\" sang Australian pop star Natalie Imbruglia in 1998, her baggy hoodie in the \"Torn\" video sending one message while her glam squad-enhanced eyes sent another. It was hard, sometimes, to tell whether these ingenues were sending mixed messages or signaling complexity. Something similar was happening in R&B, as the mighty TLC led a new wave of sleek-voiced women whose versions of empowerment weren't as obviously fierce as what En Vogue had embodied in 1992's \"Free Your Mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1XWJN3nJo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could women's empowerment creep into patriarchy's engine, dismantling the status quo in other ways? The girl-group renaissance ushered in by TLC and moved forward by solo artists like Brandy, Mya and Monica showed ways that this could happen. At the same time, Missy Elliott and Aaliyah were shifting the very ground of R&B, creating an intuitively feminine and de facto feminist language within it via deft samples, new ways of singing and lyrics that sometimes sounded like but never really were nonsense. These trendsetters were joined by Destiny's Child in 1998 – a group that would not only launch the career of the new millennium's musical empress, Beyoncé Knowles, but which would blend better than anyone else the classic soulwoman's mandate to talk smack to men's power with hip-hop's new approach to vocalizing and musical arrangement. (It's no surprise that Elliott is one of the producers on the group's landmark 1999 album \u003cem>The Writing's on the Wall.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiF6-0UTqtc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some women on the cusp between the wild mid-1990s and the more choreographed 2000s focused not on confrontation, but on building points of view that could open up into whole worlds. Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill set the gold standard for this approach, their songs honoring black women's realities even when they contradicted conventional ideas of women's liberation. Jennifer Lopez, who would later go on to be a pop force as powerful as any in the early-to-mid 2000s, forged a new path in Latin crossover pop by blending the Gucci glamor of '90s hip-hop with the street-smart energy of Latin freestyle and salsa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list of genre-shakers from this period continues, including enough legends that had NPR's list spanned a logical two decades instead of starting in 2000, the Top 10 could have easily featured 1998 and 1999 releases alone. (This is one reason we made 2000 our jumping-off point for this list: We wanted our voters to keep the present day in sharp focus, uninfluenced by nostalgia for this moment and its superstars.) In country, beyond the Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain — who was much more the architect of her own stardom than more early accounts, who credited her then-husband and producer Mutt Lang, acknowledged — changed the genre itself by giving voice not only to sexually assertive womanhood but to the rock and roll-loving suburban middle class that then constituted its audience just as much small towners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJL4UGSbeFg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gillian Welch practically invented country's more artisanal offshoot, Americana, by reinvesting folk traditions with a remarkable clarity made possible by her outsider status. Coastal children who met as New England music students, she and her partner David Rawlings entered the roots music world unhindered close inheritance, and became the ideal revivalists of the Internet age — meticulous archival explorers who built their own sound world that wasn't a copy of the past but a means of letting it permeate the present: time travel as mindfulness practice. And in indie music, Neko Case — an artist who's gone on record about not wanting to be included in gender-based lists like Turning the Tables — set a new standard for songwriting by refusing the limits of genre, verse-chorus-verse and linear narrative, setting the tone imaginative inquiries later taken up by artistes like Joanna Newsom and The Decemberists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of these women were misunderstood in their moment of emergence, or critically lauded but still undervalued as major innovators. (Badu and Hill are the exceptions, having answered the most serious problem within the 1990s feminist movement in popular music — the drastic need for perspectives from women of color.) In an early review I now regret, I myself mistook Welch and her partner David Rawlings as purveyors of tight-collared costume drama rather than interrogators of a folk lineage that deeply needed their intervention. Gen X music fans like me, who tasted the revolution on the lips of brazen iconoclasts like Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill, couldn't always see how the artists taking the decade into the future weren't abandoning the sweeping project of remaking popular music in the true shape of womanhood, but proving that this endeavor would not take one shape or be ruled by one sound, as much as so many of us loved the noisiness of our own cohort. A soft voice like that of the chanteuse Dido, whose 1999 debut \u003cem>No Angel\u003c/em> became the second-best selling album of the 2000s in England, might have seem like a throwaway sweet, worth less than the meat we got from our favorite rockers or rappers. Yet that voice singing lyrics like, \"I just want to feel safe in my own skin\" feels as or more relevant now, with so many women saying the same thing within social media's danger zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6QKqFPRZSA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't so long ago that other cusp eras like the early 1970s or the late 1980s were also disregarded as overly commercial or adrift within pop's larger historical sweep. Eclecticism and the kind of experimentation that moves incrementally can be mistaken as a kind of watering down of more openly provocative practices. History often unfolds in arcs, not because real life is that way, but because the storytellers who write it crave the dynamic narrative pull such structures provides. Some periods end up on the down side of the circle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another word for \"down side\" is \"foundation.\" New sounds, new subgenres, new ways of thinking about both music and what it means to be a woman at a time when new freedoms and old evils often seemed on a collision course: All of these elements emerged at the edge of the millennium. The kids in middle and high school then, or even maybe just hitting puberty, are the artists now engaging in another round of musical revolution — challenging gender norms and genre boundaries, demanding accountability from male peers, blowing s*** up with homemade dynamite. It's from these women's knotty legacies that they cut their fuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2018 NPR. 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Today, Britney has become a first-name-only goddess revered by dance music mavens for her willingness to take chances with experimental producers while still owning the center of the pop charts. As a feminist icon, Spears remains nearly as problematic in 2018 as she was when her authentic schoolgirl pout made her a star with \"...Baby One More Time\" twenty years earlier. She's still one of the most powerfully charismatic pop stars of our age, and deserves respect not only for being the indelible voice of a pop juggernaut, but for her longevity in the face of every major pitfall celebrity can create. Yet since a public breakdown made her an official pop tragedy in 2008, a debate has raged about whether Spears has been the prime agent in her own success, or an exploited asset, and she herself is only now emerging as an artist in ways that might clarify matters. The story of Britney Spears couldn't have been less suited to the story of women toppling male power structures that dominated the 1990s. Nonetheless, her importance as both a musical and cultural influence is undeniable. Like Elvis, Britney Spears embodies a seismic shift in American culture – not toward the cultivated rawness of rock and roll, but away from it, into an era dominated by new technologies that throw into question the very nature of the authentic. A voice in league with new technologies\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>Britney Spears embodies something fundamental about our time. 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Before her, there was Gwen Stefani, who like every cool kid's favorite Spice Girl Mel C decked herself out in clothes as sports-functional as they were sexy, and who sang about the very limits placed upon her as a woman fronting an all-male band in No Doubt's \"Just a Girl.\" (Stefani, like a few others who debuted in the 1990s, makes our list because her solo career commenced in earnest in the 2000s.) There was Jewel, singing about addiction and the the sexual exploitation of young women in a hit, \"Who Will Save Your Soul,\" that critics dismissed as teenage flowered-notebook rambling. A year later there was Fiona Apple, who made her revelations about sexual trauma and its aftermath — her song \"Sullen Girl\" was a #metoo moment decades before its hashtag — but whose very (slender) physique seemed out of step with the time's feminist mores. \"I'm a little torn,\" sang Australian pop star Natalie Imbruglia in 1998, her baggy hoodie in the \"Torn\" video sending one message while her glam squad-enhanced eyes sent another. It was hard, sometimes, to tell whether these ingenues were sending mixed messages or signaling complexity. 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"content": "\u003cp>Since the dawn of rock and pop music, there have been songs specifically designed to shock, or at the very least cause some discomfort. Before you listen to a song like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rS6mZUo3fg\">\"Rape Me\"\u003c/a> by Nirvana or The Prodigy's \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgcHbNV_DL4\">\"Smack My B***h Up,\"\u003c/a> you know well in advance that you're about to listen to something that might make you uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about the songs that, on the surface, seem perfectly normal but are, in fact, drenched in creepdom? These jams catch you off guard, engage your gag reflex, and make you wonder how you heard a song so many times before and never realized how gross it was. Here's a selection of some of the worst offenders from the 1990s. Prepare to shudder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Semi-Charmed Life\" by Third Eye Blind (1997)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beINamVRGy4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Careful now. Watching Stephan Jenkins in this video, rolling up Valencia Street, past \u003ca href=\"http://boogaloossf.com/\">Boogaloo's\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.valenciacyclery.com/\">Valencia Cyclery\u003c/a>, can be quite distracting if you're a San Francisco resident. Even if you're not, the jauntiness of the doo-doo-doo's and the stupidly catchy chorus will have a similar effect, lulling you into a false sense of security about the niceness of this song. And then one day you notice -- bam! -- Stephan Jenkins is singing about being a cocaine-addled sex pest. The drug use in this song isn't even subtle once you finally notice it: \"...a bump for the drop, And then I bumped up, I took the hit I was given, Then I bumped again, And then I bumped again.\" Then there's the creepy talk of \"little red panties,\" pushing a woman \"face down on the mattress,\" and -- this is peak stalker -- \"not listening when you say goodbye.\" Major creepsville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Age Ain't Nothing But a Number\" by Aaliyah (1994)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRwhm-B6yNI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time you hear the smooth grooves of \"Age Ain't Nothing But a Number,\" it's undoubtedly seductive. Because of her vocal prowess, it's easy to forget that Aaliyah was only 15 when this track came out, but think of a 15-year-old in your life singing this track to an older suitor for a second, and it immediately ceases to be a romantic jam. Then when you find out that R. Kelly -- a man whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.spin.com/2013/12/r-kelly-sex-crimes-jim-derogatis/\">predilection for underage girls\u003c/a>, and possibly even\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult?utm_term=.oda9j11p9#.bb2yMnnOy\"> cults\u003c/a>, is well-documented -- wrote it, it basically stops being a song and starts sounding like the open planning of a sex crime. The world misses you, Aaliyah, but... no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"...Baby One More Time\" by Britney Spears (1998)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever wonder why the name of this song is so awkward? With the ellipses and everything? It's probably because someone in Jive Records' marketing department noticed that this record cover would become instantly problematic if it had the words \"Hit Me\" on it.\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-86206 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/britney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/britney.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/britney-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/britney-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/britney-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Do Me!\" by Bel Biv Devoe (1990)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZieygZyvw4A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before you think this one is too obvious -- and yes, it is crazy obvious on the general this-song-is-definitely-about-gross-sex front -- the problem here is not all the talk of smacking, flipping, and doing. It's not even all the sex noises peppered throughout (though they do bring a general creep vibe to the thing). No, the reason this dumb song about sex is on this list is because of the sneaky statutory rape hidden in the middle of it: \"Take off your clothes and leave on your shoes, Would you mind if I looked at you for a moment? Before I make sweet love. Backstage, underage, adolescent.\" Not as funny now, is it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Crash Into Me\" by Dave Matthews Band (1996)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7in-9E3ImQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Awww, what a beautiful song about love, infatuation, and the art of heterosexual lovemaking! What a quintessentially '90s music video full of technicolor trees and elegant ladies dancing in slow motion! You just know that, all across the world, \"Crash Into Me\" has probably soundtracked an awful lot of white people's sexy times. And all of those couples probably never noticed the part at the very end of this song when Matthews' protagonist changes his tone: \"Hike up your skirt a little bit,\" he demands. \"Oh, I watch you there, through the window, and I stare at you.\" It's a song about a peeping Tom, everyone. Artfully done, Matthews. Artfully done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Kiss Me\" by Sixpence None the Richer (1998)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N-qO3sPMjc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prettiest, most innocent little song about young, rural love? Or a song featuring many thinly-veiled references to cunnilingus?** \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tdmbo5gdxrtt4ye7aj6gbn276fe?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics\">Study the lyrics\u003c/a> and you decide!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[**This unsubstantiated theory brought forth to you by someone I went to college with, who believed wholeheartedly that \"Kiss Me\" was not as innocuous as it seemed. You will never hear it the same again.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Got any secretly creepy '90s songs of your own? Leave them in the comments!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It's probably because someone in Jive Records' marketing department noticed that this record cover would become instantly problematic if it had the words \"Hit Me\" on it.\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-86206 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/britney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/britney.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/britney-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/britney-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/06/britney-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"Do Me!\" by Bel Biv Devoe (1990)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ZieygZyvw4A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ZieygZyvw4A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Before you think this one is too obvious -- and yes, it is crazy obvious on the general this-song-is-definitely-about-gross-sex front -- the problem here is not all the talk of smacking, flipping, and doing. 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You just know that, all across the world, \"Crash Into Me\" has probably soundtracked an awful lot of white people's sexy times. And all of those couples probably never noticed the part at the very end of this song when Matthews' protagonist changes his tone: \"Hike up your skirt a little bit,\" he demands. \"Oh, I watch you there, through the window, and I stare at you.\" It's a song about a peeping Tom, everyone. Artfully done, Matthews. 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Or a song featuring many thinly-veiled references to cunnilingus?** \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tdmbo5gdxrtt4ye7aj6gbn276fe?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics\">Study the lyrics\u003c/a> and you decide!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[**This unsubstantiated theory brought forth to you by someone I went to college with, who believed wholeheartedly that \"Kiss Me\" was not as innocuous as it seemed. You will never hear it the same again.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Got any secretly creepy '90s songs of your own? Leave them in the comments!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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At the 2017 Grammy's alone, Perry made two separate references to the Britney incident, saying \"the only thing left to do is shave my head, which I’m really saving for a public breakdown.\" Perry also told Ryan Seacrest that night that she was \"taking care of [her] mental health\" and that she hadn't \"shaved [her] head yet.\" The backlash on Twitter was fast and furious and just two months later, Perry ate her words and, most unexpectedly, shaved most of her hair off -- an incident that was surprisingly under-reported, considering the degree of irony involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-95141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-800x503.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-768x483.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-960x604.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-520x327.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VALERIE MACON/ AFP/ Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The online backlash that Perry received, as well as her subsequent hair U-turn in front of a disinterested press, were the first indicators that 2017 might finally be the year that women with shaved heads are no longer considered taboo, threatening, or ugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Western culture, shaved heads are traditionally associated with hyper-masculinity in men (see: the military, prison, skinheads) and a symbol of deviant behavior for women -- whether they shave it themselves, thereby rejecting mainstream beauty standards, or have the cut forced upon them as punishment for being bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, shaving women's heads as a form of punishment was firmly established during, and in the aftermath of, World War II. Both \u003ca href=\"https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_oi.php?ModuleId=10005176&MediaId=1139\">women at concentration camps\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/05/women-victims-d-day-landings-second-world-war\">French women accused\u003c/a> of colluding with Nazis, received the punishment. What, after all, could be worse than taking away one of women's most potent symbols of femininity?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2007, after the Britney incident, an article in \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/20/gender.music\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> \u003c/a>noted: \"Shaven heads are still seen as a crisis for women because flowing hair is so tied up in notions of female beauty and, in the days before dyes and extensions (although even ancient Egyptians sported wigs), a visible symbol of their reproductive power.\" In other words, without hair, women cease to be attractive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film industry has since doubled down on that message, using head-shaving in movies like \u003cem>V For Vendetta\u003c/em> and \u003cem>G.I. Jane\u003c/em> as a means to de-sex female characters. At the time of filming the former, Natalie Portman even noted in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/may/17/features.laurabarton\">interview\u003c/a>: \"Some people will think I'm a neo-Nazi, or that I have cancer, or I'm a lesbian.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.giphy.com/media/13jidJXAXXWl6U/source.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"215\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalie Portman in 'V For Vendetta'.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Moore's \u003cem>G.I. Jane\u003c/em> head-shaving was considered extraordinarily brave, just last year, Moore's daughter, Talullah Willis, shaved her own head with zero fanfare, telling \u003cem>Nylon\u003c/em>: “I actually watched \u003cem>G.I. Jane\u003c/em> two days before \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/vl9qvTOJdy/\">I shaved my head\u003c/a>. I don’t think I was 100 percent inspired by it, but I think it may have manifested the idea in my mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU_mJDOB7ZM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last two years, both Charlize Theron and Kristin Stewart opted to shave their heads for movie roles that didn't specifically require it -- Theron for the dystopian \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/\">\u003cem>Mad Max: Fury Road\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Stewart for \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5774060/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Underwater\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, in which she plays a mechanical engineer. The press and public have been complimentary about the new looks, and both actresses have been vocal about the positive effects of cutting it all off. \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2284017/Oscars-2013-Charlize-Theron-says-shaving-head-freeing.html#ixzz4od0FRl5j\">Theron said\u003c/a>: \"It's the most freeing thing, I highly recommend it. I think every woman should do it.\" In March, Stewart told the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.usmagazine.com/stylish/news/kristen-stewart-reveals-why-she-shaved-her-head-w471408\">Today Show\u003c/a>:\u003c/em> \"I've been wanting to do this for a long time. It feels amazing. I just want to head-bang all day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both stars' responses to the cut were deeply refreshing after listening to what Anne Hathaway had to say about \u003ca href=\"http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/anne-hathaway-on-her-extreme-haircut-for-les-1508927\">shaving her head\u003c/a> for her role as Fantine in 2012's \u003cem>Les Miserables:\u003c/em> \"I looked in the mirror and I said ‘I look like my gay brother. I’m just Man Hathaway.’ I realized I couldn’t take it back. It had the effect of changing my identity. I was reduced to a mental patient level of crying... I was inconsolable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is still, even now, an element of going bald that still treats the style, not as a privilege, but rather as a sacrifice. In 2013, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW5MhBub8f4\">Jessie J \u003c/a>raised £500,000 for the UK's Comic Relief by shaving her head. This year's winner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/commentary-joy-sadness-drag-race-winner-sasha-velour-n777221\">\u003cem>RuPaul's Drag Race\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Sasha Velour, stays bald in honor of her mother's battle with cancer. And, in July, Kathy Griffin shaved her head in support of her sister's battle with cancer, having already lost a brother to the disease three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/yashar/status/892074833273655296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fstyle%2Fkathy-griffin-shave-head-for-sister%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this, it is true that when women keep their hair cropped close these days, and its not related to either a role or charity, it barely registers with the press or the public. Contrast \u003ca href=\"http://jezebel.com/5322008/solange-chops-hair-is-called-insane\">Solange Knowles\u003c/a> having to defend her super-short cut online in 2009 (\"im not trying. to make this 'a style' or a statement. i. just. wanted. to. be. free. from. the. bondage. that. black. women sometimes. put. on. themselves. with. hair\") with \u003ca href=\"http://people.com/style/lupita-nyongo-shaved-her-hair-on-a-whim-i-like-myself-a-lot-more-now/\">Lupita Nyong’o talking\u003c/a> about a similar style last year (\"I like myself a lot more now that I’m not constantly fussing over my hair\"). Two years in, we've grown accustomed to \u003ca href=\"http://www.justjared.com/2017/02/12/rose-mcgowan-hits-up-grammys-2017-with-nominated-producer-boots/\">Rose McGowan\u003c/a> having a shaved head, and if Amber Rose grew her hair out now, she would be positively unrecognizable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.etonline.com/news/222730_kate_hudson_shows_off_shaved_head_while_dirt_bike_riding_with_boyfriend_and_son_ryder/\">Kate Hudson\u003c/a> is the most recent star to shave her head -- in this case, for some as-yet-unspecified collaboration with Sia -- and the news has been received with a shrug. Today's nonchalance towards women with shaved heads feels lightyears ahead of where the world was in 1990 when Sinead O'Connor first emerged, shocking everyone with her lack of hair before she'd even had a chance to start \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKdBlKgquw\">ripping up photos of the Pope\u003c/a> on live TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The world no longer needs to have a discussion every time a famous woman shaves all her hair off, and it's a clear signal that we are finally reaching a new point of freedom for women's self-expression. Aside from anything else, in the age of the internet, we are all inherently less shockable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2007,\u003ca href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6375683.stm\"> Dr. Martin Skinner\u003c/a>, a social psychologist, told the BBC: \"Hair is so significant because of what it is and where it is. It is part of us, much more intimate than things like clothes. If you cut it away, you are cutting away a bit of yourself. Whatever we do with it is very much part of our identity.\" The increasing visibility of shaved hair on female heads is symbolic of the fact that in the 20-teens, forcing celebrities to adhere to traditional performative gender roles is increasingly less of a thing -- and it's about damn time.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ten years ago, when Britney Spears walked into a salon and shaved her own head, it was seen as the ultimate sign that she'd lost her damn mind. \u003ca href=\"http://zerotalking.com/wp-content/uploads/britney-spears-shaved-head.jpg\">\"SHEAR MADNESS\"\u003c/a> the cover of the \u003cem>New York Post\u003c/em> screamed the next day, as the news spread rapidly around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident turned head shaving into a kind of pop culture shorthand for having a nervous breakdown. Hair and beauty website, NaturallyCurly, refers to head-shaving as \"often \u003ca href=\"https://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/transitioning/the-psychology-behind-a-woman-chopping-her-hair-off-bi/\">a drastic decision driven by emotions\u003c/a>,\" while health.am lists \"shaving head or body hair\" as #7 on a list of \u003ca href=\"http://www.health.am/psy/more/10-warning-signs-of-schizophrenia/#ixzz4oXepyb9i\">\u003cem>10 Warning signs of schizophrenia as identified by family members\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katy Perry has been referencing it as a means to prove her own mental stability \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/why-is-this-still-a-thing?utm_term=.bf0nrzz1n#.rfWGlBByG\">since 2010\u003c/a>. At the 2017 Grammy's alone, Perry made two separate references to the Britney incident, saying \"the only thing left to do is shave my head, which I’m really saving for a public breakdown.\" Perry also told Ryan Seacrest that night that she was \"taking care of [her] mental health\" and that she hadn't \"shaved [her] head yet.\" The backlash on Twitter was fast and furious and just two months later, Perry ate her words and, most unexpectedly, shaved most of her hair off -- an incident that was surprisingly under-reported, considering the degree of irony involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-95141\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-800x503.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-768x483.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-960x604.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778-520x327.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/08/GettyImages-695339778.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VALERIE MACON/ AFP/ Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The online backlash that Perry received, as well as her subsequent hair U-turn in front of a disinterested press, were the first indicators that 2017 might finally be the year that women with shaved heads are no longer considered taboo, threatening, or ugly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Western culture, shaved heads are traditionally associated with hyper-masculinity in men (see: the military, prison, skinheads) and a symbol of deviant behavior for women -- whether they shave it themselves, thereby rejecting mainstream beauty standards, or have the cut forced upon them as punishment for being bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, shaving women's heads as a form of punishment was firmly established during, and in the aftermath of, World War II. Both \u003ca href=\"https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_oi.php?ModuleId=10005176&MediaId=1139\">women at concentration camps\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/05/women-victims-d-day-landings-second-world-war\">French women accused\u003c/a> of colluding with Nazis, received the punishment. What, after all, could be worse than taking away one of women's most potent symbols of femininity?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2007, after the Britney incident, an article in \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/20/gender.music\">\u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em> \u003c/a>noted: \"Shaven heads are still seen as a crisis for women because flowing hair is so tied up in notions of female beauty and, in the days before dyes and extensions (although even ancient Egyptians sported wigs), a visible symbol of their reproductive power.\" In other words, without hair, women cease to be attractive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film industry has since doubled down on that message, using head-shaving in movies like \u003cem>V For Vendetta\u003c/em> and \u003cem>G.I. Jane\u003c/em> as a means to de-sex female characters. At the time of filming the former, Natalie Portman even noted in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/may/17/features.laurabarton\">interview\u003c/a>: \"Some people will think I'm a neo-Nazi, or that I have cancer, or I'm a lesbian.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://media.giphy.com/media/13jidJXAXXWl6U/source.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"215\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalie Portman in 'V For Vendetta'.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Moore's \u003cem>G.I. Jane\u003c/em> head-shaving was considered extraordinarily brave, just last year, Moore's daughter, Talullah Willis, shaved her own head with zero fanfare, telling \u003cem>Nylon\u003c/em>: “I actually watched \u003cem>G.I. Jane\u003c/em> two days before \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/vl9qvTOJdy/\">I shaved my head\u003c/a>. I don’t think I was 100 percent inspired by it, but I think it may have manifested the idea in my mind.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LU_mJDOB7ZM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LU_mJDOB7ZM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In the last two years, both Charlize Theron and Kristin Stewart opted to shave their heads for movie roles that didn't specifically require it -- Theron for the dystopian \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392190/\">\u003cem>Mad Max: Fury Road\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Stewart for \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5774060/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Underwater\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, in which she plays a mechanical engineer. 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"content": "\u003cp>Earlier this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pink/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pink\u003c/a> posted a photo of her multi-tasking at home, cooking a meal with her 6-year-old daughter Willow and 7-month-old son Jameson. It was the kind of photo all parents can relate to—that ever-present need to take care of business while you're taking care of babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BWonpJ8lzgn/?taken-by=pink\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of comments that followed were of support and empathy (@jmlopez22 noted: \"This is what real motherhood looks like. Good job!!\"; @tange119 said: \"Can't even begin to count how many times I had to do this with my son on my chest,\" ) but, this being social media, the singer came under fire from some corners. One comment said: “please don’t cook wearing the baby. I’ve read some really horrific stories about terrible accidents that have occurred doing this.\" Another: \"The better alternative, I suppose if you really must, would be wearing the baby on your back. Not directly facing the hot stove.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the internet, these types of criticisms used to be confined to the realms of overzealous relatives and friends who \"knew better,\" but these days they are hard to escape. Celebrity parent-shaming has been a thing as long as tabloids have. Print media has a long history of analyzing post-baby bodies and gossiping about new moms, but those were weekly installments, not the around-the-clock critiques we get online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2006, when Britney Spears was coming under fire because of the \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Entertainment/story?id=1971687&page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">position of her child's car seat\u003c/a>, it felt born out of a somewhat genuine public concern over her recent, very public nervous breakdown. In 2010, Angelina Jolie\u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/angelina-jolie-defends-daughters-self-25372\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> had to defend\u003c/a> the fact that her daughter Shiloh prefers to wear boys' clothes, but given the volume of conservative voices in this country, it wasn't terribly surprising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, mommy-shaming went into overdrive. Chrissy Teigen had to defend the fact that she \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/724290037290926080/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fthestir.cafemom.com%2Fcelebrity_moms%2F199630%2F16_celebrities_the_internet_momshamed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">went out to dinner\u003c/a> a week and a half after giving birth. Just two months later, Teigen—probably on high-alert still—came to the aid of Kristin Cavallari when the ex-\u003cem>Laguna Beach\u003c/em> star was accused of essentially starving her own son. \"Kid looks like a skeleton....sad\" read one comment next to a perfectly nice family photo at the beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_109131']Many of the criticisms launched at famous moms say far more about the commenters' issues than the shamed celebrity's parenting skills. 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Kim Kardashian, on the other hand, doesn't even need to pose with her kids to get mommy-shamed—posing nude is enough, and it's not just the public that has chimed in. After Kardashian's internet-breaking \u003ca href=\"http://www.papermag.com/introducing-our-winter-cover-star-kim-kardashian-1427448936.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Paper\u003c/em>\u003c/a> photoshoot, Naya Rivera commented, \"You're someone's mother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only are these types of criticisms monumentally unfair, they add to the insecurities felt by new mothers everywhere. The specific way in which celebrity moms are publicly criticized doesn't just offer a window into how all mothers, famous or not, are criticized in the midst of figuring out new parenting, it instills further fear that they must be doing everything wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mommy-shaming has been exacerbated by both social media and a relatively new kind of parenting industry. In the 1970s and '80s, the pressures on parents were different. 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Moms drank alcohol and parents smoked with all the windows closed—and nobody batted an eyelid. What was considered good parenting in those decades would inspire online diatribes about neglect today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2016's \u003cem>Bad Moms\u003c/em> movie (which has \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6359956/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a sequel\u003c/a> coming out this November) isn't actually about bad mothers. It's about amazing mothers who think they \"suck\" because they're late for stuff sometimes, get drunk now and again, and (*gasp*) give kids store-bought desserts. The movie is also careful to repeatedly emphasize that, despite all of their frustrations, these mothers also \"love being... mom[s].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKCw-kqo3cs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bad Moms\u003c/em> puts the bar for perfect mom-hood so high that the regular moms are supposed to be the \"bad\" ones. 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The majority of these posts merely show moms having their own lives (swimming, barbecuing, enjoying a glass of wine) and feeling kinda guilty about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it is undoubtedly true that male parents also have more to worry about now than they used to (according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/04/opinion/drexler-mothers-leaving/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN\u003c/a>, \"the number of single fathers has [risen] from more than 600,000 in 1982 to more than 2 million in 2011\"), women in 2017 still take on the brunt of hands-on parent duties. According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/03/14/modern-parenthood-roles-of-moms-and-dads-converge-as-they-balance-work-and-family/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2011 Pew Research figures\u003c/a>, moms spend, on average, twice as long taking care of the kids per week, than dads do. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.katyperry.com/\">Katy Perry\u003c/a> may sound meaningful as hell when she's telling the downtrodden they are \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw\">metaphorical fireworks\u003c/a>, but over the years, the pop star has repeatedly struggled during interviews with both articulating, and not contradicting, herself. Sometimes, it seems like Perry's mouth starts moving before she's figured out what point she's trying to make, and the results are baffling on fairly regular occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent example emerged this week in an interview with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ew.com/music/2017/05/08/katy-perry-new-album/?xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitter\">Entertainment Weekly\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in which Perry was asked whether or not her new album would include a \"reaction\" to Taylor Swift's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo\">Bad Blood\u003c/a>\" (a song widely purported to be about Perry attempting to wreck a T. Swift tour via the medium of dancer theft). Perry's response to this relatively straightforward question was quite literally amazing. She tried to answer the question, while not answering it, while also attempting to deflect, while also God Bless and also nuh-uh, honey! This thing needs to be read to be believed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Well that’s not my question to answer — if it’s about me. I think [my new album is] a very empowered record. There is no one thing that’s calling out any one person. One thing to note is: You can’t mistake kindness for weakness and don’t come for me. Anyone. Anyone. Anyone. Anyone. And that’s not to any one person and don’t quote me that it is, because it’s not. It’s not about that. Honestly, when women come together and they decide to unite, this world is going to be a better place. Period end of story. But, let me say this: Everything has a reaction or a consequence so don’t forget about that, okay, honey. [Laughs] We got to keep it real, honey. This record is not about anyone else! This record is about me being seen and heard so that I can see and hear everyone else! It’s not even about me! It’s about everything that I see out there that I digest. I think there’s a healing in it for me and vulnerability. If people want to connect and be healed and feel vulnerable and feel empowered and strong, God bless and here it is.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This isn't the first time Katy Perry has answered a question in a manner that made little to no sense. Back in 2013, in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=240760441\">interview with NPR\u003c/a>, Perry criticized other pop stars for getting naked, while also recalling that she too gets naked sometimes, but not really, and she will take her clothes off one day, but only when she's desperate and old, but the reason she can't right now is because she doesn't have the body for it and... What the hell was she trying to say here again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Like females in pop -- everybody's getting naked. I mean, I've been naked before but I don't feel like I have to always get naked to be noticed. But it's interesting to see... I'm not talking about anyone in particular. I'm talking about all of them. I mean, it's like everybody's so naked. It's like put it away. We know you've got it. I got it too. I've taken it off for -- I've taken it out here and there. And I'm not necessarily judging. I'm just saying sometimes it's nice to play that card but also it's nice to play other cards. And I know I have that sexy card in my deck but I don't always have to use that card. Maybe when I’m 35 I will. I don’t need to do it now, because I’ve got great songs. If I get super-desperate, maybe I will then…”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's not over yet! Perry \u003ca href=\"http://www.nme.com/news/music/katy-perry-57-1237134#QyHSGV96RHIJfc8u.99\">went on\u003c/a>: “Actually, I did take all my clothes off for \u003cem>Teenage Dream\u003c/em>. I was on a cotton-candy cloud, showing my… back. I don’t have the body for it. If I had like, Rihanna’s body, I’d take my clothes off. But I don’t. I just hide my body in a way where you think I have it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing to see here!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F57P9C4SAW4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that same year, in \u003ca href=\"http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a8596/katy-perry-interview-january-cover/\">\u003cem>Marie Claire\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Perry tried her darnedest to express her religious beliefs (which apparently encompass nothing and everything simultaneously), and somehow made her belief in God about the fact that other people are scared of saying no to her, because she's a celebrity:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable. Accountability is rare to find, especially with people like myself, because nobody wants to tell you something you don't want to hear. I actually don't trust people who start to turn on me because they get scared of telling me the truth. I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's a side note, but that \"deep connection with God\" got Perry into \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39650913\">extremely hot water\u003c/a> with Hindus around the globe last month, when she posted \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BTDJ-gkD2HC/\">this image\u003c/a> of the Goddess Kali to her \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/katyperry/\">Instagram page\u003c/a>, with the caption \"current mood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Goddess-800x1123.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1123\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, sometimes it's the shortest of sentences that cause Perry the biggest headaches. Like in February, on the Grammy's red carpet, when she talked about shaving her head -- clearly referencing Britney Spears' \u003ca href=\"http://www.nickiswift.com/13904/britney-spears-breakdown-even-scarier-thought/\">2007 breakdown\u003c/a> -- twice. She \u003ca href=\"http://www.nme.com/news/music/britney-spears-responds-to-katy-perrys-mental-health-joke-1975330\">told Ryan Seacrest\u003c/a> that taking a break between records was \"Fantastic. And I haven’t shaved my head yet.” That same night, Perry also declared: \"The only thing left to do is shave my head, which I’m really saving for a public breakdown. I’m down for that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incidentally, this is what Katy Perry's haircut looks like on the cover of her \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9ilfAZHOs\">new single\u003c/a>. Is this a cry for help? Impossible to know.\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-79892\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-800x802.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-800x802.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-768x770.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-240x241.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-375x376.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-520x521.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos-150x150.png 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/KP-Migos.png 807w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard to say exactly what's behind Perry's dazzling lack of self-awareness in some of her interviews. There is a tendency to speak too soon, combined awkwardly with a desire to not offend anyone, which seems to get her tied up in knots at every turn. Perhaps it's a lack of media training that prompts the off-hand comments. Perhaps it's too much media training that stops her, mid-thought, and forces her to start back-peddling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps Perry would be best served by letting her music speak for itself, or sticking to scripted \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjN4DgDLCc\">award ceremony appearances\u003c/a>, where she actually makes a modicum of sense. In the end, maybe Katy Perry would be best served by taking a leaf out of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyonce.com/\">Beyoncé\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"http://www.siamusic.net/\">Sia\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://home.adele.com/\">Adele\u003c/a> playbook and barely talk to anyone ever. It would certainly make a lot more sense.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.katyperry.com/\">Katy Perry\u003c/a> may sound meaningful as hell when she's telling the downtrodden they are \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGJuMBdaqIw\">metaphorical fireworks\u003c/a>, but over the years, the pop star has repeatedly struggled during interviews with both articulating, and not contradicting, herself. Sometimes, it seems like Perry's mouth starts moving before she's figured out what point she's trying to make, and the results are baffling on fairly regular occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most recent example emerged this week in an interview with \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ew.com/music/2017/05/08/katy-perry-new-album/?xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitter\">Entertainment Weekly\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>in which Perry was asked whether or not her new album would include a \"reaction\" to Taylor Swift's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo\">Bad Blood\u003c/a>\" (a song widely purported to be about Perry attempting to wreck a T. Swift tour via the medium of dancer theft). Perry's response to this relatively straightforward question was quite literally amazing. She tried to answer the question, while not answering it, while also attempting to deflect, while also God Bless and also nuh-uh, honey! This thing needs to be read to be believed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Well that’s not my question to answer — if it’s about me. I think [my new album is] a very empowered record. There is no one thing that’s calling out any one person. One thing to note is: You can’t mistake kindness for weakness and don’t come for me. Anyone. Anyone. Anyone. Anyone. And that’s not to any one person and don’t quote me that it is, because it’s not. It’s not about that. Honestly, when women come together and they decide to unite, this world is going to be a better place. Period end of story. But, let me say this: Everything has a reaction or a consequence so don’t forget about that, okay, honey. [Laughs] We got to keep it real, honey. This record is not about anyone else! This record is about me being seen and heard so that I can see and hear everyone else! It’s not even about me! It’s about everything that I see out there that I digest. I think there’s a healing in it for me and vulnerability. If people want to connect and be healed and feel vulnerable and feel empowered and strong, God bless and here it is.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This isn't the first time Katy Perry has answered a question in a manner that made little to no sense. Back in 2013, in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=240760441\">interview with NPR\u003c/a>, Perry criticized other pop stars for getting naked, while also recalling that she too gets naked sometimes, but not really, and she will take her clothes off one day, but only when she's desperate and old, but the reason she can't right now is because she doesn't have the body for it and... What the hell was she trying to say here again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Like females in pop -- everybody's getting naked. I mean, I've been naked before but I don't feel like I have to always get naked to be noticed. But it's interesting to see... I'm not talking about anyone in particular. I'm talking about all of them. I mean, it's like everybody's so naked. It's like put it away. We know you've got it. I got it too. I've taken it off for -- I've taken it out here and there. And I'm not necessarily judging. I'm just saying sometimes it's nice to play that card but also it's nice to play other cards. And I know I have that sexy card in my deck but I don't always have to use that card. Maybe when I’m 35 I will. I don’t need to do it now, because I’ve got great songs. If I get super-desperate, maybe I will then…”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's not over yet! Perry \u003ca href=\"http://www.nme.com/news/music/katy-perry-57-1237134#QyHSGV96RHIJfc8u.99\">went on\u003c/a>: “Actually, I did take all my clothes off for \u003cem>Teenage Dream\u003c/em>. I was on a cotton-candy cloud, showing my… back. I don’t have the body for it. If I had like, Rihanna’s body, I’d take my clothes off. But I don’t. I just hide my body in a way where you think I have it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing to see here!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/303456535&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We all have our daily rituals. There's the universal: brushing teeth, going to work, eating avocado. And then there's the idiosyncratic. For me, a day does not pass without texting at least one friend about the latest charmingly odd thing that has popped up on \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/03/09/the-redemptive-power-of-britney-spears-instagram/\">Britney Spears' Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday's text conversation was in honor of the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BLZOzQCgN5R/?taken-by=britneyspears\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the unimaginative masses, who have lost all innocence and ability to recognize magic in the world, it's just a photo of a chess board. To Britney, it is a curiosity waiting to be explored, an invitation to transform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of Britney’s Instagram posts are dedicated to random curiosities, such as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BLIEoclASu3/?taken-by=britneyspears\">miniature puppies sitting in heels in front of the Eiffel Tower\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BKhZipwgHJi/?taken-by=britneyspears\">creepy children\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BKZ3LewgwMC/?taken-by=britneyspears\">rainbow unicorn kittens\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BGrwELtm8Eq/?taken-by=britneyspears\">body positive memes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BGewwN9m8Iq/?taken-by=britneyspears\">mood illustrations featuring Sailor Moon\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BGfdAKfm8KZ/?taken-by=britneyspears\">lazy kittens relaxing in hammocks\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BGKEYozm8AB/?taken-by=britneyspears\">reminders that's she Christian\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BGCfmn-G8AC/?taken-by=britneyspears\">random, unattributed, but valid words of wisdom\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BFSwMQ3m8H4/?taken-by=britneyspears\">cats wearing backpacks\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BEkCgS7G8NA/?taken-by=britneyspears\">feminist North West jokes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BEUkDY3m8Hy/?taken-by=britneyspears\">\u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em> screenshots\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BDojA4lm8FW/?taken-by=britneyspears\">throwbacks to when she and a gang-signing Leonardo Dicaprio hung out\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BBlpJoRm8B2/?taken-by=britneyspears\">Albert Einstein fangirling\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BBRanuEm8B9/?taken-by=britneyspears\">weirdly sexual lion art\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BAvLa51m8HB/?taken-by=britneyspears\">lust for bearded models\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/_IrfByG8En/?taken-by=britneyspears\"> troubling watermarked art\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/-VtgC8m8PG/?taken-by=britneyspears\">gratitude for hot bread\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/-VtgC8m8PG/?taken-by=britneyspears\">nods to all-denim relationships of yore\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Britney's Instagram feels like a cyber manifestation of Ariel’s cave of wonders and knick-knacks, so as a joke, I texted a friend: \"Britney is Ariel before she left home.” But the more I think about it, the similarities between Britney\u003c/span> and \u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em>’s protagonist are actually pretty uncanny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let us count the ways:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ariel and Britney are known for their voices. In the first few minutes of \u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em>, an audience is wildly disappointed by Ariel's failure to show up to a gig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41199\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-800x450.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-10-10 at 5.28.04 PM\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-768x432.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-1440x811.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-960x541.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM.png 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, many leave Britney shows disappointed, due to her insistence on lip-syncing, another form of not showing up (don't @ me, Britney stans; I love her dearly, but facts are facts).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost everything Ariel does in \u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em> is in direct opposition to the limits her father places on her freedom of movement and expression. Similarly, the major theme in Britney's life has been fighting against an overprotective father and management team, a struggle that continues to this day and inspired this bop:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZYSiWHW8V0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ariel and Britney have a habit of fawning over and seeing possibility in ordinary objects that bore everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41201\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-800x452.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-10-10 at 5.12.59 PM\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-800x452.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-400x226.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-768x434.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-1440x814.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-1180x667.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-960x543.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM.png 1670w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41198\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-800x448.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-10-10 at 5.31.45 PM\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-800x448.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-400x224.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-768x430.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-1440x807.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-1180x661.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-960x538.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM.png 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both Ariel and Britney are followed around by a protective, risk-averse family friend whose sole purpose is to remind them that all of their impulses will most likely lead to devastation. For Ariel, it’s Flounder. For Britney, it’s Felicia, whom y\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ou might remember as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/83/da/0a/83da0a444c3fd2e95e70859781a3d11f.jpg\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the teacher in the \"...Baby One More Time\" music video\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/felicia-flounder-britney-ariel.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41214\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/felicia-flounder-britney-ariel-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"felicia-flounder-britney-ariel\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/felicia-flounder-britney-ariel.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/felicia-flounder-britney-ariel-400x200.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/felicia-flounder-britney-ariel-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flounder and Felicia are both known to accidentally rat their girls out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41197\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM-800x424.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-10-10 at 5.39.48 PM\" width=\"800\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM-800x424.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM-400x212.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM-768x407.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM-1180x625.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM-960x509.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM.png 1195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/eca23674b2c6d44da612b49bb9ded03d.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58282\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/eca23674b2c6d44da612b49bb9ded03d.jpg\" alt=\"eca23674b2c6d44da612b49bb9ded03d\" width=\"236\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/eca23674b2c6d44da612b49bb9ded03d.jpg 236w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/eca23674b2c6d44da612b49bb9ded03d-160x207.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ariel and Britney are also followed around by a micromanager hired by their fathers to convince them that a controlled environment free of choice is better than the unknown of a life of their own choosing. For Ariel, it's Sebastian. For Britney, it's her current manager Larry Rudolph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Ariel-Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-59440 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Ariel-Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353.jpg\" alt=\"Ariel---Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353\" width=\"483\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Ariel-Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353.jpg 483w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Ariel-Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Ariel-Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353-240x175.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Ariel-Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353-375x274.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-59439 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/brit_vma2.jpg\" alt=\"brit_vma2\" width=\"454\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/brit_vma2.jpg 454w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/brit_vma2-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/brit_vma2-240x185.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/brit_vma2-375x289.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Ariel fails to show up to the show at the beginning of the movie, Sebastian says, \"This concert was to be the pinnacle of my distinguished career. Now thanks to you I am the laughingstock of the entire kingdom!\" Swap out \"entire kingdom\" for \"entire music industry\" and it's easily something that could come out of Larry Rudolph's mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every time Ariel and Britney sneak away from the pressures of being the princess of the sea and the princess of pop, they are hounded by sharks and the paparazzi, respectively.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/whoa-the-little-mermaid-32149733-500-303.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41216\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/whoa-the-little-mermaid-32149733-500-303.gif\" alt=\"whoa-the-little-mermaid-32149733-500-303\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/britney.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41215\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/britney.gif\" alt=\"britney\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time Ariel sees Prince Eric, he's dancing and she's\u003cem> feeling\u003c/em> his moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/EricReaction2.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41218\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/EricReaction2.gif\" alt=\"EricReaction2\" width=\"422\" height=\"235\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time Britney laid eyes on future husband and baby daddy Kevin Federline, she was equally feeling it. Federline was a backup dancer for Michael Jackson, Destiny's Child, Pink, and none other than Justin Timberlake, Britney's ex. (Kevin is the one with the cornrows and sleeveless jacket.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/anigif_enhanced-23574-1398543782-3.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41217\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/anigif_enhanced-23574-1398543782-3.gif\" alt=\"kevin federline justin timberlake britney\" width=\"530\" height=\"356\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Triton didn't like Ariel's taste in men. And Britney's dad didn't like hers either. This convo between Ariel and Triton is something that probably happened in the Spears household:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ariel\u003c/b>: Daddy, I love him!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Triton\u003c/b>: Have you lost your senses completely? He's a human (backup dancer), you're a mermaid (pop superstar)!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ariel\u003c/b>: I don't care!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ariel and Britney rebelled against their fathers' strict rules by hanging out with the wrong crowd. For Ariel, it was Ursula's henchmen, Flotsam and Jetsam. For Britney, it was Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41329\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam-800x424.png\" alt=\"ariel-flotsam-jetsam\" width=\"800\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam-800x424.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam-400x212.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam-768x407.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam-1180x625.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam-960x508.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam.png 1197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/hqdefault.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41327\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"hqdefault\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/hqdefault.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/hqdefault-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desperate to take control of their lives, both Ariel and Britney turned to a Svengali figure, who took advantage of them in their time of need. For Ariel, it was Ursula. For Britney, it was Sam Lutfi, a super shady dude who popped out of nowhere to enable her and try to make a buck off the situation by becoming her manager. He did something similar with Amanda Bynes and, as recently as last summer,\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3663105/Britney-Spears-controversial-ex-manager-Sam-Lutfi-kidnapped-robbed-estranged-musician-husband-Frances-Bean-Cobain.html\"> allegedly kidnapped and robbed Frances Bean Cobain's husband\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41337\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/LuftiBritney.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41338\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/LuftiBritney.jpg\" alt=\"LuftiBritney\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/LuftiBritney.jpg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/LuftiBritney-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a consequence of Ursula's meddling, Ariel literally lost her voice. Britney lost hers in a more figurative sense. As a response to Britney running around with Sam and getting into trouble, Britney's dad and Larry Rudolph probably had a conversation similar to this one between Triton and Sebastian:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian:\u003c/strong> Why, if Ariel was my daughter, I'd show her who was boss. None of this flitting to the surface (da club) and other such nonsense. No, sir. I'd keep her under tight control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Triton\u003c/b>: You're absolutely right, Sebastian. Ariel needs constant supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian: \u003c/strong>Constant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Triton\u003c/b>: Someone to watch over her, to keep her out of trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian: \u003c/strong>All the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Triton\u003c/b>: And YOU are just the crab (manager) to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where Britney's conservatorship comes in, a legally binding document, much like the one Ariel signed with Ursula, which robbed Britney of her voice in the sense that she could no longer make her own decisions in terms of her life, her business, what songs she recorded, and basically everything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sebastian sings a whole song called \"Under the Sea,\" trying to convince Ariel that she should just stay home and not do anything her father wouldn't approve of. Change the title to \"Under the Conservatorship\" (or \"Under the C,\" for short) and you basically have the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservatorship Day 1:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58268\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/ariel_sees_triton_and_is_scared_by_arielfan90-d9kic5s.gif\" alt=\"ariel_sees_triton_and_is_scared_by_arielfan90-d9kic5s\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ariel's big hit is \"Part of Your World,\" in which she laments that, despite a life of privilege and spoils, there's still a deep loneliness inside her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Look at this stuff\u003cbr>\nIsn't it neat?\u003cbr>\nWouldn't you think my collection's complete?\u003cbr>\nWouldn't you think I'm the girl\u003cbr>\nThe girl who has everything?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This idea of having it all but still being unhappy is also present throughout Britney Jean Spears' life, and infused in one of her most iconic songs, \"Lucky\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>She's so lucky, she's a star\u003cbr>\nBut she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart, thinking\u003cbr>\nIf there's nothing missing in my life\u003cbr>\nThen why do these tears come at night?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's another overlap. Ariel sings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I've got gadgets and gizmos aplenty\u003cbr>\nI've got whozits and whatzits galore\u003cbr>\n[You want thingamabobs? I got twenty]\u003cbr>\nBut who cares?\u003cbr>\nNo big deal\u003cbr>\nI want more\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>You know who else wants more? Britney!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elueA2rofoo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Part of Your World\" could also be about Britney's desire to just be a regular person who can go to a Starbucks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I wanna be where the people are\u003cbr>\nI wanna see\u003cbr>\nWanna see 'em [sippin' grande lattes]\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Or a beach:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What would I give\u003cbr>\nIf I could live\u003cbr>\nOutta these waters?\u003cbr>\nWhat would I pay\u003cbr>\nTo spend a day\u003cbr>\nWarm on the sand?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Or anywhere else, without being hounded by paparazzi:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Up where they walk\u003cbr>\nUp where they run\u003cbr>\nUp where they stay all day in the sun\u003cbr>\nWanderin' free\u003cbr>\nWish I could be\u003cbr>\nPart of that world\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>One of my favorite parts of \"Part of Your World\" is when Ariel gets super feminist:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Betcha on land\u003cbr>\nThey understand\u003cbr>\nBet they don't reprimand their daughters\u003cbr>\nBright young women\u003cbr>\nSick o' swimmin'\u003cbr>\nReady to stand\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Britney also has a song all about being ready to stand up and claim her agency:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIOH8Trfas4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, after hitting rock bottom...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/ariel_so_far_down_in_the_whirlpool_by_arielfan90-d99q31d.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/ariel_so_far_down_in_the_whirlpool_by_arielfan90-d99q31d.gif\" alt=\"ariel_so_far_down_in_the_whirlpool_by_arielfan90-d99q31d\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...both women find their way to a more-or-less happy ending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/403075933.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58264\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/403075933.gif\" alt=\"britney happy gif\" width=\"450\" height=\"331\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Triton and Britney's dad both realize that it might be a good idea to let their adult daughters be in charge of their own lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sebastian\u003c/b>: Well, it's like I always say, Your Majesty. Children got to be free to lead their own lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Triton\u003c/b>: You... always say that? \u003ci>[sighs]\u003c/i> Then I guess there's just one problem left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sebastian\u003c/b>: And what's that, Your Majesty?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Triton\u003c/b>: How much I'm going to miss her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Triton grants Ariel legs so she can live above sea level and marry Eric. And, last year, Britney was freed to get back to making her own decisions in terms of her music career. She was able to call all the shots and have complete control over her last album, \u003cem>Glory\u003c/em>, and it's her best album since the conservatorship was put in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are just some of the reasons why I believe \u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em> predicted Britney's entire life. Not completely convinced yet? Here are a few last parallels:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dogs love them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-58270\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994.jpg\" alt=\"img_0994\" width=\"522\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994.jpg 522w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994-240x144.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994-375x225.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994-520x312.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58269\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538.jpg\" alt=\"celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538\" width=\"675\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538.jpg 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538-240x191.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538-375x299.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538-520x414.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both have been known to deeply feel themselves in a bad look:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-9.36.56-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41194\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-9.36.56-PM-800x447.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-10-10 at 9.36.56 PM\" width=\"800\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-9.36.56-PM-800x447.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-9.36.56-PM-400x224.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-9.36.56-PM-768x430.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-9.36.56-PM-1440x805.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-9.36.56-PM-1180x660.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-9.36.56-PM-960x537.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-9.36.56-PM.png 1679w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/3d68d30837aed0ec6f9da730e30f7953.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58267\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/3d68d30837aed0ec6f9da730e30f7953.jpg\" alt=\"3d68d30837aed0ec6f9da730e30f7953\" width=\"236\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/3d68d30837aed0ec6f9da730e30f7953.jpg 236w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/3d68d30837aed0ec6f9da730e30f7953-160x243.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And both have replicas that look nothing like them.\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-6.37.27-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41195\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-6.37.27-PM-800x423.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-10-10 at 6.37.27 PM\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-6.37.27-PM-800x423.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-6.37.27-PM-400x212.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-6.37.27-PM-768x406.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-6.37.27-PM-1180x624.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-6.37.27-PM-960x508.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-6.37.27-PM.png 1199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/photo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58266\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/photo.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/photo.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/photo-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/photo-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/photo-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/photo-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I rest my case.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the unimaginative masses, who have lost all innocence and ability to recognize magic in the world, it's just a photo of a chess board. To Britney, it is a curiosity waiting to be explored, an invitation to transform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most of Britney’s Instagram posts are dedicated to random curiosities, such as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BLIEoclASu3/?taken-by=britneyspears\">miniature puppies sitting in heels in front of the Eiffel Tower\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BKhZipwgHJi/?taken-by=britneyspears\">creepy children\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BKZ3LewgwMC/?taken-by=britneyspears\">rainbow unicorn kittens\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BGrwELtm8Eq/?taken-by=britneyspears\">body positive memes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BGewwN9m8Iq/?taken-by=britneyspears\">mood illustrations featuring Sailor Moon\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BGfdAKfm8KZ/?taken-by=britneyspears\">lazy kittens relaxing in hammocks\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BGKEYozm8AB/?taken-by=britneyspears\">reminders that's she Christian\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BGCfmn-G8AC/?taken-by=britneyspears\">random, unattributed, but valid words of wisdom\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BFSwMQ3m8H4/?taken-by=britneyspears\">cats wearing backpacks\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BEkCgS7G8NA/?taken-by=britneyspears\">feminist North West jokes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BEUkDY3m8Hy/?taken-by=britneyspears\">\u003cem>Sex and the City\u003c/em> screenshots\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BDojA4lm8FW/?taken-by=britneyspears\">throwbacks to when she and a gang-signing Leonardo Dicaprio hung out\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BBlpJoRm8B2/?taken-by=britneyspears\">Albert Einstein fangirling\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BBRanuEm8B9/?taken-by=britneyspears\">weirdly sexual lion art\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BAvLa51m8HB/?taken-by=britneyspears\">lust for bearded models\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/_IrfByG8En/?taken-by=britneyspears\"> troubling watermarked art\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/-VtgC8m8PG/?taken-by=britneyspears\">gratitude for hot bread\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/-VtgC8m8PG/?taken-by=britneyspears\">nods to all-denim relationships of yore\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Britney's Instagram feels like a cyber manifestation of Ariel’s cave of wonders and knick-knacks, so as a joke, I texted a friend: \"Britney is Ariel before she left home.” But the more I think about it, the similarities between Britney\u003c/span> and \u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em>’s protagonist are actually pretty uncanny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let us count the ways:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ariel and Britney are known for their voices. In the first few minutes of \u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em>, an audience is wildly disappointed by Ariel's failure to show up to a gig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41199\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-800x450.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-10-10 at 5.28.04 PM\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-768x432.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-1440x811.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM-960x541.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.28.04-PM.png 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, many leave Britney shows disappointed, due to her insistence on lip-syncing, another form of not showing up (don't @ me, Britney stans; I love her dearly, but facts are facts).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost everything Ariel does in \u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em> is in direct opposition to the limits her father places on her freedom of movement and expression. Similarly, the major theme in Britney's life has been fighting against an overprotective father and management team, a struggle that continues to this day and inspired this bop:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/PZYSiWHW8V0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/PZYSiWHW8V0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Both Ariel and Britney have a habit of fawning over and seeing possibility in ordinary objects that bore everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41201\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-800x452.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-10-10 at 5.12.59 PM\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-800x452.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-400x226.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-768x434.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-1440x814.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-1180x667.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM-960x543.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.12.59-PM.png 1670w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41198\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-800x448.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-10-10 at 5.31.45 PM\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-800x448.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-400x224.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-768x430.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-1440x807.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-1180x661.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM-960x538.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.31.45-PM.png 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both Ariel and Britney are followed around by a protective, risk-averse family friend whose sole purpose is to remind them that all of their impulses will most likely lead to devastation. For Ariel, it’s Flounder. For Britney, it’s Felicia, whom y\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ou might remember as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/83/da/0a/83da0a444c3fd2e95e70859781a3d11f.jpg\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the teacher in the \"...Baby One More Time\" music video\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/felicia-flounder-britney-ariel.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41214\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/felicia-flounder-britney-ariel-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"felicia-flounder-britney-ariel\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/felicia-flounder-britney-ariel.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/felicia-flounder-britney-ariel-400x200.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/felicia-flounder-britney-ariel-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flounder and Felicia are both known to accidentally rat their girls out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41197\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM-800x424.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-10-10 at 5.39.48 PM\" width=\"800\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM-800x424.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM-400x212.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM-768x407.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM-1180x625.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM-960x509.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-5.39.48-PM.png 1195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/eca23674b2c6d44da612b49bb9ded03d.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58282\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/eca23674b2c6d44da612b49bb9ded03d.jpg\" alt=\"eca23674b2c6d44da612b49bb9ded03d\" width=\"236\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/eca23674b2c6d44da612b49bb9ded03d.jpg 236w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/eca23674b2c6d44da612b49bb9ded03d-160x207.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ariel and Britney are also followed around by a micromanager hired by their fathers to convince them that a controlled environment free of choice is better than the unknown of a life of their own choosing. For Ariel, it's Sebastian. For Britney, it's her current manager Larry Rudolph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Ariel-Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-59440 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Ariel-Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353.jpg\" alt=\"Ariel---Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353\" width=\"483\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Ariel-Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353.jpg 483w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Ariel-Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Ariel-Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353-240x175.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/Ariel-Sebastian-the-little-mermaid-45008_483_353-375x274.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-59439 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/brit_vma2.jpg\" alt=\"brit_vma2\" width=\"454\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/brit_vma2.jpg 454w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/brit_vma2-160x123.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/brit_vma2-240x185.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/brit_vma2-375x289.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Ariel fails to show up to the show at the beginning of the movie, Sebastian says, \"This concert was to be the pinnacle of my distinguished career. Now thanks to you I am the laughingstock of the entire kingdom!\" Swap out \"entire kingdom\" for \"entire music industry\" and it's easily something that could come out of Larry Rudolph's mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every time Ariel and Britney sneak away from the pressures of being the princess of the sea and the princess of pop, they are hounded by sharks and the paparazzi, respectively.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/whoa-the-little-mermaid-32149733-500-303.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41216\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/whoa-the-little-mermaid-32149733-500-303.gif\" alt=\"whoa-the-little-mermaid-32149733-500-303\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/britney.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41215\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/britney.gif\" alt=\"britney\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time Ariel sees Prince Eric, he's dancing and she's\u003cem> feeling\u003c/em> his moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/EricReaction2.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41218\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/EricReaction2.gif\" alt=\"EricReaction2\" width=\"422\" height=\"235\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time Britney laid eyes on future husband and baby daddy Kevin Federline, she was equally feeling it. Federline was a backup dancer for Michael Jackson, Destiny's Child, Pink, and none other than Justin Timberlake, Britney's ex. (Kevin is the one with the cornrows and sleeveless jacket.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/anigif_enhanced-23574-1398543782-3.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41217\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/anigif_enhanced-23574-1398543782-3.gif\" alt=\"kevin federline justin timberlake britney\" width=\"530\" height=\"356\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Triton didn't like Ariel's taste in men. And Britney's dad didn't like hers either. This convo between Ariel and Triton is something that probably happened in the Spears household:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ariel\u003c/b>: Daddy, I love him!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Triton\u003c/b>: Have you lost your senses completely? He's a human (backup dancer), you're a mermaid (pop superstar)!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ariel\u003c/b>: I don't care!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ariel and Britney rebelled against their fathers' strict rules by hanging out with the wrong crowd. For Ariel, it was Ursula's henchmen, Flotsam and Jetsam. For Britney, it was Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41329\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam-800x424.png\" alt=\"ariel-flotsam-jetsam\" width=\"800\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam-800x424.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam-400x212.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam-768x407.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam-1180x625.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam-960x508.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/ariel-flotsam-jetsam.png 1197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/hqdefault.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41327\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"hqdefault\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/hqdefault.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/hqdefault-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Desperate to take control of their lives, both Ariel and Britney turned to a Svengali figure, who took advantage of them in their time of need. For Ariel, it was Ursula. For Britney, it was Sam Lutfi, a super shady dude who popped out of nowhere to enable her and try to make a buck off the situation by becoming her manager. He did something similar with Amanda Bynes and, as recently as last summer,\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3663105/Britney-Spears-controversial-ex-manager-Sam-Lutfi-kidnapped-robbed-estranged-musician-husband-Frances-Bean-Cobain.html\"> allegedly kidnapped and robbed Frances Bean Cobain's husband\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41337\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/efaa1290-cbe2-0132-9a8a-0e01949ad350.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/LuftiBritney.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41338\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/LuftiBritney.jpg\" alt=\"LuftiBritney\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/LuftiBritney.jpg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/LuftiBritney-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a consequence of Ursula's meddling, Ariel literally lost her voice. Britney lost hers in a more figurative sense. As a response to Britney running around with Sam and getting into trouble, Britney's dad and Larry Rudolph probably had a conversation similar to this one between Triton and Sebastian:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian:\u003c/strong> Why, if Ariel was my daughter, I'd show her who was boss. None of this flitting to the surface (da club) and other such nonsense. No, sir. I'd keep her under tight control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Triton\u003c/b>: You're absolutely right, Sebastian. Ariel needs constant supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian: \u003c/strong>Constant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Triton\u003c/b>: Someone to watch over her, to keep her out of trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian: \u003c/strong>All the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Triton\u003c/b>: And YOU are just the crab (manager) to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where Britney's conservatorship comes in, a legally binding document, much like the one Ariel signed with Ursula, which robbed Britney of her voice in the sense that she could no longer make her own decisions in terms of her life, her business, what songs she recorded, and basically everything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sebastian sings a whole song called \"Under the Sea,\" trying to convince Ariel that she should just stay home and not do anything her father wouldn't approve of. Change the title to \"Under the Conservatorship\" (or \"Under the C,\" for short) and you basically have the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conservatorship Day 1:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58268\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/ariel_sees_triton_and_is_scared_by_arielfan90-d9kic5s.gif\" alt=\"ariel_sees_triton_and_is_scared_by_arielfan90-d9kic5s\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ariel's big hit is \"Part of Your World,\" in which she laments that, despite a life of privilege and spoils, there's still a deep loneliness inside her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Look at this stuff\u003cbr>\nIsn't it neat?\u003cbr>\nWouldn't you think my collection's complete?\u003cbr>\nWouldn't you think I'm the girl\u003cbr>\nThe girl who has everything?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This idea of having it all but still being unhappy is also present throughout Britney Jean Spears' life, and infused in one of her most iconic songs, \"Lucky\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>She's so lucky, she's a star\u003cbr>\nBut she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart, thinking\u003cbr>\nIf there's nothing missing in my life\u003cbr>\nThen why do these tears come at night?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's another overlap. Ariel sings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I've got gadgets and gizmos aplenty\u003cbr>\nI've got whozits and whatzits galore\u003cbr>\n[You want thingamabobs? I got twenty]\u003cbr>\nBut who cares?\u003cbr>\nNo big deal\u003cbr>\nI want more\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>You know who else wants more? Britney!\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/elueA2rofoo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/elueA2rofoo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\"Part of Your World\" could also be about Britney's desire to just be a regular person who can go to a Starbucks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I wanna be where the people are\u003cbr>\nI wanna see\u003cbr>\nWanna see 'em [sippin' grande lattes]\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Or a beach:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What would I give\u003cbr>\nIf I could live\u003cbr>\nOutta these waters?\u003cbr>\nWhat would I pay\u003cbr>\nTo spend a day\u003cbr>\nWarm on the sand?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Or anywhere else, without being hounded by paparazzi:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Up where they walk\u003cbr>\nUp where they run\u003cbr>\nUp where they stay all day in the sun\u003cbr>\nWanderin' free\u003cbr>\nWish I could be\u003cbr>\nPart of that world\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>One of my favorite parts of \"Part of Your World\" is when Ariel gets super feminist:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Betcha on land\u003cbr>\nThey understand\u003cbr>\nBet they don't reprimand their daughters\u003cbr>\nBright young women\u003cbr>\nSick o' swimmin'\u003cbr>\nReady to stand\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Britney also has a song all about being ready to stand up and claim her agency:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/dIOH8Trfas4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/dIOH8Trfas4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Eventually, after hitting rock bottom...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/ariel_so_far_down_in_the_whirlpool_by_arielfan90-d99q31d.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/ariel_so_far_down_in_the_whirlpool_by_arielfan90-d99q31d.gif\" alt=\"ariel_so_far_down_in_the_whirlpool_by_arielfan90-d99q31d\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>...both women find their way to a more-or-less happy ending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/403075933.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58264\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/403075933.gif\" alt=\"britney happy gif\" width=\"450\" height=\"331\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Triton and Britney's dad both realize that it might be a good idea to let their adult daughters be in charge of their own lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sebastian\u003c/b>: Well, it's like I always say, Your Majesty. Children got to be free to lead their own lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Triton\u003c/b>: You... always say that? \u003ci>[sighs]\u003c/i> Then I guess there's just one problem left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sebastian\u003c/b>: And what's that, Your Majesty?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Triton\u003c/b>: How much I'm going to miss her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Triton grants Ariel legs so she can live above sea level and marry Eric. And, last year, Britney was freed to get back to making her own decisions in terms of her music career. She was able to call all the shots and have complete control over her last album, \u003cem>Glory\u003c/em>, and it's her best album since the conservatorship was put in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are just some of the reasons why I believe \u003cem>The Little Mermaid\u003c/em> predicted Britney's entire life. Not completely convinced yet? Here are a few last parallels:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dogs love them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-58270\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994.jpg\" alt=\"img_0994\" width=\"522\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994.jpg 522w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994-160x96.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994-240x144.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994-375x225.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/img_0994-520x312.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58269\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538.jpg\" alt=\"celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538\" width=\"675\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538.jpg 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538-240x191.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538-375x299.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/celebrities-kissing-dogs-11282011-26-675x538-520x414.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both have been known to deeply feel themselves in a bad look:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca 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960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-9.36.56-PM.png 1679w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/3d68d30837aed0ec6f9da730e30f7953.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58267\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/3d68d30837aed0ec6f9da730e30f7953.jpg\" alt=\"3d68d30837aed0ec6f9da730e30f7953\" width=\"236\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/3d68d30837aed0ec6f9da730e30f7953.jpg 236w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/01/3d68d30837aed0ec6f9da730e30f7953-160x243.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And both have replicas that look nothing like them.\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-10-at-6.37.27-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright 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"content": "\u003cp>Back in August, I warned that Lifetime, destroyer of all cultural iconography we hold dear, was planning on making a movie about the life of Britney Jean Spears. \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/08/24/lifetime-rudely-plans-tv-movie-based-on-the-life-of-britney-spears/\">I did not want it then\u003c/a>. And, after seeing the first images coming out from the set, I \u003cstrong>DEFINITELY\u003c/strong> don't want it now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we take a look, I advise anyone who is triggered by the disfigurement of cherished '90s pop icons to flee from here at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone else, gird yourselves, and come with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 529px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-005.nocrop.w529.h848.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-50704\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-005.nocrop.w529.h848.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Lifetime\" width=\"529\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-005.nocrop.w529.h848.jpg 529w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-005.nocrop.w529.h848-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-005.nocrop.w529.h848-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-005.nocrop.w529.h848-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-005.nocrop.w529.h848-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Lifetime\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/1462466472-amy-poehler-no.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50724\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/1462466472-amy-poehler-no.gif\" alt=\"1462466472-amy-poehler-no\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/08/24/lifetime-rudely-plans-tv-movie-based-on-the-life-of-britney-spears/\">said it before\u003c/a> and I'll say it again:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Other than also being a human woman, I’m not really seeing a resemblance. Plus, she’s Australian! Was \u003ca href=\"http://thefilmexperience.net/storage/tv/enter-derrick.gif?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1457628788779\">Derrick Barry\u003c/a> not available?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 529px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-006.nocrop.w529.h777.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-50703\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-006.nocrop.w529.h777.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Lifetime\" width=\"529\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-006.nocrop.w529.h777.jpg 529w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-006.nocrop.w529.h777-160x220.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-006.nocrop.w529.h777-240x330.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-006.nocrop.w529.h777-375x516.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-006.nocrop.w529.h777-520x716.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Lifetime\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/giphy-10.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50723\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/giphy-10.gif\" alt=\"giphy-10\" width=\"240\" height=\"196\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covering up this actress' face is a good idea, considering she doesn't look like Britney at all. And that's supposed to be Justin Timberlake, I guess. I don't like the guy because of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/04/nipplegate-revisited-why-america-owes-janet-jackson-a-huge-apology/\">Nipplegate\u003c/a> and some \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/08/17/when-will-justin-timberlake-stop-bringing-up-britneys-cheating-for-sympathy-never/\">other\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/08/17/when-will-justin-timberlake-stop-bringing-up-britneys-cheating-for-sympathy-never/\">reasons\u003c/a>, but this casting choice is pretty rude. This guy is a 3 at the most, Justin is at least a 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 529px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-50701\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Lifetime\" width=\"529\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352.jpg 529w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Lifetime\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/giphy-13.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50722\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/giphy-13.gif\" alt=\"giphy-13\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you squint really hard, after getting hopped up on Pixie Stix and drinking a lot of tequila, this \u003cem>might\u003c/em> look like Backstreet Boys, but *NSYNC? Really? To quote the Gospel according to JT and co.:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tumblr_inline_n4t9hcKTYg1r39le4.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50713\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tumblr_inline_n4t9hcKTYg1r39le4.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_inline_n4t9hcktyg1r39le4\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50714\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2.jpg\" alt=\"britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2\" width=\"620\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2.jpg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2-375x254.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/b4f62b50-20b6-0132-4e43-0ebc4eccb42f.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50725\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/b4f62b50-20b6-0132-4e43-0ebc4eccb42f.gif\" alt=\"b4f62b50-20b6-0132-4e43-0ebc4eccb42f\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means that the creators of this Lifetime movie definitely used Britney and Kevin's reality show, \u003cem>Chaotic\u003c/em>, as source material, which means they will definitely do the most with the following iconic (and kind of sad) scene:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu_NJMDkx90\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 529px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-50702\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Lifetime\" width=\"529\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848.jpg 529w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Lifetime\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/giphy-14.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50720\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/giphy-14.gif\" alt=\"giphy-14\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, two things:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Let's be real: the people who will watch this movie also watch \u003cem>RuPaul's Drag Race\u003c/em> and can clock a fine wig when they see one. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covering up this actress' face is a good idea, considering she doesn't look like Britney at all. And that's supposed to be Justin Timberlake, I guess. I don't like the guy because of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/04/nipplegate-revisited-why-america-owes-janet-jackson-a-huge-apology/\">Nipplegate\u003c/a> and some \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/08/17/when-will-justin-timberlake-stop-bringing-up-britneys-cheating-for-sympathy-never/\">other\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/08/17/when-will-justin-timberlake-stop-bringing-up-britneys-cheating-for-sympathy-never/\">reasons\u003c/a>, but this casting choice is pretty rude. This guy is a 3 at the most, Justin is at least a 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 529px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-50701\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Lifetime\" width=\"529\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352.jpg 529w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-003.w529.h352-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Lifetime\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/giphy-13.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50722\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/giphy-13.gif\" alt=\"giphy-13\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you squint really hard, after getting hopped up on Pixie Stix and drinking a lot of tequila, this \u003cem>might\u003c/em> look like Backstreet Boys, but *NSYNC? Really? To quote the Gospel according to JT and co.:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tumblr_inline_n4t9hcKTYg1r39le4.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50713\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/tumblr_inline_n4t9hcKTYg1r39le4.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_inline_n4t9hcktyg1r39le4\" width=\"500\" height=\"245\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50714\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2.jpg\" alt=\"britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2\" width=\"620\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2.jpg 620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2-375x254.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/britney-spears-lifetime-movie-2-520x352.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/b4f62b50-20b6-0132-4e43-0ebc4eccb42f.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50725\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/b4f62b50-20b6-0132-4e43-0ebc4eccb42f.gif\" alt=\"b4f62b50-20b6-0132-4e43-0ebc4eccb42f\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means that the creators of this Lifetime movie definitely used Britney and Kevin's reality show, \u003cem>Chaotic\u003c/em>, as source material, which means they will definitely do the most with the following iconic (and kind of sad) scene:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qu_NJMDkx90'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qu_NJMDkx90'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 529px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-50702\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Lifetime\" width=\"529\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848.jpg 529w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/01-britney-spears-lifetime-001.nocrop.w529.h848-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Lifetime\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/giphy-14.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50720\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/12/giphy-14.gif\" alt=\"giphy-14\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay, two things:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Let's be real: the people who will watch this movie also watch \u003cem>RuPaul's Drag Race\u003c/em> and can clock a fine wig when they see one. 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