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"content": "\u003cp>For decades, animated children's stories included negative stereotypes of Indigenous people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was Disney's \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpVNsegX94g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Pocahontas\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which presented the daughter of a Powhatan chief in a romantic love story with Captain John Smith. Crystal Echo Hawk, CEO of the media watchdog group IllumiNative, says it was a false narrative about a girl who in reality was \"taken by force and sexually assaulted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7yE8TKUB_M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiger Lily\u003c/a> in the classic film \u003cem>Peter Pan\u003c/em>, the princess of the \"Piccaninny\" tribe who smoked a peace pipe and spoke in one-syllable gibberish. 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Now, Netflix is \u003ca href=\"https://globalnews.ca/news/5379809/netflix-partners-indigenous-groups/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">partnering with three Indigenous cultural organizations\u003c/a> to develop the next generation of First Nation creators across Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the U.S. and in Latin America, Netflix is running the animated film \u003cem>Pachamama\u003c/em>. The story centers on a 10-year-old boy in an Andean village who dreams of becoming a shaman. His people suffer under both the Spanish conquest and the Incan Empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrOwxPPfzy8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's told from the point of view of the Indigenous people,\" says Juan Antin, who wrote and directed the film. 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"content": "\u003cp>I have seen the new \u003cem>The Lion King\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510282/pop-culture-happy-hour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Pop Culture Happy Hour\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is devoting a whole show to it this week, so I won't get into a full review here, but just know that, when it comes to one specific aspect of the new film—the one aspect about which I cared most keenly, most deeply, most intensely—the news is not \u003cem>senSAAYtional\u003c/em>. It's anything but, in fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I refer here to \"Be Prepared,\" the very best song on a soundtrack that does not suffer for good songs. It is the villain Scar's anthem—his pitch to the pack of hyenas to help him effect \"the coup of the century.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's\u003ca href=\"http://click.et.npr.org/?qs=35be6f6dee4907efefb09f27cac178ee78af0eabe6602b9c42477690de9361bf9d4f020545135bc6ab396586560f1c1c3471c8db0fafded9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the original version\u003c/a>. Go ahead, click. Treat yourself. Make your day better. Then come back, I'll still be here. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPUe7O3ODHQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hi again. So that was pretty great, right? The animation so expressive, so imaginative, so dynamic, so fluid? And the vocal performance, by noted non-singer Jeremy Irons, remains just as show-stopping as ever, for one very specific reason: It's such a pure expression of the character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irons' Scar was theatrically sly, performatively unctuous, luxuriously fey. He reveled in his haughtiness, his condescending wit, his sneering contempt for those lesser than he. He not only embraced his status as Other, he wore it like a Bob Mackie gown. He was, in other words, not merely villainous, nor anything so mundane as simply evil. No, he was more fun than that: He was \u003cem>wicked\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, there's a long cinematic tradition of talk-singing in musical comedies. Rex Harrison and Richard Harris famously barked and yipped their way through \u003cem>My Fair Lady\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Camelot\u003c/em>, respectively. It's an effective technique, and Irons could have contented himself to follow in those footsteps. Instead, he chose to impregnate every verse of \"Be Prepared\" with all the layers of characterization he was bringing to the rest of his performance. You hear it in every lyric—the sly playfulness, the sudden rage, the smug self-satisfaction, the abject delight Scar is taking in his own skullduggery. 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You hear it in every lyric—the sly playfulness, the sudden rage, the smug self-satisfaction, the abject delight Scar is taking in his own skullduggery. It's why Irons' \"Be Prepared\" became, and remains, indelible, even iconic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cut to 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing you gotta know is that there were rumors that the new film had cut \"Be Prepared\" to make room for new (and thus, Oscar-eligible) songs. I, for one,\u003ca href=\"http://click.et.npr.org/?qs=35be6f6dee4907ef53f9e1aaf11e3695ac30f20bb87106bc054f376f44b2db39450ef690859d92dae79861b198682cd2e0ad932d588e758b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> was prepared to storm whatever barricades necessary in protest\u003c/a>, and I was not alone. Turns out, they didn't cut it. It's still in the movie ... sort of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they \u003cem>did \u003c/em>do was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLQ6SRH90s4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cut it down\u003c/a>. \u003cem>Waaaay \u003c/em>down. From nine verses to four, from three minutes to just over one. The new orchestration is almost unrecognizable: Scar's backup hyenas no longer join in with that lusty, insistent \"Hummmm / hummmmm / Hummmmm\" you feel in your chest—they instead chant \"Be prepared / Be prepared / Be prepared\" in 4/4 march time; it's what it would sound like if the Boy Scouts imposed martial law. There's a rejiggered spoken-word intro, to more fully engage the new film's hyenas vs. lions subplot, that turns Scar from a sneering despot spitting vitriol at his subjects (\"\u003cem>Thick\u003c/em> as you are, \u003cem>pay attention\u003c/em>!\") to a mere feckless politician attempting to sway a potential ally (\"My vision is clear and wide-ranging / And even encompasses you\"). 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Not one girl drew a princess in her country's traditional garb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We didn't say, 'Draw a Disney princess.' We said, 'Draw a princess,' \" Uppal says. \"In India, they didn't draw a single girl in a sari, or in Fiji a \u003cem>sulu chamba\u003c/em> [traditional Fijian garb].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, some girls from non-Western nations—India, Fiji and China—said in their interviews with Uppal that they could not be a princess because their skin was too dark and they were not beautiful enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112080\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 334px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-112080 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/9781402294037.jpg\" alt=\"'The Princess Problem: Guiding Our Girls Through the Princess-Obsessed Years'\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/9781402294037.jpg 334w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/9781402294037-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'The Princess Problem: Guiding Our Girls Through the Princess-Obsessed Years'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uppal's study is worth considering despite the relatively small sample size, says \u003ca href=\"https://rebeccahains.com/\">Rebecca Hains\u003c/a>, a media studies professor at Salem State University in Massachusetts and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Problem-Guiding-through-Princess-Obsessed/dp/1402294034\">The Princess Problem: Guiding Our Girls Through the Princess-Obsessed Years.\u003c/a> (Hains was co-editor of an anthology that published an earlier version of Uppal's work.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The kind of work Uppal is doing is quite significant,\" Hains says. \"The U.S.—a country with no royalty—has colonized children's imaginations of what a princess is, and that's something to take seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disney has made an effort to diversify and empower its princess cast in recent decades, responding to criticisms that the brand is too white and casts women in passive roles. Since the introduction of Jasmine in 1992, four young women of color have been added to the company's \u003ca href=\"https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/integrated-research-facility-leadership\">official princess lineup\u003c/a>: Pocahontas, Moana, Tiana and Mulan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The newer princesses of color have definitely expanded the vision of what constitutes a princess,\" Hains says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uppal says her report would indicate that this new wave of diverse princesses \"has not replaced images of popular white princesses in Disney that have a much older and global presence.\" Most girls surveyed preferred the \"classic,\" white princesses to Mulan and Jasmine. And while not all girls in India and Fiji were familiar with \u003cem>Aladdin, Mulan \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Pocahontas, \u003c/em>nearly all had watched \u003cem>Cinderella \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Snow White. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked by Uppal about the origins of princesses like Jasmine and Mulan, a number of girls in India and Fiji maintained these princesses were \"American,\" not from the Middle East or China as the movies portray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not that girls should want to be princesses, Uppal notes. Her concern is that the girls in her study said they lack what they perceive as princess characteristics—beauty, desirability and Americanness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Beauty in itself isn't inherently good or bad, but it's been assigned this importance culturally as what makes someone who is female valuable. At the very least, we hope a girl doesn't feel excluded from having value,\" Hains says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Disney is not solely responsible for white and Western notions of beauty: Both Fiji and India were colonized for many decades, ingraining the concept of whiteness-as-beauty before Disney products ever reached their shores. But Uppal's findings show that Disney may bolster these notions, Hains says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's another data point that reinforces these stereotypes and harmful beliefs about who's good enough and who can be considered beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Susie Neilson is an intern on NPR's Science Desk. Contact her @susieneilson\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We didn't say, 'Draw a Disney princess.' We said, 'Draw a princess,' \" Uppal says. \"In India, they didn't draw a single girl in a sari, or in Fiji a \u003cem>sulu chamba\u003c/em> [traditional Fijian garb].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, some girls from non-Western nations—India, Fiji and China—said in their interviews with Uppal that they could not be a princess because their skin was too dark and they were not beautiful enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112080\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 334px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-112080 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/9781402294037.jpg\" alt=\"'The Princess Problem: Guiding Our Girls Through the Princess-Obsessed Years'\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/9781402294037.jpg 334w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2019/05/9781402294037-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'The Princess Problem: Guiding Our Girls Through the Princess-Obsessed Years'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uppal's study is worth considering despite the relatively small sample size, says \u003ca href=\"https://rebeccahains.com/\">Rebecca Hains\u003c/a>, a media studies professor at Salem State University in Massachusetts and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Problem-Guiding-through-Princess-Obsessed/dp/1402294034\">The Princess Problem: Guiding Our Girls Through the Princess-Obsessed Years.\u003c/a> (Hains was co-editor of an anthology that published an earlier version of Uppal's work.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The kind of work Uppal is doing is quite significant,\" Hains says. \"The U.S.—a country with no royalty—has colonized children's imaginations of what a princess is, and that's something to take seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disney has made an effort to diversify and empower its princess cast in recent decades, responding to criticisms that the brand is too white and casts women in passive roles. Since the introduction of Jasmine in 1992, four young women of color have been added to the company's \u003ca href=\"https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/integrated-research-facility-leadership\">official princess lineup\u003c/a>: Pocahontas, Moana, Tiana and Mulan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The newer princesses of color have definitely expanded the vision of what constitutes a princess,\" Hains says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uppal says her report would indicate that this new wave of diverse princesses \"has not replaced images of popular white princesses in Disney that have a much older and global presence.\" Most girls surveyed preferred the \"classic,\" white princesses to Mulan and Jasmine. And while not all girls in India and Fiji were familiar with \u003cem>Aladdin, Mulan \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Pocahontas, \u003c/em>nearly all had watched \u003cem>Cinderella \u003c/em>and \u003cem>Snow White. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked by Uppal about the origins of princesses like Jasmine and Mulan, a number of girls in India and Fiji maintained these princesses were \"American,\" not from the Middle East or China as the movies portray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not that girls should want to be princesses, Uppal notes. Her concern is that the girls in her study said they lack what they perceive as princess characteristics—beauty, desirability and Americanness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Beauty in itself isn't inherently good or bad, but it's been assigned this importance culturally as what makes someone who is female valuable. At the very least, we hope a girl doesn't feel excluded from having value,\" Hains says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, Disney is not solely responsible for white and Western notions of beauty: Both Fiji and India were colonized for many decades, ingraining the concept of whiteness-as-beauty before Disney products ever reached their shores. But Uppal's findings show that Disney may bolster these notions, Hains says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's another data point that reinforces these stereotypes and harmful beliefs about who's good enough and who can be considered beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Susie Neilson is an intern on NPR's Science Desk. Contact her @susieneilson\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+Disney+Princesses+Influence+Girls+Around+The+World&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Brad Bird's virtuosic 2004 animated movie \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>The Incredibles\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is the best superhero film that has ever been made and is likely the best superhero film that ever will be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a fact — a cold, hard one. The massive, resolute, essential truth of this fact is abiding and irresistible and immovable; it possesses its own magnetic field, its own solar day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbzbC9285I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reasons are many and varied, and a full accounting of them is not possible within the space of a fleeting human life span. But it's useful, in considering its less-successful sequel, to remind ourselves of at least a handful of its chief virtues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is the design, of course, for one thing. The film was set in a clean-but-not-sterile retrofuture small-t tomorrowland, one that seemed to emerge fully formed from the drafting table of some particularly whimsical mid-century urban planner. Buildings didn't just dully occupy space, they gracefully swooped and dramatically arced. What's more, that design wasn't simply nice to look at (though it was that), it was doing important narrative work, nudging our perceptions of the film's world, supplying us with a meaningful context for its story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That story focused on the Parr family, a super-powered clan of do-gooders forbidden from doing good by a society that looked on them with suspicion and fear. Everything about their need to conform and fit unobtrusively into an unexceptional suburban existence was informed by — and lovingly satirized — patriarchal, Eisenhower-era social norms. (Remember this bit, we'll be coming back to it later.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's the music, too — Michael Giacchino's score, with its anthemic trumpet-blast and cool percussive beat, stirs the blood even as it lodges, unforgettably, irrevocably, in the brainstem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The villain of the piece proved a chillingly prophetic choice: a toxic fanboy determined to destroy the thing he once loved. Today, of course, such sullen jerks are thick on the ground, and you can't log on to any social media platform without being forced to tiptoe around furiously bubbling pits of their whiny, tarry vitriol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back in 2004, there were fewer of them, and they were more easily contained. Bird's decision to outfit his bad guy with the tech trappings and remote (and stylish!) secret island headquarters of a classic Bond villain was another smart, knowingly efficient gambit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the essential reason \u003cem>The Incredibles\u003c/em>' status as Lord King of Superhero Cinema Mountain remains secure is its sure-footed awareness of how superheroes work — of what they are for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider its characters' extraordinary powers, so deftly mapped onto their respective, achingly ordinary desires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob (voiced by Craig T. Nelson), a traditional patriarch, wants to protect his family through steadfastness and strength; Mr. Incredible is invulnerable and strong. Helen (voiced by Holly Hunter), a traditional matriarch, wants the same thing Bob wants, but achieves it through her limitless adaptability; Elastigirl is adaptability made flesh. Teenage daughter Violet (voiced by Sarah Vowell) wishes to be left alone; her alter ego causes literal walls to manifest around her, and she can vanish at will. Dash (voiced, in the original film, by Spencer Fox) is a ball of heedless, impulsive energy; his heroic, superfast self is impulsiveness incarnate. And baby Jack-Jack is, well, a baby — a formless blob of raw potential who displays a roster of unpredictable powers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think of the moment when Dash, on the run from some henchmen, inadvertently finds himself running out over a body of water — and notices, with a chuckle of delighted surprise, that he has the ability to run across its surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That moment, for superhero fans, is heartbreakingly pure — part wish-fulfillment, part joy, part wonder. We're a couple decades into the era of superhero cinema now, but no other film has proved capable of capturing that spry, blissful alchemical blend on a more than intermittent basis. \u003cem>The Incredibles\u003c/em>, on the other hand, lives that alchemy, breathes it, speaks its language in every frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3606756/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>The Incredibles 2\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> which continues the story of the first film quite literally, does not — and realistically cannot — feel as bracing, as miraculous, as exquisitely wrought as the first film. But all of that film's charming particulars are on hand — the design, the music, the characters (young Dash is voiced, this time out, by Huck Milner).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5qOzqD9Rms\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The villain — a mysterious masked figure known as the Screenslaver, who uses television to control the minds of hapless citizens (and heroes) — arrives with a villainous manifesto, albeit a slightly muddier one than that of the first film's nemesis. And that same conceptual muddiness, a byproduct of the sequel's need to expand on and complicate the world of the first film, seeps slowly into the entire film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action, however, is spectacular and fantastically inventive, whether when the heroes attempt to prevent a subterranean bank robbery, stop a runaway train or engage in any of several basic-laws-of-physics-defying high-speed chases. The story finds ways for its characters — including a handful of new ones — to use their powers in innovative ways, which is something many superhero sequels never bother to think about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as a work of animation, \u003cem>Incredibles 2 \u003c/em>succeeds on the far-less-showy side of things; digital animation has made great leaps since 2004, necessitating some significant tweaks to the character designs. Textures are richer, so the angular, cartoony approach that made the Parrs look as if they had stepped out of a socio-realist mural in the first film is made, here, more nuanced and realistic. As a result, the character \"acting\" (read: gestures and facial expressions) attains a degree of breathtaking subtlety that reduces the uncanny valley to a shallow trench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story gives both Elastigirl and Violet far more screen time, and character development, than they received in the first film: Hunter's Helen/Elastigirl gets tapped to become the public face of \"supers\" and clocks serious field time (one of the film's singular joys lies in watching her relish her heroic life so thoroughly), while Violet deals with the repercussions of her high-school crush forgetting her entire existence, thanks to a government-sanctioned mindwipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film's laughs, however — of which there are, it must be said, many — feel far less fresh than its action set pieces. The humor is firmly rooted in these characters, as it should be, but it's here that the movie's setting — so clean and and clarifying in the first film — gets in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a visual and thematic tidiness to placing a story in a retrofuture setting, especially to the extent it serves to underpin the traditional roles assumed by the members of the Parr family: Dad as breadwinner, Mom as she-who-vacuums, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it comes at a cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where the first film was content to draft on '50s and '60s visuals as a kind of handy conceptual shorthand, it didn't expect us to believe its events took place during that time or that characters in this fantasy setting were constrained by gender politics of that real-world era. Yes, we often saw Helen flirt with quaintly domestic June Cleaver iconography — feeding the baby, doing laundry — but the script, and Hunter's performance, made it clear that when it came to superheroic chops, her husband was a blunt instrument, while she was an entire precision surgical kit. (Resolved: Mr. Incredible is and has always been Elastigirl's sidekick. Break into response groups to discuss and meet me back here in 15.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That remains true in \u003cem>Incredibles 2\u003c/em>, but only during those scenes when Helen's on her own, kicking butt and taking names. Most of the film's second act is powered, if feebly, by the putative hilarity of watching Bob — \u003cem>the Dad! \u003c/em>-- bluffly insisting he can take care of the kids —\u003cem> the \u003c/em>Dad!\u003cem> Imagine!\u003c/em> — and failing in a variety of spectacular ways. In fairness, he \u003cem>does \u003c/em>have a lot to contend with — baby Jack-Jack will easily prove the breakout star of this film. This is thanks in large part to a hilarious backyard fight scene, which is a good deal more anarchic and violent and risky than the film around it, and wears Bird's affection for Chuck Jones-era Looney Tunes on its sleeve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film's eagerness to nudge us in the ribs with stale, TGIF-lineup-sitcom jokes about Bob's haplessness in the face of domestic responsibilities is an outgrowth of its retrofuture setting, of course. But in the previous film, such gags were a wink to the audience that faded into the background iconography, into the whole gestalt of the thing. Here, they're front and center, and they're hopelessly hacky, and just... puzzling. \u003cem>Really?\u003c/em> you think. \u003cem>This? 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"content": "\u003cp>Meg Murray from \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1620680/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>A Wrinkle in Time\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and Wakandan princess Shuri from \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825683/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em>\u003c/a> are a far cry from the typical Disney heroine. In Meg and Shuri, we have two outspoken black girls. This, in itself is a dramatic change for the company: in the past, Disney has rarely celebrated black girls for being smart or self-assured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shuri invents the gadgets that her brother T'Challa (aka Black Panther) uses to save the people of Wakanda. Think about it: how would the Black Panther repel all the blows he's dealt without the outfit Shuri created?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's Meg Murray. She's the empathetic, brilliant child of scientists. She is unwavering in her faith that her missing father will return to her one day, even though her strengths — and struggles — aren't appreciated by anyone outside of her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yB-IjDOx60\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These characters, and their storylines, seem distinctly different from the female protagonists that preceded them in Disney movies. But for Disney, reimagining what it means to be a female hero is nothing new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After decades of being accused of reinforcing racist and \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/24/princess-culture-is-bad-for-girls-now-theres-proof/?utm_term=.222684d43025\">sexist stereotypes\u003c/a>, Disney attempted to reframe the princess/girl-hero archetype with films like \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114148/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">Pocahontas\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120762/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">Mulan\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780521/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">The Princess and the Frog\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>These films all featured young women of color. It's true that the girl heroes were strong, but their achievements often felt secondary to their romantic relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add to that, the way they were portrayed was often problematic: Viewers who were excited to see Disney's first black princess were dismayed when they realized that Tiana spent most of the movie as a frog. And for folks who know anything about colonial history, Pocahontas was a disappointment, too. The real life Pocahontas didn't fall in love with an English sailor — as a child, she was in fact forced to marry a white colonizer \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/06/pocahontas-feminism/397190/\">old enough to be her father\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q1QF8G47oU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, Disney has made some progress in depicting strong, dynamic people of color. In 2016's \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3521164/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Moana\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the titular character's love for her people and her culture is the key to saving her island. And (though its protagonist wasn't a girl,) 2017's \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2380307/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Coco \u003c/em>\u003c/a>was widely lauded for portraying Mexican culture in a thoughtful, beautiful way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to today's Disney heroines: Meg Murray and Shuri. They're compelling young women of color whose stories don't need to be bolstered by romantic love or sanitized history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what made Disney take such the leap to, once again, re-imagine its girl-hero?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA professor and co-author of the annual \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/ucla-hollywood-diversity-report-2018/\">Hollywood Diversity Report,\u003c/a> Dr. Ana-Christina Ramón says the business conditions were right. 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The live action reboots of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1661199/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Cinderella\u003c/a> \u003c/em>and\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2771200/?ref_=nv_sr_1\"> Beauty and the Beast\u003c/a> — \u003c/em>in which both traditional Disney princesses were made more independent — were the \u003ca href=\"http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2015\">9th highest grossing film of 2015\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.the-numbers.com/market/2017/top-grossing-movies\">second highest grossing film of 2017\u003c/a>, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when it came to racial diversity, Disney, the parent company of Marvel Films, took the hint from the success of its superhero movies. According to Ramón, \u003cem>\"\u003c/em>the comic book franchise [had] been established already, so [Disney could] slowly bring in diversity with secondary characters throughout these stories... 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"content": "\u003cp>There is a part of a filmgoer exhausted by an avalanche of \u003cem>stuff\u003c/em> — much of it forgettable, much of it created by committee, much of it branded within an inch of its life, and all of it subject to commercial expectations that are either indifferent or hostile to art — that says, \"I cannot get on board with a film that delivers wisdom through a giant, glowing Oprah.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is that cynicism? Perhaps, but it's cynicism that's earned. What Ava DuVernay's adaptation of \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1620680/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">\u003cem>A Wrinkle In Time \u003c/em>\u003c/a>asks is that this cynicism be temporarily laid down so that you can, in fact, be deeply moved by wisdom delivered by a giant, glowing Oprah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you do, it's a profoundly satisfying, imaginative and beautiful film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZ56rcWwRQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adapted from Madeleine L'Engle's classic novel by screenwriters Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, \u003cem>A Wrinkle In Time \u003c/em>is about Meg Murry (Storm Reid), who is called — in the sense of the classic hero's journey — along with her younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) and her new friend Calvin (Levi Miller), to go in search of her missing scientist father (Chris Pine), who vanished while investigating the possibility of traveling through the universe. Helping Meg and her party are three strange and grand women: the chattery Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon), the nearly wordless Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling), and the greatest Mrs. of all, Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are few contemporary directors who have been more willing to explore profound social wounds than DuVernay. In both \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020072/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>Selma \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and especially the documentary \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5895028/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">\u003cem>13th\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, she applies vigorous skepticism to American racial mythology and to the prison system that devastates so many. Here, though, you see a practiced skeptic and righteous visionary draw a clear distinction between forms: It is possible to believe in both unsparing interrogations of social practices and utter earnestness in art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A Wrinkle In Time\u003c/em>, while willfully affecting and reliant on emotional resonance, does not rely on manipulative sentimentality, but on earned moments for its characters. And to the degree that depth of feeling in art is currently filtered through archness or wisecracking — even, or especially, in children's entertainment — this film is a repudiation of that idea. It supposes that it \u003cem>should\u003c/em> be possible, despite everything, to be deeply moved by Oprah in the sky. That, at least for children, it's healthy to retain an ability to be thrilled by a display of that kind without embarrassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not to say that the ideas at play in the movie are the only reasons to see it. As you might expect from a pricey Disney fantasy that takes place on different planets and in different dimensions, it's beautiful to look at, with an intentionally elevated unreality that helps gloss over the imperfections of computer animation. Colors rise and fall unendingly, not only in fantasy lands of mystifying creatures, but on beaches and in front yards that are not as they seem. And in one late sequence, the film's commitment to Meg's visual ordinariness — filming and dressing her as a real junior-high girl of the type we've been told she is — pays off richly in her moment of freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_102559\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-102559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/awitsmall_wide-1778b70ec9215f55dc37354d34b0d63c56fde2eb-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/awitsmall_wide-1778b70ec9215f55dc37354d34b0d63c56fde2eb-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/awitsmall_wide-1778b70ec9215f55dc37354d34b0d63c56fde2eb-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/awitsmall_wide-1778b70ec9215f55dc37354d34b0d63c56fde2eb-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/awitsmall_wide-1778b70ec9215f55dc37354d34b0d63c56fde2eb-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/awitsmall_wide-1778b70ec9215f55dc37354d34b0d63c56fde2eb-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/awitsmall_wide-1778b70ec9215f55dc37354d34b0d63c56fde2eb-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/awitsmall_wide-1778b70ec9215f55dc37354d34b0d63c56fde2eb-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/awitsmall_wide-1778b70ec9215f55dc37354d34b0d63c56fde2eb-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/awitsmall_wide-1778b70ec9215f55dc37354d34b0d63c56fde2eb-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/awitsmall_wide-1778b70ec9215f55dc37354d34b0d63c56fde2eb-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/03/awitsmall_wide-1778b70ec9215f55dc37354d34b0d63c56fde2eb-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Storm Reid is Meg Murry in 'A Wrinkle In Time'\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The performances DuVernay gets from her young leads are impressive. Reid, as Meg, flits effortlessly between the plain talk of the teenager she is growing into at home and the woozy wonder of the child she still is. And McCabe does his job perfectly, which is to be supernaturally endearing, and then supernaturally ... something else. And while the three glitter-eyed women who guide Meg on her way are elaborately dressed and filmed as goddesses, their performances are generous and focused: They are there to serve the story, and they don't dominate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DuVernay's vision of the battle of good and evil is fundamentally humanist and hopeful, realistic but determined. While religious echoes are evident, the greatest good-doing in the story comes from people dependent on their connections to each other. At the screening I attended, DuVernay delivered a filmed introduction in which she talked about the film being a love story about childhood and the potential of children, but also about its appropriateness in \"these divisive times.\" While \u003cem>A Wrinkle In Time \u003c/em>never feels specifically topical or political, there are moments in which it seems to invite exploration of a kind of trust that's in very short supply in any divisive times, these included. Several of its emotional payoffs rely less on nobility than on faith in other people. As in any good hero's journey — and \u003cem>A Wrinkle In Time \u003c/em>follows that formula quite faithfully — identifying allies and learning to work both in their presence and in their absence is critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's possible that you have to have been a certain kind of kid to feel the maximum effects of this story. 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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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