History Music / BritneySpears

* NamesTheSame: No, she didn't briefly marry [[Creator/JasonAlexander the actor who played George]] on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.

You may know her from her hit songs such as "...Baby One More Time", "Oops!...I Did It Again", "I'm a Slave 4 U", "Me Against the Music", "Toxic", "Gimme More", "Womanizer", "3", "Hold It Against Me", "Till the World Ends", "Scream & Shout" and "Work Bitch". Britney has also inspired many female singers of the 00's with the likes of Music/LadyGaga, Music/MarinaDiamandis, Music/CarlyRaeJepsen, Sky Ferreira, Music/EllieGoulding, Kesha, Music/LanaDelRey, Music/MileyCyrus, Charli XCX, Music/KatyPerry, Music/BillieEilish and Music/PixieLott all citing her as a big influence in their music and career choices.

''[[DescribeTopicHere Don't describe Britney Spears here!]] [[MemeticMutation LEAVE HER ALONE!]]''

* AmbiguouslyBi: Her touchiness with other women, coupled with Kevin Federline's claim that she was involved with her assistant at the time, Shannon Funk, has prompted speculation.
-->''[gesturing to girls in the crowd] Look how beautiful the girls are! Oh my God! Men, frankly, can suck my fucking toe. But girls, I love you! Oh my God! You're beautiful, wow!''

* BewareTheNiceOnes: On December 2, 2010, after yet another set of rumors involving Britney Spears, this time from Star magazine (with input by her first husband for two days, Jason Alexander, about her boyfriend Jason Trawick allegedly physically abusing her and her keeping silent to the police on the matter, Britney personally makes five posts on her Website/{{Twitter}} account. The first two for congratulating her fans for wishing her a happy 29th birthday, the next one announcing that the release date of her then album in March 2011, the fourth one to announce she will be enjoying a romantic vacation for the weekend, [[TakeThat and the last one...]], [[http://twitter.com/britneyspears/status/10465543475691520 well, you can see it for yourself]]. BewareTheNiceOnes, indeed.
** When it was reported that a prominent Republican governor's wife said she wanted to "shoot Britney" for promoting her sexuality, Britney joked "she probably just needs to get laid!"
*** Recorded a scathing attack on her label/creative team called Rebellion. Choice lyrics include: "The poison they feed you/And the voodoo that they do". Similarly, Mona Lisa - the demo of which Britney leaked herself unedited to the world on live radio - details a celebrity tired of the limelight: "She's the original, she wants you to know, she's been cloned! Now Mona Lisa's got to fly".
*** During a particularly dark period of 2007, Spears' website consisted solely of a picture of her and her backup dancers flipping off the camera.

* BreakTheCutie: Yes, so very much. Especially the whole period 2002 to late 2008. Bad break ups, slander, being bashed by so called "supporters", distancing herself from friends and family, the pressure and effect of overexposure, being used then enabled into a breakdown, an unhappy marriage, intense media backlash, artistic blocks, one memorably lazy performance, among other things. 2002 to 2008 was an awful period in her life, and while she herself has said she WillNotBeAVictim, damn, Britney!
* TheBully: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7-gI-4U9sY Was accused of being this by Alexa Nikolas]]

* CoolBigSis: To her 10 year younger sister named Jamie Lynne who she recorded "Chillin With You" with.

* CloudCuckooLander: One said that she gets the FullNameUltimatum in a affectionate way. She has her moments of saying odd things that it's almost endearing.

* BaldWoman: Part of her CreatorBreakdown in 2007 involved shaving her head.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Was marketed as this when she first started out, though she's cast that image aside in favor of a more mature one.

You may know her from her hit songs such as "...Baby One More Time", "Oops!...I Did It Again", "I'm a Slave 4 U", "Me Against the Music", "Toxic", "Gimme More", "Womanizer", "3", "Hold It Against Me", "Till the World Ends", "Scream & Shout" and "Work Bitch". Britney has also inspired many female singers of the 00's with the likes of Music/LadyGaga, Music/MarinaDiamandis, Music/CarlyRaeJepsen, Sky Ferreira, Music/EllieGoulding, Kesha, Music/LanaDelRey, Music/MileyCyrus, Charli XCX, Music/KatyPerry and Music/PixieLott all citing her as a big influence in their music and career choices.

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[[caption-width-right:300:She's not that innocent.]]

+ Music/{{Madonna}}, Music/JanetJackson, Music/WhitneyHouston, Music/MichaelJackson]

[[caption-width-right:300:She's stronger than yesterday.]]

[[caption-width-right:300:She's not that innocent.]]

Though she ultimately divorced Federline in 2006, shortly after the birth of her second child, it culminated in a rather public [[CreatorBreakdown mental breakdown]] that resulted in Britney night-partying heavily with Paris Hilton & Lindsay Lohan, [[ImportantHaircut shaving her head]], and checking into rehab twice. She was sent back and completed a month in rehab, but continued to spiral out of control. She gave a universally panned performance of her single "Gimme More" at the 2007 MTV [[UsefulNotes/MTVVideoMusicAward Video Music Awards]] that was followed by her losing custody of her kids for a period of time and eventually leading to a three hour standoff at her home regarding the custody of her sons. The standoff involved police, ambulances, helicopters, and the paparazzi. She was soon placed in a 5150 hold at the hospital and after being released, her father was named her conservator by the courts. She now has visitation rights of her kids, but as of 2021 is still the conservatorship.

Though she ultimately divorced Federline in 2006, shortly after the birth of her second child, it culminated in a rather public [[CreatorBreakdown mental breakdown]] that resulted in Britney night-partying heavily with Paris Hilton & Lindsay Lohan, [[ImportantHaircut shaving her head]], and checking into rehab twice. She was sent back and completed a month in rehab, but continued to spiral out of control. She gave a universally panned performance of her single "Gimme More" at the 2007 MTV [[UsefulNotes/MTVVideoMusicAward Video Music Awards]] that was followed by her losing custody of her kids for a period of time and eventually leading to a three hour standoff at her home regarding the custody of her sons. The standoff involved police, ambulances, helicopters, and the paparazzi. She was soon placed in a 5150 hold at the hospital and after being released, her father was named her conservator by the courts. She now has full custody of her kids, but still the conservatorship.

* AlohaHawaii: Her "Live And More" show was recorded on the beaches of Hawaii, as it focused on her holiday there.

* AfterTheEnd: "Till The World Ends".
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Her role in How I Met Your Mother.
* AlbumTitleDrop: The significant majority of her albums have these...

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Has had the most negative feedback out of most of her contemporaries, despite being one of the most successful artists of all time. If she does have a "good" day, some of her own fans will try and take it away from her, poor girl never gets a break. She gets made fun of for basically what makes her so successful: pop songs, prominent sexuality, not possessing powerhouse vocals, lip-syncing during live performances which feature heavy dancing, albums that focus on creating dance anthems with mass appeal instead of singer/songwriting, poor personal decisions, and even for still working after immense troubles.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Her touchiness with other women, coupled with Kevin Federline's claim that she was involved with her assistant at the time, Shannon Funk, has a lot of people wondering.

** When it was reported that a prominent Republican governer's wife said she wanted to "shoot Britney" for promoting her sexuality, Britney joked "she probably just needs to get laid!"

* BitingTheHandHumor: Some of her earlier SNL stints had this. Particularly the Dawn Pawlowski skit in 2000.

* BreakupBreakout: Was in a girl-group called Innocense for all of five seconds before deciding to go solo and getting signed to Jive.

** Randomly adopted one during 2007 while dating British paparazzo Adnan Ghalib.

** Outright called the "Womanizer" music video, ''Toxic part 2'' in her documentary For The Record.
*** Additionally called up an actor she also hired for "Toxic" in "Womanizer".
** "Yeah I did, did it again" was delicately slipped into "Mannequin".

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: She rarely, if ever, criticizes her peers and contemporaries; the very few times she has though, in self-defense, gained her much criticism. She is TheStoic of the pop world the rest of the time.

* CelebrityEndorsement: Did three memorable Pepsi commercials back in 2000-2001, was the face of Candies for two years, and of course, her own perfume line, reported as one of the most, if not the, most successful celebrity fragrance lines. She also worked with Sketchers in the early 2000s. PlentyofFish, and Sony were featured in her "Hold It Against Me" music video. Appeared in various Japanese and USA commercials for numerous brands and companies.
** Also joined and backed ''The X Factor''.

** Enough perfumes to fill every shelf in America, one of the best selling lines, ever.

* CommitmentIssues: The character in "Oops!" could be seen as suffering this. Hinted at also in the In The Zone/Blackout albums.
* ConceptAlbum: Surprisingly apparent if you think about her albums; they all tell a story...
** ''...Baby'' is about summer romances and youthful love, ''Oops!'' is about being yourself and dealing with fame, ''Britney'' is about maturing and real life, ''In The Zone'' is about sexuality and fame, ''Blackout'' is about going out and blacking out negativity, ''Circus'' is a variety of sounds and songs which examine a number of different topics, ''Femme Fatale'' is about bad relationships & dancing and ''Britney Jean'' is the story of a break up & handling it, then finding love again.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Lynne, her mother, wrote a book; Through The Storm released in 2008, which basically took the story they told in 2000, with Heart To Heart, and turned it on its head, with alcoholicism, money problems, her father's business issues and numerous other indications/incidents and family cited as reasons for Britney to have such a big breakdown in 2004-2008, outside the immense career pressure she was enduring.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Britney Jean is personal, dark and has a Parental Warning sticker, compared to Femme Fatale's less personal dance album vibe. In The Zone was also edgier and sexier than Britney. Blackout is way darker and sexier than Circus. Oops was darker and edgier then Baby by focusing on break ups and celebrity issues.

* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: She doesn't want to tour unless she can dance on her tours.

** And most fan discussions are about her dancing, her dancing style, and her passion for it. Expect multiple threads and gifs of her dancing when you enter a Britney forum.

* DoYouThinkICantFeel: Both her haters and even some of her fans like to believe her shyness and awkwardness indicates she's controlled and going through the motions. For The Record, I Am Britney Jean and all her interviews after X Factor state differently..

* FirstNameBasis: If you hear or say "Britney", chances are she's the first person you think of. Also the unique spelling of her name means "Brittany" is often used as a diss against her.

* FemmeFatale: Her seventh album and tour was based around this concept; a "sexy assassin".
* FemaleGaze: Often in her music videos when she shows off her man's sexiness too, notably in "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" and "Womanizer".

* FakeOutFadeOut: In her cover of I Love Rock N Roll.

* GeniusDitz: Offstage she can be flaky, awkward and weird, but during her glory years she was an unparalleled performer and the most successful pop star of the 2000's.
* GenkiGirl: She barely has breaks, even her "breaks" are over-filled with projects, TV shows, recording gigs, tours, and little ditties/Britmases for her fans. She's mentioned how quickly she gets bored when having had too much free time.
* GenreRoulette: Ever since her third album she's been mixing up her sounds a lot.
** To be exact, she's toyed with genres such as bubblegum pop, dance-pop, R&B, trip-hop, electronica, rock, dubstep, synthpop, and new wave.
** Her most varied albums are In The Zone, Blackout and Circus.

* GenreShift: While she has been mixing up her sound, there does seem to be a general drift in one direction. Ever since she got the Grammy for "Toxic" (for Best Dance Recording) she's produced fewer ballads, and had begun to experiment with a lot of rhythm-based genres, like Electronica, Dubstep, and Trip-Hop. She seemed to have found her niche in the umbrella of "Dance Music," and all the sub-genres that envelops. However, her 8th album Britney Jean saw her return to some old-school pop beats and saw Spears using her natural, deeper voice for some songs.

* HatesBeingAlone: Is never single for very long, and she said she was a "go-er" when in mental and emotional trouble, doing anything to stay busy. She loves her friends and family dearly. She hates being alone and doesn't thrive being on her own. Even when her workload is immense, she keeps up with people she works or worked with and even makes time for her old childhood pals, one time flying her friends to Hawaii to see her!

* ImportantHaircut: Shaving her head in February 2007 shortly after being forced into, then checking out of, rehab.
* IntercourseWithYou: So many of her songs... Especially on ''In The Zone'' and ''Blackout''. "I'm A Slave 4 U" and "3" as singles are probably the best known.
** Pretty much every song on ''Femme Fatale'' features this trope in full effect.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: "can we just go to the movies?", "I like to be out amongst the people", "I don't wanna be one of those stuck up people who's like "everybody's looking at me', but they are, it's the truth", ''Like an alien'', are but a few examples.

* {{Medley}}: She's done about 8 tours featuring various medlies. Best examples are the DWAD medley of Sometimes/Born To Make You Happy/Lucky featuring Britney dancing in a life-size music box, the Femme Fatale tour medley of "...Baby One More Time" and" S&M", her VMA performance of Satisfaction/Oops!...I Did It Again. Her performance with Madonna, Christina Aguilera and Music/MissyElliott saw her performing Like A Virgin/Hollywood/Work It and a Madonna Janet Jackson 80's medley in her first tour, and a Gimme More/Break The Ice segment in one of her Vegas shows.

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: While Britney has largely shied away from talking about politics, during an interview for MTV, Britney stated her patriotism and political beliefs: that she had unwavering support and trust for then-president George W. Bush regarding the Iraq War, as well as hoping that Americans would trust and support their President no matter what.
** She did, however, lampshade this when she guest-starred on ''Will and Grace'' as a maniacally right-wing pop star who takes over Jack's gay network--only to reveal that she's actually a hardcore lesbian.
*** She has since voiced her support for gay marriage, hinting at a slightly less Republican or conservative perspective.
* NiceGirl: One unarguable part of her persona; very, very few negative anecdotes, remembers fans after concerts, follows them on twitter, tweets them on occasion, was brought to tears when one gave her a framed poem about what she meant; these days, she says she does her albums and tours for her fans. Pink, Ke$ha, Hilary Duff, Mary J Blige, Robyn, all her producers and collaborators, and almost everyone who's ever met/worked with her have always called her "sweet" and/or "shy" as well as highly professional.

* NonAppearingTitle: "Brave New Girl" and "The Hook Up" don't have the titles as they are titled in the song. "brave girl" is said in Brave New Girl and "hook up" is said in The Hook Up. "Me Against The Music" was originally titled In The Zone, while the song was renamed, the album it was featured on was titled In The Zone and the title appears as a spoken ad-lib.
** Also Blackout doesn't feature the word, or any references to "blacking out". The Britney and Britney Jean albums lack her name in them.

* NotStayingForBreakfast: She had a string of flings post Justin in 2003-2004. This is also a running theme on the ''In The Zone'', "Blackout" and "Femme Fatale" albums.
* NextSundayAD: Till The World Ends is dated 21 December 2012. The song came out early 2011. This is a reference to the end of the world conspiracy theory that year.

* ObligatoryBondageSong: ''Lace And Leather'' is this.
** Her feature on a remix of "S&M" by Rihanna too.
** "Selfish" could be interpreted this way.
* ObsessionSong: "Radar" has its creepy moments...

** Music/LadyGaga, Music/{{Rihanna}}, and Music/{{Kesha}} fit the bill in the 2010s, though she is friendly with all of them. There's also Music/KatyPerry who.... well, Britney used to be friendly with Katy Perry. Then [[http://www.etonline.com/news/210341_katy_perry_shades_britney_spears_with_a_head_shaving_joke_at_the_grammys/ Katy made one-too-many jokes about shaving her head]], and [[https://twitter.com/britneyspears/status/831238699111297024?lang=en Brit's response]] made it pretty clear she was ''not'' happy.

* SelfDeprecation: "Piece Of Me" includes calling herself shameless. Used to do a lot of skits poking fun at her fame/unique style.
** "Lip-Sync + Fake Boobs (SNL)" is one fine example of her Self-Deprecation habit.
** She briefly appeared in a Macy's Christmas advert where wide bunch of different stars and TV personalities were setting up an outlet for the Christmas shopping season, and basically played up her somewhat ditsy image. First seen trying to push open a door labeled "Pull", last seen accidentally pulling the plug on a string of lights that were set up for decoration.

** Britney Jean, her eighth album is intentionally personal and from her heart, featuring only two dance tracks. The rest all examine various personal encounters including her breakup with Jason Trawick, her breakdown, her fame and her religion.

* TheStoic: Refuses to get into feuds. Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Ke$ha, and Justin Timberlake have all made somewhat direct or indirect comments regarding Britney in an insulting or rude manner at one point or another but she has never said anything rude about any artist save for when defended herself against Christina Aguilera during a TRL episode and even then, complimented her still. Most of the time she keeps her head down and does her own thing.

* SuperBowlSpecial: Got paid an obscene amount for doing one of these in the early 00's. This was in relation to her CelebrityEndorsement of Pepsi.

* TakeThat: Has done three unreleased songs about how much crap Justin Timberlake gave her after he was done with her and sold her out to the media. The songs are called, "Look Who's Talking", "Dramatic" and "Guilty." She implied that he was a MamasBoy who placed her very low on his list of priorities and wasn't there for her and then subsequently freaked out when she actually did something about it and dumped him, also indicating her fame bothered him. This however clashes with Justin's version of what went down, which he details on his hit song "Cry Me A River" and the Justified album.
** There was another TakeThat that never came to be. Songwriter Cathy Dennis wrote a song for Britney after hearing Justin's TakeThat song "Cry Me A River" and designed it to be her rebuttal. The song was called "Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex," but Britney decided not to record the song. The song was then given to British singer Rachel Stevens, and it became one of her biggest hits.

* TakeThatCritics: She's not afraid to give it like she gets it, especially from her third album onward, in her SNL specials, her cameos (''Will and Grace'') and beyond, "Piece Of Me" directly confronts how perverted and invasive paparazzi have been towards her since the start, "Kill The Lights" is basically a continuation of this, and the "If U Seek Amy" performance on Femme Fatale Tour has a follow on from that concept, showing Britney standing on a pedestal while dancers with cameras try to sneak up-skirt shots.

* TallPoppySyndrome: And how, especially in the media! Australian media loathes her success, going so far as to ask fans outside her shows to look sad for their false reports of people walking out. The Australian public took all her In The Zone singles to #1 and sold out all her Circus Tour shows. Femme Fatale went to #1. "Till The World Ends", "I Wanna Go, "Criminal", "Work Bitch" and "Scream & Shout" stayed in the charts for months.

* VocalEvolution: She's used many vocal styles, depending on the song and the era, from full bodied, to whisper, being aggressive, while still keeping it heartfelt.

* WeirdnessMagnet: She's been through some crazy highs and lows. Most of which we've witnessed.
* WolverinePublicity: All her features and the songs she features on always bring success for the people she works with. Rihanna's "S&M" hitting number 1 as soon as she called Spears in to sing it with her, along with giving Giorgio Moroder his most downloaded track with their work on a electronic cover of "Tom's Diner".

* WomanofaThousandVoices: From a crazy party animal ("Get Naked", "I'm A Slave 4 U", "Freakshow"), to the maternal kindhearted mother ("My Baby", "Someday", "Now That I Found You").

* YouAreNotAlone: "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman", "Dear Diary", "Brave New Girl", "Lucky", "Touch Of My Hand", "Alien", "I Will Be There" were all created for the purpose of relating to her fans; the trope works well with her "BeYourself" over-all message.

All of this is explained further, though not entirely in-depth, in her 2008 MTV documentary ''For The Record''. Britney also discusses life in the spotlight, the thrill of performing and explains her actions after her marriage to Federline fell apart. She also revealed she WillNotBeAVictim, how dancing is therapy for her, and shows her workload over a three month album launch. A later documentary, 2021's ''Framing Britney Spears'', prompted renewed attention to her ongoing conservatorship, however, and subsequent reporting by ''New Yorker'' journalist Ronan Farrow and court statements by Spears herself alleged financial and other mistreatment.

* SmartMark: Britney Spears fans come in two flavours: the more cynical, just for the music kind, and the more thoughtful, sympathetic kind, who love her for her.

Though she ultimately divorced Federline in 2006, shortly after the birth of her second child, it culminated in a rather public [[CreatorBreakdown mental breakdown]] that resulted in Britney night-partying heavily with Paris Hilton & Lindsay Lohan, [[ImportantHaircut shaving her head]], and checking into rehab twice. She was sent back and completed a month in rehab, but continued to spiral out of control. She gave a universally panned performance of her single "Gimme More" at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards that was followed by her losing custody of her kids for a period of time and eventually leading to a three hour standoff at her home regarding the custody of her sons. The standoff involved police, ambulances, helicopters, and the paparazzi. She was soon placed in a 5150 hold at the hospital and after being released, her father was named her conservator by the courts. She now has full custody of her kids, but still the conservatorship.

* BeYourself: Arguably, her overall message.

* TheDeterminator: She makes all her decisions.

All of this is explained further, though not entirely in-depth, in her 2008 MTV documentary ''For The Record''. Britney also discusses life in the spotlight, the thrill of performing and explains her actions after her marriage to Federline fell apart. She also revealed she WillNotBeAVictim, how dancing is therapy for her, and shows her workload over a three month album launch.

Britney has since recovered fairly well and has made [[CareerResurrection a comeback]] of sorts, returning to her career full-time. By that time, she had firmly secured her status as a pop culture figure and icon. To date, she has sold over 100 million records worldwide and her albums, ''Circus'' and ''Femme Fatale'', debuted at #1 on their first weeks of release. She also had one of the five biggest-selling concert tours of 2009 and 2011 with "The Circus Starring Britney Spears" and the "Femme Fatale Tour", respectively. In May 2012, it was announced that she, alongside Music/DemiLovato, would be joining the judging panel of the US version of ''Series/TheXFactor''. She left the series at the end of her one-year only contract to focus more on creating music and performing.

You may know her from her hit songs such as "...Baby One More Time", "Oops!...I Did It Again", "I'm a Slave 4 U", "Me Against the Music", "Toxic", "Gimme More", "Womanizer", "3", "Hold It Against Me", "Till the World Ends", "Scream & Shout" and "Work Bitch". Britney has also inspired many female singers of the 00's with the likes of Music/LadyGaga, Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds, Music/CarlyRaeJepsen, Sky Ferreira, Music/EllieGoulding, Kesha, Music/LanaDelRey, Music/MileyCyrus, Charli XCX, Music/KatyPerry and Music/PixieLott all citing her as a big influence in their music and career choices.

* {{Fangirl}}: Madonna, Lady Gaga, Music/MarinaAndTheDiamonds, Music/DemiLovato, Music/KatyPerry, Music/PixieLott, Music/{{Kesha}}, Rihanna, Music/LanaDelRey, Music/MileyCyrus, Music/HilaryDuff, Music/KellyClarkson, and Music/SelenaGomez, to name a few.

* NostalgicMusicBox: Used in her unreleased track "Baby Boy" and in her 2001 tour performances of "Born To Make You Happy".

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''[[DescribeTopicHere Don't describe Britney Spears here!]] [[MemeticMutation LEAVE HER]] [[Creator/ChrisCrocker ALONE!]]''

A former member of the 90s revival of ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'', Britney was the first, and ultimately the poster girl, for [[TheNineties the late '90s]] wave of {{boy band}}s and [[IdolSinger female solo artists]]. Part of her rise came from the exploitation of her sexuality, as the [[JailBait seventeen year old Britney]] flaunted her lolita looks with [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule school girl outfits]] and [[LatexSpaceSuit tight red leather catsuits]], while [[ContractualPurity still having]] an [[TheIngenue image of innocence]]. Interestingly, Spears orchestrated many of her most controversial moments, including choosing a high school setting for her first music video, and unbuttoning her t-shirt for her '99 Rolling Stone cover. She did two promo tours in 1998, in a mall and one with Music/{{NSYNC}}. She did four tours in four years, starting with "...Baby One More Time" tour and ending in DreamWithinADream.

* JailBait: Her photoshoot for Rolling Stone magazine back in 1999, where a then barely 18-year-old Britney posed clad in pajamas and underwear.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: "Brave New Girl" is an example of this. "Changing her M.O". Stronger also mentions how she's better off on her own...

In 2004, Britney's personal life entered a downward spiral, with the media reporting every detail. Britney had an impulse marriage to a childhood friend in Las Vegas which was quickly annulled after just 55 hours. This was followed by a whirlwind romance to backup dancer Kevin Federline. The pair married months after meeting while Federline's ex-girlfriend (''Series/{{Moesha}}'' star Shar Jackson) was still pregnant with their second child. The public and media widely believed Spears was too good for Federline and that he made her "trashy". A {{reality TV}} series in 2005 (''Britney & Kevin: Chaotic'') was created in an effort to combat the waves of bad publicity surrounding their relationship. Viewership started off strong but gradually declined over the show's run and ironically, only adding to the media craze around her.

Though she ultimately divorced Federline in 2006, shortly after the birth of her second child, it culminated in a rather public [[CreatorBreakdown mental breakdown]] that resulted in Britney night-partying heavily with Paris Hilton & Lindsay Lohan, [[ImportantHaircut shaving her head]], and checking into rehab twice. She was sent back and completed a month in rehab, but continued to spiral out of control. She gave a universally panned performance of her single "Gimme More" at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards that was followed by her losing custody of her kids for a period of time eventually leading to a three hour standoff at her home regarding her custody of her sons, which involved police, ambulances, helicopters, and the paparazzi. She was soon placed in a 5150 hold at the hospital and after being released, her father was named her conservator by the courts. She now has full custody of her kids, but still the conservatorship.

--->''[gesturing to girls in the crowd] Look how beautiful the girls are! Oh my God! Men, frankly, can suck my fucking toe. But girls, I love you! Oh my God! You're beautiful, wow!''

--->''I can't believe it's what I see''
--->''That the girl in the mirror''
--->''The girl in the mirror''
--->''Is me''

---> ''It may seem like a crush. But it doesn't mean that I'm serious'.'
---> ''I'm not that innocent.''

---> "What you see is what you get
---> This is me, hey you
---> If you want me, don't forget
---> You should take me as I am
---> 'Cause I can promise you
---> Baby, What U See Is What U Get"

---> "Baby I'm a freak and I don't really give a damn."
---> "Walk a mile in my shoes, do me right or I'm through!"

---> "Any time I can go into the studio and just dance and put choreography together is like a spiritual experience for me. Everyone has a world they create around themselves, if I have a lot of nervous energy... when I start dancing it all goes away and I just feel emotion."
---> "For me, art is therapy because it's like your expressing yourself in such a spiritual way, Sometimes you don't need words to go through what you need to go through. It's an emotion you feel when you dance that you need to touch on and you only touch it when you move a certain way."

---> "She cries in her lonely heart thinking, if there's nothing missing in my life, why do these tears come at night?"
---> "Lost in an image, in a dream, but there's no one there to wake her up."

* MelismaticVocals: The word "go" in "...Baby One More Time" which she turns into a very deep "GoOoOoOoOoOoOO". Same for "Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know": "Don't hold back! Just let it goooooooooo! Don't...let me be the last to knoOoOoOoOw". "From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart" and "And Then We Kiss" are full of these. "I'm A Slave 4 U": "I'm a slaAaAaAaAve...for you!". "I Love Rock N Roll": "We can be aloooooone". "Perfume": "Sometimes it feels like there's threeeeeeeee." The time she sang Happy Birthday to LA Reid during X Factor in 2012.

---> "...is she a good girl doing bad things,
---> or a bad girl doing good things?
---> Either way we are engaged."

--> "Whether you like it or not, I ain't gonna stop!"
--> "I got my eye on you... and I can't let you get away..."

* SelfBackingVocalist: Written about in NewBritneyology.com's In Depth articles, particularly used in her song "Shadow."

--->"There's only two types of people in the world/the ones that entertain, and the ones that observe"
--->"There's only two types of guys out there/Ones that can hang with me, and ones that are scared"

--->''I may have made it rain/Please forgive me''
--->''My weakness caused you pain/And this song's my sorry...''

* TenMinuteRetirement: She was supposed to take a 6 month break after the Hype Backlash of 2001/2002; didn't happen, went straight back to work harder than ever, resulting in the In The Zone era, where she saturated media for two straight years. Was technically on "maternity" leave through periods 2005-2008, did TV shows, two albums (Blackout, Circus), award shows, a remix album, and at least one mini-tour during this period, and in 2010 she earned millions of dollars despite only featuring in a Glee cameo, and starting another perfume and clothing campaign. She also recorded Femme Fatale during that period.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Love me, hate me, say what you want about me but all of the boys and [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer all of the girls]] are begging to '''[[DoubleEntendre if you seek Amy]]'''." Say those last four words out loud. Then put them into context with the rest of the song. The album it was on escaped the [[MediaWatchdog Parental Advisory]] label, but [[SubvertedTrope it didn't get past the radar the second time]] four months later, when she released it as a single (not only was it heavily censored, but Creator/TheBBC and likely many other broadcasters insisted on just calling it "Amy").
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--> "Do me right or I'm through."
--> "Baby, don't you wanna dance upon me?"
** Her third and fourth albums featured many sexual references, overt and subtle, and were released at a time when her key demographic was still quite young.