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How Britney Spears became a feminist role model (Guardian)
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At the top of the steps of Planet Hollywood on the Las Vegas Strip, an elderly woman dressed in a tiara and fur coat over an evening gown lodged a complaint with a woman holding a clipboard.
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“She’s ****ing up my day,” said the woman. “This is where I work.” This was her turf, where tourists take pictures of her in exchange for a dollar or two. This is a common occupation up and down the Strip, but most practitioners are dressed as familiar characters, like Darth Vader. It was harder to discern who this lady was supposed to be. The Queen, maybe?
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“You’d better believe she’s going to **** this up, like she ****s up everything,” the Queen said. The woman with the clipboard listened, then pretended to be called away.
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Fifty storeys above all this, Britney Spears was at the end of a day-long junket in which journalists asked her questions like: “What do people not know about you?” (“Really that I’m pretty boring”) and “What was the craziest rumour you ever heard about yourself?” (“That I died”) and who her secret famous crush is, a question that she’s been asked for years and years and that she’s been giving the same answer to for years and years (“Brad Pitt”).
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The residency had been Britney’s idea, one she’d been kicking around for years, this notion of setting up shop somewhere, making life more predictable for her kids. She tried TV, and Fox paid her a reported $15m for a judging gig on The X Factor. But she was terrible at the banter and soundbites that are so much the matter of those talent shows.
We love you: fans show their excitement for Britney Spears We love you: fans show their excitement for Britney Spears announcing her new show at Planet Hollywood Vegas.
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You could have fooled Cher, too. Cher had a residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace from 2008 to 2011. She didn’t like it – the official story is “Vegas throat”, which is the impact of consistent exposure to dry air on the vocal chords. That was just cover. The theatre had been built for Céline Dion with a microclimate system – moist air jetting up from vents in the stage into her face. Her dressing room had roughly the same humidity levels as a rainforest. What Cher couldn’t stand was the old people. Playing a concert and seeing the Zimmer frames up and down the aisles and the wrinkles filled her with existential dread.
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But not everyone counted Britney out. There was, of course, her fanbase: the Britney Army, filled with people who can mark a special place in their lives with a Britney song or era – communicating primarily in capital letters and animated gifs of Britney dance moves, looks and gestures that highlight her fierceness.
They refer to her not as Brit-Brit, which is her family’s nickname for her, but as an assortment of words to describe her made into portmanteaux with her name. When she’s practising for her show, they call her Rehearsalney. When she’s learning choreography, she’s Dancney. And when she inspires them, she is Godney.
Britney was mocked this week for a leaked unedited recording of 'Alien'. Producer William Orbit defended her by claiming she was just warming up her voice.
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Andrea is not the real first name of a New York-based dominatrix who is a Britney obsessive. She is skinny, with long hair, smiley eyes and perpetual excitement. We met on BreatheHeavy and I’d asked if we could meet the day of the show. She had texted me – “I’m in a cowgirl look” – and she was: boots and hat included.
She’s been a Stan (an obsessive fan, a term plucked from Eminem liturgy) since 2003; that was when Britney, to Andrea, became Authenticney, dropping that Virginey act. It was Meltdowney circa 2008 that sealed the deal for her. The Britney Army believes in her in a way that is touching.
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The only fan I met who didn’t like the show was poor Andrea. She told me that Britney had seemed so unhappy to be there that she almost wanted to leave. Andrea had once thrown a sex party where she’d hired prostitutes to have sex with a group of people while she stood over them with a whip. There was this one girl who technically did a good job, but there was something so vacant in the prostitute’s eyes that it kind of killed the whole thing for Andrea. That’s what this felt like.
Afterwards she removed the BreatheHeavy app from her phone.
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The residency is considered a success. According to Caesars, the show had Grossneyed $18.6m, from (at the time of writing) 27 performances. And the Axis has found other acts to house while Britney’s not there : the Backstreet Boys, followed by New Kids on the Block, Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden. In May she was Reupneyed through to Christmas 2016.
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