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She worked her ass off to get where she is today (a simple youtube search for her "Driven" MTV series will sum it up better than anything I will write). Yet, there's this notion that she didn't earn it because she's "talentless" (she's really not) so it means you can type all sorts of abuse towars her. It's even encouraged!
Then, there's the herd mentality. Never forget, most people in here are very young and still need to prove themselves (even when online). If it means cowardly lashing out at the easiest target in pop music, it's perfectly OK for them. Also, Britney has always had to put up with extreme hate and negativity ever since she started in the business. So while insanely popular, she always took the bullets for the team (getting relentless criticisms for stuff all her peers were doing too) and thus letting the other singers flourish with their career, peacefully. She's truly THE scapegoat of pop music.
My point is, you should be grateful for her because without her re- opening the doors for solo female pop singer (after the fiasco of Tiffany and Debby Gibson turned off music moguls to cash on them) and becoming the catalyst for the disdain pop music can evoke, you can be sure you're early 00s fave career would look very different, and not in a good way.
No matter what, Britney will remain as the last mega popstar of this century before social network, cynicism and ****ography invaded pop culture. The last to be able to pull off mainstream pop music, in such a weird distinctive way, that hasn't been duplicated since. In the middle of all the PR engineered divas, thug Princess, "artists" and self proclaimed pop royalty, you have the most "un-star" like yet ambitious social-climber the industry has ever seen. You have Britney Spears, the overdog people like to pass for an underdog, partly due to the... threatening nature of her seismic impact and career!
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