If she lets her hair down in visuals, verbally Spears is measured, relentlessly positive, and not one to talk smack about her peers—“That’s just kind of the way I am,” she offers. But the same cannot be said of some of her successors, and with Twitter as rocket fuel, it seems we’re now living in a beef-a-week cycle of time, much of it overblown nonsense. Spears briefly appeared to be dragged into one with the famously filter-free Azalea last summer, following the release of “Pretty Girls,” as online word-parsers noted tension between the two. Spears dismisses those stories, preferring to celebrate female collaboration over fan-manufactured rivalries. “We are here together, and that’s a cool thing. There’s no war here, we’re here to help each other out. We all have something to say. We’re all just people, and I think that’s a good thing.”