Star child, pop princess, subject of a conservatorship for over a decade… Britney Spears has been under constant media scrutiny since the beginning of her career. Revealed to the public at just 11 years old, the singer shares the story of her life in the autobiographical book “The Woman in Me.” Published in October 2023 and sold in millions of copies, the story will soon be adapted to film by Universal Studios.
She is undoubtedly the most well-known pop singer in the world. At 42, Britney Spears has experienced the best and worst of the star system.
While in January 2024, she claimed, “I will never return to the music industry!” in a caption of an Instagram post, the American seems determined to make her voice heard once again. The publication of her autobiography “The Woman in Me” in 2023 and the revelations it contained caused a media frenzy.
These reactions are not surprising. Since her career exploded in the 1990s, the performer of “…Baby One More Time” has continuously been the target of detractors and journalists. Joanna Arcieri, a doctoral candidate at the Columbia Journalism School, chose to write her thesis on the media coverage of Britney Spears and the #FreeBritney movement.
American journalist Aimee Levitt relied on this work to trace the different eras of the star’s life, putting them in parallel with the various media contexts surrounding them.
What stands out most is how the media institutions collectively mistreated her, even as the star showed all the symptoms of declining mental health.
The Revenge of a Blonde
After several years of legal battles to end the conservatorship orchestrated by her father Jamie Spears, Britney Spears seems eager to regain control over the narrative of her life. This will be done through the publication of her memoirs titled “The Woman in Me.”
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