Britney Spears circa 1999
We all know Britney is easy to trash these days so I decided to go back and consider one of her older photos. This is from the music video for "Hit Me Baby One More Time" (which if googled pops up many undesirable sites FYI). Here is the photo hopefully:
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See whole video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bsniYwSaWg
Demographics show that it was girls who bought this album and watched this video when it came out. Heck, I remember watching it and I still know all the words (please do not shun me for this). But the girl who was so supposed to be so innocent and sweet is running up and down the hallways of her school with her uniform popping off. Having two cute little pigtails on the top of your head just emphasizes the "naughty school girl image" rather than having a song about her waiting for her love and that she believes he'll come for her. The front of the album is actually quite correct for the image she was trying to convey (and tried and tried and tried). Cute little shorts and nice top. Good smile, white teeth. Nice tan. Britney grew up on the Mickey Mouse club and it shows on the cover of this album. The videos don't match however and lots of parents aren't (or weren't) willing to research the music itself enough to learn what Britney was all about. So the kids figure it out on their own and moms don't know why they went to school with pink feathers in pigtails for weeks on end.