It caused an absolute sensation, with The Ringer retrospectively describing how the entire video's "shock and awe defined that moment." A red latex catsuit was one thing, but the way the camera continuously gravitated around the contours of Spears' figure in the thing, was quite another. She suggested to People that the original outfits looked "dorky" and she simply thought that tying the shirts up would "be cute." But was this the absolute truth? Reporter Vanessa Grigoriadis suggested to Entertainment Weekly that she'd been told by "a lot of people" that Spears "wanted to be sexy" while her team wanted her to tone things down, and commented, "I think that it's impossible to know if it's actually true." Spears, however, was indifferent to the criticism, telling MTV that her belly exposure was a practical choice, not a provocation, "I'm from the South," she said, "you're stupid if you don't wear a sports bra go to dance class, you're going to be sweating your butt off." Regardless, cultural critics repeatedly slapped her with some variation of a " little Lolita" epithet, seemingly forgetting that Vladimir Nabokov wrote in support of the young woman of "Lolita," and not the people salivating over her.īy all accounts, Spears downplayed the sexiness of her look and appeared to be coming from a place of genuine innocence with it.
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Here are some of the best and worst examples.
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Even if that means wearing something well against taste, convention, and expectations. Whatever the truth has been and will be, there's no denying the star always looks best when she looks happy and comfortable. But how much of that is actually true?Īs the singer has evolved as an artist and a star, so too have questions pertaining to how much agency and control Spears had and continues to have over her life, image, and career. Spears has always appeared to be ahead of the game on this, seemingly taking charge of her image and persona before anyone has the chance to do it for her. This is a star who appears to have had a thorough understanding of the industry within which she works, and it's propensity to objectify or otherwise exploit young women for their bodies and sexuality. Throughout her incredible if often troubled career, it's difficult to argue that Spears' style has often been at its best, most interesting, and powerful when she's wearing something a little inappropriate. From day one, pop music's greatest "not so innocent" showgirl has performed an incredible high wire trick, portraying both wholesome good girl and seductive nymph, and winking as she walks the rope between intentional provocation and accidental sexiness.
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Since the second she shimmied into the pop music stratosphere as a young and seemingly provocative teenager, the world has been all too privy to the inappropriate outfits Britney Spears has been caught wearing.