They're back! After taking long breaks, the blond mouseketeers have emerged in sync (no pun intended) and ready to do radio battle. So between their last records both pop divas have married and had babies- yet Christina has flown way under the radar while Britney has become a popwreck in front of all America. Now Brit is back, apparently unscathed and still as wildly popular. Why? Why when Christina outdoes her as an artist? The two might actually be equal vocalists, but Britney has always preferred a highly stylized talk-sing or baby-sing method over Christina's power ballads.
But Britney always has been and always will be about image and story. Her success is atributable to her various personas and the way she is involved with a manipulation of narrative. Her trajectory: the start as an innocent southern belle catapulted to fame in the ultimate American dream, then her toxic love story complete with two babies, then the decent into craziness where fame took its toll, and then the triumphant comeback (still in progress). The girl knows how to follow a cliched storyline and milk it for all its worth.
Listening to her new album Circus, I couldn't help but wonder what her sons will think in twenty years when they begin to understand her as a pop singer instead of Mom. Now that'll be good TV.
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