Just curious, was anyone else here a kid during Britney's prime and missed out on her biggest moments?

[Guest StrawberryKisses]

But in reply to the OP, for some reason I lost interest in Britney after 2002... probably when In The Zone came out. All I remember is not liking MATM and seeing Toxic only. I think I was too busy with Lizzie Maguire and My Scene dolls and Britney was 'old'.

[itsjames]

i wasnt a kid back then but i missed her peak - ITZ. I was a fan BOMT-britney era but i felt that ITZ was too **** for my then conservative self. Toxic basically turned me off when i saw her naked. fast forward 2006-7, i realized i missed the best days to be a britney fan.

[Denise]

I was 8 when BOMT video come out, sooo that means 18 years of following britney's steps  ..  thanks to my dad i'm her fan, he said to me: look, you have to see such a beautiful video, look how cute she's....

 

thanks daddy  

[BrittonJeanSpears]

I missed everything. I was a reader when I was younger, and I never watched the news. Then I moved into video games, again never saw the news or read tabloids or kept in touch with any type of pop culture awareness... I wasn't exposed to Britney until 2010 when her Glee episode came out.  I mean, I'd heard a handful of songs; Baby, Oops, Toxic, Womanizer, Circus and If U Seek Amy. My mom had the BOMT album, and I had the OIDIA video on a McDonald's VHS tape that also had Bye, Bye, Bye. But I didn't know who she was outside of the Oops and Baby singer and that she'd had a divorce in 2007 and some bad performance where she'd been reported as saying immediately afterwards that she looked like a fat pig (which I assume now in hindsight was false...).

[ExplicitBrinty]

2 hours ago, jamesedward94 said:

I was only 4 when her first album came out, and I was too young to even know what the VMAs were at that time. My parents even made me throw away her CD bc they said she was a bad influence and didn't approve of how she dressed with the all the belly shirts. The first iconic thing I remember actually witnessing was when they reported on the news that she had shaved her head.

But yeah, just sucks that so many people got to witness her prime first hand as it actually happened....

 

That's MY story too!!!! I am so shocked, it's like reading myself...

 

I was 3/4 and didn't understand all that was happening (vmas, singles, remixes...)! My parents didin't want me to go alone on her website because she was too **** (I only go once and it was when there were the tiger thing!!)

My parents also informed me when she shaved her hair 

 

(But after that, she was hugely criticized and I started loosing interest... Until 2010 when I tried listening to Blackout and Circus. It came back of nowhere and since then I'm a fan again!)

It was and still is really hard to be a Britney fan for me tbh

 

PS : funny story, I didn't know remixes actually exist before B in the Mix, but when I listened to Overprotected, I knew there were changes between the one on GHMP and Britney. So I remember playing the first cd and running till an other device to play the second cd in the same time and compare the versions 

[IWillStillLoveYou]

When the news broke about her shaving her head I remember seeing it and kind of laughing at it (wasn't a Stan back then and also only 10) then also the 2011 BBMAs i thought it was ridiculous how she lip synced. Then in 2013 i saw the light of Godney and ever since then I have been devoted 

[RafaelSpears]

Stanning for Primeney when I was a kid is the best ever and I'm so sad for kids nowadays stanning for a basic like Snake and Kittypurr 

[TripInTheZone]

I wasn't even talking when her first album came out 

[britney_rocks]

1 hour ago, JoffBaratheon said:

Britney lip syncing drama began with In The Zone  poor you and your dreams 

Inexcusable flop kid TBH 

Hmmm no. Actually it began during the Oops Era at the Rock in Rio concert. The Brazilian media was cruel to her.

[BraveGraphics]

I remember when I'm slave 4 u video came out and when I was at school someone played the music video on the computer and the whole class was just shocked watching it lol. 

Also my older brother love her debut album BOMT and I remember I was so young hearing "oh baby baby" when he played her cassette. 

 

Good old times 

[Vgameman2011]

Yeah. I was 5 when BOMT came out. My step sister had the album and I listened to it constantly. 

 

I remember for my 7th birthday my dad took me to Best Buy to get whatever I wanted. I chose the Oops! I Did it Again.. CD. 

My dad was like.. "are you sure son?"

I was like.. 

How my parents didn't know I was gay is beyond me. 

[MonaLisaRebels]

I also was 4 when her first album came out and i grew up in a very conservative christian home so Britney Spears represented everything that was a no for me and my sisters. We weren't allowed to watch MTV or even the performances on New Years because we weren't allowed to listen to any music that wasn't christian. I pretty much became a fan of Britney during 2007 when most people were making fun of her. I received a CD player for my birthday and I was messing with the radio dial thing one night and this station came on and they would play the top ten requested songs of the day and they played Piece Of Me and i had such an eargasm because I hadn't heard anything like that ever. They also played Gimme More one night and I lost my **** again. So I ended up getting an ipod for christmas and Blackout was the first album I ever bought on my own with my itunes gift card(and yeah I got in trouble).

thanks for listening to my life story

 

[Slave4Brit88]

Growing up with Spice Girls, Britney, BSB, Nsync etc. omg the 90s/early 00s were the bomb. Poor kids today  And yeah it's kinda hard for ppl who didn't grow up with it to really appreciate the complete Britney domination, she was EVERYWHERE! 

[PieceofBritney]

I fell in love with her with Slave but I didn't follow her(I watched all her performances and videos tho, the day they came out.) like I did since 2007...so you could say I kinda missed it. 

[tsss]

it was 2006, I was only a kid without internet/not really interested in tv
I found her CD in a music store, I liked the cover and then it's all started, I watched MTV and local music channels all day long to see her 
goood I didn't have internet till like 2009,didn't know any news,only magazine articles. I was so lucky that I've seen premiere of Radar music video on tv, I LOVED it...it was like surprise gift
well we waited MM video like hundred years without any announcement and it was bad surprise so yeah better be prepared now 

[JoeyB217]

I'm old. I've been here for it all.

[Melinda]

I was 11 when BOMT came out... and was 14 when she slayed VMA stage with banana  im so ******* glad i was at an age so i remember all of it,

Spice girls came first tho, i saw them live in 98... best time of my life, until Britney came along  90's were the ****!