IK probably OP but this article descripes Brit "comeback" discussion the best way..

[Wombat]

“If Britney can survive 2007, you can handle today.”

It’s a phrase you can find on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers and just about any novelty item to help you get through the morning with a chuckle and a fist pump.
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For as long as we’ve known her, Britney Spears has been the face of the highs and lows of fame. Even while she was publicly struggling with mental illness, divorcing her husband and being a mother, we dined out on her struggles.

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Spears became a figure to forgive while she hustled to win that forgiveness from us, as not just an epic performer on the MTV stage, but a hitmaker, and a perfect mom with a magazine cover-worthy body, still oozing the same balance between *** and innocence she originated in the ‘90s.

As a woman, we’ve always expected her to be perfect in all of the things all of the time under the guise of rooting for her. We’ve itched to see her back on that stage kissing Madonna or juggling a python or in pigtails while she waits for the bell to ring; we have a list and we’re checking it twice. And right at the top? The desire for Spears to go back in time and give us what she offered in the very beginning — an impossible feat and why we can keep slapping the “comeback” label right across her face, in the same way Perez Hilton used Paint to scrawl coke lines across it.

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Glory, Spears’s ninth studio album, debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard charts this month. And while it may not be the No. 1 she’s used to, it bested her previous release, Britney Jean, not just in numbers but in critical response. Already dubbed “pop perfection” and a “masterpiece,” perhaps most illuminatingly, by several critics, Glory has been referred to as music “on her own terms.”

It “carries her one-of-a-kind electricity without depicting her as a victim or an avenging force; here she seems in control, a grown woman having a laugh on her own terms,” writes the L.A. Times, which may be validating for fans to hear, but Spears no longer needs this or any other critic’s permission to be “better” or “the best,” however that is defined. She’s already succeeded, by continuing to work and perform with music that, from Taylor Swift to Rihanna to Katy Perry, is still cited as an inspiration by today’s pop stars.

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http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/celebrity/from-tragic-to-comeback-how-britney-spears-survived-2007-and-continues-to-reign-despite-our-delight-in-her-downfalls

[BabyD01]

Luv this article

[ImSoCurious]

Slay whoever wrote that