'Reputable' media still gets it wrong on Britney

[zxcvb]

I know some posted about a recent The Atlantic article written by Spencer Kornhaber, and while it may have been well-intentioned, it's still critically inaccurate.

Firstly, it is accurate that Britney was "a 16-year-old Catholic student shimmying provocatively in her school halls."

Yet, it's ironic that the author writes "...Spears’s fandom haven’t learned the most glaring lessons about their idol’s struggles with fame"  when he also wrongly described Britney as "coming into superstardom at age 16", "a pop celebrity since age 16", but then also writing "early 2000s’ unchecked gossip media...magnified her every sartorial, romantic, or parenting snafu".

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/10/why-free-britney-saga-feels-so-familiar/616587/

I contend that the author's article is hypocritical when he is well cognizant of the fact that that same 'gossip media' was "one of the most powerful and lucrative forces driving the American news-gathering industry...and a Britney-related product easily [exceeding] $100 million a year, and helped make Britney Spears the most popular search term on Yahoo once again in 2007, as it has been for six of the past seven years", according to his own publication a dozen years earlier.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/04/shooting-britney/306735/

Anyone who has ever followed her knows she was never a 'celebrity' until late 1998, after she turned 17 years old.  In fact, her first appearance on MTV's TRL was on "Dec. 18, 1998, just days after her debut video entered the countdown..."

https://www.bustle.com/articles/182201-britney-spears-1998-trl-interview-will-make-you-so-nostalgic-for-old-britney

Britney Spears was born December 2, 1981...

As Britney accurately said in 'Piece of Me': "I'm Miss American Dream, since I was 17."

If the author or anyone else needs to be reminded...

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Thoughts???

[Roxxy]

It's accurate.

Although Britney first appeared on TRL after turning 17, ...Baby One More Time debuted on the Hot 100's Top 20 on November 1998 (before she turned 17).

One can easily argue that a Top 20 debut on the Billboard Hot 100 is a big deal and thus making her a "star" at age 16 - to a certain extent. 

[zxcvb]

1 hour ago, Roxxy said:

It's accurate.

Although Britney first appeared on TRL after turning 17, ...Baby One More Time debuted on the Hot 100's Top 20 on November 1998 (before she turned 17).

One can easily argue that a Top 20 debut on the Billboard Hot 100 is a big deal and thus making her a "star" at age 16 - to a certain extent. 

It is most definitely inaccurate.

He very specifically uses the description "a 16-year-old Catholic student shimmying provocatively in her school halls..." to reference her "coming into superstardom" and when she became "a pop celebrity."

Nothing to do with a "Top 20 debut on the Billboard Hot 100.

As you yourself stated, "Britney first appeared on TRL after turning 17", but only then did "a 16-year-old Catholic student shimmying provocatively in her school halls..." receive wide circulation.

Kornhaber's description is no different then critics saying "And for a certain section of her audience, for sure, she’s been a jail-bait fantasy, on the borderline of legal ****ography."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/britney-spears-glory-review/

Regardless, they are referencing both her debut music video, which received widespread circulation AFTER she turned 17, and her song 'Piece of Me', which she assassinates her critics.

 

 

[Roxxy]

1 minute ago, zxcvb said:

It is most definitely inaccurate.

He very specifically uses the description "a 16-year-old Catholic student shimmying provocatively in her school halls..." to reference both her "coming into superstardom" and when she became "a pop celebrity."

Nothing to do with a "Top 20 debut on the Billboard Hot 100.

As you yourself stated, "Britney first appeared on TRL after turning 17", and only then did "a 16-year-old Catholic student shimmying provocatively in her school halls..." receive wide circulation.

Kornhaber's description is no different then critics saying "And for a certain section of her audience, for sure, she’s been a jail-bait fantasy, on the borderline of legal ****ography."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/britney-spears-glory-review/

Regardless, they are referencing both her debut music video, which received widespread circulation AFTER she turned 17, and her song Piece of Me, which she assassinates her critics.

 

 

You're really holding onto that Piece of Me lyric, and she didn't even write that song to begin with but ok. 

My point is, if the song debuted at such a high position on the Hot 100 (a Top 20 debut is not a regular occurence then), then it means it has had "widespread circulation" either aided by the video or just by being an incredibly good pop song.

Lastly, I don't think it's that big of a deal whether or not they got it wrong or right. But if you're that pressed about an insignificant minute detail, I mean... you're allowed to do that but like... #choices 

I stand by my previous statement. 

[zxcvb]

18 minutes ago, Roxxy said:

You're really holding onto that Piece of Me lyric, and she didn't even write that song to begin with but ok. 

Britney didn't write Blackout's closing song about her ex-husband 'Why Should I Be Sad' either. 

And Beyonce Knowles has never written a song in her life.

19 minutes ago, Roxxy said:

My point is, if the song debuted at such a high position on the Hot 100 (a Top 20 debut is not a regular occurence then), then it means it has had "widespread circulation" either aided by the video or just by being an incredibly good pop song.

But when did Britney come into superstardom and become a pop celebrity?

In November 1998, or December 1998?

22 minutes ago, Roxxy said:

Lastly, I don't think it's that big of a deal whether or not they got it wrong or right. But if you're that pressed about an insignificant minute detail, I mean... you're allowed to do that but like... #choices 

It is a significant detail considering that the 'unchecked' media, according to the author, "magnified her every sartorial, romantic, or parenting snafu".

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2 hours ago, Roxxy said:

It's accurate.

Although Britney first appeared on TRL after turning 17, ...Baby One More Time debuted on the Hot 100's Top 20 on November 1998 (before she turned 17).

One can easily argue that a Top 20 debut on the Billboard Hot 100 is a big deal and thus making her a "star" at age 16 - to a certain extent. 

Id say she became an international ww famous star in early 99, but I agree with ur point bc by the end of 1998 she was already starting to be famous in the USA at least 

She was already giving some interviews when she was still 16 years old 

Here BOMT was already #14 on Billboard hot 100

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And here she says shes 16 and confirms BOMT is already #14 on billboard

0:13, 1:22

 

[Roxxy]

5 hours ago, Bundy said:

Id say she became an international ww famous star in early 99, but I agree with ur point bc by the end of 1998 she was already starting to be famous in the USA at least 

She was already giving some interviews when she was still 16 years old 

Here BOMT was already #14 on Billboard hot 100

0:08 

And here she says shes 16 and confirms BOMT is already #14 on billboard

0:13, 1:22

 

I didn't even bother doing a quick search but I respect the way you came through with the receipts. I have no choice but to stan.