Spanish journalist and writer Juan Sanguino publishes the illustrated biography of the singer 'Britney. One more time'.

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Britney Spears or how a star became the 'Joan of Arc of pop'.

It's Britney *****, said Britney Spears at the beginning of one of her most controversial songs, Gimme more, and this could have been the slogan of her life this 2021. The one who is for many the pop princess of the 90's has had her own resurgence this past year, thanks to the #FreeBritney movement.

The singer has managed to free herself from her father's custody in a media trial. Although to understand the artist you have to go beyond her critical 2007 since the singer's story has been forged since her childhood in Mississippi (USA) in the 80s. This period and her subsequent fame are analyzed by journalist Juan Sanguino in his illustrated biography Britney. One more time (Bruguera).

For him, Spears' childhood is a "very heavy suitcase". "Her mother got pregnant with her after separating from her father, with whom she had a very volatile marriage, he was an alcoholic, very violent, they lived in a caravan.... They represented all the stereotypes of lower class people in the southern US. Very believing, but with very little culture, people with very little economic possibilities, and she was born as the savior of her family," he explains.

According to Sanguino, Spears' youth was based on taking care of her family on a psychological and economic level as a result of her triumph in dance and in the Disney universe. "This generated in her a sense of responsibility, discipline and a pathological self-demand that made her obsessed with being perfect and pleasing others. Throughout her adult life, we see how these two ideas are constantly shaping her thoughts and actions," he explains.

"This turns against her because the press is against her because they start to say that she is a naïve girl but in reality she is a sl**, they insult her, etc.," she adds.

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The reason why Britney fascinated and unleashed passions and hatreds at the same time was, among others, her sensuality. An empowered ***uality at just 16 that was accompanied by the mystique of a provocative, yet sweet and exemplary Lolita.

"She's a textbook broken toy from the point of view that society embodied all its anxieties around female security, also for girls, something that seems disturbing to us today but which in the society of the time was totally legitimate," he notes.

For him, Britney served as a catalyst for society's weaknesses and anxieties. "It broke with those traditional values because puritanical people also like to ****, what they don't like is to be talked about or to be known. Britney was that thing about being **** and blaming you for your ***ual desires and saying 'but I just put on a schoolgirl costume.' That had a very powerful effect on society because you'd say, 'Am I a pervert? Because it's making me *****," she stresses.

According to Sanguino, the reaction to Spears' first performances, in which every millimeter of the clothes she wore was commented on, or the criticism generated by the video clip of ...Baby one more time, highlight the puritanism of American society. "It highlighted this conflict between what is said and what is not, the taboos of society... At the time she was not considered a human being, but an almost science fiction figure," recalls the writer.

The focus on her virginity and not on that of other Disney industry peers such as Christina Aguilera was due to a strategy forged by her marketing team and journalists.

Her team wanted her to be asked, a journalist wouldn't think to ask. "The t.a.t.u.'s were asked if they were lesbians because she made out on stage, Britney was asked if she was a virgin because her team made her virginity part of her promotional campaign," Sanguino points out. The journalist points out that when she began to be asked about these issues, "it was open season". "I couldn't understand how a virgin girl could shake her hips like that with that skirt, that cleavage, that **** attitude, that tongue, that look...", he points out.

For Sanguino, this ***uality was learned and Britney saw it as a requirement within the music industry, "but she wasn't aware of the effect it had on people."

2007 or the year when making fun of celebrities "stopped being funny".

"For everyone it was like a reality show, a black comedy and not a Greek tragedy, which is what it really was," he points out. For the journalist, the drama "doesn't start there, it probably starts in 1981 and that is the culmination of a woman who has been brought up to be perfect and who loses control over herself".

According to Sanguino, Britney was "obsessed with being liked" and could not stand being treated that way by the press when she did "everything that was expected of her".

Britney is also not pleased with her father's decision to leave her isolated in a house and under his control and guardianship, nor does it do her the good expected by her family. "She can't get into a house because she goes crazy, she needs to be outside, shopping, showing off, because that's the life she knows, she feels that if she doesn't show off she doesn't exist," explains the writer, who recalls that she continues to do that on her social networks, where she also shows herself explicitly naked following her family's nudist tradition.

The singer owes her public her value, according to Sanguino, "depends on her eroticism, her image and her sweetness". "What she does is to sacrifice herself publicly, I don't know if she does it consciously or unconsciously so that the public can see what she has done with herself, which from a dramatic point of view is an incomparable climax," Sanguino points out.

For him, from a symbolic point of view, Britney was a martyr in the most religious sense, a "Joan of Arc who sacrifices herself for the sake of the show in the town square". She also took from this historical figure the idea of shaving her head. "It gives that demonic image of her punishing herself by removing her hair as a woman," she explains.

Despite that self-destructive force, Sanguino doubts that Britney would have wanted to take her own life at some point. "I don't think she contemplated suicide because she is a deep believer and a Christian and believes she would go to hell. She has a blind faith that everything happens for a reason, that makes her very much driven by the vagaries of chance. She trusts that God will provide," she explains.

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