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On November 9, 2015 Britney Spears guest starred on "Chapter Twnety-seven", the fifth episode of Jane the Virgin's second season. The episode written by Jessica O'Toole and directed by Jann Turner displays Britney as the nemesis of Rogelio (Jaime Camil) playing a parody of herself, as she arrives to the Marbella Hotel to perform. We see her interacting with Jane throughout the episode, and we also learn that Rogelio is mad at her for a teleprompter incident that happened in 2009 when the two of them presented at the Latin Pop Music Awards, so he tries to confront her while she pretends not to know him. Jane eventually talks to her to find out she was the first to get mad at him for revealing to the paparazzi where she was gonna be in one occasion, but ultimately convinces her to reconcile with her father through a video call. Gina Rodriguez who plays Jane on the series commented about Britney on set “You can tell she just wanted to be there. I mean, you can tell she’s got comedy chops. Like nobody’s business.” Jaime Camil also talked about his experience working with Britney: "She’s actually very good as an actress. She’s so nice, always on time, always a professional, always ready to explore what is best for the show acting-wise, super sweet, super friendly. As you know, like seven months ago, she said that she really dug the show. But she is a mega-worldwide superstar so we were all pleasantly surprised about her cooperation and how willing she was to play with us and have fun. It was a really, really pleasant surprise." In 2020, Mexican actress Yadhira Carrillo revealed she was asked by Jaime Camil to play this role first, but she had to refuse due to the business that she runs in Mexico City.

The MTV Video Music Awards 2015 were held on August 30, 2015 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. They were hosted by Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift was the biggest winner, including the categories of Video of the Year and Best Female Video. Britney Spears presented the award to the winner of Best Male Video, who was Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars for Uptown Funk. We can see Cameron Duddy in the back, who directed the Uptown Funk music video, as well as Britney's Pretty Girls.

On August 16, 2015 the Teen Choice Awards were held at the Galen Center in Los Angeles. Britney Spears was awarded with the "Candie's Choice Style Icon" award, which was presented by Fifth Harmony. Besides that award, she was also nominated to Choice Song: Female Artist for Pretty Girls, but lost to Ariana Grande's One Last Time. Pretty Girls was also nominated for Choice Collaboration but lost to Taylor Swift's Bad Blood. She was accompanied to the ceremony by her two sons, Preston and Jayden, as well as her brother Bryan and her niece Lexi.

On July 15, 2015, Britney Spears and football player J. J. Watt presented the Best Female Athlete award at the ESPY's, which were held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

On May 17, 2015, Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea performed live Pretty Girls for the first time, at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, from the Axis Theater at Planet Hollywood resort, where Britney used to headline her Piece of Me residency. The performance was inspired by an 80's theme mixed with space sci-fi outfits and effects, with an entrance that made they look as if they were descending from a spaceship, thus serving as a continuation to the music video of the song, where at the end they're abducted by one. The performance received mostly positive reviews from viewers and critics. People Magazine said that Spears and Azalea proved they are more than just "pretty girls". Stating "From the moment they touched down on stage, the duo kept the crowd cheering with a fun, colorful performance." Entertainment Weekly also said that "Spears gave one of her most energetic televised performances in years." Watch below:

On May 13, 2015, Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea released the Pretty Girls music video. It was inspired in the 80's movie Earth Girls Are Easy, starred by Geena Davis, so the video portrays the fashion style of that decade, as well as the technology of the time. It starts with an alien Iggy Azalea crashing into Britney's pool, followed by Britney doing her a makeover. They go driving in a jeep to a car wash, where a dance number between Britney and her dancers ensues. They eventually meet Britney's friends and decide to go to a club, where a final dance break happens, until what seems to be a spaceship crashes the place, abducting Iggy back and taking Britney along with her. Before the credits roll out, we see once more Britney and Iggy dancing in the jeep to the beats of the track. Throughout the video, we see the demonstration of Iggy's powers several times, like turning the water pink, fixing a broken phone or making an ATM spill thousands of bills. We also see Britney's hair suddenly change from long and curly, to straight and long, to short and curly, then back to straight and long, though it's not confirmed if this is the result of Iggy's alien abilities too. It was directed by Cameron Duddy and Iggy herself, however Britney already had an idea in mind since before the collaboration happened. As she explained in several interviews "I love her work and I had an idea to do like a really girl power, fun Valley girl video". In another interview, Britney also revealed it was the first video she had done in a long time where she came up with the concept, saying "there’s a lot of dancing. I got new choreographers to come in and kind of do hip-hop dancing, which I haven’t done in a really long time, so the feel of the video is really different and hi-energy." The video was filmed in Studio City, Los Angeles on April 09 and 10, after Britney came back from a trip to Hawaii. Britney shared some pictures from the set through her social media, and there were also some clips recorded by bystanders showing some of the dance scenes, and revealing bits of the song, which was yet to be released at the time. About the video, Iggy Azalea said "[Working with Spears was] awesome. We collaborated so many months ago now, it's been a longtime in the making, figuring out whose album it's going to be on. It's going to be on hers and I'm super excited for it. It makes me super nervous! I just want to do her justice". In an interview for USA Today, Britney and Iggy also talked about the creative process of Pretty Girls and its video. Britney commented: Iggy weighed in on Britney's idea for the video: Finally, Iggy revealed Britney wanted her to dance as well, but she refused: "I didn't dance! She wanted me to,. It would be kind of obnoxious for me to direct a video and give myself a dance break. Like, 'Here's the video! And I gave myself a dance scene!' " The video started to leak a day before the premiere on YouTube. It went on to become Britney's fastest video to reach 100M views, however it would also be the most disliked one (though it has more than 1.2M likes too). It won the fan-voted competition of music videos of 2015 by Fuse. MTV got a slightly different version of the video, which has less flashing scenes at the beginning of the video, most likely for those that suffer photosensitive epilepsy. In 2019, a short clip of outtakes of the video leaked, where we see Britney by the pool, but with a different outfit and an apple. Related:

This day in 2002, Britney Spears attended the Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party. This day in 2006, she was spotted in Malibu This day in 2008, she was seen at the Levi's store in Beverly Hills In 2010 she was capture leaving her lawyer's office Brunetteney seems to be pretty common this time of the year, in 2013 she was captured out and about in Calabasas In 2015, a blonde Britney attended the Wild Night at the Zoo charity event for the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation More pictures of this event here A year later, in 2016, she was performing at her Britney: Piece of Me (2.0) Las Vegas residency. AJ from Backstreet Boys was the Freakshow guest. And Kevin was also there. More pictures of the show here In 2018 she shared a home picture before the Hollywood Beauty Awards, where she was honored with the Fragrance of the Year the night before She also graced us with a Sinatra cover Finally, in 2020 she got in a little posting spree from her trip to Hawaii, making fans question whether the footage was recent or not. We love you Britney Spears

On February 01, 2015, the Super Bowl XLIX took place in Arizona. During the commercial breaks, Britney appeared in a mysterious #SuperBowlRally ad, vocalizing in front of a mirror as she puts on some strips under her eyes. She was actually in attendance at the game along with her then boyfriend Charlie Ebersol and dad She also reunited with Steven Tyler, with whom she performed at the Halftime show in 2001.

On July 15, 2015, Britney Spears and football player J. J. Watt presented the Best Female Athlete award at the ESPY's, which were held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

#throwbacktuesday so with pretty girls recent anniversary I was on YouTube and this video was recommended to me! Omg I remember seeing this for the first time, I didn’t care much for the song but the pg live performances were so much fun! I loved the choreography to this song and use to dance to it all the time oh and she FRIGGGEN SLAYS the breaks down, look at her face at the end of the break down, mermaidney came to kill the night! fun fact: I was in 9th grade in 2015! I remember watching this performance at lunch on my phone all by myself in the corner as a closeted little Britney fan Anyway In the name of the Holy Spearit’ Shall there be a second coming Of Mermaidney! Amen

On May 05, 2015, Britney Spears appeared on The Ellen Show, wearing a medical boot after she injured her ankle during a Piece of Me performance in Las Vegas. This led her to cancel a couple of dates, which were re-scheduled. She explained the situation herself, while taking the opportunity to announce the residency would be extended for three more months. Ellen gave tickets for the show to her entire audience.

On May 04, 2015, Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea released their collaboration single Pretty Girls. It was produced by The Invisible Men, who co-wrote along with Iggy herself, as well as Maegan Cottone and British group Little Mix. The electro-pop track, which some critics considered was reminiscent of Hollaback Girl, was a bit more urban than Britney's latest singles. Lyrically it speaks about men following the "pretty girls" when they go out, like bees to the honey, utilizing several other analogies and expressions to describe their impression, the girls then taking their infatuation to get away with doing what they want. Recorded in September 2014, the song was teased by Britney in an interview with Extra, when asked about who would she like to collaborate with, and replying "I love Katy Perry, I would love to do something with her, or Iggy, that would be cool..." In December, Iggy confirmed the collaboration at the Jingle Ball Tour 2014: In March 2015, Larry Rudolph confirmed there were no plans to release a full album: "Right now we're just concentrating on putting out a few great singles as they come. We're not really talking seriously about a new album yet. Albums just aren't as important in the digital age as they used to be. Britney will get to one eventually, but not right now." However, Iggy Azalea thought otherwise, confirming later that month at the iHeart Radio Awards that she was called by Britney's team to tell her she would take the song as the lead single off her upcoming album, after Iggy had told them she was gonna put it on hers. She also revealed the tracked had been reworked to make it a "true duet" and not just her throwing her rap in the middle of the song. In March as well, Britney had talked about it in an interview for Extra, explaining how she came up with the idea of working with Iggy "after her seeing her song on TV". In April, they filmed a music video for the song, directed by Cameron Duddy and Iggy Azalea, and portions of the song could be heard from clips recorded by bystanders (we'll celebrate that anniversary in a few days). On April 30, a cover for the album was revealed on Britney's social media, though all the images would be immediately removed. It was later known that it wasn't the correct cover, since it originally depicted Iggy as a feature, when it was actually a duet. Notice the word "FEAT." compared to the "&" from the official cover The song eventually leaked in full, a couple of days before the official release. The next day it was announced that the song would be promoted on special Uber rides with a Britney theme, called "Bees", where passengers would be able to listen to the song for the first time. In an interview for Z100, Britney talked again about the collaboration, "I saw her video and I was just a huge fan. I was thinking about my next single for my next album and what I was gonna do, and I wanted to do a girl anthem. Something that was very girl empowering and that was kinda funny. I thought a whole take on valley girls and just kind of making fun of that would be fun for us to do. She was really down for it." She also spoke about eating salads with Iggy, meeting her dog, and shared her guesses about Iggy's nationality based on her accent, as well as her experience shooting the video. The song peaked at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100, yet it topped the US Dance Club Songs chart and also landed at #23 on the Mainstream Top 40. It was also #1 in Belgium and was among the Top 20 in several other countries, Spain and Sweden being the highest at #5. It was nominated at the Teen Choice Awards that year for Choice Song: Female and Choice Song: Collaboration. The song was first performed live at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, following the release of the music video and serving as a continuation to it. Later in the year, it was added to Britney's Vegas residency Piece of Me, and it was performed as part of the setlist until 2016. Iggy Azalea also performed the song on her personal shows later in 2016 This, following a Twitter controversy that happened in June 2015 after a Q&A where a fan commented about "PG flopping". but wasn't it a "true duet"? Britney didn't directly address these comments, but tweeted out: "Can’t wait to get back to Vegas. So thankful I have shows for the rest of the year to look forward to... #YouWantAPieceOfMe" which some fans considered as shade towards Iggy, whose tour dates had just been cancelled. We love a happy ending Come back in a couple of weeks for the anniversary of the music video

On April 03, 2015, a bootleg album by Britney Spears titled Life is a Beach: Live in Miami was released across digital platforms. The unofficial release came under the publishing of Interra Music, and it was eventually pulled off the platforms. Despite the album cover featuring a picture of Britney performing I'm a Slave 4 U at the 2001 VMA's, the audio compilation actually came from her 2004 Onyx Hotel Tour special broadcast, Live from Miami. It included the now iconic track Protected. Toxic - Live Protected - Live Boys - Live Showdown - Live Baby, One More Time - Live Oops! I Did It Again - Live You Drive Me Crazy - Live Everytime - Live The Hook Up - Live I'm a Slave 4 U - Live Shadow - Live Touch of My Hand - Live Breathe on Me - Live Outrageous - Live I Got That (Boom Boom) - Live Me Against the Music - Live It charted #20 on the Mexican iTunes and it was also Top 10 in Costa Rica, and Top 30 in other South American countries, while in the UK it peaked at #747. Related: