Britney Spears and Elton John’s duet has some adorable cover art. The “Stronger” and the “I’m Still Standing” singers released the artwork for their single last Friday, ahead of the highly-anticipated collaboration’s release on August 26. The art is comprised of two separate shots of the pop stars as kids: a color photo of young Spears in a pink dance costume, and a black-and-white shot of young John at a piano. The Spears-and-John collab, a new version of his 1972…
In recent years, fashion and beauty trends are giving us flashbacks from the `80s and especially the `90s. It has been quite some time now that the `90s style is spread like a virus and everyone owns a piece of cloth that reminds you of those days. When it comes to beauty, the hairstyle of the `90s was definitely the first trend to be embraced and we couldn’t be happier than to be given another chance to wear the hair…
The Britney Spears documentary highlighted once again the media’s power to elevate and destroy young women in the public eye. The singer was hunted and hounded, bullied and beleaguered until she cracked, while the cameras filmed it and we – the public – hungrily devoured the pictures and headlines. Tragically, Spears’ story isn’t an isolated incident – over history, we have routinely placed famous women on pedestals before unceremoniously tearing them down and mocking them as they fall. So frequent is this…
Netflix released its addition to the catalog of documentaries about Britney Spears’ 13-year battle against her conservatorship. Directed by Erin Lee Carr, Britney vs. Spears unearths the control that her father Jamie Spears held over Britney throughout the past decade, along with various unpublicized attempts by Britney herself in her fight for freedom. The documentary was initially planned to be a piece about the media’s portrayal of Britney over the years, but “the story was also about power and control,” Carr explains in the film’s opening.…
A Los Angeles judge has suspended Britney Spears’s father from the conservatorship that has controlled her life for 13 years, marking a major victory for the singer, who has long objected to the arrangement that has stripped her of independence. At a court hearing on Wednesday, Judge Brenda Penny ordered Jamie Spears suspended as conservator effective immediately. “The current situation is untenable,” Penny said after hearing contentious arguments from both sides. “It reflects a toxic environment which requires the suspension…
After months of heightened pressure from the public and passionate Britney Spears fans, the pop star’s father, Jamie Spears is officially stepping down as the conservator of her estate. According to Variety and TMZ, Jamie officially filed to relinquish his control over his daughter’s career and estate in Los Angeles Superior Court. Jamie states via his attorney in the official petition that though there are “no actual grounds for suspending or removing” him from the conservatorship, he wants to avoid a “public battle…
Britney Spears is speaking out again to contest an end to her conservatorship. The pop star spoke via phone in court today after she was approved by Judge Brenda Penny to chose her own legal representation in her heated battle to terminate her father Jamie Spears’s control over her personal and professional life. According to CNN, the “Toxic” singer expressed that she wants to formally charge her father with “conservatorship abuse” and remove him from the helm of her legal guardianship.…
amie Lynn Spears is speaking out on the #FreeBritney movement and her older sister Britney Spears’s conservatorship for the first time. In a series of video clips shared to her Instagram Stories, Jamie Lynn defended her choice to not speak out regarding Britney’s conservatorship in recent years, per People. The Zoey 101 actress said that she didn’t feel it was right to speak up when Britney was unable to do so for herself. Jamie Lynn’s comments come shortly after Britney appeared virtually in Los Angeles court for…
Britney Spears has finally spoken. On Wednesday afternoon, the pop star appeared virtually in Los Angeles Court to address her 13-year-long conservatorship helmed by her father, Jamie Spears. The hearing marked the first time that Britney Spears has publicly addressed the legal arrangement, which has been in place since 2008, after she suffered a public breakdown. Since then, Jamie Spears has held control over his daughter’s personal, professional, and financial matters. Spears addressed a multitude of grievances during her address…
Britney Spears is finally speaking out about Hulu and The New York Times‘ documentary, Framing Britney Spears. The film, which was released in February, dives deep into the events that led up to Spears’s conservatorship, which her father, Jamie Spears, has helmed since 2008. The Samantha Stark–directed doc also sheds light on the ongoing #FreeBritney movement on social media, which has fans calling for the pop star to be released from the constraints of the personal and professional conservatorship that has controlled her life for more…
