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deepindutch · 11 months

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Image by the artist Ohyun Kwon; hat-tip to sea-change for helping me track that down; the internet is curiously unhelpful in providing further context.

I know: this is great. You love it, I love it, everyone loves self-referentiality in the service of, fine, “empowerment," I guess, if you really wanna be like that, although, again, I don’t. It’s a canny move, too – one way to fight accusations of disposability is by using your singles to make explicit your artistic evolution. It says I’m stronger, sure, but it also says I am not redundant.

Again: no one doesn’t love this, no one doesn’t love the chair dance or young Britney’s awesomely dismissive ”whatever“ when confronted with her boyfriend’s sleazy ways. But this line is only the clearest instance of the spirit of reinvention that runs throughout Oops!… I Did It Again – and her entire oeuvre. I want to take a moment, before we go on, to make explicit one of the driving principles behind this week: Britney’s body of work is very much a body of work, one that is perpetually in dialogue with itself as it revisits recurring themes with changing but consistently coherent perspectives. Her albums reflect and engage with her ever-changing position in the public eye, but also with her evolution as an artist, each one in conversation with and building on what came before. It’s not always as explicit as my loneliness ain’t killing me no more, but it’s absolutely always there, if you give Britney enough credit to bother looking.

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deepindutch · 11 months

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