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In Britney Spears’s Memoir, She’s Stronger Than Ever

“The Woman in Me” reveals plenty about her life in the spotlight, and tempers well-earned bitterness with an enduring, insistent optimism.

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By Leah Greenblatt

Leah Greenblatt is a writer and critic living in Brooklyn.

It’s either a coincidence or a tribute that Britney Spears’s new memoir, “The Woman in Me,” shares its title with one of Shania Twain’s best-selling albums; she is a Southern girl, after all, and Twain helped write one of her early hits, “Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know.” “Woman” offers a familiar story of troubled, vertiginous stardom, written in platinum and flashbulbs. But here it has the cadences and stagecraft of a country song: striving, plucky, littered with almost operatic betrayals and misfortune. It’s also a tale of qualified triumph, albeit with its own star-crossed postscript. (The book, which The New York Times obtained in advance of its authorized release, was not edited in time to include her pending divorce from her third husband, Sam Asghari.)

The phrase “speak your truth” has long passed into eye-rolling cliché, the stuff of self-regarding TikTok confessionals and aspirational Etsy merch. Spears, though, has genuine cause to use it: She is still emerging, famously, from the black hole of a bizarrely visible captivity whose conditions, revealed in recent court hearings, seem outrageous and frankly absurd in the 21st century. For 13 years under a strict conservatorship overseen by her father, Jamie Spears, she could not see her two sons without approval or choose her own meals; she was forbidden to drive a car or drink coffee or remove her IUD. Perhaps most egregiously, she was forced to maintain a rigorous performance schedule — including a series of Las Vegas shows that generated tens of millions of dollars, from which she was allowed to access a maximum of $2,000 per week. (Her father and some of his associates, unsurprisingly, drew much higher salaries.)

Most fans and even casual followers of the news know the often-infuriating details of those events by now, or can find them readily available online. They also probably know the broad strokes of Spears’s upbringing in rural Kentwood, La., where she cultivated an early love for singing and dancing that led her, at age 11, to become a regular cast member on the 1990s revival of “The Mickey Mouse Club” alongside a stable of future stars that included Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Keri Russell and Ryan Gosling. What Spears fills in, in prose that is chatty and confiding and occasionally salty, is the ongoing thrum of family dysfunction and fear — her father was an alcoholic who struggled financially, and her mother, Lynne Spears, often raged over his drinking and habitual disappearances — that drove her to seek refuge in performing.

Confoundingly, Spears reveals that Lynne began supplying her with alcohol at age 13, sharing daiquiris they called “toddies” on road trips to the beach in Biloxi, Miss.; by ninth grade, she had become a regular smoker and lost her virginity. There are other revelations of the kind that send gossip-site algorithms into overdrive: most notably her relationship with Timberlake, with whom she was “pathetically” in love, and the abortion he more or less demanded she get when she became pregnant, even while the fact that they were sexually active was still being assiduously withheld from the press. The book also details a brief entanglement with the actor Colin Farrell, which she fondly portrays as a two-week brawl (“we were all over each other, grappling so passionately it was like we were in a street fight”) and her affinity for Adderall.

There are several overt villains here, a fraught landscape of abusers and opportunists in which Jamie Spears — who could be elusive, erratic and frequently cruel about her weight and her requests for small privileges, like reworking a dance move she felt was unsafe — looms large. A scene where he informs her of his legal takeover of her professional and personal life by saying “I’m Britney Spears now” is chilling. The singer is kinder to Timberlake, but he too emerges as a sort of casual scoundrel — breaking up with her via text message, then breezily recasting her as a cheating vamp and a narrative foil for his breakout solo debut, 2002’s “Justified.”

Anecdotes of invasive, oblivious media, too, are predictably noxious: Ed McMahon on “Star Search,” joking with a 10-year-old Britney about his fitness as a boyfriend; Diane Sawyer berating her in an on-air interview post-Timberlake breakup: “You did something that caused him so much pain. So much suffering. What did you do?” She is asked about her breasts and her diet by more talk show hosts than she can count.

And of course, Spears is continuously assailed for her music, the candied pop monoliths that placed her at the Hot 100 pinnacle of turn-of-the-millennium mass culture. “I was never quite sure what all these critics thought I was supposed to be doing — a Bob Dylan impression?” she writes with palpable frustration. “I was a teenage girl from the South. I signed my name with a heart. I liked looking cute. Why did everyone treat me, even when I was a teenager, like I was dangerous ?”

Throughout the book, Spears repeatedly portrays her relationship to creativity as a kind of pure soul connection, a private communion with godliness independent of outside forces and opinion. Details on the actual salient process of music-making, though, are scant: a little nugget early on about listening to Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” the night before recording “…Baby One More Time”; high praise for the kindness of collaborators like Elton John and the Swedish producer Max Martin.

The mostly linear narrative in “The Woman In Me” tends to treat these moments and many other well-documented highlights of her career as passing or ancillary, a distant cacophony muffled by the much louder noise of her personal struggles. Still, the facts of it are presented so cleanly and candidly that “Woman” seems designed to be read in one sitting. It’s nearly impossible to come out of it without empathy for and real outrage on behalf of Spears, whose admitted bitterness over the dire circumstances of the last decade-plus of her life — she no longer speaks to her family, and says she has no immediate plans to return to recording — is tempered by an enduring, insistent optimism.

She has some reason to expect better outcomes this time. The last several years have seen a sort of collective reckoning with offenses of the recent past — an acknowledgment of the almost gladiator-like glee with which celebrities, particularly female ones, were ritually dismantled and assailed for the size of their thighs or the messy details of their love lives. Some stars, like Sinead O’Connor and Janet Jackson, saw their entire careers derailed by a single notorious moment, and never quite recovered in the public eye. (That Timberlake had a heavy hand in the latter’s downfall as well feels like an unfortunate symmetry.) Today, fat jokes have been carefully excised from the repertoires of most late-night hosts and tabloids, and mental health is generally treated as an open-source conversation, not a punchline.

As freely confessional and often furious as it is, “The Woman in Me” isn’t quite the blazing feminist manifesto that some witnesses to history may have wanted Spears to write, nor the kind of granular, completist portrait-of-an-artist autobiography that others have dutifully supplied in the past. It could be argued, though, that she never stopped telling us who she was — in loopy hand-held videos on Instagram and, naturally, in her vast catalog of songs, with their lyrics about loneliness and emancipation, desire and defiance. It’s only pop, after all, and Britney did more than most to make it bigger and shinier and more bedazzling — a blond supernova dancing at the edge of what feels a lot, from this vantage point, like the last gasp of monoculture. Now maybe we can let her live.

An earlier version of this review misstated the nature of Britney Spears’s performing schedule in Las Vegas. She did perform a series of lucrative concerts in the city, but they were all during a single residency, not two residencies.

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Britney Spears's highly anticipated memoir, The Woman In Me , is officially on the way.

"Britney’s compelling testimony in open court shook the world, changed laws, and showed her inspiring strength and bravery,” Jennifer Bergstrom, Gallery Books Senior Vice President and Publisher, told the outlet in a statement. “I have no doubt her memoir will have a similar impact — and will be the publishing event of the year. We couldn’t be more proud to help her share her story at last.”

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The pop superstar reportedly signed a book deal with the publishing house Simon & Schuster for a tell-all memoir last year, worth $15 million, per People . The news of the upcoming memoir came three months after a California judge terminated the star's 13-year long conservatorship last November.

The "Stronger" singer has been outspoken about her estrangement from her family since the legal arrangement ended, sharing several new claims of how she was treated while her father, Jamie Spears, had control over her personal, professional, and financial matters. She is still entangled in legal battles with her father, who requested that she continue to pay his legal fees despite the conservatorship ending.

Since her emotional court address in June 2021, the "Toxic" singer's struggle has sparked a national conversation about potential abuses in the conservator system. The star has shared her plans to advocate for others who have had similar harsh experiences under a conservatorship. Days after the court decision, she revealed in a self-filmed Instagram video that she's "not here to be a victim."

"I'm here to be an advocate for people with real disabilities and real illnesses," she says. "Hopefully, my story will make an impact and make some changes in the corrupt system."

The Woman In Me is available for pre-order now via britneybook.com , Amazon , and wherever books are sold.

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Britney Spears is angry. Very, very angry.

“The Woman in Me,” the singer’s new memoir, is about more than just venting, of course. She offers detailed, cogent accounts of indignities that would leave anyone seething. But Spears has clearly packed away a lot of frustration over the course of her 41 years — particularly toward the people who enabled her conservatorship, including much of her family, and toward the swarms of paparazzi who badgered her nonstop.

And don’t get her started on Justin Timberlake . Not right now. But soon.

The book tracks Spears’ life from childhood to the not-quite-present — it ends before her brief marriage to Sam Asghari did — and it kicks off with litany of relatives who showed signs of mental illness or alcoholism. Spears’ past is full of givers and receivers of abuse, including her grandma Jean, who in 1966 fatally shot herself with a shotgun on the grave of the son she lost three days after he was born. Jean was only 31.

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In short, Spears didn’t have a blueprint for a normal life, and a normal life is far from the one she has led since becoming a pop phenomenon.

It’s a lot for anyone to take on — or take in. Here are eight takeaways from “The Woman in Me,” which goes on sale Tuesday.

She once had power to burn

Spears became a star with the release of “... Baby, One More Time ” when she was 16.

Four years later, she was playing the 2001 Super Bowl halftime show, which she calls “just one of the seemingly endless good things happening for me.”

“I landed the ‘most powerful woman’ spot on the Forbes list of most powerful celebrities — the following year I’d be number one overall,” Spears writes. She was getting offers that included Pepsi commercials and the movie “Crossroads,” though the latter put her off acting: She didn’t enjoy how she disappeared into her character.

“When I think back on that time, I was truly living the dream, living my dream. My tours took me all over the world,” she says, and she was having fun and “being 19.” She turned down a role in the movie version of “Chicago,” which she seems to regret. And she wishes she’d had even more fun.

“I had power back then; I wish I’d used it more thoughtfully,” she says, “been more rebellious.”

Los Angeles, CA - November 12: Free Britney supporters celebrate after hearing a Los Angeles Superior Court judge today formally has ended the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears' life for nearly 14 years outside Stanley Mosk Courthouse on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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She says she never had a drinking problem. Adderall, however ...

“I liked to drink, but it was never out of control,” Spears writes, even as she tells stories about drinking with her mother when she was 12 and later partying with the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan . She did plan a trip to Las Vegas with some tour friends in 2003, and says, “I was this little girl who had worked so much, and then all of a sudden the schedule was blank for a few days, and so: Hello, alcohol!” That’s when — apparently wasted — she married childhood pal Jason Alexander for 55 whole hours.

“Do you want to know my drug of choice?,” Spears asks. “The only thing I really did except for drinking? Adderall, the amphetamine that’s given to kids for ADHD. Adderall made me high, yes, but what I found far more appealing was that it gave me a few hours of feeling less depressed. It was the only thing that worked for me as an antidepressant, and I really felt like I needed one of those.”

Spears says she started taking Prozac in 2000 and had envelopes full of medicine handed to her while she was under the conservatorship, but never reveals what she is or isn’t taking at present.

But! She admits she smokes Virginia Slims. Smokes, present tense. Don’t tell the kids.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JULY 14: Protesters attend a #FreeBritney Rally at Stanley Mosk Courthouse on July 14, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. The group is calling for an end to the 13-year conservatorship lead by the pop star's father, Jamie Spears and Jodi Montgomery, who have control over her finances and business dealings. Planned co-conservator Bessemer Trust is petitioning the court to resign from its position after Britney Spears spoke out in court about the conservatorship. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

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Justin Timberlake was a real jerk

J.T., whom Spears met when they were both on “The Mickey Mouse Club” as a child, was her first major love affair they reconnected years later. He also broke her heart badly while the two were living together. She says he cheated on her repeatedly; then he broke up with her via text message, went on an infamous PR tour bashing her and wrote songs that painted her as the bad guy in their relationship.

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Sure, Britney cheated on Justin once too. She made out with choreographer Wade Robson , but that was it, she says.

“[A]s much as Justin hurt me, there was a huge foundation of love, and when he left me I was devastated,” Spears writes. “When I say devastated, I mean I could barely speak for months. Whenever anyone asked me about him, all I could do was cry. I don’t know if I was clinically in shock, but it felt that way.”

There was also the fact that she had once been pregnant with his child — a pregnancy she terminated after he insisted they were too young to have a baby. “I was told, ‘It might hurt a little,’” she said of her medically induced at-home miscarriage. Then she describes the cramping and agony she went through, lying on the bathroom floor as the medicine did its job. Timberlake, she writes, played guitar for her while she suffered.

Timberlake has since apologized for his behavior, albeit before the abortion story went public this week. But he cemented for Spears the idea that the world was run by and for men, while women wound up taking the heat for their misdeeds.

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She would have been fine on her own, guys

And then, there was the conservatorship, which came after her messy divorce from Kevin Federline and the loss of custody over their children. “If they’d let me live my life, I know I would’ve followed my heart and come out of this the right way and worked it out,” Spears writes. “Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself. I think back now on my father and his associates having control over my body and my money for that long and it makes me feel sick.”

She compares herself to male musical artists who have gone through substance abuse or lost all their money without ever losing their freedom. “I didn’t deserve what my family did to me,” she concludes.

Saying ‘no’ got her held against her will and drugged

Spears goes into some detail about the months she spent in a “luxury” rehab facility in Beverly Hills after her father told her over-the-counter “energy supplements” had been found in her purse. This happened just after she refused to do a dance move she considered too dangerous for her second Las Vegas residency — an engagement that was ultimately canceled .

“My father said that if I didn’t go, then I’d have to go to court, and I’d be embarrassed. He said, ‘We will make you look like a f— idiot, and trust me, you will not win. It’s better me telling you to go versus a judge in court telling you.’

“I felt like it was a form of blackmail and I was being gaslit,” she writes. “I honestly felt they were trying to kill me.”

In rehab she was taken off Prozac abruptly and put on lithium — a strong medication that her grandma Jean had been on — and forced to go through extensive therapy. She spent two months solo and then a month in a building with other patients.

“Three months into my confinement, I started to believe that my little heart, whatever made me Britney, was no longer inside my body anymore.”

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And then there is Dad

These days Spears is done with her family, it appears — especially her father, Jamie . Mom Lynne, brother Bryan and sister Jamie Lynn are targets of disdain (mixed with a few brief moments of appreciation), but dear ol’ dad gets nothing but rage.

She blames Jamie’s heavy drinking for “making us so poor” during her childhood, depicting a man who she says regularly drank himself beyond coherence. Jamie, who went to rehab in 2004, made millions off her while keeping her under his tight control for the 13 years of conservatorship, she alleges. And she says he berated her throughout — from her earliest years to the end of her conservatorship .

“You are a disgrace,” she quotes her father saying after she lost custody of her kids.

And when he became her conservator, he allegedly told her, “I’m Britney Spears now.”

P.S.: About Sam Asghari

Hasem, as Spears refers to her now-separated husband , Sam Asghari, seems to be her touchstone in mentions that are woven throughout the nearly 300-page book.

“Now my husband, Hesam, tells me that it’s a whole thing for beautiful girls to shave their heads,” she writes after giving her side of the story on that infamous head-shaving incident and her subsequent umbrella attack on a paparazzi’s car. “It’s a vibe, he says — a choice not to play into ideas of conventional beauty. He tries to make me feel better about it, because he feels bad about how much it still pains me.”

After dating for five years, the pair got married in June 2022, about a half a year after she undid her conservatorship. But in August, after the book was finished, Asghari filed for divorce from Spears .

And finally ...

In the acknowledgments at the end of the book, she addresses her fans : “If you follow me on Instagram, you thought this book was going to be written in emojis, didn’t you?” She caps that comment with a string of single-rose emojis — and sincere thanks to her “collaborators,” who apparently know who they are.

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Britney Spears Is Giving Us a Tour of Her Personal Life. I Hope She’s Prepared.

Her memoir, the woman in me , is out this week..

In the days before Britney Spears’ memoir, The Woman in Me , was even released, I would scroll my social media feed and be hit with a series of headlines blaring about various anecdotes from the book:

“ Britney Spears Writes She Had an Abortion Because Justin Timberlake ‘Didn’t Want to Be a Father.’ ”

“ Britney Reveals Why She Shaved Her Head .”

“ Britney Spears: Adderall was my ‘drug of choice’ because it made me ‘less depressed.’ ”

High school me, the millennial who grew up surrounded by a media that was intoxicated by Britney’s every move, was immediately drawn in, excited even. I found myself reading more to find out the story behind the headlines, from the person who’d really experienced it all, Britney herself.

But psychiatrist me worried for her. With the memoir, which is out on Tuesday, we are now getting a peek at the depths of Britney’s personal and mental health struggles (as she describes them, not diagnosed by me). And as a mental health professional, I know how big of a deal it is to be so vulnerable in public. That part of me feels for her.

Sharing a mental health experience, or a hardship like a pregnancy loss, is called self-disclosure. You can self-disclose to a friend or family member—or to the whole world. When it involves deeply personal details, though, it is far from easy, and should be done with care. The aftermath of self-disclosure can include any emotion from joy to sadness to grief to anger. Telling your story in public (especially over and over again) has the potential to make anyone reexperience—even be retraumatized by—events of the past.

Further, no one can control how others will respond to the disclosure. The person sharing may turn inward on themselves with negative self-talk as a result of someone else’s take on their story, or a clicky headline cavalierly summing up their terrible experience. It’s impossible to know what Britney is going through as her stories reverberate (though her most recent Instagram post might give us a hint that it’s really, really tough). But I worry about her experience of self-disclosing such personal details, given that she has gone through so much, and likely still is going through a lot.

This concern is something I have for my own patients too. They are not global pop sensations, and most of them will probably never write a memoir. But many of them talk to me about a desire to share. I treat a lot of college students—and they are on TikTok and other social media platforms. Their posts can draw attention from people they do not know in person, and sometimes in unexpectedly huge numbers. Many of the online spaces they participate in reward authenticity and vulnerability. Sharing hardships and “traumas” can feel natural, even expected of them. Disclosing personal pain can feel like a way to stand out, to add something to the conversation, or to get attention (in the form of likes and followers). Offline, it can feel natural and even necessary to share a mental health diagnosis with friends. And then there’s the fact that celebrities and athletes are opening up more and more about their mental health and personal struggles. It can create a domino effect of self-disclosure.

This is by no means a bad thing. Stories like Britney’s can reduce mental health stigma and increase help seeking. Self-disclosing can also help make other people feel less alone. I myself have written for InStyle about how I take Wellbutrin .

“When we write or speak publicly about our lived experience, we’re corroborating the experiences of others—making them feel seen, heard, and understood,” explains Maggie Smith , the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful (and a viral poem , “ Good Bones ”). The book includes, among many other things, details of how her marriage fell apart . “I was angry at myself, and more than a little ashamed, that I allowed this to happen,” she writes of falling into a predictable dynamic in her partnership with her now ex-husband in which she took on the bulk of the work of caring for their kids. Self-disclosure can provide a road map for others.

But before my college-age patients try to follow in the footsteps of celebrities or skilled writers, I want them to really pause and mindfully consider what sharing an intimate part of their lives may mean. For the person self-disclosing, the aftermath can be unsettling. Negative comments on a TikTok video—or, if you’re famous, a tabloid write-up—can worsen mental health outcomes. Even in a sea of positive feedback (which is never guaranteed), we have a tendency to remember the few harsh comments. And it’s easy to forget that once you put something on the internet, everyone can see it—from family to future bosses and partners.

Further, self-disclosure can also open the door for more self-disclosure from others: You share your story with someone, then they share theirs with you. If you are still struggling with your mental health, you might not have the capacity to hold those kinds of responses. As powerful as it may be to know that your story made it easier for someone else to share theirs, you aren’t their therapist and their story might trigger components of yours. Trust me when I say that, as a psychiatrist, listening to other people’s stories is one of the hardest things I do, and I am trained in it.

Before a person decides whether to self-disclose, it can help to think about the reasons why they’d want to do so, says Chase Anderson, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at University of California, San Francisco. “Are they sharing to help their healing? Are they sharing to educate others? Are they self-disclosing to help others feel seen?” Anderson has spoken openly about his own depression in public forums. But he prompts his patients, most of whom are still figuring out the fundamentals of who they are and how they relate to the world, to think carefully before disclosing their mental health struggles. There is safety in waiting.

Importantly, we don’t owe anyone our stories. The choice to self-disclose is a personal one, says Kali Hobson, an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist. What’s most important when self-disclosing is that you want to tell your story and that you will get something positive out of it. Even if I believe that stories can change culture, which I do, it is neither the responsibility of college students nor of pop stars like Britney to heal the world. No one should feel compelled to share their pain for the sake of others, and they should do so only when and if they are ready, and within their own boundaries. Owning our narratives, and being able to discuss them, is actually a therapeutic method, especially for trauma. But sharing on social media or in public writing is very different from sharing in a therapist’s office (which can still be quite difficult).

“I’m still surprised by the range of reactions people have to self-disclosure, from overwhelming gratitude to absolute condemnation,” Smith says of the response to her own memoir. Of course, you can’t always predict what the response will be—or how you’ll handle it. But you can try to prepare. If a patient were planning on publishing something deeply personal, Hobson says, she’d carefully consider with them what they’d do if their mental health worsened and they did end up in crisis as a result. “I think all memoirists need a good therapist, particularly around publication,” says Smith. “Feeling naked in public, even if you chose to take off your proverbial clothes, is a lot.”

Looking on with empathy, I hope Britney has a great support system this week and has plans in place for self-care. And I’d add to Smith’s comment: All of us sharing vulnerable bits of ourselves online probably need a good therapist too. I know I did.

State of Mind is a partnership of Slate and Arizona State University that offers a practical look at our mental health system—and how to make it better.

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Britney Jean Spears (born 2 December, 1981) - aka Britney Spears - is a recording artist and entertainer from Mississippi, US.

Britney Spears started performing at a very young age, by performing on stage productions and television shows. Then, in 1997, she was signed to Jive Records.

Spears was credited with leading the revival of teen pop in the late 1990s, she was said to be the most gifted teenage pop idol for many years. Her first album "Baby One More Time" became an international success, making her well known in the music industry. The album was released in 1999, followed by the album "Oops!... I Did It Again" in 2000. She had the best selling albums by a teenage solo artist at the time.

Britney did extremely well during her career and became a well known pop star, but in 2007 her personal life problems became public knowledge. During that year she released her fifth studio album called "Blackout", with such hits as "Gimme More" and "Piece of Me". Yet the same year Spears went into a drug rehabilitation facility for less than a day. The following night she shaved her head at a hair salon during her break down.

Spears admitted herself into other forms of treatment in the following weeks after her break down. The album "Blackout" went on to sell over three million copies.

In 2008, Britney went on her tour called "The Circus Starring Britney Spears", to promote her sixth album "Circus". The tour was one of the highest grossing global concert tours by 2009.

In March 2011, she released her seventh studio album called "Femme Fatale", which peaked at number one in the US, Canada and Australia. Its peak in the US tied Spears with Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson for the third most number ones achieved amongst female artists.

In 2012 she began to work on her eighth album called "Britney Jean", with the like of Will.i.am. The following year she featured as a vocalist on Miley Cyrus's song "SMS (Bangerz)".

Spears also renewed her contract with RCA and continues to record new music.

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Britney Spears is a true performer; every aspect of her show is designed to entertain and delight her audience. She always has a varied set list that includes old favorites like 'Baby One More Time' and 'Oops' as well as new classics like 'Womanizer' and 'Perfume'.

The set(s) at a Britney Spears show are always over the top, and you can expect a lot of surprises. A single performance may include: rain, fire, smoke, moving set pieces and confetti.

For her Circus Tour (circa 2007), the audience was transported to a three-ring circus in every way! I loved the stunts and trapeze tricks!

Her Dream Within a Dream Tour (circa 2002) had eleborate set pieces and props, including a car!

The short-lived Onyx Hotel Tour was raunchy and sassy, much like the 22-year-old Britney at the time. It was cut short due to knee surgery.

Britney's Femme Fatale Tour (circa 2011) was action-packed, and ended with her literally flying across a screen of sparks wearing giant wings!

Her Piece of Me Tour (Vegas, 2013- ) is absolutely spectacular, with incredible sets, video, audio and TONS of surprises. It goes through five DIFFERENT phases, and ends in an epic dance number!

Britney Spears loves to perform and entertain. Every show also includes incredible dancers and absolutely stunning costumes. She often changes five or more times over the course of two hours ... each costume getting more and more elaborate as the show goes on. She will sparkle, enchant, and seduce the audience, depending o the song. Imagining what the costumes will be like is one of the fun parts of seeing her live - she always delivers and delights.

Finally, the Britney Army is the BEST group of fans a super star could ask for, and being surrounded by them at a live performance is awesome. We are kind, enthusiastic, and will dance the night away while singing along to our favorite Britney tune. Don't be afraid to say hello - we love meeting fellow Britney fans!

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Britney Spears was and continues to be one of the biggest names in music of all time. She is the original pop princess, and watching her live is a once on a lifetime experience that is certainly not to be missed. Britney has a whole array of classics, the best of which are always performed at her shows. There isn’t a single person today who hasn’t heard of ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’, surely? Although Britney is not exactly known for her vocal skills, this barely matters when going to see her live. Her shows are a spectacular performance, with bright flashing lights and backing dancers galore. The costume changes are intense, with some outrageous outfits. And the set is incredible. For her Circus Tour, the entire stage was decorated like a circus with Britney as the ringleader: it was visually spectacular to behold. Classic hits such as ‘Toxic’, ‘Oops I Did it Again’, ‘Everytime’, ‘Circus’, ‘Womanizer’, ‘I’m a Slave 4 U’ and, of course ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’, were all performed and all received an incredible crowd reaction.

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What can you really say about an icon like Britney Spears. The princess of pop has an imaginable amount of hits so her setlist could fill a show that lasted all night, yet she selects what she believes is her finest work and what will please her ever-loyal fan base the most. It is worth noting that Britney has not sung completely live in many years, this is just given fact so when you move past this and appreciate the experience that she gives to an audience, it becomes secondary.

The video interludes, the impressive dance routines, the light displays and the dazzling costumes all turn a Britney show from a simple gig into an experience. Then add into the equation mega-hits such as 'Gimme More', 'Piece of Me' and '...Baby One More Time' and you have a show that others will struggle to top.

Especially when it comes down the all out performance that is the finale of 'I Wanna Go' and 'Womanizer', the audience scream and sing in equal measure as this well trained pop star owns the stage in a way that only Britney can. A delight to watch and a master at work.

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I love Britney Spears, so this may be a biased review, but I loved the show! From her first song, Work Bitch, to her last song, Till The World Ends, it was a great show. She changes outfits and scenes every couple songs, continuing to keep my attention for the whole show, even using a ring of fire for her performance of Circus. A couple of her most famous outfits we're on display in the entrance to the Axis theatre, which was fun.

I enjoyed hearing all of her songs and energy was great. Would definitely recommend if you are looking for a great show in Las Vegas.

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Goddess!!! What an incredible performer, she's still got it. I would forever see Britney live. I don't care if she has live vocals or not. She can dance her ass off and she looks amazing doing it! I am without words for the concert I went to last night.

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I just went to go see Britney over the weekend. She was absolutely amazing! Definitely in my top 5 performers. She put on a very entertaining show and even performed with a surprise guest...Tinashe. Would totally recommend go seeing her!

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Britney is lip-sync queen. This girl can´t sing and dance. I don´t know why she is famous.

But I am grateful, because I have seen it, and I think, who didn´t seen it, don´t believe it. It´s like watching DVD.

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She didn’t really need to be there. Bad lip syncing. Awful dancing and generally pointless. I don’t understand how Britney is still relevant. She’s done well considering she has little talent

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It was amazing. She keeps up with the dancers and looks great. The props on stage are so cool. I'm so glad I got to see her perform and can't wait to come back and watch the show again

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Britney Spears and her husband Sam Asghari have separated after 14 months of marriage, and Variety has learned the pop star is being represented by a dream team of Hollywood lawyers as she prepares for a divorce.

Spears has retained top divorce lawyer to the stars, Laura Wasser, and will continue to work with her powerhouse attorney, Mathew Rosengart, a former federal prosecutor who famously got her out of her conservatorship and out of the hands of her father’s control, Variety hears.

Neither Wasser or Rosengart immediately responded to Variety ‘s request for comment.

In a statement on his social media, posted the day after he filed for divorce, Asghari posted: “After 6 years of love and commitment to each other my wife and I have decided to end our journey together. We will hold onto the love and respect we have for each other and I wish her the best always. Shit happens.” In his post, he also asked for the media to be “kind and thoughtful.”

Spears and Asghari signed a prenuptial agreement prior to their marriage, a source tells Variety , describing the prenup as “rock solid” to ensure the pop star’s protection.

In the 24 hours after divorce news broke, tabloid media reports had swirled, citing anonymous sources that claimed Asghari was threatening Spears to pay him more than what the prenup provided. In a statement to Variety , a representative for Asghari denied those reports: “There are many claims that Sam is challenging the prenup and threatening to exploit his ex-wife with videos,” says Asghari’s rep, Brandon Cohen. “However, all these claims are false, as no negative intention has ever been directed towards her and never will be. Sam has always and will always support her.”

When Spears become engaged to Asghari, she was still under a conservatorship. She was, however, on a path to soon being free from the legal arrangement with Rosengart aggressively and successfully working to have the court suspend her father , which was the first step in the eventual termination of the conservatorship.

When she had testified towards the end of her 13-year conservatorship, Spears shared her desire to get married to Asghari and have more children, but alleged she did not have permission to do so, as her finances and essentially every aspect of her life were being controlled by her conservators, including her father, Jamie Spears. “I would like to progressively move forward and I want to have the real deal, I want to be able to get married and have a baby. I was told right now in the conservatorship, I’m not able to get married or have a baby,” Spears pleaded to the judge in June 2021.

At the time of the couple’s engagement, legal experts confirmed to Variety that under a conservatorship, the conservatee does not have the right to enter into any sort of agreement on their own, so a marriage license would have needed to be approved by conservators. “Technically, she can’t sign off on the marriage license while she is under the conservatorship,” an attorney explained .

In December of 2021, the month after her conservatorship was terminated, a judge granted Spears the power to executive documents on her own for the first time in over 13 years, which would include signing off on a marriage license. “She has the power to do whatever she wants to do,” Rosengart had said to reporters outside of the courthouse. Roughly six months later, the couple was married.

Spears and Asghari wed in an intimate ceremony at Spears’ home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., in front of around 60 guests, including Madonna, Selena Gomez, Drew Barrymore and Paris Hilton. Her father, mother Lynn Spears and sister Jamie Lynn Spears were not in attendance.

Spears’ marriage to Asghari was her third. The former couple does not share any children together. In April 2022, two months before they were married, Spears and Asghari announced she was pregnant . The next month, the singer said that she had lost the baby.

The superstar has two teenage sons, Sean and Jayden, with her second husband, Kevin Federline, her former backup dancer to whom she was married from 2004 to 2007. The couple starred in their own short-lived reality show, “Britney and Kevin: Chaotic,” in 2005. The singer’s first marriage was to her childhood friend, Jason Alexander, which was annulled in 2004 after they were married for a total of 55 hours. In 2022, Alexander crashed Spears’ wedding to Asghari and was arrested for trespassing at her home.

Page Six first broke the news that Spears hired Wasser in her divorce from Asghari.

As for Spears’ professional life lately, the pop icon has released two songs since the termination of her conservatorship: one with Elton John , “Hold Me Closer,” and another with will.i.am, “Mind Your Business.” This October, Spears is set to release a highly-anticipated tell-all memoir for which she inked a landmark, multi-million dollar book deal.

Spears has not commented on the split.

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with a statement from Asghari, as well as a representative for Asghari, in addition to divorce documents that were filed on August 16, and were obtained with Variety. The headline has been altered to reflect the divorce filing .

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