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This has been the first year of freedom of Britney Spears: dances, beaches and rancor

2022-09-30T10:36:17.678Z


A year after freeing herself from her father's judicial guardianship, the singer has regained control and the narrative of her life and has taken advantage of the time to travel, get married and settle scores


In the cinema, the stories end with an

End

and credits.

But in real life they continue to unfold right up to the coffin door.

The story of the guardianship of singer Britney Spears, subjected to strict parental control by court order for 13 years, had a movie ending: the princess of pop, locked up in a castle in Las Vegas, was freed by an army of fans , with no other weapon than a

#FreeeBritney

(Freedom to Britney).

Movements for her release, documentaries... A wave of protests began in 2019 when

The New York Times

began to echo what her followers had been warning for a long time: the artist was not well.

As much as her or his Instagram account

shows

of Las Vegas said otherwise, the singer was a puppet in the hands of her father, who had taken advantage of her psychiatric admission in 2008 to take charge of her life and her fortune.

This change in social perception was decisive so that on September 30, 2021, just one year ago, Spears finally achieved her freedom.

World attention waned then, but life went on.

If there were post-credits scenes in Britney Spears' movie, they would show her naked, drinking champagne, on a paradisiacal beach.

Since she regained control of her life, the 40-year-old singer has done what anyone in her situation would do.

"She has traveled the world, she has been on the beach practically all year," says Juan Sanguino, journalist and author of the book

Britney, One More Time

.

“Essentially, she has dedicated herself to doing what she likes the most, which is trying on clothes, dancing, doing yoga, being with her girl and being on Instagram.

Because she is addicted to Instagram.”

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In the last year, the singer has been more present on this social network than on Spotify.

She has only published one song, a duet with Elton John in which they cover old songs by the English artist.

In this same time she has shared 483 photos and an undetermined number of

stories

on Instagram, causing a cascade of headlines.

"For the public, this first year of free Britney has meant the discovery of her as a person," says Sanguino.

“Because much has been said about it in terms such as an icon, a star, a symbol or a metaphor.

But she had never been talked about as a person from her until now.”

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After years gagged, Spears is now telling her own story.

And she is doing it on Instagram, a platform where she has 42 million followers and which she uses almost like a virtual diary.

She here she publishes her free, happy and uncoordinated dance sessions.

She shows her off at home, compulsively trying on clothes as she sways her body from side to side, staring at the camera.

She has wasted a lot of time locked up and now she is broadcasting live everything she wanted and couldn't do.

Here she announced that she was going to have her first glass of champagne in 13 years.

Her first visit to a bar ("I feel so sophisticated," she said).

Her first time sailing.

Her first selfie.

"It's the year of firsts... fulfilling my bucket list I guess," she wrote in one of these posts.

A demonstration of the #FreeBritney movement in Dallas (USA), on September 25, 2021. Omar Vega (Getty Images)

She also announced her third pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage.

And her third marriage, with the Iranian model Sam Asghari, 28 years old.

Getting married and increasing the family were two of the singer's great wishes, which she was unable to fulfill during her guardianship.

The wedding was attended by celebrities such as Paris Hilton, Drew Barrymore, Selena Gomez, Madonna or Donatella Versace - who designed her dress -.

But there was no trace of the Spears family.

The interpreter of

I'm a Slave 4 U

She is at odds with her father, against whom she is waging a legal battle over the consequences of her guardianship.

But also with her sister, her brother and her mother for the role of facilitators they have played in this process.

Her absence from the link that attracted the most attention, however, was that of her children, Sean Preston, 16, and Jayden James, 15, the result of her marriage to the dancer Kevin Federline.

It was the minors themselves who explained their absence a few months later, in a television interview with their father in which they confirmed their estrangement.

“I just want him to improve mentally.

When she gets better, I really want to see her again, ”said the smaller of the two about her mother.

The rags, at the Spears' house, are washed in public and on Instagram.

And that's where Britney went to share a voice message from her assuring that a part of her had died: “I literally have no purpose anymore.

They were my joy.

They were my everything.

I hope to see you.

That's what I live for.

And suddenly they disappear.

Spears has broadcast her life live through social networks, but she has also done it on a deferred basis.

In these months she has gone to Instagram to share details about her judicial protection, phrases full of rancor sprinkled with emoticons, in a disjointed speech that the tabloids have analyzed and interpreted with relish.

"I think she is suffering from a clear situation of post-traumatic syndrome," says Sanguino.

“It is as if she had just been released from a kidnapping.

She was managing it with a therapist, but the way to learn to live with what she has suffered is also to recognize it, proclaim it and share it”.

He has also used his social networks to settle accounts with former colleagues, perhaps going too far on some occasion.

He accused her ex, singer Justin Timberlake, of using her to gain "fame and attention" in a

post

he deleted after a few minutes.

She also regretted that they put thin dancers on her to make her complex, "not like Christina Aguilera", in a message that many interpreted (including Aguilera herself, who stopped following her on networks) as a criticism of the body of her colleague.

"This new Britney is more badass, more forward, more inappropriate from the media point of view," Sanguino concedes.

“But she is also more authentic, more truthful.”

It has only been a year since the story of Britney Spears, the icon, ended and that of Britney Spears, the woman, began to be narrated in the first person.

She has the chiaroscuro about her, like any human story.

And she says a lot about the past of whoever was the princess of pop, but even more about her audience.

"Society has changed," says Sanguino.

“His case of hers has become a symbol of everything we had to leave behind.

Of that cruelty, of that wild misogyny of the two thousand.

People saw in Britney a chance to atone socioculturally."

And she has taken that opportunity to stop living as an icon and start living as a free woman.

Source: elparis

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