Here's a look at the Spears' catalog:
... Baby One More Time (1999): Featuring the chart-topping title track and the hits "Crazy" and "Sometimes," it arrived at the height of the bubblegum-pop explosion. It is tied for 26th on the list of top-selling albums of all time.
Sales: 14 million.
Oops ... I Did It Again (2000): The title track spawned its own dance craze and, along with the hit "Stronger," began Spears' exit from the teen pop craze. Sales: 10 million.
Britney (2001): The song "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" became the album's slogan, as Spears sexed it up with "I'm a Slave 4 U" and her career as tabloid target began in earnest. Sales: 4 million.
In the Zone (2003): With help from her onetime mentor Madonna on "Me Against the Music" and what may go down as her best song ever, "Toxic," Spears began her quest for being taken seriously.
Sales: 2 million.
Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (2004): The repackaging of her hits with a lame Bobby Brown cover and a throwaway dance song "Do Somethin'" didn't exactly make this compilation a must-have. Sales: 2 million.
[b]From the following stats it looks like she is going to struggle. However with all the stuff going on her life one cannot be too sure if this trend will continue.
Remember she has run over two people's feet in recent times, including an officer of the law,.. her fight in the courts for her children and prejudice shown by the judge towards her ex-husband. Britney Spears to be sued by powerhouse manager for not paying while partaking in a rather lavish spending spree which is precisely $8.06 (£3.89) per minute. Which adds up to $11613 per day.
When the "American Idol" host, who has a morning radio show on KIIS-FM in Los Angeles, asked Spears whether she was doing all she could for her children, Spears replied, "Oh, God, yeah."
"People say what they want and do what they do and it's sad how people, how cruel our world can be," she said. "At the end of the day ... you've just got to know in your heart that you're doing the best you can and that's basically it."
Originally posted by Sam The ShamIts bambi caught in the headlights syndrome. For all her descent into tackiness and depravity, there is still an 'innocence' about the way she does it. Its the curse of having been a child star growing up in front of you. On the one hand she probably wants to shed her cutie pie image, but on the other hand regardless of how tough she wants to be her public will always see her wanna be hardcore, as just a cry for help.
Her popularity is a mystery, no one will admit to buying one of her albums, plus the public animosity towards her music and bubble-headed persona is universal. How does she do it?
Heaven forbid that say someone as cute as Jody Sweetin of Full House fame became a porn star. Who could comfortably watch it? Britney suffers the same fate in that we will probably not fully accept her going over to the 'dark side.' Her declining record sales support that theory, that we don't mind a hint of a tease from her if done with a sense of mischievousness, but as full on vamp leaving nothing to the imagination, I don't think so. It would be like Sally Field or Meg Ryan at the height of their popularity deciding to play a whore in a movie that showed a lot of gratuitous fleshy sex scenes. It just makes people nervous.
The most enduring American tale that Hollywood ever tells is the story of redemption. The down and out champ or just the everyday underdog who gets over their pain and starts putting their life back together to climb to the top of their mountain again. The day she works out that the only product her fans want to buy from her is light and happy with a hint of slightly naughty will be the day that Britney finds headlines eager to declare that she is back.
For her to succeed is more than just the money that another round of success will generate or the people who will become famous trailing her star. For her to come back like the girl next door that we always wanted her to be, is the fairy tail ending that will make sense of all the madness. I think her fans need that more than she does, but if she indulges them by giving them what they want, a home girl pinup not a porn star tramp, she may never have the space in her trophy room to line up all the gold and platinum records she will end up selling.
The day her fans can see her eyes light up because she is switched on to life not lifestyle, will be the day we wont be wondering how she does it, it will be the day we will be simply asking for more.
Originally posted by RocketeerWell, maybe she'll do it again.
Here's a look at the Spears' catalog:
... Baby One More Time (1999): Featuring the chart-topping title track and the hits "Crazy" and "Sometimes," it arrived at the height of the bubblegum-pop explosion. It is tied for 26th on the list of top-selling albums of all time.
Sales: 14 million.
Oops ... I Did It Again (2000): The title track spawne ...[text shortened]... hat you're doing the best you can and that's basically it."
Originally posted by RocketeerWho the Hell cares..... more important things going on in the world or this country than the life a spoiled self centered brat She needs to look up the word personal responsibility in the dictionary
Here's a look at the Spears' catalog:
... Baby One More Time (1999): Featuring the chart-topping title track and the hits "Crazy" and "Sometimes," it arrived at the height of the bubblegum-pop explosion. It is tied for 26th on the list of top-selling albums of all time.
Sales: 14 million.
Oops ... I Did It Again (2000): The title track spawne ...[text shortened]... hat you're doing the best you can and that's basically it."
Originally posted by SMSBear716Only if you hold the book while she has a line to feel the full extent of the meaning of the word
Who the Hell cares..... more important things going on in the world or this country than the life a spoiled self centered brat She needs to look up the word personal responsibility in the dictionary