Britney Spears

Britney Spears

By 2003, Britney Spears was the first artist in the history of Nielsen SoundScan to have four consecutive albums debut at number one, and she was one of the hottest celebrities in the world.

In 2004, Spears announced a career break in order to start a family. Because of this break and a variety of personal problems, her career was all but dead by 2006, and she was reduced from “super star” status to fodder for late night comics and tabloid magazines.

Americans love to give second chances. (We also love to destroy our heroes first, but that is a subject for another blog post.) So when the announcement was made that Spears would perform “Gimme More” at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, the anticipation was huge. This was to be her “come back” appearance when all was forgiven. She was [click to continue…]

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