A year ago, Britney Spears finally delivered her truth about her broken life in the autobiographical book “The Woman in Me”. Containing terrible anecdotes about her 13-year guardianship or her relationship with Justin Timberlake, the work broke sales records upon its publication, marking a true renaissance. And if the American star’s return to music is long overdue, a biopic is in development to bring his story to the cinema. To make a point of comparison, the Arte channel had the good idea of commissioning a documentary series dedicated to Britney Spears.
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“The first popstar of the 21st century”
Before recounting her shattering start to her career with “…Baby One More Time”, a song voted best first single of all time, the first episode of this web series, called “Britney without filter” and narrated by Jeanne Burel, s I’m interested in the Disney machine. Or how did the big-eared plant “ shaped and conditioned an entire generation » for this vampiric cult of celebrity whose Britney Spears will later be a victim… The documentary, divided into five 12-minute episodes, intends to shed light on “ the workings of an entertainment society out of control ». « What happened to the pop princess? Perfect embodiment of the American dream, Britney Spears appears as the guinea pig of modern celebrity » underlines the Arte channel in a press release, describing the singer as “ first popstar of the 21st century ».
The second episode, which takes place in the early 2000s at the time when Britney Spears is at the height of its glory, analyzes the ambivalence of an America which “ oscillates between exaggerated puritanism and obsessive fascination with everything that revolves around sex “. The interpreter of “Toxic” simultaneously becomes “ the emblem and scapegoat of this culture », which will fuel her loss of confidence, expose her private life to broad daylight and begin her slow descent into hell, until this famous scene of the shaved head then the legal decision to place her under the yoke of her father Jamie. A terrifying and fascinating trajectory intended to mirror our contemporary society, to be discovered from January 15 on Arte.tv, YouTube and the channel’s social networks!