What happened to the pop princess? The perfect muse of the American dream, Britney Spears appears to be the guinea pig of modern celebrity and the embodiment of the injunctions made to women. In five episodes, this web series retraces the trajectory of the first pop star of the 21st centuryth century, and reveals behind the scenes of a spectacle society out of control.
In 1998, “…Baby One More Time” is sweeping the planet. While the music industry is banking on music videos to increase its impact tenfold, Britney Spears, in her sexy schoolgirl outfit, is massively inviting herself into homes and becoming a model for young girls. Already star of Mickey Mouse Clubthe teenager, from a modest background and proud of her Southern accent, dreamed of the stage since a young age. But how can you be yourself when you have been, from childhood, trained to embody an ideal?
“We all have something of Britney in us.” In this first-person story, Jeanne Burel, who, like a whole generation of young women, grew up with the singer, retraces the trajectory of the woman who was nicknamed “the princess of pop”: from the phenomenal success of her first single to her new life, without filter, on social networks, through her shipwreck and her release from the abusive guardianship of her father. At the time of the reign of the screens (television then digital), Britney Spears appears as the. celebrity guinea pig modern and symbolizes in itself the mutation of the cultural industries, the staging of everyday life, the voyeurism of the public, the desecration of idols.
In the company of various speakers (journalists, authors, doctor of psychology, professor of communication, blogger, etc.), and drawing on archives, this documentary series in five episodes, punctuated by his greatest hits, brings to light the conversion of a life into a permanent spectacle, the making of consensus, our addiction to images, the accelerated evolution of the means of representation and communication, which has disrupted our relationship with the world, with others and with ourselves.
On the program:
Episode 1: To be or not to be yourself
Episode 2: Be sexy and shut up
Episode 3: Take, this is my body
Episode 4: We are not born a fan, we become one
Episode 5: I post therefore I am
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From Wednesday January 15, 2025 on arte.tv, YouTube and ARTE social channels
