Britney Jean Spears is a well-known pop singer throughout the world. The 34-year-old pop artist was born on December 2, 1981 in Mc.Comb, Mississippi. Britney was raised by both of her parents Jamie Spears and Lynne Spears in a small rural town of Louisiana. At a young age Britney liked to dance and do gymnastics, taking classes and winning several competitions. Although she is shy, Britney had high hopes and dreams to be like her idols Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, so she took vocal lessons in hopes to be a star along side with them. Attempting to take her talents to new levels, at the age of 8 Britney auditioned to get on the new and upcoming The All New Mickey Mouse Club T.V show, but unfortunately got denied due to her young age. Although …show more content…
she got denied, she took her talents elsewhere. Britney’s mother took Britney and her younger sister to New York City, getting Britney into a Broadway show called “Ruthless”, and remaining there for two years. After the two years they ended up going back to The Mickey Mouse Club for a second attempt to join the club. However, this time she made the cut and worked along side with Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, J.C. Chasez, which we will eventually get to know them as members of the multi-platinum selling N-SYNC. When she made it into the Mickey Mouse Club, Britney was known as a Mouseketeer, receiving extensive training in drama, dancing, and singing, which forced her to grow up faster than most kids and miss out on “ normal” kid activities.
On an unsteady wave of luck, the Mickey Mouse Club was canceled, steering her away from achieving her dreams of becoming a star, but allowing her to live the teenager life, attending pool parties and becoming Homecoming Queen. Although she got the chance to make up for time lost during her sting on the Mickey Mouse Club, she was becoming desperate to go and chase her dreams again. Once again Britney went to New York in an attempt to get her demo tape out to major record labels such as Sony and Mercury, but unfortunately getting turned down. Britney would soon become a 14x platinum-selling artist thanks to Jive …show more content…
Records. Rise to Stardom Jive Records took Britney and made her the star we know her as today. In the late 1998 Jive records released her debut single “ Hit me Baby One More Time”, which was a hit around the globe. Britney only being 16, made a controversial video, dressing in a young school girl uniform, which got her name in everyone’s mouth. Her single went number one on the charts for three weeks in a row. The public went crazy for her music, selling millions of albums worldwide, which would land her album on the top of the charts six weeks in a row. Following her previous controversial act, she will take the cover of the Rolling Stones Magazine in a suggestive pose, which will gain her popularity with young girls, teenage boys, and older men.
Now 17, Britney will be a bigger impact on pop culture than she expected. Britney ended up selling over 10 million copies of her debut, as the Billboard top Female pop artist, Top New Pop artist, and Top Billboard 200 album. In the early 2000’s Britney was nominated for two Grammy awards. In 2000, she released her second album, which topped the singles charts five weeks in a row. Although her rise too stardom seems like something everyone would dream for, she would soon start to experience the negativity side of it. She would soon get backlash from fans saying she was sending bad messages to little children because of her taunting actions and skimpy clothes she typically wore during her performances and in her videos. This would soon create conflict between her, her mother, and her management, in which all are pulling her in different directions. This is going to lead the media to start aiming at the 20-year-old pop princess at all different directions, they started aiming at her perfections and
imperfections. The Downfall Following her next album in which she would release in 2002, her world started to tumble downhill. After her four year relationship with a former Mouseketeer, Justin Timberlake will soon be known as the guy who took her virginity even though Britney announced she would claim celibacy until marriage and her soon to be ex- boyfriend. Justin and Britney broke up causing Britney to take a six-month break from her career and the media, although her hits were still number one on the charts for weeks on in. Although she desired to take a break, the media did not allow her to get the privacy she wanted. Following her relentlessly, the media made it their business to track her down and find out exactly what she was up to. They caught her several times out drinking and smoking excessively on wild nights out. The stress was due to Britney’s parents divorcing and her bitter breakup with Justin Timberlake. In 2003, Britney would make an attempt to get her career and her personal life back on track. She dropped another album “ In The Zone”, which included a song “Touch of My Hand” which was about masturbation. The album made Top 200 Billboards once again which shows she got her career back on track, but her personal life seemed to be slipping away. In 2004, Britney got married to a Kevin Federline, a former backup dancer who she had taken on tour with her. This takes Britney into the next stages of her life. In 2005, she and Kevin had their first son, who goes by the name of Sean Preston. Two years later, their marriage would end, and Britney would eventually admit in a documentary, to having married Federline “ for all the wrong reasons”. Signs of Psychological Problems Later in her life, she starts to show signs of a break down. She starts suffering from depression after she both of her pregnancies. As some of us might know, in 2007 Britney Spears had a mental breakdown and shaved her head, which ended up going viral and caught the eye of the media. Britney is now a mother of two, so this leads to the questioning of her sanity and her ability to provide a safe environment for these children. Britney would eventually get hospitalized twice in 2007 for a psychiatric evaluation. Britney Spears lawyer and former manager, claimed that she shaved her head because not because of a rage fit, but because she was trying to make her use of drugs untraceable. Britney had used amphetamines, speed and uppers, and unfortunately stuck another SUV. Soon afterwards she will forcefully be taken her house strapped down to a gurney. As she got taken away in the ambulance Britney laughed hysterically, but not before holding her children hostage and having a standoff with police, showing signs that there is no connection with the consequences of her behavior. This eventually made Britney lose custody of her kids, and the custody was granted to the children’s father Kevin Federline. Britney claimed she was ok with the whole custody situation, but in fact wasn’t. The day they came to take the children away, Britney had snapped and started slamming her head against the wall going completely mental and just losing it. But in a recent interview, Britney admits she had a psychological disease, Bipolar disorder. Britney has suffered from both a substance abuse problem, and a manic disorder or bipolar disorder. She claims she also suffers from social anxiety. Britney’s claims to suffer from bipolar disorder seem to be correct. Bipolar disorder I has the distinctions she had before. She has experienced extreme depression before experiencing a manic episode with intervening periods of normal moods, as stated before.
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From a young age, Spears was a natural performer. As a child, she participated in a vocal entertainment competition called Star Search in 1992 (“Britney Spears”). She was picked for The All-New Mickey Mouse Club television show when she was 11 years old (“Britney Spears”). Spears was always performing for guests, family, and friends. In 1995, she started focusing more on her music career (“Britney Spears”). In September 1998, Spears released her first single, "...Baby One More Time." (Britney Spears”). The catchy tune reached the top of the pop charts at the end of
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I have selected Britney Spears as my subject for the reason that I realize that she has been through so much in her life and has a tendency to convey her emotions radically and live life on the edge most of the times. Moreover, I find it simply fascinating to scrutinize Britney Spears’ personality by means of the Psychoanalysis so as to offer deeper comprehension in investigating her personality. Even though this process of personality analysis is hardly ever employed today due to a deficiency of empirical verification and a disappointment to deal with any adulthood impact on personality, the approach’s stress on childhood development is a long way from without foundation. It permits for a fascinating and vibrant examination of personality as it imparts a comprehensive description of why Britney’s id conquers her ego and superego in a majority of her decisions, as well as reciting her fixations within the oral stage of the psychosexual development. By exploring her defense mechanisms, from a spectator’s view it is apparent that she stays clear of anxiety-provoking stimuli by means of warping reality to her own terms. Taken as a whole, this assessment of Britney Spears’s personality does an excellent work via the psychoanalytic perspective as means to reveal/display a lucid conception of her outlook on the world and the connections with her relationships as to why she is this way at the moment.
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If I choose an actor who would play the role on Britney, it would be Danielle Chuchran. She has an impression of a pretty high school girl, but also shows an impression of a strong, brave girl that would effectively suit the role of