Evolution: Britney Spears. What happened to Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and other successful pop singers of the 2000s Britney Spears has changed over the years

Britney Jean Spears is an American singer and pop icon of the 2000s. Rising to fame with the release of "Baby, One More Time" in 1998, she gave the world dozens of hits, including "Oops, I Did It Again", "Gimme More" and "Toxic".

Childhood of Britney Spears

American pop singer Britney Spears was born on December 2, 1981 in McComb, Mississippi. However, the artist's childhood passed in Kentwood Louisiana. The celebrity family is more than ordinary: mom is an elementary school teacher, and dad is a builder and cook. In the Britney family, besides her, there is a sister, Jamie Lynn.

Until the age of 9, Britney Spears was professionally engaged in rhythmic gymnastics and even participated in regional competitions.

Britney has been singing since childhood. In kindergarten, at the graduation, the girl performed a Christian song called "What kind of child is this." Spears began her career as a singer with a church choir at a Baptist church. At meetings of believers in Kentwood, where the girl's parents were regular parishioners, Britney sang various religious hymns.

The mother of the future star Lynn saw her daughter's talent and decided to help her build a career. Britney Spears constantly went to dance and vocal tutors, her mother encouraged the "home performances" of her little daughter, and also took the baby to various competitions for young talents.

After little Britney Spears won every local pageant she could, Lynn took her daughter to Atlanta to audition for a remake of the 1950s TV show The Mickey Mouse Club.

At the age of 8, Britney landed on Disney Channel's New Mickey Mouse Club, despite the producers deeming her too young. Over the next three years, Britney attended New York's Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan and appeared in productions including 1991's Ruthless! ("Ruthless").

In 1992, when the singer was 10 years old, Britney Spears took part and won the competition called "Star Search" ("In search of a star"). The girl performed the song "Love can build a bridge", which the jury really liked, but the victory was still given to another contestant.

After that, Britney got on the Mickey Mouse Show for the second time and the 11-year-old girl became the MOUSKETER. Spears, by the way, was the youngest participant in the show, where she met future stars Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake.

The beginning of Britney Spears' career is a resounding success

In 1994, the show was canceled and Spears returned to Louisiana, where she entered a regular high school. During her studies, the girl sang in the girl group Innosense. However, she soon decided to start a solo career, left the band and recorded a demo disc. Lynn sent songs to various record labels. The producers from Jive Records liked the disc and signed a contract with the singer.

Britney Spears' debut single "...Baby One More Time" was released in 1998. It was written for the singer by Max Martin, who at one time ensured the success of the Backstreet Boys. The song instantly became popular and topped the charts. The disc of the same name with the composition became multi-platinum in Canada, France, Sweden, Germany, Japan and Taiwan, world sales of the single exceeded 9 million copies. In the UK, for example, in the entire history of music, only three artists sold more records in the first week than Spears (among them The Beatles), but Britney was the youngest of all record holders. On the very first day of sales in the country of Foggy Albion, 124,000 cassettes and discs of the singer were sold out.

The first album was followed by an equally successful second album called "Oops!... I Did It Again". In the summer of 2000, the singer went on her first world tour with the album. That same year, Britney Spears won two Billboards Music Awards and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Pop Album and Best Live Performance.

New song by Britney Spears and Will I Am - Scream & Shout

Meanwhile, the Britney Spears fever is breaking out all over the world. Products with the image of the singer enter the product market. T-shirts, dolls, calendars, mugs sell out at lightning speed. In parallel with this, Britney becomes a member of the Pepsi advertising company.

In 2001, Britney's third album, Britney, was released, immediately topping all sorts of charts and ratings.

Together with her mother, Britney wrote the book "Heart to Heart" ("Heart to Heart"), where she described her life before the arrival of popularity.

In parallel with writing the book, Britney Spears organized an annual charity event for talented children from low-income families. However, the singer's charitable activities did not end there - the girl regularly donated huge sums to the victims of the 9/11 tragedy and the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Around the same time, a scandalous performance at the MTV Video Music Awards followed. Britney performed on stage with Madonna and Christina Aguilera. The kiss of the three singers is still remembered by fans.

MTV Music Awards 2013: Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Madonna

Britney Spears appeared on the scene again in the summer of 2003 and a few months later released her fourth studio album, In The Zone, where she acted as both a songwriter and a producer. The album again conquered the top of the charts. After the fourth disc, Britney left the stage, returning only in 2007 with her fifth solo album "Blackout", which was recognized as the worst of the singer's entire career.

Released a year later, the album "Circus" returned Britney to its former popularity. Since 2010, the girl has been working on recording her seventh studio album Femme Fatale.

In addition to her career as a singer, the girl also showed herself in the cinema. The first serious role of Britney Spears - the film "Crossroads", released in 2002. For her, Spears received the Golden Raspberry in the nominations for Worst Actress and Worst Song from a Film.

In 2006, the girl played a cameo role in the TV series Will & Grace. In 2009, a documentary film about the life of the world celebrity “Britney Spears. Life behind glass. The singer herself invited journalists to make a film about her.

In 2009, Britney Spears finally began to climb out of her career hole. She starred in a joint project with Madonna and even recorded new albums. So, in 2009 her disc Circus was released, in 2010 the album Femme Fatale was recorded, but it was “leaked” on the Internet two weeks before the start of official sales.

In 2011, the girl received the MTV Video Music Awards from the hands of the singer Lady Gaga.

In 2012, the singer became the chairman of the jury of the American remake of the talent show Factor X, for which FOX paid her $15 million. Her ward, 12-year-old Carly Rose Sonenkler, became the silver medalist of the show. Despite the success, Britney refused to be present in the third season.

In 2013, the singer recorded the song "Ooh La La" for the cartoon "The Smurfs 2" and released the single "Scream & Shout" together with rapper Will I Am. In November of the same year, Britney Spears' eighth studio album, Britney Jean, saw the light of day. The first singles from the record - "Work Bitch" and "Perfume" - became instant hits.

Alternative earnings Britney Spears

Britney Spears is not only engaged in creativity, and her income is brought not only by concerts and CD sales. The girl showed an excellent commercial streak: she released her own reality show and wrote 4 books. But her triumph as a businessman went to perfumery.

Perfume Circus, released in support of the album of the same name, brought the singer $ 14 million. This fragrance even became the best selling fragrance in the US in 2009. In 2013, Britney released another Island Fantasy perfume. In total, 7 fragrances have already been released under the singer's brand.

Britney Spears personal life

After the second world tour, Britney announced a break in her career and broke up with her boyfriend Justin Timberlake, whom she met for 4 years.

By the way, Timberlake behaved very unworthy during the break. He constantly publicly stated that Britney had somehow betrayed him, and also told the world that he had deprived Britney of innocence (the singer herself at that time exploited the image of "America's last virgin" and stated that she wanted to "wait until marriage").

In early 2004, Britney first married in a small Las Vegas chapel to her longtime friend Jason Alexander. However, the marriage lasted only 55 hours. Then the star said: “Yes, it was crazy, but I just wanted to know what it means to be married!”.

Immediately, the singer went to the third round, where she met Kevin Federline. Three months later, the couple announced their wedding and signed in the fall of 2004. In the fall of 2005, Spears' first son, Sean Preston Spears Federline, was born. A year later, the girl became a mother for the second time. Britney named her son Jayden James.

Scandals around Britney Spears

By this time, Britney's "mother's abilities" had already been called into question twice. Once she was seen driving a car with Sean Preston on her lap, and the second time she went out with her son on one arm and a glass of water in the other. The boy nearly fell from his mother's arms. Spears' awkward movements were captured by the cameras of the ubiquitous paparazzi.

A few weeks after the birth of her second son, Britney Spears filed for divorce. A difficult, scandalous and painful divorce process began.

During it, Spears was noticed more than once in the company of the famous party girl Paris Hilton. The singer began a wild life - she was noticed walking around without underwear, she was accused of alcohol and drug abuse, which the singer was supplied by producer Sam Lafty.

After the persuasion of relatives and friends, Britney went to a rehabilitation clinic. Analyzes showed that Britney's blood does not contain harmful substances, and it was decided to release her.

At this time, the children of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline were under the supervision of their father, who at that time was seeking to deprive Britney of the right to visit her offspring.

In 2007, Britney Spears returned to the stage with the single "Gimme more" from the album Blackout. Fans accepted the star with a bang, but critics called the new song a failure. In the same year, a Los Angeles court took Spears' custody of her sons, after which the singer again went into all serious trouble, including public threats of suicide. The life of the singer was taken under control by her father, Jamie Spears. Under his supervision, the girl pulled herself together and began work on new compositions.

After the presentation of the single, Spears said that she was working hard on her ninth studio album.

Britney Spears took the world stage by storm in 1999 with the release of an album named after her eponymous hit Baby One More Time. The expressive performance and girlish attractiveness of the seventeen-year-old singer hooked many. Then there were first places in the charts, victories at music awards, multi-million dollar sales of albums, singles, tickets to shows. In total, Britney has released nine albums, the last of which was released last year. She continues to shoot videos and perform, but the former deafening popularity is gone, and Spears has not turned from a pop princess into a pop queen.

In addition to her career, Britney Spears is busy raising sons - twelve-year-old Sean and eleven-year-old Jayden - from her ex-husband, dancer Kevin Federline. Divorce from an unfaithful spouse, tired of her fame and too close attention of others, the singer experienced a hard time: there were nervous breakdowns, and unrestrained parties, and fights with the paparazzi, and treatment for harmful addictions. Fortunately, all this is in the past. Spears is currently dating 23-year-old fashion model Sam Asgari.

Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera recently appeared at the American Music Awards with a "new" face. Some fans of the singer decided that she was too fond of fillers and was becoming less and less like herself. Christina herself does not hide the fact that she struggled with excess weight for a long time after the birth of her son, and then calmed down and stated that a woman does not have to look like a slender teenager. Behind Christina, too, is a difficult divorce - with producer Jordan Bratman, whom she accused of domestic violence and abuse. For seven years now, Aguilera has been living in a civil marriage with assistant director Matthew Rutler. The couple share a daughter, Summer.

Winner of six Grammy awards and one of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time (by the way, she became the youngest performer and the only one under 30 on this list), Christina is still in demand and successful. True, the hit Genie in a Bottle, which became a breakthrough for her in show business, was released seventeen years ago, and now the singer rarely indulges fans with new records. Christina's last studio album to date was released in 2012.

Nelly Furtado

Career Nelly Furtado went up in the late 90s. Her hit I "m Like A Bird (Nellie won a Grammy for it in the Best Female Pop Vocal category) was probably heard by everyone. Her records and singles have sold over forty million copies worldwide. The new album The Ride the singer released in March of this year on her own label, and it is different from what she did before.

Nelly herself also began to look different and from a girl with protruding collarbones turned into an appetizing lady. The singer has a daughter, Nevis, from musician Jasper Gahania, named after one of the Caribbean islands where she was conceived. Last year, Furtado divorced Cuban sound designer Demacio Castellón after eight years of marriage.

Pink

Pink became popular in early 2000 after the release of the album Can "t Take Me Home. The second, more rocky disc Missundaztood was also successful all over the world. The third studio work consolidated the success of the singer - for the song Trouble she received a Grammy in the nomination "Best Female rock song". In October, after a five-year break, Pink released the long-awaited album Beautiful Trauma for fans, which started from first place on the Billboard 200 charts. So the star of the 2000s does not lose its grip!

Many of the songs on the album were inspired by Pink's difficult relationship with her husband, motorcycle racer Carey Hart. Despite violent quarrels, partings and family problems, they have been together for more than sixteen years. The couple have a six-year-old daughter, Willow, and a son, Jameson, who was born late last year.

In 2010, Alisha Keys married rapper and producer Swizz Beatz, with whom she has two sons, seven-year-old Egypt and two-year-old Genesis. Recently, she began to promote a love of natural female beauty: she completely abandoned makeup and stopped braiding her lush curls into tight braids. Keys opposes dieting and treating women as sexual objects. In one of the interviews, the singer said that she had been listening to producers in vain for many years, imposing standards of beauty and attractiveness on her.

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I, like many of my peers and peers, grew up on the songs of Britney Spears. 🙂

At the age of 10-12 I had my first musical idol. I don’t know what I liked more about her - her appearance, songs or dances, maybe all together. Plus her unique image of a perky schoolgirl, beautiful, fashionable, athletic and cheerful, and by the way, it seems to me, quite modest at that time. 🙂 A Britney T-shirt, school dances to “Oops I did it again”, and many, many video cassettes with recordings of her clips are funny and very pleasant memories from my childhood.

Britney, of course, grew up and we, along with her, her songs, as usual, also became less childish, they had more sexuality and energy. I do not want to mention in this article the period when Britney got out of her rut - her unsuccessful marriages, depressions, etc., but to remember her most beautiful images, favorite videos and chic dances of her childhood idol - Britney Spears 🙂 So, let's get started!

Britney Spears then and now

Clip Britney Spears - Baby one more time

I remember what a sensation this video and song made. And how it has become fashionable to wear wide sweatpants with short tops that open the stomach. And the pigtails and makeup with brown lipstick are just wat! 🙂 By the way, now a similar color of lipstick is back in fashion, although it is generally played a little differently. 🙂

Clip Britney Spears - Crazy

In this clip, she seemed insanely beautiful to me! Makeup, hairstyle, hair color - everything emphasizes her youthful beauty. And of course, dancing! I think no one will argue with the fact that Britney's dances in the first half of her career were excellent - choreography, energy, the presence of sexuality, while not very vulgar, pleasant sports dances. What can I say, at school we put numbers under her songs, copying as much as possible (as far as we could) the movements from the clips. 🙂

I was born to make you happy

This song is playing in my head right now. 🙂 It seems to me that in a girl's life it is relevant throughout life, but I will speak for myself - I listen to very different music, believe me - but I just love this song! 🙂 After watching this clip now, I was instantly transported to my childhood .... Thanks Britney! 🙂

Oops I did it again

Cosmic clip and Britney's cosmic red suit. And I also remember that even then - as a child - I really liked her makeup in this video.

Britney Spears Stronger song

Another video with insanely beautiful make-up of Britney Spears. And dancing with a chair. 🙂 The cold colors of the clip give it some mystery and drama, which is unusual for her previous videos. It seems to me that it was in him that the feminine Britney Spears appeared, turning from a teenager into a woman. But wait, it was in the song “I am not a girl, but not a women”! 🙂

I'm a slave for you

I quickly jumped from the young, modest clips of Britney Spears to more frank and sexy. I wanted to clarify that I also like many of her other clips, but here I will highlight my favorites. 🙂 It seems to me that it was Britney who set the trend for jeans with a very low fit at that time. Now fashion tends to "high waist" and in my opinion it's great. But despite this, it seems to me that the clip is very stylish, bright - rich colors, cool music and chic dances, what else do you need? I think this period was one of the most filled with already very professional dances in videos.

Me against the music

Dance, dance, dance! This is one of my favorite dance performances from all her videos. In my opinion, it's just a gorgeous video, a very energetic and catchy song, even though I don't really like Madonna's work, this duet was a success! 🙂

My prerogative

Not at all a Britney Spears clip for children. As far as I remember, the release period of the video roughly coincides with the beginning of her failed marriage. There is no dancing in this video, but there is a very sexy, grown-up Britney. I like this song. And by the way, in my opinion, this is the first clip of Britney, where there are curls in her image, which is also why it seemed very unusual to me. :). And of course, her parking in the pool could not fail to impress. 🙂

Circus

Another clip I wanted to mention. If I remember correctly, this clip was filmed after all her experiences. And this is one of the most successful and beautiful clips of that time, in my subjective opinion. It seems to me that it was not very easy for her to look chic at that time, but she did it! And this is not surprising - for many years of her work, she has proved that she is a true professional!

In fact, Britney Spears still has new videos coming out, albeit not as popular as before. And it seems to me that she very firmly embarked on her creative path again - this makes me very happy, even though I am not her ardent fan, as in childhood! 🙂 But probably, like many others, Britney Spears will forever remain for me that perky girl with amazing dances and funny songs from my childhood!

Let's just end by looking at her coolest looks from the early 2000s to the present. Let's go 🙂

Then

Achieved great heights. She is known in the world as a successful singer, talented dancer, sought-after film actress and winner of the prestigious Grammy award. This girl is envied by almost the entire female half of the planet, but the other day her "authority" was shaken ...

Britney Spears

The popular American publication MTO NEWS published a photo report from the red carpet of the Hollywood Beauty Awards, which was attended by the world-famous pop singer Britney Spears. For the release, the artist chose an ultra-short translucent sleeveless dress embroidered with sequins.

Britney Spears

The photographs, which are depicted in full growth, caused absolutely nothing but admiration from her fans. Many women dream of looking like a pop diva at 36 - slender legs, a wasp waist, firm breasts ... But people's reaction changed when Britney's close-up photos appeared on the Web.

Britney Spears

In the resonance image, the face looks older than its years. Deep wrinkles, bags under the eyes and wrinkled skin - that's what people saw when they zoomed in on photos of their pet. Perhaps it's all about bad makeup?

Britney Spears

Internet users, discussing the photos, noted that the problem is not in age, but in the fact that she does not really care for her skin. Such wrinkles could be avoided by regularly visiting spas and nourishing the skin with all kinds of creams:

“Nightmare, didn’t expect this…. The figure is a dream, but here's the face ....", "Tapped by life", "Wow, I launched myself. You need to take better care of yourself, since you are a public person”, “I don’t understand, there is money, why not go to beauty salons? You need to take care of yourself”, “But it seems to me that the Spa will no longer help here ... Previously, you had to think.”

Everyone who is over 25 now remembers that in the late 90s, the American singer Britney Spears was at the peak of her popularity, her videos were played on all music channels, and the girls tried to imitate her style of an innocent schoolgirl. Years passed, Britney Spears changed, and at some point in her life there was a turning point when the singer suddenly shaved her head, and seemed to fly off the coils. She behaved scandalously in public, took drugs and alcohol, which led to the fact that she was deprived of parental rights. Now Britney has already recovered and continues her career, and we invite you to take a look at how her style has changed over time.

1999

At the beginning of her career, Britney's managers diligently exploited sexual images: a naked belly was the signature "chip" of the star both in evening outings and in videos.

Britney in office trousers and negligee. We are embarrassed to clarify if the pop star has forgotten her underwear at home?

Spears' unexpected modest appearance for those years: a pastel-colored dress in combination with a white stole refreshes the star and makes her image more tender.

2000

Plunging necklines suit Britney, but here's a weird fabric that looks like a cheap office suit material that definitely brings dissonance to the evening look.

Literally everything is “beautiful” here: from the color scheme to the top, which looks like Britney fought for him in the store with another customer and literally snatched (or rather, tore off) a new thing for herself.

Lots of fringe that could have dangled peacefully from an old plush bedspread, something that looks like wooden sandals on the legs and turquoise jewelry - now we know the recipe for fashion failure.

2001

It seems that the pop princess really wanted to show everyone her new beautiful lingerie. I'm sorry, Britney, but you shouldn't do it this way.

The iconic outing of Britney and her now ex-lover Justin Timberlake. It seems that at any second the singer will take out a guitar and play country music, and Spears will start dancing American folk dances. No, this is not how we imagined the denim total look!

Another peignoir, but now in the role of a coat: Britney walked in underwear even before it became mainstream!

Warm beige gamma clearly suits Spears, but creepy cowboy boots and coats with matted fur do not immediately allow you to see it.

2002

All girls dream of becoming princesses up to a certain age: Spears apparently planned to become a princess of butterflies. True, she confessed to this world a little late.

Today, looking at this Britney look can give you a kick, but in the 2000s, pairing jeans and trousers with a dress was a hot trend.

Britney in the image of a harsh dominatrix - we offer to make a remake of "50 shades of gray"!

2003

And again, an outfit that looks more like underwear, and even in combination with boots and pearl threads. The star's stylist was clearly on his toes.

Another creepy trend of the 2000s - wide jeans with a "glamorous" belt, which mercilessly increased the bottom of even the thinnest girls.

It would seem that a little black dress is a win-win outfit for any situation. But Britney easily proves that this is not so: it is enough to add black gloves and a dubious pillbox hat to irrevocably spoil the outfit.

2006

In 2006, Britney was in a state of divorce from Kevin Federline, which affected all areas of the star's life, including appearance. For example, the singer preferred to attack the car of annoying paparazzi in comfortable sportswear.

2007

In 2007, Britney recovered a bit from a painful breakup, wearing a wig, a laconic dress and contrasting sandals. The image would be quite successful if it were not for the inappropriate straw hat.

2008

A year later, Britney returned to work and delighted fans with a successful appearance and a blooming appearance. We can not fail to note not only the perfectly matched outfit, but also the excellent hair color!

2009

Total black is not always a good idea. Especially if you are wearing a dress that is too short and one size down.

Unfortunately, despite a series of successful exits on the red carpet, in ordinary life, Spears' style is not at all happy: the star often looks like she put on the first thing that came to hand, and lost her hairbrush a long time ago.

Micro shorts, crop top, pink uggs and a messy bun... Britney, hurry up and get changed!

2011

In secular exits, it’s also not complete without failures: this image could have been successful if it weren’t for ankle boots, which mercilessly “cut” the star’s legs and visually added extra pounds to her.

And again, not a very good choice of shoes, but we are ready to forgive this mistake for a well-chosen outfit that competently hid figure flaws.

2012

The bright pink color is clearly not the story of Spears, and the style of the dress seems so uncomfortable that it is difficult for the singer to move around in it.

Britney decided to try on an elegant look and a new length for herself. The experiment is commendable, but unsuccessful from the word “completely”: the dress added not only volumes to the star, but also years.

This length and model of the dress look much better, but the upper part of the dress seems to be trying to escape from its mistress.

A dull black jumpsuit, shoes that look like sandals with black socks and a terrible thinned bangs - this failure was simply deafening!

2013

An unexpected and very successful experiment with style: Britney goes with both the dress and the hair color. Bravo!

In the casual-images of the star, a positive trend is also outlined: the singer began to appear much more often in elegant classics.

2014

Even a "naked" dress may not be vulgar: a great case in point from Britney and her stylists. And finally, pumps instead of “hoof” shoes!

2015

Britney's successful looks are traditionally followed by a serious failure: a deaf skin-colored chain mail dress made the star's athletic figure completely shapeless.

The stylists obviously went too far with the neckline and colored strands, but in general, the style of the dress suits Spears. And again, we cannot fail to note the excellent selection of shoes!

The star’s shoes are still okay, but the dress looks like Britney took it from the skater and now she will put on her skates and go on the ice!

Not the most successful, but in general a good everyday look, the main problem of which was the pigtails of the schoolgirl.

2016

2016 started not so long ago, and so far Britney hasn’t had many outings, but she definitely pleases with both her hair (a short haircut looks much better than long tangled hair) and successful evening outings. Keep it up!