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Britney Spears - before she got on the crazy train


Short appearance at the beginning, used to be fit, massive star back then too. As successful as Rihanna's been since her debut (and I imagine her record sales are monstrous with so many hits and collaberations), she's absoloutley no way near as big a name as Britney was. It was quite incredible in retrospect.

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Agreed, Britney's level of fame has been unmatched. I'd say for about 2 years Gaga came close to being as big as Britney but couldn't maintain it.

Why do people so frequently get told to "read the book" on a movie database?

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I remember Britney's Pepsi Twist w/ Austin Powers commercial running a lot during the summer of '02:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpofrZJFUNo

For some reason I just love the Pepsi era of Britney. I think it really cemented her legendary status and she was only 19 or 20 years old.

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"absoloutley"

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What does this mean? AbsoLOUtley?

Do you mean to say 'absolutely'?

Britney doesn't seem to be a big name to me - it looks like a regular name. Many people have been named 'Britney'. How can a name be big anyway? What are you even saying?

Are you trying to say there's some kind of merit and we should all silently pray on our knees on the fading memory of a grave of some promoted, fish-eyed product's career? Are you saying Britney Spears was and became famous because she was something special and cosmic, not realizing she's exactly the same as all the thousands of super-promoted products before and after her? Just because you possibly had a boner for her..?

I don't get your point. Why worship someone just because that someone is promoted into an idol-style product, no matter how crappy non-music her autotuned shrieks are edited into?

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She was amazing in this movie. That was Britney Prime, and she doesn't look like that anymore!

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Brittney was huge back then bigger than any modern stars fame. She was my first crush when I was a five year old kid thought she was the hottest girl in the world haha

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