Fantasy-Theme Criticism

Britney Spears
She is a pop singer and a major icon. You can see a lot of the ways she expressed these through her lyrics and her performances on stage and in her music videos.
One example is on her second record the single "Oops!...I did it again." When her first CD had come out she was viewed by the public as an innocent and wholesome teenager. With this song in the music video for the first time she wears sexually suggestive clothing with was out character. In the lyrics she ends the song with "I'm not that innocent," and she was dressed in red with flames in the background. This image was to portray the "devilish" side of her and that she was a changed person not what she used to be.
Another example is in her hit single "Slave 4-U." She is talking about how she felt like a slave to the media and public. In the music video it shows her dressed as a slave and being pulled by people in different directions.
Lastly her most recent tour, and single "Cirrus." This whole album was her come back from all of the horrible things that had happened to her in the past two years. Yet again just like the "Slave 4-U," single takes about her struggle with the media. The music video shows her being the center of a cirrus that is going on. This portrays how she has constantly been put in the spotlight and everything that she does is being watched and judged. It also shows that her life may seem glamours but it's not all the time because she is constantly being watched and told what to do with her life.
The progression of her career has been shown through her albums and it shows how much as a person she was changed and grown from her first image as a wholesome small town girl. She relates her music to what is going on in her life and you can see that through her lyrics and performances.