Britney spears
Britney spears was born on the 2nd of December 1981 in Louisiana, united states of America. From a young aged she was a born entertainer, aged 11 she joined the Mickey mouse club making it as a musketeer, she did this along side of some of today’s biggest artists, such as Justin Timberlake. Britney spears has always been in the pop genre when it comes to music. Her first big break came in the late 90s when she signed for jive recordings, this was quickly followed by the release of her debut album, hit me baby one more time. This was release in early 1999
Right from the start Britney was a role model that young girls could really look up to. She shows this in her first video, hit me baby one more time. Where she acted all sweet and innocent and perfectly likeable. In this video she was always well dressed never showing too much of her body off. This portrayed her as a bit of a good girl. This wasn’t just shown within the music videos though she was very clear in a number of occasions that she would not commit to have sex before marriage
Sadly this was the end of the sweet and innocent look for Britney as she quickly had countless number relationships and this follows the pattern in her videos as well. They got a lot more sexy and seductive as they went on, this was shown in toxic where she looked to be joining the mile high club at one point! During this time she is wearing an extremely sexy seductive airhostess outfit that gives us the impression of her putting herself out a bit. Also during the same video she was seen to climbing onto a motorcycle with a young black man, this gives us the impression that she is very racy, sexy and dangerous.
There are close ups all the way through her work but they are for totally different reasons, one is showing us that she is very sweet and innocent and the other shows her wearing a very short, seductive, sparkly dress. The innocence is shown during the music video, one more time where she is talking into the camera about her innocence and telling us about a boy that she likes. There are other times when she is looking directly into the camera though, all the way through toxic the video cuts to a very sexy dance. She’s not wearing very much and it portrays her as all grown up and very sexy. Its not just the camera angles that make her look sexy and racy, editing cuts add to this effect too. An example of this is again in hit me baby one more time. Here she is dancing and talking into the camera but the takes are very simple, easy to understand, continuity editing. On the other hand though toxic is extremely quick editing and this helps gives the video an impression of sexiness and seductive.
Britney was very popular at this time because pop was the big genre of music that was becoming extremely popular due to young up and coming talent like Britney and like Justin Timberlake as well as British acts like busted and Mcfly.
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