Britney Spears: From Darkness to Light (PART 2 - "Circus")
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- Welcome back to Pop Dissected! In the second and final part of this series, we're going to follow Britney in her personal struggles following the release of "Blackout".
We're then going to discuss how after the darkest period in her life, Britney Spears was able to make a personal and career comeback with her 2008 record "Circus", and prove to all those who doubted her in her low, that she is here to stay.
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Britney is the most non problematic artist I've seen in the industry. She is so sweet and caring yet people treated her like dirt. You never hear her say anything negative about anyone. Just like all of us, she deserves her respect, privacy, and FREEDOM. It hurts seeing another woman constantly controlled by her "management" and can't even do things she wants to. Especially for someone her age, it's just odd to see. I won't get too deep into stories surrounding the #FreeBritney movement and other stories, but as a big fan of hers it's just unsettling to see. Overall, Britney is an icon and she'll always be in my top 5 favourite artists of all time.
You are so right. The way Britney has been treated is just sickening. But her talent, career and personality definitely triumph all the crap she's been put through from other people!
When i was little they made it seem like she was the worst and she is crazy and shit....yikes. Britney and Rihanna and few others are...really unproblematic legends
@@popdissected4400 # Comeback.
@@slaboide5214 comeback
Ppl only remember that celebs are humans when they die
Ugh, very true.... 😞
@@popdissected4400 love ur content😀
@@martincanga6238 Thanks so much ❤️❤️
@@popdissected4400 your welcome❤💚
Sadly true and people only respect celebs when they die
It's incredible how Britney's life changed between 2007 and 2008, both personally and professionally.
I know!
Blackout is a dark, hypnotic and almost vengeful record that has her tell the doubters and the media who offered her no sympathy that she is not an artist to be written off so easily.
Circus is something different. Britney is on a transition into the light with this record being more optimistic, playful and rose like a phoenix from the ashes. What put Britney back in the good graces for good, to me personally was the For The Record documentary- due to it being unscripted and raw, from Britney's own narrative.
@@popdissected4400 That's good 👍.
circus, if u seek amy, womanizer and radar are bops. shattered glass and out from under are underrated.
YESS 👏
Shattered glass is my faveee, out from under, kill the lights and unusual you as well
Britney was forced to create this album and go on tour to prove shes a good girl so her conservatirship will end as it was temprary. After she proved shes good, her father extended it for life and took away her children forever. Britney lost it which is why she was heavily drugged after this era specially during Femme Fetal. This is not a light time in Britney's career at all, but it was one of the biggest comebacks in music and people loved it.
Thankyouuuu! Finally someone sees it how I do. Tbh 2007 never ended for britney she is STILL dealing with the aftermath of that year. A real comeback would have been on her terms when she was ready, and having more creative control cause let's face it that's one of the many reasons she self sabotaged because she was never able to express herself in her own way. She destroyed the image that was forced upon her which I think was fucking badass of her. People need to stop saying her dad and the C-ship saved her. All it did was force her to become "britney spears" once again, make money for her dad and team and keep her locked in unseen chains. The industry, her team, her family, the media and even her lovers done her dirty. 12 years of her life and freedom have passed😔 but it won't last forever the truth has come to light and britney will get the justice that she seriously deserves #freebritney💜
The whole world was against her at that time.
I know. It's just shocking to think about!
@@popdissected4400 and then they flip flopped... Britney will always have [one of] the most fascinating and captivating careers in the industry
I wasn't. Always loved her :)
That Album has Unusual You, a song that I can't get out of my head.
So true!
She reminds me of Michael. Super kind hearted and broken. Creepily private and some what weird/mysterious.
I always wondered if Britney even liked most of her songs.
Circus 🎪 is my favorite Britney album because It tells more of a story(her story). Britney shows the listener what she thinks her life looks like through her eyes but in a campy vocal, lyrical and visual way.
Exactly!!
I will not lie, there is so much evidence proving the conservatorship was never even needed. All she needed was a BREAK! The poor woman has been working her entire life: From the ages of 16-38, she has not had a break. Even if you count the break between In the Zone (2003) and Blackout (2007), she was still recording, promoting fragrances, interviews, etc. Her team kept drug testing her and the rehab centers even said multiples times that her drug tests kept coming out negative; so why keep putting someone through all these drug tests if they keep coming negative? Even her friends said she is good mom and not as bad as the media was making her out to be, but yet the whole world believed what TMZ says and all the other media outlets. She’s not crazy, she never was. Her shaving her head was an act of rebelling against her team. Remember; around this time Lou Taylor was able to convince Britney’s parents that a conservatorship was necessary to “help her”. When her father learned of the financial benefit of it, you really think he was gonna let her end it? And also, she didn’t want to go on tour for Circus: Team C-ship made her. She wanted to spend time with her children. But ofc, team c-ship only sees the $$$$$$ in her name. #FreeBritney
YES 👏 #FreeBritney
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I kinda see blackout/circus as kinda like the way I see sweetener/thank u, next
Lucas Pigliavento my exact thoughts
Interesting comparision! 😃
Ooh yeah! Or Reputation/Lover!
ariana did the opposite tho 😭 she went from light to dark
Sweetener was mediocre
Circus is such a bop.
Yesss!
Although she didn’t have as many writing credits on Circus as she did on In The Zone, I think it was one of her most personal records and I think she actually liked making the record, which cannot he said for even some of her later albums like Femme Fatale and Britney Jean... That’s why Circus is in my top 3 Britney albums!
Yesss! 👏
My favourite Britney album
Mine too!
My favorite Britney album besides her self titled and In the Zone ! Although Blackout is iconic and has one of my favorite songs (Why Should I Be Sad), Circus front to back is a masterful piece of pop. Best single choices, best videos, just an amazing record💗
Yessss!
This album was iconic! Love your vids and hope your doing well during this time
Thank you so much, I appreciate it ❤️I hope you're doing well and staying safe!
I honestly cannot say one bad thing about Britney Spears. Just one thing I would complain about though. I saw her ‘Live’ on August 26th 2018 on her U.K. leg of the Piece Of Me Tour.. the dancing was amazing and she stood right in front of me for most of the concert, she is so small. But she lip synced the whole concert and you could really tell. All she sung was the first half of Toxic and that’s because it was acoustic. And you could really tell that she hadn’t been singing the rest. Either way it was one of the best days of my life!
Wow, that's so awesome you got to see her live...or "live" 😂
Her label is the one to blame.
Her two best albums ever, how she did it is beyond my knowledge.
PERIOD!
Personally I think Circus is her best album.maybe because I was just about to turn 5 when. First heard it and now I’m 16 and every single song has stuck with me.
Out From Under is my most favourite song that I have ever heard and will never ever be topped for me! I still to this day love this album. And literally listened to Out From Under just before I watched this!!
That's so awesome! I love to see people talk about their favorite records and when they first heard it 😃
THE BEST COMEBACKS EVER in pop music history are:
1. Mariah Carey's Emancipation of Mimi
2. Britney's Circus
3. Madonna's Confessions on a Dancefloor
4. Kylie Minogue's Light Years/Fever
5. Cher's Believe
6. Kesha's Rainbow
Possibly Lady Gaga's Chromatica will be added to that list soon but time will show 👍. Also, want to mention that I agree with a comparison of Reputation to Blackout. In 2017, when Rep was released, I was almost 16 and I remember prior to the release of the album, in summer of that year, I was heavily listening to Britney's singles Gimme More and especially Piece of Me as I was going thru a lot of personal struggles that in a way affected my "reputation" and how people saw me. I call that particular time in my life 'Blackout' and whether I listen to Piece of Me, Gimme More, Look what you made me do or I did something bad, I get a glimpse of that period in my mind. I think both records are like this ultimate confession and settlement with 'bad media karma' 😏✌️.
Have you listened to "X" already? What do you think about it? ❤️
I love them all but for me confessions on the dancefloor is the best !
@@kingc1468 Agree, COADF is superb - however in terms of 'iconicness', Emancipation of Mimi is the best ✌️
@@Charlie-jl3ur Of course we love Mariah.. Legendary!!!
@@basicelement I love both Mariah and Madonna - plus all the other mentioned singers and talented artists
I saw the Circus Tour at Madison Square garden in 2009. Blew me away. The costumes and the stage layout and set pieces were amazing
I love how reputation became a synonym of a good comeback... Taylor is making changes not only to music, but also to language :DDD
Facts!
Britney was chased by the press, they made fun of her, but she managed to reborn like a Phoenix and return better than ever!!!
Circus is an amazing album, a beautiful piece of work, where she reveal her pain through the dark times! But at the same time this album also revealed a more fun, sarcastic, emotional and daring side of her... everything was perfect 💯 at this time, both the vídeos and the singles! She was so fabulous and beautiful!!! She was back like the STAR 🌟 she was before, and the pop princess that we all LOVE💞...yes it's a comeback, and that is a good thing, not everybody has done that!!! Britney is a strong, talented and amazing star!💞
ABSOLUTELY 👏 ❤️
I Love Britneys music and her Persona so much
can we talk about how you have one of the best channels and deserve so much?
I love her so much
Me too!!
i will always be rooting for her to have a good life
Please keep going! Do femme fatale and britney jean!!!
I honestly might want to. I do have a video on "Glory" that also overviews "Britney Jean" as well!
@Aaron Glover I'm on a Britney Spears roll right now, so consider it done! :)
@@popdissected4400 omg thank you so much. I love that you are really shedding light on what was going on behind the scenes of her ears. I think it also helps people view the discography of the albums differently
Love your commentary, the esthetics of the videos (right images from same the album photoshoot) your work doesn’t go unnoticed, keep up the good work always...
This is basically gay therapy during quarantine
OMGGG 😭 literally
Yeesh, wouldn't want to be in that process.
@@popdissected4400 100% one hundred percent.
Circus was my favorite Britney album EVER!!!! SO POWERFUL!!!!!
I really enjoyed this series! Britney deserves more recognition as an artist ❤️
Britney is so inspiring. 😭
Love this video, its so well done and articulate.
Can you do more Britney vids?
I would love to see a video about her early career
The song Circus is my jam!!
YESSS!
Your videos are so well laid out and informative, yet always fair and never biased. Great content!
Be Back, Ima Go Watch Circus’ Videos 🏃🏻
Excellent video! Britney is a living legend, keep up the good work! Greetings from El Salvador 🇸🇻🇸🇻
I love your analysis of Britney's revival, very well documented!👏 Keep doing your thing🙏❤
Thank you so much, and thanks for watching ❤️
I remember I was so little when this album came out and I instantly fell in love with it. “Womanizer” became my ultimate favorite music and video at that time. Both the song and the video are classic Britney. The “Circus” era was definitely a re-peak of her career. Also, the album as a whole is a collection of infectious and classical pop songs that only Britney can deliver. Shattered Glass, Blur, Amnesia, Kill The Lights, Out From Under, Unusual You, Mannequin are the definition of pure pop songs.
My favorite music videos:
1. “Womanizer”
2. “Circus”
3. “If you seek Amy”
4. “Kill The Lights” deserved a proper music video.
5. Unusual You” or “Shattered Glass” deserved more.
I just can’t include “Radar” on here because the whole song is a reject from “Blackout” and therefore whenever I watch the video and hear the song I think of how strange it sounds next to the other songs. I don’t dislike “Radar”, but it’s screaming “Blackout” production wise and that’s an off for me. Maybe I know the song’s history and that’s why something isn’t clicking.
My favorite five songs:
1. “Womanizer”
2. “Shattered Glass”
3. “Circus”
4. “Out from Under”
5. “Photography”/“If you seek Amy” (the whole album is an amazing body of work and I have so many favorites).
Good ol’ times!
I think an important factor in the success of the “Circus” era was, again, her star power. Britney’s name became so big that somehow overshadowed her music and talent. Don’t get me wrong, I love “Circus” and I think it’s one for the books, but I didn’t see growth and pushing boundaries from Britney herself, from Britney the artist. She seemed so out of touch with everything. She just lost it somehow. I don’t know how to explain it, but Britney ‘THE ARTIST’ circa 2007-present is a complete different artist from the Britney that first came out in 1998 until 2004. After the whole public fiasco, the umbrella accident, the shaving head, her children, she somehow stopped or lost her “artistic” touch - she stopped doing hard choreography, her involvement in the music process became insignificant, weird TV appearances, the X factor mess, Las Vegas residency taken so soon in her career and so on.
I think she deserved a complete break after “In The Zone” and things would have been different. Still, “Blackout” and “Circus” are great, great albums and are classic Britney. “Britney Jean” was a mess, a low point in her career. I think the lowest. “Femme Fatale” as a whole is cohesive and truly filled with so many hidden gems and potential hits.
I conclude this by saying that I love Britney, she’s been an important part of my childhood and teenage years, and I wish her nothing but the very best. She’s the last IMPACTFUL pop star of our generation and POP music is not the same without her.
P.s. Thank you for this video. I really appreciate your work. I truly miss her and for the future subjects I recommend you to discuss about how Britney would fit in this era of music/or if she needs to rebrand or not in order to be successful. Keep up the good work!
Wow, thanks so much for all your detailed thoughts!! I love your insight so much. And thank you so much for watching! ❤️
wow, such a great analysis, "Blackout was a reputation of sorts for Ms. Britney" I see what you did there hehe, very clever, (you're a hardcore swiftie hehe I can see that) but yeah Britney did a marvelous job when it came to addressing the media through here music (some might say she was the OG, who instead of disappearing confronted them...I think Blackout and Circus are like Ying and Yang, and that's why there are so great, they show 2 aspects of the same person back to back, and honestly I think those 2 albums are the truest sides of Britney. I could hear you speak for hours about this topic, felt the video too short hehe, but thanks so much for all your introspective about this. Be safe and thanks again!
Thanks for watching, and thank you for your insight on both the records! Hope you're staying safe as well ❤️
I think they complement each other well because some of the Circus tracks were meant to be on the Blackout rerelease.
Love your Britney Spears videos !
Love your Britney videos
Thank you so much!!!
I love both videos. Great job. I really want to see videos about Beyonce !
*It's here!*
😃
I really want her to back like this and do professional work like she used to 💔
The eagles should of taken #2 just bc blackout is more iconic than them
😂 😂 😂
queen
It would be nice for you to analyse the era from 2005 to 2010 for Kelly Clarkson. She released Breakaway, her most succesful album, and was abused by her previous label, RCA. She went dark and put out My December in 2007 to fight her label and the industry. She was blackmailed into making her 2009 album All I Ever Wanted. People thought it was a comeback, but it was only a compromise to be able to release music.
It would be cool if you did a predictions video on different pop artists like in their future career directions or sounds...
That is such a good idea!! 😃
Please do a video on glory becoming the number 1 album a few weeks ago and then mood ring being released and being #1 and taking rain on me off the top spot on itunes!!
I've always disliked Blackout's cover and I never realized how the album's artwork is so cheap until you popped it in the first half of the video... it doesn't do justice to the opulence of the sound at all!!! That album deserves a statement cover, I picture it like Beyonce's homonymous in a colorful CD case like Bank's Goddess.... I don't know, Blackout just sounds black, purple, and deep blue to me, you know what I'm saying? 😂 whereas Circu's artwork is so on spot!
Anyways, great video as always, I love your channel 💜
Can you do like a whole video on Taylor Swift's evolution like from start to end?
I would love to, thanks for the idea!!
Gossip boy, honest, pop dissected and Todd in the shadows are the four horsemen of faceless music reviewers
Circus era and Femme Fatale era are my favorites!
Britney's discography is POP perfection. Any Gaga, Beyonce, or Ariana will top the princess.
Gaga had just 1 album successful. The rest was paid...
now that Glory and Moodring have become points in chart prominence i think a follow up video is needed. She sat at number 1 all weekend and is currently at number 5 and the song is 4 years old..... Glory toped the Itunes chart as well
I'd LOOOVE to see an Ariana Grande video by you, i dont know what it could be about but i just need it hahah.... maybe how she became extremely successfull these past years (since no tears left to cry)
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As much as i adore Circus, Blackout is one of the best albums of all time for me.
Yo tengo este disco, me encanta :D
Circus was my favorite record from her
I like your videos it's very well detailed can you do Melanie Martinez also?
I think that Circus is a great time capsule of 2008's pop and production sounds. Yes, it sounds a bit dated now (timblandy beats and drums, electronic influence, but not EDM inspired, hedonistic, none of the inwards "introspection" like Beautiful People by Ed Sheeran), but in a good way. It reminds you of another time.
After this, the scene would be changed with over the top antics from the likes of Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj, bit crushed beats from Ke$ha (Tik Tok, Kiss N Tell), and an absolute assault on the charts from anything Dr. Luke touches.
I think Circus is her best Album.
Con-sir-vay-torship is killing me
You should do a video on “The Time of Our Lives” album by Miley Cyrus
I'm one of those who love Circus more than Blackout. You may debate that, but you can't debate that if it wasn't for Circus, Blackout wouldn't have its legendary status that it has now, retrospectively, thanks to Britney's refurbished and reintroduced image in Circus.
#freebritney
FREE BRITNEY 👏
Homeboy pronounced conservatorship as conversation and add the ship or God knows what. I'm dead. Anyways, not bad Video.
When are you next uploading?
why didn’t you mentioned the song radar in both videos?
Radar is mostly considered to be a blackout song by a majority of fans
Amnesia is my fave Britney song, never released on the album. Not even on Spotify. Would have been a WW SMASH. The video could have been legendary. Why no love for this song. Missed opportunity.
can you do “femme fatale” pls
Who did all her album covers though...it looked like free photoshop program + intern
The "Blackout" cover and images in the booklet were shot by Ellen Von Unwerth. She shot "Back to Basics" by Christina Aguilera and Rihanna's "Rated R" and "Talk That Talk" - among others. I could not find who shot the "Circus" cover and booklet images though.
Pop Dissected the photos were nice but the concept and final artwork was bad. I mean drop shadow on the album title....I can’t
Can't wait for Britney, Xtina, Madonna and other pop veterans to conquer the new decade, again.
Madonna is a flop and will most likely not return to the top because, well, she’s almost 70. also, i don’t see xtina ever rising to the top again. But i do see Britney having one last hurrah and getting a #1 song or album in the 2020’s.
@@aydenlucas8904 she's 62 pls Madonna could still snatched us with her one final album
Wyn Ignatius she’s still pretty old. all her recent albums are flopping and she doesn’t make music for the charts anymore
@@aydenlucas8904 honey, not all songs who topped the charts were the bests, some chart topping songs were mediocre and repetitive
@@aydenlucas8904 well she's not doing for charts anymore, but her Madame X album defines her more.
Please talk about the Fame Monster
Don't worry, I've added it to my to-do list 👀
I love can you seek Amy
don't mean to nitpick but when you mention how the circus tour was the second highest grossing tour adjusted for inflation, on the chart it's actually ordered from least to most. so it's still rhe 19th most grossing tour of the 2000s lol
if u look the chart isn’t in order. they re arranged the charts not re number them. the “19” position is the original position of Circus
KatyCat forever ❤❤❤
katy.to/daisies
Damn!!! you're so annoying
I really like your videos, but those backgrounds ain't it 😥
blackout would've been #1, but billboard changed the bb200 chart rules on that same week, making the eagles album #1 instead.
Be ready for another comeback Friday. Chromatica is about to be that bitch.
Circus 🎪 Anyone.
This video is obviously done by a none Britney fan.
3:36 lol, she looks like she has the same dress as Taylor did in 2009 when Kanye interrupted her speech. 🙄💅🏾
Mariah Carey
i really just want her to retire, they've been using her as a money machine for ages...
Mood Ring is #1 on iTunes.
Cuhn-sir-vih-tur-ship 🤦♂️