Now that we know of the women that have influenced Britney into doing the things she does, we can look at how Spears has impacted American Culture, through the way new female singers & actresses act when they are in the public eye. One example of a Britney protégé would be Lindsay Lohan. Before all of the negative press that she’s been recently hit with, Lohan used to be a promising new actress with an image that was built around her sex appeal. She shot in to the public eye when she starred in the hit movie, Mean Girls, and since then she has appeared in and out of American Culture. Taking cues from Spears, Lohan started posing provocatively on magazine covers at a very young age. At only 18 years old she appeared on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, wearing nothing but pantyhose. Even though she was a role model for young teens across the country, the cover did not ensue much controversy only because society has seen other young women, like Spears, already pose provocatively. Since then she has appeared nude, or partially nude in numerous magazines, like the ones shown below.
Along with racy magazine shoots, Lohan took on even racier movie roles. In 2007 she starred in both Georgia Rule and I Know Who Killed Me. The magazine Entertainment Weekly described the movie as exploitation to Lohan being a girl who just can’t help it, meaning all she wants is sex. In the movie, she is at an age where she just barely graduated high school, giving younger girls the “ok” to have sex at a young age, and giving it the “ok” for girls to be publicized for having sex at a young age. In I Know Who Killed Me she played a stripper in what the film was considered “torture porn”. Having only been 20 at the time the movie was filmed, Lohan, thanks to Britney Spears, is allowing younger girls to take on riskier & racier roles, whether the public thinks it’s age appropriate or not.
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