What is Britney Representing?

Along with the Rolling Stone cover, Spears has done a lot of other things to get people asking whether a girl of her age should be doing some of the things she does. For example, while still only 18 years old, she performed at the MTV Video Music Awards to her then recent hit, “Oops I Did It Again”. What started off of what could have been a low-key performance, a suit-clad Spears descended from a staircase and kept moving along with her performance. All of the sudden, as the beat of the song began to pick up; she ripped off her suit and revealed a flesh-colored outfit baring her signature midriff. After her highly energized performance, controversy ensued over the outfit she was wearing on whether it was was see-through, or not. What do you think? Was it too much? Watch this video and see.

After all the madness that ensued over her performance, Britney Spears has held on to her sex appeal to help out with selling albums and selling out her tours. It was only a year later in 2001, when Spears went back to the MTV Video Music Awards to perform her new single "I'm a Slave 4 U" in only a pair of short-shorts, a bikini top, and a real-live snake to keep her stage presence as sexy as ever. That same year she released the music video for the same song, which featured Spears wearing only a little bit of clothing and dancing around an underground bath house/sauna. All of this happened before she even hit the age of 20. Even when she was not in her teens, Spears continues today to bring out risqué’ music videos for songs like “Toxic”, where in some scenes she is wearing nothing and is only covered in diamonds all over her body, “Womanizer” where she appears completely nude in scenes where she is in a sauna, and for “3”, her current single about having a ménage à trios, or in simpler words, a threesome.

Even while not performing, Britney Spears has worn very revealing clothing when she is not working. At the 2000 American Music Awards, she showed up wearing a sparkling jumpsuit which revealed too much of her cleavage according to newspapers across the States. Before her provocative performance at the 2001 Video Music Awards, she appeared in a very short, see-through, black dress that exposed her bra and underwear for the entire world to see. Even when its not appearing at award shows, or any kind of public event, the paparazzi have caught Spears wearing skimpy outfits and forgetting to even wear underwear at times when she does not want to be seen. This however influences other young females to think that wearing close to nothing is good, and not wearing underwear in public is just another normal thing in life. From what we can see in young Hollywood today, Spears has influenced a huge part of it.