Public image is vital to pop stars, but few stars have been so inextricably tied to their image as Britney Spears. Think back to ...Baby One More Time -- it has an indelible hook but what leaps to mind is not the sound of the single, but how Britney looked in the video as she pouted and preened in a schoolgirls' uniform, an image as iconic as Madonna's exposed navel. Every one of Britney's hits had an accompanying image, as she relied on her carefully sculpted sexpot-next-door persona as much as she did on her records, but what happens when the image turns sour, as it certainly did for Britney in the years following the release of In the Zone? When that album hit the stores in 2003, Britney had yet to marry, had yet to give birth, had yet to even meet professional layabout Kevin Federline -- she had yet to trash her girl-next-door fantasy by turning into white trash. Some blamed Federline for her rapid downward spiral, but she continued to descend after splitting with K-Fed in the fall of 2006, as each month brought a new tabloid sensation from Britney, a situation that became all the more alarming when contrasted to how tightly controlled her public image used to be. The shift in her persona came into sharp relief at the #2007 MTV Video Music Awards, as she sleepwalked through a disastrous lip-synch of her comeback single Gimme More, a disaster by any measure, but when it was compared to such previous meticulously staged #VMA appearances as her make-out with Madonna in 2003, it made Britney seem like a lost cause and fallen star.

1		Gimme More
2		Piece Of Me
3		Radar
4		Break the Ice
5		Heaven On Earth
6		Get Naked (I Got A Plan)
7		Freakshow
8		Toy Soldier
9		Hot as Ice
10		Ooh Ooh Baby
11		Perfect Lover
12		Why Should I Be Sad

	Like us on Facebook
	@SoundHound	Follow