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Britney Spears had been grappling with her budding adulthood when she released her third album, simply titled Britney, in 2001. With songs like “Overprotected” and “Let Me Be,” Spears seemed to be letting out her adolescent angst. But on the single “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman,” which was also featured on the soundtrack for her flick “Crossroads,” the singer wanted the world to know that she was ready to be treated like an adult.

For the video, director Wayne Isham just wanted to have Britney out in nature — even if the setting seemed a bit dangerous for a pop star. “I go, ‘Let me check it out first,’ ” Isham told MTV News about having Britney stand on the edge of a cliff. “She understood that if my fat ass was out there and I could stand there, then she could stand there,” he laughed.

The singer might have been willing to take the risk, but she still had some trepidation about standing on a cliff. “The wind started picking up a lot and almost dropped me over,” Spears recalled. “And I was like, ‘OK, gotta go.’ ”

Nonetheless, Isham loved the way the video looked and said there was no green screen involved. “She went out there and, without a safety cable, just stood there with those cowboy boots on,” he said. “She was standing on the edge in her cowboy boots, looking hot. We’d be right on the edge, and she had not a blink of fear.”

Spears said in 2001 that the song was actually intended for the “Crossroads” soundtrack before she included it on her album. “The song was written for the movie once we had the decision to make the music part of the movie,” she said. “It’s an inspirational song, and it’s probably one of my favorite songs that I’ve ever sang.”

And the video is one of Isham’s favorites too. “I have nothing but positive things to say about my experience with her and what she’s doing right now,” he said. “She stepped into it with positive energy. She ended up stepping out and kicking ass.”

With the release of Britney Spears: The Singles Collection, MTV News is looking back on the pop star’s career through interviews with video directors, music-industry insiders and Spears herself, as she reflects on some of her greatest hits.

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Britney Spears has made a career out of crawling around onstage and dancing through her videos in barely there outfits. But when it comes to really nailing down the one moment that Britney was at her most stylish, designer Christian Siriano says it’s all about her understated look when she performed onstage with Madonna in 2008.

“My favorite Britney moment was when she was kind of having this tiny bit of a comeback, right at the beginning,” he told MTV News. “And it was when she wore the beautiful black pants and that white blouse onstage with Madonna. I thought that was so chic and so not her, so that’s why I really liked it.”

Britney also dazzled Siriano’s senses at the 2008 VMAs. “And then obviously when she won all of her music awards recently in that sequin dress,” he recalled. “And she looked really chic, but I liked it. I think it worked.”

She also could do no wrong at the 2001 VMAs. “She did wear a black Dolce and Gabbana minidress, like, years and years ago,” he remembered. “That was good. That was really good. Even though it was crazy, that was good.”Siriano said he would love to tackle the challenge of designing a little something for the pop star. He’s already got Lady Gaga on his résumé, so why not?

“I always say, ‘Britney, I would love to do it,’ ” he said. “I would love to make something fabulous for her because fashion-wise, it’s very interesting. She’s one of the biggest pop icons but … it’s never about clothes ever. It’s so weird, because every other of these pop divas it’s so much about clothing and fashion, and it’s not with Britney. It’s very strange.”

But, Siriano applauded her down-to-earth, girl-next-door sense of style. “On her down days, she’s just a normal girl and in her cutout jeans and Uggs and cutoff T-shirt,” he said. “And I think it’s kind of cool that it’s so real.”

Source: MTV

Spears, who will perform her final Sydney show tonight before heading to Brisbane, hung out with Randwick Children’s Hospital patients Jessica Sukkar, Amelia Sukkar and Sonia Tadros backstage after her concert on Tuesday night.

Source: HeraldSun

A source close to the singer – who plays Sydney’s Acer Arena tonight (Nov 20), before heading off to Brisbane – told the Chicago Sun Times: “She is very happy to be getting out of that country.”

And it seems Britters might never come back once she’s wrapped the final night of her ‘Circus’ tour.

A source said: “It’s been hard for her. She’s never been subjected to this level of criticism before. She hadn’t had an easy year of it before all this.”

The singer has been enjoying the sights of Sydney, nevertheless, and yesterday (Nov 19) took a trip around the Harbour in a private boat. One mole told us: “She’s licking her wounds at the moment after all the negative press. She just wants to keep her head down and be gentle on herself. ”

Meanwhile, Brit’s fellow Yank Michael Buble, who’s also in Oz, has jumped to her defence saying the criticism is “nasty” and telling Aussie media to give the poor girl a break.

Michael told Melbourne’s Herald Sun: “You’d think she killed someone. Okay, she lip-synchs her show. People know that, they make the decision if they want to go and see her do that.

“Does she deserve the way she’s been completely bashed by the media here? No.”

We agree, Buble.

Oh Britterz, we understand why you might feel like giving the country and everyone in it the two-fingered salute, but millions of folk down here love you, sweetie. Honest.

We’d hate to think we’d never see you again. Or that a couple of viper-tongued journos had won…

Source: MTV Australia

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Britannica has unveiled this new game, titled, “The Britney Video Game”

It’s a really cool and addicting game, I just got home so I haven’t had much time to play but it is awesome.

Let me know what you think of the game so I can tell Britannica

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