Britney in Green
Britney`s Oops I Did It Again video features herself in a red pilot`s suit on the red planet Mars and, as it`s `science fiction`, there are genre references. The first `Grand Master` of SF was the US writer Robert A. Heinelin (1907-88), who wrote Red Planet amongst other...
Oops Byzantium!
In the Byzantine period of Christianity (330-1453 C.E.) the child of the Madonna is depicted as a small man rather than as an infant. In the prelude to her performance in the `scifi` promotional video for the single, `Oops! ... I Did It Again` (2000), Britney Spears...
Is Britney Spears Widow Twanky?
The theatre tradition of the `principal boy` being played by a girl is to be found in `Pantomime`, which is a type of musical comedy based on folktales. Aladdin is the story of a boy who finds a `magic lamp` that summons a...
Britney`s Sucker
The `fourth wall`1 is a well known concept in drama, that is, the audience. In Pantomime the phrase that acknowledges the existence of a `fourth wall` is, `Look behind you!`2 Left, right, and behind are the three walls of the living room, or the theatre, with the television,...
Britney Spears and Leviathan, Behemoth, Ziz, and Chronos in Oops I Did It Again
In Oops I Did It Again (2000) Britney Spears plays the red dragon of Revelation, which is associated in Judaism with Leviathan from the Book of Job in the Old Testament of the Bible. Leviathan is...
Cannibalism in Britney Spears` Oops I Did It Again
Britney suspends her spaceman from a meathook in Oops I Did It Again, and the tines of a fork are visible at the side of his space helmet, which is suggestive of the the ancient pagan practice of god-eating, whereby the `magical...
Britney Spears` distillation of the Bible`s meaning; encapsulating its entirety in Oops I Did It Again: from Genesis to Revelation - to eat, and not to devour.
In Oops I Did It Again Britney Spears` red suited figure`s counterpart is her white bikini-dressed figure who,...
Britney Spears: The ASE Award
In the video for Oops I Did It Again Britney Spears` spaceman finds her icon in the sand and there`s a Marsquake. What ensues shows that her scifi has profundity; for example, she`s aware of `The Association of Space Explorers` Crystal Helmet Planetary...
Raising Spears
The tannoy announcing `All aboard!` in the promotional video to Britney Spears` song, `Oops! ... I Did It Again` (2000), set on Mars with its spaceman visitor to Britney Spears` red planet announces her affinity for the TV series Star Trek (1965-)...