Mars` Barbarella, Jane Fonda and Britney Spears` Oops I Did It Again: The Washing Machine and The Camera
The opening credits of Barbarella (1968) starring Jane Fonda (1937-) are of a spaceship`s porthole, and the camera moves inside to observe her while she spins in...
Britney Spears` 50s Alien Invasion Movie And The Culinary Triangle
In the video single for Oops I Did It Again Britney Spears` planet is `invaded` by a spaceman who wears an Apollo spacesuit similar to Neil Armstrong`s when he was the first man to walk on the moon in 1969: `One...
`Ooh Baby! Baby!`
There is a mythology associated with baby teeth. In Hungary, Woman`s childhood is the story of the fog tuned, which is the `tooth fairy`. Britney Spears shows she knows the story in Oops I Did It Again (2000) because of her fork symbol. Cake is eaten with...
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The terrorist attacks on the Pentagon, Virginia, and the World Trade Centre, Manhattan, New York, didn`t seem to have any significant meaning outside of terrorism, whereas the `Big Apple` on New York`s Twin Towers eve of destruction represented the established wisdom of...
Looking Class War: Britney Spears` Criminal
The video for the `pop` single Criminal by Britney Spears is about `class`. The album from which the sinlge derives is Femme Fatale, but the title of the previous album Circus (2008) is a euphemism for `spying`. Alice Through The...
Womanizer
In the video for Womanizer there are four Britneys. At the beginning she`s cooking a square egg, which has four sides and so is symbolic of the four Britneys that appear in the video. In the developmental psychology of Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) the ego sits at the...
Britney Spears` Oops I Did It Again, Supermarionation, and Thunderbirds
Descending onto her stage set in Oops I Did It Again Britney Spears` science fiction pop extravaganza pays homage to the British `puppet` series Thunderbirds, created by Gerry and Sylvia Andersen in the...
The Moral Of The Bible: Virality Is Not Virility
Oops I Did It Again is Britney Spears` science fictional mimodrama after the fashion of Marcel Marceau, the mime. The video single takes place on Mars because she mimes her meanings as Marcel does, and the first allusion is to the...
Britney Spears With Goldmembers
The Britney Spears` single that was supposed to be a puzzle when released was `If You Seek Amy` (2009), which was translated as, `F*U*C*K Amy`. Like Madonna`s Dita, Britney`s character, Amy, is a schizophrenic persona allowing her to explore...
Prologue
A man and a woman were divorcing on the grounds that he wanted anal sex but she didn`t. `You`re an asshole`, said the shit. `Perhaps, but I`m rejecting you,` she replied. `I have AIDS,` said he. `I have a penis of my own,` she explained, `and I don`t want you. ` She took out...