#Free britney free#

“For the public, this first year of free Britney has meant the discovery of her as a person,” says Sanguino. In this same time, she has shared 483 photos and an undetermined number of stories on Instagram, causing a cascade of headlines.

She has only released one song, Hold Me Closer, a duet with Elton John, in which they cover the old song by the English artist. In the last year, the singer has been more present on the social network than on Spotify. “Essentially, she has dedicated herself to doing what she likes the most, which is trying on clothes, dancing, doing yoga, being with her boyfriend and being on Instagram.

She has been on the beach practically the whole year,” says Juan Sanguino, journalist and author of the book Britney, One More Time. Since regaining control of her life, the 40-year-old singer has done what anyone in her situation would do. If there were post-credits scenes in Britney Spears’ movie, they would show her drinking champagne on a paradisiacal beach. World attention waned, but her life went on. On September 30, 2021, just one year ago, Spears finally achieved her freedom. The change in social perception was decisive.

As much as her Instagram account or her show in Las Vegas said otherwise, the singer was a puppet in the hands of her father, who had taken advantage of her psychiatric admission in 2008 to take charge of her life and her fortune. A wave of protests began in 2019 when The New York Times began to report on what her followers had been warning for some time: the artist was not well. The princess of pop, locked up in a castle in Las Vegas, was freed by an army of fans, with no other weapon than the hashtag #FreeBritney. The story of the conservatorship of singer Britney Spears, who was subjected to strict parental control by court order for 13 years, had a cinematic ending. But in real life, they continue to unfold. In movies, stories end with “The End” and the rolling of the credits.