I came across this new music video by Britney Spears '3' and I had to stop watching and just listen to the lyrics for obvious reasons, but anyways, the lyrics blew me away and it made me think back to her son 'Sometimes' from much earlier on.
And I just wondered how a person could produce a song like 'sometimes', which is a decent song about love, and then now produce this song called '3'. Sometimes I think the artists more often nowadays aren't really portraying how they feel in their music as much as they did before, but just what the producers want them to portray and unfortunately their lack of self-esteem maybe, I don't pretend to know what motivates these decisions (but something does), or maybe their drive to just make as much money as they can, or whatever, they just go along with it.
Listen to the lyrics and notice the difference in how they talk about love, sex, and relationships comparatively. I'm not commenting on Britney Spears specifically but just in general intrigued by how drastically different love is portrayed in these two songs from the same artist within 5 or 6 years of each other ... I think. Then also listen to "If you seek Amy". Particularly notice the contrast of the portrayal of the double life at the end. No one really wants to live like that.
It seems like you can tell that the person who sings the song 'sometimes' is not the same person that sings these other songs. Something is hurt there, something is off, not right, broken, and needs healing. And again this is something more characteristic of the culture and is not an attempt to make a specific judgment on Britney.
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