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Article: Spears, Britney (b. 1981)
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Spears, Britney (b. 1981)
"Pop Princess," "Teen Queen," and "Video Vixen" are all terms that have been used to describe Britney Spears since she burst onto the music scene at the age of seventeen in 1998's "Hit Me Baby One More Time" video. Not since Madonna in the 1980s had a young female artist been as scrutinized for her appearance as for her music. Unlike Madonna, however, the only vote Britney Spears was old enough to cast at the time of her debut was for a video to appear on MTV's
Total Request Live,
a show on which viewer requests determined video airplay.
Britney Spears made her first foray into the entertainment industry at the ripe age of eight, when she applied for Disney's
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