

Ghalib dashes over to console her, but she’s already spitting, growling, throwing a big bottle of soda on the floor so that it begins to spill underneath the curtain, and then she’s got a box of tissues and is throwing them on top of the wet floor along with piles of discarded merchandise. The 25 Boldest Career Moves in Rock History “Fuck these bitches,” screams Britney, each word ringing out between sobs. One of the girls runs to Britney’s dressing room, explaining the situation through a pink gauze curtain.Ī wail emerges from the cubby - guttural, vile, the kind of base animalistic shriek only heard at a family member’s deathbed. “Please,” begs Ghalib, “get this done quickly.” The card won’t go through, but they keep trying it.

The issue is available in the online archive. This article appeared in the Februissue of Rolling Stone. Then she ducks into the dressing room with Ghalib. Britney rifles the racks as the Cure’s “Pictures of You” blasts into the airless pink boutique, grabbing a pink lace dress, a few tight black numbers and a frilly red crop top, the kind of shirt that Britney used to wear all the time at seventeen but isn’t really appropriate for anyone over that age. Only a few kids are in the store, a young girl with her brother and two blondes checking out fake-gold charm bracelets. The Beatles in India: 16 Things You Didn't Know The Private Lives of Liza Minnelli (The Rainbow Ends Here) She cuts through the crowd swiftly, the way she used to when 20,000 adoring fans mobbed her outside a concert, with her paparazzi boyfriend, Adnan Ghalib, trailing behind.

In person, Britney is shockingly beautiful - clear skin, ruby lips, a perfectly proportioned twenty-six-year-old porcelain doll with a nasty weave. “Her legs are actually really skinny,” an adolescent whispers into her Sidekick, as Britney beelines for the Betsey Johnson boutique, pseudo-punk designer of evening dresses and splashy heels worn to suburban high school proms. One moment, shoppers in the Westfield Topanga mall are living in the real world, monotonously selecting a new shade of eye shadow or rubbing perfume on wrists, but upon the rapture of Britney Spears, they are giggling, laughing, orgasmic, already sharing their secret on cell phones. 12, 2021: After 14 years, Britney Spears’ conservatorship has been terminated.Ī pop star at the mall is an eternal cause for happiness, especially on a Sunday afternoon in the Valley.
