Originally written June 9, 2005.

Okay, first my little bit of personal baggage. When BOMT came out I was in my First Lesbian Period and I thought she was HOT! I wanted her so bad! But I didn't really like the way the media were goin' nuts about her and she seemed to be ruling the world on the strength of one single. I resented her a little bit and thought she would be finished in a couple of months. So I just let her go and went back to Mariah.

Originally written August 8, 2005.

Where the BOMT videos portrayed Britney as a cute, lovable young girl and the OIDIA videos showed a growing realisation of her sex appeal, the “Britney” videos captured a moment in time when Britney Spears was quite possibly the hottest female on the planet. For a while she was a peerless beauty, with perfect skin, perfect teeth, perfect hair, beautiful eyes and body of dazzling allure - slim, athletic and as toned as Miss Universe, yet with curves in all the right places and sexy as hell. Let’s have a look at them:

Originally written July 29, 2005.

In a superficial sense, the OIDIA videos showed a shift of focus away from Britney’s soul to her body as her “people” realised that she was now being perceived as a super-sexy young star. Let’s take a look at them:

Originally written April 28, 2006.

Are we suffering from collective amnesia? It amazes me that so many Britney fans think her image has gone to hell and her career is in the balance. If we cast our minds back to 2003 and the period just before In The Zone was released, we find that back then things were so much worse. Yes, Britney was still assumed to be a pretty girl, and yes, she was still reckoned to be an international-class sex object. But that wasn’t the hot gossip about her at the time. The chatter among the cooler-than-**** teenagers was “She’s SOOOOOOO over!” And the media agreed.