Later, after the crash of 2008 exposed the raw contradictions of market capitalism, Spears’s work took on a more explicitly Marxist tenor her 2013 anthem ‘Work, Bitch’ skewered the hollow, alienating promises of material redemption flogged by the American Dream. ’I’m a Slave 4 U’ takes its cue from the Hegelian dialectics, whose focus on the mutual dependency of the master and the slave has been hugely influential on feminist thought in the infamous video, she commands and then discards the phallic symbol of a Burmese python. I Did It Again’ stands as a painful meditation on eternal recurrence and the tragedy of observing politics within the framework of Walter Benjamin’s “angel of history”. She was hinting at her leftist loyalties all along. The undercover radicalism of Britney’s oeuvre powered us through the end of history with, the late nineties-early noughts period when jeans were low-rise and interest rates sky high and there was, we were told, no alternative to capitalism.
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