If U Seek Britney: On “Framing Britney Spears”
On the new Britney Spears documentary and the fame monster
6 min readFeb 9, 2021
At a fairly pithy 74-minutes, The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears articulates its desire to be about control even in its runtime. It hurriedly attempts to establish the authorship the pop star had in her early career, even within the confines of a misogynistic industry…