Celebrate Britney Spears? 30th Birthday With a Look Back at Crossroads

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News flash, people: Britney Spears is 30 years old today. Oh, how the years (and ruined relationships and children and countless bags of Cheetos) have flown by! In honor of the pop princess’s milestone birthday, let’s flash back to the year 2002, a time when Brit-Brit was not a girl, and not yet a woman. When she debuted her first starring turn, the start of a promising career as a serious dramatic actress! When Zoe Saldana was just that girl from Center Stage! Let us return to Crossroads.

I’ve always had a soft spot for Crossroads — moreso than I do for Britney herself — and that has everything to do with timing. The spring of 2002 was the height of youth pop culture fandom for anyone who grew up watching Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Christina Aguilera on The New Mickey Mouse Club: Britney was the golden girl of post-MMC stardom, had already topped the charts and earned a Grammy nod, and she was dating Justin Timberlake OF ‘NSYNC FAME.

But just as she’d morphed from bubblegum tunes and schoolgirl uniforms of “Baby One More Time” to the coy, latex-ed Euro-pop of “Oops… I Did It Again,” Spears was ready for another transformation. Enter Crossroads, which combined with the python-accessorized “I’m a Slave 4 U,” announced that Britney was all grown up, kinda.

Directed by Tamra Davis and penned by a pre-Grey’s Anatomy Shonda Rhimes, Crossroads followed three high school graduates (Spears, Saldana, and Taryn Manning) on a road trip to Los Angeles. Each young heroine had an objective of her own — travel, find an estranged mother, see a fiance — but only Britney got to sleep…

Source: http://www.celebrities.com/celebrities-gossip/celebrate-britney-spears-30th-birthday-with-a-look-back-at-crossroads/

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