It can be said that 2007 was the worst and darkest time in Britney Spears’ career. Back in 2004, after the end of the In The Zone era, Britney Spears marked the pinnacle of her career with the first prestigious Grammy Award for the song “Toxic” with the nomination for “Best Dance Recording”, it was thought that it would be difficult for any artist of the same age to surpass Britney, but it’s true that people are not as good as God. After going through a failed marriage with Kevin Federline, things started getting worse. First of all, the long, costly divorce led to Britney having to fight for custody of her children, which led to a series of extremely serious psychological disorders.

Every day the press fills the news with the worst images of Britney. From the image of shaving his head himself, cutting off his hair with a dull smile. Britney cried like a mentally ill person, struggling on the Hollywood sidewalk before the eyes of opportunists, her mental state completely out of control. Britney hugged her two crying children unconsciously, sitting disheveled in a fast food restaurant. Britney attacks someone with an umbrella with a fierce look on her face…

The image of Britney Spears shaving her own hair became a “classic” image during the singer’s collapse in 2007.

Even one thing that fans always fear: Britney will commit suicide, with such a context and constant pressure. It was one of the most terrifying and famous periods of mental breakdown in Hollywood. In those days, a group of paparazzi waited in front of Britney’s house gate. Britney’s photos are priced at hundreds, thousands of dollars, especially a photo of Britney with a shaved head fetching a record price with a paparazzi photo.

Britney Spears used an umbrella to attack a paparazzi.

The only consolation in 2007 that Britney had was the release of the album “Blackout” with producer Danja. With all the repression, frustration and indignation, Britney created the best music product of her career, one of the most influential Pop albums in history, critics did not know. I’m sorry for the kind words for “Blackout”.

However, Britney’s disastrous performance at the MTV VMAs that year continued to push everything to stagnation and crisis. Britney Spears was “forced” to go on stage to perform with an uncomfortable mood and mentality. Even then, Britney Spears’ weight was out of control, making the overall performance even worse in the eyes of the audience.

Writing in her memoir The Woman In Me, Britney Spears confided: “Blackout, the musical work that makes me most proud of my career, was released on Halloween 2007. According to the plan, I will perform performed the song at that year’s VMAs to promote the album. I didn’t want to go on stage, but my team insisted that I go out there and show the world I was okay. The only problem is that I’m not okay…”

Stepping onto the stage with the song Gimme More, which was causing a stir at that time, the audience saw a groggy, tired Britney Spears struggling to “return” her dance moves. The movements were lifeless, the eyes lifeless. Lip-sync openly, not secretly. The performance became a “stain” in Britney Spears’ career, especially when the “Pop Princess” previously had three shocking stages at this awards ceremony in 2000, 2001 and 2003 respectively. The media and Britney’s own colleagues continuously ridiculed the performance, calling it a “disaster”.

Not stopping there, Britney also revealed for the first time the tragic backstage story of that year’s VMAs. While she was on the worst day of her life after a disastrous performance, her ex-lover Justin Timberlake was having his most glorious moments. “Justin slid down the aisle to the performance stage. He joked around with the girls in the audience, one of whom turned around, bent over and shook her chest while he sang. Then he sang with Nelly Furtado and Timbaland, so happy, so free and so comfortable” – Britney Spears recalled in her memoir The Woman In Me.

Britney Spears also shared her full perspective on this unforgettable stage in her life, making fans even more sad. “Nothing went right backstage at the VMAs that night. I had problems with my outfit and my hair extensions. I stayed up all night the night before. I felt dizzy. I gave birth to two children two years in a row and It hadn’t even been a year since I’d given birth to my second child, but people were acting like it was something terrible that I didn’t have six-pack abs. I couldn’t believe I had to step out on the field performing with such emotion. I ran into Justin backstage. I haven’t seen him in a while. His world is running smoothly face, and he was very confident. I was in a state of panic. I hadn’t rehearsed the performance thoroughly before the show.

I hate the way I look. I knew this performance would be disastrous. That time I went on stage and performed my best, but of course this performance was still far from my best performance at other times. During the performance, I could see myself on the video screens hanging around the arena, and it felt like distorted reflections in the mirrors of amusement park mirror houses. .I do not intend to defend that performance, nor say that it was good; What I’m trying to say is that all performers will have bad shows. Usually those bad shows don’t have too serious consequences…”