Britney Spears has been one of the most famous human beings on the planet since she was 16 years old. From the moment her debut single “...Baby One More Time” catapulted her into the pop culture stratosphere in 1998, she has experienced a level of constant attention that feels simply incomprehensible.
In the early 2000s, “Britney Spears” was for several years running the most frequently searched phrase on Google. It’s not that she was merely the most searched celebrity; out of every single possible topic on Earth, the thing that people were most curious about was a pop singer from Mississippi still not out of her early 20s. When Spears, now 44, was arrested in Ventura County, California Wednesday evening for driving under the influence, the Sheriff’s Office listed her occupation as: “Celebrity.” That is something of an understatement.
