'It's in my blood to perform,' Britney tells USA TODAY

LAS VEGAS — The big white snake and that awards show kiss. The electric professional highs and those crushing personal lows.
All traces of that particular tabloid queen have vanished from an airless backstage room at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, leaving behind only a tired, sweaty yet still smiling 32-year-old working stiff named Britney Jean Spears.
"I didn't sleep last night because I'm excited," Spears tells USA TODAY, her soft Louisiana drawl peeking out as she plops down on a leather couch after another grueling rehearsal. "But today I'm dying. I feel like I'm drunk, I'm so tired, you knofw?"
It's not hard to imagine the stress and strain Spears is under. For the past four months, the onetime queen of teen pop has been laboring on her new stage show, Britney: Piece of Me, a two-year, 98-gig residency that kicked off Friday at the custom-tweaked, 7,000-seat Axis theater here.
Beyond the inevitable scrutiny of a pop-culture kingdom she once ruled, there's the sheer rigor of blasting through 24 largely uptempo hits with countless costume changes and wild set pieces that include her leaping off a massive fake tree.
But for Spears, whose at-home dramas — ranging from divorce to hospitalization — sometimes appeared to threaten her onstage dreams, it was never really if she was going to clamber back on the showbiz diving board, but when.
"It's in my blood to perform," says Spears, dressed in black dancer's tights and a football-type jersey bearing the number 25. Her bleached-blond hair is pinned to the top of her head; one hand fusses with her upper lip.

Most stars in this decidedly un-starlike state would simply refuse to be seen, but Spears seems as comfortable as your neighbor coming back from a jog.
"I'm a hometown girl, and my personality at home is the opposite of the performer in me," she says. "But then, when I'm home and haven't done anything for a while, I get really itchy and nervous and weird-feeling. Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage."
She pauses, her voice but a whisper. "It gives me confidence. I don't have that much confidence in myself. But when I'm onstage, it's my alter ego, and it kind of does adjust my personality."
Vegas offered the perfect outlet for those dueling personas.
"I'm a family girl and (like) being in one place. Traveling around the world is really strenuous for me, being in a different bed every night, flying and everything," she says, shaking her head. "I look back now, and I don't see how I did it. This (residency) just seems ideal. It's an hour from L.A., from my home, and it's perfect."
Well, almost. Comfortable onstage since her pre-teen Mouseketeer days, Spears made a name for herself in the early 2000s as a dancing force in the model of her heroine, Madonna. But the body of a teenager is forgiving, less so the one of a thirtysomething mom. Spears recently hit the spa at a neighboring Strip hotel and confesses that she never wanted to leave, a take-me-away luxury that rivals disappearing into a favorite movie (Bridesmaids) or book (Emily Giffin's Heart of the Matter).
"These intense workouts have really been excruciating," she says, sighing. "It's probably the hardest workout I've ever done, ever in my life, getting ready for this show. I look back at my other tours, and I'm doing more songs here than I've ever done. And it's just way more, the speed of the dancing throughout."
That tempo is thanks to a catalog of hits that a much older performer would envy, ranging from her teen-vixen breakout smashes, 1998's ... Baby One More Time and 2000's Oops! … I Did It Again, to the will.i.am-helmed dance grind Work Bitch off her just-released album, Britney Jean. While this eighth effort is her slowest-selling to date — just 107,000 copies in its first week — there's enough depth to the past decade and a half of chart success to fuel the show.
"Let's remember it's been almost 15 years since her first album, and that's an anniversary to celebrate, one that makes it feel right to have a retrospective show like this," says her manager Larry Rudolph, taking direct aim at a criticism that his client (he also represents Miley Cyrus) might be too young for a Vegas residency.
"Very few performers have 15 years in the business, let alone that many years with lots of hits," he says. "Miley called me the other day and told me, 'I've just spent the past few days watching all of Britney's (music) videos, and she's unbelievable. She just murdered it every time.' This (run) is more than warranted."

While there's no debating that Spears is far younger than her Vegas residency compadres — notably Celine Dion, 45, Shania Twain, 48, and Rod Stewart, 68 — her youth is an asset when it comes to producing a high-energy, club-oriented spectacle aimed at a new and younger breed of Vegas visitor lured by the Strip's burgeoning commitment to electronic dance music. Here, Britney billboards do battle with ads for sets by all-star DJs such as Tiesto, Steve Aoki and Calvin Harris.
"My guess is this (residency) is a good bet for Vegas, as there are enough people who were teens with (Britney) and now are in their 30s and revisiting their love of her dance hits," says Gary Bongiovanni, editor of concert industry magazine Pollstar.
He adds that while any new act in town faces the challenge posed by "Vegas being, arguably, one of the busiest entertainment cities in the world," he notes that any show offering "a lot of eye candy is basically addressing what most visitors there come to expect."
But Britney could well be shooting for something far greater than simply being just another fun Vegas night out, says Rolling Stone columnist Rob Sheffield.
"With this show, she's making a bold claim on her place in pop-culture history," he says. "Everyone's always predicted a flame-out from her, but the new album shows she can expand her sound. She'll have to be bold, but this is a chance to shine."
For Spears, staying busy will be its own reward.
"I know nearly 100 shows sounds like a lot, but I'm excited," she says. "I'm the type of person who, if I don't have enough to do, I go crazy. I have to stay busy. It's a good thing to stay busy."
The plan is to do four or so shows a week, then head from a penthouse suite here back to her Los Angeles home and overseeing her boys' (Sean, 8, and Jayden, 7, with Kevin Federline) school and sports schedules, a working-mom juggling act she credits to the efficiency of a trusted assistant.
"I love my family," says Spears, whose father and conservator, Jamie, is never far from sight backstage. "I get excited being around them. For me, it's about relatives and cousins, as much as they can drive you crazy. It's about them."
If she is feeling the pressure to demonstrate that she still has what it takes professionally, she's not showing it.
"I love what I do, and at this point in my career, I don't feel like I have anything to prove," she says. "I didn't do much promotion for the new album for that reason. I don't feel like I have to do every TV show. I just want to perform and inspire people. When I'm tired and I see one of my dancers pick up my part, they inspire me. I think that's why we're here, to inspire each other."
She sips a drink from a straw. "Performing gives me a fearless feeling, like you can conquer anything. I guess it's a false confidence, actually."
In fact, certain things scare Spears.
"A lot of things do, yeah. Um, like I'm not good in social settings," she says. "And I'm not good with heights. Or any animals other than my animals. I'm scared of dogs. I have dogs, but they're tiny. I'm scared of other dogs. I got attacked by two dogs when I was younger."
Clearly, snakes are exempt from that fear, as evidenced by her memorable cultural moment, akin to Miley's MTV Video Music Awards twerk-a-thon: draping herself with a massive white python for the 2001 VMAs performance of I'm a Slave 4 U.
Spears smiles at the memory. That was a lifetime ago. A teenage dream. Her thirtysomething reality lies ahead.
"I'm happy with where I am," she says. It comes off as a statement, not a plea. And for the next two years, the world can come to Las Vegas and see for themselves.

Source: USA Today

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In her only UK interview for her new album, Britney Spears talks motherhood, perfectionism, heartbreak – and why, with her Vegas residency starting, she’s feeling the pressure
“This is scary,” admits Britney Spears, looking mildly alarmed. In an hour, the pop superstar will climb on to a small stage, perch on a stool in front of the worldwide media and numerous record executives, and give “Britney Jean”, her eighth album, its first public airing.

She’ll be joined on stage by her producer, Will.i.am, but the audience will focus on just one person, as she introduces songs, including her new single, Perfume, from an album (now free to stream on iTunes) that promises to delve further than ever before into the life of this surprisingly shy icon. “I’m eager for people to hear what I’ve been working on,” she adds. But I’m so nervous at the same time, because it’s such a personal album for me.” It’s late November and we’re in a private room at a Los Angeles recording studio-cum-art-space. Beyond a door, guests are eating sushi and drinking cocktails while a sound system pumps out her greatest hits, but in our quiet space a healthy-looking Spears sits politely on the edge of a sofa, her hands in her lap.

Tonight’s event is not the only thing that’s on her mind. On 27 December, she’ll follow in the footsteps of Céline Dion and Elton John with a Las Vegas residency, due to run for two years at Planet Hollywood, for which she will earn a reported $300,000 (£184,000) a night. It was launched in September with a 4am event in the Mojave desert, involving 1,000 Britney lookalikes, the star herself arriving by helicopter. “Vegas is definitely a new challenge,” she says. “But I wanted to be able to put on a different type of show. You get to do so much more when you don’t have to put your stage in trucks after the show every night – we got to build a venue specifically for my show. It’s going to be more like a party than a typical concert.”
Spears, who turned 32 on 2 December, is in great shape, wearing a plain black vest, tight black leggings and black heels. “I need to rehearse more now than I did before,” she admits. “I feel I’m more of a perfectionist these days.”

This pressure isn’t all self-imposed. Back in 1999 when Spears first found international fame with …Baby One More Time, she could gauge reactions based on the roar of arena shows or sackloads of fan mail. But that was a long time ago, before she was a mother of two and the many ups and well-documented downs that have made her one of the most photographed and written-about celebrities of modern times, a subject of fascination across every demographic. In 2013 feedback comes from an internet’s-worth of fans and showbiz commentators who don’t hesitate to express their opinions on what Spears should – and shouldn’t – be doing.
“The increased scrutiny does make me a little harder on myself these days,” she says. “There are more expectations of me now, not just in terms of what I do, but also in terms of who I am.”
Part of the problem is that the ups of the past 15 years were extraordinarily high. Signature hits such as Toxic and I’m A Slave 4 U have helped her shift more than 100 million albums, she has scooped awards at the Grammys and MTV VMAs, her tours have grossed more than $380m (£233m) and she received her star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame when she was just 21. And she’s still hitting the spot: last year her will.i.am collaboration, Scream & Shout, went to number one in 24 countries. Almost 35 million people follow her on Twitter, and Forbes billed her as 2012’s highest-paid woman in music, ahead of Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Rihanna, with earnings of $58m (£35.6m).
She’s come a long way from her childhood town of Kentwood, Louisiana, a place whose other claim to fame is as the dairy capital of America’s South. “It’s a small town where everyone knows everyone,” she says. “You visit your friends and neighbours without ever telling them you’re showing up.”

At the age of three, Spears was attending dance lessons; by eight she was travelling to Atlanta, Georgia, with her mother Lynne, a former teacher, to audition for the Disney television series The Mickey Mouse Club. A spell in a performing arts school, several television advertisements and an understudy job on Broadway later she was finally cast as a Mouseketeer alongside Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling and her future boyfriend, Justin Timberlake. When The Mickey Mouse Club was cancelled she returned to Kentwood but she and her mother were not about to admit defeat.
An immaculately turned-out and friendly woman, Lynne is in Los Angeles with us today, just as she’s been with her daughter since those first auditions and the meetings with Jive Records that eventually propelled Britney to international fame. (Although Lynne and Britney’s father, Jamie, divorced in 2002, they were reconciled eight years later.)
“My mom is a wonderful woman,” says Spears. “She’s always been an inspiration to me, but having kids helped me make even more sense of my relationship with her. My sons [Sean] Preston and Jayden are eight and seven now – and not only do I find myself doing some of the things my mom used to do, I also understand why she did them.”
Compared with many children of celebrities, Spears’s boys, whose father is her ex-husband and former backing dancer Kevin Federline, have a relatively low profile, but earlier this year she took them to a film premiere. In footage of them outside, Jayden is having a great time posing for the cameras, but at one point, amid the bellowing and flashing of the media, his brother has had enough, and turns to his mother for comfort.
“That was Preston – he’s kind of shy,” she says. “I kind of keep them in their world – their kid world, away from the limelight. I feel that’s a different side of me. ’Cos, you know, it’s a lot to deal with. For a lot of people. Especially if you’re shy, like my boys, it can be overwhelming.”
After two decades of fame how has she learnt to deal with this? What’s the trick?
“Oh,” she says with a laughs, “it’s always overwhelming.”

At the beginning of 2013 Britney split from her fiancé, Jason Trawick, and the end of that three-year relationship, she tells me, is the reason “Britney Jean” is her most personal album to date.
“There are a lot of songs about heartbreak I can relate to because of the break-up I went through this year,” she explains. “When you go through heartbreak, you just do the things that get you by. Eventually you realise it’s about making the most of life. Even on the album when it talks about having a good time with friends and family, it’s because these are the things that make you happy and get you through heartbreak.”
She hopes the lyrics will inspire others. “There is definitely an element of that. I’ve always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.”
That said, Perfume, a song she co-wrote with hitmaker du jour Sia Furler, the woman behind hits including Rihanna’s Diamonds, is surprisingly bleak. “I hate myself,” she sings. “I feel crazy, such a classic tale.” Although right now she is dating 27-year-old David Lucado, who works at a Los Angeles law firm, the suggestion is that Spears feels doomed to endure a succession of disappointments in her search for true love.
“You put yourself through it again and again,” she agrees. “But each time love takes you over. It feels different every time for me. Every guy who I’ve been with, it’s been a different kind of love. And right now, I’m having a magical love.”

Although “Britney Jean” may be her most personal album to date, over the years her music has hinted at the reality of her life. As far back as 2000’s Lucky, a track on her second album, she sang about a starlet who cried in cars, “Thinking if there’s nothing missing in my life, why do these tears come at night?” In her 2002 single I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman, she sang, “All I need is time, a moment that is mine, while I’m in between.” Instead, she found herself under increasing scrutiny, followed everywhere she went by hordes of paparazzi. In 2007, she released the single Piece Of Me, in which she sang of paparazzi “hoping I’ll resort to some havoc, end up settlin’ in court”; of being “Miss Bad Media Karma, another day, another drama”. She was “Mrs Extra, Extra, This Just In; I’m Mrs She’s Too Big, Now She’s Too Thin”.

By 2008 Spears had moved on from daily dramas; neither too big nor too thin, she was getting herself back on top and in shape, with a routine of healthy eating and early nights. “I feel like an old fart,” she said at the time. I ask if 2008 was when she felt she had to grow up quickly. “Yeah, but I liked it. And believe it or not, I ended up liking going to bed early, in a weird way. At night, that’s when you mess up. So if you go to bed at 9.30, you’re good.”
In recent years, she’s kept herself busy. “Really busy, actually,” she says. “But it’s been nice. I got to be more of a stay-at-home mom – in fact, I had a whole year off when I was just doing the mom thing.” We talk about her “French country”-style house on the outskirts of Los Angeles, and about the early years of her career, such as when she and Timberlake turned up at the 2001 American Music Awards clad entirely in denim. “It was a pretty carefree time,” she says. “We were just, like, ‘We look great, let’s go!’ I have great memories of that time: there were a lot of rehearsals, but there was also a lot of clubbing and a lot of dancing. I still think the best night of my life was when I was 22 years old. It was New Year’s Eve, and in Hawaii.”

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Her smile hints at a fun night, but also suggests that the details are not for public consumption. “It was a long time ago,” is all she will say. “But it was fun.” But, she adds, “I get bored really, really easily so I always have to feel like I’m doing something – I have to get back to work and start working.”
Is the recording studio her safe place now?
“Yes, yes. Definitely. And that feeling of safeness comes through in my music now more than it ever has before – that’s how I feel comfortable making personal music.”
From talent shows as a child to tabloid headlines as an adult, Spears has spent a long time being judged, so when Simon Cowell invited her to join the American X Factor judging panel in 2012 it was not a decision she took lightly.
“I did have trouble being overly critical at times but then I’d simply remind myself to be constructive and positive versus mean,” she adds. “Being able to mentor young singers was the main plus point. I think overall it was a positive experience.”
Not every career move is remembered so fondly. On the topic of Chaotic, the 2005 documentary that granted unprecedented access to her marriage to Federline, she says: “I would never do something like that again.” She purses her lips. It looks as if this is the first time she’s considered Chaotic in many years. “Actually, that was really bad,” she decides. “That was probably the worst thing I’ve done in my career.”
When I ask if that includes Crossroads – her not-exactly-Oscar-winning 2002 film – she looks suddenly outraged and clutches her hand to her heart. “No!” she shouts, springing to life. “I like Crossroads! F— you!”
And then, to my relief, she laughs.

Source: The Telegraph

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Britney In Style interview

Britney Spears opens up about her Las Vegas residency, cosmetic procedures, Kim Kardashian and more in her intimate interview with In Style magazine.
“The physical demands are tremendous,” Britney says of her show “Piece of Me.” I’m rehearsing at least three or four hours a day, sometimes even five. My body yesterday – I just felt so bad, I had to get two massages in one day! When I was younger I wasn’t as likely to rehearse as hard as I do now. I’m harder on myself these days. Before, I would practice two times, and I’d be done. Nowadays I’m very critical of myself.”
Britney tells In Style her fashion sense changed over the years. “When I was younger, I cared a lot more about what I wore. But the older you get, the more you think about what’s easy and comfortable. I do like to look good when I go to events, and I like to dress up. That’s for the show of it all!… But in my everyday life I’m more low-key.”
One thing Britney admits to is fame disturbing her time as a pregnant woman and says she feels for what Kim Kardashian went through.
“I was just watching Keeping Up With The Kardashians, and I see what Kim went through when she was pregnant – the tabloids were so mean to her because she was big. At one point in the show she was upset and said something like, “I would be lying if I said that the criticism from the press while I’ve been pregnant hasn’t taken a toll on me.” And I was like, ‘Bless her heart,’ ’cause I remember that time. First of all, you are already emotional and then paparazzi are taking pictures of you pregnant. That should be the time in your life when your body is most treasured. I loved being pregnant for so many reasons, not to mention the sex is awesome then. But in this business you make a deal with the devil. I’ve learned you kind of have to go with it. What I do calls for me to look good. People expect that. I kind of take it as my job.”
Perhaps that pressure of always having to look good is the reason behind her getting lip injections, which she admits in the issue.

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Britney Spears Says Her Public Breakup Left Her 'No Choice' On Britney Jean.
'It's not a secret, so why not write about it?' Britney tells MTV News about addressing her relationship head-on.
From the beginning, Britney Spears had said she had poured her heart and soul into her eighth album, Britney Jean, giving fans an unprecedented look at her personal life.
So why, after 15 years, did Britney decide now was the time to reveal all?
"Actually I really kinda had no choice," Britney admitted to MTV News at Las Vegas' Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, the home to her upcoming "Piece of Me" residency. "Because at the time I was going through a breakup that was kind of public, and everyone knew about it. And I felt like, it's not a secret, so why not write about it and say how I'm feeling about it and what it feels like?"
And writing about the end of her engagement to Jason Trawick is exactly what she did, resulting in an intimate 10-track experience for her fans, but helped the pop star deal with her own emotions.
"I feel like when you write you do depict from what you're going through in your life, and that's what I was going through at the time, so it just made sense for me, therapeutically, to write it out and get it out," Britney said. "You kinda of do put yourself in an exposed situation and you're putting yourself out there a little bit, but I feel like it's better to do that than keep it in."
Britney said she's just as excited to release her eighth studio album as her first since fans will see a different side of her not only lyrically, but sonically.
"I feel like I have more to say now, I'm older and I'm open to experiment with the album and work with different people and collaborate," she said. "And I just think the creative process is more indulgent, it's more fun."

Source: MTV

New Britney interview with PrideSource

It's Britney, bitch.
No, really, it is. She's on the phone. And Britney Spears - the meek, reserved, media-shy entertainer - doesn't get on the phone with press very often these days.
She's speaking to me from L.A. on a busy day full of frenzied promo leading up to her eighth release, "Britney Jean," when she drops the word that elicited eye rolls from some in the gay community.
The word is "adorable," and Spears - who, in a radio interview with San Francisco radio station 99.7 NOW FM, used it to describe her beauty team (they're also "hilarious," she said at the time) - mentions it to me when I ask her how wild the gay boys go when they're in the midst of their pop princess.
"They're adorable," says Spears, 32. "They're absolutely adorable."
It seems like an appropriate time to tell her how that "adorable and hilarious" comment went viral and rubbed some the wrong way.
"Wait, what? Who felt the other way?" she asks, sincerely concerned she's offended people, and even a little lost. You get the impression Britney Spears doesn't Google herself.
So, I fill her in.
"I would never say anything to be mean to them. I love my gay fans. Gay people are always usually my best friends in the whole world," she says. "I completely adore them."
Considering the pop star's clout in the gay community, it's obviously mutual. From the then-17-year-old's sexually suggestive breakout hit "... Baby One More Time" - when the once-Mouseketeer, dressed in that iconic Catholic schoolgirl getup, merged childhood innocence with the onset of sexual desire - to "Toxic," easily one of the greatest gay club jams of the aughts, Spears has influenced the queens and queers of the dance floor as much as they've influenced her.
"I get inspiration from them on almost all of my songs," Spears says of her gay fans. "They're somewhat girls, so it's so inspiring to do stuff that they like to hear, like the cool 'in' stuff. Whatever I do for each record is definitely inspired by them."
If you've heard 2007's defiantly bold "Blackout" and its pop-dance follow-up "Circus," and then, obviously, "Femme Fatale," you know Britney isn't just full of it. These are really gay albums. But her gayest? Is it "Britney Jean"?
"I would say so, yes," Spears says, sounding almost unsure, as if the gayness exists equitably on all her releases (and, really, it does). "I just feel like it has that feeling. You can't really put your finger on it. It just really has that feeling of ... that."
"Work Bitch" has the feeling of "that" - of gay - so much so that Spears herself has said it's a salute to her queer fans. The title is "a term of endearment" and was inspired by gay patter among her pals. What other queer street slang has she picked up from them?
She snickers, letting her Louisiana drawl fully flex. "I don't really know that much. I mean, I hang out with gays all the time. They always surprise me. It changes weekly, you know?"
"The slang you learn?" I ask, just to be clear.
"Yeah."
So maybe Britney doesn't watch "RuPaul's Drag Race" on the regular, maybe she isn't out getting all crazy at the gay clubs (she tells me that being a mom doesn't allow for nights out with her friends at queer bars, but before children: "Yeah, always"), but part of her - a part she's not really addressed until now - can empathize with the plight of growing up gay.
"Alien," one of the most self-reflective tracks on "Britney Jean," alludes to her own feelings of being an outcast, of being alone, of being Britney Spears: "Had to get used to the world I was on / While yet still unsure if I knew where I belong / That was then, like an alien."
"The song is basically about when you're all alone and you feel like you're alienated from the world," Spears says. "I think it's human nature; we all innately do that sometimes and keep to ourselves, and that's what the song is about."
It was during her second release, 2000's "Oops! ... I Did It Again," with its self-empowerment mantra "Stronger," that she recognized a big gay following. "I really started noticing more coming to the shows," Spears recalls. "People were emulating my clothes and wearing the same outfits, and it was just really fun."
Through the years, she's met many of these gay boys after shows, where, she says, "a couple of them have told me about their heartbreaks and shared stories about their boyfriends, which has been really kind of sweet."
I tell her we relate to people who fall down and get right back up. Britney, for all her success, has been to the top, but not without seeing the bottom. Between 2006 and 2008, Spears divorced Kevin Federline, fought tirelessly for the custody of her two boys and sobered up at a drug rehab facility. There was also the panty-less partying, the British accent, the head-shaving and the time she attacked a paparazzo with an umbrella. Life was looking bleak for Britney then, and she knew it. On "Piece of Me," a track off "Blackout," Spears called herself "Miss Bad Media Karma."
But when she talks about the time she felt alienated, there's no mention of this more recent regrettable history. It's clear - not just from our chat, but the rare times she's been on the phone with a journalist in the last five years - that she doesn't care to look back. For the most part, anyway.
"Since I was in high school, I've been kind of a shy person," Spears admits to me.
I ask, "Would you say you felt like an outsider then?"
Her voice drops. "A little bit, yeah."
Because she felt different as a kid, but also, of course, musically - Spears, despite her public ups and downs, has been a mainstay in the queer scene for the last 15 years - I wonder if Britney considers herself what many call her: a gay icon.
"I don't know about that," she says, surprisingly frank. "But I know I do have gay fans."
I remind her that a large part of the community sees her as a gay icon.
Her response? "That's nice. I don't know about that."
But surely she's thought about her status in the gay community, right?
"Not really, no."
What about equal marriage? Would Britney like to see her gay friends - she tells me later, via email, that she has an "amazing" relationship with them, many of which are her dancers - get married?
"Yeah," she says. Then silence. (I give her the opportunity to elaborate over email after our phone chat: "Yeah, it would be a special moment.")
"So you believe gay people deserve equal rights?"
"Yeah," she assures. (Via email: "I think everyone should be treated equally.")
At this point, seven minutes into the conversation, a publicist grabs Britney's attention. She tells me to hang on a second. Because she's getting whisked away for a "Britney Jean" listening session that she's already late to, "This has to be the last question," she informs, sounding distracted.
I ask about Las Vegas, where she's launching her two-year residency, "Britney: Piece of Me," at Planet Hollywood.
Expect half-naked men - she says, because obviously - but also "look forward to a really good time. They're gonna definitely feel like they're a part of a show."
Milking every second of my scheduled 10 minutes with her by sneaking in one final question, I ask her which girl kiss she preferred: the cheek peck Rihanna gave her during the 2011 Billboard Awards, or the legendary Madonna lip-lock at the Video Music Awards?
There's brief silence, a "thank you" and then a sudden click. That's it. Our eight minutes together.
And just like that, Britney Spears gives exactly what she promised: a piece of her.

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(WATCH) Britney Unguarded: I Would Love to Have More Kids

ET's Rob Marciano got to see a side of Britney Spears that few have in their recent sit-down, getting the pop princess to open up about the possibility of having more kids and whether or not she would ever give marriage another try.
"I would love to have more kids," said the 31-year-old mother of two.
The Grammy winner, who has been through two short-lived marriages, was less decisive on the idea of being a wife again.
"I don't know," she said simply.
For right now, Britney is just enjoying life with her boys, and savoring the simple moments of her home life.
"I'm just a normal girl," said Britney. "I love doing yoga; I love reading; I love being bored; I love sleeping in my bed; I love breakfast in bed."
Britney's upcoming album Britney Jean shows a more fierce side of the singer.
"I would say it was kind of like therapy for me," Britney said of making the album. "It sort of transformed me and my perspective."
Britney Jean is set to be released December 3.

Source: ET

Britney´s Q&A on ET

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.@ETonlineAlert @wondersterek I love chocolate.....and sleep.....
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Thank you all for asking @britneyspears your questions! Catch more of #BritneyonET tonight as #BritneyBlowout begins! http://t.co/JneDsub8NJ
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ET PREVIEW: Britney Unfiltered on 'Passionate' BF & New Music

ET's Rob Marciano was the first entertainment news magazine reporter to sit-down with Britney Spears for a candid heart-to-heart on her relationship with boyfriend David Lucado, her upcoming album Britney Jean and her Las Vegas residency.
"I'm in love ... I like the fact that [Lucado is] very stubborn and he's stuck in his ways," said Spears. "He's just a simple man. I adore him. He's really funny and he's really passionate. I love the fact that anything he's involved in he's passionate about and it's contagious." Spears went on to confirm that she met Lucado through friends and her father ran a background check on him, "My dad's a little crazy like that," said Spears, who would like to have more children in the future but is unsure if she will wed again.
According to Spears, the process of making her latest album put her in a good place mentally.
"I would say [the album] was kind of like therapy for me," said the pop princess. "It just kind of transformed me. As you write something your perspective changes. So, it was like my 'good therapy record.' I'm an artist so I think there are periods in everyone's life where you get kind of reclusive, your creative outlet is cut off. Then sometimes it flows and you're like, 'Oh my God, this is what I need to be doing' [which makes] it easier for you to be the artist that you want to be."
As far as her upcoming Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood, Spears told Rob, "I've done two tours in the past three years and it's so grueling being on the road and staying in a different bed every night, the schedule is insane. I just thought it would be ideal to have one place that I could go to and I could just travel back and forth to my home and [Las Vegas] and to have a show. It just felt like the ideal thing to do. So, I'm really excited about it. It's going to be different, but I'm excited."
Spears will be answering fan questions when ET's Twitter handle, @ETonlineAlert, conducts a live handle-to-handle interview with the music superstar on Tuesday, November 26 at 7 p.m. EST.
Britney Jean is set to release December 3. Tune into Entertainment Tonight for our "Britney Blowout" starting Tuesday, November 26.

Source: ET