US Weekly Review

The following italicized article is from www.usmagazine.com:

Has Britney Spears benefited from things getting less chaotic? Though she’s called her postmeltdown life under father Jamie’s conservatorship merely “existing,” she’s produced a polished follow-up to last year’s Blackout with her sixth studio CD. The amped-up title track has a triumphant Spears declaring, “I call the shots,” and she recalls Prince on the club-pleaser “If U Seek Amy.” But the real shocker is the self-penned ballad “My Baby,” on which Spears evokes — yes — Mariah Carey while singing about her sons with the best vocals of her roller-coaster career.

Source: US Weekly

New 'For The Record' Promo

Kanye West On Britney

YO THIS IS REALLY GOOD! TO BE ABLE TO COME BACK AGAINST ALL ODDS! I'M REALLY PROUD OF HER AND WISH HER THE BEST!!

Source: Kanye West's Official Website

New Britney Interview + Footage

Re-Post: Blazin’ Mag Needs Your Help + Please Comment!

Blazin’s coming back and they need your help!

For their comeback issue they have a new article called ‘What Do You Think Of Britney's Comeback, So Far?’

They want your opinion on video’s, photoshoots, promotion and most importantly if you think Britney’s ready. So, what are your feelings on this comeback and what could be improved?

Let us know by commenting on this post and you might find your opinion in the next issue of Blazin’!

Source: Blazin' Magazine

Britney's New Tour Is Called...

The Circus Starring: Britney Spears

Exclusive: Countdown to ET's World Premiere of Britney Spears' Music Video 'Circus'!

The following italicized article is from www.etonline.com:

ET has the exclusive world premiere of Britney Spears' all-new music video "Circus," and the countdown is on!

Only Entertainment Tonight will bring you the world premiere of "Circus" on Friday, Dec. 5. It's the second video off of her new album, and it's her best video to date!

Britney is back and better than ever! Her new documentary "Britney: For the Record," will air on MTV on Nov. 30.

The pop megastar will release her new album "Circus" on Dec. 2, which is Britney's 27th birthday. She'll kick off the release of the highly-anticipated album with a live performance on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Source: ET Online

X17 FIRST! - Britney Off To Rehearse For Bambi Awards In Germany

The following italicized article is from www.x17online.com:

We caught a glimpse of Brit in her car, arriving to rehearsals for tomorrow night's Bambi Awards in Offenburg, Germany (in the cold Black Forest region) just hours ago.

The jury for the prestigious awards said on Tuesday:

"The pop princess is back on her throne, better than ever before. The one-time teen idol has become a mature young woman who overcame the greatest crisis of her life with flying colors. Britney Spears achieved her triumph thanks to her iron discipline, her unique musical talent and her millions of fans, who remained loyal to the star even in her darkest hours."

Britney will pick up the Bambi in the Pop International category and will take the stage to perform Womanizer.

Congrats, Brit!!

Source: X17

Britney Spears Prepares For An Important Live Performance In Germany

Yesterday we saw photos of our dear Britney Spears causing a commotion at LAX airport here in LA as she made her way to Germany where she is scheduled to appear and PERFORM at the Bambi Awards in Düsseldorf, Germany tomorrow night. Here are a couple pics of Brit Brit leaving rehearsals in Germany yesterday ahead of her first live performance in about a year’s time:

I’m not entirely sure what Britney is scheduled to perform at the Bambi Awards but I suspect that since she is performing Womanizer on both Star Academy in France and on X-Factor in the UK later on this week (and presumably on Good Morning America next Tuesday) she will also be performing the same song/routine in Germany. Tomorrow night’s performance will be Britney’s first since her disastrous debacle at the 2007 MTV VMAs last year. While I have no doubt that she is in a much better position this year to put on a killer performance, I’m still a bit nervous to see this performance. I’m sure she’s got it in her to pull it off … do you?

Source: Pink Is The New Blog

Britney Leaving Bambi Rehearsels

In the run up to the release of her new album, 'Circus', and appearances on the French and British editions of X-Factor, Britney Spears is pictured leaving a German television studio following rehearsals for tomorrow's 'Tribute To Bambi' awards show.

Source: Untouchable Britney

More "Circus" Music Video Goodness

Go Behind the New Rolling Stone Cover: Britney Spears

The following italicized article is from www.rollingstone.com:

For the 2008 version of the Rolling Stone “Hot Issue,” Britney Spears found her way onto the cover of the magazine for the seventh time on the heels of her new album Circus and her seemingly unlikely comeback. Click above to go behind the scenes at Britney’s cover shoot and to hear Rolling Stone’s Jodi Peckman discuss the ideas behind the cover.

Source: Rolling Stone

Britney's Big Apple Birthday

The following italicized article is from www.ok-magazine.com:

Britney Spears is already set to drop her new album Circus on Good Morning America on her birthday, Dec. 2, so it's no surprise that there's talk of a big birthday bash for the comeback queen that night.

Page Six reports that the Britster will have a "very private, Circus-theme event" at Tenjune in NYC, a club she's had some fun times at in her partying past.

The NYC celebration of both her birthday and her new album will be quite different from the Sharon Stone-hosted party in a Bel Air mansion last year, which included guests like former friends Sam Lufti and cousin Alli Sims.

Paris Hilton also showed up last year, focusing much of the paparazzi attention on herself; while Britney picked up expensive items in a gifting suite and blew out candles on a small round cake with a handful of friends watching.

Here's to hoping 27 is a better year for Brit!

Source: OK Magazine

Britney Confirms UK Concert Dates

The following italicized article is from www.bbc.co.uk:

US singer Britney Spears is to play two concerts at the O2 arena in London next June - the only European shows on her forthcoming world tour.

Tickets for the dates on 3 and 4 June will go on general sale on 5 December - although fans who register with her website can buy them 24 hours earlier.

"It's going to be very special," said Rob Hallett of tour promoter AEG.

The concert, he said, would take its theme from her latest album The Circus, which is released next week.

"We're creating a musical circus," he said. "Expect to see jugglers, dancers, tattooed ladies and acrobats."

According to the promoter, the concerts will be Spears' only dates in Europe "for the foreseeable future".

Spears last performed in the UK in 2004 when her Onyx Hotel tour visited Birmingham, Glasgow, Belfast, Manchester and Wembley Arena in London.

'Radiant'

The 26-year-old will be in the capital this weekend to appear on ITV1 talent show The X Factor.

Before that she will travel to Germany to attend the annual Bambi entertainment awards in Dusseldorf.

The singer will be named best international pop star after achieving what organisers have called a "stunning comeback from an absolute low point".

"Britney Spears is back," said host Hubert Burda. "Radiant and better than ever, the erstwhile idol has reclaimed her throne."

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the performer admitted she felt "like an old person" now her much-documented troubles are behind her.

"I go to bed at, like, 9.30 every night and I don't go out or anything," she is quoted as saying. "I just feel like an old fart."

Spears' mother Lynne, meanwhile, has been telling the BBC how happy she is that her daughter has got her life back on track.

"Britney wants to do it right," she told Radio 5 Live's Colin Paterson, attributing her recent turnaround to having "good people around her" and "lots and lots of prayer".

Source: BBC

Rolling Stone 'Circus' Review

Britney may have left the psych ward, but on Circus, she proves she's still a freak. The clubby, adventurous pop on her sixth album — her first since getting committed and losing custody of her kids — would have made a fine follow-up to 2003's In the Zone. "Toxic" producers Bloodshy & Avant hit pay dirt again with the melodic, glowing "Unusual You." The Max Martin-produced "If U Seek Amy" (say it fast) is a saucy, swinging standout, and the photographer-taunting stomper "Kill the Lights" recalls the synth crush of 2007's Blackout.

Britney's vocals on Blackout sounded phoned in, but on Circus, she put in real studio time, actually singing some slow jams. Frou Frou's Guy Sigworth contributes "Out From Under," Spears' best ballad since "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman." But there are creepy ones too: Danja's "Blur" updates 2003's hungover "Early Mornin'," as the mom of two sighs, "Where the hell am I?" She does her kids a greater disservice with "My Baby," the trite ballad dedicated to them. And Mommy shows she has psychodrama to spare on "Mmm Papi," a go-go romp with daddy issues ("Grab me tight and don't let go/Mmm Papa, love you"): Is it about the papa who controls her affairs or the paparazzi she had an affair with? The fact that we're even curious shows Britney hasn't lost her talent: Her fans still can't look away.

Source: Rolling Stone

Britney to Commish: I Gotta Dance!

The following italicized article is from www.tmz.com:

Britney Spears and her conservators have formally asked the court commissioner handling her conservatorship to allow her to go on a U.S. tour next year, with the possibility of taking it worldwide.

We've learned when Britney was in court Friday, she told the judge she wants to tour, feels competent to do so and she wants her conservators to make the necessary deals with backup singers, roadies, venues, ticket brokers and the many others involved.

We're told the conservators, including daddy Jamie, are on board and have laid out how the deals will be structured. They told the commish they will submit all of the contracts for court review.

The proposed order is on the commissioner's desk, and she could sign it as early as tomorrow. If that happens, we're told the conservators will immediately begin making deals for the tour.

This is an incredibly complicated undertaking, in no small part because Britney can't legally make any of the deals herself.

Source: TMZ

30 Second "Circus" Music Video Preview!

Source: Britney.com

Britney Spears Is More 'Self-Conscious' And 'Reserved' Now, Rolling Stone Photo Editor Says

The following italicized article is from www.mtv.com:

Jodi Peckman isn't new to working with Britney Spears on a photo shoot. Rolling Stone's director of photography has worked with the pop star several times over her career and admits that 2008 Britney isn't the bubblegum pop star she met back in 2002.

"There was a difference now than in 2002," she told MTV News about the recent Rolling Stone cover story on Spears. "She was really childlike then. She came bouncing in with her iPod and chewing her bubble gum with her thick Southern accent. She was very outgoing.

"I think she feels less comfortable now, and that's natural for any woman getting older," she added. "I think she's more self-conscious now. She didn't hold back, it's just that she's more reserved."

Peckman also worked with Spears in 2003, and she already saw Spears rapidly maturing from a bouncy kid to a woman. "She was a little more down to earth in 2003. It was quite different," she told MTV News. "She was more to herself, smoking cigarettes in the parking lot. She kept to herself more. She was a bit more private."

Peckman has noticed over the years that the people and the energy surrounding Spears have never been the same. And despite any issues RS writer Jenny Eliscu had gaining access to the singer, Peckman said that the shoot went smoothly.

"It was much more low-key this time around. There was much less pressure on us," she said. "She arrived to the shoot before I did. She came with her publicist and her personal assistant. Her mom was with her; her manager showed up about an hour later. Very calm, very mellow. It was really stripped-down. The time before, it had been more high-intensity, more controlled."

The theme for the shoot was no theme at all. Peckman wanted to show everyone the natural Spears. No costumes, no sets, no drama. "She's still a young girl, but she looks more mature. There's something about her. She's a mom now, and she's been through a lot, and maybe just her motherly aura comes through."

And the inspiration was simple for the shoot: stripped-down Marilyn Monroe — not glossy, sexy Marilyn Monroe. "We wanted her to be natural, almost as a reference was Marilyn Monroe in the actor's studio," Peckman explained. "We just let her under the beautiful light and let her be herself. We kept it simple."

And the moment Spears took the picture that would end up as the cover shot, Peckman knew. "Well, first of all, having a celebrity on the cover where there's no eye contact with the reader isn't the norm. But it was such a spontaneous, caught moment. It wasn't posed that way," she said. "The minute we got that picture, I knew right away. Caught moments just translate so well.
"She's so great that she can do high-concept and stripped-down," Peckman added. "She really gives it to the cameras. ... We just wanted to make her look like a beautiful woman."

Source: MTV

"Circus" Music Video Release December 5th

Source: ET Online

Circus DVD Previews

A lucky Britney fan got their hands on the new Circus DVD which features more scenes from Britney's upcoming music video for "Circus" including a sick dance scene.

Click on the pic to see them!

Source: Breathe Heavy

More Pics From Rolling Stone Shoot

See more pics here!

Source: Rolling Stone

Fans At Britney's Times Square Ad

One of BTI's readers, Almir, sent me this cool picture of him and his friends under Britney's ad in Times Square.

Ps: If you have any cool pics of you at something Britney related please sent them to breaktheiceblog@aol.com and I'll put them up.

Britney Spears Takes Her ‘Circus’ To Europe

Britney Spears caused a mild fracas yesterday afternoon when she arrived at LAX airport here in SoCal to catch a plane bound for Europe. Our dear Britney, whose new album Circus is streaming in full right HERE on Pink is the new Blog and who is featured on the cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine, has made her way to Germany to do some promo work for her new album there before she makes her way to France to perform on Star Academy and then to London to perform on X-Factor. Homegirl has got a lot of work to take care of this week leading up to the release of her new album next Tuesday. Here are a few pics of Britney and her entourage upon arrival at LAX yesterday afternoon:
Although a long holiday weekend is right around the corner, Britney Spears is getting to work promoting her upcoming album, Circus, in Europe. The singer boarded a flight from Los Angeles to Frankfurt, Germany on Monday for several appearances in support of the album, which is scheduled to be released Dec. 2. Spears is traveling with several close associates and family members, including her father, Jamie, and manager Larry Rudolph. According to an eyewitness, the singer – dressed in a brown fedora, black sweatpants and a pink top – jumped out of her white Cadillac Escalade smiling and holding her dad’s hand at the airport. After a short time in Germany, Spears is expected to appear on the French program, Star Academy, and on Simon Cowell’s X Factor in England before returning to the U.S. next week. She is scheduled to go on a worldwide tour in the spring of next year.

Here we go. As I keep saying, I really hope that she is ready for the coming onslaught. There is a lot coming her way. I sincerely hope it all goes smoothly … successfully and, most of all … healthily for her.

Source: Pink Is The New Blog

Britney Hits Frankfurt

The following italicized article is from www.celebrity-gossip.net:

With her new album Circus hitting stores next Tuesday (December 2nd), Britney Spears is hot on the comeback trail. And she was spotted arriving in Frankfurt, Germany earlier today to get her European Tour started.

The “Womanizer” singer was accompanied by her father/conservator of her affairs Jamie Spears as she joked with friends, lit up a cigarette, and hopped into a limousine.

See more pics here!

Source: Celebrity Gossip

Britney Spears On Her Kids & Opening Herself Up For ‘Circus’

The following italicized article is from www.accesshollywood.com:

They’re still toddlers, but Britney Spears said her sons are picking up some bad habits.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Britney said her boys – Sean Preston, 3, and Jayden James, 2 — have started using some less-than-appropriate language.

“They’re starting to learn words like ‘stupid,’ and Preston says the f-word now sometimes,” Britney told the mag. “He doesn’t get it from us. He must get it from his daddy. I say it, but not around my kids.”

Britney, who spoke only about her

music and her children for the cover story, which hits newsstands on Tuesday, said she takes great joy in spending time with her two little ones.

“Every time they come to visit me, I think about how they’re such special people,” she said.

The singer, who was not asked about the conservatorship she is under during the interview, said she would spend more than the three days a week the

court has allowed her to see her children, if it weren’t for the break up of her marriage to Kevin Federline in 2007.

“I didn’t think my husband was gonna leave me,” Britney told writer Jenny Eliscu, who had to submit her questions for approval before the interview. “Otherwise I’d be with my babies 24/7. But since they’re almost like twins, they both take care of each other. I think they look like me.”

Because of the restrictions Rolling Stone said were put on the interview by the pop singer’s team, Britney revealed very little, but she did hint that her new album has a song that offers some insight into the 20-something woman.

“[It’s] about artistic expression and the masquerade of people acting and putting on shows,” Britney said of the unnamed cut she wrote last summer. “Through that, you create your own world. The song talks about how other people are coming into this girl’s world, but she didn’t invite them in. So she’s saying, ‘Why are you here, if I didn’t invite you?’ It’s complicated, but you can tell it’s me who wrote it, because it’s in my voice and there’s a difference.”

Though she revealed herself in at least one of the expected songs on “Circus,” Britney told the magazine she was frightened of being too open.

“It’s scary to put yourself out there and be like, ‘Oh, God, is that cool?’ If you’re not going to really go for it, you can’t just go there halfway,” she said. “But sometimes, when you go for it, you can’t lose.”

Source: Access Hollywood