What will it take to finally #FreeBritney?
Earlier this week, pop music icon Britney Spears shared a video of her vacationing in Maui on her Instagram. On the surface, the footage contains all the hallmarks of a pop star on holiday: the camera pans across a stunning view from a penthouse suite; the singer relaxes by the pool with boyfriend, Sam Asghari; Harry Nilssons Coconut soundtracks a mellow car ride through tropical paradise; Spears is handed a fruity drink. Later, she rides Asghari piggyback through crystal-clear water, excitedly yelling, Im a minnow, baby, Im a minnow! As the clip wraps up, though, Spears is doing something else: there are no bodies of water or sunshine-dappled trees. Shes dancing, twirling, and flipping her long, blonde hair in what appears to be a windowless studio. Before 23 June, this might have seemed like a totally normal thing for Spears to do. Most of her Instagram videos are of her dancing with abandon to classic pop songs by Prince or Aerosmith. (Dancing is one of the many reasons Spears is still so famous decades after her career first took off in the late Nineties, with legions of pop performers echoing her finely tuned moves in their own visual setups.) Now, however, this brief moment of Spears undulating her arms and torso in front of an iPhone  while on vacation, no less  echoes the horrifying testimony she gave to Judge Brenda Penny during a special open hearing addressing the singers long-standing legal conservatorship. Despite taking a holiday, despite ending her popular Las Vegas residency in 2019, despite not recording new music since her last album in 2016, Spears is never not working.