The singer and sometime actor has embarked on a new lockdown career as a movie pundit. And, so far, she’s reading the public mood perfectlyThe classic film I’ve never seenThe coronavirus crisis hasn’t been kind to performers. On a practical scale, schedules have been wiped and income reduced to zero. But psychologically, it also means that the planet’s biggest extroverts have been robbed of an outlet. They have all this pent-up desire for approval, and nowhere to put it.
Until now, this has largely manifested itself in slightly cringey
iPhone videos uploaded to the internet. But now Britney Spears, that bold pioneer, has opened up a whole new avenue of quarantined expression. That’s right, she has become a film reviewer.