{"id":3,"date":"2011-02-08T08:02:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T08:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/02\/britney-album-art.html"},"modified":"2011-03-23T19:36:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T23:36:50","slug":"britney-album-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/02\/britney-album-art.html","title":{"rendered":"Things That Challenge My Faith: The Success of Britney Spears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/117\/import\/51-s8va4LUL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"51-s8va4LUL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/span>The internet is heating up over the upcoming Britney Spears album <em>Femme Fatale<\/em>.\u00a0 While educating myself on the latest Britney news I become aware of something that slipped under my radar.\u00a0 Oh how I wish it had stayed there.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that Britney Spears was the top selling female artist of the last decade?<\/p>\n<p>Just take a minute to let that sink in.\u00a0 With 100 million albums sold Britney Spears topped artists like Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, Norah Jones, Pink, and Carrie Underwood.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Now to be fair, her success really only challenges my faith in humanity.\u00a0 It is clear that Britney&#8217;s questionable parenting techniques and unique hair decisions kept her in the public eye enough to spur album sales throughout an entire decade.\u00a0 That isn&#8217;t exactly shocking in a world where Ke$ha has multiple hit singles.\u00a0 Even though this fact blows my mind it is really just another reminder that we are a broken, broken people.<\/p>\n<p>As far as God is concerned, it is just a reminder that the G-man has one wicked sense of humor.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/theprophetofpop\">Click here to follow the Prophet of Pop on\u00a0<strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a> or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/prophetofpop\">on\u00a0<strong>Facebook<\/strong>!<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is heating up over the upcoming Britney Spears album Femme Fatale.\u00a0 While educating myself on the latest Britney news I become aware of something that slipped under my radar.\u00a0 Oh how I wish it had stayed there. 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