Summary

In “I Killed Britney Spears” by Jean Hannah Edelstein, the writer reflects on her feelings towards Britney Spears’ rise and fall as a celebrity. She thinks about the news she read about Britney Spears breaking up with Justin Timberlake, marrying in Vegas, or becoming a couple with Kevin Federline. The writer also recalls the news about the pop star weeping on national television or going out with Paris Hilton. Finally, she thinks about Spears’s appearance at the 2007 Music Video Awards when she was overly sexual towards her dancers in her performance.

At eighteen years old, she discovered Britney Spears and her music and began to envy the pop star’s life. Seeing the pop start in her first video, she was impressed by the contrast between her voic...