Four Four has done a wondrous job of editing together an assortment of Britney Spears clips circa her …Baby One More Time days. Watching the all-American teen princess wax poetic on popularity, emailing and things that are “funky” is oddly mesmerizing. It’s not because she sounds like an idiot, but it’s because she actually sounds just like a normal teenager—someone who likes to say the word “cool” a lot and has a very limited vocabulary with which to express herself. Watching these clips ten years later after everything that has happened with Spears makes them all the more poignant and sad. Who could’ve predicted that the woman behind the classic cool happy pop song “Email My Heart” would’ve turned into such a head-shaving mess? I know Britney’s supposed to be “back” and all, but I think she’s just on a stronger dose of her meds. The Britney we see in this video is gone forever. We killed her. We killed the teen dream. 
Watch This Hypnotic Video of Vintage Britney Spears Saying The Word “Funky”
By
Ryan O'Connell,
Trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.
“You are the only person who gets to decide if you are happy or not—do not put your happiness into the hands of other people. Do not make it contingent on their acceptance of you or their feelings for you. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if someone dislikes you or if someone doesn’t want to be with you. All that matters is that you are happy with the person you are becoming. All that matters is that you like yourself, that you are proud of what you are putting out into the world. You are in charge of your joy, of your worth. You get to be your own validation. Please don’t ever forget that.” — Bianca Sparacino
Excerpted from The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino.
