Stage Dads
The capitalization and cannibalization of childhood
5 min readSep 4, 2020
The austere tinny echo of a music box punctures the melody of Britney Spears’s 2003 song Everytime. It won the Teen Choice Award for best love song that year. But for all the early aughts imagery of a platinum blonde Ophelia leaving Las Vegas, Everytime is not a love song. It is is a penthouse bathtub siren’s warning about the repeated offenses of…
