Britney Spears Talks About Her Fragance, Being a Musician in 2011, More
Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 11.23.2011
Britney talks with Stylist...
Britney Spears recently spoke with Stylist magazine about a variety of topics. Check out the highlights:
On her biggest daily challenge: "Trying to get up and go work out in the morning. I haven't worked out in, like, two weeks. Sometimes it's hard to be motivated. But once you get up and do it you feel like you've conquered the world."
On her new perfume: "It's very feminine and girly. It's sweet and citrusy with a hint of my favourite scent – night-blooming jasmine. The inspirations behind it are my Femme Fatale album and empowered women."
On what it means to be a musician in 2011: "Well, it's really cool because there are so many new, up-and-coming artists to look at and be inspired by. For me, I think it's great to have a little competition because I feel it inspires us [Team Britney] and makes us want to do better. There are so many soulful singers, even the ones coming from London, like Adele and Jessie J, who are just amazing. It feels like a really cool time to be making music now. In the beginning obviously I was very young and I didn't know the ins and outs of things; I was very instinctive in what I wanted to do, and I was very vocal with my input on things. I think as the years have gone by, and as I've evolved as an artist, I've put even more into my career, and after that amount of time you start to know exactly what you want. You feel a little bit more in your skin, in terms of who you are. And that just feels really nice."
On how people who know her would describe her: "People who do know me? That's a difficult question. That is a difficult question! I don't know. Do you think they'd say nice things? Yes, they'd say nice things."
On the last book she read: "The Mastery Of Love [sub-titled A Practical Guide To The Art Of Relationship by Don Miguel Ruiz]. It's basically an analysis of love and what it means to love. It goes through all the different aspects of love. Who you are as a person, knowing yourself before you even attempt to love anyone else; that sort of thing. It's really well-written and thought-provoking."
On whether her definition of success has changed over the years: "For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something, it's being happy with who you are.
On her favorite food treat: "Chocolate. Definitely chocolate. A lot of chocolate...I love Scores in the States, with the caramel in the middle, and every once in a while if I'm really hungry then a Snickers bar is good."
On how she explains her music videos to her kids: "I think they're starting to understand that it's part of my work and what I do. It's part of mommy being a performer. And being a performer, one of the things that entails is playing different characters and having fun and doing different things."
On what she thinks about when she performs: "What do I think about? Wow. Usually I'm so in the moment of being there with the audience that I don't really have time to think about anything. You're just focused on the tunes and what you're doing and interacting with the audience and making sure you're on cue. It's more like a yoga state of mind, you know?"
On her dream musical collaboration: "I like Gwen Stefani."
On what she's listening to lately: "Well I usually listen to a lot of hip-hop in my dressing room when I'm getting ready to go on stage, so Jay-Z a lot recently. And a lot of rock stuff like Aerosmith. That really gets me going and pumps me up. And then of course, there's Jessie J and Adele."
On what's on her bucket list: "I would like to go skydiving."
