Brittany spears car shot

Appearing in the driver's seat, Britney smiled while being in full control for the first time in nearly 13 years. Leaving her blonde hair down, the Oops! I Did It Again hitmaker slipped on a pair of aviator sunglasses and hit the pavement solo. She didn't seem to mind one bit; in fact, Britney once said that driving her car was the only time she felt free. I haven't been able to drive my car. Britney looked in power and in control as she drove her car around.

Today, when Britney Spears displays her private parts to the paparazzi, the world points and laughs. Spears is the latest star to give people a glimpse of what's usually covered up, a trend that asks the question: What value, if any, does culture place on modesty today? On Nov. Two days later, Spears was photographed getting out of a car in a hiked-up miniskirt.

The night is darker than usual, owing to smoke from over a dozen wildfires that are burning as close as Malibu and around Lake Arrowhead. The air is so bad that several paparazzi have gone home sick. Between 30 and 45 paparazzi work Britney on any given night. The expensive cars they drive reflect the fact that Britney Spears—her marriages, custody battles, fights with her mom, new boyfriends, Starbucks runs, trips to the hospital—is a bigger and more lucrative story than Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton or John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Dispatches From The Hated will be a recurring feature penned by a person who worked the paparazzi beat for three years. We'll call him American Ex-Pap so he remains anonymous. Britney Spears was like an ATM in my world, because from the grunts in the field taking the shots to the editors and owners back in the office, everyone was making withdrawals in her name. Between from the time shaved her head to when she was dating paparazzo Adnan Ghalib , the money being paid to us for photos of her in various states of duress which, at that time, was practically every time she went outside was astronomical.