interviews

Here are some of Britney's Interviews and Chats including the recent interview done for MTV.

        01. Pop Rocks - MTV 2001
         02. Teen People (2000)
        03. Rolling Stone (1999)
        04. AOL Online Chat
         05. TV Guide Online Chat

Pop Rocks - MTV 2001
poprocks MTV Latin America's Ruth Infarinato discovered that Britney is ready for her close-up, has found true love and won't check Caller ID when someone rings claiming to be Michael Jackson.

MTV: You just finished your first movie. Were people looking for you to act, or was it something you wanted to do?

Britney Spears: It was something I was looking to do. I was looking at a bunch of different scripts, but this was the one that really caught my eye. It's just really heartfelt. I saw it for the first time [the other day and] I was really, really excited. It was bizarre seeing yourself on the big screen! I was watching it like, "Ah, my gosh!" I cried in it. It was so weird when I was watching it ... I'm not me. I'm not Britney Spears. I'm this dorky girl named Lucy. I don't have much makeup on, and I'm not really glamorous. It was just bizarre [to see] me playing someone else. I got so lost in the character.

MTV: What scene in the script made you think, "Yeah, OK, this is it. I've got to do it"?

Spears: It's a teen movie, but it's talking about real issues that teenagers deal with all the time. One of the girls has an eating disorder. One of the girls was date-raped, one of my best friends [in the movie]. I'm always wanting to please my father [in the movie]. I want to do what he wants me to do when I should just do what makes me happy. The whole movie is about this journey that the three of us best friends take, finding ourselves and what we want out of life and getting our friendship back. Friends are all you have at the end of the day. When your boyfriend breaks up with you, who do you call? Your girlfriend. I just love that message.

MTV: Are we going to see you singing in the movie?

Spears: There's a lot of music in it. It's a road trip, so we're always listening to rock music, fun music, pop music.

MTV: Will your album have any tracks from the movie?

Spears: Yeah, "Overprotected" and "I'm Not a Girl."

MTV: Everybody who shoots movies talks about how you have to wait hours between scenes. Was that hard for you?

Spears: Yeah. It's totally different than what I'm used to. I'm used to being on the road and touring, [going] here, there. It was a very good experience for me, because I got to slow down a bit. There's a lot of waiting around, which was good for me. I did yoga and I read a lot of books. It was almost like a vacation.

MTV: Do you see yourself doing this in the future?

Spears: I would love to. I gained a lot of confidence. I'm so confident onstage, but it was my first movie. I didn't know what I was doing, but I proved to myself that I could do it. Now, with the next one, I'm like, "I really want to challenge myself."

MTV: Do you find similarities between your life and this character?

Spears: No. I think Lucy and Britney are very different, but there are some things that are similar. Lucy is very naive. She's very dorky. I hope I'm not that dorky, but she keeps to herself a lot. She writes in her journal a lot. I do that, too.

MTV: You recorded a song with your boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, for your new album. How was that?

Spears: Justin and [choreographer/songwriter] Wade Robson wrote it for me, and it's called "What It's Like to Be Me." It's a very cool song. It's very rock, and Justin did the background vocals on it.

MTV: How was it working together?

Spears: I was a little nervous at first. I'm used to going in there and it's like work. It was kind of awkward at first, 'cause I was nervous doing my vocals [in front of him] for some reason. I was like, "Ooh." But then, I totally forgot he was my boyfriend. I said, "Britney, just do the vocals. Don't be nervous. Don't be retarded like this." It ended up being fine, actually. At the very end, I got the very best vocals I've ever done.

MTV: Sometimes when you work with somebody that is close to you, it can be a total nightmare. But they can also get the best out of you. It sounds like that's what happened.

Spears: Right. He definitely pushed me.

MTV: Did you learn something new about him that you didn't know through this process?

Spears: He's very good at doing vocals. [Laughs]

MTV: Do you have plans to work together again?

Spears: Definitely, in the future. I'd love to.

MTV: I heard he wants to act, now that you were in this movie. Do you guys have plans to do something together onscreen?

Spears: That would be cool, maybe in the future. We haven't really thought of anything just yet. We'll see.

MTV: Is Justin your first love?

Spears: Actually, I had a love before him, but he's my first deep love, yeah. I had a young love, a puppy love, before him. He is definitely my first true love. I'm very much in love.

MTV: What are you talking about in the first single, "I'm a Slave 4 U"?

Spears: The Neptunes did the song, and it's really just about being a slave to music. Wanting to go out with girlfriends and just forgetting about everyone around and having a good time. It's very different, and really funky.

MTV: You also cover Joan Jett's hit, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll." Can we say that this album is going to have a little more of a rock feeling?

Spears: I think so, yeah. It definitely [has] more of a rock flair.

MTV: Does that mean you're moving out of the pop area?

Spears: Pop music is popular music. I'm just bringing pop music to a different level. It's always going to be pop music. That's what I love to do. I love to dance, and pop music incorporates that. I'm just bringing it to the next level. Trying. [Laughs]

MTV: How do you feel when the press and the critics use you as a touchstone in talking about some of the younger singers who've come out in the last few years?

Spears: I think 'cause we're all real young and we all have blond hair or whatever, they're going to say we're all like each other. But if they really look at our music and our talent, we're so different in so many ways. I think it's kind of flattering that they compare me to them. They all work very, very hard and are all very gifted and very talented.

MTV: Do you find it flattering to be referred to as the new Madonna?

Spears: Yeah!

MTV: What are the things you feel like you have in common with her?

Spears: I think that we have the same drive. When we want something, we get it. As far as our music and our talent goes, we're very different. Onstage we have the same drive, too. I just saw her show and she's just amazing. She was flawless. It was very inspirational for me, 'cause my show is about to come up. I have so many things I want to do after watching her. She's amazing, but I think we're very different in a lot of ways. It is flattering that they say we're alike.

MTV: And what things do you think are different?

Spears: Her whole personality is totally different than mine. We look different. We both sing pop music, but it's a different kind of pop music.

MTV: Your relationship with your mother is amazing, but you never talk about your father. Why?

Spears: Me and my father, we're just as close as me and my mom, but I think it's just something about women. [Mothers and daughters] have more of a connection or something. I'm really close to him, but I'm just a girly girl. I'll always be a daddy's girl, but he treats me like a baby sometimes. I feel more open with my mom. I think I can talk to her more. He's very overprotective of me.

MTV: Michael Jackson asked you to perform with him at his tribute concert. Did Michael contact you directly?

Spears: He did call me. He was like, "Hello, can I speak to Britney, please?" And I was like, "Who is this?" And he goes, "This is Michael Jackson." And I was like, "No, this is not. Who is this?" Michael Jackson calling your phone in the middle of the day?

He was like, "It's Michael. It's Michael Jackson." Finally, I was like, "Is this really him? I don't know!" I was like, "OK, how are you?" And he started talking to me more and I realized it was him! I'll never forget that moment, ever.

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Teen People (2000) teenpeople
If Superman can leap tall buildings in a single bound, and Spider-Man can capture villains with wrist-spun webs, what, then, can Brit-Man do?

For starters, he, like Superman, seems to move faster than a speeding bullet as he follows Britney Spears around New York City. Ever since the pop star's stretch limo peeled away from MTV's Times Square studios (where she just finished cohosting Total Request Live with Melissa Joan Hart), Brit-Man has been chasing her on foot, dodging taxi cabs and tourists while in hot pursuit. Six blocks later, a red light allows him to catch the star-and his breath. Barechested, with a red T-shirt tied around his neck (that's his cape) and the word "Brit-Man" scrawled in black marker on his left arm, the twentysomething superfan peers into the limo's tinted glass. "I love you, Britney!" he shouts. "Roll down the window!"

"Lord!" says Britney, laughing. Her bodyguard, Robert Feggans---aka Big Rob---is not. "Give him an autograph," he advises. "Hopefully, that'll make him disappear."

When Rob cracks the window, Brit-Man is rendered speechless as he catches sight og his idol. "Hi," Britney says sweetly, signing the scrap of paper that Brit-Man has handed to Rob. Once finished, she hands it back to Rob, who gives it back to the shell-shocked fan. It's not until Rob rolls up the window that Brit-Man finally regains his voice: "I love you, Britney!"

A few days later, Britney is dining on southern cuisine (her favorite) at Virgil's, a Times Square restaurant not far from where Brit Man got her signature. :The fans are even crazier in Canada," says the Kentwood, LA., native. Don't misunderstand: She means that in a good way. The week before, on September 23, her People's Choice Favorite International Artist win at Canada's Much Music Video Awards was the event's biggest surprise. "They were announcing the nominees. They were Madonna, Ricky Martin, Lauryn Hill..I was like, 'I'm not winning this! Whatever!'" she says. "But the crowd was screaming my name, which was really cool, and then [the presenter] said my name, and I was like, 'Oh my goodness!'"

Madonna and Lauryn Hill have had tremendously successful careers, but it its arguable that no female solo artist rocked planet Earth in 1999 like Britney Jean Spears. Release in November 1998, her first single, ".Baby One More Time," shot to No. 1 in 15 countries, including the U.S. At press time, her debut disc of the same name has sold more than 9 million copies in the U.S. alone, placing her second in 1999 album sales only to her Jive label mates Backstreet Boys. In just a few months, the former Mickey Mouse Club kid became the darling of MTV (think schoolgirl uniform), fashion (think Tommy Hilfiger campaign) and the media (who could forget that Rolling Stone cover?). Concert and publicity tours took the southern belle from Germany to Japan and back. In November, she broke the record for the most MTV Europe Music Awards won by a single artist (four); heard that she'd won four major 1999 Billboard Music Awards, including Female Artist of the Year; and expected to be nominated for a number of American Music Awards. By year's end, she was even immortalized in plastic, thanks to Play Along Toys, Inv., a company that has manufactured six different Britney dolls.

But that was last year. Can Ms. Spears possibly top herself in 2000? If she accomplishes half of what she has planned, let's just say we ain't seen nothing yet.

"I really want to do a movie," says Britney as she butters a biscuit. "There are, like, twenty scripts---but I haven't taken them seriously because I knew I didn't have time [to make a film]." Perhaps inspired by fellow former MMC stars Keri Russel---a Golden Globe Award winner for Felicity, whose film Mad About Mambo hits theaters sometime this spring---and 'N Sync's Justin Timberlake (his tentatively titled The Wonderful World of Disney TV movie, Cover Girls, airs February 20 on ABC), Britney will spend the first few months of 2000 looking for the perfect part. Just don't expect her to be the leading lady.

"To go all out and have the lead role---I'd be scared having that much pressure on me," says Britney (although she was the understudy for the lead in an off-Broadway play called Ruthless when she was 10). "It would be fun to do a teen movie---maybe a good supporting role where I could show my acting ability."

With the competition for teen-oriented roles so hot and heavy that even twentysomethings want in on the action, you'd think a pop singer would have a hard time jockeying for position with full-time actors. Studio heads don't seem to see it that way, though. "Without ever having done a movie, Britney is on the Hollywood A-list," says Larry Rudolph, one of Britney's two managers ('N Sync's mentor Johnny Wright, is the other). Rudolph adds that Miramax cochairs Bob and Harvey Weinstein want to have a meeting with her. "She gets asked to do every [teen] movie that the major actresses are being asked to make." That includes Scary Movie, a slasher-flick satire out later this spring, in which Dimension Films says it attempted to cast her, but her rigid 1999 tour schedule wouldn't allow it.

Judging by the reception Britney gets at the New York City premiere of the romantic comedy Drive Me Crazy, she's already a movie star. As a glittering Britney steps from her limo, fans (including the omnipresent Brit-Man) start hyperventilating and jumping the barricades while the paparazzi go wild. You'd think that Britney, and not Melissa Joan Hart, was the star of this film.

In a sense, she is. Hoping to tap into the singer's enormous fan base, Twentieth Century Fox changed the title of the film Next To You to Drive Me Crazy, after the album version of Britney's his song, not long before and the movie's opening weekend. In return, Britney helped promote the film, appearing with new friend Melissa-who makes a cameo in Britney's music video for "(You Drive Me) Crazy (The Stop Remix!)"--- on TRL and at Crazy's New York City premiere.

With her feature-film debut still to come, Britney has already begun making inroads on the small screen. Recently, she was scheduled to film at least one episode of Dawson's Creek, her favorite show (back when she had time to watch TV). "I'm not going to be playing myself," says Britney, who already did that last fall on Melissa's series, Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. Though she hasn't seen a script, she hears that she may be playing, "um, Dawson's love interest."

Actually, she admits, "I have not idea what I'm going to do. Ther was talk of me being a dork and Katie Holmes wanting to make me over, then all of a sudden I'm beautiful-that's when Dawson starts to like me." At press time, Columbia TriStar, which produces Dawson's Creek, said that the show's writers have yet to develop a plotline for her.

For all her acting aspirations, Britney wants her fans to know that making and promoting her sophomore album will be her main focus in the first year of the new millennium. Last November, she traveled to Sweden to reteam with producer Max Martin (Backstreet Boys, Celine Dion), who cowrote and produced both ".Baby One More Time" and (You Drive Me) Crazy." But don't expect a soundalike sequel. She wants the follow-up to be daring and different-starting with the CD jacket. "I hated the [first] album cover," she says of the girlish shot taken at one of her first promotional photo sessions back when she was 15. This time, she says, "I have all these ideas." One possibility might be to hire photographer Herb Ritts, who is famous for his ultrasexy black-and-white celebrity portraits. "He's done Madonna and he did Janet Jackson-remember when she made her comeback?" she says, alluding to Janet's makeover, which was orchestrated by Ritts when he directed her "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" video.

Like her idol, Madonna, Britney understands the importance of an ever-evolving image. So she's making one big change, effective immediately. "I'm over the belly," she says. "I don't ever want to show my belly again. I read in a magazine 'Britney show her belly in every interview.' I was like, No, I don't! I don't show my belly in everything!"

As she lunches at Virgil's, Britney learns that her friend Melissa Joan Hart is in the gossip pages for showing her belly-and more---on the recent covers of Maxim and Bikini magazines. The photos are said to have so incensed the company that owns the right to her Sabrina character that they said they would call for her removal from the show unless she issued a public apology.

"Did anybody say anything about Jennifer Aniston when she was on the cover of In Style [nearly nude]?" Britney asks, getting angry. "Melissa is 23. She can do what she wants. She's a woman, and she's trying to be sexy.

"I've been through this with Rolling Stone," she continues. "That wasn't me, that's not my personality. It was like a girl playing dress-up, you know what I mean? When I saw the pictures, I was like, 'Wow!' Then all this [negative] stuff came out about it, and I was like, 'Well that's their opinion'. I'm a Christian. I go to church. But my mom taught us, 'Don't be ashamed of you body. It's a beautiful thing.'

"My heart goes out to [Melissa]. She has to be true to herself. She's a strong person; she'll be fine. She knows the pictures were beautiful. They were tastefully done."

Britney is a much stronger, much more vocal young woman than she was when this TEEN PEOPLE reporter first lunched with her pre-".Baby One More Time" fame back in the summer of '98. The then 16-year-old was so shy that she could barely speak or look up from her plate. These days, Britney has self-assurance to spare. And you get the feeling that this is just the beginning. Could it be because her 18th birthday, which falls on December 2, is almost upon her?

"I think eighteen is a big deal for some reason," she says. "You are an adult for some time now, especially when she's on tour. She may be younger than all her dancers, who are in their 20's, but she commands a respect that's unusual for someone her age, according to Boyz N Girlz United singer Robbie Carrico, 18, whose group opened for Britney last year (and who escorted her to the Drive Me Crazy premiere). "She's the person they could all come and talk to," he says. "Before a show, she would always lead us in a prayer."

Britney's proving to be a leader on the charity front too. This summer, the tentatively named Camp Britney will celebrate its inaugural season. A sort of Fame-style training ground for underprivileged teens, Camp Britney's goal is to attract top choreographers, acting coaches and other entertainment-industry professionals to New York State for a few weeks during the summer. Britney hopes that teens can develop confidence and a stronger sense of self through the arts.

Lord knows she has. "The critics can talk about my hair, my boobs and everything," she says dismissively. "[But] when they start talking about my singing and my performances and my dancing."

Then what? Easy: then she'll fight back with her music and hit them, baby, one more time.

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Rolling Stone (1999)
Britney Spears extends a honeyed thigh across he length of the sofa, keeping one foot on the floor as she does so. Her blond-streaked hair is piled high, exposing two little diamond earrings on each ear lobe her face is fully made-up, down to carefully applied lip liner. he baby path logo of Spears' pink t-shirt is distended by her ample chest , and her silky white shorts cling snugly to her hips. She cocks her head and smiles receptively. But hold on. It's not like that. You' re falling into the same trap as the lovelorn youths who call Spears' local florist to send her long -stemmed roses and the randy fellows outside the MTV studios with prom invites scrawled on their chests.

Admittedly that trap is carefully baited by a debut video that shows the seventeen year old singer cavorting around like the naughtest of schoolgirls. But,as Spears points out nothing is actually revealed. "All i did was tie up my shirt!" she says, addressing the critics who would hunt her down like gay teletubbys. "Im wearing a sports bra under it". Sure, I'm wearing thigh-highs, but kids wear those it's the style. Have you ever seen MTV all those girls in thongs?

Spears' left thigh is presently adorned by several small plastic disics that are wired to a neuromuscular stimulator. A dance rehersal accident has temporarily confined Spears to her parents' ranch style house in rural-burban Kentwood, Louisiana, when she should be out promoting her white-hot debt, Baby One More Time, 1999's biggest top selling pop album so far. Saying home has its compensations: As Spears holds forth, her mom, lyne, a second-grade teacher sits on the carpet in the wood-paneled livingroom, fluffing and folding the laundry, If it wernt for the diamond-laden tennis bracelet that Britney just bought her, you'd think her daughter was a vacationing collage kid not a pop sensation with an eleventh-grade education.

The song that put Spears on top is a strutting statement of intent called "Baby One More Time" and that ellipsis tells a tale. The three dots mask a chorus hook line "Hit me, Baby" that some have taken as a masochistic come-on. "it doesn't mean physically hit me," says Spears. "It means just give me a sign basically. I think it's kind of funny that people would people would actually think that's what it ment. Perhaps the liguistic confusion arises from the fact that the creative force behind "Baby One More Time" is the Swedish Ikea-pop maestro Max Martin, who is also behind Backstreet Boys and Robyn. As cowriter and co-producer on the record Martin would run lyrics past Britney, ten years his junior, for approval. " I asked them to change the words to Born to Make You Happy". It was a sexual song." reveals Spears, who cleaves to the Baptist faith said, "This may be alittle old me.' Because image thing. I don't want to go over the top. If I come out being Miss Prima Donna, that wouldn't be smart. I want a place to grow."

1960 Elvis has been kidnapped by Uncle Sam. Buddy Holly is dead, and Little Richard has found the lord. Into the vacuum rises a counterrevolutionary force of adenoidal adolecents like Bobby Vee, Frankie Avalon, Fabian and former Muuseketeer Annette Funicello. These pop puppets, was their Tin Pan Alley songs and Sta -Brite smiles, actually managed to neutralize rock & roll's threat for several years.

It's happening again. Welcome to the new Teen Age. In a distant demographic echo of the postwar baby boom, the American teen population has reached the kind of critical mass that makes culture industry sit up and listen. Teen spending power is reshaping pop culture, filling our TV screens with teen dramas and our multiplexe with teen movies. It has also put a perky new beat on the pop charts, where devotional vaporings of boy bands have vanished the roiling rock angst of the early to mid-ninties. 'NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, 98 degrees are now choking on dust from the high stepin' heels of Miss Britney Spears.

Spears, who shares a manager with 'NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, screamed off the production line early this year and became the first solo artist of the Sound Scan era to lodge a debut single and album atop the charts simutaneosly, in the album's first week of release. But for all the fan-mag prose that greeted Spears' explosive marketpalce entry, we know precious little about her beyond an image that hints at several stereotypes. Is Spears bubblegum jailbait, jaded crossover diva or malleable Stepford teen? Who knows? Whether by design or not, the queen of America's new Teen Age is distinctly modern anomaly: the anonymous superstar.

Lynne Spears is issuing crip directions to the family's home in Kentwood, an hour north of New Orleans. Turn off highway 55" says the husky voiced Lousiana native, " then onto 51 turn right when you pass the burning bush." The Burning Bush?" A bar? Restaurant? Strip club? "No it'a actualy bush that's burning in our neighbor's yard. You can't miss it." Such religous portent is fitting, for, in record industy terms at least, Britney Jean Spears is a golden child the chart topping apotheosis of a generationthat's breathing life into an imperiled business. MTV Vj Carson Daly is intimatley acquainted with the habits of teenagers not just through dating the newly twenty year old scream queen Jennifer Love Hewitt but via his stewardship of the station's afternoon call in and e-mail show, Total Request Live.

"Teens don't have an attention span anymore," Says Daly, 25. "They just want to feel good for those four minutes, then go hit the Internet. They don't want to take this to seriously, and they wanna move tempo is everything. Britney is a poster child for them." Being a generational mascot brings with it certian responsabilities. "You want to be good example for kids out there and not do something stupid," Spears says. "Kids have low self-esteem, and then the peer pressures come and they go into a wrong crowd. That's when all the bad stuff starts happening, drugs and stuff. I think if they find something that keeps them happy writing, drawing, anything like that then they'll have confidence.

Spears, who won her first talent show when she was six, sounds more middle-aged then teenaged as she delivers this brisk message. Doesn't she think that people her age struggling with self-esteem because of a torrent of media images that promote feelings oof inadequacy? Spears thinks about this for a moment. "When people see things on TV that they can't do," she ventures, "that should make them want to go out there and make something of themselves. That's how I looked at it." The very first low, aching "Ooh Baby-by bay-by" that Britney Spears whispered into the public's ear strongly suggested that this wasn't your average seventeen year old.

It's still hard to equate those salarious syllables with the basketball plaing churchgoing schoolkid who would travel an hour to shop at her nearest Abercrombie and Finch. As Max Martin says, "People like this song then they see the video and it's like, 'Fuck!'"You can see that kid in the family photographs and Britney-bila that dominates the walls of the Spears household. Nestled among them near the picture of Britney with Ed McMahonfrom her Star Search proformance in 1992 is a picture of the star with her prom date, a gangly youth wearing moccasins with his dress pants.

This is Reg, Britney's only boyfreind with whom she had a two-year relationship. It came to an end when strains of her budding career began to take their toll. "It wasn't that I was changing," says Spears. "We broke up before any of my success happened. He became insecure with himself, I felt. I wasn't gonna do anything I'm straight up honest person and if I as gonna do something I'd tell him I was going to do something. I was real head over heels in love. I dont think I'll ever love somebody like that again. I just woke up one day and click, it was gone."

Spears shrugs off the rumors linking her with both Lance Bass and Justin Timberlake of 'NSYNC. "Overseas they say it's Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys," she notes wryly. Right know, she says she prefers to concentrate on her work rather romance. " I have," she says, "No feelings at all"

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AOL Online Chat



Online Host: Do you like chatting on AOL?

Britney Spears: You know, it's really cool because you have, my friend's at home and like when I need to talk to them we stay on the computer forever and she's talking to me and I'm talking and you can just, you know, catch up on all the old stuff. Because I'm never home and I never really get to experience talking on the phone with my friends that much because of the phone bill and everything. So AOL is awesome.

Online Host: Please welcome Britney Spears to AOL Live. Britney just had surgery on her knee and is recovering now.

Question: How is your knee? What happened? I love you, Britney!
Britney Spears: Well, my knee is a lot better. I had surgery on it like four days ago and it's a lot better. It's probably going to take four weeks for me to be able to dance again. But I just have to listen to the doctors and do what they tell me to do so I won't injure it even more.

Question: Britney, how old were you when you first started singing?
Britney Spears: I was probably eight years old when I really started singing.

Question: How do you manage to stay in such good shape and make videos, attend concerts and record CDs?
Britney Spears: Well, really, with being on the road it's really hard to stay in shape. But, I guess just walking in all of the airports and doing the shows every night probably keep me in shape.

Question: Hey, Britney, you're my idol. What's it like to be up there on stage and looking at all your fans?
Britney Spears: I have to say that's the best feeling in the world to see all of my fans singing the words to my songs and it's just like so overwhelming. It's really cool.

Question: Britney, are you planning on going to college?
Britney Spears: If things slow down for me, I will probably go to college. But if things tend to stay really busy I'll probably do this for the rest of my life. Because this is so much fun. I love what I'm doing now and it's just like I found my job at an earlier age and this is what I'm supposed to do.

Question: Britney, are you touring with 'N SYNC in Virginia next month? They have only announced a guest, but rumor has it that it's going to be you.
Britney Spears: No, I'm not with 'N SYNC anymore. Tatyana Ali and B*Witched are opening for them.

Question: What do you do in your spare time and where do you hope to be years from now?
Britney Spears: In my spare time, well usually I talk on the phone with my friends. And I'm usually doing my studies from school. And just talking on the phone with my mom. And like going to the movies. I love going to the show. So going to the movies. And a couple of years from now I would probably like to continue to do what I'm doing now and just hopefully be more of a well-known artist and someone like Madonna or Janet would be really cool. And just hopefully be a success around the world.

Question: Hi Britney! I love "Baby One More Time" and I hope your knee heals soon. I just wanted to know which member of 'N SYNC did you click with the most?
Britney Spears: Really, I didn't have that much time to spend with them, you know, to really get to know them because they were so busy doing their thing, I was so busy doing my thing. And the only time we really saw each other was at lunch or dinner before the show. But, probably Lance because he's from Mississippi and that's where I'm from. Well, I'm like 30 minutes away from Mississippi.

Question: Hi Britney! Do you plan to be in any TV shows or anything like that in the near future?
Britney Spears: Well, there's talk of me being on "Dawson's Creek," like three episodes of that for next season. So, I'm really happy about that because I love the show.

Question: Can I sign your cast? Do you have one? You rock!
Britney Spears: I don't have a cast on my leg. I have like actually nothing on it. I have butterfly stitches on it because they just went in with a scope. They didn't have to really cut me. Because they had to clean up all the chips of bones that were in my knee. So I don't have a cast. But if I did and I saw him, I would let him sign my cast.

Question: Britney, I wanted to know, on your new album, are you going to work on it yourself or with a lot of other people?
Britney Spears: Probably both. You know, I'll have a lot of influence on it as well as a lot of other people.

Question: Britney, what is the best present you ever got?
Britney Spears: The best present I ever got, probably my collector doll that I got this year. She was so pretty. She like looked like an older woman and she had a hat on and I loved her and it just reminded me of my grandmother. And, probably, the ring I got this Christmas as well. It was really pretty because my little sister got one, my brother got one, and I got one. And it's just really, really pretty.

Question: When are you planning to do your next video?
Britney Spears: When my leg gets better, which will probably be in three or four more weeks. I'm not really sure. When I'm able to, you know, dance on my leg again, I'm going to do the second video and it's going to be awesome.

Question: What is the second video/single going to be?
Britney Spears: "Sometimes." And there's going to be a lot of dancing in it. Even more dancing than "Baby One More Time" because, even though it's a mid-tempo song, I'm able to dance a lot in it though still. The choreographer is brilliant and he's like, you know, working away to where the dancing is just really out there and crazy. So I'm so excited and that's why my leg HAS to be better.

Question: Do you have any brothers or sisters?
Britney Spears: Yes. I have a little sister and she's 7 and her name's Jamie Lynn, and I have an older brother, he's 21 and his name is Brian.

Question: What do you like better, dancing or singing or acting?
Britney Spears: Probably singing.

Question: Have you ever thought about your next album? This one rocks!
Britney Spears: Yeah, I have thought about my next album. But, I probably want to grow as an artist and have songs that I can probably relate to more because I'm getting older and I'll have older songs, per se, you know.

Question: What is the best part about chatting on AOL?
Britney Spears: You know, it's really cool because you have, my friend's at home and like when I need to talk to them we stay on the computer forever and she's talking to me and I'm talking and you can just, you know, catch up on all the old stuff. Because I'm never home and I never really get to experience talking on the phone with my friends that much because of the phone bill and everything. So AOL is awesome.

Question: Would you ever do a country song?
Britney Spears: No, I love country music, but I really don't sing country music because I sing pop music. But, I mean, like, oh, of course, in the car I sing all kinds of music.

Question: Who do you think will win the Oscars?
Britney Spears: Who are the choices? I haven't seen ėShakespeare in Love.î I don't know. I don't really get the chance to see any movies. But I'll just say "Shakespeare in Love." I haven't even really seen it, but I hear it's really, really good. I haven't seen any movies out lately. I'm really embarrassed.

Question: I love your outfits, Britney. Where do you shop?
Britney Spears: Well, I shop usually at BB, it's a really, really cool store. And Abercrombie & Fitch is like the store to go to because when I'm on the road, that's all I wear, is comfy clothes. But, like, when I go out to eat or go out somewhere, I usually dress up in stuff like BB.

Question: What do you think of Tatyana Ali? Have you heard her new record?
Britney Spears: Actually, I don't have her new record, but I've seen her perform before and she's really, really wonderful.

Question: I love your accent. Where are you from?
Britney Spears: I'm from Louisiana. Kentwood, Louisiana.

Question: Hey there! I think Adam Sandler is hot. What do you find hot in a guy?
Britney Spears: A guy that has a wonderful personality and that can make me laugh and has a lot of confidence, I find very sexy.

Question: Do you have a boyfriend? If not, will you go out with me?
Britney Spears: No, I don't have a boyfriend. But I have to see you before I go out with you!

Question: Are you looking forward to the new ėStar Warsî movie?
Britney Spears: You know, really I'm not that much of a "Stars Wars" person. I'm not a big fan of that, but I hear that it's going to be really awesome, so I would probably go check it out.

Question: Are you looking forward to being nominated for a Grammy next year?
Britney Spears: That would be nice! I mean if that happened that would be really wonderful, but I would never get my hopes up for something like that. That would just be out of this world.

Question: Do you write your own songs?
Britney Spears: I'm starting to write right now. Yeah, I've been writing recently a lot. So, yeah.

Question: Who were your musical influences growing up?
Britney Spears: Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey. Otis Redding was really cool. Those are probably the main three.

Question: When did you know you wanted to be a singer?
Britney Spears: All my life I've always known I wanted to be a singer because I've always been singing. But after ėThe Mickey Mouse Club,î that's when I realized that I wanted to make a career out of singing.

Question: Do you practice your dancing every day?
Britney Spears: No, I need to because when I don't it makes me out of shape so when I do start dancing again I hurt myself, like I did. So I really need to, but no, I don't. I hadn't danced in, like, I don't know how long and I go and like a goob, fall on myself and twist my knee!

Question: You look so cute on the album cover. Who are your favorite designers?
Britney Spears: Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, BB again, Tommy Hilfiger. Those are probably the main ones.

Question: What advice would you give to fellow teenage girls?
Britney Spears: If they wanted to pursue a career, if you have a love for singing and dancing or whatever it is, I say go for it, because God's given you a talent, and I think you should express it and use it if he's given you wonderful talent like that. But if you mean in everyday life, what advice do you give teenagers? You know, just go for your dreams and go for what you believe in and stay confident with yourself and stay happy with yourself.

Question: Are you ever going to try producing records, Britney?
Britney Spears: Right now, I think that takes a lot of experience before you're able to start producing your own records, because that's a lot of involvement. But, yeah, I mean, probably two or three years from now I'd love to do that.

Question: What is the weirdest thing that a fan ever did for you?
Britney Spears: I don't know, probably calling me all the time and getting on my nerves and following me. That's probably the weirdest thing.

Question: If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Britney Spears: Probably Jamaica. No, no, no, actually Hawaii. Anywhere in Hawaii.

Question: What are you going to do for New Year's 2000, the millennium?
Britney Spears: I'm definitely going to be at home because all these computers, I hear, are supposed to shut down and I'm going to be sad. So my mom's like, "Britney, you're home." So I'm probably just going to party with my friends.

Question: What three CDs would you want with you if you were stranded on a desert island?
Britney Spears: Lauryn Hill, Natalie Imbruglia and Whitney Houston.

Question: You seem to be the type of person who has lots of friends. What qualities do you look for in friendship?
Britney Spears: Someone you can really trust. Someone who is really honest with you and tell you the truth about anything, even if you don't want to hear it. And someone who is like you and is a lot of fun and you can laugh together.

Question: What is your favorite film about music? ėFameî is my favorite.
Britney Spears: Probably ėWizard of Oz.î That's a really good one. ėSomewhere Over the Rainbow.î That's like my favorite song, and I have Dorothy stuff all over my room!

Question: Who have you met that's really made an impression on you? Like you couldn't even speak you were so awestruck?
Britney Spears: Really, when I meet famous people I get so starstruck I can't say anything to them. So, there was one time when I saw Ashley Judd and that was really cool because I'd just seen "Kiss the Girls" and she is a phenomenal actress, and the person who travels with me just started jabbering away talking to her. But I stood there like a complete idiot and didn't say anything. But she was really, really nice. And I really like that because you always worry how people are going to act when you meet them, someone you totally look up to. And you're always scared to really get to know them because you're scared you'll be disappointed. But I wasn't disappointed.

Question: Who is the most famous person you'd say you ever met?
Britney Spears: Oh my goodness, I don't know. I've really met a lot of people, but I just can't really think. Like, Toni Braxton I've met before. And I've seen Whitney Houston but I didn't really shake her hand. Boys 2 Men, I don't know. Oh my goodness, I can't really think. And, like, I saw Shania Twain before and I've seen Lauryn Hill, but I just don't really say anything to them because I'm a goob. Because, I mean, what do you say? Hi? You know?

Question: Have you ever sung ėThe Star Spangled Bannerî in a stadium? I heard it's hard to do.
Britney Spears: Yes, I have at an Olmuth-Auburn game.

Question: We saw you in a Tommy Hilfiger ad, was that fun?
Britney Spears: That was a lot of fun.

Question: Do you play any instruments?
Britney Spears: No, I do not. I want to learn how to play the guitar, but I don't have time to learn. So, one day I'll have to make time and set it aside.

Question: Are you writing your own songs?
Britney Spears: Yes.

Question: Who would you most like to write a song with?
Britney Spears: Probably Diane Warren because she is such a phenomenal songwriter.

Question: Do you have a car? Or what kind of car would you like to get when you get your driver's license?
Britney Spears: Actually, I'm looking at cars right now and I'm probably going to get the 300 Mercedes. I was thinking about the 500 but the only difference in them are the engines, and they look exactly the same. So I'm probably going to get the Mercedes, the SL. They're so pretty. It's got to be a convertible.

Question: I saw the Entertainment Weekly article you did. Was that fun to do? Was there a lot of horsing around on the set with 'N SYNC?
Britney Spears: Oh, it was a lot of fun to do. Yeah, yeah, we goofed off the whole time.

Question: What are you most looking forward to in your European tour?
Britney Spears: Probably just like the different clothes and the different cultures and everything, I'm going to find really interesting. And I love trying new foods and stuff like that. That's going to be great.

Question: What country are you most looking forward to visiting and playing?
Britney Spears: Let me see, I'm really looking forward to going to London again because the people there were awesome and everything was so nice. I just really love London. I can't wait to go back there again.

Question: I really love you. Is there any way to get a calendar or a poster of you?
Britney Spears: I have a fan club, but I don't know if there's a way you could get a calendar or poster. I don't know. Probably just by in those teeny-bop magazines.

Question: I like ice cream. Do you like ice cream, Britney?
Britney Spears: Yes, I LOVE ice cream.

Question: What is your favorite food?
Britney Spears: My favorite food is pasta and hot dogs.

Question: How did you get into ėThe Mickey Mouse Clubî? And how old were you?
Britney Spears: I auditioned for it in New York. The first time I auditioned for it, which was in Atlanta, I was eight. But the second time, which was in New York, I was eleven.

Question: Any plans to get into the movies? Has anybody asked you to be in a movie yet?
Britney Spears: There's been talk of some movies, but none that I'm really interested in.

Question: What are you going to do for Mothers Day?
Britney Spears: For Mother's Day I'll probably, hopefully if I'm home, just spend time with my mom and probably do girl stuff and go shopping and go out to eat or something.

Question: What are your career goals, long term?
Britney Spears: My career goals are basically just to continue to do what I'm doing right now and just get better and hopefully grow as an artist and hopefully be a legend like Madonna or Janet. That would be really cool.

Question: Do you ever wish it would all slow down for you and you could just spend a day being a typical teenager?
Britney Spears: No. (laughs) Probably because, right now I'm doing that. I'm totally slowing down with my leg. And it's really good, though ,because I needed the time off where I can just totally make my mind get sane again, because things do get crazy. But I'm about to go insane right now because I'm so used to being so busy. And once you're like that for a year, you don't know how to act when things slow down. But I usually get to go home every six weeks and see my friends. So I get to be pretty normal a lot.

Question: What was your favorite subject, or what did you do best in, in school?
Britney Spears: English, because I love to read, and history.

Question: Is it harder to do your schooling now that you have a tutor on the road rather than being in school?
Britney Spears: Yeah, it's a lot harder.

Question: What's your favorite book?
Britney Spears: My favorite book is ėThe Horse Whisperer.î

Question: Are you reading some books and magazines while you're recuperating?
Britney Spears: No, actually I just started getting to the point where I have nothing really to do in between sessions. But I need to go out and get a book and start reading something. But usually I just do my studies.

Question: Do you have any final messages for your fans?
Britney Spears: Just be positive and go for your dreams. Thank you!

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Britney Spears: Hello everyone, i'm just so excited to be able to talk to so many people right now!

MalloryRose99: what did your parents think of the pictures in rolling stones?
Britney Spears: They thought they were pretty cool, we did at the shoot at my house, so it was cool. They were a little risque but since it was Rolling Stone, they thought it was OK.

Baby_PuRe_SuGaR: What type of workout do you do?
Britney Spears: Usually, the shows i perform, that's my workout, but since i hurt my knee, i have to work out everyday to strengthen my leg. Most of the time its just dancing.

ShY_1_00: what do you think about a MMC reunion (cast '89-'95)?
Britney Spears: I would love to have a reunion just to see everybody again, because we were on the show for two years together, and then the show was just cancelled. So i would just love that.

Agent_J15: How is your knee doing?
Britney Spears: My knee is a lot better, next week i'll do the video for Sometime, and i'll be able to dance!

trackboyp: What's your favorite movie?
Britney Spears: Probably, Titanic, I love that movie.

SHE_COP30: If you could not be a singer, what career would you choose?
Britney Spears: To be honest, i have no idea, probably a dance teacher.

toosweeetguy: How do you balance your personal life in school and your professional life?
Britney Spears: I have a cell phone which is really dangerous because my phone bill is really high. I come home every six weeks, and get to see my friends, so it's all OK.

Sting_DaMan: Is the song Baby one more time based on a real story
Britney Spears: No, it's not.

allycat06424: I would like to know if u really sing in your music videos?
Britney Spears: The songs are pre recorded, yes it's me singing, but during the video, I'm not singing.

willow029: What were your first impressions of 'Baby One More Time'? Did you ever, in your wildest dreams, imagine it would go #1 worldwide? Congratulations, by the way
Britney Spears: Well when i first heard it I knew it was going to be a hit, because it one of the songs, but I didn't know it ould go to number one. I hoped and dreamed, yes, but I didn't expect it.

SuperWoman027: what is your favorite color?
Britney Spears: Baby blue.

SpikePuppy98: When will you be going on tour?
Britney Spears: In July.

trackboyp: how often do you answer fan mail or e-mail?
Britney Spears: Not that often, because, i'm really, really busy, but I try to do it as much as I can.

frobbish: Is it true you will be on the Walt Disney World Easter Parade?
Britney Spears: Yes! It's true!

Othafa9: Britney, is their a special someone you are seeing now?
Britney Spears: No, there's not, I don't have a boyfriend.

MET_AERO_GIRL: What's you favorite TV show(s)?
Britney Spears: Friends, and Felicity.

latika_2: Britney, what was it like doing the off-broadway show "Ruthless"?
Britney Spears: It was a lot of fun, because I was really young and it was my first experience doing something like that, I got to sing and dance and act, so it was really fun.

ohioboy1998: who were your musical influences?
Britney Spears: I like Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson and Madonna. Those are my main influences.

tracksgirl_2000: What is your fave song to perform?
Britney Spears: Probably Crazy, beacuse I can dance a lot to the song and it's a fun song to sing.

frobbish: When will you appear on Dawsons Creek?
Britney Spears: Next Season.

ethelu19: I heard you were making a Tv Pilot? Are you going to have a tv show?
Britney Spears: Actually that is just something that we're talking about doing, and I'll definitely do in the future, but not right now.

MET_AERO_GIRL: What's your favorite book?
Britney Spears: Yes, probably, The Star, by Daniel Steele.

SassyFrasSue: Was it fun being on the Mickey Mouse Club?
Britney Spears: Yes, it was a lot of fun, there were like 20 kids on the show, and we just goofed off all the time, and it was a lot of fun.

CrunkJC18: Is it true Justin Timberlake was your first kiss? Was it a love kiss or an on-screen MMC kiss?
Britney Spears: No, he was not my frist kiss, and we never kissed on the show. We've never kissed!

kjberr91: What's your least favorite class in highschool?
Britney Spears: Probably, trig, I hate it.

coolassie1999: what is favorite thing to do when you are not on the road?
Britney Spears: Probably just spending time with my family and hanging out with my friends.

babydoll_2008: I heard you have been dancing for a VERY long time, what kind of dance lessons did you take?
Britney Spears: I took jazz dancing.

sparkles_fly: What kind of music do you listen to?
Britney Spears: All kinds, like hip hop, rap, r n b, all kinds.

lil_chic_2002: Hi Britney! What's Up? Well, i was just wondering who is your favorite actor/actress? Brandi, SC
Britney Spears: I love Meg Ryan, Sandra Bullock, Brad Pitt, Ben Afflect.

Fleetus: Have you seen the multiple websights about you? What do you think about them?
Britney Spears: No, actually, I haven't seen them.

BritneyTime: When are you going to be on Saturday Night Live and Jay Leno?
Britney Spears: Yes! Some dates have just been confirmed, I'm not really sure when they are.

MyTay: Is it true that you will be in Disney World for Grad Night?
Britney Spears: Yes, it's true.

cutie13_04: Brittney do you have any pets?
Britney Spears: Yes, I have a dog, a Rottweiller, his name is Cane.

ohioboy1998: whats the best and whats the worst thing about being famous?
Britney Spears: The best thing i sprobably being able to travel and see the world, and have so much fun. The bad thing, on the other hand, is probably being away from your family.

CrunkeMuzic: Britney, I get surgery tomorrow! What advice do you have? Was it scary for you??? Love You
Britney Spears: Actually it wasn't that scary, because the nurses and everyone were really nice, so it was n't that bad..

papita_chica: Hey Britney, I luv u!! Who's your favourite cartoon character??
Britney Spears: Yes, I love Daisy.

nybrunet14: Do you speak any other language than English?
Britney Spears: A little bit of Spanish, not that much.

Ice_Dog_girl: What is your favorite sport?
Britney Spears: I love basketball.

Lila1584: I am also from South Lousiana.....What is your favorite southern food?
Britney Spears: Probably chicken and dumplings, I love that.

sparkes_Fly: did N sync play any really bad tricks on you while you were touring with them?
Britney Spears: No, they didn't!

L1B: Britney, What do you think about all the young girls who look up to you?? Laine
Britney Spears: I think it's really flattering, and really sweet.

girl5899: So What float are you going to ride on in the easter parade sunday?? Sara PA
Britney Spears: I don't know.

toricory: Who would you love to meet?
Britney Spears: I would love to meet Brad Pitt.

Keep_at_the_secret_garden: What is your best advice in getting started singing?
Britney Spears: Probaby just tkae some voice lessons, and probably try to sing at as many functions as you can so you'll get used to performing.

dani_girl10: Wher your parents supportive of your choice of career choice?
Britney Spears: They have always been really, really supportive.

Silver_Spidey: Britney, when is your next video out?
Britney Spears: I'm not really sure actually.

MattLEJoey: Do you use the internet at all? Love Omid :o)
Britney Spears: Sometimes.

StoneColdCrazy66: What is you favourite Ice Cream Flavor?
Britney Spears: Cookie dough!

SouthPark_er: Who is your favoirte basketball player?
Britney Spears: Michael Jordan.

lallaland: Do you collect beanie babies? If you do what is your favorite one?
Britney Spears: Actually i don't collect beanie babies.

atruelysweetguy: how many demo tapes did you make when you sent them away ? howmany songs did you sing and did you sing the whole song?
Britney Spears: Actually i had like two demo tapes, but after i got signed to the record label, i made a lot more.

Gazzy99: What is the worst rumour you have heard about yourself?
Britney Spears: Actually I haven't heard a bad rumour yet, knock on wood!

GoldHairGirl: Do you think James Van Der Beek or Joshua Jackson is cute? -Jennifer Higham:Newport News, v.a.
Britney Spears: Joshua Jackson

martymens: I noticed that Britney played basketball in middle school. I was wondering if she had ever planned to pursue playing college basketball?
Britney Spears: No, Not really, I just really did it for fun.

STACYAC%: What is the most special gift that you have received from your fans?
Britney Spears: I got a cross necklace that was really pretty.

GoldHairGirl: Were you awke during surgery on your knee?-Jennifer Higham:Newport News, v.a.
Britney Spears: No, i was asleep.

maleifcent: Since your going to be in the Disney easter parade, do you have a favorite Disney Cartoon?
Britney Spears: Probably, let me see, Tiny Tunes.

Backstreetgirl73: Are u in innie or an outie?
Britney Spears: Innie

sparticus_csm84: what is your favorite cereal?
Britney Spears: Cptn. Crunch.

MET_AERO_GIRL: How old were you when you found out you had the talent to sing?
Britney Spears: Probably when i was like eight years old.

Justin_got_the_flow: Can u tell us what the concept of the new video of "Sometimes" going to be THANX!!! THINK UR AWESOME!! =0)
Britney Spears: There is going to be a lot of dancing and it's going to take place on the beach.

Legos4ever: Congratulations on your success. Have any former teen idols given you any advice on how to deal with fame?
Britney Spears: Really not, i've had to experience it myself.

zoink_1234: Is it true that your cousin is in the video, Baby one more time??
Britney Spears: Yes, it is true.

Larz6669: Do you sing in the shower?
Britney Spears: Yes, i do sing in the shower.

Jennabean_MA: whats your favorite song you play?
Britney Spears: Probably Crazy.

luke_melone: Do you have your Driver's License? -Like-Spring Hill. FL
Britney Spears: Yes, I do.

ExcelDuo: Why didn't Autumn Good Bye appear on the album?
Britney Spears: I don't know, there were better songs to do on the album.

Mad_Dog_1998: are you written any new songs?
Britney Spears: Yeah!

smooGPif: Are you a rightie or a leftie?
Britney Spears: Rightie, but i'm a leftie in dance.

ChristyJG: What is your favorite animal?
Britney Spears: Puppy dog.

alienzer0: Are you playing yourself on Dawson's Creek?
Britney Spears: Yes.

Joey_M_Mac: Do you feel you are being controlled in any way by your management and Transcontinental records? Do you want to break away in the future? or do you feel they've been helpful and supportitve? Christina, Taunton, MA
Britney Spears: Yes, very. They have been very supportive.

jayf17: Do you think you are still the same person even after becoming famous? Jay Champaign, IL
Britney Spears: Yes, completely.

rt2235: Britney, now that you are famous, do you get recognize a lot?
Britney Spears: By myself.

katie_holmes_man: what do you look for in a guy?
Britney Spears: I guess confidence and true to himself, and can make me laugh.

m_a_c_e_o: do you have to be in a certain mood to write and if so what kind?
Britney Spears: I don't have to be any certain mood, i write whatever i am, in the tub, grocery store, plane, anywhere.

Action_Marine: Wher edo you want your future, permanent home to be?
Britney Spears: In Florida.

latika_2: What is your favorite city?
Britney Spears: Chicago.

Leatherfacehk: Britney do your parents travel with you to concerts?
Britney Spears: Sometimes.

WWJD_15_99: How do you feel about doing your own tour?
Britney Spears: I'm very excited about it

maleifcent: What was the most embaressing moment you have had?
Britney Spears: One time i was on stage and my flight suit that my dancers supposed to pull didn't come off, and they were pulling and tugging, and it wouldn't come off. And the next time, i was on stage with Bewitched, the group that had been no stage before me, and one of the audience members had thrown a cupcake ons t age, and i slipped on it, and fell, and it wasn't very funny.

ashMW21: Does anyone else in your family sing?
Britney Spears: My little sister does, my mom sings a little bit too.

coolshot_99: Have you ever been asked to be in Hollywood movies?
Britney Spears: No

Orbitor2000: What is your middle name?
Britney Spears: Jean.

Britney Spears: Please look forward to my next single Sometimes, and thank you for all your support so far!

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