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November 30th, 2008 at 10:06 am

Britney Spears Rolling Stone Magazine Cover December 11, 2008 Photos, Video

Britney Spears Rolling Stone Magazine Cover December 11, 2008

Britney Spears is on the cover of Rolling Stone, December 11, 2008 issue, featured in a photo shoot and cover article. See all the photos and behind-the-scenes video here. It’s the seventh time the pop superstar has graced the magazine’s cover.

With three live performances in Europe behind her–the 2008 Bambi Awards, Star Academy and X Factor–and the debut of her documentary, Britney: For the Record, on MTV on November 30, 2008, Britney Spears’ remarkable comeback is in full swing. Her highly anticipated sixth studio album, Circus will be released December 2, 2008.

Britney Spears Rolling Stone Magazine December 11, 2008 photo shoot

Jenny Eliscu interviewed Britney Spears for the cover story article which is in the print edition with an online preview. Here is an excerpt.

“I feel like an old person now,” she says one afternoon, as a manicurist applies rhinestones and girly pink lacquer to her chewed-up nails. “I do! I go to bed at, like, 9:30 every night, and I don’t go out or anything, you know what I mean? I just feel like an old fart.”

Britney Spears Rolling Stone Magazine December 11, 2008 photo shoot

The beauty rest has done her well: In a Hollywood recording studio in September, dressed in black jeans, platform heels and a bedazzled hoodie, Spears looks more like her former self than she has in years. She has makeup on, but it’s faded just enough that it could be yesterday’s. She says she’s considering lopping off the weave she’s worn since shaving her head in 2007, and when she counts up her tattoos — “Seven! Oh, my God, y’all!” — she falls back into the couch giggling, kicking her feet in the air. [...]

Britney Spears Rolling Stone Magazine December 11, 2008 photo shoot

There are differences in Britney, too, from the last time I saw her, in 2006, when we hung out in her New York hotel room watching American Idol while her son Sean Preston crawled around on the bed nearby. She is shyer, more guarded, remote — like the old Britney but with the volume turned way down. Her last hit single, “Piece of Me,” dealt with her public image (“I’m Miss Bad Media Karma/Another day, another drama”), but she says she’s not sure she wants to include anything so revealing on Circus. “It’s scary to put yourself out there and be like, ‘Oh, God, is that cool?’ If you’re not going to really go for it, you can’t just go there halfway.” And then, as though changing her mind midthought, she adds, “But sometimes, when you go for it, you can’t lose.”

Source: Cover story – Britney Returns

Photo credit: Peggy Sirota/Rolling Stone via Britney Lets Loose for Rolling Stone’s Cameras: Exclusive Photos