"I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier"
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The subtext, especially in Spears’s case, is that desire itself has been contested terrain. Her career has long been narrated through other people’s verbs: marketed, managed, sexualized, judged, controlled. So the line “I’m doing it now” lands less like a status update and more like proof of agency, a staking of reality against years of public projection. The happiness claim isn’t naive; it’s defensive, almost strategic - a preemptive counter to the idea that her life must be tragic to be legible.
Culturally, it’s also a reminder of how early pop dreams are gendered and policed. A boy who wants to be a rock star is “driven.” A girl who wants to sing is often treated as disposable until she becomes profitable, then blamed for being manufactured. Spears’s quote refuses the game. It’s aspiration without apology, delivered in the plain language of someone trying to be seen as a person before a headline.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Spears, Britney. (2026, January 17). I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-always-wanted-to-be-a-singer-its-what-i-wanted-45488/
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Spears, Britney. "I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-always-wanted-to-be-a-singer-its-what-i-wanted-45488/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-always-wanted-to-be-a-singer-its-what-i-wanted-45488/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




