Britney Spears

Like Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears was a Disney-bred star. Unlike Cyrus, however, Spears was marketed to adults as well as teens.

Need evidence? Check her breakthrough video for 1999’s “…Baby One More Time,” which exploits Catholic schoolgirl fetishes while declaring that she’s “not that innocent.”

Need more evidence? Jeff Fenster, the A&R executive who signed one Britney Spears to Jive (R. Kelly’s label, coincidentally), once told a roomful of people at the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas, that the soon-to-be pop star scored a record deal not because of her singing ability, but because of a photo.

The shot, said Fenster in 2006, showed a young Spears on a picnic bench with a puppy, and inspired Fenster to declare that "she looked like the sweet, all-American girl that you just wanted to defile and do bad things to."

Spears was pegged to be 15 or 16 at the time she was signed.

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