Confessions of a Heavy Metal Barbie

Britney was a teenage pop superstar, Gevinson was a teenage fashion prodigy, and I was a teenage heavy metal queen.

That sounds like the title of some kind of terrible direct-to-video 90s movie, doesn't it? I'd prefer that to be the case (imagine the costumes!) but instead, it's a phrase that's been percolating in my brain all day, ever since I read an essay at The Cut about Britney Spears, control, and the noxious power dynamics that so many older men use to ensnare…