It's true. Britney Spears kissed Madonnas. Now she's talking in a fake British accent, like Madonna. And, upon reflection, she's even beginning to look like the Madonna. The reasons or "push factors" are myriad but at least some of this must have to do with a realisation that if she's to endure, she'll have to switch sides in the great Virgin Mother/Whore debate. After the jump, photographic evidence from the Cinquecento!

400 Bspears Ambulance 080104 Jfximages Britney Spears, Entombment, 2008.

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Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Penitent Mary Magdalen, 1560s.

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Madonna with Child, 1640s.

300Px-Jacopo Pontormo 004 Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross, 1548.