But Spears' latest album, "Britney Jean," may be the disappointing exception to her platinum-lined rulebook.
Taylor was a monarch and a rebel at once, this was her unique streak, she rewrote the rulebook and became an icon to icons.
At the end of a two-day summit meeting in Brussels, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany made clear her determination to rewrite the economic rulebook for the European Union, even if that means a long and bruising battle to revise the treaty governing the bloc.
Another middle-of-the-night peak in the drama, with Merkel pushing her draconian fiscal pact as the eurozone's new rulebook and David Cameron deploying his nuke, a veto on the new treaty because Britain has been refused "safeguards" concerning the EU single market and the interests of the City of London.
In a TEDxTeen talk she gave this year, Tavi discussed the process of founding an alternative online space for teenage girls and discovering what feminism means to her, saying: "I realized that feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process".
The assistant manager who interviewed her deemed her qualified but worried that her hijab would violate the company's "Look Policy," a weirdly exhaustive rulebook that reads as though it had been dreamed up by a middle-school queen bee on a Ritalin bender.
Then there's this: one of her most effortless, glorious floor-fillers, ticking the pop-writing rulebook with a fine, golden nib.
Feinstein wants to ensure that the International Committee of the Red Cross is promptly notified when detainees are captured, and her legislation will call for establishing the Army Field Manual as the sole rulebook for conducting interrogations.
But courtesy and confirmation Kabuki prevented her from outright discrediting Roberts' claim that the strike zone of the rulebook is the same as the strike zone of live play.
And while Sister Jamison counsels recovering addicts, she does not play by anybody's rulebook, measuring out a brand of tough love that would make her a fine candidate for drill sergeant.
