I know I may come off white, I may come off shy

The story:

Singing along in the car with my teenaged niece and her friends, who love Britney Spears. "What did you just say?" my niece asked me. I repeated my lyrics, defensively adding that perhaps Ms. Spears was afraid of being considered too teenybopper, hence the singing about "coming off white". After they all quit screaming with laughter, the girls sang the correct lyrics for me.