![]() "I think my music is an embracing of sexuality and exploration and loving who I am, and she was saying that on 'What U See (Is What U Get).' Also, just sonically, her bass lines were always the fattest thing that could just shake any club. Listening to that album takes you on a whole journey, emotionally, sexually, and you can feel it in your body because of what Max did, and Britney as well. On 'Lucky' for example, when she says, 'And tell me, what happens when it stops' and all the production cuts out and there's a drop out. The way that the story and the lyrics and the melody matches the production. "‘Lucky’ is one that has always-I don't know, I just remember being a little kid and seeing it and being like, 'Ugh, she's so lucky, she's a star, but she cries, cries, cries with a lonely heart,' but it's disguised under this dreamy, synthesizer pop feeling. That's the earliest memory that I have of envisioning, being an artist performing on a stage. I would walk around and I would make up dances in the courtyard to Britney Spears and pretend I was part of her music videos. I Did It Again.' I had Stronger.' I had 'Lucky.' And every recess, I busted it out. ![]() And my goal was to get as many Britney Spears HitClips as possible. Oh, my god, I'm having the craziest flashback to having - do you remember HitClips? HitClips is like this little baby boombox that's the size of your hand, and you could get all of these tiny little chips that you insert like a CD. So honestly, Britney Spears is probably the first female pop artist that I was obsessed with. “What an iconic year for Britney's Oops!. Hannah Diamond, an English singer-songwriter who’s signed to left-field pop label PC Music, reflecting on the impact Britney left on pop music, told me by phone recently: “You know that phrase like, ‘She walked so we could run,’ or something? I think it's actually more, ran so we could walk." The young tendrils of radical change that Britney would later use to shape an entire industry - unabashed sexuality, raw and honest storytelling, unmitigated confidence - can all be found embedded in the songs on Oops!īelow, eight musicians from pop’s new generation - Hailee Steinfeld to Slayyyter to Dorian Electra - reflect on how Britney’s impacted them, and celebrate 20 years of an iconic American pop classic. I imagine I share this impression with millions of people around the world, young people who have grown up alongside Britney, including those talented few who are venturing into pop music themselves at the current moment. Its cover - Britney peering through a beaded curtain, her midriff exposed - I could probably sketch from memory. The most potent memory I have was lugging its hard plastic CD case with me everywhere I went - from day care to home, to the grocery, to home again. I Did It Again Britney was a star blooming into herself.Īs for me, I was 5 years old when the album came out. Not yet fully weighed down by the paparazzi, tabloids, gossip, and vulturous media eye, Oops!. Together, they formed a multifaceted, simultaneously relatable and aspirational pop star while also sketching out the blueprint of a sound that would rule pop music for the better half of a decade. Of course, there's the title track, but there was also the empowering anthem “ Stronger” that followed, the dreamy, unexpectedly vulnerable narrative of “ Lucky,” and the R&B yearn of “ Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know,” just to name a few. ![]() With help from now legendary pop producers Max Martin, Darkchild (aka Rodney Jerkins), and more, Spears delivered unrelenting bop after unrelenting bop. ![]() I Did It Again remains as fresh, relevant, and wholly idiosyncratic as the day it was released, arguably gaining cachet as time goes on. Two decades later, one would be hard-pressed to name a Britney record that hasn’t solidified itself as a time-tested masterpiece. "My ultimate goal is to be around for a really long time and be someone like Madonna or Janet Jackson," Spears told MTV at that time. sold over 1.3 million copies in its first week, breaking the record for most first-week sales by a female artist (Adele's 25 claimed that title 15 years later). She was at a new height in her still young career, the first peak of what feels like many - her face on lunchboxes, Barbie dolls, toys, and apparel. She'd teased the new era a few months prior with the title track, its music video blasting across screens around the world, forming the now-iconic image of Britney in a red latex catsuit conquering space. Twenty years ago, on May 16, 2000, an 18-year-old Britney Spears unleashed her sophomore album, Oops!. ![]()
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