How Britney Spears Changed Pop With ‘Baby One More Time’
Her debut LP introduced the world khổng lồ a small-town teen with a radically futuristic aesthetic
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Britney Spears' groundbreaking debut, '...Baby One More Time,' combined a small-town-teen persona with an avant-garde pop sound.
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Happy 20th birthday to Britney Spears’ debut album …Baby One More Time, released on January 12th, 1999 — a truly avant-garde full-length that permanently changed how music sounded. The Backstreet Boys và ‘NSync were having hits already, but they were doing straight-up mainstream pop compared to the alien apocalyptic robot-disco stomp of Britney. You could argue the BSBs’ “I Want It That Way” was the last gasp of 20th-century pop, just as “ …Baby One More Time” was the first gasp of the 21st. She’s been predicting the future ever since.
Not bad for a small-town Louisiana teen making her first record. Max Martin wrote và produced the title hit, but it wouldn’t have meant a thing without the menacing way she growls “ooh, baby, baby.” As Britney told me in 2000, she spent the night before the session listening khổng lồ Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” (“what a sexy song”), her mã sản phẩm for the vibe she was going for. “I wanted my voice lớn be kind of rusty,” Britney told me. “I wanted my voice lớn just be able lớn groove with the track. So the night before, I stayed up really, really late, so when I went into the studio, I wasn’t rested. When I sang it, I was just laid back and mellow — it sounds cool, though. You know, how it sounds really low in the lower register — it sounds really sexy. So I kept telling myself, ‘Britney, don’t get any rest.’”