Artist: Britney Spears Genre(s):
Pop
House
Dance: Pop
Other
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Gimme More (Mixes) Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Gimme More Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Blackout Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Do Somethin' Year: 2005
Tracks: 4
B In The Mix: The Remixes Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Outrageous Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Mix By DJ Oliver Volume1 Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Everytime Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
Me Against The Music (Single) Year: 2003
Tracks: 7
Me Against The Music Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
In the Zone Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Britney Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Stronger (Single) Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Oops...I Did It Again (Single) Year: 2000
Tracks: 4
Oops!...I Did It Again Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
Crazy Year: 1999
Tracks: 17
...Baby One More Time Year: 1999
Tracks: 15
Someday (I Will Understand) Year:
Tracks: 4
Outrageous Year:
Tracks: 6
More than whatsoever former single creative person, Britney Spears was the driving military unit behind the generate of stripling crop up in the late '90s. The blockbuster success of the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys certainly paved the way for her have commercial-grade breakthrough, simply Spears didn't simply become a star -- she was a bona fide pop phenomenon. Not only did she sell millions of records, she was a media fixture careless of what she was (or wasn't) doing; among female singers of the era (many of whom followed in her footsteps), her famous person star exponent was rivaled but by Jennifer Lopez. From the commencement, Spears' sexual practice appeal was an important part of her ikon; the video for her debut exclusive, "...Babe One More Time," outfitted her in full Catholic-school regalia, and sent her well on the direction to becoming an international sex symbol. Yet Spears' handlers seemed to be trying to have it both shipway -- thither was a definite tension betwixt the wholesome innocence Spears tested to project for her female hearing, and the titillating gender that enticed so many male fans. Those selling tactics made Spears a slightly controversial figure, the national of endless debates concerning reserve role models for teen girls. Early on, Spears tested to defuse the disceptation by discourse abstinence until wedlock, and even denied that she was consciously cultivating such a sexualized double. Of course of study, the more provocative and telling her onstage wardrobe became, the less plausible that claim seemed. But apart from her ability to tiptoe the line 'tween virginal vamp and barefaced tart, Spears had a secret weapon in Swedish crop up originator Max Martin, wHO had a hand in the huge majority of her hits as a writer and/or producer. With Martin crafting the sort of contemporary dance-pop and sentimental ballads that made stars of the Backstreet Boys, Spears kept on delivering the goods commercially, as her first trey albums all topped the charts.
Britney Jean Spears was born December 2, 1981, in the little town of Kentwood, LA, and began playing as a vocalizer and dancer at a young years. With a nationally televised appearance on
Star Search already under her belt, Spears auditioned for the Disney Channel's
The New Mickey Mouse Club at age ogdoad. The producers turned her down as excessively young, merely one of them took an sake and introduced her to an agent in New York. Spears spent the following leash days studying at the Professional Performing Arts School, and too appeared in several television commercials and off-Broadway plays. At 11, she returned to
The New Mickey Mouse Club for a second hearing, and this time made the cut. Although her fellow Mouseketeers included an impressive array of next stars -- *NSYNC's Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez, Christina Aguilera, and
Felicitousness actress Keri Russell -- the demo was canceled subsequently Spears' second season. She returned to New York at age 15 and put more or less auditioning for pop bands and recording demonstration tapes, one of which eventually landed her a cope with Jive Records.
Spears entered the studio with top writer/producers wish Eric Foster White (Boyzone, Whitney Houston, Backstreet Boys) and Max Martin (Ace of Base, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC). In late 1998, Jive released her debut individual, the Martin-penned "...Baby One More Time." Powered by its picture, in which Spears and a troupe of dancers were dressed as Catholic-school jailbait, the single scene to the top of the Billboard charts. When Spears' debut album of the same title was released in early 1999, it entered the charts at number one and stayed in that location for sise weeks. Once the ubiquitous lead individual died depressed, the album unbroken spinning off hits: the Top Ten "(You Drive Me) Crazy," the near-Top 20 lay "Sometimes," and the Top 20 "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart." By the closing of 1999,
...Baby One More Time had sold 10 million copies, and went on to sell a good terzetto million more on crest of that. Its succeeder affected off a undulation of loretta Young pop divas that included Christina Aguilera, Pink, Jessica Simpson, and Mandy Moore. Spears was a sensation, drooled over in myriad magazines, including a Rolling Stone cover that prompted immediate speculation around the still-17 yr erstwhile having gotten breast implants.
By the time
...Baby One More Time at last started to lose steam on the singles and record album charts, Spears was ready to waiver her follow-up.
Oops!...I Did It Again appeared in the spring of 2000, and the claim caterpillar tread was an crying smash, racing into the Top Ten. The album entered the charts at number unmatched and sold over a 1000000 copies in its first hebdomad of release, setting a new record for single-week gross revenue by a female artist. Follow-up singles included "Golden," the gold-selling "Stronger," and "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know," which was co-written by nation diva Shania Twain and her producer Mutt Lange. A year later its release,
Oops!...I Did It Again had sold over nine-spot meg copies. Rumors that Spears was geological dating *N Sync heartthrob (and dude ex-Mouseketeer) Justin Timberlake were eventually confirmed, which only added to the media attention lavished on her.
For her side by side record album, Spears looked ahead to a not-so-distant next when both she and very much of her audience would be development up. Released in late 2001,
Britney tried to acquaint the isaac Bashevis Singer as a more than maturate young woman, and was accompanied by mild hints that her personal life wasn't always all puritanical. It became her third straight album to debut at number unitary, although this prison term around the singles weren't as successful; "I'm a Slave 4 U," "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman," and "Overprotected" all missed the Top Ten. In early 2002, Spears' feature film debut,
Crossroads, hit theaters, just its commercial operation was moderately unsatisfying; moreover, her latinian language with Timberlake fizzled non long afterwards. Spears adjacent made a cameo coming into court in Mike Myers'
Capital of Texas Powers: Goldmember, and contributed a remix of "Boys" to the soundtrack. Meanwhile, gross sales of
Britney stalled at 4 million copies, peradventure in part because a new breed of teen female singer/songwriters, like Michelle Branch and Avril Lavigne, was emerging as an alternative to the highly packaged stripling queens. Spears took a break from transcription and acting for several months, and began do work on a new album in early 2003. The results,
In the Zone, reflected a wish to be interpreted in earnest as a get on (though silent extremely sexualized) adult. Predictably, it topped the charts and launched several singles into ambit, including the musically adventuresome "Toxic," "Everytime," and "Me Against the Music."
In the Zone hit number unmatched on the Billboard two hundred, and "Toxic" snagged a Grammy for Best Dance Recording. But by 2004 there were no thirster whatsoever illusions of Britney's personal life existence all wholesome confect canes and kisses. First there was the star's eccentric two-day marriage ceremony to childhood friend Jason Alexander, followed by the controversial, highly sexualized Onyx Hotel turn, which was eventually canceled (allegedly because of a knee accidental injury) disdain positive financial numbers racket. Starbucks and cigarettes were Britney's constant accessories in the endless paparazzi photos, and the revelation of her relationship with former backup dancer Kevin Federline made the tabloids regular more esurient. Spears and Federline married in September and were tabloid regulars in the months after the ceremony. (A pic of a shoeless Britney departure a grubby natural gas station bath made the Internet rounds.) The couple as well asterisked in
Chaotic, a UPN reality show consisting by and large of their have rest home videos that was met with howls from the critics and blogs.
2005 was no less consequential for Spears. She released
Sterling Hits: My Prerogative that January, just it was the promulgation of her gestation that really garnered the headlines. Sean Preston Federline was born in September, and a bid war ensued for first gear rights to the baby photos. As the hubbub encompassing Sean's birth continued, Britney released a remix album simply in time for the holiday season. In 2006, Spears discovered she was pregnant again; shortly later on the birthing of her moment son, Jayden James Federline, she divorced Federline. Early in 2007, Spears went to Malibu, CA's Promises Treatment Center; when she left, she began working on her comeback record album and performed a few small shows at House of Blues locations in Los Angeles, San Diego, Anaheim, and Las Vegas that May. Despite ongoing convulsion in her biography that summertime and fall -- including a disastrous performance at MTV's Video Music Awards --
Memory loss arrived in October 2007.
