Britney Spears

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Britney Spears was born in 1981 in McComb, in the American state of Mississippi, and grew up in Kentwood, Louisiana. As a child she was already on television in The All-New Mickey Mouse Club. In the late 1990s she became the face of a new wave of teen pop, made in Stockholm and sold to the whole world.

Music and breakthrough

In 1997 she signed to Jive Records. She recorded her first single, ...Baby One More Time, in May 1998 at Cheiron Studios in Stockholm. Max Martin wrote the song and produced it with Rami Yacoub. It had earlier been offered to the Backstreet Boys and TLC, who both turned it down. The single was released in September 1998, when Spears was sixteen, and reached number 1 in more than twenty countries, including America and England. The album of the same name (1999) sold more than ten million copies in the United States. Oops!... I Did It Again (2000) and In the Zone (2003) followed, the latter with Toxic, which won a Grammy.

Influence

Spears showed how Max Martin's hit factory worked: the music was largely ready, and the singer made the song her own. From 2008 her life was under a conservatorship held by her father. It was not until 2021 that this came to an end, after she herself had testified against her family and management. Her book The Woman in Me was published in 2023.

Listening

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  ...Baby One More Time · Britney Spears, 1998
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Discography

Studio albums

• 1999…Baby One More Time
• 2000Oops!…I Did It Again
• 2001Britney
• 2003In the Zone
• 2007Blackout
• 2008Circus
• 2010Lone Rider Animated Series (soundtrack)
• 2011Femme Fatale
• 2013Britney
• 2016Glory

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Mixtape 12: The Hit Factory^NL Reader
• Mixtape 13: From Cassette to Cloud^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• Stockholm pop (Max Martin) GenreIn Cheiron Studio in Stockholm, from the mid-1990s Max Martin and his colleagues wrote and produced the hits of the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC and Britney Spears.
• ...Baby One More Time SongIt then went to sixteen-year-old Britney Spears, and it was released in October 1998.
• Umbrella SongIt was first offered to Britney Spears, but her record company let it go.

See also

• Umbrella
• …Baby One More Time
• Oops!…I Did It Again
• Blackout
• Glory
• Stockholm pop (Max Martin)

Sources

1. Wikipedia (en): Britney Spears
2. Wikipedia (en): ...Baby One More Time (song
3. Wikipedia (en): ...Baby One More Time (album