Britney Spears Music

It’s One More Time for Britney Spears

Perhaps no other female pop star from the recent generation has commanded such following from fans, advertisers, media, and even the most famous names in music than Britney Spears.

Britney Jean Spears, born in December 2, 1981 in Kentwood, La., began her journey to stardom performing as a singer/dancer at a young age. She was initially known for her Star Search appearance and her Mouseketeer stint.

She was initially turned down by producers of The New Mickey Mouse Club because she was deemed too young for the show. With the help of an agent, she spent the next three years honing her craft at the Professional Performing Arts School.

She went back to audition at age 11 and made the cut. But after her second season as a Mouseketeer, the show got canceled. She then turned her sights to a bigger and better career. She went to New York and recorded several demo tapes. She eventually landed a deal with Jive Records.

Britney Spears music stormed the scenes when she released the single, “Baby, One More Time” in late 1998. With a dance video that portrayed her as an innocent yet sexy young school girl, the single reached number one in the Billboard charts.

In 1999, she released her debut album with the same name at number one and stayed there for six weeks. It spawned other hits like “(You Drive Me) Crazy,” “Sometimes,” “From the Bottom of my Broken Heart.” By the end of the year, the album already sold ten million copies. Spears was definitely a certified pop superstar.

It was also during this time when she started getting the media’s attention. Of all her countless magazine covers, her Rolling Stone shoot sparked rumors that she has had breast implants.

Despite the emergence of wanna-be female pop stars, Spears continued to hold on to her fame and success evidenced by the release of her record-breaking sophomore album, “Oops!…I Did It Again” in the spring of 2000, which shot to number one. It sold more than a million copies in its first week of release.

In 2001, Spears tried to present herself as a more mature artist with her next album. Though it was her third straight album to debut at number one, it did not produce as many hits. “I’m a Slave 4 U,” and “Overprotected” both missed the top ten.

2003’s “In the Zone” again topped the charts and spawned hits like “Toxic” and “Me Against the Music.”
By this time, Spears was a global phenomenon. Everything she did was publicized. She was the IT girl. But even success could not have prepared her for the down turn in her personal and professional career.

She was extremely criticized for her two-day marriage to a former friend; she re-married and had two kids with dancer Kevin Federline, and went on a down ward spiral.

Failed marriages, rehab stints, and incriminating photos seemed to have ended Spear’s successful stint, though she still remained as popular as ever.

In 2007, she released “Blackout,” her most unsuccessful album to date. In 2008, she lost custody of her children and went on involuntary psychiatric hold twice—shattering her once immaculate image.

Nevertheless, “Blackout” earned an award from the Europe Music Awards as “Album of the Year” in late 2008.

It was also during this time that she released the first single off her upcoming album, “Womanizer,” her first number one single in nearly ten years. The full-length album, “Circus” was released in December and showed signs of Spears’ successful comeback.