…Baby One More Time

There are a few songs on this album that are worthwhile, but to me, most of them feel like filler. I skipped a few and wished I would have skipped a few more

Jamais écouté avant.

Deux jours après Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears. Au moins, il y a une forme de cohérence. Cohérence également dans le constat : quelques tubes pop ultra-efficaces, voire légendaires pour le titre éponyme, au sein d'un album de producteurs, manufacturé à l'extrême par Max Martin, notamment, pour exploser dans les charts, option overdose de sucre dégoulinant et de paillettes multicolores. La différence avec Justin Timberlake, c'est que cet album marque aussi la naissance d'une incontestable icône pop, pour le meilleur et surtout pour le pire (difficile de ne pas ressentir un vrai malaise face à la sexualisation soft mais ostentatoire, dès la pochette, de celle qui n'était encore qu'une adolescente...). De fait, je ne suis pas le public, mais difficile de contester que ...Baby One More Time a sa place dans cette liste, ne serait-ce que parce que toute la pop des années 2000 en copiera le patron.

Top : …Baby One More Time
Flop : I Will Still Love You

The first two tracks on the album are absolute fire. Iconic pop songs of the age, but the rest of it is just filler for me.

A couple of Ok tracks, but overall a bit saccharine for my taste.

e-mail my heart has got to be the funniest song title ever

Britney is wel de overtreffende trap van het type Disney-zangeresje (al lees ik dat ze die 'opleiding' maar kort heeft 'genoten'). Alles rond de hit is uitgedacht. Elk plaatje, elk mediamoment, elke houding, elk pasje. Dus de muziek is natuurlijk al helemaal extreem geproduceerd. Alles om op te vallen. Is het dan niet creatief? Dat kan ik eigenlijk niet eens stellen over Baby one more time. Stoort het me? Ja, dat wel. Het voelt glad en hijgerig. Maar dat is de bedoeling natuurlijk. Maar wat je er ook van vindt, je kan niet om dit nummer heen als het over de muziek van de afgelopen decennia hebt.

Maar geldt dat ook voor het album? Zo'n nummer als Crazy, is gewoon een aftreksel van Baby One More Time. Sometimes is is tergend saai. En met die duidingen, heb je eigenlijk alle singles wel te pakken.

Daaromheen zijn duidelijke opvullers geplaatst. Bijvoorbeeld zo'n zinloze cover van The Beat Goes On. Doe het dan op zin minst op jouw eigen manier.

Ugh

Not something I would seek out to listen to but kinda fun. The lyrics to Email My Heart are hilarious and date the whole thing perfectly.

Whoever claimed Britney is a soprano on her Wikipedia page hasn't heard her sing the words "ooh baby baby".

This is just fun pop. It doesn’t need to be deep, it just needs to bop

It's not bad, but I pretty much just listened to the same song 14 times. It's upsetting because Britney Spears is a talented singer and performer, but was categorized into this weird devotion pop that wasn't the most comfortable to hear for 50 minutes. The instrumentals aren't too bad, but they're sporting the most surface level lyrics and formulas that the studio churned out to fill the rest of the album. The closing track is actually pretty nice, as well as the Cher cover.

This album is so front loaded. Only the first two songs, ...Baby One More Time and (You Drive Me) Crazy, would mean anything to anyone. I get it, Max Martin knew how to bang out the hits but the rest of this is garbage.

Some bangers some not so bangers

I mean… it’s Britney, b*tch!

You know what's fairly surprising? She doesn't actually have a very good voice. Britney Spears was THE teeny bopper pop star in the early aughts, but she has nowhere near the pipes of Christina Aguilera or P!nk.

OK, but musically...it stinks. It's just an overproduced hodge podge of recycled pop beats. The writing, however, is where it really shines. Ha! Just kidding. Have you ever heard any pop music from any era? Then you've heard these stories told in the exact same way. I'm going to give it 2 stars because I really try to reserve 1 star for stuff that is so bad it makes me mad, but this is 1.5 stars at best.

Woo hoo, I've listened to a Britney Spears record.

The fast songs are catchy, but they're also kind of annoying. And the slow songs are boring and REALLY annoying. I've read that this is a revolutionary album for teen pop, but it doesn't sound very different from a lot of other things to me. But maybe that those other things came out after this? Why am I acting like I know what I'm talking about, I don't know anything about "teen pop" since I didn't even listen to it when I was a teen.

I think this is a good record, for the genre at least, right? But unfortunately, it's a genre I really can't stand.

2 stars.

The culmination of pop I would say. There are some pretty boring songs on here.

Poor Britney. Such a sad life.

t makes me feel properly old realising that …Baby One More Time came out in 1999. Twenty-seven years ago. That’s slightly terrifying.

Taken at face value, this isn’t a bad pop album at all. It’s just not really my thing. Listening back now, I didn’t hate it, far from it but I also can’t imagine ever choosing to put it on again. It’s very much late-90s teen pop: polished, tightly produced and built around massive hooks.

The big singles are undeniably strong. “...Baby One More Time” is a genuine pop classic. “Sometimes” and “Born to Make You Happy” are solid, glossy ballads that did exactly what they were meant to do at the time. And I have to admit, I quite enjoyed “The Beat Goes On” it has a bit more groove and personality than some of the surrounding tracks.

That said, once you move beyond the hits, the album does dip into formulaic territory. Tracks like “Soda Pop,” “I Will Be There,” and “Email My Heart” feel very much of their era, over-sweet, slightly disposable.

Favourite tracks:“...Baby One More Time” — still a bona fide pop anthem.

Least favourite tracks:“Soda Pop” “I Will Be There” and “Email My Heart”

Album artwork: A snapshot of peak late-90s pop innocence. Long before everything in her personal life unravelled.

Vapid trash.

Not what I expected to listen to today but here we are