Spears was one of the first millennial pop stars who made people take note, and a whole generation of musicians remain in her debt. She’s proved to have a chameleonic career, ranging from the bhangra-inflected “Toxic” to the electro-pop feel of “Gimme More” to full-on EDM with “Till the World Ends.” Previously it was difficult for teen pop stars to have sustainable careers without critics writing them off as vapid and unsustainable, but Spears has made it work and paved the way for other young stars - particularly young women - to do the same. Perhaps most importantly, Spears headed an entirely new wave of pop music that shaped the sound of the next two decades to come, with artists from Charli XCX to Taylor Swift to Grimes to Beyoncé expressing admiration for Spears’s music.
She provided Max Martin’s first international number-one hit with her debut single, cementing a new era of Swedish songwriters working at the pinnacle of pop music. She gave us iconic imagery in a way that had rarely been seen in teen pop: the Catholic schoolgirl uniform of the “Baby One More Time” video, the red “Oops!… I Did it Again” jumpsuit, the snake on her shoulders at the 2001 VMAs. Her music changed the pop landscape for good. “Baby One More Time” captured the world’s attention and sold 10.6 million copies as a single in a time before easy access to music on the internet. To call the album and its titular single a “smash” is an understatement. Twenty years ago, in January 1999, Britney Spears crashed into the public consciousness with the album …Baby One More Time. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment.Email (song suggestions/writer enquiries).
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