Toxic Talent: Britney Spears as a Performer
Britney Spears was a large part of the pop world as I was growing up and her music videos were very different than other artists. Britney started in performing arts at a young age and eventually made her way to auditions for Disney, commercials, and then was introduced into the music world. Her debut studio album, ...Baby One More Time , was released on January 12, 1999. While she did not write this song, it was written by Swedish record producer and songwriter Max Martin and Rami Yacoub (Macias, 2016) and first released in the US. This quickly went to number one on the charts and eventually sold more than 10 million copies in the United States (Britannica 2024). In the music video, it really showcases the intricacies of performance and how much energy she was putting into her projects. Since she had such success with her first hit, she collaborated with Max Martin and Rami Yacoub for her second album Oops!... I Did It Again. S he collaborated with a wide range of producers and writ