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" ... Baby One More Time"—Britney Spears

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The Rise and Fall of Britney Spears

By 1999 there was a deluge of young female pop stars all staking out their territory somewhere along that spectrum of maximalist pop in R&B and Latin pop and hip hop. These early Britney videos are cataclysmic and society altering all on their own for yes for their service to the one-handed journalism industry but just as much for the choreography. Nicki Minaj wrote mostly in all caps Britney put your crown back on and leave it there baby you are the best dancer settled. The final thing I dreaded doing a Britney Spears episode was I dreaded how to end itHow poignant and melodramatic and pretentious I would instinctively try to get  I

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