
" ... Baby One More Time"—Britney Spears
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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The Code Switching of Britney's Rich
There's an element of code switching that i think is very identifiable and now we have words that are more in the discourse we could talk about like vocal fry. We can talk about all the ways that women communicate in order to both placate uh you know sexist society but also are just our norms they're our culture. The word that i use in that piece is frightening just like grolishness um and at the same time that i knew that there was something wrong with that she hadn't domesticated that thing that we're supposed to do when we're 15 years old.
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