Britney Spears
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Britney Spears: Single of the Yearn
Profile and Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 26 February 1999
Who is Britney Spears, and why should the world be grateful that TLC are missing in action? Read on ...
Britney Spears: Baby One More Time (Jive)
Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 6 March 1999
I WOULDN'T, actually. Jailbait. Pastels. Popsox. Mall rat. Sure, all the obvious jokes cover up the fact that this is a document of pure venality. ...
Britney Spears: Inside the Mind (and Bedroom) of America's Teen Queen
Profile and Interview by Steven Daly, Rolling Stone, 15 April 1999
The child navigates becoming a woman while the former Mousketeer courts worldwide fame ...
Interview by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 19 June 1999
"Psychoanalyse me, baby, one more time," she asked, and so it was that Britney Spears ended up on the Psychobabble couch ...
Britney Spears: Oops!… I Did It Again (Jive) — She was born to make us happy
Review by Barbara Ellen, The Times, 19 May 2000
For £15 you can enjoy Britney all night long — and still have change for a Big Mac and twirly fries. Barbara Ellen gets stuck ...
Comment by Metal Mike Saunders, The Village Voice, 6 June 2000
NOVEMBER 3, 1998, was the release date of the '... Baby One More Time' CD single and 12-inch (w/ 'Autumn Goodbye' on the B side). ...
Britney Spears: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, 11 October 2000
IN CERTAIN SOCIAL CIRCLES it’s entirely acceptable, if not positively compulsory, for gentlemen rock journos of a certain age to swan about like leather-clad rutting ...
Britney Spears: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 13 October 2000
ROBBIE WILLIAMS may believe he has no competition. But the day after he began his latest tour, the American superstar Britney Spears arrived to play ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Q, 2001
The all-American girl shows what she's really made of ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, December 2001
Britney Spears ponders hot chocolate and drugged reptiles from Australia. ...
Battle of the pop babes: Britney Spears' Greatest Hits; Kylie Minogue's Ultimate Kylie
Review by Kathryn Flett, The Observer, 17 October 2004
IT'S OBVIOUSLY entirely unfair to treat the popular artistes Kylie Minogue and Britney Spears as conjoined twins, forcing them to share the same review (would ...
Guide by Todd L. Burns, Stylus, 1 February 2005
The Queen of Pop? Since 1999’s …Baby One More Time, Britney has quickly elevated herself to pop royalty via a conflicting series of psycho-sexual messages ...
On Britney Spears's Sadly Generic Circus
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Village Voice, 10 December 2008
More blandishments from the dance floor ...
Britney Spears: The Singles Collection (Jive)
Review by Mike Diver, bbc.co.uk, November 2009
IT MIGHT SEEM rather odd that this new collection features fewer tracks than 2004's greatest hits collection, My Prerogative. But though trimmer, this set represents ...
Is Lady Gaga corrupting our kids?
Comment by Pete Paphides, The Times, 12 August 2010
Modern pop stars are corrupting the young, says pop veteran Mike Stock. But isn't that what they've always done? ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 25 March 2011
IN THE YEAR she turns 30, Britney Spears is not about to upset the formula that has seen her sell an eye-watering 100 million albums. ...
Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj: Staples Center, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2011
Haters Go Home: Britney Dominates L.A. Show ...
Review by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, 2 December 2013
RARE IS THE A-list artist today who doesn't launch their new album by breathlessly proclaiming it their most honest, intimate, confessional magnum opus to date. ...
Britney Spears: Piece Of Me: The AXIS, Las Vegas
Live Review by Kate Allen, Classic Pop, October 2014
SEEING BRITNEY SPEARS LIVE holds every possibility of being an ugly affair. But seeing her play show number 32 as part of her Las Vegas ...
Why Did Britney Spears Quietly Drop an Album then Take it Down?
Report by Kate Allen, Rock's Backpages, April 2015
ARE WE ALL sick of "surprise" music releases yet? Are we supposed to feign excitement over Beyoncé serenading Jay Z via a Tidal-exclusive video (the ...
Britney Spears: Preston Park, Brighton
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 6 August 2018
WHAT HAPPENS IN Vegas no longer stays in Vegas, as Britney Spears confirmed when her hugely successful, long-running Las Vegas residency show Piece of Me ...
How Auto-Tune Revolutionized the Sound of Popular Music
Essay by Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 17 September 2018
An in-depth history of the most important pop innovation of the last 20 years, from Cher's 'Believe' to Kanye West to Migos ...
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