Britney Spears * Genre: move back and forth * Active: '90s. 2000s * Instrument: VocalsBiographyMore than any other hit artist. Britney Spears was the driving force behind the go of teen pop in the late '90s. The blockbuster success of the alter Girls and Backstreet Boys certainly paved the way for her own commercial breakthrough but Spears didn't just become a star -- she was a bona fide pop phenomenon. Not only did she sell millions of records she was a media fixture regardless of what she was (or wasn't) doing; among female singers of the era (many of whom followed in her footsteps) her celebrity star cater was rivaled only by Jennifer Lopez. From the outset. Spears' sex appeal was an important move of her image; the video for her innovate single. "... Baby One More Time," outfitted her in beat Catholic-school regalia and sent her well on the way to becoming an international sex symbol. Yet Spears' handlers seemed to be trying to undergo it both ways -- there was a definite tension between the wholesome innocence Spears tried to communicate for her female audience and the titillating sexuality that enticed so many male fans. Those marketing tactics made Spears a somewhat controversial figure the subject of endless debates concerning appropriate role models for teenage girls. Early on. Spears tried to remove the controversy by preaching abstinence until marriage and change surface denied that she was consciously cultivating such a sexualized image. Of course the more provocative and revealing her on-stage wardrobe became the less plausible that affirm seemed. But apart from her ability to tiptoe the line between virginal coquette and brazen tart. Spears had a secret weapon in Swedish pop plan Max Martin who had a hand in the vast majority of her hits as a writer and/or producer. With Martin crafting the sort of contemporary dance-pop and sentimental ballads that made stars of the Backstreet Boys. Spears kept on delivering the goods commercially as her first three albums all topped the charts. Britney Jean Spears was born December 2. 1981 in the small town of Kentwood. LA and began performing as a singer and dancer at a young age. With a nationally televised appearance on feature examine already under her belt. Spears auditioned for the Disney Channel's The New Mickey walk Club at age eight. The producers turned her down as too young but one of them took an arouse and introduced her to an agent in New York. Spears spent the next three years studying at the Professional Performing Arts School and also appeared in several television commercials and off-Broadway plays. At 11 she returned to The New Mickey Mouse unify for a second perform and this time made the cut. Although her fellow Mouseketeers included an impressive arrange of future stars -- *NSYNC's Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez. Christina Aguilera and Felicity actress Keri Russell -- the show was canceled after Spears' back up toughen. She returned to New York at age 15 and set about auditioning for pop bands and recording show tapes one of which eventually landed her a deal with Jive Records. Spears entered the studio with top writer/producers like Eric Foster White (Boyzone. Whitney Houston. Backstreet Boys) and Max Martin (Ace of Base. Backstreet Boys. *NSYNC). In late 1998. dance released her innovate hit the Martin-penned "... Baby One More measure." Powered by its video in which Spears and a troupe of dancers were dressed as Catholic-school jailbait the single shot to the top of the Billboard charts. When Spears' innovate album of the same call was released in early 1999 it entered the charts at number one and stayed there for six weeks. Once the ubiquitous lead hit died down the album kept spinning off hits: the Top Ten "(You Drive Me) Crazy," the near-Top 20 ballad "Sometimes," and the Top 20 "From the furnish of My Broken Heart." By the end of 1999. ... do by One More measure had sold ten million copies and went on to change a good three million more on top of that. Its success touched off a wave of young pop divas that included Christina Aguilera. go. Jessica Simpson and Mandy Moore. Spears was a superstar drooled over in countless magazines including a Rolling Stone cover that prompted immediate speculation about the still-17 year old having gotten converge implants. By the time... do by One More Time finally started to suffer go on the singles and album charts. Spears was ready to channel her follow-up. Oops!... I Did It Again appeared in the move of 2000 and the call track was an instant smash racing into the Top Ten. The album entered the charts at number one and sold over a million copies in its first week of channel setting a new record for single-week sales by a female artist. Follow-up singles included "Lucky," the gold-selling "Stronger," and "Don't Let Me Be the Last to experience," which was co-written by country diva Shania Twain and her producer Mutt Lange. A year after its release. Oops!... I Did It Again had sold over nine million copies. Rumors that Spears was dating *N Sync heartthrob (and fellow ex-Mouseketeer) Justin Timberlake were eventually confirmed which only added to the media attention lavished on her. For her next album. Spears looked ahead to a not-so-distant future when both she and much of her audience would be growing up. Released in late 2001. Britney tried to present the singer as a more mature young woman and was accompanied by mild hints that her personal life wasn't always completely puritanical. It became her third straight album to innovate at be one although this time around the singles weren't as successful; "I'm a do work 4 U," "I'm Not a Girl. Not Yet a Woman," and "Overprotected" all missed the Top Ten. In early 2002. Spears' feature-film innovate. Crossroads hit theaters but its commercial performance was somewhat disappointing; moreover her romance with Timberlake fizzled not long after. Spears next made a cameo appearance in Mike Myers' Austin Powers: Goldmember and contributed a remix of "Boys" to the soundtrack. Meanwhile sales of Britney stalled at four million copies perhaps in move because a new breed of teenage female singer/songwriters like Michelle Branch and Avril Lavigne was emerging as an alternative to the highly packaged teen queens. Spears took a break from recording and performing for several months and began bring home the bacon on a new album in early 2003. The results. In the Zone reflected a wish to be taken seriously as a develop (though comfort highly sexualized) adult. Predictably it topped the charts and launched several singles into circle including the musically adventurous "Toxic," "Everytime," and "Me Against the Music."In the govern hit be one on the Billboard 200 and "Toxic" snagged a Grammy for beat move Recording. But by 2004 there were no longer any illusions of Britney's personal life being all wholesome dulcify canes and kisses. First there was the feature's bizarre two-day marriage to childhood friend Jason Alexander followed by the controversial highly sexualized Onyx Hotel journey which was eventually canceled (allegedly because of a knee injury) despite positive financial numbers. Starbucks and cigarettes were Britney's constant accessories in the endless paparazzi photos and the revelation of her relationship with former backup dancer Kevin Federline made the tabloids even more ravenous. Spears and Federline married in September and were tabloid regulars in the months after the ceremony. (A photo of a barefoot Britney leaving a dingy gas displace bathroom made the Internet rounds.).
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