We all have come to know Britney as a cutesy teenage singer in the later 1990’s. The sheer awe had struck the whole world because though young looking, Britney Jean Spears had the talent to boot.
Women, and men, of all ages were all magnetized to the charisma of this fast-rising star which had been generally seen as someone who would stay in the international music scene for as long as she can. Her moves, her sweet vocals and her intelligent branding as a diva-in-the-making surely had helped seal her entire career as an indispensable icon in Pop and Pop Culture.
As she move along to age, Britney Spears’ solo career had shoot through the roof and had been critically-acclaimed by music connoisseurs, the general pop music fandom and those who just loves music altogether.
Raves had been given to Spears’ adaptability to the always-changing needs of pop music and when she does change, it is something that everyone would notice. Her strange musicality, approach to songs of love and heartbreaks and the evolving looks had let this brilliant artist ride the waves of rising stars, changing market and innovations in music making.
Grammy award-winning Spears had been countlessly turned as peg by other succeeding female neophytes hoping that they will receive the same amount of fame that Britney had harnessed. But let’s all admit that nothing can be like or should be like Britney.
She’s simply a unique facet of the music industry that required years and years of exposure to the media, endless list of awards and praises, innumerable numbers of controversies and millions of albums sold worldwide. Her songs are simply indelible to everyone’s memory and those who don’t know Britney Spears is either living under the rock or is Britney Spears herself.
We are not encasing Britney to a capsule and sending her to outer space by accomplishing this list of her best songs. We all know that this pop icon had been on the outskirts of every radio station and music channel waiting to be played and remembered over and over again. We might not be seeing Britney now as she’s off the music scene radar but hearing back some of her songs not only flush back memories of her, but of ours too.
“. . . Baby One More Time” – Britney’s debut single, “… Baby One More Time,” remains her biggest hit, undoubtedly fueled by its sexy schoolgirl music video. The Max Martin-penned single sustained a steady build, ruling the Hot 100 chart at No. 1 for two weeks in early 1999 after debuting on the chart in late November ’98, a month after it was serviced to radio and just a few weeks shy of her 17th birthday.
“Sometimes”- “Sometimes,” Spears’ second single, epitomizes the innocence of the pop star’s first album, especially in its sunny music video. Wearing all white, Spears and her dancers overtake Kenny’s Cove and perform some unoffending dance moves while the singer yearns for her hunky man.
“Hold It Against Me”- This pulsating dance track with its thickly-layered production (via Max Martin, Dr. Luke & Billboard), a pickup-line chorus (“If I said I want your body now …”) and a dubstep-ish breakdown debuted in January 2011 atop the Hot 100 and made Britney only the second artist to launch a song at No. 1 multiple times. The lavish and futuristic video, which contains a “Fight Club”-esque scene where Brit battles Brit, helped to make “Hold It against Me” — and her platinum-selling album “Femme Fatale” — the huge hits they are.
“Oops! . . . I Did It Again” – After her debut album made her a bubblegum pop star, Spears declared, “I’m not that innocent” on the title cut to her sophomore album, which peaked at No. 9 on the Hot 100. “Oops” will forever be remembered as the song Spears performed at the MTV VMA’s in a risqué, skin-colored outfit.
“Lucky” – This mid-tempo ballad had been less than pure fiction as this depicted Britney’s personal struggles in keeping her shine bouncing off the public eye. This lonesome single had successfully found its way to the top of the food chain ranking first on numerous hit charts such as Billboard Top 100.
“From The Bottom of My Broken Heart” – This Eric Forster-White creation had given Britney the chance to tap her co-teenagers’ misery in recovering from a heart-shattering separation. The mellow-melodied single had shown Britney’s great vocals and the song’s approach on slow pop had been impeccable.
“Stronger”- Britney kicked the potential sophomore slump to the curb with one of her best songs of female empowerment. The dance-y “Stronger,” off “Oops!… I Did It Again” not only hit the Hot 100 hard, it also landed in the top 20 of the Pop Songs radio airplay chart.
“Toxic”- You might remember this song because of the airline-stewardess inspired music video. Britney is on her best physical appearance on this song. For the second single off 2004’s “In the Zone,” Britney went with something a little different, sonically-speaking. “Toxic” went to places previously unexplored by Spears: aggressive electronic sound effects, shrieking strings and a killer surf-guitar riff. The unlikely combo, ushered in by steamy vocals, worked, as “Toxic” burned into the Hot 100’s top 10.
No matter how much Britney had been missing on the international music scene, her list of songs had exactly cemented her name as one of the best pop female vocals of all-time. While waiting for the music’s prodigal daughter to come back and be a prolific singer again, all we can do is put on a mix tape of her greatest hits and bob our heads until she comes back.
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