Biography
Britney Jean Spears was born on December 2, 1981, in McComb, Mississippi, USA, but moved to Kentwood, Louisiana at such an early age that many sources mistakenly call this town her birthplace. Anyway, she was brought up in Kentwood, went into gymnastics, performed successfully in this kind of sport at state competitions, attended a church choir and danced. At the age 8 she was auditioned for the new season for The New Mickey Mouse Club at the Disney's Channel, but failed due to her young age. Nevertheless, one of the producers saw a future star in Britney and invited her to New York to attend the Professional Performing Arts School, where the girl consequently spent 3 years mastering the show business secrets. At 11, she auditioned for the second time for the same show and took part there with such future colleagues as Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake. The show was abandoned and at 13 Britney came back to Kentwood and finished a grade in high school, but being 15 returned to New York in order to make a pop career. She auditioned for several teen bands and even took a short appearance in Innocense, but made up her mind funally to go solo. One of Spears' demos leaked on Jive Records that eventually signed up the promising teenager. In the studio she worked with the best producers and in late 1998 the artist released her first single, ...Baby, One More Time, that made her a worldwide star. This wonderful dancing composition greatly attributed to the success of Britney's eponimous debut disc of 1999 that was simply wiped off from the shop shelves. The album gave green light to a number of other hits, including the beautiful ballad Sometimes and a fiery dancefloor single (You Drive Me) Crazy.
The incredible popularity of this pop phenomena emerged a wave of alike teenage stars like Pink, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson and others. In the spring of 2000 Spears fuelled the interest to her personality by the follow up Oops!..I Did It Again. In musical concern it was the same qualitative teen pop, partially consisting of dancing songs, partually represented by romantical ballads. Nevertheless, the lead single Oops!..I Did It Again and the album was an undoubted success. Energetic Lucky, Stronger, and a lowtempo Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know, written with the country star Shania Twain and accompanied with a provocative video, were no less cheered by the public. Spears' private life awoke the sick interest of paparazzi due to the pop-singer's positioning herself as an innocent girl. This contradicted strongly her almost physically felt sex appeal. That is why the confirmation of her romance with Justin Timberlake was such a sensation. Though Britney did not hurry with the wedding bells. The singer concentrated on her career and in late 2001 presented her new album, Britney. Its hits, frankly sexy I'm A Slave 4 U, pop-ballad I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman and very Britney-like dancing Overprotected, failed to get the success of the previous creations, though the album headed the U.S. charts, making Spears the first female artist, whose first three albums were chart leaders in the States. As for the material, it was more mature without any doubt, showing Britney's intention to go on in adult pop. In 2002 it became known that the pop star finished her relations with Timberlake, saying a farewell to the teens.
In 2003 Britney presented a new deal for discussing - her fourth disc In The Zone. It was recorded in the manner of good adult pop and gave to the world such hits as pulsating Toxic, Everytime and Me Against The Music, brining the artist her first Grammy. The same year Britney had a two day Las Vegas marriage to her childhood friend, Jason Alexander. She also played the major part in a chilly perceived movie Crossroads. Though her perfumes by Elizabeth Arden were a real success. In three months of dating Britney married to the former backup dancer Kevin Federline. The tabloid scandal was fuelled by the fact that Kevin left his ex-wife being pregnant by his second child. Spears announced that she needed a break to manage her family life. In order to ignite the musical popularity Britney released a compilation of hits, Greatest Hits: My Prerogative, in 2005. The same year she officially announced her being pregnant, and it was a truely outbreaking event. Though it was not an obstacle for Spears to present a remix album soon, B In The Mix: The Remixes, that contained fresh and even unexperted mixes of her hit singles. In September 2005 Britney became the mother of Sean Preston Federline. Almost exactly in a year, in September 2006, the second son, Jaden James was born into the family. In November 2006 Britney decided to divorse from her husband, which was a total surprize for him according to Kevin's words. The same time Spears told about her working on a new album. In 2007 after the death of her beloved aunt, Spears was said to behave strangely in public. Finally she had to spend some time in a private medical facility. Her musical 'come back' at 2007 MTV Video Music Awards with the lead single Gimme More was widely discussed by the media. In spite of all lowered critical expectations Gimme More became the most successful Britney's song since her debut ...Baby, One More Time, while the brand new creation, Blackout, saw light in October 2007, a month before the originally scheduled date to the cheer of Spears' fans. Britney Spears’s new studio album Circus appeared in the United States on December 2, 2008. It features a mix of melodic syrupy ballads and up-tempo dance compositions, among them : the leadoff single Womanizer, a title track Circus, a brilliant disco bang Kill the Lights, a saucy, swinging song If U Seek Amy.
Studio Albums
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Femme Fatale
Circus
Blackout
Singles
Compilation albums
Remixes
B in the Mix (The Remixes)
Britney Spears – Circus (Deluxe Version) (2008)
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Circus is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Britney Spears. It was released on November 28, 2008, by Jive Records. Looking to transition from her “darker and more urban” fifth studio album Blackout (2007), Spears wanted to make her next project “a little bit lighter”, incorporating electropop and dance-pop styles. Spears recorded the record during the summer of 2008, after her much-publicized personal struggles saw her placement under a temporary conservatorship earlier that year. As executive producers, Larry Rudolph and Teresa LaBarbera Whites enlisted collaborators including Spears’ longtime colleague Max Martin and Nate “Danja” Hills.
Upon its release, Circus received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who complimented its production but were ambivalent towards its lyrical content. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of over 505,000 copies, making it her fifth album to reach the top of the chart. The album topped charts in nine additional countries. The record eventually exceeded sales of 4 million copies and 15 million digital tracks, in doing so it became Spears’ best-selling album since her fourth studio album In the Zone (2003). The project was promoted through a series of television performances and Spears’ fifth concert tour The Circus Starring Britney Spears. The latter generated controversy during the Australian leg after accusations of lip-syncing surfaced.
Four singles were released from the album, two of which became international successes. Its lead single “Womanizer” peaked atop the US Billboard Hot 100 and registered as the largest jump to the top of the chart after debuting at number ninety-six. It became Spears’s best-selling song in the country since “…Baby One More Time”, and gained a Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance Recording. The second and third singles “Circus” and “If U Seek Amy” peaked at numbers three and nineteen in the country, respectively. Consequentially, Circus became Spears’s second album after her debut effort …Baby One More Time (1999) to have two top ten singles three top-twenty hits, being her first to have two top five hits in the United States along with five charting songs on the Hot 100.
With its title, Circus nods knowingly at the madhouse that is Britney Spears’ life, acknowledging that things got a little rough after the release of 2007’s Blackout. It’s no secret that Blackout’s launch didn’t go as planned: the furor surrounding her stumbling VMA lip-sync of “Gimme More” was eclipsed by her institutionalization — a drama played out live on TV, as so much of her life is — and the loss of custody of her two young boys to ex-husband Kevin Federline, all of which pushed Blackout far, far to the background. Britney herself didn’t exactly seem engaged on Blackout — it was a club album, a producer’s showcase, so it didn’t matter if Spears didn’t give herself over completely as the behind-the-boards team carried her through. That distance combined with her troubles did give Britney the appearance of losing control completely, and the best way for a pop star to right herself is through image — hence Circus, a friendly remake of the hedonistic Blackout that posits that all is better with Brit-Brit now, thank you. If Blackout was a producers’ album, Circus is a handlers’ album, intent on sweeping away any recent unpleasantness — the only acknowledgement is that title — and acting like nothing ever happened, imagining that this is still a world where Britney remains envied and desired, where she can be dolled up as a gauzy Farrah Fawcett pinup on her album cover, where she can sing a drippy ballad about “My Baby” and have nobody raise an eyebrow. She can get away with the former with a bit more ease than the latter if only because all the time, effort, and money is poured into the club tracks, such as the thumping, stuttering first single “Womanizer” and its better, the relentless “Kill the Lights,” so sleek and sexy it winds up diminishing the rest of the record.
“Kill the Lights” may be exceptional, one of Britney’s best-ever singles, but it also doesn’t have much competition here: it’s one of a handful of tracks that follow through on Blackout, while the rest of Circus plays it safe, never hitting the beats hard enough to alienate a pop audience but perhaps layering on a bit too much saccharine for dance fans. It’s careful and considered, right down to the single-entendre “If U Seek Amy,” a Katy Perry-styled exercise in crass commercial carnality that is at once the best and worst song here. Best because Max Martin once again works his undeniable pop magic, turning this into a trashy stomper that feels inevitable and eternal, working against any sense of taste or decorum, something that the lyrics work overtime to undercut as they insist that all the boys and all the girls still want to F, U…well, spell it and you’ll get the picture, and if you don’t, Britney’s elocution will paint it for you. This sexy strut doesn’t work not because Spears’ desirability took a nosedive in the five years since In the Zone — although it did — but because Britney’s sexiness never was this explicit; she teased and hinted, at least in her music, and it feels wrong to have her be so nakedly vulgar here. Still, it was a necessary move, a way to stir up headlines and perhaps snatch the tabloid tiara from Katy’s head, but the rest of the record doesn’t follow through as it resorts Spears’ standard formula: a couple of great dance singles, a couple of pretty good chill-out cuts (best being Bloodshy & Avant’s “Unusual You”), a couple of not-good-at-all ballads, and a whole bunch of stuff in the middle. If she feels marginally more connected here than she did on Blackout, it’s a Pyrrhic victory, as Circus never feels as sleek or addictive as its predecessor. -AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tracklist:
1 Womanizer 3:44
2 Circus 3:12
3 Out From Under 3:54
4 Kill The Lights 3:59
5 Shattered Glass 2:53
6 If U Seek Amy 3:36
7 Unusual You 4:21
8 Blur 3:09
9 Mmm Papi 3:22
10 Mannequin 4:07
11 Lace And Leather 2:50
12 My Baby 3:22
13 Radar 3:49
14 Rock Me In 3:17
15 Phonography 3:33
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