One Shot: Britney Spears Chages Pop with …Baby One More Time

00:00:00:00 - 00:00:20:24 Speaker 1 Hey everyone, welcome back to Rewind and React and our one shot series. This series we're going to be talking about Britney Spears and the music videos that change the world. So Rob, would you like to kind of chat about anything? Before we kick it off? 00:00:20:27 - 00:00:30:14 Speaker 2 Change the world might be a little too much, but certainly iconic videos by the Princess and pop herself. Were you a big Britney Spears fan? 00:00:30:17 - 00:00:41:23 Speaker 1 I liked her enough. I knew the hits, especially the ones we're going to talk about throughout this series. But yeah, I mean, I guess I was a fan enough, but not like going to her concert worthy fan. 00:00:41:25 - 00:01:03:07 Speaker 2 I was very late to the the bandwagon for Britney Spears. She'd already kind of become a sensation and I knew of her, but it wasn't until I was driving down to college one day and I realized I forgot all my CDs. You know, back in the days that you needed a CD in the car. However, my sister had left one in the car and it was one of Britney Spears CDs. 00:01:03:09 - 00:01:24:06 Speaker 2 So I was like, well, it's either this or the radio. So I checked it out and that's what won me over. I just listen to the full CD. Like, all right, I'm. I'm into this. I was like the alternative rock kind of guy back then, but I did appreciate the music that had been put together, even if it was all studio ized and a bunch of people with PhDs writing it for her. 00:01:24:09 - 00:01:34:25 Speaker 1 Well, then this is exciting because we are going to kick today's episode off with her very first music video. Dot dot Dot baby one more time. 00:01:34:28 - 00:01:49:09 Unknown Do I lose my mind? Give me a sign. Hit me baby, one more time. Oh, baby, baby. The reason you breathe. 00:01:49:12 - 00:02:16:13 Speaker 2 Baby, One More Time is a landmark in music videos. It is catchy, visually iconic, instantly recognizable, but above all, it launched one of the biggest pop stars in music history with a bang. Britney plays a high school student wearing the now iconic tide white t shirt and plaid skirt. I should say tied white shirt. Not that t shirt, but plaid skirt. 00:02:16:15 - 00:02:46:15 Speaker 2 After the bell rings, she and her classmates break free from the classroom scene into a more carefree, energetic dance in the parking lot and school grounds. The narrative is less about a specific story and more just about the mood. It's teenage restlessness and longing for some kind of relationship. But with the choreography by Randy Conner, it redefined late 90s pop and really reshaped the whole music industry's direction for years to come. 00:02:46:17 - 00:02:53:05 Speaker 1 You got into Britney later, but I remember when this video first came out. Did you see it when it first came out? 00:02:53:07 - 00:03:15:13 Speaker 2 Yes. So I got into, like, liking her music later, I should say. I don't think anybody was not aware of Britney Spears in 1999 when this video came out. We've recently covered Michael Jackson's Thriller as the first event or not the first, but a major event music video. That's what this became. It was certainly the video of the year. 00:03:15:14 - 00:03:20:04 Speaker 2 Everybody was talking about it. And yeah, like I said it, it changed everything. 00:03:20:06 - 00:03:26:20 Speaker 1 So what did you like? Even if, you know, you maybe didn't enjoy it, the first time when it came out. What did you enjoy about this video? 00:03:26:21 - 00:03:48:03 Speaker 2 Now again, I don't say I did not enjoy the video. I just I wasn't a big fan of Britney Spears in general. Like I wasn't a follower. I guess the video. I want to say it's mostly how she's dressed and the way she's dancing. And I know that sounds sexual right there, but it's not. It's, you know, this, I guess it's it's somewhat right. 00:03:48:05 - 00:03:55:20 Speaker 2 There's a sensual nature to the schoolgirl outfit, but it was unlike what we were seeing at the time for pop stars. 00:03:55:23 - 00:04:08:15 Speaker 1 We had more of these independent or alternative artists, and we didn't really have more of the pop artists. Even TLC, you know, that R&B, we were, we had a lot of R&B artists that were big, but this was like very pure pop, right? 00:04:08:22 - 00:04:30:20 Speaker 2 Yes. We'd swayed away from like, the Whitney Houston's and Madonnas of the world and we'd come into a more grungy scene or, you know, hip hop had taken off and this was a swing back into that direction. But it was like a new take on it. I think a lot of it came from just how much production quality had gone into music videos since the early 90s. 00:04:30:20 - 00:05:00:10 Speaker 2 And yeah, we get a very famous director on this one, Nigel. I should have been his name to Michael Vick, and I thank you. Yes. Who, you know, really brought pop back into the mainstream. This launched Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Mandy Moore, all these, like, new acts that just evolved from really one music video. Obviously, it's more than just that, but this is what kicked it all off and it kind of reshaped American culture around pop music. 00:05:00:12 - 00:05:07:16 Speaker 2 TRL formed, which was more about pop idols than musicians anymore. 00:05:07:18 - 00:05:18:27 Speaker 1 I'll speak to that a little bit. So I'll go back to my beginning statement of videos that changed the world. I think this was one of them, right? I mean, the other ones are fine. They're iconic. But this one that changed the least the music world. 00:05:18:27 - 00:05:25:28 Speaker 2 And I'm glad you mentioned that because as I was like talking about it, I was like, man, he was right at the beginning of this podcast. 00:05:26:01 - 00:05:51:04 Speaker 1 Exactly. I know what I'm doing over here, I think. But I'm going to talk about the TRL thing first because it's funny. This video came out in November of 98 TRL came out in September of 98. I did a little deep dive into TRL because for anyone who's too young or too old, maybe Total Request Live was a merge of two MTV programs beforehand Total Request and like MTV live. 00:05:51:07 - 00:06:14:18 Speaker 1 And so it was two programs mixed together where people can vote on their videos and they would release these videos that people can kind of build that pre-internet hype of an artist or a musician. So I think they started playing this video early on those days, and just the fact that it was a good video, people liked it, really amplified that voice behind Total Request Live. 00:06:14:18 - 00:06:26:04 Speaker 1 And it's that effect that feeds itself, where now more people are watching and more people are voting, more and more people watching it, and it kind of loops out. So I think TRL definitely benefited from the video as well in that sense. 00:06:26:05 - 00:06:35:02 Speaker 2 Yeah, absolutely. MTV was airing this hour early when it came out. This was yeah, the new generation and MTV understood that. 00:06:35:04 - 00:06:54:01 Speaker 1 Hopping back into kind of the 90s. You're right. This was the first like bubblegum pop we've seen in a while, and a lot of people not moved on from Madonna, but she's older. All these artists are kind of older. We don't have, like the Cyndi Lauper's anymore that are doing that like very again, bubblegum poppy music. Alternative was on a downswing right? 00:06:54:02 - 00:07:12:23 Speaker 1 I mean, grunge was over. All these bands were fine but derivative of what was going on. Even I think Green Day. I don't remember when Nimrod came out, but I felt like that was a little bit of their low point, too, of music. There was just a lot going on at the end of this decade that allowed, I think, bubblegum pop to really take over. 00:07:12:26 - 00:07:13:23 Speaker 1 You think so? 00:07:13:25 - 00:07:18:04 Speaker 2 I'll push back on the Green Day comment, but that's just because I'm a super fan. But I. 00:07:18:06 - 00:07:19:09 Speaker 1 I knew I would be in trouble. 00:07:19:09 - 00:07:42:20 Speaker 2 That Nimrod must have been know 99 or maybe 2000, because time of your life was around the time I graduated high school. So I remember I was a huge song, one for school songs. But yeah, there were certainly, I feel like 96, 97, 98 for alternative rock at least. Like garbage, Smashing Pumpkins, all of those like really hit the stride then. 00:07:42:22 - 00:07:59:21 Speaker 2 And it's just music kind of goes in waves where, you know, we kind of pendulum back and forth between different genres and you. Yeah, this was the paradigm shift when Britney Spears hit the scene, and I don't know if I'd call it maybe, maybe it was on the decline. I mean, you know, melancholy and infinite sadness like that. 00:07:59:21 - 00:08:27:12 Speaker 2 I guess you might call that the peak of alternative rock. So we're a few years removed from that. And yeah, everything had started to shift already. And I use that word, the paradigm shift on Britney Spears because it was so culturally impactful, this like move into the bubblegum pop era, the polished pop star that like a few years later, we had a new generation of pop stars come out that were dubbed the anti Britney's. 00:08:27:14 - 00:08:47:08 Speaker 2 So she was so iconic that they were. These new stars are nothing like her at all, even though, you know, they kind of worry a little bit. But you know, the girls playing the instruments. Amber Levine, Vanessa Carlton, Michelle Branch it's funny, we we say Levine was the anti Britney, but then a lot of her recent stuff is very, very polished Britney Spears kind of stuff. 00:08:47:11 - 00:09:08:04 Speaker 1 Yeah, it's funny you say that too, because even during that time, Christina Aguilera started to very poppy bubblegum pop. By her second album, though, she was married. You know, that was the dirty album, right? So she was already, well, even within a few years, marketing herself as the kind of grimy or more or less bubblegum pop artist. So that push back was kind of quick. 00:09:08:06 - 00:09:27:07 Speaker 2 People don't want the corporate pushed thing, right, like Britney Spears was Coca-Cola. And I think everyone realized, even Aguilera realized she's the Pepsi to Britney Spears, Coca Cola. So I think that was her way of separating herself from always being a Britney shadow was, hey, let me kind of reinvent myself. The extension phase. 00:09:27:09 - 00:09:49:22 Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, that's true. But yeah, you're right. There was a turn in Backstreet Boys and I don't know if Nick was out yet, but Backstreet Boys were already out. They had their album, so we were getting that shift with the boy bands, and then the Britney song came out. And I think what really worked for me when I watched it as a kid is she's 16. 00:09:49:22 - 00:10:04:16 Speaker 1 When the video came out, I was 16. When the video came out, it was like, you're seeing up here almost on you. No you're not. Again, it's not Madonna. It's not someone a lot older. It's not even any of these artists that, again, probably are ten years older than you as a kid. This is someone around your age group and they're in high school. 00:10:04:18 - 00:10:23:14 Speaker 1 Everything's very relatable, even though it's a very basic video. It seemed like everything was like, okay, this is kind of interesting because this person could exist at my school, and even if the music wasn't that great, which it was, but, you know, it wasn't what I was listening to again, with alternative and rap and things like that. But you had to listen to it because, like, it's that earworm, right? 00:10:23:14 - 00:10:29:07 Speaker 1 These Swedish producers, they know how to make hits and get to the song that sticks in your mind. 00:10:29:10 - 00:10:54:03 Speaker 2 Yeah. She was relatable, but aspirational at the same time. Girl Next door performing like a superstar. Yeah, this is a great introduction. Like you said, kids identify with her. She's in the classroom. There's everything that you need to emotionally connect with this pop star. You mentioned the Swedish producers, Max Martin and Rami Yacoub. They've done a lot of Britney Spears songs. 00:10:54:06 - 00:11:13:00 Speaker 2 But one thing I do want to touch on this one is it has that track stresses. There's like distinctive three note piano keys. There's that and it boom, boom, boom, boom. It just like anchors the whole song about how attention grabbing it is. There's got to be some kind of term for it, but I always think of Beethoven's Fifth for that. 00:11:13:05 - 00:11:27:23 Speaker 2 It starts as the set. And and then like it all is based on that from there. But it's like it's so grabbing at. Yeah, the same, same thing with baby one more time that boom boom boom. Every time you hear it, you know exactly where you're going with it, right? 00:11:27:26 - 00:11:49:18 Speaker 1 That three note is iconic, and it kind of does pull you into grabbing your attention. So let's talk about the video though. You know, you described it pretty well. Britney is bored in class as again teenagers. We all are. This is pre phones too. So we just really sit there and you daydream and then they just all pop out and they start doing the choreography. 00:11:49:21 - 00:12:09:25 Speaker 1 I notice the very 90s like bucket hat. I was like okay, so we know we know what decade we're in. Just for that. But it's it's a simple formula, I think, because we have three settings, three outfits and three dances, and I don't know if the dances are all the same or if they're slightly different. But we start with locker room, hallway, then we shift to outside, probably like the front of the school. 00:12:09:25 - 00:12:27:00 Speaker 1 And then that's when we add like the basketball team as part of the dancers. And then I like her sitting in the back of the car singing. And then we shift to the third outfit, which is another kind of, like, sporty outfit in the gymnasium where they're playing basketball. And then again, it's a different dance, different outfit, but it's shot the same way, right? 00:12:27:00 - 00:12:42:00 Speaker 1 We're getting the cameras in the center, going in and out on her. And then again, for some reason that works. It doesn't have to be too complicated, but it it catches your attention the whole time because you I don't know if you're like, wanting to know what happens next, but you're not turning away, right? Yeah. 00:12:42:02 - 00:12:50:28 Speaker 2 Yeah. Something I noticed upon watching it again recently. There's like a weird blurring and like, out of focus here and there. 00:12:51:00 - 00:12:52:26 Speaker 1 Right? Like a soft focus or something, right? 00:12:52:26 - 00:13:14:16 Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. And like, it's almost like it's clearly intentional at some points, but I don't know if they're going for like a daydreaming look to it. A lot of the edges of the screen are blurred or, you know, out of focus. I guess you call it like the center is in focus and it's what do you call it, like portrait mode on like an iPhone? 00:13:14:19 - 00:13:20:27 Speaker 2 Yeah, I noticed at this time and it was a very cool like technique that added to that charm of the video. 00:13:21:00 - 00:13:43:13 Speaker 1 Yeah. You know, it's funny you mentioned Daydream Effect because it is a daydream, right? That's the cool reveal at the end is we cut back and like the bell stop ringing and Brittany is back in the exact same desk. She's daydreaming. She puts a little smirk on at the end so I can only imagine it's intentional. I didn't realize that at the time, but that had to be kind of the hint that we're not in a real world. 00:13:43:15 - 00:13:45:06 Speaker 1 She's just dreaming about it. Yeah. 00:13:45:09 - 00:14:06:29 Speaker 2 Yeah, the schoolgirl outfit, right? Pop culture snapshot for sure. The pigtails, the high school setting, it just became that 1999 thing parodied in so many movies and various other music videos I did when I mentioned the high school, like when they're outside of the high school and the cars and everything, I got a very big, clueless vibe. 00:14:07:05 - 00:14:08:08 Speaker 1 Yeah, you're right. 00:14:08:11 - 00:14:16:28 Speaker 2 However, the high school itself is in Venice High School in LA, where a very famous movie was filmed. Grease. 00:14:17:01 - 00:14:18:01 Speaker 1 Yeah. 00:14:18:03 - 00:14:21:01 Speaker 2 I had to look up who was the clueless one, but I found out, hey, it's grease. 00:14:21:05 - 00:14:33:21 Speaker 1 That's kind of cool. Although I've never actually seen grease all the way through. So what kind of. Oh, I know that's an old movie and it's musical, so I like I like old movies, musicals. I'm not really a big fan of. 00:14:33:24 - 00:14:53:02 Speaker 2 Some of the choreography by Randy Connor. They really try to avoid like, a hip hop style. I guess they were trying to make sure that people understood what they were doing with Britney Spears. So they took a jazz dance approach to it all, and they practiced relentlessly for days and days and days before they filmed this music video being her first music video. 00:14:53:02 - 00:15:15:14 Speaker 2 It makes sense that, you know, they would have to make sure she is dance ready. They also incorporated a lot of gymnastics into the dance, which Britney had a background in. So when you see her doing backflips and stuff like that or not, backflips are somersaults. They're called handsprings. Maybe that's it. Yeah. Keep going. Tumbling terms. That's actually her doing it. 00:15:15:14 - 00:15:16:19 Speaker 2 It's not a stunt double. 00:15:16:22 - 00:15:32:21 Speaker 1 I did see a little bit of a behind the scenes, and it's really maybe five minutes of coverage. Of course, this is the first video, so there probably wasn't we'll say the next two videos we talked about. There's a lot of behind the scenes footage, but this one it does show her like doing the flips and everything like that and just practicing. 00:15:32:21 - 00:15:51:25 Speaker 1 And then of course, talking about how excited she is for her first video, things like that. So you got to see a little bit of that excitement. The video I will say is, I do like it is interesting, like the concept, but I guess it was a little low budget. This basketball game has like low attendance, right? 00:15:51:25 - 00:16:12:28 Speaker 1 She's she's sitting in the bleachers. No one's there except for a few other people. There's basketball players hanging out with other people in the bleachers. We know the basketball teams. Not good because someone tried to do a layup and they missed completely and they left it in. And I'm like, did they run out of budget or is that intentional that in her daydream, this basketball team is not good? 00:16:12:28 - 00:16:15:04 Speaker 1 I don't know, I thought that was very interesting though. 00:16:15:11 - 00:16:23:08 Speaker 2 Yeah. Not a good look for the Venice High School basketball team. There is a lot more basketball in this music video than I remember when it came out. 00:16:23:11 - 00:16:38:24 Speaker 1 Yeah, you know, it's funny too. I feel like it's on the longer side of songs, especially pop songs we hear nowadays. I think it's almost four minutes long and felt like there was a lot of filler, especially in the back of the car singing, and it's just some of the stuff that they just had to like. They didn't have enough footage. 00:16:38:26 - 00:16:58:18 Speaker 1 Yeah, maybe that's what we're getting is like some B-roll that they realized they didn't have before the video. But yeah, there's a lot, a lot more activity than anyone would probably remember. Because I think when anyone thinks of this video, they remember the schoolgirl outfit, but they don't realize there's multiple other outfits and activities happening during this video. 00:16:58:20 - 00:17:18:07 Speaker 2 Yeah, we briefly talked about the choreography. I got one more thing. There was a Dirty Dancing style lift that they had rehearsed. They filmed it, but they ended up cutting it out of the final video. But then they launched into a jump in. The lead dancer, lead male dancer caught her, and apparently it was a really cool scene, but it just didn't make it into the video. 00:17:18:09 - 00:17:21:08 Speaker 2 We just needed more missed layups. Apparently. 00:17:21:10 - 00:17:31:04 Speaker 1 A couple other fun little notes. So that schoolgirl outfit is on currently. I think as of this podcast display at the hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Vegas. 00:17:31:06 - 00:17:35:21 Speaker 2 I have a picture with it actually. Oh yeah, from the hard Rock. Yeah. 00:17:35:23 - 00:17:48:22 Speaker 1 That's awesome. The teacher is someone on her staff or like her manager or one of her managers or assistants, and then apparently her the love interest in the bleachers scene supposedly played by her real life cousin Chad. 00:17:48:25 - 00:17:50:06 Speaker 2 I did read that. 00:17:50:09 - 00:18:10:23 Speaker 1 Yeah. So very homegrown. You know, she's from Louisiana, so maybe there's not too much of a worry there. But yeah, I think it's kind of cool to know that this video just, you know, I was wondering if it would hold up just because I remember seeing it in the late 90s, but it does. And speaking of TRL, which has shut down, it doesn't exist as a program anymore. 00:18:10:23 - 00:18:16:19 Speaker 1 It was voted the top of their list of most iconic music video that's premiered on TRL. 00:18:16:22 - 00:18:40:21 Speaker 2 Oh, I believe it. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah. Rolling stones listed it as one of the greatest songs of all time. Well, it's in their 500 Greatest Songs of All time. So then we'll see where that actually was. But it's been covered by several artists across all sorts of a genre, and nearly every pop star today sites Britney Spears is one of the foundational pop influences of their career. 00:18:40:24 - 00:18:41:03 Speaker 2 Quite a. 00:18:41:03 - 00:18:58:18 Speaker 1 Debut. Yeah, and just a little more note about Nigel, because he said in some interviews he took the job. He was a little lambasted by people in his industry because they were like, oh, why are you doing a music video for a little pop girl? Because he would, you know, the music videos for vice? There's a bunch of other bands. 00:18:58:21 - 00:19:07:29 Speaker 1 But he, you know, he went with it, and I think it benefited him a lot to to go down that route. And it worked out because he's done a lot more Britney Spears videos as well. 00:19:08:02 - 00:19:17:18 Speaker 2 Oh, yes. I mean, he was already a huge name for music videos before, but this certainly kept his name up at the top of the list for anybody wanting to make a great music video. 00:19:17:21 - 00:19:34:11 Speaker 1 Yeah, and it speaks to that. Also the 90s selling out mindset, right, where everyone's like, go, you're not cool if you're doing this popular thing or if you make money yourself. You know, I think that video was definitely the nail in the coffin for like alternative music, in the sense that it wasn't going to ever be as big as it was. 00:19:34:14 - 00:19:47:13 Speaker 1 It also meant we didn't have to pretend we don't like poppy or fun stuff just because it was not cool. It really helped kind of solidify, like us as maybe a culture. Moving on from that mindset, yeah. 00:19:47:15 - 00:20:05:07 Speaker 2 We had mentioned that alternative rock had fallen out of the limelight, and it did as Britney Spears took over, and the only way for Rock to come back from that was to kind of merge with it. And we got pop punk with some 41 and some of the other bands that came out in the late 80s, early 2000, the blink one, 82. 00:20:05:10 - 00:20:27:20 Speaker 1 Well, and I would say it never went away. Like, you know, The White Stripes came out during this time. There's still a lot of great music, but the fact that early 90s alternative was music that everyone wanted to play, and all the studios wanted to sign artists and get into that, it kind of helped balance, I guess, the musical world where everything wasn't focused on being some kind of alternative act. 00:20:27:22 - 00:20:40:09 Speaker 2 Yeah, we were talking about her wardrobe and you were saying this seemed to be a somewhat low budget video because of all the B footage that they had to pull from. The wardrobe was pieces picked out from Kmart. 00:20:40:11 - 00:20:41:05 Speaker 1 Oh, wow. 00:20:41:10 - 00:20:44:05 Speaker 2 So it was very low budget in some sense. 00:20:44:07 - 00:20:46:24 Speaker 1 If anything else for this episode. 00:20:46:26 - 00:20:49:09 Speaker 2 That is all I have for this one. 00:20:49:12 - 00:20:53:22 Speaker 1 All right, well, you know what that means. Trivia. 00:20:53:24 - 00:20:55:08 Speaker 2 I remember this time. 00:20:55:10 - 00:21:12:08 Speaker 1 So we're going to do a lot of Britney Spears ones, but I'm going to start with just kind of doing Britney Spears and maybe another pop star. I figured I would start with the other big pop star that came out at this time, Christina Aguilera. So our trivia will be Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera. 00:21:12:10 - 00:21:29:04 Speaker 2 All right. Sounds good. I do think it's always kind of unfair to Christina that they got compared to each other so much because Britney just exploded, but at the same time, I think Christina benefited from it more than she would have if she just came out without Britney Spears. So it's a give and take. 00:21:29:06 - 00:21:44:21 Speaker 1 It's like the rising tide helps all ships. So we'll start with some easy ones and then we'll hopefully get harder from here. But I think, you know both of these artists pretty well. Which artist? Single Genie in a bottle hit number one in the Billboard 100 for five weeks. 00:21:44:27 - 00:21:46:05 Speaker 2 Christina Aguilera. 00:21:46:07 - 00:21:48:16 Speaker 1 Perfect. Yep, that was her breakout number one hit. 00:21:48:22 - 00:21:49:21 Speaker 2 Oh, sure. 00:21:49:24 - 00:22:00:14 Speaker 1 What I learned, though, is this is curious. And this is more of like a factoid. She actually released that song reflections from the Mulan movie before her first single came out. 00:22:00:17 - 00:22:02:10 Speaker 2 Wow, that's really surprising. 00:22:02:12 - 00:22:09:07 Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, I thought that came out afterwards, but she released that and then kind of her career kicked off afterwards. 00:22:09:09 - 00:22:24:24 Speaker 2 I wonder if the people talking to Disney were like, hey, this girl is going to be big. We've got a whole thing planned. And that's why that she got the Mulan thing, because, like, they didn't just throw that to anybody back in the day. It was always like Celine Dion and somebody performing some Disney. 00:22:24:27 - 00:22:33:29 Speaker 1 Yeah. I wonder if they maybe they ran out of budget and they were like, well, let's just see what we can find for these songs. You know, there's a lot of probably nuances. I didn't look too deep into the Mulan production. 00:22:34:05 - 00:22:41:13 Speaker 2 It could have been a business decision. Yeah, absolutely. They get to keep most of the money they're gonna pay her. Basically nothing. 00:22:41:15 - 00:22:54:09 Speaker 1 Okay. Next question. Which artist has sold over 125 million equivalent album units worldwide? I don't know why I says it like that, making her one of the best selling female pop stars. 00:22:54:11 - 00:23:08:09 Speaker 2 You know, whenever you do these, like, album sales, I never know what like, the bar is like. I think we had a Michael Jackson one where I was like, I had no idea that would be like an achievable mark. But making her one of the biggest pop artists. I gotta go, Britney Spears. 00:23:08:16 - 00:23:09:26 Speaker 1 You are correct. 00:23:09:28 - 00:23:10:06 Speaker 2 Yeah. 00:23:10:12 - 00:23:13:01 Speaker 1 Perfect. Good record so far. 00:23:13:04 - 00:23:14:19 Speaker 2 Easy ones. 00:23:14:21 - 00:23:20:24 Speaker 1 Which artist? Las Vegas residency has grossed over 100 million. 00:23:20:27 - 00:23:26:26 Speaker 2 So I don't know that Christina has done a residency but I know Britney Spears has. So I'm going to go with Britney. 00:23:26:29 - 00:23:30:27 Speaker 1 You are correct. Piece of me was the name of her. Vegas show. 00:23:30:29 - 00:23:36:19 Speaker 2 Yeah. Okay, buddy. Mr. Josh Humphreys wanted to go to that. I was too busy gambling, so I didn't go with him. 00:23:36:19 - 00:23:45:23 Speaker 1 Oh, that would have been the kind of a I mean, that's the moment right? I mean, she'll probably tour again, but, like, yeah, residencies. I think that's really when they, like, pull out all the stops, right. 00:23:45:26 - 00:23:50:21 Speaker 2 You know, I, I go to Vegas a lot and I just don't go to shows that. 00:23:50:23 - 00:23:55:28 Speaker 1 Which artist won the Grammy for best New Artist early in her career? 00:23:56:01 - 00:24:01:00 Speaker 2 Oh. I'm going to say Christina for this one. 00:24:01:02 - 00:24:02:07 Speaker 1 You are correct. 00:24:02:11 - 00:24:06:25 Speaker 2 Yeah. I feel like they weren't wanting to give Brittany awards in the beginning. 00:24:06:27 - 00:24:13:27 Speaker 1 That's true. And there's different vocal ranges to. Right. Christina definitely has that really well defined vocal range. 00:24:14:00 - 00:24:20:26 Speaker 2 Britney Spears seems like the MTV award kind of winner, and Christina Aguilera seems like the Grammy Award kind of winner. 00:24:20:29 - 00:24:31:29 Speaker 1 Yes, exactly. I think you're right. All right. Which artist's memoir? The Woman in Me, sold 1.1 million copies in its first week. 00:24:32:01 - 00:24:39:00 Speaker 2 Hey, I've not heard of this memoir, but based on the name alone, I want to say it's Christina. 00:24:39:02 - 00:24:40:11 Speaker 1 You are wrong. 00:24:40:16 - 00:24:41:03 Speaker 2 Oh, really? 00:24:41:06 - 00:24:45:03 Speaker 1 Yes. Britney Spears, her memoir had huge first week sales. 00:24:46:03 - 00:24:59:13 Speaker 1 There you go. Who would have thought? Okay, which artist first fragrance curious became a massive commercial success. I'm curious by Christina. 00:24:59:13 - 00:25:01:18 Speaker 2 That doesn't sound right. I'm going to say Britney Spears. 00:25:01:20 - 00:25:14:04 Speaker 1 You are right. All right. Good guess. Yeah. They both have fragrance lines. I don't know what Christina, as it's called, but yeah, curious was very popular for Britney, probably like one of her most successful business ventures, I think. 00:25:14:07 - 00:25:15:22 Speaker 2 Wow. Really? 00:25:15:25 - 00:25:16:12 Speaker 1 Yeah. 00:25:16:15 - 00:25:23:19 Speaker 2 And it seemed like everybody around that, like era started doing fragrances like Jennifer Lopez, Britney, Paris Hilton. 00:25:23:21 - 00:25:44:21 Speaker 1 Yeah. And, you know, fragrances. I guess they're kind of like those high end sunglasses. I mean, you make it once and then you just slap your name on it. It's got to be really cheap to make Cologne and perfume like, everything. Nothing. So yeah, the markup is well worth it. Yeah. Okay. Which artist? Single what a Girl Wants was her first new number one song on the Billboard Hot 100. 00:25:44:27 - 00:25:45:16 Speaker 1 In the two. 00:25:45:16 - 00:25:47:20 Speaker 2 Thousands, Christina Aguilera. Yeah. 00:25:47:22 - 00:25:49:25 Speaker 1 Yeah, the rest didn't even matter. I knew they. 00:25:49:25 - 00:25:52:27 Speaker 2 Were going to. You could just said the song title exactly. 00:25:52:29 - 00:25:57:03 Speaker 1 Okay, which artist released an album called stripped? 00:25:57:05 - 00:26:08:15 Speaker 2 Oh, man, I think. Wow, I should know this. I think that was the, dirty song that Christina had. I'm going to go with Christina Aguilera. 00:26:08:18 - 00:26:10:24 Speaker 1 You are right. That's the second album from her. 00:26:10:26 - 00:26:11:28 Speaker 2 Yeah, that was the one with dirty. 00:26:12:03 - 00:26:14:21 Speaker 1 Yep. Her Christina phase, as you know. 00:26:14:21 - 00:26:16:13 Speaker 2 Yeah. 00:26:16:15 - 00:26:26:19 Speaker 1 This is recent news. Which artist entered a very controlling period 2021 after a high profile legal battle? Yeah. Britney Spears. Yeah, yeah, that one's pretty obvious. 00:26:26:24 - 00:26:27:29 Speaker 2 Conservatorship or. 00:26:27:29 - 00:26:44:20 Speaker 1 Whatever. Yes, it was a conservatorship that ended and it was going to be in all the news anyway. But it was also like pandemic time when we had nothing else to do. But which artist was one of the Mouseketeers in the all new Mickey Mouse Club, along with Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling and others? 00:26:44:22 - 00:26:49:27 Speaker 2 So I thought they both were. But I guess I know Britney Spears was in there. 00:26:50:00 - 00:26:51:27 Speaker 1 Okay, it was a trick question. They both were. 00:26:52:01 - 00:26:54:11 Speaker 2 Okay. You were you all right? 00:26:54:13 - 00:27:01:17 Speaker 1 Which actually goes back to, I think, the Mulan thing. So she was already at Disney. Oh you right. He just hired her. 00:27:01:19 - 00:27:05:01 Speaker 2 Maybe Mulan's what boosted her whole singing career. 00:27:05:03 - 00:27:18:01 Speaker 1 I mean, I know it's not like looking a little bit into it. She tried to win a bunch of competitions and she would do stuff as a kid. But yeah, I mean, the Disney connection has to be giving her that Mulan. And then someone heard it and said, okay, we can make an artist out of this. 00:27:18:01 - 00:27:22:04 Speaker 2 That's a good point. Yeah. I didn't realize she was already in the house, right? Yeah. 00:27:22:06 - 00:27:29:28 Speaker 1 So great job for everyone listening. Thanks for listening to this. First of many one shots with Britney Spears will chat with you soon. 00:27:30:00 - 00:27:32:03 Speaker 2 Yeah, we'll do it one more time.