Rating: - Where it all began
This album launched Britney's career back when she and I were both teenagers and my how things have changed...
Britney Spearheaded the American bubblegum pop movement and made it her own at least here in the UK and fine examples of this are on this CD and the majority of it is very good, if you like your pop manufactured.
Out of the twelve songs on my version of the CD, I'd say that only three of them are a bit rubbish.
"Soda Pop" is the first offender, it never was my favourite song on the album and never will be. The only thing I'd recommend about it is that it doesn't sound like Britney at all. It's a bit reggae ish in comparison to the rest of the album, with it's slick production. Having said that, it does stand out in a good way.
"From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart" and "E-mail My Heart" are also the other offenders for the fact that they are boring mush. On "E-mail My Heart" Britney sings for her lost lover to contact her via the Internet, something you can't REALLY imagine her doing - at all, seeing as most kids these days are using MSN, Facebook or MySpace to communicate to each other.
"The Beat Goes On" is a worthy, playful edition and serves well as a closer to this now pop and media phenomenon we know now on a first name only basis.
Nearly fourteen million people have bought this CD, however I wonder how many would actually admit to owning one. It makes me feel very old (and somewhat embarrassed) to admit to liking this...
Rating: - Gosh, she's so young!
Looking at the date on the sleeve this album was made in 1998/1999. The sleeve photos (apart from the more adult/serious front cover) show a very young - and innocent-looking - Britney, wholesomely smiling her cuteness at the world. If we only know what was going to happen to the poor girl...
Still, this a review and not a social commentary, so here goes. A very polished album of Britney's solo songs (apart from her duet with Don Philip on 'I Will Still Love You') which burble along pleasantly, if a little blandly. This is pop, not mind-engaging Prog rock, though, and aimed at a very different audience by the marketing men. Dance floor stuff for teenage fans (and younger) to shake their stuff (too young to have a 'booty'?!) to, and it's very good at what it does.
I won't discuss individual tracks, as there are many more knowledgeable reviewers around than me, but there are few deviations from the formula; the final track, Sonny Bono's (I assume, I don't know the track) 'The Beat Goes On' is a bit different, and this is tucked away at the end so it doesn't clash too much with the mainstream pop of the rest of the album.
A good first album, and despite being a bit targeted and manufactured-sounding it is a pleasant listen. There are far worse ways to pass 46 minutes and 17 seconds (according to my MiniDisc player) than the disc called '...Baby One More Time', and I'm glad I bought it.
Rating: - the quality of the music and singing is addictive.
When this cd came out I didn't hear many people talking about it.Perhaps that's because it was marketed and aimed at teenagers and not at older people like me,perhaps it wasn't intellectual or radical or traditional enough for the DJs on the radio.But believe me,whatever your age,I think you'll love these songs - the quality of the music and singing is addictive.
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