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Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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Music, Music History, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

From a very young age, Britney Spears seemed destined for stardom. The kid from Louisiana had landed a role on the revived Mickey Mouse Club and styled herself as a belter of power ballads. But to score her first No. 1 hit, Spears would team up with an introverted Swedish songwriter named Max Martin. He was trying to write American R&B and instead, through Britney and her high-school dance formations, created a new template for über–American teen-pop. This month, we go inside the Stockholm music factory—and its decades-long history, from ABBA to Ace of Base—that gave rise to a new generation of millennial pop, from the Backstreet Boys and *N Sync to Robyn and Taylor Swift. Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	Geographic restrictions and teas and sees apply 18 plus. Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine about the hits from Coast to Coast.
0:35.0	I'm Chris Malanfe, Chart Analysts, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why is this song Number One series.
0:42.0	On Today's show, 20 years ago this month a single from a former
0:48.0	Mouseketeer made its debut on Billboard's Hot 100.
0:53.0	Within two months, it would reach the top of the chart,
0:56.4	and it would kick America's teen pop craze into overdraft. I still believe. In the two decades since she donned a school girl uniform and strutted into pop chart history,
1:22.0	Brittany Spears has been one of the most debated figures in American culture,
1:27.0	held up as the avatar of fast food pop.
1:31.0	But what is undisputed is that baby one more time is still a topic of
1:36.8	fascination 20 years later. And with hindsight, Brittany's chart breakthrough,
1:42.9	at the juncture of 1998 and 99,
1:46.5	was both the culmination of point of millennial pop, helping to define what the
1:55.0	hits, and the pivot point of millennial pop, helping to define what the
2:01.8	hits would sound like in a new century.
2:05.0	That's because baby one more time was not only a smash for Spears, but also an American
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