This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Includes a Quicktime video for the song "Overprotected" with outtakes from Britney's first major motion picture relase.
Personnel includes: Britney Spears (vocals); Brian Kierulf (various instruments); Max Martin (guitar, background vocals); Esbjorn Ohrwall, Nile Rogers, Isaac Phillips, Paul Umbach (guitar); Josh Schwartz, Thomas Lindberg (bass); Rodney Jenkins (programming); Corey Chase (scratches); Daniel Savio (turntables); Jennifer Karr, Jeanette Olsson, BossLady, Ann Marie Bush, Sue Ann Carwell, Tyler Collins, Deann Dover, Albert D. Hall, Damien Hall, Nana Hedin, Annika Tornkvist (background vocals).
The Neptunes: Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo (various instruments).
Producers include: Wade J. Robson, Justin Timberlake, Brian Kierulf, Josh Schwartz, Max Martin.
Engineers include: Max Martin, Rami, Jamie Duncan.
BRITNEY was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Pop Vocal Album. "Overprotected" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Recording information: 2nd Floor Recording, Orlando, FL; Battery Studios, New York, NY; Maratone Studios, Stockholm, Sweden; Master Sound Studios, Virginia Beach, VA; Right Track Studios, New York, NY; Rusk Sound Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Sound on Sound Studios, New York, NY; The DOJO, Jackson, NJ; The Hit Factory Criteria, Miami, FL; The Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA; Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, CA.
Well, the question is no longer whether she's a little girl or a woman--Britney Spears has obviously been the latter for some time. The question now is how long she'll be able to pretend at keeping us guessing, and how long we'll pretend not to know the answer. With BRITNEY she continues the dance of corrupted youth and innocence to the delight of both her female fans and dirty old and young men everywhere.
While it's by no means the best song on the album, the ballad "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" typifies her commercial appeal (interestingly, though she writes several songs here, this one was written for her). The songs that ring truest here are those penned by Spears herself, such as the Chic-influenced "Anticipating" and the R&B flavored "Lonely," which play down the innocent girl/tart predicament in favor of presumably more realistic scenarios such as checking out her lipstick in the former and relationship dilemmas in the latter. Elsewhere she convincingly reduces Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'N' Roll" to its bubblegum essentials, while her interpretation of main squeeze Justin Timberlake's "What It's Like to Be Me" is arguably BRITNEY's finest moment.
- Genre: Pop
- Format: CD