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How Britney Spears’ ‘Blackout’ Documented Her Harrowing Present While Predicting Pop’s Future

How Britney Spears’ ‘Blackout’ Documented Her Harrowing Present While Predicting Pop’s Future

Britney Spears’ Blackout feels fresher than ever 15 years on. It captured the darkness of her personal life and cemented new dance music in the pop lexicon.

The Most Memorable Albums of 1999 (Part 1)

The Most Memorable Albums of 1999 (Part 1)

PopMatters is 20 this year -- until October when we are 21 -- and a 2009 special section celebrates the popular music that defined the year of our birth. Today we kick things off with albums from January through March, highlighted by Eminem's debut and stellar pop from XTC and Blur.

Britney Spears – “Make Me…” ft. G-Eazy (Singles Going Steady)

Britney Spears – “Make Me…” ft. G-Eazy (Singles Going Steady)

If you're a Britney Spears fan from back in the day, you'll likely be all over this steamy ballad.
Good Christian Bad Girls: Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey

Good Christian Bad Girls: Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey

Both Lana Del Rey and Britney Spears have walked the line between virgin coquette and sexual object, and the similarities between them suggest Del Rey has taken up Spears’ mantle of good girl gone bad.
How Women Dominated Pop Music in the ’00s

How Women Dominated Pop Music in the ’00s

We owe it to ourselves to recognize the many women in pop music that made an undeniable impact on popular culture and the world at large.

“Scream & Shout” and will.i.am’s Big Problem

In Defense of the Marriage Between Music and Television

Thursdays This Fall: An Early TV Preview

In Defense of “Call Me Maybe” As the Song of Summer 2012

2011: Music’s Most Electronic Year Yet

Recent Retro, Or What Will We Be Nostalgic About in the Future?

Britney Spears Attacks the Paparazzi (Again) in “I Wanna Go”