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

By / 28 October 2022

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)
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The Most Memorable Albums of 1999 (Part 1)

By / 8 June 2020

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

By / 18 August 2016
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
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Good Christian Bad Girls: Britney Spears and Lana Del Rey

By / 15 October 2015
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
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How Women Dominated Pop Music in the ’00s

By / 29 September 2014
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.
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“Scream & Shout” and will.i.am’s Big Problem

By / 4 December 2012
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In Defense of the Marriage Between Music and Television

By / 30 October 2012
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Thursdays This Fall: An Early TV Preview

By / 8 August 2012
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In Defense of “Call Me Maybe” As the Song of Summer 2012

By / 27 June 2012
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2011: Music’s Most Electronic Year Yet

By / 4 January 2012
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Recent Retro, Or What Will We Be Nostalgic About in the Future?

By / 10 August 2011
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Britney Spears Attacks the Paparazzi (Again) in “I Wanna Go”

By / 1 July 2011