...Baby One More Time

2/10 This was a painful listen. Not much good here at all. ...Baby One More Time is an undeniable hit that has a huge influence on turn of the century and early 00s pop. The rest is certified cheesy, cringey garbage. Best track: ...Baby One More Time Will I revisit?: No

No. No. No. Beyond the first few tracks, this is such a tough listen. I guess it has a place in time, but no.

No, just no. Absolutely no way.

Ew, no. Fuck no. I actually listened to this whole thing (in the background) and still no.

..............Waarom? Ik wil goede muziek, geen commerciële poep van een of andere over het paard getilde tuthola, die niets meer is dan een door een paar op geld beluste goochemerds uit hun duim gezogen concept. Na het uitluisteren van dit stuk ranzige geldklopperij voelde ik me vies en leeg. Dan echt duizend keer liever een wat dommige, maar duizend keer echtere volkszanger uit Fijnaart. (Zie verder mijn rant over de Vengaboys, alles wat ik daar zei is ook hier van toepassing, behalve dat het hier tenminste geen luie covers zijn.)

So much filler.

Linkin Park followed by Britney Spears is exactly why the early 2000s were weird.

Is this here for satire reasons or to get us on the dance floor when we're drunk? I am not drunk. But seriously, I get uneasy hearing this music. its so bad and manufactured and the way she was dressed and put in our faces was a pretty sick moment in our pop culture. and we didn't stand against it. maybe THAT is why its here., to remind us of how low things can go. (young people, watch ghe video clips to her two big hits to see why)

No.

Ugh

nope

I’m not a teenage girl from 1999.

No one needs to listen to this if they haven’t already. Unless you’re 12. And maybe not even then.

The main influence of this album was Max Martin, who has had a hand in some of the best pop tracks over the last couple of decades. However, I found this quite an uncomfortable listen, both musically and in the context of what emerged about her subsequent treatment. The production is anaemic compared to modern pop, the songs are not particularly strong melodically, and the vocals are poor. Not a huge amount to recommend.

What a bag of shit this was. With hindsight this is even more problematic based on the exploitation of a young person by many people surrounding her, the hypersexualisation of her in the media, and the invasion into privacy which must have undoubtedly led to some of the mental health issues later in life. The music is awful, saccharine sweet, oversung at every opportunity, problematic lyrics, horrible bass runs thrown in to accompany the plodding hyperquantized drums; it just reeks of the manufactured pop that this probably influenced what followed. Obviously Max Martin found a niche and cultivated this particular sound and type of melody and was hugely successful as a result, but good god the singles were bad, the rest of the album was awful.

In a nutshell: "give me a sign..." Now, I'm judging this album as a whole. I'm well aware of its popularity, the number of copies sold and how it changed the pop music landscape forever because I was a meek 14 year old in 1999 who thought liking Oasis was daring. I must confess...some lyrics do perfectly capture the doom of the first heartbreak, the utter devotion to and confusion of early love; learning about love: "the reason I breathe is you", "I don't know how to live without your love" "all I really want to hold you tight. Treat you right. Be with you day and night..." People remember the title track (which is an earworm to this day), but what about the rest of the songs? I tried to look for the sign of a solid album, but we are clearly back in the singles era. It's not you Britney, it's me. Overall: 2/10

One good song 1.4/5

Overproduced, cheesy music. If I want to listen to a baby voice, I'll listen to my kids.

Dear God, no. I never expected this album to be on here. Maybe a later one. Maybe the one with Toxic on it. Now Toxic is a jam. I can’t stand her voice, I can’t stand how they sexualized this 16 year-old girl to sell records and I think we can all agree the whole Britney Spears experiment has ended up very sad. I tried to listen to this album all weekend and I just can’t. I’m not sure why it would be on the 1,001 Must Listen Albums, because I think you’ll be just fine. This era in pop music was bad with Britney and her clones, boy bands and their many clones. The songs were catchy, but they were empty calories. If you want to listen to this album, go for it, as for me, I lived through it and I have no desire to relive it. Ugh, I’ve actually put it on as I write this and it just makes me cringe. The music is bad, just a bunch of computers trying to mimic instruments. Skip this and relisten to Carole King’s Tapestry.

No thanks

I gave a 1 because I can't give it negative stars.

…Baby One More Time is a fine pop song and is the highlight of the album. It’s downhill from there…. Soda Pop is criminal and how do you make a cover of The Beat Goes On so bad. Utter bobbins.

prosze nie

You just wonder what the album could have been with a real band.

Album #56: …Baby One More Time - Britney Spears Genre (W): Pop, bubblegum pop, dance-pop, teen pop Singles: …Baby One More Time, Sometimes, (You Drive Me) Crazy, Born to Make You Happy, From the Bottom of My Broken Heart I have not listened to this album before. Thoughts?: This is the first time I disliked an album. Truly disliked it enough to one-star it. I can’t stand how bland this is. I know that it defined the sound of pop at that time, but it’s still really bland. It feels manufactured too. I don’t want to get another album like this again. Favorite songs: None of them.

This started well, front-loaded with the hit single. But the rest of this is bland teeny pop. Gave up way before the end.

Refused to listen

Debut album. Pop. Bubble gum, American white girl, cheese Pop, sung nasally while utilising fucking awful production. LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE 😢 😭 !! (as in leave this shit well alone)

I don’t care if any of the underlying songs have any merit it’s drowned by the saccharine, sanitised late 90’s production. I don’t even think Britney has a good voice unlike some other paedo baiting sex pots of the period. 1.0

...and I'm being kind with 1.

I didn't like pop like this in my youth - but obviously this music was not for my ears and instead was targeting amusical children and teenagers, and perhaps adults with minor to moderate learning difficulties. I get that this had a big cultural impact at the time but so did Sunny Delight. And no one is recommending we go back and consume that again.

I get that there is an all time classic on this album (the title track) and three lesser hits that have some reverence from her fans, but the majority of this album is not good. The Beat Goes On cover is a highlight.

Vapid trash.

I was a 10-year-old girl when this came out. The target audience for this bollocks. It was a nope then, and a nope at 38. She appeared on Top of the Pops wearing the same pair of white and silver Adidas tracksuit bottoms that I had. I was devastated. As much as I feel for her treatment, fuck you Britney, you ruined my favourite outfit for me. Just pop crap. Nothing to say particularly.

1.4 I felt a bit bad listening to this, knowing how badly the entertainment business messed Britney up. Sure, she made millions of dollars but still seems like she was taken advantage of. Anyway, this is pure bubblegum. I also feel bad for teenage girls who connect with the lyrics in anyway, teenage love cant be that complicated, can it? Also watched a Sun Ra documentary the same evening I listened to this. Could not be any farther away from Brit on the musical spectrum, Black, avant-garde space jazz. Pretty interesting abiet a bit cultish

I have high confidence I will not listen to this album in full again. But time may tell. I also did not remember the guitar solo in “(You Drive Me) Crazy”

actual radio slop

I don't think this album is meant for me. I am not a middle school aged girl, nor was I when this came out, nor have I ever been. This just reminds me of everything that I don't like about most modern pop music - where it's put together by a committee of producers and designed to check all of the "hit" boxes. Just feels soulless and boring, like a mass produced disposable product. Maybe this is the album where all of that started - perhaps that is why this album is on this list?? The only reason they needed Britney involved was to come in and sing. It could have been any other person. To be honest, her voice actually isn't very good on this album - which is kind of sad since that's her only contribution. I don't know how her voice here compares to her subsequent releases. It funny, it sometimes seems like she's trying to sound like a young Michael Jackson. It seems they just chose her because she's cute - which I guess actually is a different contribution since that shows up well on videos. To compare to other popular women artists who all started out fairly young such as Taylor Swift, Lorde, Liz Phair, Madonna, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morrissette, or Sinead O'Connor - at least they write a lot of their own songs - which I can respect since you feel like you are hearing the perspective of the actual artist. In this case we are hearing the thoughts of middle aged men trying to put themselves in the mind frame of a teenage girl. I'll never proactively listen to any of these songs again. It's just all pretty bland and forgettable. Actually, the best song on this is "The Beat Goes On" - which technically isn't even on the album since it's only on the Deluxe Edition. It's got much more interesting music. Liked songs on Spotify: 0/11 Rating: 1/5 (should be zero)

Bubblegum pop

I get this sold a lot of records at the time but I’m not sure that’s enough for an album to make this list. Let’s just move on and forget this ever happened.

After 300+ albums I am finally making a review because this 1 star isn't because of Britney Spears but rather the sexual exploitation of young female stars that reads through in the album. Britney has a great voice and personally I like her 2003 album In The Zone better.

Bubblegum pop just isn't my jam.

Manufactured, over produced pop slop with no redeeming features.

Not for me

1.3 1x once was enough. Man those deep cuts were pretty bad. Listened embarrassingly while in SLC in layover. 3/32

OK, I'll admit, I didn't make it all the way the end but why bother?

Sorry, har inte åldrats väl och de flesta låtar är helt forgettable

Only liked the hit song

I definitely regret how I saw her as a punchline back in the 2000s, she deserved better for sure. Not much here for me musically though, the first couple of songs are decently catchy but most of the rest is balladry that does little for me

There’s no reason anyone should ever listen to this.

Δε μου αρεσει που σχετιζεται τοσο με τα γκομενικα και επισης δεν μου αρεσει η ποπ

Not for me 1/5

Man I really wanted to enjoy this album. I thought it would bring me so much nostalgic joy. It really did not work for me. I found it so boring. It really did not age well. It just feels uninspired.

Of all the albums ever released, is it really necessary to hear this album before i die?

Certified carbage

Awful

Feels like this was the beginning of committee music for the masses, calculated blandness for maximum profits, all the while record companies also made sure they were the major beneficiary of any and all profits. Empty, dull and artificial like cotton candy.

Essential for this list, but it will never grace my ears ever again.

Seriously?

Britney Spears’ Debütalbum „…Baby One More Time“ erschien 1999 und markiert den internationalen Durchbruch der US-amerikanischen Popsängerin. Die Aufnahmen fanden überwiegend in den Cheiron Studios in Stockholm statt, einem Zentrum der späten 90er-Popproduktion. Stilistisch gehört das Album zum Teen-Pop und Dance-Pop, mit starken Eingängern und klar strukturierten Melodien, die stark auf Studioeffekte und Groove ausgerichtet sind. Besonders prägende Tracks des Albums sind der Titelsong „…Baby One More Time“, „Sometimes“, „(You Drive Me) Crazy“ und „From the Bottom of My Broken Heart“. Diese Songs trugen wesentlich zum kommerziellen Erfolg bei und etablierten Spears in der Popwelt. In der Gesamtbetrachtung wirkt das Album als Produkt seiner Zeit mit hohem Wiedererkennungswert.

I do enjoy bubble gum pop, and even love the first Spice Girls album, but this album sucked.

Didn't like it when it came out in '99, still don't like it now.

Leave Britney alone! Seriously, dont press play, dont consider the merits of this, dont feed this machine. Culturally a significant milestone but aurally it is lowest common denominator pop, made by committee to be as inoffensive as possible, packaged in what is obvious in hindsight in a really troubling paedo-centric way.

I have lots of fond memories of the pop music from the late '90s, early '00s. Destiny Child's. Neptunes. Timbaland. Missy Elliott. Kylie's Can't Get You Out of My Head. It was often much more exciting and forward looking than the so-called 'alternative' music that had been my natural habitat for a while. I assumed that I could have put Britney in this list as well but having listened to her debut album I have to make a u-turn on that. This is terrible. Hit Me Baby is still great. The rest is all filler and slop. Cheap, unimaginative r&b-pop with some cheesy ballads. The second best track is a totally superfluous cover of The All Seeing I's The Beat Goes On.

Shite

I go from Systems of a Down to Britney. Be careful what you ask for. The contrast with every element of the music is vast. This is just sickly, processed saccharine. The synthesized clap beat in every song is annoying. The lyrics are as dull and whiney as much as SOAD, if for opposite reasons. And Britney's warbling is as bad as SOAD roaring. Maybe it was a good juxtaposition algorithm to show there is lots of average music being made at the forefront of their genre.

Dass der Opener einer der größten Pophits ever ist - brauchen wir nicht zu diskutieren. Aber wir bewerten hier die besten Alben. Und nach dem einen Song ist das ein einziges Snoozefest. Leider.

Ich hatte deutlich mehr erwartet. Funktioniert als Album für mich überhaupt nicht, alles beliebig zusammengewürfelt. Dafür sind es aber zu wenig Hits, dass das funktionieren würde.

Das ist schon okay, aber wir bewerten hier die besten Alben und das hier hat 1 Highlight, 1 Lowlight und dann viel dahinplätscherndes belangloses. Das ist maximal auf Platz 1002.

No.

Not totally offensive bubble gum pop. But I’m offended that I had to listen to this and someone in a position of power thought this album was essential listening. Email my heart. Shame on you.

Please… please, just… no. I’m so many ways. I feel so bad for Brittney and her exploitation. I feel even worse that I showed so much hate towards her back then. Still, if it wasn’t for KISS’s 1998 terrorism causing album “Psycho Circus”, this album might have ruined my day. But thankfully knowing that “Psycho Circus” exists makes “Baby One More Time” sound like “The White Album”

Yes, it's a one-star failure to rise above commodity culture, but it's not a one-star trainwreck or a deeply offensive nightmare, or a creative catastrophe consigned to conservatorship — but certainly not anything I needed to hear in full, not once, and definitely not ...Baby One More Time.

Fuck this extremely bland pop w crap vocals.

Not my taste

I mean, come on. This isn't actually good music.

Unerträglich! Wer stellt diese Liste zusammen?

Day 58 Looking back, it really is creepy how Britney Spears was marketed around this album. A couple of decent enough bubblegum pop songs on here, although Soda Pop is probably the cringiest thing I’ve ever heard, the song I liked most is the only(?) cover. 2/10 Highlights Born to make you happy The beat goes on

Production is slick, with an emphasis on creating anthemic statements with the singer projecting agency while simultaneously pleading her lack of agency, her neediness, and lack of power in her relationships. Production is very slick while the aggregate message is nothing short of repugnant. These songs are all written by one Max Martin. Britney Spears has not written or received writing credit for any of them. The ellipses in the project's title obscure a telling lyric: [Hit me,] baby, one more time. I should listen to this...why?

I can't think of any alternate reality where I would listen to this album and not give it one star for being cheesy pop-pap.

Wtf

Every once in a while, a record crops up on this list that makes me think, ‘God, this is going to be awful, I can’t do it.’ But I pull myself together, park my preconceptions and dive in with an open mind only to be rewarded by something surprising and oddly enjoyable, even if it’s something I wouldn’t normally give the time of day. Sadly, this wasn’t one of those records and I feel like every last drop of enthusiasm I may have had for life on earth has been sucked out of me. So yeah, thanks for that.

I thought hard about writing a convincing erudite review: Utter shite.

It's Britney Byatch.. Kitsch, the beginning of the end, super weak lyrically, samey. I can see why this would be historically important, however this stands against everything I believe in music.

Åh äntligen ett popalbum! (Ej sagt ironi, snarare sarkasm mot all jävla gitarrmusik vi tvingas utstå Dessvärre är det inget bra sådant. Jag hade förväntat mig fler potentiella hits och en high-end produktion av guds nåde. Men det är frapperande hitbefriat, det är egentligen bara de två inledande spåren som har hitkvalitet, resten är ren utfyllnad. Och produktion är inte dyr och särskilt fet alls, den är tunn och känns tafflig, gjord med vänsterhanden. Och ja jag vet att en av Cheirons kännemärken är att skala bort men då måste man ju i så fall boosta det lilla som är kvar. Produktionen har åldrats fruktansvärt illa. Jag har lyssnat på lite annat samtida i samma fåra (Justin T, Jennifer Lopez t.ex.) där är det bättre bett i produktion och därav håller den betydligt bättre idag också även om drt ibland tippar åt andra hållet istället där. Kanske visste man inte riktigt hur man skulle paketera Brittan här, det är ju debuten, eller så valde man helt enkelt att sätta begränsningar på reglarna så det skulle låta så snällt som bara möjligt. En annan sak slår mig, det här är startskottet till all den format tv musik (vi kan kalla den Idol, men det har funnits uppemot ett 15tal motsvarande) som vi fått sen dess, det börjar här i och med Brittan. Det går att föra ett jätteresonemang kring det, men nöjer mig med att konstatera och skuldbelägga Max Martin även för detta. Denniz Pop va da shit, Max Martin är en klåpare! Lyssna hellre på Spice Girls - Spice world, Justin Timberlake - Justified , Rovyn - Dont stop the music

Ska detta klassas som musik eller som utnyttjande av minderårig. Vuxna män skriver texter om hur en kvinna ska vara en man till lags och låter en 17-åring framföra dem. Djupt obehagligt att lyssna på.

Well executed pop music. It is awful.

I was around for the rollout of this as an early 20-something indie/hardcore dude and it felt so thoroughly shoehorned-in. Spice Girls and Backstreet was the same vibe: "electronica," trip hop, and myriad one-hit wonders were on the come-up and then all of the sudden, manufactured pop groups? The sense I got was the industry had no clue what to do with (broadly defined) rock and hip hop and just reverted back to a prior formula. So hackneyed and in Britney's case, not a little queasy-making. It's wild reading reviews here where folks claim this ushered in an era for girl pop singers and I'm like, Debbie Gibson? Tiffany? Janet? Madge herself? The music itself mostly ticked off a lot of boxes that made it an easy fit for pop radio, especially the europop blend of the late 90s: just enough (but not too much) hip hop and past sell-by-date r&b flourishes with a white girl up front. Very safe. And apparently the stuff of worldwide success.

Fuck Britney Spears Zero reasons for this album to be on a top albums list

Ha man, crazy to listen to this. What a weird time in popular music, especially since I was squarely in the age range this music targeted at the time. I obviously know the hits, and they stand out. The rest of the album, not so much. I guess that probably comes with the territory of manufacturing bubblegum pop in the model of hitting a couple big radio/MTV hits. Some killer and a lotta filler. This album is obviously notable because it had a huge effect on pop music and culture going forward. But it's not something you need to listen to.

1/5 - I most definitely did not need to hear this before I die. Britney Spears was a cultural phenomenon, but this album nose dives after the first track and hits bottom on “E-mail My Heart.” This album is laugh out loud, wretched pop written and produced by an exploitative factory. I only made it through this because I had 9 hours of driving today, and it made all the other music feel like a savior.

An album for teenage schoolgirls and people who like to perve at teenage schoolgirls. One and done with Britney, I never want to hear this low effort pop shrilling again.

I’m glad my wife knows I’m doing this project otherwise there would be questions. Seriously, though, Britney is the best modern example of being chewed up and spat out by the industry. Truly a sad tale and this album is the beginning of all that 2000s nonsense in pop.

Not my style.

Didn’t need to listen, heard plenty of songs when I was younger

Oh my god, it's my childhood. The first couple of tracks were inescapable around TV/shops/radio/school/football matches/literally everywhere for what seemed like an eternity to a 6/7 year old who has just been allowed to start watching Kerrang! I can see why the title track was so universal - tightly produced and precision engineered to send primary school discos into a pre-hormonal frenzy, a pop classic. The whole album is a lot of the same shit, every song sounds like the closing credits music to a different Disney summer blockbuster - this is the sound of America at its zenith, right before before the new millennium downfall. Don't like it. Don't like the industry which created and grew fat from it. I don't like how much I don't like all this! If all those guitar squeals and mini-solos aren't on a PRS, I'll be amazed. Bass slides everywhere. Didn't want to come into this and just give it 1 star by default - but the longer I listen, the more repulsive it gets. Manages to be both boring and annoying, can't live up to the first track. Sorry, Britney.

Huge pile of shit

The musical equivalent of cotton candy at the state fair that's been sitting around for a while, getting a strange texture from the humidity in the air, and you just know that anything that touches it is getting stained pink. I don't fault Britney Spears for essentially doing as she was told. I fault the greedy adults around her who valued mainstream appeal and sales numbers over anything with artistic integrity.

I did not enjoy this. It seems rather simple.

Cynical. Totally manufactured pop. This is the Ultra Processed Food version of pop music, mostly made up of synthetic chemicals that are designed to be addictive, and containing no natural ingredients or anything of any nutritional value.

Unlike many albums on this list I do understand why this album is among the 1001 albums. It is historically a "big" album, an important album in terms of influencing others. But that does not change the fact that this is simply pop music. And not especially good pop music. But it was at the start of and shows the way music has taken in the last 25 years, becoming simpler and simpler and easier to listen to. It enters your brain, it leaves it immediately and doesn't leave any trace behind. It is - if you like this kind of music - nice for now only, not for after five minutes, not to mention for after one day/week. So easy only, you don't have to think. You're only consuming like a robot for a kick of joy, which disappears more or less simultaneously when listening.

90s Disney channel pop. Not for me.

No.

Britney ran so Beiber could walk……

Does it deserve to be on the list? Absolutely! Is it an easy 1 star rating? You bet! Does it mark the downfall of the western civilisation? Likely so. Britney’s debut is just completely vapid, and there's something really unnerving about a 16 year old girl singing “I was born to make you happy” - a song written by two men.

A rare 1 star album that actually deserves a spot on this list. Because of course it does! The title track is a pop milestone, but there are so many horrible tracks on here that it’s hard to fathom - “Soda Pop” anyone?! Some of the lyrics are also weird if not problematic when you consider Britney’s age. Nevertheless - this should definitely be here, 1 star or not.

I didn’t listen to it all so I can’t rate it fairly. But the fact that I didn’t listen to it all goes to show that it wasn’t enjoyable. Music for teenage girls and I’ve never enjoyed the album track even after hearing it for most of my life. I might revisit the album to give it a fair rating but I doubt that will happen. Dated late 90’s, early 2000’s pop…

Boring bland pop album from the 90s

Good Lord that was bad. Who knew Brittney had a reggae track?

I will have to go back to my other albums that I rated a 1 and give them a bump up to 2. This sucks. The first three songs were all singles and are either ok or at least I've heard them so much that at least tolerable. The album goes downhill from there. If you like psuedo dancehall but done by Britney Spears or the Swiss then there is something for you. Throw in some songs rejected by Mariah Carey sung by someone with a much lesser voice and you have "Baby one more time."

Teen pop equaling the end credits of bad romance movies. The described reality of the songs is at best delusional. Most well known song is "Baby one more time".

How do I rate this? I don’t like the music, but as a teen I’ve been to many parties, where the music was played, and being a drunk teen is fun. The record is significant in music history, so it might be fair to put in on this list. However, this type of pop music is just so cookie cutter, and the music from other artists of the same kind (both girls and boy bands) was just not good

I thought it would be somehow interesting, because, well, it's Britney Spears' debut, it has to be culturally significant or something. It turned out to be two very famous hits that sound pretty much the same and some unlistenable trash. '...Baby One More Time' is almost a masterpiece next to the rest of the tracklist, and I really wonder what would I think had I never heard it before. Is it any good or it only seems so, because I don't know the world where it's not iconic?

My little sister loved this album, I think. She also loved N*Sync and Backstreet Boys. I never got into those bands (descendants of NKOTB), but I recognize this as part of my sister’s formative musical journey. Her taste is far more sophisticated than mine now, and her tolerance and appreciation for modern pop is also much higher than mine. I assume it is the Britney effect. I can’t give this album a fair shake because I can’t make it through any songs past the title track. I’m sorry, Britney. The first song is a classic though. “toxic” is my favorite Britney jam (late stage Britney).

pop drivel

The Good: nothing The Bad: nothing The Ugly: everthing I refuse to listen to this album. Nothing against Britney as a person, or a singer, or a dancer. The reason I refuse to listen to this album is that I don’t understand at all why this is something you need to listen to before you die? We’ve all heard “hit me baby one more time”, and now we can die...

There’s been worse albums on this list (only 34 in), but there is zero moments that are special about this album. This came out when I was a freshman in high school and I remember how big of a deal it was then and how you couldn’t turn a corner without seeing/hearing the lead single. It blew my mind as a 15 year old, and I sit here even more bewildered that a legit music critic/author felt that this needed to noted in the annals of history. This album was trash, it’s not a dumpster fire, or anything like that. It is just generic, regurgitated pop. Britney doesn’t have an amazing voice, its not awful either, maybe a C- in terms of pop stars. The music is so bland too, even bad pop music will get my toes tappin from time to time. The melodies are catchy, but that is far from a reason to immortalize this record. Putting this album on this list is the equivalent of putting 7/11 pizza on the 1001 dishes you need to eat before you die list. I’ve heard these songs, I never enjoy hearing these songs but sometimes these songs pop up. I’ve eaten 7/11 pizza, I am never happy when I eat 7/11 pizza, but sometimes you end up eating 7/11 pizza. The entire time I wrote this review (and assuredly for hits to come) the title track’s hook looped through my head painfully. 2.5/10 #34/1001

Oh no! Why 1001 albums? Why? 0.5 /5 Album 38/1001

I tried, I really did.

Too poppy

Fitting that this was served up to me on April Fool's Day

Britney Spears is in the list but e.g. Heart is not. That's the review. OK I'll try again...: music for people who don't really like digesting music which was made/processed/bought/sold in a factory by a ton of people notably and nearly tragically not really including the actual marketing ploy on the cover. This is all so utterly formulaic (ooo! a key change! didn't see that one coming...just like the previous song...) and fake - it's AI before AI. 3/10 1 star (feels a little bad lumping it with the Korn/KidRock/Slipknot genresofshit but this is straight-up terrible).

Хммммми ну чисто ради hit me baby one more time... Остальное ну просто голяк Слишком слащяво, 2/10

Iky.

Was soooo tempted to go with the “DID NOT LISTEN” option.

Imagine my dismay when this came up. I lived through it once already, isn’t that enough

Few albums have, on paper (on the sleeve?), such a powerful opening trio. Just the names - ...Baby One More Time, Crazy, and Sometimes - kick the brain into nostalgia mode, where everything sounds sweeter and stronger than you remember. And those songs are all remarkably catchy, tightly paced, and well-arranged to achieve their intended orgasmic end. But they don't work as a trio. These were all produced as late-90s singles. They were designed to cut through all the other songs on radio and MTV. They were not intended to sit side-by-side. They're meant to shoulder other songs out of the way. While they don't have the effect of that Durutti Column record with the sandpaper sleeve that scratches up the records on either side, there is no sense of cohesion, no flow, no album per se. You may as well be listening to a pop station that plays 'only the best new music.' If you did that, you would skip some of the filler, which, for all the producer's expertise in the genre, can't touch the exquisite Born To Make You Happy. In 2000, when Billy Corgan was breaking up Smashing Pumpkins, he said that he could no longer fight the good fight against the Britneys of this world. He could have meant a lot by that, but he was coming out of a struggle with Virgin over whether or not he could release a triple album. He would leak the unreleased portion of the Machina Mystery onto the internet, essentially breaking up the album into downloadable shards. His grand artistic statement was not supported by the music industry. Britney's debut album makes no grand artistic statement, but it is as fragmented as any attempt to piece together Machina. It is one polished shard after another and they make no more sense together than apart. Pop albums have always been like that, to some extent, but, in 1999, it was starting to become clear that albums were on the way out. There are four songs here which, juiced up by nostalgia, are better than most songs on the albums generated thus far. That should clutch this album a respectable score, but it's not an album - it's a greatest hits compilation with seat fillers taking up space while the other hits are waiting to be written. I don't know how to score it. 2.5 Yesterday Peter Mandelson, British Ambassador to the United States, described Donald Trump as ‘a very consequential President’. It is a just statement. Ambassador Mandelson obviously feels it beneath his job description to say anything less than complimentary about the President but beneath his self-respect to say anything contradictory to the truth that Trump is working for the destruction of civilisation in the West. ‘…Baby One More Time’ is a very consequential album. Even if I had the inclination, I am not historian enough to trace either the scale of the (immediate) impact this album had on popular culture, the music industry, society I dare say, nor its true relationship to its cultural forebears - Elvis, The Beatles, Madonna…etc. What I will say is that I remember well this album’s appearance in everyone’s lives and I remember too the unmistakeable sense that some standard, perhaps several, had been successfully lowered. I tried today to give this album as fair a hearing as I would any. I listened twice. I listened attentively. Britney Spears’ debut album is utter trash. These songs represent musical and lyrical proceduralism of the lowest order. (You drive me) crazy is 3 minutes 19 seconds; it features the chorus four times and a bridge which is essentially the chorus with a sloppily modified harmony. Soda Pop, almost exactly the same length, features its same unmodifed chorus 6 times. The lyrics have the quality of having been quickly composed on the back of a napkin during a coffee break; each the mere unfolding of the conceit of its title with as little thought as possible. ‘Thinkin’ About You’ comes off as if it lacked even that first humble draft. That and the track which follows it, ‘E-mail my heart’, represent the low-point of an album that shouldn’t be capable of low-points, but there it is; the trough within the trough. This is an album as cynically disrespectful of its listeners as I have ever sat down with. That it was right about them, that it won, that Britney Spears was elected, none of that makes any difference to my conviction here. This was and is wrong. Shame on the people who made this. 0/5

Oh man, I wanted to like this, for her as the ‘underog’, but this was bad, bad like the ice cream dropping of your cone, bad

There will not be one more time of listening to this

This album is really weak with the exception of the title track. Just as bad as I remember it.

Not good.

No. This was always weird and gross.

Seems like this album was included just to troll people. I fully expect to get Rick Rolled next and I’ll definitely enjoy it more.

...Baby One More Time (You Drive Me) Crazy

Terrible. A shopping mall of an album. Of course it's capably written and smoothly produced, but life is too short for this over sweet shite.

fya

Nope.

No

Sometimes I'm scared of this..

No, 1 Star - and not because I at my age am not the target audience obviously, I can appreciate good pop, but this is half baked, a poor excuse of an album, that it sold shed loads is just an indictment on the power of icky school girl videos and whatever that teen cover and title is selling to "teen" audiences at the time. That wiki entry was humorous while listening, trying to match up the gushing praise with the half finished dance pop and bad teen romance ballads that sound like those direct to video sequels that Disney did with lower quality control and hack songwriters instead of the A listers that did the movies, and that is somehow ground breaking. A fine example of exploitative manifactured music practices maybe gets it on the list., nothing else.

Poptimism be damned... this is plastic, artificial, manufactured.

I deserve a medal after listening to this

Awful. This is the result of marketing, not talent.

No thanks.

No va

WTF?! No

I detest this record and it not because I don’t like pop or I think that Brittany isn’t talented. The album is the definition of over produced. Of this record were made of brass you would be able to see yourself in it. It needs more grit. It suspends the belief that music artists can imperfect but still make art. Things the opposite of art.

1. baby - 1.5 2. crazy - 1.5 3. zometimez - 1.5 4. zoda - 0 5. happy - 1 6. heart - 1 7. there - 1 8. love - 1 9. deep - 0 10. you - 0 11. email - 0 12. beat - 1 13. loving - 1 14. autumn - 0

Soulless manufactured dross. Besides a couple of song the rest of the album sounds all the same.

It comes to something when the second and third "best" tracks were the rubbish remixes of the first track. One iconic song, but the rest of the album was awful. An unimaginative cover version stands head and shoulders above most of the original tracks. I expected to dislike this album. When I was half way through the title track, I started to feel cautiously optimistic. By track 3, I realised that it wasn't even going to reach my original expectations.

Hmm... no

Not good or interesting.

How does this make the list? I know music is subjective but in what world is this ‘essential’?! Shite, terribly produced bubble gum pop, not to mention how the poor lass was exploited in this way.

Horrendous, both musically and the creepy, exploitative way they sexualised a 16 year old to sell crap pop music. On occasion it was enjoyably terrible (soda pop) but it was mostly unlistenable.

I'm a bit conflicted here, as I recognise a lot of this is exploitative nonsense (she was 15-17 when much of the album is recorded, and this does not sit well at all), and the production shows its age (very much rooted in 1999 with all the tricks, overlays, disc scratches, and exotic array of instruments). However, from a writing perspective - goodness me this pop music is well-written. The mainly Swedish team really delivered (on paper) a sequence of tip-top pop - catchy hooks, direct, and somewhat whimsical. 0 stars for the album, 4 stars for the writing, 1 star overall.

From RATM to Britney! Good old list. Think I would've thought this was released before 1999... Remember it pretty clearly. I'm actually surprised how many tracks I recognised. Not ashamed to say they I found myself singing along to sometimes... Actually couldn't get it out of my head annoyingly However, it's not at all my thing and there is some utter dross on here. Email my heart! Haha It's also fairly gross that they were writing these songs for a 16 year old girl to sing. Literally lyrics are about being "born to make you happy" and various other shit about special love and devotion. South park was right Sorry Britney, it's a 1, but it's not really on you....wonder if she'd choose to do it all again if she could go back.....

Awful

Oof. I thought this might be a bit of fun nostalgia but everything past the title track was terrible.

Boring.

Titillagið er í grunninn banger, þótt productionin sé ansi dated., en það er bara rétt rúmar þrjár mínútur. Hinar 57 eru svakalegur filler og lítt áhugaverður. Helst að Email my heart sé skemmtilega dated titill. Held ég verði að henda ási á þetta, sorrý Britney.

Not a huge fan of this kind of pop music. It's of course extremely famous and loved by a lot of people, just not me.

Some of the songs are undeniably catchy, but I can't listen to this more than I absolutely have to. It reminds me too much of my early teen years.

I get that it’s an important record but I found it unlistenable except for the title track. Don’t mind that it’s manufactured by music scientists it just doesn’t sound good at all.

Listening to this album makes me feel like the Joker (2019).

I can’t

not good

Some of the most annoying and solluess pop music I have ever heard.

There are some pop classics here, but damn so much 90s trash too.

Today's album isn't making it easy on me. I mean, I loathe romantic pop. Aside from my disgust I was surprised at the reggae on "Soda Pop". That is maybe the soul interesting cut left on this whole album. It is mathematically crafted to sell the idea of young sexuality...which, I'm 43. so...no thank you. It was less awful of an experience than I was expecting on the whole. I was maybe a little surprised that the non-hits on the album were more listenable than their more popular counterparts. "I Will Still Love You" with Don Philip was frankly an 80's ballad. The following track was a super-soft gay dancehall bop. Maybe "Deep In My Heart" is the "best" track on the album. My life is shorter and incrementally worse but I am wiser for having embarked on this listen. Isn't that just the way of learning.

Not in my edition of the book! 1999. 1 star. If you eat an entire bag of fairground candyfloss, you might enjoy it at the beginning, but after a while your teeth start screaming and at the end you feel vaguely embarrassed with yourself for having eaten it all. Listening to this album, I enjoyed it at the beginning, but after a while my ears started bleeding and at the end I was vaguely embarrassed at having listened to an entire Britney Spears album.

Yeah, I'm not going to listen to all of this

i’m not going to listen to listen to this and i’m still going to give it one star

Literally the worst of 90s pop imo

Let's make something clear. Britney has been a victim of mean spirited paparazzi and shady business dealing with her father to the point I feel sympathy for her. I think she has endured a tremendous amount of hurt to the point her mental health is probably not the best. Craig Ferguson did a well thought out monologue on his old late night talk show describing what Britney was going through in comparison to his issues with drugs and alcohol. Worth watching if you haven't seen it. That said, the music is so not my thing. Bubblegum teen pop is probably my least favourite genre but I'm also an older white male who grew up liking hard aggressive music so this is not my scene whatsoever.

In the words of Amanda Murray of Sputnikmusic: "With the exception of the terrific title track, *...Baby One More Time* is a collection of either competent pop songs underwhelmingly executed or underwhelmingly written pop songs competently executed." Today's suggestion is excellent news. I don't need to write a long-ass review about an album I intend to defend tooth and nail (or conversely, that I want to roast). Which means that instead, I'm gonna listen to a little Charli XCX (who once professed her love to Britney's old hits, incidentally). And that most of all, I will get on with my real life. Shallow Y2K cheesefest teen pop can still be useful for something, I guess... 1/5 for the purposes of this list of "essential" albums. 6/10 for more general purposes (5 + 1 for the title-track, and maybe for bits of its clone "(You Drive Me) Crazy") Number of albums left to review: 90 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 392 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 228 Albums from the list I certainly won't include in mine: 290 (including this one)

Just no.

No. Not one more time. Not ever again.

No joke, you could insert the chorus from Hit Me Baby One More Time into most other songs in this album and it wouldn’t feel out of place. Listen to track 2 and think of ‘my loneliness, is killing meee’ coming in at any point and you’ll see what I mean. 😂 ‘Born To Make You Happy’ is meant to be a sweet apology type song but it honestly comes off a bit intense and creepy.. ‘From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart’ is painful too. Note: this is coming from someone who thinks Britney Spears has some tunes (Toxic, Piece of Me…) This is bad bad.

Lots of albums on this list feel like they are expanding my mind. With this one I actually felt my braincells withering away. E-mail my heart 😂

Easiest review ever! This is total s***e. S***e of the s****est quality. Don't waste your time listening to it.

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Please, enough with the 90s pop, I am so done with it. Decent pop music is so much better in the 2020s. It does makes sense that every single 90s bubblegum pop entry hasn't survived the cull in the book. Truly great pop transcends the immediacy of the medium, and well, besides that one song, this definitely doesn't. Some of it even sounds like it could have been made in the 80s/early 90s so was tired even on release. Oh yeah, Born to Make You Happy. That's not bad I guess. Soda Pop though, oh my god. The Beat Goes On is obviously the best song, but there are far better versions. One last thing. Even though the lyrics are Oh Baby baby, she clearly sings Oh Babem Baben. Always narked me, that.

With sincere apologies to Ms Spears, there is a lot I hate about this album. The music is the campiest of bubble gum pop, mixed with high school crush love ballads. I appreciate that for some people, that was part of their childhood and still has strong nostalgia value. I also appreciate that it takes some skill to craft pop hits to reach such a massive audience. But to me, this is just the most vacuous, juvenile, lowest-common-denominator fluff. The music was generated to move content units, as Britney herself. Would this album have reached the heights that it did if not for sex appeal? And can we reflect for a moment on how creepy it is that the world was collectively sexualizing a teenage a girl? Britney's struggles are widely known. She was clearly being exploited by her family as well as record company executives, with an eagerly complicit media eating it all up. If this was something you grew up with, I get how it would be appealing. It's designed to be marketed to kids and to speak to what they feel. It delivers what it promises. But as an adult, and especially seeing what happened to her through her fame and eventual decline, I just can't in good conscious give this a strong review. This is the only time I've been tempted to award an extra star out of pity for the artist. You dserved to have had a real childhood Britney.

No sorry, this is manufactured pap music that exploited a vulnerable young woman (and continued to do so for many years), and which was marketed on the back of dubious sexuality. If I could rate this zero I would.

Oops. I meant to post my Prunes review here... Sorry Prunes. I'm glad this album exists for the people who love it. I'm just not one of them. It was painful earbleed music.

Free Britney was quite the social media movement (or meme?) back in 2020, but Britney may have needed freeing long before. When she burst onto the pop scene with “...Baby One More Time,” she was a cog in the machine. A pop culture machine that her family accelerated her through from a young age, from Star Search to the Mickey Mouse Club to solo stardom. 2020, as we have now seen in retrospect, was far too late to free Britney. Was it worth it? Not for a piece of bubblegum who’s sweetness is ruined by… well, fill in the unseemly metaphor yourself.

So many amazing artists that aren’t on this list, yet this dreck makes the cut?!? -1 for all the better artists that she edged out.

This album is terrible. At least some of the other bubblegum pop stars blowing up at that time could sing. I never really got the big deal with her.

It is absolutely ridiculous that this album is on the list. Culturally Brittany has impact. Musically there's nothing there. Especially this album. It's almost laughable how bad every part of it is. The production is so dated and weird and amateurish, the lyrics repetitive and stupid, and the vocals? Well she's trying. I suppose I have to remember it is basically a kid. I thought this would be a goof, but it was very hard to sit through.

I can’t.

Bubble-gum pop but from the wrong decade. My vote goes to Debbie Gibson: Out of the Blue - everything I like about that record is everything what this album is missing.

I just can't do it. The album looks and sounds purpose built to sexualize her and given what we know now about her entrapment, I just can't get passed it.

Je n'avais jamais entendu cet album, et ne souhaite jamais l'entendre de nouveau ... Je ne suis pas allé au bout.

Yeah not for me - 1 star

Shocking, can’t her and her music

Just because something is a national phenomenon doesn’t mean it’s good. 1/10

Jeg er villig til at anerkende at The Beat Goes On, Deep in My Heart og Baby One More Time har noget kørende for sig! Men alt i alt synes jeg det er en skrammelplade som er et af de primære eksempler på en skrammel-produktionsstil fra en æra som var virkelig rough for pop-albums generelt. Havde ikke behøvet at høre den her før jeg døde.

2/10 I got bored. I can't listen to the whole thing. I did try. Not for me I guess. 4-24-2024

Well, I won’t lie. I was more than a little disappointed when this showed up. Flashbacks to seeing “Baby One More Time” on MTV and losing my teenage mind in lust and hormones at a house party with my pals. A lot of crossed legs and pillows over winkies that evening I can tell you. But I digress… The album itself is one truly great track (Baby One More Time) followed by relentless dirge. It’s abysmal.

Erm, are the people running this list OK? This isn't peerless pop music - one annoying hit doesn't mean this is a classic album

Perfectly acceptable pop. No, you know what, it’s not great. I think Britney got better as she went along, or at least the production got more interesting. My issue with this is that so many of these songs are about being controlled or submissive to her partner. It sets an unfortunate precedent for young girls who propelled this album up the charts. Fortunately, the antidote would arrive in about a year with Destiny’s Child. One positive: there’s a completely genuinely earnest love song on here called E-Mail My Heart which could only be done this earnestly in 1999.

This is a big contrast to the types of albums we’ve listened to so far. I’m, of course, familiar with all the hits in this, as I was in high school when it came out. I came in with an open mind, but once I got to Soda Pop, I knew: I do not like this. This is not surprising, but I also wouldn’t have been surprised to come out of it thinking “Actually, that’s a really good album!” It feels a little mean to give this a 1, but the last half of this is so, so, so bad.

To still feel enough masculine, I must give this 1 star. I feel the need of chugging a beer and watching football after listening to this to compensate and I don't even like football.

¿En serio? 1999 año de Summerteeth de Wilco, The soft bulletin de The Flaming Lips, Mule variations de Tom Waits, 69 love songs de The Magnetic Fields!!! Incluso Californication, Surrender, S&M, Come on die young, Play... todos ellos son más recomendables que el debut de Britney (que contiene un exitazo monumental como la titular y seguramente ya has escuchado miles de veces lo que hace innecesario el resto del disco). Este debut ha vendido más de 30 millones de copias (uno de los más exitosos de todos los tiempos) , y es una continuación del estilo Backstreet boys-spice girls-Tiffany-New kids on the block, no hay más que escuchar Sometimes o Born to make you happy.

Para resumir: Álbum adolescente para adolescentes.

understand how its influential and what not but couldnt make it through more than half of any song. 1

Ainda não acredito que apareceu este pop jovem melado e não a fase mais assanhada de toxic.

Niet eens aan begonnen

Possibly the worst album I've come across in 3 years of working through this list. An objectively terrible piece of art that lacks any of the special sauce that I know pop from this era is capable of a la JT's Justified or Christina Aguilera's Stripped. As a staunch advocate for the key change I also now know there is such a thing as too many key changes in one album. Would rate zero stars (if I could) for having zero redeeming features and almost turning me against my most cherished musical trope.

Now a camp classic, but camp is about knowing something sucks and loving it anyway for the lols. I don't understand why we're all supposed to retcon this into being good. bUt ShE's aN iCoNiC pOp KwEeN! Who cares? Does pretending this is good somehow make it worth the abuse we now know she endured bc of it? Celebrating this is just celebrating the abusive corporate monoculture that victimized her. Sure, it was a defining sound of its time, but so was kid rock and the chilli's baby back ribs song. This music sucked in 1999 and it sucks now and nostalgia for pre 9/11 adolescence isn't fixing anything.

Listening to this from start to finish made me feel sorry for everyone else who is going to do the same in the future.

Presumably, if Sabrina was American her debut album would be on here too, then? "Baby One More Time" is of course iconic but the rest of this mass-manufactured, Disney production line pop is muzak for big box store shoppers.

Not my thing

no lo escuche me parecio muy pussy

I have to come at this one with an open mind, as this is not my thing in the slightest. 90s bubblegum pop is one of the few genres I just can't hack. It's undeniable that this is a great, iconic pop record, it's catchy and fun! However I can't get away from how manufactured this whole genre is though - overly produced, ghostwritten songs performed by stars who are groomed and abused by their labels and management. It's sad, and doesn't feel like real music.

This sucked, especially the worst rendition of The Beat Goes On.

Well I did listen but not for me. Modern pop Muzak yuk!

The positive thing about this, is that when I think of a 90s pop record, I think “two or three singles and 35 minutes of filler”. This record is an hour long, and most of the songs could pass for late 90s singles. The negative thing is that it sounds like two hundred people made this album, and not one of them had any creative care towards it. Completely dispassionate. There exists a line at which Art becomes Commerce in full. Good radio pop music often gets close to the line but doesn’t QUITE cross it. I don’t know exactly where it is, but it’s way East of this one. Not to mention the fact that there’s an actual human teenager in the mix being dragged around and exploited (look at the fuckin cover man, Jesus Christ) so that this can make a lot of people a lot of money.

This was a chore to get through. There's really nothing about this I liked.

Never thought I'd listen to this album, and now I have. It wasn't for me, and it wasn't particularly good. She has a good singing voice, but overall it is dull and uninteresting for me. Toxic is a banger though. I like that song. 1/5

1.5 Look, I totally get why it’s here… but no. I don’t want to spend this whole review going off on a boomer-esque rant, but I truly believe the late 90s/early 00s was the absolute worst era for pop music. I know it doesn’t mark the start nor the end of the manufactured, curated pop star, but it was at its worst here. So many of the hits from this period just feel so artificial and cheesy by modern standards, and I really believe the reason that they’re still looked upon fondly today is done more so out of nostalgia rather than actual admiration for the artistry. For me at least, music is all about self-expression, so if you’re just putting out something scientifically engineered by someone else to sell records, what’s the point? Oh yeah, money. Fortunately, I feel like this is something that has gotten a lot better in recent years, and I do think we’re in a golden era of pop now that the record labels aren’t as afraid to let stars take on a much larger role in the creation and production of their own music. Anyway, I’ll step off my soapbox now. Maybe I shouldn’t be looking at this album through a modern lens, but I just really feel like it’s hard not to find this album dated as you’re listening. I admittedly was a little surprised by some of the diversity in sound here, but then again, it also felt like some producer was going through and trying to check boxes. Topically and lyrically, it left a lot to be desired - at its core, every song seems to boil down to the same kind of lovesick teenager thing (felt like “love” and/or “heart” was mentioned at least once on every track). Not really much stood out to me besides the obvious megahit, but I will give credit to I Will Still Love You for being surprisingly enjoyable, though it transitions into the most annoying gummy pop song on the album in Deep in My Heart. Also, I gotta point out E-Mail My Heart - it’s hard not to crack a smile at that one. So, I didn’t really enjoy my listening of the album, but I want to end my review on this - I have no disrespect or ill will towards Britney by any means. Why would anyone say no to fame and fortune, especially at her age? If anything, I have a bit of sympathy for her knowing she was largely forced into the role by selfish, greedy parents, not to mention the resulting developmental issues and media response. I’m glad Britney is doing much better now and that society has a much more considerate and understanding outlook on mental health today. Hell, if I’m being honest, I would even be interested in giving her memoir a read. Like her or not, there’s no denying her place as the Princess of Pop, and for better or for worse, she changed all of pop music to come after.

I did not care for her music when it came out back when, but I listened to this entire record anyway since previously I have been pleasantly surprised with previous entries in this list that I found I now enjoy or do not dislike. However, nothing has changed. I do not like her music. It definitely had an impact and she was, I guess still is, insanely popular, but there's nothing here for me.

Nope

I know that we've been rehabilitating Britney as a pop icon of late and I'm all for it but boy did this age badly. I'm not even a pop hater or anything, I just thing these songs are abysmal.

God damn did that suck. How did we survive culturally through the beginning of the Century with music like this all over the radio? Seriously, there's only one "good" song on this.

We can all agree that Britney Spears is an iconic and important popstar of the 2000s, however, from a strictly musical standpoint, we can all agree that we don't need to listen to these meaningless, premade, insignificants songs before we die.

Not my style

Just not the Depeche Mode that I enjoy. Some good tracks, a lot of ones I cared nothing for.

No thanks. I can't listen to this. My fingers won't hit the play button.

Vile nonce pop

Bland and boring

The only way I could ever have been into this was if I was 12 when it came out and all my friends were into it. But in reality, I was a 19 year old dude with a very different taste in music. I saw this as trashy bubblegum pop for the masses, and frankly it still sounds that way today.

For her first music video, whichever record executive was behind this travesty dressed this 16 year old child in pig tails and a Catholic school girl outfit and blatantly sexualized her. This “album” was obviously marketed in part toward pedophiles. The people who made this pile of garbage should be in jail. Substantively, this isn’t an album. It’s two singles and a bunch of filler. I am dumber for having listened to this. Absolutely terrible.

This was pretty painful. A few catchy songs I guess but mostly not pleasant.

No please no!

Trash

I would rather listen to my kids yell and fight in the car than listen to this. I don't understand how this makes it. It was a cultural sensation at the time but a team of writers and producers churn out this garbage and Briitney steps in to recite the prewritten lyrics.

Apart from baby one more time, I didn’t get any of the songs. It’s too commercial and if it’s not a club song then it’s just a bit bad 1/2**

I honestly think "...Baby One More Time" is an essential listen. Just that song though. The rest is actual garbage. To the point where this still averages out to a 1.5 (rounded down per protocol).

I'm not a Britney hater, I quite like Britney. And the title track here is great, but the album itself is just nooooot. Some of the most boring teen pop ballads the 90s had to offer & lyrics that were very apparently written by dudes in their 40s for a 16 year old to sing. Just very offputting throughout.

NOPE

I hated this album so so much. This kind of pop music never ceases to amaze me with its vapid lyrics and uninteresting music. But the appetite for this kind of sugary ear cancer is even more inexplicable. But… even with that being said…I hated it and I hate that it exists.

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You know I thought, I remember this song it was catchy, it was the turn of the millenium. Ill give it a go ill open my mind and ears and just listen. The substandard pop by number title hit was the highlight. Down a rabbithole of schrunchy sacrin terrible pop with a subtext that just seemed to be child explotation. I think this is the music industry at its worse and I feel sorry for her.

Nope

I got through this by checking out the credits and Googling who else put in the hours apart from Britney. Eric Foster-White and Max Martin are the main culprits. It is vapid, chewing gum music, slickly produced and cynically written. I enjoy a lot of vapid, cynically-written television, but and is the equivalence of being too tired/stoned to change the channel at 3am and watching some Hallmark bullshit. The Beat Goes On was a surprise halfway through, as I quite liked The Allseing I, and this was that, identically, again, but with Britney instead of Cher. I survived it: Go me! Now I have to catch up on that Iron Maiden album I similarly put off until my completionism got the better of me.

Го мрзам албумов из дна душе

As if you don’t already know what you’re getting from this before you listen. Terrible.

unremarkable. sounds auto-tuned. pretty much an album of lame love songs. Difficult to finish... 0 tracks enjoyed; difficult to understand how this was so popular in HS. That was rough. the version of the album i listened to had remixes of the baby one more time song at the end so i had to endure several versions of it. didn't like any variety.

No. Just no

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

Nicht im Ernst

Can't do it sorry

Is this taking the piss?

There's much better bubble gum than this.

And thus is the Radio Disney era begun. Bad songwriting, average voice, crappy production. This site's credibility is again brought into question simply because some wonk decided that selling 25 million albums must make it one of the all-time greats.

I gave this an honest try -- as I often say, I love this whole project because it ensures I'll listen to a wide variety of recordings from many eras across all genres -- and I can definitely understand why it appealed to tons of people. It just didn't have much for me. Nothing wrong with it at all. I frankly get a bit weirded out when some folks go pretty far with anti-genre or anti-artist ravings. It's merely a matter of personal preferences to me, that's all.

1999 I would‘ve hated to listen to it except ironically and completely plastered at the end of some birthday party. Today, hate has disappeared but I still can‘t listen to it in terms of consuming inspiring music. Mega boring plastic pop.

Bubblegum bullshit

BL: Britney is someone who needs no introduction. Probably one of the most popular artist of the 90s and one of the most culturally significant of all time. Will be interested to listen to this as I only know the hits. AL: I’m pretty dissapointed by this album. It didn’t really do anything to me. 12 of the 14 tracks sounded identical to one another. The only two that stood out were the opening track (due to how iconic it is) and “The Beat Goes On” due to its very nice sampling and beat sequencing. Other than that it was standard 90s love song girl pop, which I understand why it appealed to the target demographic of the Y2K teens at the time but doesn’t really do anything for me now. FT: “…Baby one more time”, and “The Beat Goes On” 1/5

In the late 90s, music execs needed a nubile pop star to peddle their inane drivel, so they turned to the Mouseketeers and ruined the rest of this poor girl's life. The dudebros today who complain about Taylor Swift's music being everywhere obviously didn't have to suffer through this overproduced, oversung, written-by-committee drivel. This got popular on the strength of the opening beat to the opening song, and not enough people listened past that to see if it was worth anything before buying 100 million albums or whatever it was, and that's why the music industry bubble burst. Best track: ...Baby One More Time

Ugh, I admit I almost sort of like the first song 'Baby One More Time,' but I just can't do this album as a whole. I now feel some sort of embarassed that this will show up in my played list.

With everything Britney's been through she deserves, just one more time, to be on a list of the 20 _____ _____. This album's 2.68 rating is too high to make the cut for the 20 lowest rated albums on 1001. The rating needs to be lower than 2.48 to make the list. Let's give Britney some 1 rating love to help her make this list. It's the least we could do.

Does bubble gum pop deserve to be on the list? I think not.

No.

Holy shit this is a bad album and represents the awfulness that is late 90s pop. Why the hell is this album even on the list, when other good albums have been completely left off? I hated this album when it came out and I didn't listen to it completely then. It did not get any better with time. Also why is there a reggae style song? Songs were skipped. Pure shit. Please avoid.

Just not my cup of tea. Very bland late 90's pop.

The Beat Goes On was surprisingly solid. But, y'know.

No, just no. I don't care how many copies it sold. I don't care if it is Britney bitch.

The title track? Good. Nice to dance to. The rest of the album? Gad. It was a tacky as a neurotic college kid’s corkboard. Not to mention that this was all going on before Spears turned 18, which… mercy. At least I have the non-US cover in my collection to save face when someone asks me what it’s doing there.

I grew up during the 00s and even then i hated the sound of 00s pop so this is a very personal rating. music wise it is regular pop nothing extremely good or bad. i had to skip the first 3 songs which are the most famous one's because i involuntary heard em to many times growing up.

That's embarassing

Please not one more time! One time is more than enough. Some silly on ear in one ear out commercial pop songs with some hits and a lot of filler material.

Tough one for me. Interesting to hear how low her natural voice is on the filler tracks. Saga more interesting than the music.

Skip this unless you've been already a fan of Britney or you like sugary pop. Otherwise it'll melt your teeth (and ears). Songs from this album made me wince back then in 90s and they still do. Best song: The Beat Goes On (the only song that has something going on, trip-hop vibe; shame the lyrics are atrocious) Worst song: Born to Make You Happy (key change feels like "nails on a chalkboard"-bad)

Shit.

OK, I listened to it before I died...

Hit Me Baby One More Time is amazing. The rest of the songs are horrible.

Why? Why do I have to relive this? This record was garbage in the 90's when I had to hear the song every 40 minutes on the Blockbuster Trailer tapes. And it's shit now. This is the worst record so far on this list. I did make it though. And now I am having a bad day.

Gazillion selling single, so it must be an amazing pop album full of gems, right? Wrong, horribly so. Nothing extraordinary or notable. Another huge disappointment, although I do know diamonds like Toxic are still to come from a host of brilliant songwriters using the pop star Britney vessel.

Altijd op een bepaalde manier sympathie gevoeld voor Britney. Niet echt vanwege haar muziek en zeker niet voor deze plaat. Wat een hopeloze gedateerde ellende.

Nope, dit kan je echt niet menen....

Ver-schrik-ke-lijk. Ik dacht dat dit misschien nog best aardig kon zijn, maar het is werkelijk niet te harden. Dat iele brave girl-next-door stemmetje. Hopeloos gedateerd en saai.

naw

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I can't believe I'm going listen to this album again, I never thought that would happen. Somehow it's even more painful then I recall.

That was terrible. Just awful. The only tolerable song was the Sonny Bono cover.

Dated pop trash. Way past its expiration date or relevance

American high school movie pop music, not really my thing