Britney Jean

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Britney Jean
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Standard edition cover; deluxe edition uses the same image, but in monochrome
Studio album by
Britney Spears
ReleasedNovember 29, 2013 (2013-11-29)
RecordedMay–October 2013
Studio
  • The Future
  • Record Plant (Los Angeles)
  • i85 (Westlake Village)
  • Glenwood Place Studios (Burbank)
  • DAZMO Music Studios (Montreal)
  • Guerilla Studios (London)
  • Piano Music Studios (Amsterdam)
  • KBK Studios (Stockholm)
Genre
Length36:08
Label RCA
Producer
Britney Spears chronology
The Essential Britney Spears
(2013)		Britney Jean
(2013)		 Glory
(2016)
Singles from Britney Jean
  1. "Work Bitch"
    Released: September 15, 2013
  2. "Perfume"
    Released: November 3, 2013

Britney Jean is the eighth studio album by American singer Britney Spears. It was released on November 29, 2013, by RCA Records. The album is Spears's second eponymous record after Britney (2001), though the album's name refers to both her first and middle names. It marks Spears's first major activity since the dissolution of her longtime record label, Jive Records, in 2011. [1] The singer began recording material for Britney Jean in May 2013, eventually continuing into October of that year. On numerous occasions, Spears has described the album as the most personal record from her catalog. Having assumed an integral position in its production, she co-wrote each track and collaborated with songwriters and producers including Sia and will.i.am to achieve her desired sound. Furthermore, the record features guest vocals from Spears's younger sister Jamie Lynn, T.I., and will.i.am. Musically, Britney Jean contains strong elements of EDM and pop.

Contents

Upon its release, Britney Jean received mixed reviews from music critics, who felt the album was impersonal despite its marketing, and were ambivalent towards its dated production. The album drew controversy over the authenticity of some vocals. [2] The record debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 107,000 copies. In doing so, it became Spears' lowest-peaking and lowest-selling record in the United States. The same happened in the United Kingdom, where it debuted at number 34; worldwide, Britney Jean reached the top 20 and top 30 in most countries. The album was eventually certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined album-equivalent units of 500,000.

"Work Bitch" was released as the lead single from Britney Jean on September 17, 2013. The track debuted and peaked at number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was a moderate success worldwide, later becoming one of her signature songs. [3] "Perfume" was released as the second single from the album on November 3, 2013, and peaked at number 76 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Til It's Gone" impacted French radio on December 4, 2013, and "It Should Be Easy" impacted Italian radio on June 13, 2014, as the third and fourth single from the album, respectively. No further promotion was done for the record, a situation which was reported in the media. However, Spears appeared on Good Morning America on September 17, 2013, to announce a two-year (eventually extended to four years) residency show at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas, titled Britney: Piece of Me, which began on December 27, 2013, and concluded on December 31, 2017.

Recording and production

"I wanted to just go to lunch for two months, which is totally different from how you typically do it. I said, 'Let's talk about what you're excited about. Let's talk about things you've done in your career, what you're happy about. Let's talk about spending time with your kids, let's talk about your breakup. Let's talk about how now you're single, how independent you might feel.' We started talking about all that stuff. So I said, 'do you mind if I write this down? I don't mean to impose but I want to interview you. I need this to create a filter.'"

 — will.i.am describing his relationship with Spears during production of Britney Jean. [4]

In 2012, while serving as a judge on the second season of the American version of The X Factor , Spears was spotted in the recording studio with producer Rodney Jerkins. [5] Songwriter Elijah Blake commented that Spears was "definitely trying to push the envelope" by "playing with new textures and stomping on new grounds and genres." [6] Their collaborations, however, were denied by Spears's representative, though he confirmed that producer Hit-Boy worked with Spears to create a "global sound" fusing elements of hip-hop and pop. [7] [8] Producer Scoop DeVille had also worked with Spears for the album's early stages. [9] Additionally, Spears had also recorded an unused song titled "Police" with rapper Wiz Khalifa for the album. [10] In an interview with Shape , Spears described the album's initial concept as having a hip-hop feel, saying "the record is definitely going to be more hip-hop than pop this time around." [11]

In May 2013, Naughty Boy and William Orbit were announced to be working on the record; the former expressed his satisfaction with his collaborations with Spears, adding that he had wanted always wanted to "do something a bit different." [12] He commented that he is "a big fan of pop music and that culture", and wanted to "keep that going [...] in [his] own kind of style." [13] Later that month, will.i.am was confirmed as the executive producer of the project. He described that his recording process differed from his past experience with the Black Eyed Peas, elaborating that "[he and Spears] had these juicy sessions, where [they had] been bonding, building the trust and comfort." [4] The album's associate executive producer was Anthony Preston for will.i.am music. In July 2013, Spears acknowledged through Twitter that she "wrote such a special song" with Sia, [14] which was later revealed to be Spears's favorite track, the ballad "Perfume". [15] The following month, she reportedly traveled to Lake District in the United Kingdom to continue work with Naughty Boy and Orbit. [16] Naughty Boy later stated he was not able to work on the material for the album with Orbit because he "wasn't able to come to L.A. at the time [as he] was promoting 'La La La' around the world." [17] Charli XCX revealed in a 2022 interview that she wrote material for the album, but none of it made the cut. [18]

On numerous occasions, Spears has considered Britney Jean to be the most personal record from her catalog. [19] [20] She stated that her experiences in recent years, including her break-up with ex-fiancé Jason Trawick, [19] encouraged her to "dig deeper and write songs that [she thinks] everyone can relate to." [21] Spears added that the production of the record was an "amazing experience" and that her colleagues "helped [her] bring [her ideas] to life." [21] Spears told Rudolph, "I want Will to be a central figure in the album; I don't want to have hundreds of songs sent over." [22]

Music and lyrics

"Passenger" was originally recorded by Katy Perry for her album Prism. Katy Perry NRJ 2014 3.jpg
"Passenger" was originally recorded by Katy Perry for her album Prism .

Britney Jean has been described as a concept album about "the loneliness of pop life." [23] The opening track "Alien" deems celebrity an isolating experience that Spears describes in terms of feeling like an extraterrestrial [24] over synth bleaps, [25] which according to some critics, "it echoes William Orbit work with Madonna on Ray of Light ." [26] [27] The second track "Work Bitch" is an EDM song, [28] where Spears sings about what it takes to be rich, famous and beautiful, [24] repeatedly encouraging listeners to "get to work, bitch." [28] The third track "Perfume" is a 1980s-influenced power ballad, which Spears described as "incredibly special to me because it hits close to home, and I think the story is relatable to everyone. Everyone's been through an insecure moment in a relationship that's left them vulnerable and I think this song captures that." [29] [30] The fourth track "It Should Be Easy", which features will.i.am, insists that love "shouldn't be complicated," with Spears imagining a bright-normal-future with a man who's stolen her heart, [24] with "robotized" voice and EDM beats. [31] The song was heavily criticized for the excessive use of Auto-Tune, credited by will.i.am. [32] [33] The album's fifth track "Tik Tik Boom" finds Spears begging a lover to make her "tik, tik, tik, tik, boom" over trap beats. [26] It was described as a "club banger" and "the closest the album comes to bringing Blackout 2.0 to life," featuring a "sex-drenched" appearance from rapper T.I. [34]

"Body Ache" follows with its lyrical theme about dancing hard in a club, over shrieking sirens and EDM beats, [35] whilst "Til It's Gone" gives value to the stability of a good relationship, albeit after it dissolves, [24] with its electronic and EDM sounds. [23] [36] With the eighth track "Passenger,” which noodles around with some EDM impulses before imploding into "brooding" pop-rock, [31] Spears emotes about finding happiness after being willing to cede control. [37] "Chillin' with You" features Spears's younger sister Jamie Lynn into a song about grasping at happiness over lush trap, EDM and country pop sound. [27] The album's closing track on the standard edition, "Don't Cry", opens with a spaghetti Western-esque whistle, [31] and it finds Spears refusing to give in to post-relationship grief. [24] Some critics labelled it "her best vocal performance on the album." [32] [37]

Title and artwork

On October 15, 2013, during an appearance on Capital London, she announced that the record would be titled Britney Jean, a nickname used affectionately by her family and friends. [38] On October 24, together with an open letter to her fans, Spears unveiled the album artwork. The black-and-white image depicts a close-up image of Spears with the term "Britney Jean" colored in blue lettering inside a pink heart near the bottom of the cover. [39] A report from ABC News Radio likened the usage of Spears's middle name in the album's title to being inspired by Janet Jackson's eighth studio album Damita Jo , saying "taking a page from Janet Jackson's 2004 album, Damita Jo, Britney Spears has combined her first and middle names—Britney Jean—to come up with the title." [40] A writer for The Huffington Post later suggested that the neon-style typography was inspired by the cover of Miley Cyrus' fourth studio album Bangerz (2013), which itself depicts a blonde Cyrus wearing a short black coat with the title "Bangerz" stylized in fluorescent neon lighting in front of palm trees. [41] While the typography was compared to that of Bangerz by a writer from The Huffington Post, Britney Jean marks the third album artwork from RCA Records to use a neon-style typography design, Bangerz from Miley Cyrus being one and the other being Mechanical Bull from Kings of Leon. Byron Flitsch of MTV News shared a similar sentiment, and added that the artwork was reminiscent of Spears’s fourth and seventh records In the Zone (2003) and Femme Fatale (2011). [42] On November 4, a colorized version of the cover was unveiled as the primary visual for the standard edition, [43] with the original cover becoming the primary visual for the deluxe edition. [44]

Release and promotion

In May 2013, record producer Danja, who collaborated with Spears during its production, commented that he "[doesn't] know when the next [Blackout] is going to be, but [he believes] there's going to be another one." [45] On August 20, 2013, Spears relaunched her website with a countdown ending on September 17, originally speculated to be the release date of her then-unannounced lead single. [46] On September 17, Spears announced on Good Morning America that her album would be released on December 3, 2013, in the United States, the day after her 32nd birthday. [47] On November 4, the album was made available for pre-order through the iTunes Store. [48] Spears revealed the track listing for Britney Jean on November 12, which she implied was earlier than she planned after hackers "[tried] to ruin [her] surprises." [49] On November 20, the album leaked online, prompting the singer to address the leaks by saying: "To those of you listening to the leaks... I hope you love... I made this album specifically for my diehard fans so I'm just hoping every song touches you because each one is a piece of me.” [50] Five days later, Britney Jean was made available for streaming in full through the iTunes Store and iTunes Radio. [51] The record is additionally marked with the Parental Advisory label, [43] affixed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to identify explicit content. [52]

Unlike her previous records, excluding her fifth studio album Blackout (2007), [53] Spears did not heavily promote Britney Jean, [54] and no promotional performances in support of the album took place. However, she appeared on Good Morning America to announce her two-year residency show at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, titled Britney: Piece of Me, on September 17. [55] Spears then traveled to the United Kingdom to promote the lead single and the album on Alan Carr: Chatty Man .[ citation needed ] She also appeared for interviews on The Ellen DeGeneres Show , [56] Entertainment Tonight , [57] and Surprise Surprise . [58] Britney Jean was additionally promoted through the documentary I Am Britney Jean, which premiered through E! on December 22; it covered the production and lead-up to its release and the launch of Britney: Piece of Me. [59] The original airing of the special in the United States was viewed by 0.706 million viewers, garnering above-average Sunday ratings for the network, [60] [61] while it was viewed by 0.63 million viewers in the United Kingdom. [62] Britney: Piece of Me began on December 27, with tickets having been first made available on September 20. [63]

Singles

"Work Bitch" was released as the lead single from Britney Jean on September 15, 2013, one day earlier than expected after a low-quality version was leaked by "one bad apple". [64] A writer for MuuMuse described the track as a "massive return to form" and an "exciting way to kick off a brand new era". [65] It debuted and peaked at number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 with 174,000 first-week downloads, [66] and charted moderately on national singles charts internationally. [67] An accompanying music video for the track was premiered on October 1, where Spears is depicted as a dominatrix-like character. [68] It received general acclaim from critics, with particular praise directed towards her dancing. [69] However, Spears herself commented that she felt forced into maintaining her provocative image, elaborating that she "cut out half the video because I am a mother and because, you know, I have children, and it's just hard to play sexy mom while you're being a pop star as well". [70]

"Perfume" was released as the second single from Britney Jean on November 3, 2013. [71] It received generally favorable reviews from music critics, and was compared to Spears's earlier song "Everytime", taken from her fourth studio album In the Zone (2003). [72] The track debuted and peaked at number 76 on the Billboard Hot 100. [73]

"Til It's Gone" was sent to French radio as the third single on December 4, 2013, where it failed to chart. [74]

Official remixes for "It Should Be Easy" were commissioned and serviced to clubs in January 2014. A spokesperson for Spears said that it would not see a release as a fourth single and that the remixes were "commissioned purely to be used in nightclubs". [75] However, on June 13, 2014, "It Should Be Easy" was made available to Italian radio stations, according to EarOne. [76] "It Should Be Easy" charted at number 121 in France, number 88 in Canada and number 71 in Switzerland due to digital downloads. [77]

Official remixes for "Tik Tik Boom" were also commissioned and serviced in February 2014. [78] "Tik Tik Boom" charted at number 16 on South Korea's International Gaon Digital Chart. [79]

In the documentary I Am Britney Jean, Spears mentions "Alien" becoming a single from the album at some point, but this never came to fruition. [80] Despite not being released as a single, "Alien" charted at number eight on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100, [81] and 147 on the French Singles Chart, [82] organized by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?4.9/10 [83]
Metacritic 50/100 [84]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [85]
The A.V. Club C [26]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [27]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [33]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [32]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [86]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [87]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [23]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [36]
Spin 3/10 [25]

Britney Jean received mixed-to-negative reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 50, which indicates "mixed or average reviews", based on 21 reviews. [84] Jason Lipshutz from Billboard provided a favorable review, describing the project as a "transitional record [as] her first album released in her thirties", and felt it was reminiscent of Spears's third studio album Britney (2001). [31] Nick Catucci of Entertainment Weekly shared a similar sentiment, stating that he "treasures" Spears for "[remaining] as enigmatic as the Disney-groomed, emotionally insulated teen who greeted us in the late '90s", and adding that will.i.am's production "happily indulges the fantasies of endorphin-seeking EDM festival goers." [33] Writing for Rolling Stone , Rob Sheffield described Britney Jean as a "concept album about the loneliness of pop life – with a high-profile broken engagement behind her, Brit gets personal and drops her most bummed-out music ever." [23]

Some critics felt the album was impersonal despite its marketing. Chicago Tribune compared the album's contents to its title, noting: "the hype about her most 'personal' album yet begins with the album title [...] which promotes a sense of intimacy that the songs never quite deliver." [27] The Atlantic described the album as "her most disappointing release yet", calling it "dull" and criticized the album's content matter, noting that "glimpses into Britney Jean Spears, the artist, are, frankly, neither interesting nor informative." [88] Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph stated that Britney Jean "continues the striptease of Britney's career", and felt that its production prevented the record from coming across as a genuinely personal effort. [89] Billboard noted that the album did "not fully shed light on its author's current mindset", [90] and The New York Times described the album as being "about as personal as an airline preboarding announcement." [91]

The production on the album was also pointed out by critics. Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine provided a mixed review, criticizing the album's "dated production and vocals that hark back to the days when Brit was selling 10 million [records]." [36] Barry Walters from Spin criticized will.i.am's production on the album, claiming that the songs he produced "replace[d] melody with repetition and familiarity," but praised Spears's vocal delivery on "Don't Cry". [25]

Accolades

YearAwardCategoryNominee(s)ResultRef.
2013 Billboard Mid-Year Music Award Most Anticipated EventBritney Jean [a] Won [92]
2014 PopCrush Fan Choice Award Song of the Year"Work Bitch"Nominated [93]
Video of the YearNominated
Best Music DocumentaryI Am Britney JeanNominated
2014 World Music Award World's Best AlbumBritney JeanNominated [94]
World's Best Song"Work Bitch"Nominated [95]
"Perfume"Nominated
World's Best Video"Work Bitch"Nominated [96]
"Perfume"Nominated
Listicles for Britney Jean
PublicationYearAccoladeForRankRef.
Billboard 2014Top Billboard 200 Albums (Year-End List Female)Britney Jean18th
Top Billboard 200 Albums (Year-End List Overall)Britney Jean74th [97]
2015Best Music Video of the 2010s Work B**ch 1st [98]

Commercial performance

Prior to its release in the United States, Britney Jean was initially predicted to sell 150–200,000 copies, with Hits Daily Double crediting the underwhelming numbers to "her very light promo schedule, with little or no TV around the release." [99] However, the day following its release, potential sales figures were lowered to 115–120,000 units. [100] The album debuted at number four with 107,000 units. [101] It is Spears's lowest sales and chart debut for a studio set. Previously, her 1999 debut album, ...Baby One More Time , tallied her smallest start with 121,000. [101] In its second week on the chart, the album fell from number four to number 22 on the Billboard 200, making it Spears's first album to spend only one week in the top ten. [102] As of May 2020, Britney Jean has sold 280,000 copies in the United States. [103]

In Europe, Britney Jean debuted at number 34 on the UK Albums Chart, selling 12,959 copies in its first week. [104] In doing so, it became Spears's lowest-charting album in the country; by comparison, her previous lowest-charting record In the Zone (2003) peaked at number 13. [105] It dropped to number 87 the next week. [106] Internationally, Britney Jean reached the top 20 and 30 in most countries. However, the album debuted at number one in China. [107] [108]

Track listing

Britney Jean– Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Alien"
  • Orbit
  • HyGrade
  • Preston [a]
3:56
2."Work Bitch"
4:08
3."Perfume"
4:00
4."It Should Be Easy" (featuring will.i.am)
3:29
5."Tik Tik Boom" (featuring T.I.)
  • Preston
  • LeRoy [b]
2:57
6."Body Ache"
  • Guetta
  • Tuinfort
  • will.i.am
  • Preston [a]
3:26
7."Til It's Gone"
  • Tuinfort
  • will.i.am
  • Preston [b]
3:43
8."Passenger"
3:41
9."Chillin' with You" (featuring Jamie Lynn)
  • Spears
  • Adams
  • Preston
  • Joshua Lopez
  • will.i.am
  • Freshmen III [b]
  • Preston [a]
3:39
10."Don't Cry"
  • Spears
  • Adams
  • Lopez
  • Gonzalez
3:15
Total length:36:08
Britney Jean– Deluxe edition (bonus tracks)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
11."Brightest Morning Star"
3:00
12."Hold on Tight"
3:28
13."Now That I Found You"
  • Tuinfort
  • will.i.am
  • Preston [b]
4:17
14."Perfume" (The Dreaming Mix)
  • Spears
  • Furler
  • Braide
Braide4:02
Total length:50:48
Britney Jean– Japanese and Chinese edition (bonus tracks) [109]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
15."Work Bitch" (The Jane Doze Remix)
  • Spears
  • Adams
  • Jettman
  • Ingrosso
  • Preston
  • Cunningham
  • Ingrosso
  • Otto Knows
  • will.i.am
  • Preston [a]
  • The Jane Doze [d]
2:59
16."Work Bitch" (7th Heaven Remix)
  • Spears
  • Adams
  • Jettman
  • Ingrosso
  • Preston
  • Cunningham
  • Ingrosso
  • Otto Knows
  • will.i.am
  • Preston [a]
  • 7th Heaven [d]
4:27
Total length:58:34

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic. [112]

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Britney Jean
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [144] Gold40,000^
France—25,000 [145]
Japan—8,417 [146]
Mexico (AMPROFON) [147] Gold30,000^
South Korea—1,880 [148]
United States (RIAA) [149] Gold500,000‡
Venezuela (APFV) [150] Gold5,000 [151]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Britney Jean release history
RegionDateEdition(s)Format(s)LabelRef.
AustraliaNovember 29, 2013Deluxe
 Sony [152]
Finland
  • Standard
  • deluxe
 [153] [154]
Germany [155] [156]
FranceDecember 2, 2013 [157] [158]
United KingdomDeluxe RCA [159]
CanadaDecember 3, 2013
  • Standard
  • deluxe
Sony [160] [161]
United StatesRCA [162] [163]
JapanDecember 4, 2013DeluxeSony [164]
PhilippinesJanuary 17, 2014CDIvory [165]
ChinaApril 14, 2014Sony [166]
United StatesApril 17, 2020Vinyl (Urban Outfitters exclusive) Legacy [167]
May 17, 2021 [168]
May 23, 2021Cassette (Urban Outfitters exclusive) [169]
March 31, 2023StandardVinyl [170]

Notes

  1. ↑ At the time of 2013 Billboard Mid-Year Music Awards, the title of the album had not yet been revealed, therefore Britney Jean was nominated as "[Spears's] next musical project.” [92]

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Oops!... I Did It Again is the second studio album by American singer Britney Spears released on May 3, 2000, by Jive Records. Following the enormous commercial success of her debut studio album ...Baby One More Time (1999) and the completion of its accompanying concert tour of the same title, Spears began recording material for her second studio album in September 1999. Pressured to duplicate the success of ...Baby One More Time, she collaborated with a wide range of producers, including Max Martin, Rami Yacoub, Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Kristian Lundin, Jake Schulze, Darkchild, and Robert John "Mutt" Lange for Oops!... I Did It Again. The final result was a pop, dance-pop and teen pop record exceedingly in the vein of ...Baby One More Time, but incorporating funk and R&B. The production, sonic quality, and Spears's vocal performance received critical acclaim upon the album's release.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Scream & Shout</span> 2012 single by will.i.am and Britney Spears

"Scream & Shout" is a song by American musician will.i.am and American singer Britney Spears, taken from the former's fourth studio album #willpower (2012). It was released on November 20, 2012, by Interscope Records as the second single from the album, and sent to mainstream radio in the United States on November 27. The song was written by will.i.am, Jef Martens, Tulisa, Jean Baptiste and was produced by Martens under the alias Lazy Jay, with additional production by will.i.am. "Scream & Shout" is an upbeat dance pop song; its lyrics are about having a good time on a night out. It includes a reference to the lyric "Britney, bitch" from Spears' 2007 single "Gimme More".

<i>The Singles Collection</i> (Britney Spears album) 2009 greatest hits album by Britney Spears

The Singles Collection is the second greatest hits album by American singer Britney Spears. It was released on November 10, 2009, through Jive Records to commemorate her ten-year anniversary since entering the music industry. The compilation was released in many different formats, including a one-disc edition, a CD+DVD edition and a box set, which contained twenty-nine singles, each packaged in its own slip case with original cover art. The CD+DVD edition, as well as the box set, contains a DVD with Spears's music videos.

<i>Femme Fatale</i> (Britney Spears album) 2011 studio album by Britney Spears

Femme Fatale is the seventh studio album by American singer Britney Spears. It was released on March 25, 2011, by Jive Records, and was her last album with the label before they shut down later in October of the same year as she was moved to RCA Records. Musically, Spears wanted to make a "fresh-sounding" and "fierce dance album", thus incorporating dance-pop, electropop, EDM and synth-pop styles with elements of dubstep, techno and electro in its sound. Spears began working on the album during the second leg of her tour The Circus Starring Britney Spears (2009), while also contributing to her second greatest hits album The Singles Collection (2009). Spears collaborated with various producers including Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Fraser T Smith, Rodney Jerkins, Bloodshy, will.i.am, Stargate, and Travis Barker.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">I Wanna Go</span> 2011 single by Britney Spears

"I Wanna Go" is a song by American singer Britney Spears from her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale (2011). It was written and produced by Max Martin and Shellback, with additional writing by Savan Kotecha. Spears first posted on her Twitter account a link to a clip of the song in February 2011, a month prior to the album's release. Following a poll on her official website, "I Wanna Go" was chosen as the third single of the album, and Jive Records released it on June 14, 2011.

<i>B in the Mix: The Remixes Vol. 2</i> 2011 remix album by Britney Spears

B in the Mix: The Remixes Vol. 2 is the second remix album by American singer Britney Spears. The follow-up to B in the Mix: The Remixes (2005), it was released on October 7, 2011 by Jive Records. On September 9, 2011, Spears announced the release by posting the cover artwork and track listing on her Tumblr account. The album includes remixes of various tracks from her studio albums Blackout (2007), Circus (2008) and Femme Fatale (2011), as well as a remix of "3" and, exclusively in Japan, a remix of "My Prerogative". The remixes were done by disc jockeys such as Kaskade, Tiësto and Benny Benassi. The music was influenced by various subgenres of pop music, such as disco and house. The album was released the same day RCA absorbed Jive Records.

<i>Bangerz</i> 2013 studio album by Miley Cyrus

Bangerz is the fourth studio album by American singer Miley Cyrus, released on September 30, 2013, by RCA Records. It is her first body of original work since leaving Hollywood Records after her third studio album Can't Be Tamed (2010) and signing with RCA in early 2013. Cyrus began working on the album, and decided against prioritizing her acting career as originally stated, in 2012. Bangerz is a pop, hip hop and R&B record, with lyrical themes that revolve largely around romance. It is a shift from Cyrus' previous work, which she felt "disconnected" from. Pop singer Britney Spears and rappers Big Sean, French Montana, Future, Ludacris, and Nelly appear as guest vocalists.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Work Bitch</span> 2013 single by Britney Spears

"Work Bitch" is a song by American singer Britney Spears released as the lead single for her eighth studio album, Britney Jean (2013). It was written by Spears, will.i.am, Otto Knows, Sebastian Ingrosso, Anthony Preston and Ruth-Anne Cunningham. The song's production was handled by Ingrosso, Jettman and Adams, while vocal production was done by Adams and Preston. "Work Bitch" made its premiere on September 15, 2013, on iHeartRadio and select Clear Channel radio stations and was released as the lead single from the album on September 16, 2013, by RCA Records from the record alongside a clean version titled "Work Work".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Perfume (Britney Spears song)</span> 2013 single by Britney Spears

"Perfume" is a song by American singer Britney Spears, taken from her eighth studio album, Britney Jean (2013). It was written by Spears, Sia and Christopher Braide, while the song was produced by will.i.am and co-produced by Keith Harris and Braide. The song was released as the second single from the album on November 3, 2013 by RCA Records. "Perfume" is a synth-pop, power ballad, which is influenced by music of the 1980s. Lyrically, the song is built around themes of jealousy and suspicion in a relationship. Spears revealed that the song was about her split with her ex-fiancé, Jason Trawick, in early 2013.

"Alien" is a song recorded by American singer Britney Spears for her eighth studio album, Britney Jean (2013). It was written by Spears, William Orbit, Dan Traynor, Ana Diaz, and Anthony Preston, and produced by Orbit and HyGrade. "Alien" is a mid-tempo dance-pop song, which lyrically discusses Spears's feelings of loneliness.

"It Should Be Easy" is a song recorded by American singer Britney Spears for her eighth studio album, Britney Jean (2013). It features the vocal collaboration of American rapper will.i.am. The song was written by Spears, will.i.am, David Guetta, Giorgio Tuinfort, Nicky Romero and Marcus van Wattum. According to EarOne, it was made available to Italian radio stations on June 13, 2014. It is the third collaboration between Spears and will.i.am, following "Big Fat Bass" from Spears' seventh studio album Femme Fatale (2011), and "Scream & Shout" from will.i.am's fourth studio album #willpower (2013).

<i>Glory</i> (Britney Spears album) 2016 studio album by Britney Spears

Glory is the ninth studio album by American singer Britney Spears, released on August 26, 2016, through RCA Records. After renewing her contract with RCA, Spears began work on the album in 2014. Lacking a deadline for completion, she continued work into 2015 and 2016, which, according to Spears, provided her with the opportunity to create one of her favorite albums in her catalog. Primarily a pop record, it also contains elements of R&B, EDM, and hip hop music.

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