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"Me Against the Music" is a dance-pop and hip hop song with "funky guitar riffs" and "rapid-fire singing". [2] [4] [10] [11] The song features Madonna, but was constructed as a duet after she was added to the track. Spears and Madonna trade lines during the verses, and Madonna sings solo in the bridge. [4] Stewart described the sound as "half-rapping, half-singing" and "beat-driven". [2] According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com, "Me Against the Music" is set in a moderate dance beat, with a tempo of 120 beats per minute. Spears's vocal range span from the low-note of G2 to the high-note of B4. [12] Gavin Mueller of Stylus Magazine deemed Spears's vocals as "sexy and sultry" and compared them to those of Prince. [13]

In the song, Spears and Madonna sing of the pleasures of letting go on the dancefloor, in lyrics such as "I'm up against the speaker / Trying to take on the music / It's like a competition". [4] Spears explained the concept of the song as "basically about just going to a club and letting yourself go and battling with whoever is around you and battling against the music as well." [5] Magnet continued, saying, "Like she was hearing the music and trying to out-dance the track or out-beat the drum or out-pluck the guitar. It's as if she's in the club, losing herself in the music." [2] William Shaw of Blender stated Madonna's verse could be interpreted as her passing the baton to a new talent, as well as "a taunt from the old guard to the uptight youngster." [6]

A number of remixes were commissioned by Jive Records to accompany the release. The Australian CD singles included remixes by artists such Peter Rauhofer, Rishi Rich, Passengerz and Terminalhead. [14] [15] The US CD single also contained remixes by Trak Starz, Gabriel & Dresden, Bloodshy & Avant and Kanye West. [16] The Rishi Rich's Desi Kulcha Remix was later included in the track list of In the Zone. The remix removes the original melody of the song and adds a clattering backbeat and Punjabi shouts. Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times called the remix "excellent", noting that it is "so frenetic you barely notice Ms. Spears and Madonna – it's odd to hear two such ubiquitous figures sounding so anonymous." [17] There are two remixes released which do not feature Madonna; the Bloodshy & Avant's Chix Mix was released on Spears's first EP accompanying the Britney Spears: In the Zone video, while the DragonMan Remix appears on the Dare for More Pepsi promotional CD, [18] the New Divas 2004 compilation album and the Japan Tour edition of Glory. Spears had also contacted Outkast to remix "Me Against the Music" but the remix was not released. [19]

Critical response

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Spears performing "Me Against the Music" at The Onyx Hotel Tour

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic selected "Me Against the Music" as one of the 'track picks' from In the Zone. [20] Caryn Ganz of Spin called the song "a fine specimen of Britney 4.0 – a fast-paced dance anthem, all grinding percussion shuttling through a traffic jam of synths." [21] Dave De Sylvia of Sputnikmusic said that "Aside from numerous rather awful name-dropping passages and a disappointing chorus, the track is an ideal way to open the album. It's an up-tempo dance track with a big name attached; what else could you ask for?" [22] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine deemed it as "arguably one of Britney's finest moments and one of her mentor's worst". [23] Nick Southall of Stylus Magazine said that "Madonna vamps it up (literally – her appearance here is not Sapphic but vampiric, the wizened old crone bleeding another period of forced longevity into her career like a cruenating corpse leaking plasma backwards) on 'Me Against The Music', but can't make it a bad tune." [24] Gavin Mueller, also writing for Stylus Magazine, said that the single "benefits from a kinetic garage-inspired beat, even when a tepid Madonna threatens to spoil the fun." [13]

Spence D. of IGN commented, "Initially catchy, it's ultimately forgettable other than it's the musical counterpart/fallout to/from the duo's lip lock publicity stunt on the 2003 MTV Music Video Awards." [25] Jamie Gill of Yahoo! Music Radio stated that "Madonna's appearance on the brilliantly titled but deeply dreary 'Me Against The Music' was a postmodern prank designed to make all sane listeners think 'actually, American Life was pretty good, after all.'" [26] While reviewing The Singles Collection , Mayer Nissim of Digital Spy said that "the only arguable weak link is the Madonna-featuring 'Me Against The Music', but in this context what once looked like a respectful passing of the baton now seems like an unconditional surrender of pop Queendom to its rightful heir." [27] David Browne of Entertainment Weekly called "Me Against the Music" "the album's coy, overly busy single". [28] Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian noted it as "the only duff track" of the album. [29] Jon Pareles of Rolling Stone wrote, "Madonna shows up in the album's first song, 'Me Against the Music', as if endorsing Spears's foray into come-hither posing and club-land beats." [30]

Larry Flick from The Advocate denounced the track as an "'Into the Groove' redux". He added that the song "propels the listener into Spears' collaborations with heavy-hitting producers. There's nary a hint of her pristine pop past on Kelly's hip-grinding 'Outrageous' or Perry's 'Girls & Boys'. Instead Spears swims through dark, often hip-hop hued waters with occasional forays into minor keyed electro dance terrain." [31] Ali Fenwick of The Johns Hopkins News-Letter said, "Despite bringing out the big guns in a duet with Madonna, 'Me Against The Music' is not danceable, the measure of success in any pop tune." [32] Linda McGee of RTÉ.ie commented that although much of the content of In the Zone is "catchy", "it is hard to see any potential singles impressing as much as 'Me Against The Music'." [33] Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times deemed it as "an odd, overstuffed track, not so much a song as a series of party chants". [17] Mim Udovitch of Blender called it "lackluster". [34] While ranking Madonna's singles in honor of her 60th birthday, The Guardian's Jude Rogers placed the song at number 71, writing that "[Madonna] is usually better when she's striding alone. This duet with Britney is all raunch and no solid roots". [35]

Commercial performance

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Spears performing "Me Against the Music" at the 2003 NFL Kickoff Live

On October 25, 2003, "Me Against the Music" debuted at number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Spears' 10th chart hit, as well as the first of her entries that she had co-written. "Me Against the Music" was incidentally Madonna's 50th chart entry, 20 years after her first appearance on the Hot 100 with "Holiday" the week of October 29, 1983. It was also the first song in chart history to credit Madonna as a featured artist, and her first chart entry not produced by her since "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" in 1996. [36] On the issue dated November 29, 2003, "Me Against the Music" peaked at number 35. [37] On the component charts, the song peaked at the top of Hot Dance Club Songs, becoming her first song to do so, and at number 11 on Pop Songs. [38] [39] It won the "Hot Dance Single of the Year" accolade at the 2004 Billboard Music Awards. [40] In June 2012, Nielsen Soundscan reported that "Me Against the Music" sold 60,000 physical copies and 281,000 digital downloads in the US. [41] "Me Against the Music" also peaked at number two on the Canadian Singles Chart. [42]

In Australia, "Me Against the Music" debuted at number one on November 17, 2003, replacing Kylie Minogue's "Slow", and remained at the top for two weeks. [43] It was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipments of 70,000 units. [44] On November 24, 2003, the song debuted at number 13 in New Zealand. [45] "Me Against the Music" debuted in the United Kingdom at number two, on the week of November 16, 2003. It was blocked from ascending the top spot by Busted's "Crashed the Wedding". The song became Spears' most successful single since "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" in April 2002. [46] According to the Official Charts Company, the song has sold 240,000 copies there. [47] "Me Against the Music" also topped the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles chart for three consecutive weeks. [48] The song topped the charts in Denmark, Hungary and Ireland; reached number two in Italy and Norway; the top five in Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia), Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands. "Me Against the Music" also charted in the top 20 of Austria and France. [49]

Music video

Development

The music video for "Me Against the Music" was filmed over three days in October 2003, at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, New York. [50] It was directed by Paul Hunter, who revealed that the concept was setting Spears and Madonna apart, hence Spears wore a black outfit whereas Madonna sported a white suit. [5] Kevin Tancharoen was the choreographer of the video. [51] The vehicle used in the video, a Mazda RX-8, was autographed by Spears on the hood and auctioned off to benefit the Britney Spears Foundation. [52] In 2009, Hunter talked to MTV News about the video, saying, "Madonna is an icon of an earlier generation, and then Britney of the newer generation. She was at her peak at that point [...] So it was a challenge to kind of bring both of the worlds together. I wanted it to be a bit of a cat-and-mouse sort of game and a little bit of a foreplay between Britney and Madonna and just sort of tease the audience." [5]

Synopsis

The video starts with Spears parking a silver Mazda RX-8 and going into a New York nightclub. [53] She enters a wooden room populated with 'cool kids' flaunting pink and purple hair while taking whiffs from an oxygen tank. Madonna, who is in a room filled with men smoking cigars, observes her from television monitors throughout the club. [53] She wears a white trouser suit and carries a cane, signifying a position of moneyed power. Her suit is also notably fitted, especially in the waistcoat, revealing Madonna's body to be female and not masculine. [54] Although the areas are separated by a wall, Spears and Madonna sense their presences through extrasensory perception and dance in synchronicity. [53] Julie Andsager in Sex in consumer culture (2006) noted that the video hints at a same-sex relationship between the two. [55]

This is followed with Spears performing a dance routine inside a blacklight paint graffiti room, and the two women dancing around a metal bedframe. [56] Spears then begins chasing Madonna in a wooden-like maze, and the latter enters a room covered with fallen leaves and stands in a swing. Once Spears finds the room, Madonna is nowhere to be found. [53] Throughout the video, Madonna gradually loses her symbolic power, paralleled by her disposing the cane and jacket, becoming less phallic and more noticeably female biologically and more feminine socially. Although it ultimately seems that Spears becomes the dominant figure, Madonna recovers her phallic power in the form of a cigar from an onlooking male. [54] Spears appears in Madonna's room and throws her against the wall, and Madonna vanishes just as they are about to kiss. The video ends as Madonna's laugh is heard in the background. [56]

Release and reception

The video premiered on television on Making the Video on October 21, 2003, at 23:00 EDT. [53] Its online premiere was on Yahoo! Music. It was viewed more than two million times in its first five days. [57] The video reached number one on the AOL Music Top Video chart in November 2003, with 3,356,007 million streams. [58] In January 2004, the video topped the same chart again with 1,198,920 million streams. [59] Jocelyn Vena of MTV said, "It was the changing of the guard – or at least the meeting of two of the most influential pop musicians of all time. [...] The superstars tantalize the audience (and each other) throughout the flirty video." [5]

Julie Andsager stated the 'fantasy-fulfillment' strategy of Spears continued with the Madonna kiss and the "Me Against the Music" video, but added that "she has, perhaps, taken her sexuality to its extreme – for network television, at least – at the age of 21". [55] Laurenz Volkmann said that it showcases an entire range of different female roles between 'older' and 'younger' sign systems. [60] Author Judith Ann Peraino commented, "In 1963, Judy Garland presented Barbra Streisand as her protégée as songstress and gay icon; in 2003, Madonna instated Spears as her protégée in same-sex erotica and icon of polymorphous sexuality." [61] The music video received a nomination for the Outstanding Achievement in Choreography at the 10th American Choreography Awards. [62]

Live performances and usage in media

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Spears performing "Me Against the Music" at the Circus Tour

Spears performed "Me Against the Music" for the first time at the 2003 NFL Kickoff Live on September 4, 2003, at the National Mall. [63] She sported a shoulder-length blond wig and was dressed in black football pants, a black-and-white referee halter top and boots from Reebok. [63] The performance segued into a medley of "...Baby One More Time" and "I'm a Slave 4 U", which included pyrotechnics. [8] [52] [64] Her outfit was later auctioned off to benefit the Britney Spears Foundation. [52] On September 14, 2003, Spears played a surprise concert at Rain Nightclub in the Palms Casino Resort, and "Me Against the Music" was the first song in the set. [65] On October 18, 2003, the song was performed by Spears during the twenty-ninth season episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Halle Berry. [66] William Shaw of Blender stated, "Dancing and singing, Spears is in her element. She drips song-and-dance confidence. Within a few seconds, her shiny hat falls off, sending her blond hair everywhere, but Spears doesn't miss a step. When it comes to Madonna's verse, she can't help mouthing along to the words." [6] Spears opened the 2003 American Music Awards telecast with a performance of "Me Against the Music". She floated down on a wire from the rafters in a gold overcoat, which she quickly shed to reveal a pink bustier, black vinyl thigh-high boots and black hot pants. She was accompanied by a troupe of brightly dressed faux punk rock dancers and a dizzying set that featured shooting flames, Vegas-style neon signs and a massive video screen. [67]

It was also performed by Spears at Britney Spears: In the Zone, a concert special that aired in ABC on November 17, 2003. [68] The following day, she performed on the American music show TRL at Times Square, wearing a fedora and her signature half-shirt. [69] [70] "Me Against the Music" was also performed on American late-night show The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and American morning show Live with Regis and Kelly on November 17 and 24, 2003. [70] She performed the song as the headliner of the Jingle Ball on December 8, 2003, at the Staples Center. [71] The Rishi Rich's Desi Kulcha Remix of "Me Against the Music" was performed as the encore number of 2004's The Onyx Hotel Tour. It began with a system malfunction where a female voice counted down as the screens sketched Spears's outline, which then rose to reveal her at the top of a staircase. [72] Spears wore a red ensemble, an ended the performance on the staircase where the screen is lowered. She made her exit as a shower of confetti was shot towards the audience. [73] "Me Against the Music" was also performed on 2009's The Circus Starring Britney Spears, in a Bollywood-inspired group dancing routine which included mudras. Spears wore green and gold harem pants ensemble. [74] Jim Farber of Daily News said, "In a nod to trendiness, the shows included a mock-Bollywood dance sequence during 'Me Against The Music,' eagerly riding the 'Slumdog' gravy train." [75] Spears performed the song during her Las Vegas residency show Britney: Piece of Me. During the performance, Spears is seen doing a dance routine with walls made of wood, which is a resemblance to the labyrinth scene from its music video. [76]

Cover versions, samples and parodies

Track listings

"Me Against the Music"
Me Against the Music.png
Single by Britney Spears featuring Madonna
from the album In the Zone
ReleasedOctober 14, 2003 (2003-10-14)
Recorded2003
Genre
Length3:43
Label Jive
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Britney Spears singles chronology
"Anticipating"
(2002)		"Me Against the Music"
(2003)		"Toxic"
(2004)
Madonna singles chronology
"Hollywood"
(2003)		"Me Against the Music"
(2003)		"Nothing Fails"
(2003)

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of In the Zone . [85]

Recording

Personnel

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for "Me Against the Music"
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [44] Platinum70,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway) [131] Gold5,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [132] Silver240,000 [47]
United States (RIAA) [133] Gold500,000‡

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

Release history

Release dates and formats for "Me Against the Music"
RegionDateFormat(s)LabelRef.
United StatesOctober 14, 2003 Jive [134] [135]
October 21, 2003 12-inch vinyl [136]
JapanNovember 5, 2003 Maxi CD Avex Trax [102]
AustraliaNovember 10, 2003 BMG [137]
France Virgin
Germany
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • maxi CD
BMG [139] [140]
United Kingdom
 RCA [141]
FranceNovember 25, 2003 CD Virgin
United StatesDecember 9, 2003Maxi CDJive [143]

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"Till the World Ends" is a song by American singer Britney Spears from her seventh studio album, Femme Fatale (2011). It was written by Kesha, Dr. Luke, Alexander Kronlund, and Max Martin, while the production was handled by Luke, Martin and Billboard. It was released as the second single from the album on March 4, 2011 by Jive Records. "Till the World Ends" is an uptempo dance-pop, electropop and Eurodance song with an electro beat. It opens with sirens, and has elements of trance and Eurodance. The song features a chant-like chorus, and lyrics in which Spears sings about dancing until the end of the world. "Till the World Ends" received universal acclaim from critics, who deemed it a catchy dance track and complimented its anthemic nature.

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