Better late 90s debut (era) single? Britney Spears’ Baby One More Time, Christina Aguilera’s Genie In A Bottle, Jennifer Lopez’ If You Had My Love, Jessica Simpson’s I Wanna Love You Forever, or Mandy Moore’s Candy?

[The Femme Fatale]

How is this even a debate? One defined the late 90’s teen pop genre and the others just showed up after.

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Also saying BOMT has aged badly is ridiculous. You might wanna get your hearing checked.

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Like I’ve said, if you want to stan Xtuna so badly, then go to her forum with the other 5 fans of Xtuna. Stop trying to tear down Britney.

 

Edited February 7 by The Femme Fatale

[justin4britney]

5 hours ago, BadBunny said:

Quality /= quantity. If You Had My Love has the best video amongst the ones listed but GIAB is the overall better song.

Thanks for sharing

Literally nobody references the GIAB video as a pop culture moment…ever. 

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[BadBunny]

4 hours ago, The Femme Fatale said:

How is this even a debate? One defined the late 90’s teen pop genre and the others just showed up after.

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Also saying BOMT has aged badly is ridiculous. You might wanna get your hearing checked.

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Like I’ve said, if you want to stan Xtuna so badly, then go to her forum with the other 5 fans of Xtuna. Stop trying to tear down Britney.

 

Love BOMT but it doesn't get more generic. Oops, Slave, MATM and Gimme More at least had their own individuality and identity. BOMT sounded like a rehash of what Max Martin was doing for Backstreet Boys and Robyn from 1997-99.

Yes, ofc dear. We know. There is absolutely no denying that BOMT had the most impact but that's not what this thread is debating. Quality wise, GIAB feels more fresh to me and has aged better. 

[BadBunny]

4 hours ago, justin4britney said:

Literally nobody references the GIAB video as a pop culture moment…ever. 

This thread isn't debating which song had the biggest pop culture moment or impact. Obviously, the answer is BOMT. Can Britney fans not read bc y'all are too damn predictable at this point. 

[The Femme Fatale]

11 minutes ago, BadBunny said:

Love BOMT but it doesn't get more generic. Oops, Slave, MATM and Gimme More at least had their own individuality and identity. BOMT sounded like a rehash of what Max Martin was doing for Backstreet Boys and Robyn from 1997-99.

Yes, ofc dear. We know. There is absolutely no denying that BOMT had the most impact but that's not what this thread is debating. Quality wise, GIAB feels more fresh to me and has aged better. 

Idk how BOMT is generic. It also doesn’t sound like anything Robyn or BSB put out at that time. If you’re saying BOMT is generic, then GIAB is generic too since it was created for the same teeny bop genre of the late 90’s. BOMT had that iconic piano riff, GIAB has nothing memorable to it.

[descg]

Genie>Baby=Ifyouhadmylove>Candy>IWLF

So difficult the first 3.

[princessmimi]

I like all of these songs but I think my favorites would have to be BOMT and Genie.

I do like IWLYF but I'm a sucker for bubblegum pop.

Candy is a good song but its a little too Kidz bop Britney knock off for me

and If You Had My Love is alright, I think Waiting For Tonight is much better and should've been her debut single instead.

[descg]

32 minutes ago, princessmimi said:

 IThink Waiting For Tonight is much better and should've been her debut single instead.

Think that in the USA in the 90s and 00s it was R&B/pop that was popular. It would have been risky as a debut Waiting For Tonight there (and first you need to make in the USA for a brand, she was from there), If You Had My Love consolidated she as a star and that made Waiting For Tonight successful later. In fact was rare that a Dance/House genre song was succsesful in that era in USA.

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[princessmimi]

6 minutes ago, descg said:

Think that in the USA in the 90s and 00s it was R&B/pop that was popular. It would have been risky as a debut Waiting For Tonight there (and first you need to make in the USA for a brand, she was from there), If You Had My Love consolidated she as a star and that made Waiting For Tonight successful later. In fact was rare that a Dance/House genre song was succsesful in that era in USA.

Hm that makes sense.

Yeah as I recall about the late 90s and early 00s is that R&B and Pop were very popular.

Destiny's Child are a good example of a popular from both of those genres.

[Wendy Williams]

14 hours ago, Broccoli Spears said:

3: If You Had My Love

*most of this song jlo didn't sing btw 

I remember back in time Candy- 

Especially her goofy face expressions..

 

 

For me it's hard to rank those, because I can't bring back my past feelings about these. I liked them all.

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[descg]

18 minutes ago, princessmimi said:

Hm that makes sense.

Yeah as I recall about the late 90s and early 00s is that R&B and Pop were very popular.

Destiny's Child are a good example of a popular from both of those genres.

Even in the VMAs the category Dance Video was about Pop uptempo song or video with coreography, Dance-pop in USA was another concept that Dance in Europe (back then). Even the host says to JLo that Waiting For Tonight was really the only nominee song of that year being Dance genre:

 

[descg]

4 hours ago, The Femme Fatale said:

Idk how BOMT is generic. It also doesn’t sound like anything Robyn or BSB put out at that time. If you’re saying BOMT is generic, then GIAB is generic too since it was created for the same teeny bop genre of the late 90’s. BOMT had that iconic piano riff, GIAB has nothing memorable to it.

Yes, BOMT sounds similar to Robyn and BSB, but is catchy as ****.

GIAB is more futuristic and different from the music of that era.

[descg]

10 hours ago, justin4britney said:

Literally nobody references the GIAB video as a pop culture moment…ever. 

 

[descg]

12 hours ago, OutofKontrol said:

Plus the remix was hot too!

The remix is even better, i love the "castañuelas" flamenco thing, and T-Pain saids that when in 2001 they release the remix compilation and hears this remix with autotune in a radio advert from the album he wanted from him and the rest is history.

[Fall2Pieces]

My personal favorite is Candy! Ugh it gets me in the feels every time 😩💖

[BadBunny]

8 hours ago, The Femme Fatale said:

Idk how BOMT is generic. It also doesn’t sound like anything Robyn or BSB put out at that time. If you’re saying BOMT is generic, then GIAB is generic too since it was created for the same teeny bop genre of the late 90’s. BOMT had that iconic piano riff, GIAB has nothing memorable to it.

Do you not know anything about music? Do you know how to take your stan lenses off for a day in your life so you can stop being biased? Max was literally recycling and rehashing the same synths and drum patterns as he was doing for swedish artists like Jessica Folcker, Robyn, etc, as well as with the Backstreet Boys. 

As someone already said, GIAB had a more futuristic sound whereas BOMT followed a rather traditional formula which was heavily inspired by 80s glam metal meets 90s Swedish pop. Nevertheless, both are great songs but BOMT was obviously the most safer one and the video that went along with it cemented Britney’s status as an overnight icon. Again, why can’t we appreciate the fact that both songs are good? I just happen to slightly prefer GIAB. 

Edited February 7 by BadBunny

[BadBunny]

9 minutes ago, Fall2Pieces said:

My personal favorite is Candy! Ugh it gets me in the feels every time 😩💖

It has a nostalgic vibe to it so I’ll give you that, lol.

Edited February 7 by BadBunny

[BadBunny]

3 hours ago, descg said:

 

Oop drag it. 

[BadBunny]

3 hours ago, descg said:

Yes, BOMT sounds similar to Robyn and BSB, but is catchy as ****.

GIAB is more futuristic and different from the music of that era.

Thank you. It’s insane how Britney fans are too stuck in their own delusions to even realize that the instrumentation of BOMT was a rehash of what Max was doing for Robyn/BSB. And yes, GIAB is obviously more futuristic and risky whereas BOMT was more formulaic.