Product Description

This 'Greatest Hits' collection brings together Britney Spears' most popular tracks for the first time. From her 1999 debut single 'Baby One More Time' through to the newly recorded version of Bobby Brown's 'My Prerogative' the album features no less than seventeen classic Britney pop moments that have helped her secure numerous number one chart positions around the world.

Track Listing

1. My Prerogative
2. Toxic
3. I'm A Slave 4 U
4. Oops! I Did It Again
5. Me Against The Music-Feat Madonna
6. Stronger
7. Everytime
8. Baby One More Time
9. (You Drive Me) Crazy (The Stop! Remix)
10. Boys
11. Sometimes
12. Overprotected (The Darkchild Remix)
13. Lucky
14. Outrageous
15. Don’t Let Me Be The Last To Know
16. Born To Make You Happy
17. I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll
18. I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
19. I've Just Begun (Having My Fun)
20. Do Somethin'

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6664 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-08
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
No longer a baby, Britney Spears has become a pop princess to Madonna's (with whom she sings here) queen. Featuring all her biggest songs, Greatest Hits collects 17 tracks spanning her remarkable career so far. The tracks include her massive pop debut "Baby One More Time", the saucy "Oops!...I Did It Again", the funky Neptunes-produced "Slave 4 U", and the kickin' "Toxic".

Customer Reviews

So Many Hits!
This album shows plain and simple, all the Work of Britney Spears. Instant reminders of smash singles like Toxic, and baby one more time, aswell as reminding us of tracks like Dont let me be the last to know, and Sometimes. If you need reminding of just how much you like Britney Spears, buy this album!

The title says it all
This album is all the songs she has ever released plus two bonus tracks.
It is great because it is all her best songs, her singles were the best songs released from her album.
Great from start to finish, if you love Britney you will love this album!!

Presenting the Princess of Catchy Atrocity
It's hard to believe that it was as late as 1999 when Britney Spears first arrived in her Lolita-esque outfits and set the charts alight with her blend of anodyne pop, lip syncing and the kind of athletic body that allowed older men who knew better to forget she was far too young to be featuring in anything going on in their perverted minds. And now that the mandatory four albums have flown past in respective years, My Prerogative collates all of the singles that Britney has had the pleasure of releasing upon us, all the while proving how truly unremarkable she really is. Britney's appeal is slightly baffling; singing the kind of songs Madonna would have sung yester-decade courtesy of the highest paid producers in the US pop industry whilst portraying a bland innocence that belies her womanly sex kitten body. And it would ultimately appear that her hits are just as questionable as the messages her image was sending out.

Of the twenty songs on offer on this LP, about half are listenable, with only a handful of these actually being of any genuine merit at all. Among them are the bona fide hits "Toxic" and "I'm A Slave 4 U" (from the pens of Cathy Dennis and Pharrell Williams respectively) alongside lesser successes "Stronger" and the video remix for "(You Drive Me) Crazy", the latter two both sporting harmonies so ludicrously over the top you can't help but be sucked into their drama. Of special mention also is the soporific ballad "Everytime", representing a chink in Britney's plastic armour in a convincing display of pitiful girliness as produced indelibly by the ever-reliable Guy Sigsworth (Björk, Madonna, Jem), all the more impressive as Britney is credited with having co-written the track. So there's no doubt that Britney and her team of producers and songwriters have come up with some stirringly good pop stuff ... it's just that it all seems to be in rather woefully short supply.

Aside from the pleasant pop puree of "Born To Make You Happy", the spirited cover of "My Prerogative" and the Neptunes remix of "Boys", which glide inoffensively past without leaving much impression, the rest of the CD is really quite terrible. The new songs tagged onto the end do not summon up much confidence in Britney's musical future and the offending, simpering balladry of "Sometimes", "Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know" and, especially, "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman" is enough to make your toenails curl. Adding a pointless cover of "I Love Rock `N' Roll" and an ill-fitted R Kelly track, "Outrageous", trying to gain Britters some urban cred doesn't help the fight either. However, for those of a warped sense of humour, "Lucky" offers enough hilarity to tide over to the next hit with its disturbing prophecy of a troubled superstar as well as being the most misleadingly perky reverie about celebrity existentialism ever produced. And the duet with Madonna is so laughably infectious you cannot help but listen to all of it (surely the spoken intro is one of the most unintentionally funny in recent memory?)

So, fifty-five million album sales, a medium-sized-hit movie, countless multi-million dollar endorsements and a franchise army capable of forming its own country later, where can Britney go from here? If anyone cares by the time she's ready to get her career back on track, what she ought to do is ditch the producers so keen on packaging her into something she clearly isn't. Anyone can be given great songs to sing (apparently "Toxic" was offered to Sophie Ellis-Bextor but she turned it down!) but Britney has indeed become more interesting and sympathetic since her fall from grace. If she gets rid of the team of people swarming around her, maybe she could give us a pop song worthy of the exposure she has thrust on us and justify the moments of genius that make this album worth having.