Britney Spears "… a baby again" is 20 years old

Britney Spears, then unknown, aged 16, became the name of all lips when "… Baby one more time" was released on October 23, 1998.

20 years later, the song is considered a phenomenon and the beginning of an era when Max Martin acceded to the throne and has since become the king of the Billboard List.

In the Cheiron studio in Kungsholmen, some of Sweden's biggest hits have been recorded, such as Dr. Albans "Hello Africa", "Electric" by Leila K and "Type E", "This is the Way". The voice that sings the chorus in the latter belongs to Nana Hedin. She still remembers her first meeting with Martin Sandberg, later Max Martin.

"I waited at the reception when a long-haired guy came in and passed by me without a look." After a while, he came back and said, "Sorry, I'm terribly sorry . That's you Nana? "He had been convinced that the girl behind the voice would be black, she said.

In collaboration with Max Martin, Nana sings "Baby again". The intro feature of Britney Spears, childish "Oh Baby Baby", sets the tone for the song.

– Dagge's (Denniz Pop) decision was to know which song was played in a second, said Max Martin in an interview with Sveriges Radio.

His unique

Bass is also a big part of the song. Thanks to his "slap bass" style, Thomas Lindberg learned over the years that he had contributed to Cheiron's unique sound.

"I was not sure it would be a success, I thought," What a good boy he still sang, Martin, "but Britney did not know anything about it. many times with beginners and some have become huge and others have disappeared, he says.

Thomas Lindberg made the most of the songs discovered in the successful factory before it was released in 2000. It often happened that he did not hear the results of his work before he reached his age .

– I was on vacation in Switzerland and I remember the time when "… baby again" was played on MTV after the skin. I just rocked. A few weeks later, he was one in the United States, he says.

TLC has an offer

Max Martin told me how he had had the idea of ​​the chorus in the middle of the night and thought he had written a song to b. He first sent him to Backstreet Boys, who thanked him, then to TLC, who rejected the title "Strike Me."

– If I went to sing "Hit me baby again"? In hell either, member T-Boz told in an interview to MTV.

Even Robyn, who worked with Max Martin on "Show me love", ratified the song, but it caught the interest of Cowboy boss Cow Cow. He tried to convince Martin to give his new boyfriend Five the opportunity to register him. But this had already been reserved for Britney Spears, a 16-year-old unknown.

– It was a pretty little girl who greeted me politely. When we recorded her second album, she was not as enthusiastic to welcome us as a musician. When we break so young and become world famous, it is clear that it will be difficult to manage. It was later understood in her career that she was struggling with some things, "said Thomas Lindberg.

"Impressed by Stockholm"

Britney's greatest achievement was her meeting with the songwriter of Cheiron, whom she sang and danced in the American "Disneys Club". Following a meeting with Max Martin in New York, organized by Spears, it was decided that the 16-year-old would visit Stockholm during the cold winter days of March 1998.

"I was pretty young and nervous but he was very kind and made me feel comfortable, I remember being impressed by Stockholm, but we were so busy in the studio I did not explore it, said Britney at the Guardian.

Nana Hedin has never met Spears, although she has participated in all her successes in Cheiron, but that she was singing the track record of already recorded songs. It became almost comical when the adult singer recalled Britney's childish voice.

– She had her little "strangling" for each new syllable and looked like a teenager trying to make love. I remember Max Laughter when I tempered her for the first time. A special sound was created when we mixed our voices with Britney's, she says.

Britney herself tells the Guardian that, like that, 20 years later, she has blurred memories of the "Baby one more time" period.

– Everything happened so fast. It was a fun and crazy moment.

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