Britney Spears's Blackout

Britney Spears' 2007 was a turbulent year, but her album Blackout became a influential pop album, blending glitchy digital noise and dubstep with her unique sound. This book explores the album's impact on pop music and culture.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 12 January 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Britney Spears' life took a tumultuous turn in 2007, marked by a tumultuous divorce, loss of custody of her children, stint in rehab, and a headline-grabbing assault on a paparazzo. Amidst her public unraveling, she managed to record an album, "Blackout," which defied expectations and became one of the most influential albums of the aughts. Critics initially predicted the end of her career, but "Blackout" proved to be a game-changer. It introduced glitchy digital noise and dubstep into the mainstream Top 40, while also transforming Britney into a new kind of pop star, one who embraced her idiosyncratic sound and shunned mainstream ubiquity in favor of the devotion of smaller, dedicated fan groups. This book delves into the gritty clubs and paparazzi hangouts of Los Angeles in the early 2000s, as well as the nascent blogs and forums of the early internet, to explore how "Blackout" served as a pivotal bridge between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in pop music.

Weight: 134g
Dimension: 99 x 165 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501377594