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Britney Spears
In the Zone [DualDisc]
Release Date: 2003 11 18
Label: Jive Records
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If 2001's Britney was a transitional album, capturing Spears at the point when she wasn't a girl and not yet a woman, its 2003 follow-up, In the Zone, is where she has finally completed that journey and turned into Britney, the Adult Woman. Like her peer Christina Aguilera, Britney equates maturity with transparent sexuality and the pounding sounds of nightclubs, but since she's not as dirty as Xtina, her spin is a little different. Where Christina comes across like a natural-born skank, Britney is the girl next door cutting loose at college, drinking and smoking and dancing and sexing just a little too recklessly, since this is the first time she can indulge herself. And that's what In the Zone is -- Britney indulging herself, desperate to prove that she's an adult. She has been freed from her musical parent, Max Martin, who is absent for the first time from a Spears album, choosing instead to play the field and work with a bunch of different collaborators, including Madonna, Moby, the Matrix, Trixster, Roy "Royalty" Hamilton, Bloodshy & Avant, and R. Kelly. Since she's so determined to be a woman, not a girl, she has completely shed the sugarcoated big hooks and sappy love songs that drove her stardom, concentrating on music that glides by on mellow grooves or hits hard with its hip-hop beats. It's all club-ready, but despite some hints of neo-electro and the Neptunes, it doesn't quite sound modern -- it sounds like cuts from 1993 or Madonna's Bedtime Stories and Ray of Light. Production-wise, these tracks are not only accomplished but much more varied than any of her previous albums -- in particular, Moby's "Early Mornin'" has a sleek feel, Mark Taylor's "Breathe on Me" is alluring, and the Bloodshy & Avant productions, "Showdown" and "Toxic," are irresistible ear candy in what is surely Britney's most ambitious, adventurous album to date. [In the Zone was also released in a DualDisc edition featuring the album in surround sound plus several videos.] Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1Me Against the MusicMagnet, O'Brien, Nkhereanye, Madonna [1], Spears, Stewart, Nash3:43
2(I Got That) Boom BoomHolmes, Royal, Jackson, Hamilton4:51
3ShowdownDennis, Karlsson, Winnberg, Jonback, Spears3:17
4Breathe on MeAnderson, Lee, Greene3:43
5Early Mornin'Magnet, Spears, Stewart, Moby3:45
6ToxicWinnberg, Dennis, Jonback, Karlsson3:21
7OutrageousKelly3:21
8Touch of My HandSolomon, Muhammad, Spears, Harry4:19
9Hook UpMagnet, Nkhereanye, Stewart, Spears3:54
10ShadowMidnight, Christy, Edwards, Spears, Spock3:45
11Brave New GirlSpears, Dioguardi, Schwartz, Kierulf3:30
12EverytimeStamatelatos, Spears3:53
13Me Against the Music [Rishi Rich's Desi Kulcha Remix][*]Nkhereanye, Madonna [1], Stewart, O'Brien, Nash, Magnet, Spears4:29
14Me Against the Music [DVD]Magnet, Spears, Madonna [1], Nash, Nkhereanye, O'Brien, Stewart
15(I Got That) Boom Boom [DVD]Hamilton, Royal, Holmes, Jackson
16Showdown [DVD]Karlsson, Dennis, Winnberg, Jonback, Spears
17Breathe on Me [DVD]Lee, Anderson, Greene
18Early Mornin' [DVD]Magnet, Stewart, Moby, Spears
19Toxic [DVD]Dennis, Karlsson, Winnberg, Jonback
20Outrageous [DVD]Kelly
21Touch of My Hand [DVD]Harry, Solomon, Muhammad, Spears
22Hook Up [DVD]Magnet, Spears, Nkhereanye, Stewart
23Shadow [DVD]Spears, Christy, Midnight, Edwards, Spock
24Brave New Girl [DVD]Kierulf, Schwartz, Dioguardi, Spears
25Everytime [DVD]Spears, Stamatelatos
26Me Against the Music ... [DVD][Mix]Madonna [1], Nkhereanye, Stewart, Nash, Magnet, Spears, O'Brien
27Toxic [DVD]Karlsson, Winnberg, Dennis, Jonback
28Everytime [DVD]Spears, Stamatelatos
29Megamix [DVD]







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