(Magnusson, Kreuger, Elofsson, Yacoub)
Album: Oops!... I Did It Again
The Swedish song-making superstars really upped the ante with the production on his Oops!... I Did It Again contributions. “What U See (Is What U Get)” starts out with a literal bang followed by some cooing background vocals and vocoder-altered Britney snarls. It was obvious at this point that Spears had settled on her signature sound, and we are absolutely here for it. Riding a similar beat to the album’s title track, this is an empowerment anthem in the form of clear boundary setting against a possessive boyfriend. Britney has always been able to punctuate certain phrases in a way that emphasizes the drama of a moment, and a high point of this track is mid second verse: “I can feel your eyes in my back bay-bay. A nah-nah.” One of the best album cuts on Oops!... I Did It Again, it was a bit surprising (and disappointing) this never got the single treatment. We do, however, have at our disposal plenty of YouTube clips of Spears rocking a pink cowboy hat dancing up on a pole as she croons this song on tour.
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