When Martin wrote “ Baby One More Time,” he thought he’d come up with an R&B track, something fit for TLC. Britney had the great fortune to attach herself to Max Martin’s insanely efficient Swedish hook factory. And in that 1999 moment when public hunger for gleaming crushed-out hard-candy teenybopper anthems was at its apex, Britney and Christina both rose up to feed the masses.īritney Spears came first, and she changed the game instantly. A few years after their emergence, Britney and Christina would stand on the same VMAs stage, wearing bridal gowns and making out with Madonna. They’d both risen through the kiddie talent-show circuit. Britney and Christina simply had too much in common. Those Britney/Xtina comparisons were inevitable from jump, even if they weren’t especially fair to either star. When those twin TRL titans first introduced themselves, one brought pure teenage fire, while the other immediately announced herself as something just slightly more adult. Aguilera emerged just a few months after Britney Spears, and “Genie In A Bottle” was practically an invitation to compare the two singers, even if that wasn’t the intended effect. In the video for the first single Dirrty she adds the action to the word and reveals them the necessary stir by wearing little more than a tiny string.In the context of the 1999 teen-pop boom, it was striking to hear a young singer asking those questions outright rather than letting them sit there as subtext. At Mi Reflejo (2000), she tries not entirely successful in hooking the Latino Rage, which include Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony and Ricky Martin be able to capitalize. After this quick start seems the singer attractive career somewhat stagnant.

The successor What A Girl Wants did not much worse. In 1999, she … broke through with the single Genie In A Bottle, that no less than five weeks camped at the top of the US charts. She sang and danced (twelve years) teenager in The New Mickey Mouse Club, a popular series on the Disney Channel US and learned at a young age the intricacies of showbizzvak. She started her career in the same way as her famous colleagues Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.

Christina Maria Aguilera (1980) was born on Staten Island and has both Irish and Ecuadorian blood in the veins.

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