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,” just to name a few. Together, they formed a multifaceted, simultaneously relatable and aspirational pop star while also sketching out the blueprint of a sound that would rule pop music for the better half of a decade. Not yet fully weighed down by the paparazzi, tabloids, gossip, and vulturous media eye,As for me, I was 5 years old when the album came out.
"I feel like she totally embraced her body and her power and her sexuality in a time [where] people were slut-shaming women, and she was like, 'F*ck it, this is who I am. I'm proud of the way that I look and I'm proud to use feminine form.' And I think that specifically went off to shape the future of women in pop music.
"One of the biggest things is listening to her records, I feel like that's why my voice sounds the way it does. I don't try to do a Britney impersonation per se, but I feel I have just a bit of that influence and it's because listening to her music is what taught me how to sing. "I want to say it actually came in when I started doing music. I feel like over time she's influenced my sound a bit more and more. For example, like 'Break the Ice' or 'Hold it Against Me' or '3,' those really big pop songs and those intense spins, rhyming hooks, really shaped the way I like to write my own songs. I like them to be very dynamic, and Britney's always had these really dynamic hooks in her music.
"I've just always thought of [Britney] as synonymous with pop star. I remember always seeing costumes for Halloween that were a leopard print outfit with the little headset and it'd be a generic off-brand thing, [but] it was an obvious Britney Spears thing.
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