{"id":127559,"date":"2024-09-25T22:28:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T22:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/25\/ontd-original-britney-spears-im-a-slave-4-u-turns-23\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T22:28:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T22:28:23","slug":"ontd-original-britney-spears-im-a-slave-4-u-turns-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/25\/ontd-original-britney-spears-im-a-slave-4-u-turns-23\/","title":{"rendered":"ONTD Original: Britney Spears&#8217; &#8220;I&#8217;m a Slave 4 U&#8221; turns 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">23 years ago today, Britney Spears released \u201cI\u2019m a Slave 4 U.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xVV9OJW6U0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/xVV9OJW6U0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pop Crave (@PopCrave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopCrave\/status\/1838790679826186740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>23yr ago Britney Spears released &#8220;I&#8217;m a Slave 4U&#8221; for her third studio album, Britney (2001).<br \/><a name=\"cutid1\"\/><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1727341200%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262142857%26%26%26youtube%26Mzybwwf2HoQ%3A143973ad71e93b0667e72394b477bea6373ed80f&amp;source=youtube&amp;vid=Mzybwwf2HoQ&amp;moduleid=2142857&amp;preview=&amp;journalid=3616053&amp;noads=\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2142857\"><\/iframe><br \/>I was 17 and this video blew my mind. Britney was perfect and I would&#8217;ve give anything for those abs and I think it was something we all talked about (I cannot remember back that far, lol)<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia tells me:<br \/>&#8220;I&#8217;m a Slave 4 U&#8221; is a dance-pop track with urban pop and R&amp;B influences. The lyrics describes the plea of a young woman to be liberated and feel independent.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia recounts the world&#8217;s reaction to a grown up Britney:<br \/>Some argued it was the singer&#8217;s most mature sound at the time, while others noticed the video and the song&#8217;s attempt to leave behind Spears&#8217; girl next doorsexier image emulated then. by many pop idols like Christina Aguilera.<\/p>\n<p>Britney and the snake:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1727341200%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262142858%26%26%26youtube%26TPrfobahLa8%3A0ab7ae6f7db95d38c4bffd22b39710500b755974&amp;source=youtube&amp;vid=TPrfobahLa8&amp;moduleid=2142858&amp;preview=&amp;journalid=3616053&amp;noads=\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2142858\"><\/iframe><br \/>It is a crime to mention this song without adding the epic performance at the MTV VMA 20(back when it mattered). Britney holds a massive snake and dances around looking calm despite holding a big fuckoff snake and knowing it can kill you!!!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if my friends and I discussed this video (other than awe) but <a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/>the world wasn&#8217;t willing for Britney to grow up. The song peaked at number 27 on the US Billboard Hot 100. <\/p>\n<p>20yr later Billboard tried to record their error. In 2021, Billboard ranked &#8220;I&#8217;m a Slave 4 U&#8221; at number three in its list of &#8220;The 100 Greatest Songs of 2001&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopCrave\/status\/1838790679826186740?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mzybwwf2HoQ?si=zms-EReytKySinh9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I%27m_a_Slave_4_U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=TPrfobahLa8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>fav Britney memory or performance? People always mention the lost footage at the Onyx?<\/b> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/129247353.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 years ago today, Britney Spears released \u201cI\u2019m a Slave 4 U.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/xVV9OJW6U0 \u2014 Pop Crave (@PopCrave) September 25, 2024 23yr ago Britney Spears released &#8220;I&#8217;m a Slave 4U&#8221; for her third studio album, Britney (2001).I was 17 and this video blew my mind. Britney was perfect and I would&#8217;ve give anything for those abs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-127559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}