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Podcast: Down On High: Examining the Records That Made Us
Episode: Britney Spears - Britney/In The Zone
Description: "Britney" is the third studio album by Spears, released in 2001. The album features a mix of pop and R&B tracks, with themes centered around growing up and out, often toiling in the awkward I'm Not a Girl, But Not Yet a Woman phase of Britney's life. This album was a pseudo-companion to the film starting Britney, Crossroads, a coming of age road trip film. The lead single, "I'm a Slave 4 U," was a hit and marked a departure from Spears' earlier teen pop image and made the sexuality on display more overt in the music. The album received...