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12. Piece of Me (2007)


(Karlsson, Winnberg, Åhlund)

Album: Piece of Me – Single / Blackout

There is no other song more emblematic of Blackout than the Bloodshy & Avant masterwork “Piece of Me.” Songwriters were typically discouraged from pitching songs about Spears’s personal life, but this one was just too good to pass up on. Spears is the self-proclaimed “Mrs. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” taunting the listener with the constant refrain: “Do you want a piece of me?” Yet, as she beckons us in, she remains elusive as her voice warps and bends. For an electropop song, its production is extremely raw – chains clashing, distorted vocals… The Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield describe Blackout as Spears’s “punk masterpiece,” and describes “Piece of Me” as the “peak of the album – and maybe Britney’s career.” The song rings like an act of defiance. So what if “that Britney’s shameless?” If she’s “bad media karma?” We as a society just can’t get enough. 2007 was a turbulent year for Spears personally, to say the least, but she still managed to churn out a video for “Piece of Me” that is one of her more memorable ones, complete with a dance break in a bathroom (choreographed by Spears herself). The video netted Spears three VMAs (inconceivably the first ones she had won to date), which was sweet vindication a year after making headlines at the previous year’s ceremony for all the wrong reasons. “Piece of Me” is a testament to the fact that, even at her lowest point, she has the uncanny ability to generate innovative and important pop moments.

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