We still have Britney Spears, but she is not the same as she was when I first heard about her when I was a little kid. Every once in a while, I get a little nostalgic about the pop era and that gave me a little bit nostalgia of my childhood. If you think about it, Britney Spears was possibly my first exposure to the mass media, etc. and that was about the age of 8.
Developmentally, this is pretty normal for me. Before I was 8 years old, I did remember music on the radio and commercials on the TV, but it did not affect me. I did enjoy music, but music was a blur and I did not become fans of music. About the time I was 8 years old, my parents had bought me my own personal radio and I used that radio to listen to music at night. Then I was exposed to a lot of the pop stars of the day such as Britney Spears and The Backstreet Boys, and I liked it,
Of course, it was pretty common for children to be fans of these teen pop artists such as Britney Spears since it was playing on children's stations such as Radio Disney. Radio Disney was starting to emphazize on being "cool" and having image, and it was not a station that played music that was for younger children such as a Mary Poppins favorite or something like that.
Before I was 8 years old, I liked stuff because I liked it. When a crazy toy or something came on, I actually just wanted the toy. I liked Star Wars when I was a little kid because I liked space stuff, and I liked a few other things, but I didn't care if I was cool or not.
The social status did not come until I was about 8 or 9 years old, and I started to think that the people on the radio were cool. Before I was that age, the top 40 pop was a blur of R&B and some stoner rock, and maybe some country, then about 1999, just in time for the pop era, I was 8 years old and started to realize that the blur of music was not that bad.
I realized that Britney Spears was starting to lose her talent and her morals. She was not the sugary, kid friendly Max Martin pop sound and then eventually she started to sound like I was listening to a pornstar marketed for children. I did not realize she was non-nude softcore pornography being shoved at a young children. I was not that sexually horny enough for Britney Spears so I pretty much went away from the pop music scene for a while.
Pop music was not that good when I was about 6th grade-7th grade - I was in the cusp of the return of the hip-hop/R&B or the return of pop. But I wanted to be cool, so I was probably wanted to conform to the hip-hop/R&B blur that was popular in the 1990s and the 2000s.
The 1990s had a lot of this blur anywhay if you think of it - I did not have the glamor childhood of the '90s kid that other kids had so I was not technically a '90s kid and I am probably not truly a '00s kid anyway too. It looks like I was trying to conform to the values of the '00s but my parents did not agree with the '00s. They thought the 2000s decade was something that was near the Roman Empire.
But there was that short time about 1999-2000 and that was when there was something that was breaking the blur and it was Britney Spears.
I am used to the R&B blur - that what I heard in the stores and what I grew up with. I was not that sentimental with some of the artists but it was okay music - it was music. I remember a few good songs but music was not a big deal when I was a little kid. I enjoyed music but it was hard to distinguish songs when I was a kid and that R&B was not kid friendly. Britney was something that was marketed for kids and that was one of my memories.
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