We go back a few years before Buzzjack started for this one.

 

The year is 2001 and the month is November. Britney and Christina are releasing new music. Britney is starting her third era and has moved away from pure pop towards a mixture of her signature doo-pop sound and rnb. After seeing the Spice Girls have one of the biggest flops and worst albums of all time in Forever, with their sudden shift from pop to rnb, Britney's record label chose to gradually make her sound more mature. Half the album is doo-pop, and have is plodding rnb. By far the best of the rnb cuts on the album was the eponymous, I'm A Slave 4 U. The Slave 4 U album was a bit of a flop compared to her first two, with it barely cracking the top 10. The single of the same name fared better. It peaked at #4 and stayed in the top40 for fifteen weeks, selling 300,000 copies.

 

 

A week or two later, Christina returned with her second era, Dirrty. The main single, also called Dirrty, was a huge hit in the UK, but a flop in the US. It reached no.1 for two weeks, but it didn't last as long on the charts as Britney's comeback track. It was a bigger hit, though, with it selling at least 600,000 copies, double Britney.

 

 

Both have grimy videos, with both of the then-pop princesses shedding both their teen pop image and their more cumbersome garments. Both tracks use an rnb beat, although Britney's is more trip-pop than full rnb. Christin'as song has a faster BPM and a raunchier video, featuring boxing so unconvincing that it would take Adam Levine many years later to create a more unrealistic fight in a music video. The British press tried to say that Christina was spotted at boxing lessons as she wanted to challenge Britney to a boxing match. This was as ludicrous as it sounded. Britney's featured provocative dancing, sweat, and raunchy vocals. The change in image came as a surprise to everyone. However, Britney's doo-pop, teen-pop days were not behind her. After the song underperformed. the label decided to release poppier numbers, until they finished the album on a final rnb beat, the appalling bad, Boys, in order to get her ready for an even more mature album after Slave 4 U. Christina also released poppier numbers after Dirrty flopped in the US, but the pop was decidedly more mature, and she had abandoned the doo-pop sound of her first album.

 

There was a debate back in the day, and still a bit today, about which one did the change-of-image, move away from teen pop, raunchy album opener better: Christina or Britney?

'Dirrty' for me out of those two. The year is 2002 by the way. (Know this from listening to retro charts last year and Christina was #1 on Mark Goodiers last R1 show) :P

Dirrty

Slave

They were both released in a different year :lol:

 

But Dirrty.

Dirrty for me.

 

Dirrty

As much as I love 'Slave' and consider it to be one of Britney's very best, I'm team 'Dirrty' all the way. I wish I was old enough to have known about Christina pre-Dirrty because then I'm sure her transformation would have had more of an impact on me rather than it being the first I knew about Christina. I think Xtina definitely wins in the change-of-image department. Britney's 'Slave' is very tame in comparison.

I was all Dirrty at the time, and I ain't no slave for anyone :P

Dirrty is the FAR superior song.

Britney Spears.

Voted ‘Dirrty’, best song winning!

I’d normally choose .Britney but Dirrty (Stripped era) was phenomenal.