If you had asked me 7 days ago if I would always be able of composition a love letter to Britney Spears` "Toxic," I would have slapped your eyeballs out of their fucking sockets. In 2004, the song was playing throughout gyms and rifle clubs everywhere, hence my natural antipathy to it. Well, that, and it took me quite some time to get round to seizing the high camp value of Britney Spears (this was earlier the solid head-shaving, umbrella-heaving era).
The individual for "Toxic" was released in 2004.
Unlike most of Spears` other successful songs, namely "_Baby One More Time" and "Oops_I Did It Again!" (she just loves those fucking ellipses), "Toxic" possesses a more genuine tale of love/infatuation gone horribly wrong. Set to the distinctive backbeat created by the Swedish producing powerhouse that is Bloodshy & Avant, the frenzied synths add a heightened air of obsession with somebody who treats you like shit, yet somehow you can`t help going support for more.
Wiping her mouth after presumably giving a snow job-no, not really though. It's only a silence from the video.
Although the resultant video really makes no sense in price of conceptually matching the song, it does offer some of that high camp I was referring to before. Several versions of Spears (a blonde, red, and brown-haired trifecta) appear. The flight attendant version likes to get sex in airplane bathrooms, the motorcycle riding version likes to dance about in some weird room, and the brunette likes to get out with guys in hotel suite and then poison them. I hold no thought how this fits with the song, but it works in price of allowing Spears to be as scantily clad as possible.
"Toxic" is track 6 on Spears' fourth studio album, In The Zone.
The lyrics of "Toxic" mourn the fact that "a guy like you should bear a warning/You`re dangerous/I`m falling." This sentiment reiterates the opinion that, while she knows she`s in the wrong for pursuing a relationship/dalliance that is just release to have her anguish in the end, she cannot let logic and reason hinder her brief chance for pleasure, confirming the simultaneous agony and transport by absent-mindedly singing, "With a sample of you lips I`m on a ride/You`re toxic, I`m slipping under." The lyrical theme of "Toxic" is not just stand alone because of Bloodshy & Avant`s writing contribution, but also because it is the only song on the album that seems to address surrendering and submitting to the charms of a man. Other singles on In The Zone, such as "Me Against the Music" and "Showdown," are proponents of independence and having a full time.
The Madonna/Britney kiss at the 2003 VMAs prompted them to cooperate on the low one on In The Zone, "Me Against The Music."
"Toxic" is show of how easily it is to become vulnerable to someone we love we shouldn`t, a will to human stupidity in a way, but likewise an indication of how untenable attraction can be.
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