Every Friday, our Music Ed Vicky James rounds up the hottest artists, releases and music news of the week.  

This week marks the 15 year anniversary of I’m A Slave 4 U hitting the airwaves (and our Walkmans) and nine years since the infamous ‘If Britney survived 2007 you can handle today’ episode when she buzz cut her hair in Esther’s Haircutting Studio in California. So I thought we should take some time out to appreciate the life of the one and only Ms. Spears…

It’s been a long and hard road for Brit since her Disney club days, shooting to fame at just 17 clad in ab-exposing school uniform singing Hit Me Baby One More Time. Enter a new army of tweenie girls (and boys) who religiously learned every dance routine to perform at any given opportunity (luckily for us, these moves were printed in the single sleeve).

Fast-forward to her ‘Golden Years’, as Oops I Did It Again smashes the charts and a worldwide shortage of red PU/spandex becomes a real thing. We all have a fave Britney moment, so what better when than getting the Stylefix girls to tell me their best bits.

I don’t have a red book but Britney, This Is Your Life…

Vicky

My personal highlight is from the early Britney era when she released Sometimes. I mean, who didn’t want a pair of bright white cargo pants? I remember my brother and I copying the moves (which came with the CD = win) and performing them in our kitchen when we were about 8 years old. Cool kids never die…