me against the music

although a good chunk of my adolescence was spent in the late '90s, i didn't grow up with britney's music. or, for that matter, i didn't grow up with the regular diet of music most of my peers were exposed to at that time. since radio would remain an unexplored territory to me until very much later, my music influences mostly came from my dad's collection of oldies, and whatever songs my neighbor decided to blast with his powerful stereo system. which wasn't much, since the poor man loved to play the same songs on loop all day.

so anyway, in the heyday of backstreet boys and s club 7, while my classmates held impromptu live performances on tabletop stages with broomstick mike stands, i memorized the lyrics of abba and the carpenters, all of which meant i didn't realize the 'britney/brittany' episode of glee pretty much redid britney's music videos rather faithfully.

i'll kill to make a music video.