When the music producer Max Martin composed the song “Baby one more time” I had the R&B girl group in mind FTA, who rejected it because by the time it was ready they had already finished their third studio album. By whims of fate, just at that moment a very young Britney Spears she traveled to Stockholm, Sweden to work with him, so he offered her to keep the song and she gladly accepted because she was convinced that it would be a success.
Nevertheless, history could have been very different if Martin had not been a man of his word. After reaching an agreement with Britney, the song came into the hands of the music mogul Simon Cowellwho became obsessed with her and was willing to do anything to get her.
“I told him, ‘Max. Please, please, give me this song,'” Cowell acknowledged in an interview on the podcast. “Howie Mandel does stuff podcast”. “But he told me that he had promised her to someone else. I replied: ‘I’ll send you a Mercedes, literally a Mercedes 500 SL, if I can get my hands on this song.’ And he kept insisting that she had promised her to someone else.”
Simon was obviously curious and wanted to know who the artist was that Martin was rejecting him for. Learning that his competition was actually a former child star of Disney virtually unknown. “I said, ‘Max, let me give you some advice. Nobody with a name like Britney Spears is going to end up succeeding..
It’s fun to imagine what Britney’s life would have been like if she had never recorded that famous song. Of course, she would not have left her star stage behind Disney as quickly as it did as soon as the single was released, nor would it have made shirts tied at the waist to show the navel fashionable.
On the other hand, there are those who are convinced that it was fame and money that ended up indirectly causing the nervous breakdown that was used as the main argument to place the singer under legal guardianship from which she was not released until last year. In any case, that anthem forever marked her career and made her the undisputed Princess of pop.
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