Britney Spears Working on New Album, Says Manager

Britney Spears is spending her summer vacation in a recording studio working on the follow-up to last year's Blackout, her reps say. According to her manager Larry Rudolph, with whom Spears reunited with after Blackout sales lagged, Britney is "working with a team of top-notch producers and songwriters. We're very excited about what she's accomplished so far." Sean Garrett, one of the producers on Spears' new disc, tells EW.com, "We're trying to take her stuff to the next level. I'm going to come up with something crazy for her." Other producers expected to be working with Spears are JR Rotem, Guy Sigsworth, Bloodshy & Avant and Danjahandz (who also significantly contributed to Blackout).

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Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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