"My ultimate goal is to be around for a really long time and be someone like Madonna or Janet Jackson," Spears told MTV at that time. sold over 1.3 million copies in its first week, breaking the record for most first-week sales by a female artist (Adele's 25 claimed that title 15 years later). She was at a new height in her still young career, the first peak of what feels like many - her face on lunchboxes, Barbie dolls, toys, and apparel. She'd teased the new era a few months prior with the title track, its music video blasting across screens around the world, forming the now-iconic image of Britney in a red latex catsuit conquering space. It's a testament to Cex's inherent talent that the most uninteresting and typical aspects of Oops, I Did It Again are also the ones that seem the most forced.Twenty years ago, on May 16, 2000, an 18-year-old Britney Spears unleashed her sophomore album, Oops!. Far too much of this record is simply boring. In concert, Cex's rhythmically interesting and consistently amusing rhymes bring his music to life. Elements like these are never really integrated, and all are worked into similarly deliberate, repetitive song structures. Take the warm acoustic guitars that fill out "(You're) Off the Food Chain," a track that sounds almost like the Microphones. The problem is, there isn't much on Oops, I Did It Again that's particularly riveting.
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The beats that make up the core of Oops, I Did It Again are certainly top-notch- at this point, there's no question that Kidwell knows how to put together a song. Most of the sounds on the album have already been used hundreds of times- chopped-up drum samples, synthesizers with sweeping filters and the occasional odd bit of noise. And while the result is certainly well executed, it lacks the personality that makes Cex such an appealing character in the first place.įor the most part, Oops, I Did It Again is relatively standard IDM fare, with a much greater focus on rhythm than on melody. The Cex I hear on Oops, I Did It Again sounds like he's trying to incorporate a pretty wide spectrum of influences with the fun IDM that's been the bread and butter of his career this far. The Cex I saw in concert was a truly original entertainer, putting the best parts of his personality to work for him. So, in the interest of keeping it real, I'll say I'm pretty disappointed by Oops, I Did It Again. Playing equal parts mad rapper and welcoming host, Kidwell drops tight, witty, and endearing rhymes about balls, bicycles, and "Bad Dudes" over skittery beats, peppered with clever between-song banter ("This next song has some violins- an instrument invented by Radiohead"). But the true brilliance of Kidwell's show is that his whole act seems totally sincere. Lots of performers manipulate their onstage personas to make themselves appear more interesting or more mysterious. Cex's live show has, in recent years, developed into one of the single most entertaining spectacles I've ever experienced. Ryan Kidwell (aka Rjyan, aka Cex) isn't one to let his music speak for itself.
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