20 Years of Britney - A Blurb About Britney Spears's "...Baby One More Time"

By Asaf Peres

Britney Spears's "... Baby One More Time" was released almost exactly 20 years ago! Back then, before Max Martin decided to shun harmonic minor and blur the distinction between relative major and minor keys, he would routinely move between them, temporarily establishing different tonal centers. 
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