“My favorite song i’ve ever recorded is Before the Goodbye, which was a bonus track on my third album. I love that song and regret that it wasn’t made into a single.” - Britney Spears in a new excerpt from her book, #TheWomanInMe 

Not this sounding better than the rest of that album 

2 minutes ago, panochita said:

Not this sounding better than the rest of that album 

Well, considering this was the original album lead prior to "I'm a Slave 4 U" it makes sense.

4 minutes ago, livelikemusic said:

Well, considering this was the original album lead prior to "I'm a Slave 4 U" it makes sense.

I never understood how a song went from "lead single" status to "bonus track", but oh well

Should've been a single instead of Boys or Rock & Roll

3 minutes ago, skizzo said:

I never understood how a song went from "lead single" status to "bonus track", but oh well

Should've been a single instead of Boys or Rock & Roll

Britney and BT (guy who produced this song) had some kind of falling out and his songs ended up being excluded from the album. I’m glad Slave was the lead single but I do wish BTG had its moment to shine too. 

5 minutes ago, skizzo said:

I never understood how a song went from "lead single" status to "bonus track", but oh well

Should've been a single instead of Boys or Rock & Roll

🤷 Considering the tone "I'm a Slave 4 U" made, I suspect it changed everything about the album, especially since all of BT's productions were excluded from the album, aside from "Before the Goodbye".

Best song of the album

Britney has impeccable taste.

She also fought for "Breathe On Me" to be a single but her dumbass record label was set on "Outrageous" since day 1

I Run Away kinda washes it but I love this too.

Lovee this Bop

I love this song... Could've easily replaced  "What It's Like to Be Me" as the album closer. x

3 minutes ago, Maroonx said:

I love this song... Could've easily replaced  "What It's Like to Be Me" as the album closer. x

The horror. 😱

11 minutes ago, livelikemusic said:

The horror. 😱

Not my favourite song from the album but I always loved how dramatic/euro pop it is

Love it! One of her best bonus tracks tbh.

43 minutes ago, dumbsparce said:

I Run Away kinda washes it but I love this too.

That's another banger, but BTG is far more creative sonically. Especially at the time

I remember once reading this was in contention to be the lead single from 'Britney'

1 hour ago, livelikemusic said:

🤷 Considering the tone "I'm a Slave 4 U" made, I suspect it changed everything about the album, especially since all of BT's productions were excluded from the album, aside from "Before the Goodbye".

Do we know what else the producer worked on for this album?

I'd ignore this song for years thinking it was some throaway **** ballad with it being a bonus track with a title like that so Imagine my surprise one day when it turned out to be a banger.

I'm glad that it wasn't the lead over I'm a Slave 4 U, but it would've been a nice album track. It would've been fine as a non-single though. I Run Away or That's Where You Take Me would've been better singles and given the same vibes as this one tbh

1 hour ago, skizzo said:

“My favorite song i’ve ever recorded is Before the Goodbye, which was a bonus track on my third album. I love that song and regret that it wasn’t made into a single.” - Britney Spears in a new excerpt from her book, #TheWomanInMe 

IKTR 

5 minutes ago, SpaceOddity said:

I'd ignore this song for years thinking it was some throaway **** ballad with it being a bonus track with a title like that so Imagine my surprise one day when it turned out to be a banger.

most of Britney's bonus tracks are not ballads

1 hour ago, skizzo said:

I never understood how a song went from "lead single" status to "bonus track", but oh well

Should've been a single instead of Boys or Rock & Roll

Like Get Back.

58 minutes ago, dumbsparce said:

I Run Away kinda washes it but I love this too.

I never get the appeal of I run Away 

 

11 minutes ago, SpaceOddity said:

Do we know what else the producer worked on for this album?

These two immaculate bops

 

 

 

for what I read, they replaced both song when they decided to merged the Crossroads album and the Britney Album

Edited November 18, 20232 yr by Unusualyou

Just now, Unusualyou said:

I never get the appeal of I run Away 

This two immaculate bop 

 

 

 

for what I read, they replaced both song when they decided to merged the Crossroads album and the Britney Album

Oh ****, I remember these. 'Britney' could've been on that same creative Britney caliber that 'In The Zone' and 'Blackout' are had the kookier stuff made it.