Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Spears akabhadharwa nokuda kwebasa rake rokutanga roumhizha semudzidzi wechinzvimbo cheTina Denmark mumutambo weOff-Broadway unonzi Ruthless!. Iye akaonekwawo semukwikwidzi pane yakakurumbira terevhizheni show Star Search uye akatorwa mune akati wandei kushambadzira. Muna Zvita 1992, akaiswa muThe Mickey Mouse Club pamwe naChristina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, naKeri Russell. Mushure mokunge chiratidziro chakaregererwa muna 1996, akadzokera kuMississippi ndokunyora paMcComb's Parklane Academy. Kunyange zvazvo akaita shamwari nevakawanda vaaidzidza navo, akaenzanisa chikoro chacho ne"chiitiko chokutanga muClueless nemapoka ose.... Ndakanga ndafinhwa kwazvo. Ndakanga ndiri muchengeti wepamberi wechikwata chebasketball. Ndakanga ndine mukomana wangu, uye ndakaenda kumuchato wokudzokera kumusha nomutambo weKrisimasi. Asi ndaida zvimwe. "Muna June 1997, Spears akanga achitaura nemutarisiri Lou Pearlman kuti apinde muboka revakadzi repop Innosense. Lynne akabvunza shamwari yemhuri uye gweta rezvekuvaraidza Larry Rudolph kuti ataure maonero ake uye akatumira tepi yaSpears achiimba rwiyo rweWhitney Houston karaoke pamwe chete nemifananidzo. Rudolph akasarudza kuti aida kumuisa kumakambani okurekodha, ayo aida demo rebasa rakagadzirwa. Akatumira Spears rwiyo rwusina kushandiswa rwaToni Braxton; akadzidzira kwevhiki uye akarekodha mazwi ake mu studio neinjiniya inonzwika. Spears akaenda kuNew York nedemo uye akasangana nevatungamiriri vanobva kumabhendi mana, vachidzokera kuKentwood zuva rimwe chetero. Vatatu vema labels vakamuramba, vachiti vateereri vaida mapoka epop akadai seBackstreet Boys neSpice Girls, uye "pakanga pasina kuzove nemumwe Madonna, mumwe Debbie Gibson, kana mumwe Tiffany".Vhiki mbiri gare gare, vatungamiriri veJive Records vakadzokera kunodana kuna Rudolph. Mutevedzeri mukuru wemutungamiri weA & R Jeff Fenster akataura pamusoro pekuongorora kwaSpears kuti "zvakanyanya kushomeka kunzwa mumwe munhu wezera iro anogona kuendesa zvemukati zvemukati uye kukwezva kwekutengesa... Kune chero muimbi, kurudziro - 'ziso reshumba' - yakakosha zvakanyanya. Uye Britney aivawo nazvo". Spears akaimba rwiyo rwaHouston runonzi "I Have Nothing" (1992) rwe...  Mubvunzo: Kuratidzira kwacho kwakanzurwa rini?
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