Originally written October 8, 2005.

Breathe on Me will go down in pop history as one of the great lost opportunities. After the knockout success of Toxic and Everytime, consecutive No.1’s in the UK and on the world charts, all Jive had to do to make an astounding three in a row - and cement Britney’s place forever in the Hall of Fame of pop greatness - was release Breathe on Me. The public would have done the rest. Even the BBC’s Radio Two jocks loved it, as Richard Allinson, one of said jocks, told Britney in a radio interview in November 2003.

Originally written February 18, 2006.

As time goes by, I find myself increasingly drawn to the “Britney” album. Unlike some critics, I don’t think her voice deteriorated noticeably after OIDIA, and on “Britney” her vocals show growing experience, maturity and interpretative ability. Cinderella is without doubt one of Britney’s greatest songs. The grandiloquent melody is a credit to Max Martin and Rami, who wrote and produced. No additional musicians are credited, so we can safely assume that the instrumental sounds are also down to Max and Rami and computer-generated. Backing vocals are by Britney and Jeannette Olsson.

Originally written September 9, 2005.

This is a song that’s very close to my heart and it’s totally a labor of love to write about it. Here’s the words:

 Originally written August 13, 2005.

Most songs are worked up in the studio by a collaboration of everyone present - that’s why simple songs seem to have so many writers. And that’s why Britney had so many co-writing credits before “Everytime”. But “Everytime” was the first song she wrote in the traditional fashion of bringing it to the studio as a finished item. The song was written while she was on tour in 2002, and her co-writer was Annette Stamatelatos, one of her backing singers during that period. Annette’s role in the writing process was that Britney bounced ideas off of her, but she got a writing credit anyway.