Time Out with Britney Spears (1999 TV Special)

Max Martin: Self

Quotes 

• Britney Spears : [talking about Max Martin and his work on her songs]  Max is as nice as he is talented. He's really a great guy, and I'm very thankful to be over at work with him. He's great, and, um, yeah. In Sweden, we went there, and we... it was really busy. We went there for like 10 days, we've got... we got a lot done, and it was just great. We just, you know, went in there and sang. It felt good.

  Max Martin : The way I work is to have good song, you know. It always has to be good songs, cause without that, you know, you can't do anything. You know, like I said about her voice to have some flavor in it; it's like straight pop, pop music with the flavor, you know, what we call R&B in Sweden, what you guys think is pop, you know.

  Britney Spears : My style of music is, um, pop. I like pop music, just, you know, fun, and I love, um, funky, hard beats, you know. Of course, I love ballads, you know. I love ballads, but, um, I love stuff that I can perform well and get on stage and dance and have fun and get the audience into it.

  Max Martin : The album I think's gonna be... very... easy to understand, although cer... the vocals is gonna be... nothing like... I'd say technically, that's gonna be great, you know. It's not gonna be, like a sing along easy record,

  [scats] 

  Max Martin : but the songs are... pop, and the vocals are... so.. you know, soulful, I think.

  [recording footage of "I Will Be There" is shown] 

• Max Martin : She's got an excellent voice. It's like, um... It's... it's... It's actually, quite, you know, whatever heard in The Backstreet Boys that they had, you know, excellent voice with a bit flavor in it, you know, good sense of, you know, catching the melody, performing it, like taking it to another level, cause that's... as a songwriter, that's what you're looking for. You do a song that songs good, and then if the artist can take that to another level, you know, that's the perfect thing. That's the perfect situation.

  Britney Spears : Making my first record is great. Yeah. It's a lot of fun, and, um, people really don't realize what, you know, where it goes into it.