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"Stronger" is a song by American singer
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from her second studio album, '' Oops!... I Did It Again'' (2000). It was released on October 31, 2000, by
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as the third
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from the album. After meeting with producers
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and Rami in Sweden, the singer recorded several songs for the album, including "Stronger". The
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and
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song has
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lyrics about a girl who is tired of her cheating boyfriend and decides to live without him. It received acclaim from music critics, who described the song as both musically and lyrically innovative, with some deeming it the best track on ''Oops!... I Did It Again''. "Stronger" was a global success, reaching the top five in Austria, Germany and Sweden, while reaching the top 10 in Finland, Ireland, Switzerland and United Kingdom. "Stronger" peaked at number 11 in the United States' ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and was later certified gold by the
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(RIAA), for selling over 500,000 units of the single. An accompanying music video was directed by
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, who considered it as a thematic departure from Spears' previous music videos. The music video received a nomination on the
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for Best Pop Video. Spears has performed "Stronger" in a number of live appearances, including at the Radio Music Awards of 2000,
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, a
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special titled ''Britney Spears: There's No Place Like Home'', and in two of her
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s, the Oops!... I Did It Again Tour (2000–2001) and the
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(2001–2002). In 2013, Spears performed the song for the first time in eleven years on her Las Vegas residency concert Britney: Piece of Me (2013–2017). She also performed it at the Britney: Live in Concert (2017) and the
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(2018). In 2010, "Stronger" was covered by actor Kevin McHale for an episode of TV series ''
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'' titled "
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". The cover received positive reviews from contemporary music critics.


Background and composition

In 1999, Spears began work on her second studio album '' Oops!...I Did It Again'' (2000), in Sweden and Switzerland. After meeting with
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and
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in Sweden, Spears recorded several songs for the album, including "Stronger", which was co-written and co-produced by Martin and Rami. Upon returning to the United States, the singer revealed in an interview with
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that: "I just got back from Sweden, and did half fthe material or ''Oops!''over there. I was really, really happy with the material, but we had
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limited time to get so much done. So I've just really been in the studio nonstop, which is cool, though." Spears recorded her vocals for the song in November 1999 at
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in
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. "Stronger" was released on November 13, 2000, as the third single from the album. "Stronger" is a
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and
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song that features a heavy dance beat, and lasts 3 minutes and 37 seconds. According to the digital music sheet published at Musicnotes.com, the song is composed in the
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and is set in
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with a
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of 108
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, while Spears vocal range spans from C3 to C5. Music critics noticed the song as Spears' declaration of independence, which is perceived in
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lines such as "I'm not your property" and "I don't need nobody". Its lyrics also quote Spears' iconic debut hit " ...Baby One More Time", which was also co-written and produced for Spears by Martin and Yacoub and released two years earlier; the latter's famous chorus, "My loneliness is killing me", is answered in "Stronger" with the lyric, "My loneliness ain't killin' me no more". Despite not being written by the singer, it was speculated that the song is directed to the singer's
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and her management. In a review for the album, David Browne of ''
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'' noted that "Stronger" together with "Don't Go Knockin' on My Door" is reminiscent of
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' " The Last Time" (1965).


Critical response

"Stronger" received acclaim from music critics. Stephanie McGrath of
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considered the song "the best dance track" of ''Oops!'', deeming the song "every bit as good as *Nsync's ' Bye, Bye, Bye' or
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'." Tracy E. Hopkins of ''
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'', while reviewing the album, said, "Spears shines on the tongue-in-cheek lead single, the triumphant 'Stronger'..." David Veitch of the ''
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'' considered "Stronger" to be as "another boom-bastic upbeat track", while saying the song is "notable for its foghorn synth, fabulous rhythm track and heavy effects applied to Britney's voice. Why she's panting at the end of the bridge is anybody's guess." A review by the ''
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'' staff compared "Stronger" to songs recorded by
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, saying, "there's the deranged helium synth pop of 'Stronger' with the huge ABBA chord change in the chorus that sounds scarier and more robotic than the Backstreet Boys." Andy Battaglia from ''
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'' said "Stronger" "could crush the entire self-help industry with its melody alone."
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's Alim Kheraj pointed out the "deeper element of defiance embedded both within the lyrics and the epic chord progressions". Writing for ''
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'', Mayer Nissim deemed it "a perfect pop masterpiece". For Alex Macpherson from ''
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'', it's one of the best examples of Spears' "distressing vulnerability" as well as her second best song; "for the first but by no means last time, Britney embraces the inhuman qualities of her strange, hiccupping voice with vocals distorted and ground up against the beat". Shannon Barbour from ''
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'' opined that it was "proof that Empowered Britney is the best Britney". Similarly, ''
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'' Daniel Megarry called it "an empowering gay club favourite". ''
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'' ranked it at number 14 on their ranking of Spears' songs; " Stronger'foretold the future, both lyrically (she vowed to do things 'my way') and sonically (the stormy electronic touches hinted at a shift in her Scandi-pop sound). Today, it’s the theme song for her resilience". ''
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'' hailed it "a dance pop anthem of self-empowerment that is both obviously autobiographical and highly relatable to anyone eager to define themselves as a young adult". Caryn Ganz from ''
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'' said that "Britney’s first self-empowerment anthem is still her best: a strutting finger-wagger that’s somehow also a fist-pumper".


Chart performance

In the United States, "Stronger" entered the top 40 at number 29 on December 30, 2000. It also peaked at number 17 on the
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chart. It was also certified gold by the
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(RIAA). "Stronger" also peaked at number two on the
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component chart, and number 37 on
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. As of June 2012, "Stronger" has sold 415,000 physical units, with 270,000 paid digital downloads in the United States. It is Spears' third best-selling physical single in the country. "Stronger" also achieved commercial success worldwide, reaching number one in Mexico and was the number-one best-selling single in 2001, and reaching number four in Austria and Sweden, six in Ireland and Switzerland, and eight in Finland, while reaching the top 20 in several European countries. On the week of December 16, 2000, "Stronger" debuted at number seven in
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from the United Kingdom, falling to number 11 in the following week. In Australia, the song peaked at number 13, and was later certified platinum by the
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(ARIA), for shipments of more than 70,000 units of the single. In France, "Stronger" reached number 20, making it the lowest chart position for the song worldwide. However, it was certified gold by the
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(SNEP), for selling over 250,000 units of the single. In Germany, the song reached number four on the
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, being certified gold by the
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(BVMI) for shipping over 250,000 units of the single.


Music video

The music video for "Stronger" was shot on October 5–7, 2000 at Syncro Aviation Hangar at
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, Los Angeles, and directed by
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. Kahn revealed that the concept for the music video was created by Spears herself, by saying "I would like to dance in a chair and drive in a car and break up with yboyfriend. ..Those are your three elements." Kahn ended up creating, according to Jocelyn Vena of
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, "a semi-futuristic world in which Spears walks into a club, breaks up with her cheating boyfriend and triumphantly walks in the rain, knowing her life is better off without him." Kahn also considered the music video as very sophisticated, saying that it is "definitely a departure from the sort of candy-colored videos she was doing before, so I always thought this was the transition between Britney the teenage pop star and Britney the sort of diva she became." It premiered on
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's ''
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'' on November 3, 2000, at 4:30PM ET. An alternate footage of the video can be found on the DVD of Spears' first compilation album, '' Greatest Hits: My Prerogative'' (2004). Kahn revealed that Spears' referenced
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's " The Pleasure Principle" and "
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" music videos for the video's chair routine, saying her idea was inspired by "Janet Jackson's 'Pleasure Principle' — the iconic chair sequence in that". A review of the video also commented "Ms. Spears gives us her best Janet Jackson impression ("Miss You Much") with a dizzying chair-dance routine." Spears also referenced and draws inspiration from Jackson in several other music videos, including "
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".


Synopsis

The video begins with a closed caption that reads "Britney Spears – Stronger", amidst the sound of a storm. It then cuts to a close up of Spears looking at her boyfriend, who is smiling with another woman (played by
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) holding him. She realizes she is better without him and walks away, after saying, "Whatever", to the audience. There is a shot of the tower hotel they are in, in an apparent semi-futuristic world, having a party in the restaurant in the hotel tower at the top, and then the hotel tower explodes and blows up. At the beginning of the first verse, Spears starts dancing with an
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-style chair in front of a black background. The second half of the video finds Spears driving away from the party in a classic Ford Mustang car during a thunderstorm; however, before long, her car goes into a spin out after she swerves to avoid a chair tossed in front of her from the storm, then stops on the very edge of the bridge. After recovering from the shock of it, she is forced to continue walking on in the rain. Cuts of her dancing with a cane, transformed from the chair, are also included. The video ends with Spears walking across a bridge. Two versions of the video exist, one in which Spears stands in mid-air above the spinning chair during the bridge alongside additional brief choreography shots during the first chorus, and the other replacing the footage with a close-up of her singing. Nuzhat Naoreen of
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praised the music video, saying, "few performers can work an entire routine on and around a chair as well as Britney did in 'Stronger'". The music video received a nomination on the
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for Best Pop Video.


Live performances and covers

Spears performed "Stronger" for the first time during her Oops!... I Did It Again Tour in Columbia, U.S., on June 20, 2000. The show began with the video introduction "The Britney Spears Experience", in which three images of Spears welcomed spectators to the show. Then, a giant metal orb was lowered onstage and lifted again to reveal Spears standing behind it. Wearing a glittery jeans and an orange halter top, she opened the show with a dance-oriented performance of the song. "Stronger" was performed on 2002's
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. After a dance-oriented performance of "
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", Spears performed the song, in which she wore a paint-covered robe and in some shows a bowler hat. Spears also performed the song on several television appearances, including on the
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, and on a
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special titled ''Total Britney Live''. A
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special titled ''Britney Spears in Hawaii'', aired on June 8, 2000, included an exclusive performance of the song. A performance of "Stronger" live from Germany was broadcast on Radio Music Awards of 2000, since Spears was on tour by the time of the awards. "Stronger" was later included on the set list of Spears' Las Vegas residency show Britney: Piece of Me. "Stronger" was covered by Kevin McHale on TV series ''
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'', on an episode titled "
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", that was dedicated to the singer. In the episode, McHale's character Artie has a hallucination of himself singing "Stronger" during a dental visit. The cover received positive reviews from contemporary music critics. Raymund Flandez of ''
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'' enjoyed the cover version, appreciating the twist of having males sing a feminist empowerment song, while Tim Stack of ''
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'' deemed "Stronger" his favorite performance of the episode, as well as the best incorporation of Spears' music, as the song served Artie's storyline.


Track listings

*European CD single #"Stronger" (Album Version) – 3:23 #"Walk on By" – 3:34 *European, Australian and Japanese CD maxi single #"Stronger" (Album Version) – 3:23 #"Stronger" (Instrumental) – 3:23 #"Walk on By" – 3:34 #"Stronger" (
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Vocal Edit) – 3:41 *French CD maxi single #"Stronger" (Album Version) – 3:23 #"Walk on By" – 3:34 #"Stronger" (Miguel Migs Vocal Edit) – 3:41 *UK CD maxi single #"Stronger" (Album Version) – 3:23 #"Walk on By" – 3:34 #"Stronger" (WIP Remix) – 5:50 *US CD single #"Stronger" (Album Version) – 3:23 #"Stronger" (Pablo La Rosa's Tranceformation Edit) – 3:28 *UK cassette single #"Stronger" (Album Version) – 3:23 #"Walk on By" – 3:34 #"Stronger" (Instrumental) – 3:23 *US 12-inch vinyl #"Stronger" (Pablo La Rosa's Tranceformation) – 7:21 #"Stronger" (Pimp Juice's Extra Strength Dub) – 7:05 #"Stronger" (Miguel 'Migs' Vocal Mix) – 6:31 #"Stronger" (Miguel 'Migs' Dub) – 6:54 *US maxi single – The Remixes #"Stronger" (Album Version) – 3:23 #"Stronger" (Mac Quayle Club Mix) – 7:50 #"Stronger" (Pablo La Rosa's Tranceformation) – 7:21 #"Stronger" (Miguel 'Migs' Vocal Mix) – 6:31 #"Stronger" ( Jack D. Elliot Club Mix) – 6:38 #"Stronger" (Pimp Juice's "Ain't No Shame in This Vocal Mix Game" Mix) – 5:50


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stronger 1999 songs 2000 singles Britney Spears songs Dance-pop songs Jive Records singles Music videos directed by Joseph Kahn Song recordings produced by Max Martin Song recordings produced by Rami Yacoub Songs with feminist themes Songs written by Max Martin Songs written by Rami Yacoub