Originally posted by JakeKills I've never even heard Toxic or Crazy In Love...

Originally posted by JakeKills I've never even heard Toxic or Crazy In Love...

Yes, you did. And a lot.

Originally posted by JakeKills I've never even heard Toxic or Crazy In Love...

Originally posted by JakeKills I've never even heard Toxic or Crazy In Love...

All of them.

Except IKAG

Thanks for my new signature.

Originally posted by JakeKills I've never even heard Toxic or Crazy In Love...

Originally posted by AllMusic 'Toxic' is an irresistible ear candy and it's surely Britney's most ambitious, adventurous single to date.

Originally posted by BBC News - UK Top 5 Most Played Songs During The Last Decade 02: Britney Spears 'Toxic' [Jive]

Originally posted by Blender The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born 10: Britney Spears 'Toxic' [Jive] Pop princess turns kryptonite into radio activity. Grown and sexy Britney ditched the 'Slave' python to record this taut dance hit that makes toxic waste out of a poisonous ex. The song smacks down an errant lover who sounds suspiciously like her former beau Justin Timberlake. In the Zone was Britney's album about fame, and 'Toxic''s coked-up beats and electronic jitters, concocted by Bloodshy and Avant, mimic the dizzy throb of life in the paparazzi glare.

Originally posted by NME 100 Tracks Of The Decade 7: Britney Spears 'Toxic' [Jive] The soundtrack to all of the fun of the decade, from little girls at discos to gay clubs and hen nights. So good it was even included on the Doctor Who soundtrack. As nerdy as this is – and we could be even nerdier, Britney’s most current signature tune was appropriated into the massively multiplayer online role playing game World Of Warcraft after all – the very fact this song was included in a 2005 episode of Doctor Who entitled ‘The End Of The World’ (as a recording on an ancient jukebox as an example of “a traditional ballad” from 5 billion years.)

Originally posted by NPR (2005) Greatest Songs Of All-Time 02: Britney Spears 'Toxic' [Jive] 'We are the Champions' by Queen was crowned number one in the first global search for the world's top song. It was released by Queen in 1977 but lives on as the world's favorite song. Princess of Pop, Britney Spears, and her worldwide hit 'Toxic' clinched the second position, followed by Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean,' The Eagles' 'Hotel California,' Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' The Beatles' 'Yesterday,' U2's 'One,' and John Lenon's 'Imagine.'

Originally posted by NPR (2009) The Decade In Music: Britney Spears 'Toxic' [Jive] A product of the post-teen-pop, pre-Kevin Federline Britney Spears of early 2004, 'Toxic' was the second single from Spears' fourth studio album, In the Zone. No longer apologetic or defensive for breaking away from her '90s virginal teeny-bopper image and sound, the Spears in 'Toxic' is out to have a good time on her own terms. The campy video for 'Toxic' captures the moment perfectly: Spears gleefully adopts different alter-egos and traipses through de Beauvoir's tropes of femininity to steal a poison, ride a motorcycle, steward an airplane and literally cover herself in diamonds. She's sexy and comfortable, even when wearing nothing but diamond-encrusted skin. It was racy enough for MTV to move the video to the adult-friendly 5-10 p.m. time slot (this was during the height of the Janet Jackson 'nipple-gate' scandal), but Spears isn't calculatingly courting controversy. This is genuine fun. Co-written and produced by Bloodshy & Avant, the Swedish duo responsible for the irresistible, stuttering synth that defined the decade's dance-pop, 'Toxic' is as addictive as the 'poison paradise' it imbibes. The buzzing, rockabilly twang and now-classic four-note string interludes still sound fresh and futuristic. Spears' breathy vocals grapple perilously and pleasurably with 'Too high / Can't come down / It's in my head spinning round and round.' The flirtatious dance with toxicity gives in and Spears coos, 'Intoxicate me now / With your lovin' now / I think I'm ready now.' Giving in sounds so good. Spears' best song to date, 'Toxic' isn't a stranger to critical acclaim; it got Spears' her only Grammy and hipster dance-floor credibility, and it became her fourth Top 10 hit in the U.S.

Originally posted by Out Granted, every syllable out of her mouth is grist for the gossip mill. Yes, every move she makes becomes cover fodder for Star or Us Weekly. But say what you will, Britney is a Madonna for the century. When the former Mouseketeer released her debut album, 'Baby One More Time, back in 1999, people scoffed that it would be the last we'd hear of the pop tart, that she wasn't legitimately talented, that she was pushing people's buttons with her scanty wardrobe. Wow. It all sounds mighty familiar. A gazillion sales later, Britney is still with us, making covers of magazines just for being Britney. And the girl makes great music. Out of the box with ''Baby One More Time,' she captured the imagination of young girls (and gay boys) everywhere. This year, Spears had her 'Vogue' (easily Madonna's most innovative single) with 'Toxic.' She also won a recent poll asking, 'Who Are You Most Sick of Hearing About?' But it's Britney. You just can't stay mad at her for long.

Originally posted by Pitchfork (2004) Top 50 Singles Of 2004 03: Britney Spears 'Toxic' [Jive] Appreciating Britney Spears was the final frontier of shedding my old pop-fearing husk, so laced was her music and persona with the red flags of hitting/slaving misogyny, leering pedophilia, and mannequin sexuality. But the throttled strings of 'Toxic' finally scuttled all that kneejerk sociology, being just too damn irresistible a pop song for it to matter what media super-entity it was attributed to. It sure didn't hurt that it was the first Britney single in a while not to parasite off of her persona-- finally, she just acted like an adult, rather than constantly reminding us she wasn't a girl anymore. And mysteriously Scandanavian producers Bloodshy & Avant hung the perfect slinky musical drapery: The aforementioned strings, which swell perfectly to that recurring screeching punctuation, and a sinister surf-guitar riff that made the Alias-inspired video an obvious call. Thanks a lot, Britney, now who the **** am I gonna irrationally hate?

Originally posted by Pitchfork (2009) The Top 500 Tracks Of All Time 41: Britney Spears 'Toxic' [Jive] The thing that made Britney's mid-decade breakdown so distressing is that the lady actually had great pop instincts. It's not like when Jessica Simpson lost her damn mind and we the listeners lost exactly nothing. Sure, Brit bounced back with 'Blackout,' but 'Toxic' was the last great Britney single (so far), the last where it felt like a personality was inhabiting the tune. (Britney always had more individualist pep than her peers, important when you're dealing with steamroller productions from the mind of Max Martin.) And as a bonus, the backing track remains deeply, enjoyably weird-but-catchy: a club-tempo stepping breakbeat colored by James Bond soundtrack outtakes.

Originally posted by Pitchfork (2011) It also may be wishful thinking to believe that one song can change the sound of pop music, but it’s been done before by Britney herself. “Toxic” is still widely credited for changing the face of dance-pop in the 2000s. Although nothing truly captured the exact sound of that monster tune, it introduced an influx of dance-pop into the modern market, providing the blueprint for various smash hits. Despite some negative popular opinion surrounding her, credit must be given where it is due. Britney could very well start the pop-dubstep genre.

Originally posted by PopMatters A pop star will always remain a pop star as long as they keep churning out hits, but pop stars come and go every year, and very few of them make truly lasting impacts. Although the video for “... Baby One More Time” made Spears’ a star, no song since then had matched it in terms of cultural impact. Stellar tracks like “Toxic” only come once in a lifetime. What was remarkable about the Bloodshy & Avant-produced “Toxic”, however, was that Spears’—for once—actually had a good song under her belt. Scratch that: “Toxic” was a great song, a string-laced guilty-pleasure that was upbeat, catchy, and so intoxicatingly over-the-top that it wasn’t long before rock bands of every ilk began covering it ironically, the track eventually scoring Spears’ her first-ever Grammy win to boot. “Toxic” is that rare kind of pop song that achieves a sort of ubiquity that transcends genre boundaries. A perfectly-executed pop song is a hard thing to pull off, but with “Toxic”, Spears’ was finally able to deliver that track that would define her latter-day legacy.

Originally posted by Rolling Stone The Decade-End Critics' Poll Our picks for the best albums, songs and artists by females of the 2000s 02: Britney Spears 'Toxic' [Jive] She may have a lot of strong hits, but none of them match the sexy, boundary-pushing thrills of this high-tech pop masterpiece. It still sounds a decade ahead of its time.

Originally posted by The Telegraph 100 Songs That Defined the Noughties Love it or hate it, the music of the Noughties was inescapable, coming from adverts, video games and that newfangled gadget, the iPod. This is the Telegraph's list of the songs that defined the decade. 04: Britney Spears 'Toxic' [Jive]

Originally posted by The Village Voice Top 2000s Singles By Female Artists 01: Britney Spears 'Toxic' [Jive] The best song of the last 140 years.

Originally posted by VH1 100 Greatest Songs Of The 00s 02: Britney Spears 'Toxic' [Jive] With obvious metaphorical references comparing love to a toxic drug, 'Toxic' was her fourth top 10 single in the US, and in 2005 won the Grammy Award for 'Best Dance Recording.'

It was the biggest single by a female artist of 2004, hitting #1 in over 24 countries, and selling almost 6 million worldwide. In the US, it went #1 on the digital chart, it went #1 on Mainstream radio, it went #1 on Dance radio, it's sold almost 2 million digital copies alone, which is massive for a 2004 single (it was the best-selling single by a female artist of 2004 in the US, outselling 10-week #1's.)

Originally posted by iBeyoncé. Is Toxic really Britneys most memorable song?

We still haven't decided yet, I mean there's so many of them.