Released: December 21, 1999
Length: 50:08
Label: Jive
Formats: DVD, VHS, VCD
Time Out with Britney Spears (stylized in all lowercase) is the first video album by American recording artist Britney Spears. It was released on November 23, 1999, by Jive Records.
Time Out with Britney Spears received generally favorable reviews from music critics. A commercial success, it peaked atop the US Top Music Videos and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Content
Time Out with Britney Spears features interviews with Spears about her childhood, The Mickey Mouse Club, the making of her debut album …Baby One More Time and life on tour. The video album also features the music videos for her singles “…Baby One More Time”, “Sometimes” and “(You Drive Me) Crazy (The Stop Remix!)”, as well as behind-the-scenes footage from each of them. Also included are live versions of “Born to Make You Happy” and “From the Bottom of My Broken Heart” from her Disney Channel special, a photo gallery that features a mixture of candid and professional shots, web site access and a trivia game that unlocks a special interview “if you answer all the questions correctly”. There is an option for lyrics to appear on the screen when watching the music videos or the live performances.
Critical reception
Time Out with Britney Spears received generally favorable reviews from music critics. Heather Phares of AllMusic called Time Out with Britney Spears “one of the better music DVDs currently available” and “a must for Britney enthusiasts”. Marc Girdler of DVD Talk agreed, calling the release a “disc for Spears’ fans”, that is full of “everything you could want, within reason”. Girdler wrote that the interview footage is “pretty good”, although “most of it is taken from MTV, so the content is not all exclusive to the disc”. The option of having lyrics appear on the screen is, according to Girdler, “cool if you like to sing along, but have a bad memory”.
Commercial performance
In the United States, Time Out with Britney Spears debuted at number two on the Billboard Top Music Videos on December 18, 1999. It reached the summit in its fifth week, following its release on DVD. On June 15, 2000, the album was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of 300,000 units, while remaining atop the chart dated June 24. It last charted at number 37 on March 24, 2001, spending a total of 68 weeks on the chart.
Tracklisting
Standard edition
1. “Growing Up” 9:35
2. “Recording My First Album” 6:13
3. “…Baby One More Time” (making-of and music video) 6:29
4. “Sometimes” (making-of and music video) 10:50
5. “(You Drive Me) Crazy” (The Stop Remix!) (making-of and music video) 5:48
6. “On the Road” 3:41
7. “Born to Make You Happy” (Disney Channel in Concert) 4:40
8. “From the Bottom of My Broken Heart” (Disney Channel in Concert) 4:37
Asian edition (bonus tracks)
9. “…Baby One More Time” (karaoke)
10. “(You Drive Me) Crazy” (karaoke)
Japanese edition (bonus mini CD)
1. “(You Drive Me) Crazy” (Jazzy Jim’s Hip-Hop Mix) 3:40
2. “I’m So Curious” 3:35
3. “(You Drive Me) Crazy” 6:30
Quotes
“When I was little, I always… I didn’t say, you know, I’m gonna be a superstar, or this is what I was gonna do, but I was always doing shows, like… like… I… my friends would come over, and we’d make these big shows, and I was so serious about it! You know, and I was the director, and… like… we would do stuff like that all the time, and then, you know, when I grew out of that stage, then I just got really involved with just listening to music all the time.” – Britney Spears
“When I was, like, 8 years old, I, like, began singing, and, um, I went to, like, “The Mickey Mouse Club”. I did that, it was, like, with a bunch of kids; it was a lot of fun. And I, um, came to New York, and I did an off-Broadway musical called “Ruthless”. I met an entertainment lawyer, and he sent me to New York when I was 15 at the time. And I was so nervous, you know, and I, um, got up in front of a bunch of his executives at Jive, and I sang, and he signed me, so that’s how I’m here today.” – Britney Spears in the “Recording My First Album” segment
“I filmed a Disney special, and it was really cool because I got to a see a lot of the people, um, from “The Mickey Mouse Club” that I worked with. It was really, really, a lot of fun to do, so, here it is, the Disney special. *grins*” – Britney Spears introducing the first of the two Disney Channel performances
“…the staircase, and… basically, everything, so, it was really cool, though, because I had, like, my vision of it, and, um, my first day to come in, and the studios were… for rehearsal. I walked in, and… it was the most amazing feeling because my band was up there playing, and they had the lights going, and it was my first time to see my own stage, and I was just like… *gasp* Oh my goodness. I… I wanted to cry; it was so cool.” – Britney Spears in the last filmed segment
