"Stronger" is the third single from Pop singer Britney Spears released from the album Oops!... I Did It Again during the fourth quarter of 2000.
The song was written and produced by constant suppliers Max Martin and Rami. In this anthem, Spears sings about overcoming the difficulties of love as she proclaims she is "stronger than yesterday".
The single is recognised by many as the unofficial sequel to "...Baby One More Time" 's song lyric "...my loneliness is killing me..." because Spears declares: "...my loneliness ain't killing me no more...".
Stronger lyrics:
Ooh hey, yeah
Hush, just stop
There’s nothing you can do or say, baby
I’ve had enough
I’m not your property as from today, baby
You might think that I won’t make it on my own
But now I’m…
[Chorus:]
Stronger than yesterday
Now it’s nothing but my way
My lonliness ain’t killing me no more
I’m stronger
That I ever thought that I could be, baby
I used to go with the flow
Didn’t really care ‘bout me
You might think that I can’t take it, but you’re wrong
‘Cause now I’m…
[CHORUS:]
Stronger than yesterday
Now it’s nothing but my way
My lonliness ain’t killing me no more
I’m stronger
Come on, now
Oh, yeah
Here I go, on my own
I don’t need nobody, better off alone
Here I go, on my own now
I don’t need nobody, not anybody
Here I go, alright, here I go
[Repeat CHORUS]
Stronger than yesterday
Now it’s nothing but my way
My loneliness ain’t killing me no more
I’m stronger
Music video
The music video for "Stronger" was directed by Joseph Kahn and shot in Los Angeles, and Spears came up with the entire concept by herself. Also, Spears' fans claim that the video is the actual turning point of her image from "good girl" to the "sexy girl" that later appeared in her following album, for you can see in this choreography sexier provocative moves and a "wet scene".
Spears arrives at a party, only to find that her boyfriend has cheated on her with another woman. Between scenes of the man chasing after her at the gathering to try to get her back, are cuts of Britney dancing with a chair, similar to Janet Jackson's "The Pleasure Principle" and "Miss You Much" dance sequences.
The second half of the video finds Spears driving away from the party in a thunderstorm; however, before long, her car stops and she's forced to continue walking on in the rain. Cuts of her dancing with now a cane transformed from the chair are also included. The video ends with Britney walking across a bridge.
However, one portion of the video was replaced with another scene: In original showings of the video, during the beginning of the bridge, when Spears sings stronger than yesterday..., she is seen standing on the edge of the back of the silver prop chair as it spins. However, in later showings, this scene is cut and replaced with a close-up of Spears singing the lyric. The original does not even appear on the Greatest Hits DVD.
"Stronger" became yet another to retire on MTV's TRL.
Performances
Perhaps a fan favorite, "Stronger" is one of the most performed songs by Spears. The song boasts a signature hand clap after the lyrics, "stronger then yesterday" but when performed, Spears slaps her hands back and forth, almost in a "wiping her hands clean" motion. This song was performed at the 2001 American Music Awards with an edgier rock feel to it. Spears also rapped in the middle of it while performing on a rotating platform with a female guitarist player next to her. The dancers were in identical costumes with identical blonde wigs.
Awards
The video was later nominated for a MTV Video Music Award in the category of Best Pop Video. She was also nominated on the 2001 Teen Choice Awards for Choice Single.
| Year | Ceremony | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | MTV Video Music Awards | Best Pop Video | Nominated |
| 2001 | Teen Choice Awards | Choice Single | Nominated |
Chart performance
"Stronger" peaked just outside the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 at number eleven, after managing to top the Hot 100 Singles Sales for a week; this eventually led the song to achieve a Gold certification. Though the single's sales were very strong, the song's airplay was disproportionally weak; the track failed to even crack the top fifty of the Hot 100 Airplay. The nature of this low airplay (and high sales) performance is very similar to that of a previous Spears single: "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart."
In another similar twist pertaining to the aforementioned single, "Stronger," too, had a relatively weak run at Top 40 radio for a Spears single; while the song made the top twenty of the Mainstream Top 40, it only charted in the lower half of both the Top 40 Tracks and Rhythmic Top 40.
Though "Stronger" continued the pattern of Britney's singles making top ten placement in several European countries, it also only managed to go top twenty in about the same number of European and non-European nations, including Australia.
"Stronger" was released during the Christmas rush for number-one, however it failed. The single sold a total of 163,000 copies in the UK.The single has sold worldwide 3.532.000 copies.
| Chart (2000) | Peak Position |
|---|---|
| United World Chart | 3 |
| United World Chart Year End Chart 2001 | 21 |
| Argentina Singles Chart | 2 |
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 5 |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 4 |
| Belgian Singles Chart | 15 |
| Brazilian Singles Chart | 5 |
| Canadian BDS Airplay Chart | 9 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 12 |
| Finnish Singles Chart | 8 |
| French Singles Chart | 20 |
| German Singles Chart | 4 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 6 |
| Israeli Singles Chart | 1 |
| Italian Singles Chart | 1 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart | 15 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart | 11 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 4 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 6 |
| 'Tokio Hot 100' | 1 |
| UK Singles Chart | 7 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Airplay | 53 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales | 2 |
Formats and track listings
These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Stronger".
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Europe/Australia CD Single
French CD Single
UK CD Single
UK Promo 12" Vinyl
UK Cassette Single
|
U.S. CD Single
U.S. 12" Vinyl
U.S. Promo Remix CD
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Remix/Official versions
- Album Version — 3:23
- Instrumental — 3:23
- Jack D. Elliot Club Mix — 6:341
- Jack D. Elliot Radio Mix — 3:31
- Mac Quayle Club Mix — 7:50
- Mac Quayle Mixshow Edit — 5:21
- Mac Quayle Mixshow Edit — 4:51 [In B In The Mix: The Remixes UK and Japanese edition only]
- Mac Quayle Radio Mix — 3:50
- Pablo La Rosa's Tranceformation — 7:21
- Pablo La Rosa's Tranceformation (Radio Edit) — 3:32
- Pimp Juice's "Ain't No Shame in This Vocal Mix Game" Mix — 5:50
- Pimp Juice's Extra Strength Dub — 7:05
- Miguel 'Migs' Vocal Mix/Club Vocal — 6:31
- Miguel 'Migs' Vocal Dub — 6:54
- Miguel 'Migs' Vocal (Edit/Club Edit) — 3:41
- WIP Remix — 5:50
References
- ^ Britney Spears — Stronger (UK) UKBritney.tv Retrieved on May 22, 2007
- ^ Chart peak positions:
- http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kpfuxq9jldte~T51
- http://www.mariah-charts.com/chartdata/PBritneySpears.htm
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