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Roland Schmidt

“It was too odd, too complicated. I felt like I had been so in my head that I couldn’t judge”: From Bollywood to Bond – unpacking the intricate arrangement of Toxic

Britney Spears.

One of the benefits of the streaming age is the unlimited access to more music than we could hope to listen to in our lifetimes. Here at MR HQ, we consume music at industrial levels, but it never ceases to amaze us which songs our peers cite as their proverbial desert island disc.

One of our brethren is a recording engineer. He’s worked with some huge names, from Depeche Mode to David Bowie, but once admitted to us that there was one particular song that had managed to capture his ear like no other, but if he was ever asked about it in public, he would flatly deny his admiration and liking for Britney Spears' effervescent Toxic.

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