Key facts
- B side
- Me Against the Music
- Released
- January 13, 2004 ( 2004-01-13 )
- Studio
- Murlyn (Stockholm) Record Plant (Los Angeles)
- Genre
- Dance-pop techno-pop breakbeat disco
- Length
- 3 : 19
- Label
- Jive
- Songwriters
- Cathy Dennis Christian Karlsson Pontus Winnberg Henrik Jonback
- Producer
- Bloodshy & Avant
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Encyclopedic overview
Music video "Toxic" on YouTube
"Toxic" is a song by American singer Britney Spears, released as the second single from her fourth studio album, In the Zone (2003). It was written and produced by Bloodshy & Avant, with additional writing from Cathy Dennis and Henrik Jonback. A dance-pop and techno-pop song with elements of South Asian music, "Toxic" features varied instrumentation, such as drums, synthesizers and surf guitar. It is accompanied by breathy vocals and high-pitched strings, sampled from the 1981 Bollywood song "Tere Mere Beech Mein" by Laxmikant–Pyarelal. The lyrics of "Toxic" draw an extended metaphor of a lover as a dangerous and addictive drug.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Toxic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.