I've Just Begun (Having My Fun): Difference between revisions

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+#REDIRECT [[Greatest Hits: My Prerogative]]
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-| name       = I've Just Begun (Having My Fun)
-| cover      = (I've Just Begun) Having My Fun.jpg
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-| type       = promo
-| artist     = [[Britney Spears]]
-| album      = [[Greatest Hits: My Prerogative]]
-| EP         =
-| A-side     = "[[My Prerogative#Britney Spears version|My Prerogative]]"
-| written    =
-| published  =
-| released   = {{start date|2004|08|17}}
-| format     = [[Music download|Digital download]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/ive-just-begun-having-my-fun/id264023126|title=ミュージック - ブリトニー・スピアーズ「(I've Just Begun) Having My Fun - Single|language=Japanese|work=[[iTunes Store]]|accessdate=December 5, 2013}}</ref>
-| recorded   = 2003
-| studio     =
-| venue      =
-| genre      = {{flatlist|
-*[[Synth-pop]]
-*[[funk rock]]
-}}
-| length     = {{duration|m=3|s=23}}
-| label      = [[Jive Records|Jive]]
-| writer     = {{flatlist|
-*Britney Spears
-*[[Michelle Bell]]
-*[[Christian Karlsson (DJ)|Christian Karlsson]]
-*Pontus Winnberg
-*[[Henrik Jonback]]
-}}
-| composer   =
-| lyricist   =
-| producer   = [[Bloodshy & Avant]]
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-"'''I've Just Begun (Having My Fun)'''", written "'''(I've Just Begun) Having My Fun'''" on digital releases<ref>''I've Just Begun (Having My Fun)'' is the spelling used on the bonus DVD of the ''[[In the Zone]]'' album and on the greatest hits album ''[[Greatest Hits: My Prerogative]]'' but digital releases use the ''(I've Just Begun) Having My Fun'' spelling.</ref>, is a song by American singer [[Britney Spears]] from her first [[greatest hits album]] ''[[Greatest Hits: My Prerogative]]'' (2004). The song was produced by [[Bloodshy & Avant]] and originally recorded for Spears's fourth studio album ''[[In the Zone]]'' (2003). It was released as a [[Music download|digital download]] on August 17, 2004, prior to the album's release. The song has drawn comparisons to [[No Doubt]]'s 2002 song "[[Hella Good]]", as well as 1970s American [[funk]] bands. Lyrically, the song refers to having a good time at a party. "I've Just Begun (Having My Fun)" received mixed reviews from [[Music journalism|music critic]]s, some naming it one of the best songs on the album, while others dismissed its lyrical content. The song was featured on the soundtrack to the 2011 film  ''[[Bridesmaids (2011 film)|Bridesmaids]]''.
-==Background and release==
-"(I've Just Begun) Having My Fun" was originally recorded for Spears's fourth album ''In the Zone'' (2003).<ref name=mtv>{{cite news|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1490450/20040820/spears_britney.jhtml|title=Track That Britney Left Out Of The Zone Is A Hit Online|last=Vineyard|first=Jennifer|date=August 20, 2004|work=[[MTV News]]|accessdate=March 9, 2010}}</ref> The song was written by Spears, Michelle Bell, Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, Henrik Jonback.<ref name="liner" /> The song was first included as a [[bonus track]] in the European version of the [[In the Zone (DVD)|''In the Zone'' DVD]]. In the United States, the track was a free download in the [[Wal-Mart]] edition of ''In the Zone'', due to an exclusive deal with Wal-Mart and [[Sony Connect]].<ref name=mtv /> When the deal ended in mid-2004, Jive Records released the song on [[iTunes Store]] and [[Rhapsody (online music service)|Rhapsody]] on August 17, 2004.<ref name=rhapsody>{{cite news|title=(I've Just Begun) Having My Fun (Non-Album Track) by Britney Spears|date=August 17, 2004|last=McGuirk|first=Mike|work=[[Rhapsody (online music service)|Rhapsody]]|quote=Britney's back on top. After the relative OK-ness of "In the Zone," the impressively evolving pop phenomenon busts out a hard-funk, Prince-heavy club cut with a fat, fat, fat synthline, strings (!) and a chorus that just doesn't quit. 'I've Just Begun' is on a level with her best work, namely 'I'm A Slave 4 U.'}}</ref> "(I've Just Begun) Having My Fun" peaked at number seven on the iTunes chart while it was speculated to be in the track list of ''Greatest Hits: My Prerogative''.<ref name=mtv />
-==Composition==
-{{listen
- | filename     = Britney Spears - I've Just Begun (Having My Fun).ogg
- | title        = "I've Just Begun (Having My Fun)"
- | description  = A 20-second sample of the song's chorus features Spears singing over an [[Electro (music)|electro-funk]] sound.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}
- | format       = [[Ogg]]
- | pos          = left
-}}
-"(I've Just Begun) Having My Fun" is composed in the key of [[G minor]] with 108 [[beats per minute]].<ref name=mtv /><ref name=musicnotes>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdFPE.asp?ppn=MN0048756|title=Digital Sheet Music Britney Spears – I've Just Begun (Having My Fun)|work=Musicnotes.com}}</ref> It has a [[Dance music|dance]]-oriented beat that has been compared by Jennifer Vineyard of [[MTV]] and [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] of [[Allmusic]] to [[No Doubt]]'s "[[Hella Good]]" (2002).<ref name=mtv /><ref name=allmusic>{{cite news|url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r716835/review|pure_url=yes}}|title=((( Greatest Hits: My Prerogative > Review )))|year=2004|accessdate=March 8, 2010|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|work=[[Allmusic]]}}</ref> Spears's vocal range spans from the low note of G<sub>3</sub> to the high note of Eb<sub>5</sub>.<ref name=musicnotes /> The song features mainly [[guitar]] and [[Bass guitar|bass]], along with [[String instrument|string arrangements]] and 1970s [[synthesizer]]s reminiscent of [[Zapp (band)|Zapp]] and [[The Gap Band]].<ref name=ign>{{cite news|url=http://music.ign.com/articles/566/566584p3.html |title=Britney Spears Greatest Hits: My Prerogative |date=November 16, 2004 |accessdate=March 6, 2010 |last=D. |first=Spence |work=[[IGN]] |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622004830/http://music.ign.com/articles/566/566584p3.html |archivedate=June 22, 2011 }}</ref> Its lyrics refer to a make-believe situation in which Spears describes an encounter with a man at a party. During the song, she declares to prefer having a good time rather than settling down.<ref name=mtv />
-==Reception and chart performance==
-Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said "the ''In the Zone'' outtake [...] betters most of the songs that were featured on the album".<ref name=allmusic /> Annabel Leathes of [[BBC Online]] commented that along with "[[Do Somethin']]", they are "[two] robust, unreleased tracks [that] suggest, however, that she may still be churning out a few more No.1s before taking time out to sing lullabies to her brood".<ref name=bbc>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/gzxm|title=Britney Spears Greatest Hits: My Prerogative Review|date=September 5, 2003|accessdate=March 8, 2010|last=Leathes|first=Annabel|work=[[BBC Online]]}}</ref> Ann Powers of [[Blender (magazine)|''Blender'' magazine]] called the song "instantly forgettable and biographically inaccurate,"<ref name=blender>{{cite journal|url=|title=Greatest Hits: My Prerogative|year=2004|work=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]|last=Powers|first=Ann|issn=1534-0554}}</ref> while Mike McGuirk of [[Rhapsody Music|Rhapsody]] said the song "is on a level with her best work, namely "[[I'm a Slave 4 U]]"."<ref name=rhapsody /> Louis Pattison of the ''[[New Musical Express]]'' stated that the lyrics "chime rather oddly with Britney’s much-vaunted desire to start a family".<ref name=nme>{{cite news|url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/britney-spears/7567|title=Spears, Britney : Greatest Hits: My Prerogative|date=December 8, 2004|accessdate=March 8, 2010|last=Pattison|first=Louis|work=[[New Musical Express]]}}</ref> On the week of September 4, 2004, "(I've Just Begun) Having My Fun" debuted at number 23 on [[Hot Digital Tracks|''Billboard'' Hot Digital Tracks]],<ref name=hotdigital>{{cite journal|year=2004|title=Singles Minded|journal=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|volume=116|issue=36|pages=56|publisher=[[Nielsen Company|Nielsen Business Media]]|issn=0006-2510|url=https://books.google.com/?id=AhMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56&dq=billboard+%2B+%22i%27ve+just+begun+having+my+fun%22#v=onepage&q=billboard%20%2B%20%22i%27ve%20just%20begun%20having%20my%20fun%22&f=false|accessdate=March 11, 2011}}</ref> and fell to number 41 in the following.<ref>{{cite journal |author= |year=2004 |title=Hot Digital Tracks – September 11, 2004 |journal=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |volume=116 |issue=37 |pages=60 |issn=0006-2510 |doi= |pmid= |pmc= |url=https://books.google.com/?id=FRMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57&dq=billboard+%2B+%22i%27ve+just+begun+having+my+fun%22#v=onepage&q=billboard%20%2B%20%22i%27ve%20just%20begun%20having%20my%20fun%22&f=false |accessdate=March 11, 2011}}</ref>
-==Credits and personnel==
-Credits for "(I've Just Begun) Having My Fun" are taken from ''Greatest Hits: My Prerogative''{{'}}s liner notes.<ref name="liner">{{cite AV media notes|title=[[Greatest Hits: My Prerogative]]|others=[[Britney Spears]]|year=2004|publisher=[[Jive Records]]|type=Liner notes|id=}}</ref>
-* Songwriting – Britney Spears, [[Michelle Bell]], Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg, Henrik Jonback
-* Production – [[Bloodshy & Avant]], Steven Lunt
-* Vocals – Britney Spears
-==Charts==
-{| class="wikitable sortable"
-|-
-!Chart (2004)
-!Peak<br />position
-|-
-|US [[Hot Digital Tracks]] (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref name=hotdigital/>
-| style="text-align:center;"|23
-|}
-==References==
-{{reflist|30em}}
-==External links==
-* {{MetroLyrics song|britney-spears|ive-just-begun-having-my-fun}}<!-- Licensed lyrics provider -->
-{{Britney Spears singles}}
-{{Good article}}
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 [[Category:Songs written by Henrik Jonback]]
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-[[Category:Songs written by Christian Karlsson (record producer)]]
+[[Category:Songs written by Christian Karlsson (DJ)]]
-[[Category:Songs about casual sex]]