main page Billboard #tbt: Watch Teenage @britneyspears Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Performance From 1999

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Billboard is such a true stan when it comes to our girl Britney Spears. In honor of #tbt today billboard chose Britney Spears Rockefeller center tree performance that happened in 1999.

Allow old-school Britney Spears to get back on your radar.

The holiday kickoff is just a week away (we see you, Thanksgiving), so for this week's Throwback Thursday we're getting into the spirit and throwing things back 15 years, to the 1999 Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony, with performances by a just-shy-of-her-18th-birthday Ms. Spears.

Spears, donning all white, took to the stage (amid snow and freezing tempertures) to put her signature sultry spin on one of the least sexy songs of all time, "Silent Night." Close your eyes and picture Spears singing the Christmas classic. Know that whatever you're picturing, that's exactly how it played out. Come for the "all is br-ah-ee-ght" runs, stay for the beautiful recovery after a couple of near-lyric misses. It's holiday Britney, bitch.

Sadly, this version was never officially released, so it's been unable to make its way onto your holiday playlist -- until now.

 

 

Having a "Gimme more" moment? Spears also had a quick costume change and performed her then-recent ballad "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart." You know she didn't stay in holy white for that jam -- she switched things up to her signature pink and also threw on some platform shoes. Happy 1999, everyone!

 

 

 

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[Maria Spears]

Beautiful .. Billboard is really staning lately, i wonder what is this all about

[JoshLee]

Billboard obviously wants something

[It's Armin B!tch]

Isn't this their 2nd TBT to our queen

[Maria Spears]

Billboard obviously wants something

[Jojo93220]

Does Billboard know something we don't? 

[killthelights]

Her backup singers during BOMBH are really annoying me lol

[ooh la la]

seriously i love britneys voice it is lovely sounding what other singer out there sounds like her. i prefer her voice more so than her dancing, she needs to be more proud of that voice because it has giving probably millions of fans enjoyment and entertainment.

[Brian.TheDog]

i'd like to hear her voice like that again

[Miz Cracker]

 

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6320074/throwback-thursday-watch-teenage-britney-spears-perform-at-tree?facebook_20141120

 

Allow old-school Britney Spears to get back on your radar.

 

The holiday kickoff is just a week away (we see you, Thanksgiving), so for this week's Throwback Thursday we're getting into the spirit and throwing things back 15 years, to the 1999 Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony, with performances by a just-shy-of-her-18th-birthday Ms. Spears.

 

Spears, donning all white, took to the stage (amid snow and freezing temperatures) to put her signature sultry spin on one of the least sexy songs of all time, "Silent Night." Close your eyes and picture Spears singing the Christmas classic. Know that whatever you're picturing, that's exactly how it played out. Come for the "all is br-ah-ee-ght" runs, stay for the beautiful recovery after a couple of near-lyric misses. It's holiday Britney, bitch. 

 

Sadly, this version was never officially released, so it's been unable to make its way onto your holiday playlist -- until now.

 

 

Having a "Gimme more" moment? Spears also had a quick costume change and performed her then-recent ballad "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart." You know she didn't stay in holy white for that jam -- she switched things up to her signature pink and also threw on some platform shoes. Happy 1999, everyone!

[Ooh-Ooh Britney]

Aww 1999ney

[tarotx]

Seems like yesterday in a lot of ways