because once she left, she was going to be literally attacked." "We had to really create a protective bubble for her. "She couldn't go get a bite to eat, she couldn't be with her kids," LaBarbera recalls.
For Spears, the recording studio became a "safe haven" from the chaos that awaited her whenever she was on the move. The Swedish duo would end up contributing four tracks to the album-"Piece of Me," "Radar," "Freakshow" and "Toy Soldier." Despite LaBarbera and Spears' care to avoid repeating history, "Toxic" producers Bloodshy & Avant were eventually brought into the Blackout fold, along with upcoming singer-songwriter Nicole Morier ("Heaven on Earth"). "If she started hitting her choreography just to the beat, without the top line, then we knew we had it." Spears' body language served as a barometer for the team to read how she felt about their offerings: "You knew it grabbed her if she was dancing," Danja says. Looking to the club scene in his native Miami for inspiration, he recruited producing and songwriting collective The Clutch (including "Pretty Girl Rock" singer Keri Hilson) to help bring his ideas to life. Danja, who had been working under producing juggernaut Timbaland at the time, had yet to achieve the level of recognition he would with the release of Blackout. Disinterested in teaming Spears with of-the-moment producers, she brought Nate "Danja" Hills to the table. A&R executive Teresa LaBarbera, whose credits prior to Blackout included Beyoncé's Dangerously in Love and several Destiny's Child albums, set her sights on helping Spears move into the next phase of her career-without trying to replicate her previous hits. 
(Two of the resulting songs, "Heaven on Earth" and "Ooh Ooh Baby," would make the cut.) Kara DioGuardi, who co-penned "Brave New Girl" with Spears for 2003's In the Zone, noted the seismic shift in the paparazzi's pursuit of the star when the pair reunited during early Blackout studio sessions.By this time, she hadn't toured in over two years, a considerable break in the context of her whirlwind career.
Spears began working on the album that would become Blackout in 2006, while pregnant with her second child Jayden James.Rolling Stone has just published the latest episode of their 500 Greatest Albums podcast, a deep dive into Britney Spears' game-changing 2007 album Blackout featuring new interviews with her closest collaborators.
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