What is the essential Britney Spears?

He did, however, give the hot sauce cult a badly needed theme song.

Hey, the OP asked for no snark, and you just waded right in with the snark. That’s a classic case of being a jerk, and not admitting it is just compounding your jerkhood.

Not to mention all the great jazz singers and opera singers. The singer-songwriter is a fairly recent invention.