Who sampled · 2000s · beginner crate
Britney Spears’s “Toxic” (2003) is built on Lata Mangeshkar, S P Balasubramaniam’s “Tere Mere Beech Mein” (1980) — a sample that travelled 23 years to get there. In SAMPLE SAMPLE SAMPLE we spin the original and ask you to name the hit that flipped it. This one lives in the beginner crate, worth 1 point in party mode.
The original record
Lata Mangeshkar, S P Balasubramaniam · 1980
The hit that sampled it
Britney Spears · 2003
Cue up “Tere Mere Beech Mein” and listen at 00:06–00:14, 00:26–00:30 — that’s the passage Britney Spears lifted. Old-school source, 2000s flip.
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