Before being well-known, Britney Spears was a member of a girl group, did you know that

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Before being well-known, Britney Spears was a member of a girl group, did you know that

Before Britney Spears skyrocketed to fame releasing “…Baby One More Time” in 1998, she was an early addition to the girl group Innosense.

In episode two of Netflix’s Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam, which chronicles the rise and fall of Lou Pearlman, his former artist rep Melissa Moylan talks about some of the disgraced manager’s other bands outside of *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys and O-Town.

One of the bands she mentions is Innosense, a girl group created in the late 1990s.

“Britney was in the Innosense band, and then she left to become a solo artist,” Moylan explains.

Following Spears’ departure, the band featured singers Danay Ferrer, Mandy Ashford, Nikki DeLoach, Veronica Finn and Amanda Latona.

In a 2002 New York Times Magazine profile of Latona, journalist Lynn Hirschberg wrote that Innosense “was designed to be an American version of the Spice Girls.”

Latona would also later leave the band to go solo, and was replaced by Jenny Morris, PopSugar reported.

In 2019, YouTube released another documentary highlighting Pearlman’s controversial work titled The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story.

Along with many other entertainers who worked with Pearlman, DeLoach opened up about her experience in the band.

“The feeling of being a girl band in the midst of all these boy bands was, we felt like super special,” the former Mickey Mouse Club cast member recalled.

“They were talking about us being like the next *NSYNC and the next Backstreet Boys.”

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When it came time to sign their contract, however, DeLoach recalled a warning given to her by her entertainment attorney.

“You will be committing career suicide if you sign this,” she remembered being told. Nevertheless, the young star signed the contract.

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