things my mother finds while doing deep deep house-cleaning

Apparently, I am the (proud?) owner of a Britney Spears "Sneak Preview Cassette." It has a copyright of 1998 and has one-to-two-minute snippets from "...Baby One More Time," "Born to Make You Happy," "Sometimes," "Deep in My Heart," and "You Got It All." It also tells me that the Britney Spears album is coming out this fall, how I can join Britney's fan club, and that this cassette is for promotional use only.

I am pretty sure I got this cassette as, like, a special thrown-in bonus from buying something from a now-defunct teenage girl-oriented mail catalog when I was in eighth grade. If I remember correctly, Britney Spears was on the cover and everything of one of the catalogs and helping model clothes and stuff in it. Just Nikki, maybe? Something like that.

I don't particularly care for her music, nor do I actually have a cassette player, but I find it an amusing curiosity nonetheless.