Toxic was released in 2004 as the second single from Britney Spears' 2003 album In the Zone, produced by Bloodshy and Avant around a sample of the Bollywood song Tere Mere Beech Mein. It became one of her signature hits and won the Grammy for Best Dance Recording in 2005. The song's hook, with its urgent strings and slinky beat, stayed in pop culture for decades and found new life as a TikTok and meme sound, where creators use short clips of it to soundtrack glow-ups, reveals and confident entrances.