exhale Britney Spears' First-Ever Single "Baby One More Time" Turns 20-Years-Old Today!

[Billy Boi]

Oh how time flies! 

1. How old were you when this song was released to radio? It was 1998 or early 1999 and I was 12.
2. Where were you when you heard BOMT for the first time? In the car.
3. Did any of you buy the single/album on cassette or CD?  Got the CD for a late birthday gift in early 1999!
4. What were your first impressions/thoughts/feelings? I absolutely loved it. Its a perfect album for a young teenage girl. It's still very favorite Britney album tbh (fight me Blackout!)
5. Any special memories attached to this song? Listening to the CD in my room on repeat. I think my mom wanted to kill me for that, haha. Song was constantly on the radio, in public places. You couldn't escape it. It was magical. 

[2K16NEY]

I was 7 years old  I don’t remember where I first heard it but I remember being in awe of the video every time it played on MTV or VH1.

My parents bought me the album and I hung the poster from the CD up above my bed. I also remember on Friday at my school, we were allowed to bring our cd players to listen to while working on some assignment (dont remember what) and some girls had brought their BOMT cd’s and that’s when I found out there were different colors for the CD’s! I had the pink one with a blue flower, and I remember seeing a green CD and some other color.

I remember going on my dad’s windows 98 computer and going to britneypeeps.com hahaha and wanting to send something to her fan club.

I also remember playing the album on repeat and ALWAYS skipping Soda Pop. My little child heart could not stand that song.

I became obsessed with Brit since day one 1.

[LilyRoseAllen]

I was 12.

I got back from school and I was watching MTV. It was actually MTV Europe and I remember the lady hosting the show saying something like that : "This is the first European broadcast of the music video from Britney Spears. She is number 1 in the US". It was January 1999. For youngsters out there, many artists were launched months after in different continents back in the days. This is something that was still the rule until the internet got so big so that's why no one outside of the US knew Britney in 1998. (for the record, the single was released in France something around March or April and I thought it was really long since I've been seeing her everyday on MTV for months and that Sometimes was already a hit everywhere when Baby was released in France)

I bought the singles of Baby, Sometimes, Crazy and Born to Make you Happy as well as the album.

TBH, I didn't really like the song and video the first time I saw it. It wasn't until the next day when I saw it again that I thought it was really great. I quickly became obsessed, and thank God I wasn't the only one since MTV kept on playing the music video over and over. Such great memories...

Well, I was in middle school, young, living with my parents. Life was easy and the only thing you had to matter was to go home to catch Britney on MTV. I mean... Those were the days. Thank you Britney for the joy and Happy birthday to Baby One More Time. This song will always have a special place in my heart. 

[breaktheiceofmrv]

I was 10 and someone gave me the cassette but i guess we had to give it back.

I saw it on a local channel.Love her since then.

I still think this song is hit material.It would be a big hit with this production if it was released today.It's timeless,unlike the most of the BOMT album.

 

*I'm gonna buy the song on iTunes for the big 20 now  

[Eliad699]

1. How old were you when this song was released to radio?  8 years old
2. Where were you when you heard BOMT for the first time? At home. Just got my first computer.
3. Did any of you buy the single/album on cassette or CD?  I bought the cassette!!
4. What were your first impressions/thoughts/feelings? I fell in love with it instantly. It was the first song I really loved
5. Any special memories attached to this song? Just that I fell in love with her the moment I heard that song, till now

[Jean-Philippe]

I was 5 and can't answer any other questions 

[Inuyasha]

I was still in my dad's ballsack

I don't remember hearing it for the first time either. I just kind of knew BOMT always existed. The oldest knee song I can remember discovering for the first time was Oops because of that Just Dance game with the terrible cover. I grew up with Circus/Femme Fataleney (I'm 16) 

[Lauralicious1]

I was 10! Saw her performance on Tv and the next day made my mum take me to the shop so I could buy it on casette. Listened to it and Autumn Goodbye over and over. Apart from spice girls, was first pop star I was ever interested in! 

 

[PokemonSpears]

I was 5 I didn't know the song on the radio, but through the music video on MTV. My childhood literally changed after I saw that video.

 

Btw, I just woke up and I was having a dream where my sister and I were watching some random TV show where artists had to sing along accompanied by a fan/contestant while dressing up with funny costumes (I don't even know where did I take that from lol) and all of a sudden Britney Spears appeared, and I had no idea she was gonna be there, and she was dressed up as a maid and her partner was a girl dressed up as a cowboy / cowgirl, and they sang together, out of all of the songs, Give Me All Your Luvin' by Madonna It was so random, but so weird 'cause I could literally hear Britney's live voice singing Madonna's verses while the girl just screamed the "L-U-V Madonna!"

[Jordan Miller]

Mama been in my life for 20 years

[ralphcornio]

13 minutes ago, PokemonSpears said:

I was 5 I didn't know the song on the radio, but through the music video on MTV. My childhood literally changed after I saw that video.

 

Btw, I just woke up and I was having a dream where my sister and I were watching some random TV show where artists had to sing along accompanied by a fan/contestant while dressing up with funny costumes (I don't even know where did I take that from lol) and all of a sudden Britney Spears appeared, and I had no idea she was gonna be there, and she was dressed up as a maid and her partner was a girl dressed up as a cowboy / cowgirl, and they sang together, out of all of the songs, Give Me All Your Luvin' by Madonna It was so random, but so weird 'cause I could literally hear Britney's live voice singing Madonna's verses while the girl just screamed the "L-U-V Madonna!"

This is bound to happen, as she hates singing her own songs but loves singing other people's

[Iexpectyouto]

I hadn’t been born when BOMT was released, and we didn’t listen to secular music growing up. The first time I heard it was in the robots movie lol. I first bought the album in 7th grade telling my mom it was for a school project (it wasn’t). I lost that cd but a teacher gave me his from 99 and I have the clear vinyl now. 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Avatar said:

How nostalgic. 

 

Britney really appealed to me. She literally did flips in the music video. It was like the power rangers, the spice girls, the movie clueless and Janet Jackson had a baby and it hit me one more time 

Ok you just summed up the video’s appeal in a nutshell 

[Oprah Winfrey.]

I was still swimming in my dads ball sack when it came out

[Barajas]

1. How old were you when this song was released to radio? I was 10 years old.
2. Where were you when you heard BOMT for the first time? I was watching FOX KIDS back in Mexico. They used to play the video in the afternoons in between cartoon shows. It was really annoying at the beginning cause I JUST WANTED TO WATCH MY SILLY CAROON SHOW... but I end up FELLING too hard! :)) 
3. DId any of you buy the single/album on cassette or CD?  If so, from where? My primary school friends got me the CD for my birthday some months laters. 
4. What were your first impressions/thoughts/feelings? It was very confusing since I was not very much into music (i was still a kid). At the same time I was not able to understand too much cause my english level was tooo low. Even tough I remember I feelt the emotion when she sang "I must confess.. I still believe".
5. Any special memories attached to this song? Not really.. started hating it but eventually this was the trigger that made me move from FOX KIDS to MTV... QUEEN OF PRE-TEENS INTO TRANSITION haha!! 

[Guest]

Exhalers who’s blasting BOMT right now?!

[BabyBabyBay]

I was 4.

 

I don't really remember much around the time of it being released, I do remember seeing the video come on at my mum's university (that's college to the yanks) bar and it was the bit where she starts doing backflips and ****.

 

I didn't actually get the album until about a year or two later. I asked my dad to get me the OIDIA album first and then BOMT soon after.

 

I had the poster from the booklet up on my door (along with Avril Lavigne, Ciara and then a bunch of Kerrang! bands like Paramore and My Chemical Romance) until we moved when I was 13... bought Blackout shortly after moving into our new house (kinda funny how much I felt more attached to 2007 Britney than any other time before that) and the rest is history!

[Pickle Rick]

I thought the aniversary was on Sept 30th 

[senammoises]

RIO - "Baby, once again," a Britney Spears in school uniform and braided little girls pleaded, on October 23, 1998, the date of the release of "... Baby One More Time." Twenty years after the single that has been projecting her into world stardom, her fans are crying out for more of that youthful stunt that marked the pop star's career: on Friday, the 36-year-old singer announced that she will return to Las Vegas for another "home" As of February, she will hit spot at MGM Park's casino theater with the new show, "Domination" .E).

As she has not released albums since 2016, the new show should not go beyond what Britney already presented on her first Las Vegas stay between 2013 and 2015. With the suggestive name "Piece of Me" "), The residence (which grossed $ 135 million) was another case of success in the singer's career, while keeping her confined to her own past.

"All of Britney's rhetoric is based on the memorialistic idea of what she once was. There is an aesthetic judgment of her body ruled by nostalgia: the fans judge their performance according to the dance moves she did before. It's as if the value of Britney was what she already was - says communication professor Thiago Soares, who leads research on pop music at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE).

Keeping current is a challenge for any artist, of course. But it is noteworthy that Britney, 36, needs to appeal to nostalgia to sell tickets. Born in the same year as her colleague in 1981, Beyoncé is at the peak of her career now. And when she was the same age, Madonna released "Bedtime Stories" and would still release future albums such as "Ray of light" and "Music".

The very trajectory of Britney helps to understand its mismatch with the current pop music. Since the days of the Mickey Club (Disney Channel show she introduced in the 1990s alongside former Justin Timberlake and rival Christina Aguilera), she made her career following the traditional primer for the music industry. His strong web presence is, to this day, far more merit from his fans. Self-nominated "B-army" (Army B), many of them met Britney at the same time that homes were gaining access to the internet, according to one of the administrators of the Facebook page Britney Spears Brazil, the journalist Otávio Daros.

- Today, the artist must also be a social media. In this sense, Britney is out of the question: she relates to networks that are not in tune with aesthetic or political tendencies, which has some degree of originality, he notes, referring to the richer singer's Instagram home style in motivational phrases and pictures of children than in strategically calculated publications.

https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/musica/nos-20-anos-de-baby-one-more-time-britney-spears-parece-presa-ao-proprio-passado-23177017

Sorry, I translated via google.

And I agree with all of that.

[Cigarettes&Cologne]

britney come to brazil