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

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I honestly can’t recall hearing it for the first time, but I remember seeing the video and trying to learn the routine with my friends.

I still think it’s her best song, and the video holds up so well. I don’t think there will ever be a better debut than that. That bridge, too :yesplease: Combine that with the visuals of her in the school gym and the lights overhead flashing, her and the dancers nailing that routine.. So iconic.

I really hope the song gets the performance it deserves for the new tour.

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18 minutes ago, senammoises said:

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.

:bedtime:

Read that and it was pure trash. I blame exhale for this constant 'She's a nostalgia act now' thing y'all insist on :crying1:

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41 minutes ago, Khoazie said:

Exhalers who’s blasting BOMT right now?!

Wait... that teacher is actually Felicia? I had no idea :flop:

 

As to the song itself, I was 5 when it was released so I don’t really remember anything. I think I probably heard it some time around the release of Oops because for a long time I thought they were her first two songs and came out one after the other. However, I can’t really tell when it was exactly that I heard it for the first time. It’s like I just always knew this song. 

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1 hour ago, bspearsMJfan5 said:

I was 13 finishing 8th grade. I vividly remember this song being blasted in our music class.. Someone had bought the single on CD and it was epic!! :badgirl: A great start entering my high school years. 

We went through high school during a Primeney! Our adolescence. Those incredibly formulative years. Blessed. 

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fnfurter Master

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18 hours ago, Khoazie said:
  • How old were you when this song was released to radio?
  • Where were you when you heard BOMT for the first time?
  • DId any of you buy the single/album on cassette or CD?  If so, from where?
  • What were your first impressions/thoughts/feelings?
  • Any special memories attached to this song?

1. 12.

2. I actually don't remember. I couldn't even tell you if I heard the song first, or saw the MV first. I think it was the MV.

3. I had the single and the album (on CD), and I bought both from..... God, one of the music stores that no longer exists. :crying3:

4. Well I had been a huge Spice Girls stan, and they'd split up how many months before? (Well, Geri had left, which was about the same thing as them all breaking up to me. Five, or nah.) So I guess my little 12 year old self was looking for some pop act to fill the void, and I latched onto Britney just in time. I remember thinking about how pretty she was and how catchy the song was, and how I wished I could dance like her.

5. No, but if this was about Crazy, I once had to do a rewrite of a popular song to reflect my English class lessons, and my group and I came up with (Adverbs Drive Me) Crazy. :embarrassed: No memories like that with BOMT, other than it being the thing that introduced me to Britney altogether.

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