This Day in Pop: Britney Spears releases Ooh La La single in 2013 (June 17)

[PokemonSpears]

 

On June 17, 2013 Ooh La La was officially released as a single as part of the soundtrack of the movie The Smurfs 2. It was written and produced by Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald, Joshua "Ammo" Coleman, Henry "Cirkut" Walter, with additional writing from Bonnie McKee, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Lola Blanc, and Fransisca Hall. It peaked at #54 on the BBH100.

 

The song had leaked a month earlier though, but Britney claimed that only was an early demo

 

 

Video didn't come out until next month, so we'll save that anniversary for later.

 

 

 

 

The original song was intended to be Lola Blanc's debut single, but Dr. Luke requested a deal to let Britney record it instead. Bonnie MacKee was in charge of changing the lyrics, she said: “I gotta be honest. I was really more of doctor on that song. It was written and then I came in and rewrote the lyric. It was too **** and it needed to be more ‘Smurfy.’ And more kid-friendly. But it still needed to work for radio, too. So I had to keep it tasteful but still have a little bit of that “Ooh La La,” if you will.”

 

 

The Ooh La La single also included G.R.L.'s track Vacation.

 

[PokemonSpears]

 

[Roxxy]

You know can't nobody get down like us.

[RadicalOptimism]

Ok so serious question. Why isn’t @kasavas topic featured instead of creating an all new thread about it?  

[Roxxy]

1 minute ago, CrazyButItFeelsAllright said:

Ok so serious question. Why isn’t @kasavas topic featured instead of creating an all new thread about it? 

Unfortunately, we can't feature calendar entries.

[PokemonSpears]

1 minute ago, CrazyButItFeelsAllright said:

Ok so serious question. Why isn’t @kasavas topic featured instead of creating an all new thread about it?  

Because that's the calendar event, I can't feature calendar events

Well, they get "featured" on the calendar section, but don't appear on the mainpage as a thread

[RadicalOptimism]

1 minute ago, Roxxy said:

Unfortunately, we can't feature calendar entries.

That’s not fair to them though  they need they points 

[Britney'sBish]

Lola Blanc's version is only a TINY bit better, I just don't feel this song at all.

[Roxxy]

4 minutes ago, CrazyButItFeelsAllright said:

That’s not fair to them though  they need they points 

That's why I always encourage people to comment on the entry. Although lately I haven't been doing that so my bad.

[RadicalOptimism]

Just now, Roxxy said:

That's why I always encourage people to comment on the entry. Although lately I haven't been doing that so my bad.

That’s why I did  and now I’m commenting more on this one so it defeats my purpose 

[OnlyFacts]

She looked SOOOOO good in this video

 
 

[blackoutbixxh]

Such a cute song! She was STUNNING in the video, which also featured her babies 

 

[blackoutbixxh]

1 hour ago, PokemonSpears said:

Video didn't come out until next month, so we'll save that anniversary for later.

Didn’t read this part until now 

[PokemonSpears]

2 minutes ago, blackoutbixxh said:

Didn’t read this part until now 

it took a month for them to release that damn video I don't know what they were thinking

[PARKBOM]

You know can’t nobody get down like us..

We don’t stop til  we get enough ..

come on turn it up til the speakers pop 

Spoiler

Who could forget this iconic bop lmfao 

 

[blackoutbixxh]

11 minutes ago, PokemonSpears said:

it took a month for them to release that damn video I don't know what they were thinking

Typical Team B fashion... don’t worry I’ll share the same post next month for the video anniversary 

[Britneylandia]

She looked her best since her prime in that video, so, so beautiful 

[FrenchToast]

Her legs look incredible ! 

[GimmeMore17]

This whole project was adorable, but I never liked the song and thought it was an odd career move. And then shortly after this she did chained up *** play in a video for a song with a literal curse word in the title, I can’t

[FraFromThe90's]

cool song, bad vocal production moreover in the chorus where she really seems a 3 years old child (same as 3 peter paul and mary)