...Baby One More Time music video turns 25

[PokemonSpears]

 

Most recent sources claim November 26 was the day the ...Baby One More Time music video premiered back in 1998, but the old Britney Spears website and other older sources claimed it was on the 24th. Either way, the video has turned 25 this year and of course I feel old af

I was in kindergarten when this video came out, and thanks to my older cousins I would always watch it on TV all the time and that's how I fell in love with Britney.

Directed by Nigel ****, it is currently her most watched solo video on YouTube with more than 885M views.

 

On December that year, Britney went to TRL to present the video

 

 

[Fita]

Not Nigel's name being censored 

[setlimitations]

timeless song and video.  Can't wait for it to pass 1 billion views.  does anyone know which songs older than it are at 1 billion+ views?  I'd assume a couple of MJ vids and some older rock hits.

[Fita]

Some gifs from outtakes to celebrate it: 

 

This video and song forever changed Britney's life. 

Edited November 27, 2023 by Fita

[runoncoldfire]

Simply iconic 

[runoncoldfire]

Also, 25 years ago?  I was a freshman in high school. I’m old AF!

[Fita]

I just saw the video of her on TRL. She was shy and so normal, totally low profile next door Britney. Completely opposite of Stageney 

[setlimitations]

32 minutes ago, runoncoldfire said:

Also, 25 years ago?  I was a freshman in high school. I’m old AF!

Same!

[runoncoldfire]

15 minutes ago, setlimitations said:

Same!

[setlimitations]

1 minute ago, runoncoldfire said:

I’m just glad we were able to experience Britney at her prime while old enough to comprehend the level of stardom she achieved.  Even though that makes us midlife crisis age 😂

[runoncoldfire]

16 minutes ago, setlimitations said:

I’m just glad we were able to experience Britney at her prime while old enough to comprehend the level of stardom she achieved.  Even though that makes us midlife crisis age 😂

Agreed. I will be 40 next year 

[setlimitations]

2 minutes ago, runoncoldfire said:

Agreed. I will be 40 next year 

40 in July here 

[MikeHunt]

I remember Mark Wahlberg (maybe 27 at the time) was on TRL and when the video was over, he said something like “I’d like to hit that some time” and Carson nervously laughed and said, “She’s 16! 16!” 

[setlimitations]

Looking on YouTube and this will be the third oldest female song to reach 1 billion, after girls just wanna have fun (Cyndi Lauper) and I will always love you ( Whitney Houston).  This classic!

[princessmimi]

7 hours ago, setlimitations said:

timeless song and video.  Can't wait for it to pass 1 billion views.  does anyone know which songs older than it are at 1 billion+ views?  I'd assume a couple of MJ vids and some older rock hits.

I Will Always Love You from Whitney Houston has 1.5 billion views as of right now.

[Emil87]

I have no doubt that if the conservatorship never happened and she still had passion for her career that we would get something to celebrate all these anniversaries. Her team took not only so much from her, but they also robbed us in the process.

What Wendy said. 

[ElectricPlatypusLove]

I've always been really curious if November 24th was the true release date because that's my birthday and I can't help find some significance in my all time favorite artist debuting her first smash iconic video on that day. 

[Peter Pan]

Now this is something to celebrate!

Congratulations Baby One More Time!

Such a classic video 😍

 

[websurfer22]

12 hours ago, ElectricPlatypusLove said:

I've always been really curious if November 24th was the true release date because that's my birthday and I can't help find some significance in my all time favorite artist debuting her first smash iconic video on that day. 

It might’ve been MTV’s premiere date, but I’m nearly 100% sure it was playing on “The Box” in at least October of 1998.  Maybe even very late September 1998. The Box’s Wikipedia page even mentions Baby one more time being on The Box before MTV, but gives no actual dates.
 

I was in 9th grade. It was after school and I had the TV on, I was also on the dialup internet and I was instant messaging an online friend that asked what I was doing, and I looked out the window at the tree leaves that were changing colors, and typed. “I’m watching Britney Spears’ music video”. He didn’t know who she was yet and the topic of conversation moved on.
 

And I couldn’t figure out why the radio and MTV weren’t playing this banger of a song at all.

I still remember the channel numbers on my cable system at the time.

Channel 21 - VH1

Channel 22 - The Box

Channel 23 - MTV

[stanLOONA]

I'm always amazed how iconic she was from the get go  you can only achieve it once 

#1 album, #1 album single... DEBUT