“When I meet a guy that I’m seriously attracted to, I get butterflies in my stomach. “The song is basically about a girl… all these guys fall in love with her, and she just can’t help it,” Spears said in the “Oops!” episode of MTV’s Making the Video. She was the woman who kissed the boys and made them die, but not too bothered about it in the grand scheme of things. Max Martin - who had helmed “…Baby” with his fellow Cheiron Studios pop scientist Rami and who was ruling the airwaves so thoroughly that heavyweights like Bon Jovi and Céline Dion brought him in to work his magic on their own music - was nothing if not savvy.īut where “…Baby” and “Crazy” were about a woman who was willing to do anything for even the most doomed romance - loneliness killing her, because she was so excited, and in too deep, et cetera - “Oops!” had Britney singing from a place of strength.
Sonically, it wasn’t too different from the directions taken by album-one stompers like “ …Baby One More Time” and “(You Drive Me) Crazy” - the banging chords at the opener, the slightly more languid tone taken by the pre-chorus, the choir beamed in from above backing her pouty vocals at just the right time. The album’s title track, released as a single 20 years ago today, gave listeners their first hint at what direction Spears might be going in for her second record. Keenly aware that time and pop were often at odds with one another, she wasted little time gearing up for its follow-up album, given the winking title Oops!… I Did It Again and set for release in May of 2000. Her first album, …Baby One More Time, had spawned multiple MTV-ruling singles since its titular single’s late-1998 release.
Once the dust had cleared on the Y2K transition, the popular press went back to fussing over Britney Spears, the Louisiana-born Mickey Mouse Club alumna who’d been the leader of teen pop’s female infantry when it stormed the gates two years prior.
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