"We tried a couple of different styles. After a while, I could hear her stomach growl in the microphone. I asked if she was hungry. We’d been going for eight hours. She said, 'No, I’m fine.' I said, 'Let’s take a break,' and she had three burgers."
From "'Britney Spears wanted to be a star': An oral history of '...Baby One More Time'" (Entertainment Weekly).
October 23, 2018
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I knew there was a reason I liked her.....
If passing up a burger was what it took to succeed, everybody woulda stopped eating years ago.
I'll read about people like Britney Spears when my tits AND my music get a fair hearing, and not until.
She seems to have recovered from her insanity, for the most part. I also think she's a very quiet conservative that is smart enough to keep her mouth shut because she knows that people don't pay her for her political opinions, but to see her (still hot) body and listen to her music.
I wish more Hollywood types knew that lesson.
I really don't remember her music at all. It came out when I had two toddlers/pre-schoolers. There's a huge gap in my memory in the late 90s/early 00s.
I have always loved that song and the video. Incidentally, the song was written by Max Martin who has writer or co-writer credits on more #1 Billboard Hot 100 singles than all but two people in history- Paul McCartney and John Lennon.
Richard Thompson covers Oops, I did it again.
That's a great version, Carter. I also love the Max Raabe version.
Nigel Dick: I was kind of aware that some people might feel that that was exploitative. And as it turned out, I got a huge amount of grief about it once the video came out.
The adults involved in making the video all act to coy, so ... omigosh, what's this all about?. I don't believe them for a second. They set out to exploit a 16 year old girl to make a boner video for 40 year-old dads.
Fountains of Wayne's cover of "Bayb, One More Time" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6g4t93uuus
I’m noticing more and more oral histories being published these days, and I think it’s a really great way to tell a story.
Stunned that Althouse is writing about Britney Spears when Yoko Ono has just released a new album in the last two days!
After a while, I could hear her stomach growl in the microphone.
I thought he'd say that's where Spears' signature growl/purr came from.
Yancey Ward said...
"I have always loved that song and the video."
Really? I had never seen either one. My immediate reaction to the song was that she needs to get over the asshole. I guess there is a long tradition of songs celebrating massively dysfunctional relationships. The video seems pretty tame, but I didn't stay to the end.
The first time I saw the video, I thought it was a parody.
I feel sorry for Brittney because I'm pretty sure she was drugged and possibly sexually used to get her into fame. She was not well for while, and I'm glad her dad could step in for her.
In the era of #MeToo, I would like someone to address *why* so many young stars go a little crazy-- what are they going through to get their stardom?
I thought the song had a nice hook, but I never considered it 'good'. It pandered more than it impressed.
Why people think that they need to push an anniversary type memorial on it is odd.
Do you like American Music? I like American Music. Don't you like American Music .......baby.
Decline & Fall in "Baby" songs. (PhD thesis, U of ---)
1950s Baby It's Cold Outside
1960s I Got You Babe
1970s Baby, I Love Your Way
1980s Push It ("Baby baby, ooh baby baby")
1990s Baby One More Time
Ronettes and Sir Mixalot could fit in there, I know. Maybe Beyoncé for the 2000s (Baby Boy) but I am too lazy to see if that came out pre 2010.
She wore a Catholic school girl outfit in the "Baby One More Time" video. Not that I remember it or anything. I looked it up online. Three times.
Achh. Pfuui. I just wasted precious minutes of my life reading about Brittany Spears. Ann should put the tags on top so we know what to skip.
She puts on quite a show at the Monte Carlo in Vegas. (Not my first choice but I wasn't picking and then I wasn't disappointed.)
I just finished watching Tina Turner Wembly 2000, Proud Mary. Who the flyin fuck is Brittany Spears??
Rip van Winkle
. . . The Crack Emcee said..." I'll read about people like Britney Spears when my tits AND my music get a fair hearing, and not until,
I have some bad news and some good news.
The bad news is that with that a as a conditions you will have to wait a very very long time. The good news is that with that a as a conditions you will have to wait a very very long time.
Feeling superior today, aren't we?
She wanted to be a star, back then. She became one, and then she crashed in front of the world. She overcame that and rekindled her career in Las Vegas.
A friend who is familiar with the industry says she works hard for her money, but doesn't get to keep a lot of it. Too many people make a living off her. He said that she would be happier if she just went home to Louisiana and opened a dance studio.
I bet her appetite came from being nervous recording her first song with a major record label.
D2 said: Do you like American Music?
"Baby, I Love Your Way" - Peter Frampton is sorta British.
I write these things in an hurry.
Or it's a red herring to see if any of the 356,201 pedants round these parts are keeping tabs.
Or I use Violent Femme lyrics on different blog posts to send messages to Norwegian fighter -skiers.
The song still sounds great. The only thing that's aged badly is the overly repetitive and slow pattern on the drum machine. A competent drummer would really spice things up.
Just clicking through YouTube, you hear the same repetitive beat on "Oops, I did it again."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduA0TULnow
Compare to "Toxic," which is also a drum machine, but has a much more imaginative beat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOZuxwVk7TU
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