Americans are gratefully duped into believing what they want to believe, and this was the last gasp of willful delusion. But this was the peak of blood-rush hysteria, the last time the illusion could be sustained. Britney would go on to produce better songs (“I’m a Slave 4 U,” “Toxic”) and remain essential to the pop culture industrial complex until this day (though her public struggles with mental health have often overshadowed the music). The iPod would enter the world shortly thereafter, followed by social media and forever wars. The single and album-the latter of which was released 20 years ago on Saturday-were the last successful world-conquering acts of the exhausted American century (even if the songwriting and production were already outsourced), the final classic album of the teen-pop era, a goodbye to the gilded years of the record industry. I Did It Again” shock and awe defined that moment. The Ringer’s 40 Best Singles and Albums of 1999 How the Backstreet Boys Represented the Pinnacle-and Death Rattle-of the Old Music Business How the Original ‘TRL’ Conquered Teen CultureĪ hit is a hit, but like anything that seeps into the collective memory, the “Oops!. She was the vestal pseudo-virgin at the center of that neon helix between impeachment and implosion in a perfumed Abercrombie & Fitch nation, soundtracked by Swedish pop shamans and their sparkling American veneers. In this never-ending prom of frosted-tip and puka-shell pop, Britney Spears was the queen, barely legal and the biggest star in the world. The eponymous lead single shattered ’NSync’s freshly set record for most radio station adds in a single week. Towering above all pop culture totems was a 5-foot-4 ex-Mouseketeer turned teenaged Marilyn, who sold more first-week albums than any female artist ever had-1,319,000 copies-nearly triple that of the previous record-holder (Alanis Morissette). Santana drank the blood of the Product G&B for eternal youth, and no one has heard from them since.
Sisqó introduced the globe to the concept of underwear minimalism. The Billboard singles charts were a game of musical chairs between ’NSync, the Backstreet Boys, Enrique Iglesias, Christina Aguilera, Ricky Martin, Destiny’s Child, Eminem, and Nelly. Monica had just spurned Tom Selleck to accept Chandler’s marriage proposal. Gladiator, an anachronistic swords-and-sandals epic, dominated the box office. Stock in both America Online and peroxide manufacturers was at an all-time high.
#BRITNEY OOPS I DID IT AGAIN BRITNEY TV#
In the middle of May, at the dawn of the millennium, Bill Clinton was still president, unemployment limboed to its lowest rate since the late ’60s, and Survivor was still two weeks away from ushering in the reality TV takeover. The ’90s were only a few months gone, and a lacquered mirage of peace, prosperity, and maximal pop gleamed on the infinite horizon. These are the questions that keep me up at night.There was a lot to consider, but no one had time for that. It's where the Space Titanic sailed! But to whom is Control saying, "All aboard?" Where is Britney going? She lives on Mars. Now in the song, this is merely a random moment clearly referencing Titanic and the coeur de la mer, which is apparently a real thing a real old lady dropped into the real ocean in the narrative this song, but in the video, the implication is that Astronaut Mike Dexter went into the space ocean, got the space coeur de la mer and gave it to his Space Britney. But wait a minute.isn't this?īritney: But I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean in the end?Īstronaut Mike Dexter: Well, baby, I went down and got it for you. See, in "Oops!.I Did It Again," there is a spoken interlude that goes as follows:Īstronaut Mike Dexter: Britney, before you go, there's something I want you to have.īritney: Aw, it's beautiful.
But the true cherry on this amazing sundae is this: Space Titanic.
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