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Oops!... I Did It Again (song)
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"Oops!... I Did It Again" is a song by American recording artist Britney Spears
. The song was written and produced by Max Martin
and Rami
for Spears' second studio album
, Oops!... I Did It Again
(2000). It was released on March 27, 2000 by Jive Records
, as the first single from the album. "Oops!... I Did It Again" is a teen pop
song, that speaks about a girl who thinks love is a game and plays with her lover's emotions, claiming that she's "not that innocent". The song's bridge features a dialogue that makes reference to the James Cameron
movie Titanic (1997).
"Oops!... I Did It Again" received positive reviews from music critics. Many praised the singer for the song, while noticing it has a similar background to Spears' debut single, "...Baby One More Time
" (1999). The song has also been compared to tracks recorded by artists like Barbra Streisand
and Michael Jackson
. "Oops!... I Did It Again" achieved commercial success, reaching number one in 11 countries, while reaching the top five in other six countries. The lowest chart position for the song was in the United States' Billboard Hot 100
, where it reached number nine. "Oops!... I Did It Again" has received nine certifications, from Gold to 2x Platinum on several countries.
An accompanying music video for "Oops!... I Did It Again" was directed by Nigel Dick
. It portrays Spears dancing and singing on planet Mars
, to an astronaut who has fallen in love with her. Spears requested to wear a red-latex catsuit
in the music video, which was considered too sexy at the time. Spears performed the song several times on live television, and has performed the song on three world tours, including Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour
, as the show's encore, Dream Within a Dream Tour
, as the opening act, and The Onyx Hotel Tour
, in a reworked version with elements of jazz
and blues
.
"Oops!... I Did It Again" is generally perceived as one of Spears' signature song
s by the media
and the general public
. In 2001, "Oops!... I Did It Again" received a nomination from the 43rd Grammy Awards on the category of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
, but lost to Macy Gray
's "I Try
" (2000). The song was also nominated in the category of "Favorite Song" at the 2001 Kids' Choice Awards
, while the music video received three nominations on 2000 MTV Video Music Awards
.
and Rami Yacoub
for Spears second studio album
, Oops!...I Did It Again (2000). Spears recorded her vocals for the song in November 1999 at Cheiron Studios
in Stockholm, Sweden, while other background vocals were provided by Nana Hedin and Martin. Martin also mixed the song at Cheiron Studios. The song was released as the lead single from Oops! on March 27, 2000, through radio airplay. Later in 2001, "Oops!... I Did It Again" received a nomination from the 43rd Grammy Awards on the category of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
, but lost to Macy Gray
's "I Try
" (2000). The song was also nominated in the category of "Favorite Song" at the 2001 Kids' Choice Awards
.
and dance-pop
song that lasts for three minutes and 32 seconds. According to Jocelyn Vena of MTV
, the song's lyrics "reflected Spears' evolution from naughty schoolgirl to intergalactic sex kitten." The song is composed in the key
of E major
and is set in time signature
of common time
, with a moderate tempo
of 96 beats per minute. The song's vocal range spans from C3 to A4. A review of Billboard
noticed the song's similarity in sound to that of Spears' debut single "...Baby One More Time
", while noting that the beat sounded similar to the remix
of "(You Drive Me) Crazy
". "Oops!... I Did It Again has a basic sequence of Cm–Cm as its chord progression
. The song's bridge features a dialogue that makes reference to James Cameron
movie Titanic
(1997).
commented the track as "a solid pop song that should add further heat to this superstar's red-hot career." Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone
compared the track musically to Barbra Streisand
's "Woman In Love
" and lyrically to The Smiths
' "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
", and stated that "that brutal growl is all Britney, articulating a violently ambivalent sexual confusion her audience can relate to, kicking and screaming for the right to figure out her desires before the world decides for her". NME
compared the structure of the recording to Michael Jackson
's 80s riffs, and called the track "essentially a harder, carbon copy of "...Baby One More Time", but easily as good as her breakthrough single". Andy Battaglia from online magazine
Salon
said that "as a don't-go-there anthem from teenie pop's most forbidden fruit
, the song makes for a sweetly sadistic companion piece to the masochism lite lurking beneath her debut, "... Baby One More Time"." Bill Lamb
from About.com
listed the song at number six on Spears' Top 10 Songs, saying: "Oops!..I Did It Again" is catchy, a triumphant return to formula, and deliriously witty. The spoken word allusions to the Titanic near the end of the song cap a triumphant second act for Britney".
, becoming Spears' third top ten hit. Despite peaking at a top ten position, Jive
considered the single sales to be a disappointment in the United States
. This was mainly caused by Spears's record label releasing the song in the United States as an airplay single instead of the regular CD Singles. The song also reached number eight on the Hot 100 Airplay
list. The song also reached the top position on Pop Songs, and made into the top ten on the Rhythmic Top 40 and Top 40 Tracks
charts.
Internationally, "Oops!" peaked within the top five across the board in all European countries, including France
, where it was certified gold for shipments of over 250,000 copies in both nations by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique
and Germany
, where it was also certified Gold the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. "Oops!… I Did It Again" topped the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles
for six consecutive weeks, and became Spears' third UK number-one hit
, being certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry
for sales in excess of 423,000 units. "Oops!... I Did It Again" debuted at number one in the Australian Singles Charts
and got a Platinum certification by the Australian Recording Industry Association
for shipments of 70,000. In New Zealand
, "Oops!… I Did It Again" debuted at number 39 on the week of May 21, 2000, and ascended to the top spot two weeks later on June 4, 2000. It stayed there for a week. After selling over 15,000 units, the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand
certified it Platinum. It spent 18 weeks on the chart. According to Nielsen SoundScan
, "Oops!... I Did It Again" has sold 369,000 paid downloads, and 57,000 physical units of the single in the United States.
for "Oops!... I Did It Again was directed by Nigel Dick
on March 17–18, 2000 at Universal City, California
, while the choreography was created by Tina Landon. The music video's storyline was Spears' idea, who wanted to be portrayed "dancing on [planet] Mars
," and also requested to wear a tight-fitting, more provocative, red-latex catsuit
. During the music video recording, a camera fell on Spears' head during the shoot. Spears' mother, Lynne
, speculated that her daughter probably had a concussion, saying that, after she was hit, she began bleeding from the head. A doctor was called to the set, and Spears received four stitches. However, after only four hours of resting, the singer returned to work on the music video. The music video debuted on MTV
's Making the Video
on April 10, 2000, while reaching the top spot on Total Request Live
two days later. Later, the music video received three nominations in the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards
, including the Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Viewer's Choice categories.
on Mars finding a stone slate with the cover of Oops!... I Did It Again. A scientist, back on Earth, sees it through the video transmitter and says, "Cute. What is it?" The astronaut replies, "Oh, it's cute alright. It couldn't be..." Shortly after, the ground begins to shake and Spears appears on a stage wearing a red-latex jumpsuit as the music begins. She begins to sing and dance, while she suspends the astronaut in mid-air above her. During the bridge section of the song, Spears does a flip through the air to where the astronaut is and appears in a white jacket, short black leather skirt, and matching leather boots. The astronaut then gives the "Heart of the Ocean
," the jeweled necklace from the 1997 film Titanic
, to Spears, as a symbol of his love for her. She wonders where he found it, saying, "But I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean in the end," to which he replies, "Well, baby, I went down and got it for you." However, she shows no acts of affection towards him, by just saying, "Oh, you shouldn't have." The heartbroken astronaut shrugs and walks off. The dance continues, and, at one point, the astronaut is seen moonwalking. The command center on earth moves to the music coming through on the transmission from Mars. The video also features clips of Spears in a short white top and skirt, lying barefoot on a white pad with dancers on the ground around her.
On September 7 at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards
in New York City
at the Radio City Music Hall
, Spears gave a memorable live performance, which included a remake of The Rolling Stones
's 1965 hit single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
" and her own hit "Oops!... I Did It Again", released earlier that year. While she began her segment in a black suit
, she shocked the audience
and the media
while, at only the age of eighteen, ripped it off to display a revealing, flesh-colored
stage outfit with hundreds of strategically placed Swarovski
crystals. Entertainment Weekly
put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "This is the Britney Spears we choose to remember--the pre-breakdown pop tart, then just 19 years old, writhing and shaking her moneymaker in nude-colored rhinestone spandex to a mash-up of "Satisfaction" and "Oops!… I Did It Again." Pure kitsch bliss."
Spears also performed the song on several television appearances. She performed on The Rosie O'Donnell Show
on May 12, NBC
's Saturday Night Live
on May 13, MTV's Times Square Studios
for a two-hour concert called "Britney Live" on May 14, "Total Request Live
" on May 16, Nickelodeon
's variety show
All That
on May 20 and The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on May 23. A FOX special titled "Britney In Hawaii", aired on June 8, 2000, included an exclusive performance of the song. After signing a deal with McDonald's
, Spears and the boyband 'NSYNC
[sic] recorded an exclusive commercial for the company, which included the singer making a surprise performance of "Oops!... I Did It Again" in a franchise located on Surrey, British Columbia
, while lip-synching to the song's lyrics.
Spears performed the track on three world tours. On 2000s Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour
, the song was the show's encore, and included pyrotechnics
and other special effects during the performance, which Spears wore a black two piece jumpsuit with orange flames on it. The song ended with the singer disappearing through a tunnel of fire. On 2001s Dream Within a Dream Tour
, the song was used as the opening act of the show, while on 2004s The Onyx Hotel Tour
, "Oops!... I Did It Again" was part of the "Mystic Lounge" act. The song was reworked with elements of jazz
and blues
for the tour, and was performed by Spears with a vintage microphone, while she was joined by her background singers.
by several artists. German
singer Max Raabe
recorded a cabaret
version of the song with Palasst Orchester, for their album Super Hits (2001). American punk rock band Zebrahead
and Finnish heavy metal band Children of Bodom
also recorded covers of the song for their albums, while artist Rochelle released through Almighty Records
an eurodance
hi-NRG
cover version. Irish pop rap
duo Jedward
performed the song live on The X Factor
in 2009. In 2005, comedy website Super Master Piece released a version of the song titled "Oops I Did It Again!: The Original". Their version was supposedly an original recording done by Louis Armstrong
on April 1932 in Chicago, Illinois. However, it was actually recorded by Shek Baker, after the real song's release. Richard Thompson also covered "Oops!… I Did It Again" in a medieval-style on his album 1000 Years of Popular Music
, "Oops!... I Did It Again" has been parodied under the title "Oops! I Farted Again" by Bob Rivers
, and has been featured in three video games, including Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix
, Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2
, and Karaoke Revolution Volume 3
. "Oops!... I Did It Again" was also featured on several television shows, including American sitcom Will & Grace
, and in the pilot episode of satirical sitcom Neighbors from Hell
titled "Snorfindesdrillsalgoho". In the 2010 American series Glee
episode "Britney/Brittany", the character of Brittany Pierce
, which is played by Heather Morris, danced in a red-latex catsuit during a cover of "I'm a Slave 4 U
". The song was covered by the American pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene
for their 2011 We Own the Night Tour
.
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Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi, and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album...
. The song was written and produced by Max Martin
Max Martin
Martin Karl Sandberg, known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish music producer and songwriter. Raised in Stenhamra, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, he broke through as a producer and songwriter in the mid to late 1990s after crafting a string of hits for pop artists like the Backstreet Boys,...
and Rami
Rami Yacoub
Rami Yacoub is a Swedish music producer and songwriter of Palestinian descent, and former member of the successful songwriting/production houses Cheiron Studios and Maratone...
for Spears' second studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
, Oops!... I Did It Again
Oops!... I Did It Again
Oops!...I Did It Again is the second studio album by American pop singer Britney Spears. The album was released on May 16, 2000 by Jive Records. The album became a commercial success after debuting at top position on the U.S. Billboard 200 selling over 1,319,193 units during its first week...
(2000). It was released on March 27, 2000 by Jive Records
Jive Records
Jive Records was a record label based in New York City, operating under RCA Music Group. Jive was primarily known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and in teen pop and boy bands in the late 1990s. The word "jive" was inspired by Township Jive, a form of South African...
, as the first single from the album. "Oops!... I Did It Again" is a teen pop
Teen pop
Teen pop is a subgenre of pop music that is created, marketed and oriented towards teenagers. Teen pop copies genres and styles such as pop, dance, R&B, hip hop, country and rock....
song, that speaks about a girl who thinks love is a game and plays with her lover's emotions, claiming that she's "not that innocent". The song's bridge features a dialogue that makes reference to the James Cameron
James Cameron
James Francis Cameron is a Canadian-American film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, environmentalist and inventor...
movie Titanic (1997).
"Oops!... I Did It Again" received positive reviews from music critics. Many praised the singer for the song, while noticing it has a similar background to Spears' debut single, "...Baby One More Time
...Baby One More Time
...Baby One More Time is the debut studio album of American recording artist Britney Spears, released on January 12, 1999, by Jive Records. In June 1997, while Spears was in a negotiation with manager Lou Pearlman to join female pop group Innosense, her mother asked family friend and entertainment...
" (1999). The song has also been compared to tracks recorded by artists like Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
and Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
. "Oops!... I Did It Again" achieved commercial success, reaching number one in 11 countries, while reaching the top five in other six countries. The lowest chart position for the song was in the United States' Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
, where it reached number nine. "Oops!... I Did It Again" has received nine certifications, from Gold to 2x Platinum on several countries.
An accompanying music video for "Oops!... I Did It Again" was directed by Nigel Dick
Nigel Dick
Nigel Dick is an English music video and film director, writer and musician based in Los Angeles, California. He directed the Band Aid video "Do They Know It's Christmas?", as well as over 300 other music videos.Nigel Dick should not be confused with the Australian Dr...
. It portrays Spears dancing and singing on planet Mars
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...
, to an astronaut who has fallen in love with her. Spears requested to wear a red-latex catsuit
Catsuit
A catsuit is a close-fitting one-piece garment that covers the torso and the legs, and frequently the arms. They are usually made from stretchable material, such as lycra, chiffon, spandex , leather, latex, PVC, or velour, and frequently close using a zipper at the front or back.Catsuits, which...
in the music video, which was considered too sexy at the time. Spears performed the song several times on live television, and has performed the song on three world tours, including Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour
Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour
The Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour was the second concert tour by American recording artist Britney Spears. It supported her second studio album Oops!... I Did It Again and visited North America, Europe and Brazil. It marked the first time Spears toured outside North America...
, as the show's encore, Dream Within a Dream Tour
Dream Within a Dream Tour
The Dream Within a Dream Tour was the third concert tour by American recording artist Britney Spears. It promoted her third studio album Britney in North America and Japan. The Dream Within a Dream Tour was promoted by Concerts West, marking the first time Spears did not tour with Clear Channel...
, as the opening act, and The Onyx Hotel Tour
The Onyx Hotel Tour
The Onyx Hotel Tour was the fourth concert tour by American recording artist Britney Spears. It supported her fourth studio album In the Zone and visited North America and Europe. A tour to promote the album was announced in December 2003...
, in a reworked version with elements of jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
and blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
.
"Oops!... I Did It Again" is generally perceived as one of Spears' signature song
Signature song
A signature song is the one song that a popular and well-established singer or band is most closely identified with or best known for, even if they have had success with a variety of songs...
s by the media
News media
The news media are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.These include print media , broadcast news , and more recently the Internet .-Etymology:A medium is a carrier of something...
and the general public
Public
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individuals, and the public is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science,...
. In 2001, "Oops!... I Did It Again" received a nomination from the 43rd Grammy Awards on the category of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance is the latest in a series of awards recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959. The award goes to the artist...
, but lost to Macy Gray
Macy Gray
Macy Gray is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress, famed for her distinctive raspy voice, and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday and Betty Davis.Gray has released five studio albums, with her fifth studio album, The Sellout,...
's "I Try
I Try
"I Try" is the second single from Macy Gray's debut album On How Life Is, released in North American in January 2000 . It was Gray's biggest hit to date...
" (2000). The song was also nominated in the category of "Favorite Song" at the 2001 Kids' Choice Awards
2001 Kids' Choice Awards
The 2001 Kids' Choice Awards was the 14th Kids' Choice Awards ceremony. It was hosted by Rosie O' Donnell at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California on April 21, 2001, and was broadcast live on Nickelodeon. In Space-themed. Tom Cruise and *NSYNC were slimed; 100 kids in the audience were...
, while the music video received three nominations on 2000 MTV Video Music Awards
2000 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2000 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 7, 2000, honoring the best music videos from June 12, 1999, to June 9, 2000. The show was hosted by Marlon and Shawn Wayans at Radio City Music Hall in New York City....
.
Background
"Oops!... I Did It Again" was written and produced by Max MartinMax Martin
Martin Karl Sandberg, known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish music producer and songwriter. Raised in Stenhamra, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, he broke through as a producer and songwriter in the mid to late 1990s after crafting a string of hits for pop artists like the Backstreet Boys,...
and Rami Yacoub
Rami Yacoub
Rami Yacoub is a Swedish music producer and songwriter of Palestinian descent, and former member of the successful songwriting/production houses Cheiron Studios and Maratone...
for Spears second studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
, Oops!...I Did It Again (2000). Spears recorded her vocals for the song in November 1999 at Cheiron Studios
Cheiron Studios
Cheiron Studios was a recording studio located at Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden founded in 1992 by Denniz PoP and Tom Talomaa. Cheiron Studios was apart from being a recording studio, also a label Cheiron Records in affiliation with BMG for a while, and the music publishing service Cheiron Songs...
in Stockholm, Sweden, while other background vocals were provided by Nana Hedin and Martin. Martin also mixed the song at Cheiron Studios. The song was released as the lead single from Oops! on March 27, 2000, through radio airplay. Later in 2001, "Oops!... I Did It Again" received a nomination from the 43rd Grammy Awards on the category of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance is the latest in a series of awards recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959. The award goes to the artist...
, but lost to Macy Gray
Macy Gray
Macy Gray is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress, famed for her distinctive raspy voice, and a singing style heavily influenced by Billie Holiday and Betty Davis.Gray has released five studio albums, with her fifth studio album, The Sellout,...
's "I Try
I Try
"I Try" is the second single from Macy Gray's debut album On How Life Is, released in North American in January 2000 . It was Gray's biggest hit to date...
" (2000). The song was also nominated in the category of "Favorite Song" at the 2001 Kids' Choice Awards
2001 Kids' Choice Awards
The 2001 Kids' Choice Awards was the 14th Kids' Choice Awards ceremony. It was hosted by Rosie O' Donnell at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California on April 21, 2001, and was broadcast live on Nickelodeon. In Space-themed. Tom Cruise and *NSYNC were slimed; 100 kids in the audience were...
.
Composition
"Oops!... I Did It Again" is a teen popTeen pop
Teen pop is a subgenre of pop music that is created, marketed and oriented towards teenagers. Teen pop copies genres and styles such as pop, dance, R&B, hip hop, country and rock....
and dance-pop
Dance-pop
Dance-pop is dance-oriented pop music that originated in the early 1980s. Developing from post-disco, it is generally up-tempo music intended for clubs with the intention of being danceable or merely dancey...
song that lasts for three minutes and 32 seconds. According to Jocelyn Vena of MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
, the song's lyrics "reflected Spears' evolution from naughty schoolgirl to intergalactic sex kitten." The song is composed in the key
Key (music)
In music theory, the term key is used in many different and sometimes contradictory ways. A common use is to speak of music as being "in" a specific key, such as in the key of C major or in the key of F-sharp. Sometimes the terms "major" or "minor" are appended, as in the key of A minor or in the...
of E major
E major
E major is a major scale based on E, with the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has four sharps .Its relative minor is C-sharp minor, and its parallel minor is E minor....
and is set in time signature
Time signature
The time signature is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each measure and which note value constitutes one beat....
of common time
Common Time
"Common Time" is a science fiction short story written by James Blish. It first appeared in the August 1953 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and has been reprinted several times: in the 1959 short-story collection Galactic Cluster; in The Testament of Andros ; in The Penguin Science Fiction...
, with a moderate tempo
Tempo
In musical terminology, tempo is the speed or pace of a given piece. Tempo is a crucial element of any musical composition, as it can affect the mood and difficulty of a piece.-Measuring tempo:...
of 96 beats per minute. The song's vocal range spans from C3 to A4. A review of Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
noticed the song's similarity in sound to that of Spears' debut single "...Baby One More Time
...Baby One More Time (song)
"...Baby One More Time" is a song by American recording artist Britney Spears. It served as Spears' debut single from her debut studio album, ...Baby One More Time . Written by Max Martin and produced by Martin, Denniz Pop and Rami Yacoub, "...Baby One More Time" was released on September 30, 1998,...
", while noting that the beat sounded similar to the remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
of "(You Drive Me) Crazy
(You Drive Me) Crazy
" Crazy" is a song by American recording artist Britney Spears. The song was written and produced by Max Martin, Jörgen Elofsson, Per Magnusson and David Kreuger for Spears' debut studio album, ...Baby One More Time . It was released on August 23, 1999 by Jive Records, as the third single from the...
". "Oops!... I Did It Again has a basic sequence of Cm–Cm as its chord progression
Chord progression
A chord progression is a series of musical chords, or chord changes that "aims for a definite goal" of establishing a tonality founded on a key, root or tonic chord. In other words, the succession of root relationships...
. The song's bridge features a dialogue that makes reference to James Cameron
James Cameron
James Francis Cameron is a Canadian-American film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, environmentalist and inventor...
movie Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
(1997).
Critical response
"Oops!... I Did It Again" received positive reviews from music critics. A review of BillboardBillboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
commented the track as "a solid pop song that should add further heat to this superstar's red-hot career." Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
compared the track musically to Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
's "Woman In Love
Woman in Love
"Woman in Love" is a popular song performed by Barbra Streisand and taken from her 1980 album, Guilty. The song was written by Barry and Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees....
" and lyrically to The Smiths
The Smiths
The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...
' "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
"I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" is a song by The Smiths. It was released as a single in November 1987, reaching #23 in the UK Singles Chart....
", and stated that "that brutal growl is all Britney, articulating a violently ambivalent sexual confusion her audience can relate to, kicking and screaming for the right to figure out her desires before the world decides for her". NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
compared the structure of the recording to Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
's 80s riffs, and called the track "essentially a harder, carbon copy of "...Baby One More Time", but easily as good as her breakthrough single". Andy Battaglia from online magazine
ONLINE
ONLINE is a magazine for information systems first published in 1977. The publisher Online, Inc. was founded the year before. In May 2002, Information Today, Inc. acquired the assets of Online Inc....
Salon
Salon.com
Salon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online liberal magazine, with content updated each weekday. Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995. It was the internet's first online-only commercial publication. The magazine focuses on U.S...
said that "as a don't-go-there anthem from teenie pop's most forbidden fruit
Premarital sex
Premarital sex is sexual activity, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex, practiced by persons who are unmarried. Although it has always been practiced, in the West it has increased in prevalence since the mid-1950s...
, the song makes for a sweetly sadistic companion piece to the masochism lite lurking beneath her debut, "... Baby One More Time"." Bill Lamb
Bill Lamb
The Hon. William Henry Lamb was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1938 until 1962 and, variously, a member of the Australian Labor Party and the Lang Labor Party...
from About.com
About.com
About.com is an online source for original information and advice. It is written in English, and is aimed primarily at North Americans. It is owned by The New York Times Company....
listed the song at number six on Spears' Top 10 Songs, saying: "Oops!..I Did It Again" is catchy, a triumphant return to formula, and deliriously witty. The spoken word allusions to the Titanic near the end of the song cap a triumphant second act for Britney".
Chart performance
On the week ending June 17, 2000, "Oops!… I Did It Again" reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
, becoming Spears' third top ten hit. Despite peaking at a top ten position, Jive
Jive Records
Jive Records was a record label based in New York City, operating under RCA Music Group. Jive was primarily known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and in teen pop and boy bands in the late 1990s. The word "jive" was inspired by Township Jive, a form of South African...
considered the single sales to be a disappointment in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. This was mainly caused by Spears's record label releasing the song in the United States as an airplay single instead of the regular CD Singles. The song also reached number eight on the Hot 100 Airplay
Hot 100 Airplay
The Hot 100 Airplay chart is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures radio airplay, and is one of the three component charts, along with the Hot Singles Sales and the Hot Digital Songs charts, that determine the chart positions of singles on the Billboard...
list. The song also reached the top position on Pop Songs, and made into the top ten on the Rhythmic Top 40 and Top 40 Tracks
Top 40 Tracks
Top 40 Tracks is a defunct airplay chart from Billboard Magazine. It was created in 1998, when Billboard Magazine changed the airplay profile of The Hot 100 Airplay to include more R&B, Country, and Rock stations to its profile . To preserve the notion of the former chart, Top 40 Tracks was...
charts.
Internationally, "Oops!" peaked within the top five across the board in all European countries, including France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, where it was certified gold for shipments of over 250,000 copies in both nations by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique
Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique
The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry...
and Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, where it was also certified Gold the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. "Oops!… I Did It Again" topped the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles
The European Hot 100 Singles has been compiled by Billboard and Music & Media magazine since March, 1984. The chart is based on national singles sales charts in 15 European countries: Austria, Belgium , Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden,...
for six consecutive weeks, and became Spears' third UK number-one hit
2000 in British music
This is a summary of 2000 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.2000 saw many British acts dominate the charts. The year saw how competitive the industry had become over the 1990s with numerous new releases out each week...
, being certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry
British Phonographic Industry
The British Phonographic Industry is the British record industry's trade association.-Structure:Its membership comprises hundreds of music companies including all four "major" record companies , associate members such as manufacturers and distributors, and hundreds of independent music companies...
for sales in excess of 423,000 units. "Oops!... I Did It Again" debuted at number one in the Australian Singles Charts
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...
and got a Platinum certification by the Australian Recording Industry Association
Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...
for shipments of 70,000. In New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, "Oops!… I Did It Again" debuted at number 39 on the week of May 21, 2000, and ascended to the top spot two weeks later on June 4, 2000. It stayed there for a week. After selling over 15,000 units, the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand
Recording Industry Association of New Zealand
The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand...
certified it Platinum. It spent 18 weeks on the chart. According to Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan is an information and sales tracking system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett. Soundscan is the official method of tracking sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada...
, "Oops!... I Did It Again" has sold 369,000 paid downloads, and 57,000 physical units of the single in the United States.
Development
The music videoMusic video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
for "Oops!... I Did It Again was directed by Nigel Dick
Nigel Dick
Nigel Dick is an English music video and film director, writer and musician based in Los Angeles, California. He directed the Band Aid video "Do They Know It's Christmas?", as well as over 300 other music videos.Nigel Dick should not be confused with the Australian Dr...
on March 17–18, 2000 at Universal City, California
Universal City, California
Universal City is a community in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, that encompasses the 415 acre property of Universal Studios...
, while the choreography was created by Tina Landon. The music video's storyline was Spears' idea, who wanted to be portrayed "dancing on [planet] Mars
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...
," and also requested to wear a tight-fitting, more provocative, red-latex catsuit
Catsuit
A catsuit is a close-fitting one-piece garment that covers the torso and the legs, and frequently the arms. They are usually made from stretchable material, such as lycra, chiffon, spandex , leather, latex, PVC, or velour, and frequently close using a zipper at the front or back.Catsuits, which...
. During the music video recording, a camera fell on Spears' head during the shoot. Spears' mother, Lynne
Lynne Spears
Lynne Irene Spears is an American author and the mother of pop singer Britney Spears and teen actress Jamie Lynn Spears.-Early life and family:...
, speculated that her daughter probably had a concussion, saying that, after she was hit, she began bleeding from the head. A doctor was called to the set, and Spears received four stitches. However, after only four hours of resting, the singer returned to work on the music video. The music video debuted on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
's Making the Video
Making the Video
Making the Video is an MTV show, consisting of half-hour episodes, which chronicles the process of filming various music videos. Usually the director outlines the concept of the video and the show often includes light-hearted and humorous moments. It always concludes with a premiere of the...
on April 10, 2000, while reaching the top spot on Total Request Live
Total Request Live
Total Request Live is a television series on MTV that featured popular music videos. TRL was MTV's prime outlet for music videos as the network continues to concentrate on reality-based programming. In addition to music videos, TRL featured daily guests...
two days later. Later, the music video received three nominations in the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards
2000 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2000 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 7, 2000, honoring the best music videos from June 12, 1999, to June 9, 2000. The show was hosted by Marlon and Shawn Wayans at Radio City Music Hall in New York City....
, including the Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Viewer's Choice categories.
Concept
The music video starts with a brief scene of an astronautAstronaut
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
on Mars finding a stone slate with the cover of Oops!... I Did It Again. A scientist, back on Earth, sees it through the video transmitter and says, "Cute. What is it?" The astronaut replies, "Oh, it's cute alright. It couldn't be..." Shortly after, the ground begins to shake and Spears appears on a stage wearing a red-latex jumpsuit as the music begins. She begins to sing and dance, while she suspends the astronaut in mid-air above her. During the bridge section of the song, Spears does a flip through the air to where the astronaut is and appears in a white jacket, short black leather skirt, and matching leather boots. The astronaut then gives the "Heart of the Ocean
Heart of the Ocean
The Heart of the Ocean is the name of a fictitious blue diamond featured prominently in the 1997 film Titanic.-Origin:Historically, there was a blue sapphire pendant on the Titanic...
," the jeweled necklace from the 1997 film Titanic
Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...
, to Spears, as a symbol of his love for her. She wonders where he found it, saying, "But I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean in the end," to which he replies, "Well, baby, I went down and got it for you." However, she shows no acts of affection towards him, by just saying, "Oh, you shouldn't have." The heartbroken astronaut shrugs and walks off. The dance continues, and, at one point, the astronaut is seen moonwalking. The command center on earth moves to the music coming through on the transmission from Mars. The video also features clips of Spears in a short white top and skirt, lying barefoot on a white pad with dancers on the ground around her.
Live performances
2000 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2000 MTV Video Music Awards aired live on September 7, 2000, honoring the best music videos from June 12, 1999, to June 9, 2000. The show was hosted by Marlon and Shawn Wayans at Radio City Music Hall in New York City....
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
at the Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City's Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city...
, Spears gave a memorable live performance, which included a remake of The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
's 1965 hit single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
" Satisfaction" is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, released in 1965. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. Richards's throwaway three-note guitar riff — intended to be replaced by horns — opens and drives the song...
" and her own hit "Oops!... I Did It Again", released earlier that year. While she began her segment in a black suit
Tuxedo
A tuxedo is a type of semi-formal dress for men.Tuxedo may also refer to:-Places:Canada* Tuxedo, Winnipeg, Manitoba, a city neighborhood** Tuxedo , a provincial electoral district in Manitoba...
, she shocked the audience
Audience
An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature , theatre, music or academics in any medium...
and the media
News media
The news media are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.These include print media , broadcast news , and more recently the Internet .-Etymology:A medium is a carrier of something...
while, at only the age of eighteen, ripped it off to display a revealing, flesh-colored
Flesh
In vertebrate animals, flesh is the colloquial for biological tissue which consists of skeletal muscles and fat as opposed to bones, viscera and integuments. Flesh may be used as food, in which case it is called meat....
stage outfit with hundreds of strategically placed Swarovski
Swarovski
Swarovski is the brand name for a range of precisely-cut crystal and related luxury products produced by Swarovski AG of Wattens, Austria...
crystals. Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "This is the Britney Spears we choose to remember--the pre-breakdown pop tart, then just 19 years old, writhing and shaking her moneymaker in nude-colored rhinestone spandex to a mash-up of "Satisfaction" and "Oops!… I Did It Again." Pure kitsch bliss."
Spears also performed the song on several television appearances. She performed on The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Rosie O'Donnell Show is an Emmy Award-winning American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002...
on May 12, NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
's Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...
on May 13, MTV's Times Square Studios
One Astor Plaza
One Astor Plaza is a high skyscraper in Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Completed in 1972, the building is 54 stories tall and was designed by Der Scutt of Ely J. Kahn & Jacobs. Originally known as the W. T...
for a two-hour concert called "Britney Live" on May 14, "Total Request Live
Total Request Live
Total Request Live is a television series on MTV that featured popular music videos. TRL was MTV's prime outlet for music videos as the network continues to concentrate on reality-based programming. In addition to music videos, TRL featured daily guests...
" on May 16, Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
's variety show
Variety show
A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and normally introduced by a compère or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling...
All That
All That
All That is an American live-action, sketch comedy-variety show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable television network featuring short comedic sketches and weekly musical guests. The theme song for All That was performed by TLC...
on May 20 and The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on May 23. A FOX special titled "Britney In Hawaii", aired on June 8, 2000, included an exclusive performance of the song. After signing a deal with McDonald's
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...
, Spears and the boyband 'NSYNC
'N Sync
N Sync was an American boy band formed in Orlando, Florida, in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich, *NSYNC consisted of JC Chasez, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick...
[sic] recorded an exclusive commercial for the company, which included the singer making a surprise performance of "Oops!... I Did It Again" in a franchise located on Surrey, British Columbia
Surrey, British Columbia
Surrey is a city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is a member municipality of Metro Vancouver, the governing body of the Greater Vancouver Regional District...
, while lip-synching to the song's lyrics.
Spears performed the track on three world tours. On 2000s Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour
Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour
The Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour was the second concert tour by American recording artist Britney Spears. It supported her second studio album Oops!... I Did It Again and visited North America, Europe and Brazil. It marked the first time Spears toured outside North America...
, the song was the show's encore, and included pyrotechnics
Pyrotechnics
Pyrotechnics is the science of using materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound...
and other special effects during the performance, which Spears wore a black two piece jumpsuit with orange flames on it. The song ended with the singer disappearing through a tunnel of fire. On 2001s Dream Within a Dream Tour
Dream Within a Dream Tour
The Dream Within a Dream Tour was the third concert tour by American recording artist Britney Spears. It promoted her third studio album Britney in North America and Japan. The Dream Within a Dream Tour was promoted by Concerts West, marking the first time Spears did not tour with Clear Channel...
, the song was used as the opening act of the show, while on 2004s The Onyx Hotel Tour
The Onyx Hotel Tour
The Onyx Hotel Tour was the fourth concert tour by American recording artist Britney Spears. It supported her fourth studio album In the Zone and visited North America and Europe. A tour to promote the album was announced in December 2003...
, "Oops!... I Did It Again" was part of the "Mystic Lounge" act. The song was reworked with elements of jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
and blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
for the tour, and was performed by Spears with a vintage microphone, while she was joined by her background singers.
Legacy
"Oops!... I Did It Again" has been coveredCover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
by several artists. German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
singer Max Raabe
Max Raabe
Max Raabe is a German singer. He is particularly noted as the founder and leader of the Palast Orchester....
recorded a cabaret
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...
version of the song with Palasst Orchester, for their album Super Hits (2001). American punk rock band Zebrahead
Zebrahead
Zebrahead is an American punk rock band from Orange County, California, which fuses elements of Rapcore, Pop Punk, Alternative Rock, Alternative Metal, and Funk Metal.-1996–98: Formation:...
and Finnish heavy metal band Children of Bodom
Children of Bodom
Children of Bodom is a Finnish heavy metal band from Espoo. Formed in 1993, the group currently consists of Alexi Laiho , Roope Latvala , Janne Wirman , Henkka Seppälä , and Jaska Raatikainen...
also recorded covers of the song for their albums, while artist Rochelle released through Almighty Records
Almighty Records
Almighty Records is a British recording label and remix production team founded in 1989, releasing their first single in the same year. Producing mainly Dance-Pop and Hi-NRG music, the label is best known for releasing remakes and remixes of mainstream pop songs...
an eurodance
Eurodance
Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...
hi-NRG
Hi-NRG
Hi-NRG describes a form of high-tempo disco music as well as a genre of electronic dance music originating in the United States during the late 1970s...
cover version. Irish pop rap
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
duo Jedward
Jedward
John Paul Henry Daniel Richard Grimes and Edward Peter Anthony Kevin Patrick Grimes are an Irish hip pop duo. They are identical twins and perform under the name Jedward...
performed the song live on The X Factor
The X Factor (UK series 6)
The sixth series of British television music competition The X Factor started on ITV on 22 August 2009 and was won by Joe McElderry on 13 December 2009. Cheryl Cole emerged as the winning mentor for the second consecutive year, the first time in the show's history that a mentor has won back-to-back...
in 2009. In 2005, comedy website Super Master Piece released a version of the song titled "Oops I Did It Again!: The Original". Their version was supposedly an original recording done by Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
on April 1932 in Chicago, Illinois. However, it was actually recorded by Shek Baker, after the real song's release. Richard Thompson also covered "Oops!… I Did It Again" in a medieval-style on his album 1000 Years of Popular Music
1000 Years of Popular Music
1000 Years of Popular Music is a live album by Richard Thompson.The album was originally conceived after Thompson was ignored by Playboy magazine; initially meant simply as a list to be printed by the magazine, it was subsequently published into CD format. The songs comprising the tracklist cover a...
, "Oops!... I Did It Again" has been parodied under the title "Oops! I Farted Again" by Bob Rivers
Bob Rivers
Bob Rivers is a well-known American rock and roll radio on air personality in the Pacific Northwest as well as a prolific producer of parody songs, most famous for his Christmas song parodies....
, and has been featured in three video games, including Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix
Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix
Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX, or DDR 5th Mix, is the 5th game in the Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games. It was released to the arcades by Konami on March 27, 2001. Although only officially released in Japan, units exist worldwide. DDR 5th Mix contains a total of 124 songs, nine of...
, Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2
Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2
Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2 is the tenth home version of Dance Dance Revolution to be released in the United States. It was released by Konami on September 28, 2005 for the PlayStation 2 video game console...
, and Karaoke Revolution Volume 3
Karaoke Revolution
Karaoke Revolution and its many sequels are video games for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Nintendo GameCube, Wii, Xbox, and Xbox 360, developed by Harmonix Music Systems and Blitz Games and published by Konami in its Bemani line of music games. The Original Concept for Karaoke Revolution was...
. "Oops!... I Did It Again" was also featured on several television shows, including American sitcom Will & Grace
Will & Grace
Will & Grace was an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 21, 1998 to May 18, 2006 for a total of eight seasons. Will & Grace remains the most successful television series with gay principal characters...
, and in the pilot episode of satirical sitcom Neighbors from Hell
Neighbors from Hell
Neighbours from Hell is a strategy video game for Nintendo GameCube, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox. In Europe, it was released for Windows on June 20, 2003, and the GameCube and Xbox on March 4, 2005...
titled "Snorfindesdrillsalgoho". In the 2010 American series Glee
Glee (TV series)
Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
episode "Britney/Brittany", the character of Brittany Pierce
Brittany Pierce
Brittany Susan Pierce is a fictional character from the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee. The character is portrayed by actress Heather Morris, and has appeared in Glee from its second episode, "Showmance", first broadcast on September 9, 2009. Brittany was developed by Glee creators Ryan...
, which is played by Heather Morris, danced in a red-latex catsuit during a cover of "I'm a Slave 4 U
I'm a Slave 4 U
"I'm a Slave 4 U" is a song by American recording artist Britney Spears. The song was written and produced by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, for Spears' third studio album, Britney . It was released on September 24, 2001 by Jive Records, as the first single from the album...
". The song was covered by the American pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene
Selena Gomez & the Scene
Selena Gomez & the Scene is an American pop band formed in Hollywood, California in 2009. Along with lead singer and founder Selena Gomez, the band consists of bassist Joey Clement, guitarist Ethan Roberts, drummist Greg Garman and keyboardist Dane Forrest. Selena Gomez & the Scene have released...
for their 2011 We Own the Night Tour
We Own the Night Tour
The We Own the Night Tour is the third concert tour by American band Selena Gomez & the Scene, in support of their third studio album, When the Sun Goes Down...
.
Track listings
- CD single
- "Oops!... I Did It Again" — 3:30
- "Oops!... I Did It Again" (Instrumental) — 3:29
- "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" (Ospina's Millennium Funk Mix) — 3:29
- "Deep in My Heart" — 3:34
- UK CD single
- "Oops!... I Did It Again" — 3:30
- "Deep in My Heart" — 3:34
- "From the Bottom of My Broken HeartFrom the Bottom of My Broken Heart"From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" is a song by American recording artist Britney Spears, taken from her debut studio album, ...Baby One More Time . It was released on December 15, 1999, by Jive Records as the fifth and final single from the album...
" (Ospina's Millennium Funk Mix) — 3:29
- The Remixes - EP
- "Oops!... I Did It Again" — 3:30
- "Oops!... I Did It Again" (Rodney JerkinsRodney JerkinsRodney "Darkchild" Jerkins is an American songwriter, record producer, and musician. Jerkins received two Grammy nominations in 2011.-Biography:...
Remix) — 3:07 - "Oops!... I Did It Again" (Ospina's Crossover Mix) — 3:15
- "Oops!... I Did It Again" (Riprock 'N' Alex G.Brad DaymondBrad Daymond is a Canadian musician, songwriter, producer and remixer also known as "Riprock".Growing up in Barrie, Ontario, he changed his name in his early twenties to work in the music industry. First known primarily for his membership in the band Love Inc...
Oops! We Remixed Again! Radio Mix) — 3:54 - "Oops!... I Did It Again" (Ospina's Deep Club Mix) — 6:05
- "Oops!... I Did It Again" (Riprock 'N' Alex G. Oops! We Remixed Again! Club Mix) — 4:52
- "Oops!... I Did It Again" (Ospina's Instrumental Dub) — 6:05
- The Singles Collection Boxset Single
- "Oops!... I Did It Again" — 3:30
- "Deep in My Heart" — 3:34
Credits and personnel
- Britney Spears – lead vocals, background vocals
- Max Martin – songwriting, producerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
, mixingAudio mixing (recorded music)In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...
, programmingProgramming (music)Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, often sequencers or computer programs, to generate music. Programming is used in nearly all forms of electronic music and in most hip hop music since the 1990s. It is also frequently used in modern pop and rock...
, keyboardKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, background vocals - Rami Yacoub – songwriting, producer, mix engineer, programming, keyboard
- John Amatiello – pro tools engineer
- Esbjörn Öhrwall – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Johan Carlberg – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Thomas Lindberg – bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Nana Hedin – background vocals
- Chatrin Nyström – crowd noise
- Jeanette Stenhammar – crowd noise
- Johanna Stenhammar – crowd noise
- Charlotte Björkman – crowd noise
- Therese Ancker – crowd noise
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Weekly charts
| Chart (2000) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canada (RPM RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,... Singles Chart Canadian Singles Chart The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays.... ) |
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| Denmark (Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... ) |
1 |
| Europe (Music & Media) | 1 |
| Japan (Oricon Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc... ) |
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Year-end charts
| Country | Position |
|---|---|
| Australia | 35 |
| Austria | 12 |
| Belgium (Flanders) | 11 |
| Belgium (Wallonia) | 16 |
| France | 31 |
| Germany | 23 |
| New Zealand | 23 |
| Switzerland | 7 |
| United Kingdom | 15 |
| United States | 55 |
Certifications
| Country | Certifications |
|---|---|
| Australia | Platinum |
| Austria | Gold |
| France | Gold |
| Germany | Gold |
| Netherlands | Gold |
| New Zealand | Platinum |
| Sweden | 2× Platinum |
| Switzerland | Gold |
| United Kingdom | Gold |
Chart procession and succession
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External links
- Official music video on "Vevo" — VevoVevoVevo is a music video website. It is a joint venture among Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Abu Dhabi Media with EMI licensing its content to the group without taking an ownership stake. The service was launched officially on December 8, 2009...
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