Britney Spears Oops I Did It Again Vhs

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On April 10, 2000, Britney Spears released the Oops!... I Did It Again music video, the lead single off her second studio album of the same name. Wearing the instantly archetype scarlet catsuit, the music video went on to go i of the most iconic music videos of her career, and pop culture in general, with a infinite theme that jumped on the futuristic trend of the beginning of the millennium and a distinctive choreography that made all the viewers try to dance forth to the song.

Oops!... I Did Information technology Once again was directed by Nigel ****, who had already worked on her first three music videos: ...Baby One More Time, Sometimes and (You Drive Me) Crazy. It was filmed in March in Universal City, California. Information technology was a success effectually the earth, becoming a staple on MTV's TRL countdown and in Latin America, on MTV's Los 10 + Pedidos, where information technology was besides voted as the #1 video of the year 2000, likewise the overall #1 at the 2000's decade Pinnacle 100 countdown that took place in 2009.

The video starts with an astronaut walking on Mars as the scientists back on the Earth station are communicating with him. He finds a picture of Britney cached in the ground, and of a sudden a whole metropolis emerges surprising the astronaut. Britney makes her archway descending from a platform wearing the red catsuit, and starts singing the song, including the choreography during the chorus. She eventually suspends the guy in mid-air and nosotros now see her lying barefoot on a white pad, wearing a white ingather-top and skirt. For the breakdown of the song, Britney flips in the air to land where the astronaut is and he gives her a jewel as a symbol of his love, every bit they say the spoken interlude that references the Titanic necklace while the people on the Globe station lookout man the scene. She takes information technology and walks away, and the astronaut leaves defeated. Britney continues to perform the song until the terminate.

You can observe the transcript of the video treatment here.

Despite the obvious hint at Britney "not being that innocent" that nosotros go far the song's chorus, Nigel recalls that the video wasn't strategized as such in an interview he gave to MTV for the 20th anniversary of the clip:

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"Very often, the characterization rings y'all up and says, 'We desire to projection this artist into a different age grouping at present.' To my retention, there was no discussion similar that at all," **** told MTV News. "It was quite simply, 'Britney's got a new single. Can you get on the phone with her? She's got a couple ideas.'"

The two had a brief chat, during which Spears laid out her vision: "'I want to be in a red suit, I want to be on Mars, I want there to be a expert-looking spaceman, and I exercise not desire a rocket,'" **** recalls her proverb. "And the rest was left upward to me."

In an interview Britney had during a showcase in Japan, she was asked about how she came up with the concept of the video: "Really, I love the whole futuristic matter with me going to Mars and everything, and information technology's never been washed before! And no one'southward been e'er dancing on Mars, so that'due south what fabricated me come up with the idea. [...] Because the vocal has so much free energy, I definitely had to incorporate my dancing, of grade".

The MTV crew was at the videoshoot filming an episode of Making the Video. In it, Britney talks about the pregnant of the song: "The song is basically nigh a girl. All these guys autumn in dearest with her, and she just can't aid it. When I run into a guy that I'one thousand seriously attracted to, I get butterflies in my stomach, I get a total brain fart, and I don't know what to say." (16 years later though, she'd forget about all that and say "I think it's just a song " )

"This is Mars. You own Mars, you lot are the Queen of Mars. This is your city and these are your subjects. You're hither to dazzle them." Nigel would tell Britney while directing her in the filming of the video.

The now iconic red catsuit was a last infinitesimal conclusion. Information technology turns out that the 24-hour interval before the shoot, Britney called Michael Bush-league, a designer who had worked for Michael Jackson in the 80'southward and 90's, and told him she wanted a dissimilar adjust. Nigel says:

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"We had picked a gorgeous catsuit, which I loved," he said. "Information technology was much softer material. It wasn't shiny. It was more feminine. And of form, the problem now is that information technology'due south been supplanted past this prophylactic thing, or whatever the material was, which I felt was not very flattering."

For its 20th anniversary, Britney remembered the outfit existence "freaking hot" though the dancing being fun made the shoot fly by. The red suit has become 1 of the most representative of Britney, being worn by fans and included in many different media. In 2016, Kevin Bacon wore a similar outfit for an Apple ad, were Britney likewise fabricated a cameo, and in 2020, Mexican vocalizer Thalia also paid tribute to the look in a Tik Tok video she did during the shoot of her Ten Cuidao music video. Funko has besides announced a Pop! Rocks series figurine inspired on the Oops outfit, set to be released later this year.

The red catsuit was also on display at Planet Hollywood during her Las Vegas residency from 2013 to 2017.

In the various interviews Nigel has done, he also talks about ane of the other outfits, the white i, and how that was a decision made on set likewise. Britney had chosen a more revealing outfit to habiliment, but Nigel told her to go back to the trailer and find something different, which apparently Britney didn't similar a lot:

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Turns out, that all-white 'fit was another concluding-infinitesimal determination — **** says that Spears initially wore a much more than revealing ii-piece that he describes equally a "cheap Vegas stripper outfit." And while it probably wouldn't be besides risqué by 2022 standards, **** notes that the "Oops!" video was filmed not long subsequently Spears's then-scandalous Rolling Rock photoshoot, which accompanied a 1999 cover story that invited readers into the underage star'south "eye, mind, and bedroom" (the commodity opened with cringey descriptions of her "honeyed thigh" and "ample breast").

Taking that into consideration, **** and Spears'south team convinced her to reconsider. "Nosotros went back to Britney'southward trailer," **** said, "and looked for something else, and nosotros came up with what you're seeing in the video now."

He talked a bit further for the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast:

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"I questioned whether it was right for her to be wearing information technology in the video for her audience, and both direction and characterization said, 'Yeah.' Only they didn't want to say anything, then I said, 'Yous know Britney, we need to become back to a trailer and come across what else yous've got. And she wasn't terribly happy near that." **** never worked with Spears once again after that video: "I'm guessing that had quite a lot to do with me questioning that outfit she was wearing."

MTV News pointed out at the diverse men that we encounter in the Oops!... I Did It Again video: "The video featured a gaggle of buff, shirtless guys operating mysterious levers in the background of Brit's lair — in one cute scene from Making the Video, the popular star giggles, 'I don't know their names only they're hotties! I don't heed looking at them!' "

Another man, the protagonist of the space romance, Eli Swanson, was the thespian who played the astronaut that tried to conquer Britney's heart, subsequently his head well-nigh exploded when losing his helmet, only to be rejected past the ruler of Mars. He and then goes back abode, not earlier doing the moonwalk (or Marswalk?).

Britney met him on set after Nigel selected him to portray the character. Swanson used to be a model for Ralph Lauren, Nike and Adidas, merely somewhen quit the concern to become an orthopedic surgeon. Apparently he inverse so much, that Britney didn't recognize him during a 2013 Superfan Showdown on ET.

Speaking of which, the spoken interlude scene (which is not voiced past him) that'due south the peak of Eli's interim career, didn't make a lot of sense for the director of the video.

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"But I thought the old lady dropped it into the bounding main in the end," Spears sweetly says. He answers, "Well, baby, I went down and got it for you." Her response to this impossibly acquired gift of the most symbolically romantic treasure of the late '90s? "Aw, yous shouldn't have."

"I'd obviously heard the song earlier I spoke to Britney about what the video was going to be like," **** remembers. "I said to her, 'Well, hang on, there'due south a bit in the middle about the Titanic? What are we going to do virtually that? Are we supposed to suddenly cut back to 1912?' And she said, 'Oh, yous'll think of something.'

"And then you lot throw together this little sequence and nobody ever questioned it," he continued of Spears and Swanson'southward scene. "Everybody just said, 'Yeah. That'll work.' For me, I had no idea why that sequence was in the song at all, but it's lighthearted and doesn't take itself too seriously."

Notwithstanding, the homo the stole the video according to Nigel, was the 1 at the command booth back on Earth:

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"I similar the guy in the control booth. I beloved the fact that he'southward real. He'due south not a super-hunky, spaceman type," **** said of the Rivers Cuomo expect-alike who speaks to Swanson'due south astronaut through a headset. "It's similar, information technology's only another day on the chore at NASA. Yesterday, he was looking at the Backstreet Boys on Saturn, and today, he'southward got Britney on Mars. These are things y'all come upwardly with and you're always frightened that the label is going to become, 'See that guy grooving at the desk? Have him out.' Merely it all stayed in."

Without a dubiety, a main component of the videoclip is its dance moves. It was choreographed by Tina Landon, and it includes the archetype "heart move" that everyone remembers. Non too long later on the video was out, her fans already had memorized the steps, and Britney fifty-fifty danced along with i lucky fan during an MTV special. Tina likewise released a video where she teaches the choreography for the chorus of the song.

Perhaps Britney could scout it once more, who in 2013 said she had forgotten about it in a Good Morning America interview subsequently her ~~Desert Performance~~ Las Vegas residency announcement.

Some other well known incident during the filming of the video, was a head injury Britney had while doing the scene where she'southward lying on the ground and a function of the camera fell off, landing on her head. At the time, Lynne Spears, Britney's mom, wrote on her website that Britney began haemorrhage and they had to call a doctor that put her stitches. Later on four hours of residue, she was ready to go dorsum to shoot the rest of the video. Only Lynne says that after the videoshoot wrapped up, she flew to Michigan where she slept for 17 hours, before performing there the next day. Lynne said:

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"These are the times that I worry most!" Britney's mother Lynne writes on the site. "I worry virtually her pushing herself likewise difficult considering she'southward a perfectionist. I worry nigh those freak accidents that seem to occur when you piece of work crazy hours. I obsessively worry nearly her flying and so much. And, of course, all of the higher up happened this calendar week."

Nigel **** clarified the state of affairs for MTV:

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"Firstly, zero like that should always happen on gear up," he said. "I was extremely upset that in a scene similar that, where the gear is over Britney's head, that it was not properly secured. I don't believe I've ever worked with that camera assistant ever once again.

"The 2nd thing is, no, the camera did non fall on Britney," he continued. "If information technology had, that would accept been the stop of my career. A part of the photographic camera which fits on the very front, the matte box, was what fell on her because it was not properly secured. And it's still quite heavy; not to minimize the effect of it. It has threaded screws in the top left and top right corners. I believe one of those hit her in the head."

**** said that the medic on set advised Spears to rest in her trailer for a couple hours, to make sure she didn't have a concussion. The coiffure powered down, but, "being a trooper," **** said, "Britney came dorsum and got on with the work."

Britney herself also talked about it in 2012, calling it a very bizarre experience:

In 2012 there was also a Twitter exchange betwixt Britney and the NASA:

Which was continued in 2020

Nigel really praises Britney'south professionalism, recalling the amount of effort they all put on rehearsals, as well every bit the stunt she had to film with a harness, in front end of the green screen:

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"You need time to practise with that stuff when y'all're wearing the magic outfit and y'all've got a harness on nether your red Mars adjust and whatnot."

"She rehearsed for like, five days. And it wasn't, 'Oh, we'll show up at two in the afternoon, have a couple of lattes, then we'll exercise a bit of dancing,'" **** said. "They were in that location at 10 in the morning, and I would go and run into a run-through at five at night. They looked similar hell because they'd been sweating all day, their pilus is ratty, their T-shirts accept stained. I mean, it's ******* hard work. It's Olympic-level athletics at that stage."

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"The thing yous have to think is, y'all can't fake that," **** said. "All the videos I did for her, I felt captured something magic almost her. I retrieve the beauty, in inverted commas, of Britney was that she truly was the girl next door. She evidently had this nifty passion for dancing and she seemed so happy all the time, which is why I remember people loved her and so much.

However, he's besides mentioned how much things take inverse from the first video he did for her, to the time they did Oops!... I Did It Again, and how she was surrounded already by this huge fame automobile

The video received four VMA's nominations in 2000: Best Female person Video, Best Dance Video, Best Popular Video, and the Viewer'due south Selection, but information technology didn't win whatever of them. In June 2016, the video surpassed the 100M views mark on her official YouTube channel, becoming the 11th video of hers to do so. Nonetheless, in recent years, it got a rapid increment in views, currently being the fifth well-nigh watched video on her channel, with over 300M views.