“I questioned whether it was right for her to be wearing it in the video for her audience, and both management and label said, ‘Yeah.’ But they didn’t want to say anything, so I said, ‘You know Britney, we need to go back to a trailer and see what else you’ve got. You flirt with the audience.”ĭick rejected an outfit Spears wanted to wear, worrying it was too sexy for her age. It’s like a burlesque, isn’t it? You have the feathers and everything – you don’t deliver the goods until the final moment as the lights go out. “So you just sort of think, ‘Oh my God, what am I going to do?’ So I remember putting the shot list a bunch of close-ups, so you could have that as a little montage. “You don’t want to fire all the guns at once and reveal the big set,” says Dick. The opening shot of Spears’ lips reflected how iconic a figure she’d already become. I said, ‘This bit about the Titanic, what am I going to do with that? How does that fit in?’ And she goes, ‘Oh, you’ll think of something!’ So, you just go, ‘I’ll write something, and we’ll see if they like it.’ And as I recall, I don’t think there were any revisions on my treatment.” And then suddenly the brakes squeal, and you do an about-turn and you go back to 19-whenever it was when the Titanic sank. “You’re going, ‘What the fuck?’ I’m on Mars, which obviously means somewhere in the middle of the 21st century. So now you have to just try and make this idea work.”ĭick found the song’s infamous Titanic interlude baffling. You know, everything is now going to be red. Which for me, makes life a lot easier… Having Britney say, ‘I want to be on Mars’ immediately narrows it. “And she says,’ Well, I want to do this video. The sci-fi concept for the “Oops!” video came straight from Spears herself. The director shared the story of his time with Spears on the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. and Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.Nigel Dick had already directed videos for Guns N’ Roses, Oasis, and many others by the time he met Britney Spears in 1998, but even the “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Sweet Child O’ Mine” clips couldn’t come close to matching the culture-shaking impact of “…Baby One More Time.”ĭick went on to helm the videos for “(You Drive Me) Crazy” and “Sometimes,” and when it came time for the all-important first single from Spears’ second album, Oops!… I Did It Again, she and her team turned to him again. I Did It Again (Uncut) by Britney Spears and Oops!…I Did It Again ( official music video) by Britney Spears part of: RuPaul’s Drag Race Lip Sync Performances ( season 5) (number: 4) recording of: Oops!…I Did It Again (from 1999-11 until 2000-02) writer: Max Martin and Rami ( Rami Yacoub) publisher: GV-MXM, Imagem London Ltd., Zomba Enterprises, Inc. Recording engineer, programming, producer and mixer: Max Martin and Rami ( Rami Yacoub) engineer: John Amatiello electric bass guitar : Tomas Lindberg ( Swedish bass player) (from 1999-11 until 2000-02) guitar : Johan Carlberg (from 1999-11 until 2000-02) and Esbjörn Öhrwall (from 1999-11 until 2000-02) keyboard : Max Martin (from 1999-11 until 2000-02) and Rami ( Rami Yacoub) (from 1999-11 until 2000-02) background vocals : Nana Hedin ( Swedish singer also known as Na Na and Nana d’Aquini) (from 1999-11 until 2000-02) background vocals and spoken vocals : Max Martin (from 1999-11 until 2000-02) background vocals, lead vocals and spoken vocals and lead vocals: Britney Spears (from 1999-11 until 2000-02) other vocals : “The Fanchoir” (from 1999-11 until 2000-02) phonographic copyright (℗) by: Zomba Recording Corporation ( not strictly a label - avoid adding releases here) (in 2000) produced for: Cheiron Productions recorded at: Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden (from 1999-11 until 2000-02) mixed at: Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden music videos: Oops!… I Did It Again by Britney Spears, Oops!.
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