Oops!... I Did It Again (song)
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Oops!... I Did It Again (song)

"Oops!... I Did It Again" is a pop song recorded by American singer Britney Spears from her second studio album of the same name. It was released on April 11, 2000, by Jive Records as the lead single from the album, and her sixth single overall. It was written and produced by Max Martin and Rami Yacoub. Its bridge features spoken dialogue which references the 1997 film Titanic.

Upon its release, "Oops!... I Did It Again" received many positive reviews from music critics and some noted similarities to Spears's debut single "...Baby One More Time". The song was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2001. Commercially, it peaked at number nine on the US Billboard Hot 100. It topped the charts in at least 20 countries, including Australia, Denmark, and Spain.

The accompanying music video was directed by Nigel Dick; it depicts Spears dancing on Mars dressed in a red bodysuit. With her singing, she addresses an astronaut who has fallen in love with her. It went on to receive three nominations at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. Spears has performed the song live on tour, for Oops!... I Did It Again, Dream Within a Dream, and The Onyx Hotel, as well as for her Las Vegas show, Britney: Piece of Me.

After attaining huge success with her debut album ...Baby One More Time (1999) and its singles "...Baby One More Time", "Sometimes", "(You Drive Me) Crazy", "Born to Make You Happy", and "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart", Spears recorded much of her follow-up record Oops!... I Did It Again (2000) in November 1999 at the Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. Its title track was written and produced by Max Martin and Rami Yacoub, while background vocals were provided by Martin and Nana Hedin. The track was released on March 27, 2000, by Jive Records as the lead single from the record.

"Oops!... I Did It Again" lasts for 3 minutes and 31 seconds. It is composed in the key of C minor and is set in time signature of common time, with a moderate tempo of 95 beats per minute. The song has a basic sequence of Cm–A-G as its chord progression, an example of a folia, and features a vocal range spanning from C3 to C5.

The lyrics to the track discuss a woman who toys with her lover's emotions; the lover mistakes Spears' flirtatiousness for something more, and considers her a serious romantic interest. During its bridge, Spears delivers a spoken-word dialogue that references the blockbuster film Titanic (1997).

Upon its release, "Oops!... I Did It Again" received generally favorable reviews from music critics. Lennat Mak of the Asian division of MTV complimented the song as "a perfect 10 on the "wow" scale, with the wacky "Jack-Rose" dialogue", referencing the Titanic spoken lyrics. Some however, were not as positive; writing for Entertainment Weekly, David Browne called it "ludicrously derivative" of Spears' debut single "...Baby One More Time", and commented that it "amounts to nothing so much as a jailbait manifesto".

A reviewer from NME compared the structure of the recording to '80s-style riffs of Michael Jackson and further described the track as a "harder, carbon copy" of "...Baby One More Time" that is "easily as good as her breakthrough single". Robert Christgau recognized "Oops!... I Did It Again" and Spears' rendition of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" as his "choice cuts" from the parent album. Writing for Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield compared the track musically to Barbra Streisand's "Woman in Love" and lyrically to The Smiths' "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish", and complimented it for being "terrific" and displaying "a violently ambivalent sexual confusion her audience can relate to". Andy Battaglia of Salon described the track as a "sweetly sadistic companion piece to the masochism lite lurking beneath her debut '...Baby One More Time'".

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