HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME
BRITNEY SPEARS
SONGWRITER: MAX MARTIN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: BABY ONE MORE TIME
LABEL: JIVE RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1999
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2,
1981) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. She is credited
with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s, for which she is referred to
as the "Princess
of Pop". After appearing in stage productions and
television series, Spears signed with Jive Records in 1997
at age 15. Her first two studio albums, certified diamond in the US, ...Baby One
More Time(1999) and Oops!... I Did It Again(2000)
were global successes and became two of the best-selling
albums of all time, along with making her the
best-selling teenage artist of all time. The former's title track was named the greatest debut single of all time by Rolling Stone in 2020 and the latter held a 15-year record for fastest-selling
album by a female artist in the United States with first-week sales of over 1.3 million
copies.
Spears adopted more mature and provocative
themes and aesthetics for her next two studio albums, Britney(2001)
and In the Zone(2003),
and made her feature film debut in a starring role in Crossroads(2002).
She became the executive producer of her fifth studio album Blackout(2007),
which is often critically referred to as her best work. Due to a series of
highly publicized personal struggles, promotion for the album was limited, and
she was later involuntarily placed in a conservatorship.
Since then, she released the chart-topping albums, Circus(2008)
and Femme Fatale(2011),
the latter of which became her most successful era of singles in the US charts.
She embarked on a four-year concert residency, Britney:
Piece of Me, at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas to promote her next two albums Britney
Jean (2013) and Glory(2016).
In 2019, Spears's legal battle over her conservatorship came to light; in 2021,
she accused her management team and family of abuse and expressed a desire to
terminate the arrangement.
...Baby One More Time is the debut studio album by
American singer Britney Spears. It was
released on January 12, 1999, through Jive Records.
In June 1997, while Spears negotiated with her manager at the time, Lou Pearlman, to join
female pop group Innosense, her
mother, Lynne, asked
entertainment lawyer, Larry Rudolph, for his
opinion. Rudolph
took interest and decided to pitch her to record labels. Rudolph
submitted a tape of Spears singing over a Whitney Houston song, along with a demo tape of an unused song from Toni Braxton. After hearing the recorded
material, Jive signed Spears to a multi-album deal. Spears
traveled to Sweden to collaborate with producers Max Martin,
Denniz Pop, and Rami Yacoub, among
others. Martin presented a track titled "Hit Me Baby (One More Time)"
to Spears and her management, which had been rejected by the girl group TLC. Their
collaborations created a pop, dance-pop, and teen pop record,
with Spears later saying that she felt excited when she heard it and knew it
was going to be a hit record. The album was completed in June 1998.
At the time of its release, ...Baby One More
Time garnered mixed reviews from music critics, with
many praising it's commercial appeal but deeming it silly and premature.
Retrospectively, it has been hailed for it's major impact on pop culture, citing
it as one of the most influential pop records of all-time. ...Baby One
More Time was a massive global success, debuting atop the Billboard 200 chart and Canadian
Albums Chart, and reached the top 5 in
several countries. Spears became the fifth solo artist to chart on the
Billboard 200 under the age of 18. It received worldwide certifications,
including a 14× platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of over 14 million copies in the US, of which Nielsen SoundScan recognizes 10.7 million copies sold. ...Baby One More Time is
Spears' most successful album with sales of over 25 million copies worldwide, making
it one of the best-selling
albums of all-time, as well as the best-selling
debut album by a female artist of all-time.
Five
singles were released to promote the album. The lead single "...Baby One More Time" became Spears'
debut single. It became a global success, reaching number one in
every country it charted in, the best-selling single of 1999 in the UK, and has
since become one of the best-selling singles of all-time,
selling over 10 million copies. In 2020, the title track was named as the
greatest debut single of all time by Rolling Stone.
Whereas "Sometimes", "(You Drive Me) Crazy", and "From the
Bottom of My Broken Heart", peaked within the top 10 in most
countries of Europe and North America. Spears heavily promoted the album
through interviews and performances on national television. Furthermore,
Spears embarked on her first headlining concert tour, entitled the ...Baby One
More Time Tour in 1999, and later continued on a
second leg title the(You Drive
Me) Crazy Tour.
...Baby One More Time has been cited as a
hallmark for pop music and
praised for ushering a new sound to the genre, as well as being credited for
the reviving the teen pop genre.
The album received two nominations at the 42nd Annual
Grammy Awards, for Best New
Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Oh baby, baby
Oh baby, baby
Oh baby, baby
How was I supposed to know
That something wasn't right here?
Oh baby, baby
I shouldn't have let you go
And now you're out of sight, yeah
Show me how you want
it to be
Tell me, baby, 'cause I need to know now
Oh, because
My loneliness is
killing me (and I)
I must confess, I still believe (still believe)
When I'm not with you, I lose my mind
Give me a sign
Hit me, baby, one more time
Oh baby, baby
The reason I breathe is you
Boy, you got me blinded
Oh, pretty baby
There's nothing that I wouldn't do
That's not the way I planned it
Show me how you want
it to be
Tell me, baby, 'cause I need to know now
Oh, because
My loneliness is
killing me (and I)
I must confess, I still believe (still believe)
When I'm not with you, I lose my mind
Give me a sign
Hit me, baby, one more time
Oh baby, baby, oh
Oh baby, baby, yeah,
yeah
Oh baby, baby
How was I supposed to know?
Oh, pretty baby
I shouldn't have let you go
I must confess that
my loneliness
Is killing me now
Don't you know I still believe?
That you will be here
And give me a sign
Hit me, baby, one more time
My loneliness is
killing me (and I)
I must confess, I still believe (still believe)
When I'm not with you, I lose my mind
Give me a sign
Hit me, baby, one more time
I must confess (my
loneliness)
That my loneliness (is killing me)
Is killing me now (I must confess)
Don't you know I still believe? (I still believe)
That you will be here (when I'm not with you I lose my mind)
And give me a sign
Hit me, baby, one more time.
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