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It'southward been 20 years since Britney Spears' legendary "Oops!... I Did It Again" -- her follow-upward effort to her 1999 smash hit "...Babe One More Time" -- was released.

Past the time she was ready to release her second album, Spears was already etching out a successful path for herself as a recording creative person and dance performer when "...Baby One More than Time" and its title track debuted at No. one after the music video for the record became the almost requested video on MTV in 1998.

The princess of pop debuted the title rails to her sophomore effort for radio on March 27, 2000, and also dropped the legendary video component, which catapulted Spears into a new realm of popular music performers and etched her proper noun in the pop civilisation history books in the process.

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Helmed by renowned Grammy-nominated music video director Nigel Dick, the video was shot in Universal Metropolis, Calif., and saw Spears jump right off the screen in her red patent leather jumpsuit equally she entered the galactic world.

"Oops!" marked the quaternary fourth dimension Spears and Dick had linked up since he directed 3 videos from her debut album for "...Baby One More Time," "(You Bulldoze Me) Crazy" and "Sometimes," respectively.

Even so, given the history the pair have shared, they have non collaborated on a project since.

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Spears, at present 38, explained the premise for what became the first single off her second album during MTV's "Making the Video" in Apr 2000 when she was just 18 years sometime.

"The vocal is basically about a girl and all these guys fall in dearest with her and she merely can't have it," she said at the time. "When I come across a guy that I'k seriously attracted to, I get collywobbles in my tum, total brain fart, I don't know what to say. That'due south what I similar about this vocal. Information technology's really honest and fun to perform."

She added: "This whole idea was my thought. I was like, 'I desire to be on Mars, dancing on Mars.'"

And what an idea.

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In the documentary curt, Spears was adamant that her wardrobe non just exude sex entreatment but also exist easy to motility in since the choreography included intricate trip the light fantastic toe steps. Her famous catsuit was designed by Michael Bush-league, who at the behest of Spears had pulled an all-night session in gild to have it ready by phone call time the very next twenty-four hour period.

For her part, the record peaked at No. nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and Spears received two Grammy nominations in 2001 for all-time vocal album and best female vocal performance. While neither of her first two singles took home Grammys, Spears would earn her first and currently merely win in 2004 in the best trip the light fantastic toe recording category for "Toxic."

Britney Spears and boyfriend Sam Asghari.

Britney Spears and boyfriend Sam Asghari. (Getty)

Spears besides performed the record at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) in 2000 -- one of many pop civilisation moments spearheaded by ane of the best performers of her era.

Spears' showing at the VMAs completely transformed her image on stage and quite literally ushered in a wave of new fans as she gallivanted for the world, showing off her svelte effigy and toned torso.

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Interestingly, Spears cheekily quipped during the episode that she doesn't mind looking at her easy-on-the-eyes backup dancers. "I don't know their names but they're hotties, though!" she had joked.

In hindsight, perhaps Spears did a little foreshadowing given the fact that her current fellow, 27-year-sometime Sam Asghari, is a former backup dancer and the pair made their cherry-red carpet debut in September at the Daytime Beauty Awards -- where Asghari was an honoree -- in Los Angeles.