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All the Major Moments Britney Spears’ Oops!… I Did It Again Album Gave Us 20 Years Ago

All the Major Moments Britney Spears’ Oops!… I Did It Again Album Gave Us 20 Years Ago

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Now PlayingUp NextBritney Spears’ “Oops!… I Did It Again” Turns 20: E! News Rewind

Oops, it’s been two decades since Britney Spears did it again.

On May 16, the Holy Spearit celebrates a special anniversary, as it marks 20 years since the release of Oops!… I Did It Again, the uniquely punctuated second studio album of her career.

The LP had big footsteps to follow in, as 1999’s (similarly punctuated) …Baby One More Time catapulted the young starlet to pop music superstardom practically overnight with hits like the iconic title track, “Sometimes” and “(You Drive Me) Crazy.” But Oops! did the impossible, proving that, once in a while, lightning could strike twice.

With smash hit singles like the equally iconic title track, “Lucky” and “Stronger,” Oops! managed to outsell …Baby in its first week (though not in its lifetime)—setting a long-standing record in the process—while delivering moments in Brit’s career so major that they still stand out all these years later. From a VMAs performance that left everybody talking to the public debut of an unforgettable romance, the year 2000 was a big one for Britney.

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Read on to relive all the major moments we have Oops!… I Did It Again to thank for!

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"Aw, You Shouldn’t Have"

Serving as lead single, Oops!… I Did It Again’s title track came with it a music video that would become one of the most iconic in Britney Spears’ oeuvre. The red latex catsuit! The unforgettable choreography! The gleefully absurd spoken interlude referencing a three-year old Titanic plot line for some reason!

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She’s So Lucky

Looking back knowing all we do now, maybe Britney was trying to tell us something with “Lucky,” the album’s second single. The track, about a famous movie star who spend her lonely nights crying, had some pretty dark undertones just under its glittery pop surface.

Chair-ography

Like any good millennial who grew up glued to MTV, thoughts of the album’s third single, “Stronger,” lead straight to the Joseph Kahn-directed music video and Brit dancing with that chair. Legendary.

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Live From New York, It’s Britney, Bitch!

Serving as both host and musical guest for the May 13, 2000 episode of Saturday Night Live at just 18, Brit became the youngest person to ever pull double duty on the NBC late-night institution. The episode was such a success, she’d return two years later and do it all over again.

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Showstopper

In her second-ever performance at the MTV Video Music Awards that September, Britney got everyone talking when she stripped off her black suit to reveal a sequined flesh-colored bodysuit underneath. “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” may have been a song on her next album, 2001’s Britney, but the performance here proved that this girl was growing up. (And how quaint that this is what passed for controversial 20 years ago!)

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Date Night

Britney and then-boyfriend Justin Timberlake also had fans in a frenzy, attending the show and sitting together for the first time in their relationship. 

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Favorite Song Ever

Written and produced by Shania Twain‘s then-husband and producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange, with a lyrical assist from Shania herself, the album’s fourth and final single holds a special place in Britney’s heart. Not only did she consider the ballad “Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know” to be her favorite song on the album, she’s gone on record as saying the song is one of her favorites across her entire career.

One For the Record Books

When Oops!… I Did It Again was released on May 16, 2000, it debuted at No. 1 and broke the Nielsen SoundScan record for the highest debut-week album sales by a female artist with over 1.3 million copies sold. Britney would hold onto that record for a whopping 15 years until Adele‘s 25 sold over 3.38 million in its first week in 2015.

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Vershon Steers Clear Of Mavado Beef Fans Calling Him A Coward

Vershon is steering clear of an all out beef with dancehall giant Mavado and for good reasons, but some of his fans are calling him a coward.

Mavado has been very actively on the war side of dancehall over the past year with beefs with Vybz Kartel, Popcaan and a small running with Vershon who is a strong supporter of the Unruly gang. But a recent song uploaded to YouTube from Vershon labeled as a Mavado diss record is causing the singjay some problems.

“I guess dem like see war,” Vershon said. “Dem upload the song as Mavado diss and I have reached out to some of them and told them to take it down. This is not a diss track. If you check on my official VEVO page it is uploaded as Vershon, My Success. It is not aimed at anybody and I don’t mention anybody. I want fans to know that I am not responsible for persons labelling the record as a Mavado diss.”

There are a few lines in the sing that some dancehall fans are saying are direct shots at Mavado. “Boy come a boast, money fool, money fright / Yu nuh memba when you used to live pon di gully side,” Vershon sings. Some of his fans on social media are calling him a coward for taking shots at Mavado and then running from a potential lyrical feud that some of those fans say could be detrimental to his career.