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Britney Spears' Major Moments in the Year 2000

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Feb 05, 2021 3:14 PM
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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.


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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.


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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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