1/13/2024 0 Comments Britney oops i did it again cover![]() ![]() “I questioned whether it was right for her to be wearing it in the video for her audience, and both management and label said, ‘Yeah.’ But they didn’t want to say anything, so I said, ‘You know Britney, we need to go back to a trailer and see what else you’ve got. You flirt with the audience.”ĭick rejected an outfit Spears wanted to wear, worrying it was too sexy for her age. It’s like a burlesque, isn’t it? You have the feathers and everything – you don’t deliver the goods until the final moment as the lights go out. “So you just sort of think, ‘Oh my God, what am I going to do?’ So I remember putting the shot list a bunch of close-ups, so you could have that as a little montage. “You don’t want to fire all the guns at once and reveal the big set,” says Dick. The opening shot of Spears’ lips reflected how iconic a figure she’d already become. I said, ‘This bit about the Titanic, what am I going to do with that? How does that fit in?’ And she goes, ‘Oh, you’ll think of something!’ So, you just go, ‘I’ll write something, and we’ll see if they like it.’ And as I recall, I don’t think there were any revisions on my treatment.” And then suddenly the brakes squeal, and you do an about-turn and you go back to 19-whenever it was when the Titanic sank. “You’re going, ‘What the fuck?’ I’m on Mars, which obviously means somewhere in the middle of the 21st century. So now you have to just try and make this idea work.”ĭick found the song’s infamous Titanic interlude baffling. You know, everything is now going to be red. Which for me, makes life a lot easier… Having Britney say, ‘I want to be on Mars’ immediately narrows it. “And she says,’ Well, I want to do this video. The sci-fi concept for the “Oops!” video came straight from Spears herself. The director shared the story of his time with Spears on the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. Check it out above, along with Ari’s take on Cher and Kelly’s take on Shania, plus many more.Nigel Dick had already directed videos for Guns N’ Roses, Oasis, and many others by the time he met Britney Spears in 1998, but even the “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Sweet Child O’ Mine” clips couldn’t come close to matching the culture-shaking impact of “…Baby One More Time.”ĭick went on to helm the videos for “(You Drive Me) Crazy” and “Sometimes,” and when it came time for the all-important first single from Spears’ second album, Oops!… I Did It Again, she and her team turned to him again. She even remembers all the dance moves to the song, and does Britney proud with the snippet. Coming on the heels of the announcement that Britney is finally free of the conservatorship that ruled her life for years, Ari happily launched into “Oops I Did It Again” when that track came up on the wheel. Since this happened last week when plenty of people were already completely checked out for the holiday, and maybe even traveling since that wasn’t really an option last year, I’m posting it now so everyone can see what happens when Ari tackles a little bit of Britney. And what could be more fun than getting into a diva medley face off? During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon‘s segment “That’s My Jam,” Ari and Kelly went head to head singing snippets from famous diva bangers. There was that time they teamed up to give Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” the proper dual cover it deserves, and it looks like Ariana is always having fun when she’s with her new coworkers. ![]() Ever since it was announced that none other than Ariana Grande would be replacing Nick Jonas as a judge on The Voice, Ari and fellow judge Kelly Clarkson have become fast friends.
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