16 Spearitual Facts About “…Baby One More Time”

16 years ago today, Britney Jean Spears gifted the world with the most epic pop song of all time. To commemorate this monumental day in history, the following are 16 Spearitual facts about the original hit – “…Baby One More Time.”

Set the mood.

1. Max Martin wrote and produced BOMT.

Martin also produced songs for OIDIA, Britney, Circus, and Femme Fatale.

2. Britney is a modern day Nostradamus.

“When he [Martin] played the demo for ‘Baby One More Time’ for me, and I knew from the start it was one of those songs you want to hear again and again. It just felt really right.”

3. “…Baby One More Time” was originally offered to TLC.

The waterfall chasing trio turned it down. T-Boz said, “No disrespect to Britney. It's good for her. But was I going to say ‘hit me baby one more time’? Hell no!”

4. BOMT is the biggest-selling album recorded by a teenage girl.

14 million copies sold in the US and over 30 million worldwide. It hit #1 in every country where it charted (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, France, Ireland, Sweden, and the UK).

5. Let the rumors begin.

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6. The word “baby” is sung 25 times during the song.

Just in case you haven't counted.

7. The BOMT music video was shot at Venice High School.

20 years prior, Danny and Sandy were doing the hand-jive in Grease on the same school grounds .

8. Her love interest is named Chad. Chad Spears. Britney’s cousin.

Totes not weird y'all.

9. It could have been bad. REAL bad.

“Someone once told me that the ‘... Baby One More Time’ video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster.” – Britney Bitch

10. Before her "Intimate" lingerie line, she had Kmart.

Nigel Dick, the video’s director, credits Brit for coming up with the iconic school girl look. “Every piece of wardrobe in the video came from Kmart, and I was told at the time not one piece of clothing in the video cost more than $17. On that level, it's real. That probably, in retrospect, is a part of its charm.”

11. BOMT lost the Grammy to Sarah Mclachlan’s “I Will Remember You.”

AND Christina Aguilera won Best New Artist (LOL).

12. BOMT is Britney’s biggest Hot 100 hit.

Her longest-charting single at 32 weeks.

13. BOMT marks Godney’s inauguration as a MTV Video Music Awards legend.

The flesh-colored bodysuit, Banana the anaconda, Madonna’s lip-lock, and the Gimme More "dance" were all to follow.

14. It was obviously dubbed TRL’s “Most Iconic Video Ever.”

On the final episode of MTV’s countdown show, BOMT was paid the respect it deserved. The runner-ups were: “The Real Slim Shady,” “I Want It That Way,” “Bye Bye Bye,” and “Dirrty.”

15. The Illuminati.

It’s rumored that if you play “with you I lose my mind give me a sign” backwards, it supposedly says, “sleep with me I'm not too young.”

16. BOMT has been performed in all seven of Brit’s concert tours (and Las Vegas Residency).

MAKE IT RAIN.