At the turn of the new millennium, a new pop princess was crowned after Britney Spears released her smash debut album, ".Baby One More Time," 25 years ago on Jan. 12, 1999.
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Baby One More Time showcased her girl next door likability with a schoolgirl uniform and pigtails, and
Oops!. I Did It Again (2000) found her slowly chipping away at her perceived purity with videos featuring chair-straddling dance solos, then
Britney (2001) was the culmination of those bubblegum-wrapped eras bursting once and for all, as she proved she really was “not that innocent.”
Britney’s lead single “I’m A Slave 4 U” (originally intended for Janet herself) carries a thematic double-entendre. During MTV’s 2001 “Making The Video” episode for the song, Spears said it’s about being “enraptured” by intoxicating music. However, it was more widely-perceived to be about the pop artist’s enrapturement with an intoxicating