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It's been 20 years since Britney Spears' legendary "Oops!... I Did It Again" -- her follow-up effort to her 1999 smash hit "...Baby 1 More Time" -- was released.

By the fourth dimension she was ready to release her second album, Spears was already carving out a successful path for herself as a recording artist and dance performer when "...Babe One More than Fourth dimension" and its title track debuted at No. ane after the music video for the record became the almost requested video on MTV in 1998.

The princess of pop debuted the title rails to her sophomore effort for radio on March 27, 2000, and as well dropped the legendary video component, which catapulted Spears into a new realm of pop music performers and etched her name in the pop civilisation history books in the process.

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Helmed past renowned Grammy-nominated music video manager Nigel Dick, the video was shot in Universal City, Calif., and saw Spears bound right off the screen in her reddish patent leather jumpsuit as she entered the galactic world.

"Oops!" marked the fourth time Spears and Dick had linked upward since he directed three videos from her debut album for "...Baby One More than Fourth dimension," "(Yous Bulldoze Me) Crazy" and "Sometimes," respectively.

However, given the history the pair have shared, they have not collaborated on a projection since.

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Spears, at present 38, explained the premise for what became the offset single off her second anthology during MTV'southward "Making the Video" in April 2000 when she was just eighteen years onetime.

"The song is basically nigh a girl and all these guys fall in honey with her and she just can't take it," she said at the time. "When I meet a guy that I'm seriously attracted to, I go butterflies in my stomach, full encephalon fart, I don't know what to say. That'south what I like about this song. It's really honest and fun to perform."

She added: "This whole idea was my idea. I was like, 'I want to be on Mars, dancing on Mars.'"

And what an idea.

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In the documentary short, Spears was adamant that her wardrobe not only exude sex entreatment but also exist easy to move in since the choreography included intricate trip the light fantastic toe steps. Her famous catsuit was designed by Michael Bush, who at the bidding of Spears had pulled an all-nighttime session in order to have information technology ready by call time the very side by side twenty-four hour period.

For her part, the tape peaked at No. nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and Spears received two Grammy nominations in 2001 for best vocal album and best female vocal performance. While neither of her first two singles took home Grammys, Spears would earn her first and currently only win in 2004 in the all-time dance recording category for "Toxic."

Britney Spears and boyfriend Sam Asghari.

Britney Spears and boyfriend Sam Asghari. (Getty)

Spears besides performed the tape at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) in 2000 -- one of many pop culture moments spearheaded past i of the best performers of her era.

Spears' showing at the VMAs completely transformed her paradigm on stage and quite literally ushered in a moving ridge of new fans equally she gallivanted for the earth, showing off her graceful figure and toned body.

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Interestingly, Spears cheekily quipped during the episode that she doesn't mind looking at her easy-on-the-eyes fill-in dancers. "I don't know their names but they're hotties, though!" she had joked.

In hindsight, perhaps Spears did a little foreshadowing given the fact that her electric current boyfriend, 27-year-old Sam Asghari, is a quondam backup dancer and the pair made their reddish carpet debut in September at the Daytime Dazzler Awards -- where Asghari was an honoree -- in Los Angeles.