Just doing what I always do! Thinking about britneyspears.
was everywhere. One of the most exposed figures of the time, her every move was dissected and discussed ad nauseam by a ravenous media. Yet somehow, Spears remained an enigma. Her celebrity hinged on dizzying contradictions: Southern Christian values and sexual liberation; conservative politics and a huge gay fan base; virginal purity and licentiousness.
What did these critics want from Spears? At the turn of the millennium, Britney Spears embodied what music journalist Ann Powers describes as"a seismic shift in American culture — not toward the cultivated rawness of rock and roll, but away from it, into an era dominated by new technologies that throw into question the very nature of the authentic.
"Oops!" illustrates how Spears keeps listeners an ear's-length away from her"real" self, because every musical element in the track explodes the very notion of the singer having any"real" self at all. The contradictions begin in the chorus with the childlike"Oops!... I did it again," followed by the claim,"I'm not that innocent." Which is it? The music provides no answers.
After the alternate chorus, the song returns to a statement of the original chorus. At this point, most listeners would expect the song to end, or perhaps to repeat another chorus. Instead, we get something utterly unexpected — an eruption of counterpoint. Spears sings the alternate chorus and the original chorus.
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