main page Celebrating 15 Years Of Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know - Britney Spears - With Interesting Facts

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Today we celebrate the 15^th birthday of, ‘Don’t Let Me Be The Last To Know.’

It was stated that the video originally had another concept and a reshoot was requested. ‘Britney will reshoot the video for her next single, ‘Don’t Let Me Be The Last To Know,’ because she is unhappy with the final edit, which was filmed on a Miami beach this month. The singer famously chose photographer, Herb Ritts to direct the video, known for his erotic black and white photographs. Ritts previously shot Madonna’s, ‘Cherish’ video and Janet Jackson’s, ‘Love Will Never Do (Without You)’. It is not clear whether the video will mirror the original, in which Britney shared a kiss with the French model.’

The deleted scenes (after the re-shoot) were considered to be too racy at the time. The video had to be re-edited as Britney’s mom thought it was too sexual. During this time, Britney was perceived to be America’s sweetheart and this would damage her image. Alternative scenes can also be seen on her Greatest Hits: My Prerogative DVD.

Justin Timberlake, who was Britney’s boyfriend at the time was also not very happy about the idea of the video and found the hook up between Britney and Brice Durand to be a little too close for comfort.

It was initially intended that the fourth single would be, ‘When Your Eyes Say It,’ instead of ‘Don’t Let Me Be The Last To Know.’ However they chose the latter and then to release, ‘When Your Eyes Say It’ as a fifth single, which was later scrapped to instead focus on the promotion of her Third album, ‘Britney’ instead.

The song was co-written by Shania Twain and received generally positive reviews, some praising the vocals and others the unique arrangement.

The Japanese version of the single came inclusive of a booklet:

Britney claimed that the video was inspired by Janet Jackson’s video, ‘Love Will Never Do without You.’ Janet played a massive part in Britney’s musical influence.

Herb Ritts also mentioned that the video was influenced by Chris Isaak’s, ‘Wicked Game’ and Madonna’s, ‘Cherish’ video following the theme of a funky beach shack. He said it was great to do a video for Britney with no dancing and focusing on just her, as an artist.

The music video debuted at number 1 on MTV, TRL on March 2, 2001. Britney claimed that it was one of the most fun videos that she had ever done.

Celebrate the release of this gem by watching the video with us.

Here is one of Britney’s live performances of this iconic song:

Happy birthday DLMBTLTK! Ahh, what a great song!

Read it on our mainsite!

[Mrs Jared Leto]

happy birthday

 

i still remember listening to this song on my walkman while riding my bike. good old times

[Term of Endearment]

happy birthday

i still remember listening to this song on my walkman while riding my bike. good old times

The single remixes are my fave remixes

[It's Armin B!tch]

OMG 15 years already! Such a harmonic anthem

[Vegasney88]

15 years!?

I feel old af now

The video and song are flawless. I cried like a little bitch when britney busted this little gem out during FFT.

[BlackoutEgo]

So sad that we don't get to hear her voice live anymore

[Mrs Jared Leto]

The single remixes are my fave remixes

i havent listened to the single remixes tbh

[3isacharm]

i havent listened to the single remixes tbh

 

 

[Britnoy]

One of my favorites!   
p.s. Wait till HeadstrongWolf see this post... 

[PsychoMonkey]

I would've expected @@HeadstrongWolf to be all over this thread  

[fuckoffloverboy]

This is the one Britney song that I kinda forget about.

 

Idk why my flop brain does it but I'm so glad this thread made me remember it. This used to be one of my favorite Britney songs as a kid 

[Jojo93220]

I love this song and the video is so great.
Herb Ritts also directed In The Closet from Michael Jackson....

[btmyhbrit99]

I think this video and *NSYNC's "Gone" were Herb Ritts' last videos because he passed away from an illness shortly after "Gone" was released. He did a great job with this video it's one of her prettiest videos of all time and it was racy but not trashy.

[PopMusicJunkie]

I love this video, it was very much the "Wicked Games" for the TRL set back in the day.   I remember this video being called "radical"  because she only had one outfit throughout the entire video.  

 

 

I'm most likely in the minority, but I really liked the DWAD tour mix for this song, with her vocals pitched down and giving the song a more R&B mix worked for me.  

 

 

I couldn't find one from her HBO special. 

[JoshLee]

Where's HeadstrongWolf?

[HeadstrongWolf]

I would've expected @@HeadstrongWolf to be all over this thread

I've been gone for a few days. I had a really crazy situation.

 

 

I know I shouldn't have kept you waiting.

But I'm here now.

 

[HeadstrongWolf]

Where's HeadstrongWolf?

  I was driving for 13 hours solid and had a really rough 3 or 4 days

 

One of my favorites!   

p.s. Wait till HeadstrongWolf see this post... 

Here I am bitch

 

i havent listened to the single remixes tbh

[HeadstrongWolf]

Y'all made a post about my anthem and y'all expected me not to be here?

 

 

I s2g I had a really weird string of days. I'm about to post about it in the stronger than yesterday section

 

 

 

But y'all know I love this song and I got like, what, 4 people to mention me? Yas.

 

 

 

The video is perfect and you all know it

 

 

The song is perfect. Everything about it is perfect

[JoshLee]

I was driving for 13 hours solid and had a really rough 3 or 4 days

Here I am bitch

there you are! We missed you!

[HeadstrongWolf]

there you are! We missed you!

I had to handle some psycho shit but I am here

[JoshLee]

I had to handle some psycho shit but I am here

I know, I commented on both threads

[HeadstrongWolf]

I know, I commented on both threads

Gurl there is another one coming you don't even know