Baby One More Time 15Th Anniversary Is Today ** Celebration Y'all **

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Some people call you a liar if you say that you witnessed this moment. Well, I can say in all seriousness, I am part of the very first wave of Britney fans. Yes. I am 34 years old. I'm just 2 years older than her. 

 

'...Baby One More Time' (the single) came out in 1998. The album, in 1999.

 

I had completed high school but still had not started collegue yet, so this happened in days of temporary jobs. One day I was washing my car, and I usually turned on the radio to listen to some music while I was doing it. So there was this afternoon when I was doing that (I remember it was Saturday because I was washing the car and that's the only day I do that) and once a song ended, it came BOMT. I didn't pay much attention to it but the voice sounded very particular. The song was catchy and all, and the first thought I had was: "Is that Debbie Gibson? Yeah, maybe she is... but I don't know this song. But hey... she is from the 80's... and she sounds like a teenager.. what the heck...". For those of you who don't know who is Debbie Gibson, well... she was the Britney Spears of the 80's. Curiously enough, Britney follows Debbie on Twitter. But that's another story.

 

Another day I was at home listening to the radio again and the song came up, but once more I didn't know who the girl was; this time I paid more attention and realized it was not Debbie Gibson who was singing. So I was very curious about that now. And then, I heard the song like 5 or 6 times more and I started to like it. Keep in mind that I am a rock music fan so pop hardly moves my soul at all. At that time I had an old stereo from which you could record audio tapes, so I was one day with a clean tape waiting for the song to come up so that I could record it on that tape and so did I. I could then listen to it many times and learn its lyrics.

 

I didn't pay much attention to the matter afterwards and around one month after I heard the song the first time, I was one day surfing through the channels of the TV and I stopped immediately when I heard the tune on the TV, this time with a video. At that day I didn't know who Britney Spears was. But one thing I know: the first scene I saw was Britney dancing between the lockers of a school, dressed with this school girl outfit and pigtails, and I went fucking crazy. I had no idea this was the girl I had been listening to. And why not mentioning it? I was sexually moved to her. A lot. She looked fucking sexy in that outfit.

 

I didn't have a computer at the time and the whole internet thing started around 1992, 1993... so in 1998 internet was somewhat new for dummies like me and not everyone could afford a connection or even a decent computer to navigate. So I didn't even think of looking for this 'Britney Spears' thing on the internet. And to be honest, I didn't feel like looking for more of this. One day as I was again on the TV watching music videos, it came 'Sometimes' on the screen. Sometimes is my very favorite video from Britney, to this day. Why? I have a very special feeling with that video that NO OTHER Britney video has been able to transmit, ever (even when my favorite song is Overprotected). It is Britney now resembling purity and innocence, in a lovely beach, all dressed in white and using this cap and blue sweater when lying on the sand. Oh my God. If Britney's schoolgirl make me desire her, now this scene of Brit sitting there on the sand totally killed me. It was too much to bear. Now I wanted more. And since Sometimes is a very mellow tune, I was moved for her. Big time.

 

I remember I told my friends on the neighborhood about these things and all of them were like.. 'dude.. what's wrong with you? Are you serious? That music is for girls, not for you. You are a rock star. You are learning to play drums. You just purchased a drum kit. Don't waste your time with that garbage'. And I was like.. 'yes.. they are right, what am I doing?' But the more I saw Britney in those videos and listened to these two singles on the radio, the more I liked her. 

 

So one day of 1999, my birthday, September 18th 1999, I asked my older sister a very particular gift: Britney Spears' 'Baby One More Time' album. When I asked my sister this she was like... 'what? are you serious? is that what you really want for your birthday?' And I nervously answered 'yes'... 'Don't you want another thing? Like a Aerosmith CD, or something?' And I was like... 'no... I want that... I like that girl... I want to see what she is all about...' So my sister went and purchased me a copy of the disc. I was the happiest guy. When I opened it I saw the booklet and saw this picture of Britney sitting on a white chair and now I was pretty sure I was in love with this girl. I made a shirt for me with that picture and I used it in my neighborhood. I was literally crazy. This was totally unacceptable for some guy, especially with my rock music culture and background. I was a disaster. And when I read the title of this song, 'Email My Heart' I said to myself... 'fuck. I screwed up. What the hell was I thinking? This is completely cheesy, girly stuff...' I ended up loving that song.. and the whole album.

 

8 albums later, I still love this southern girl born in McComb Mississippi but raised in Kentwood Louisiana. Of course my views on her are different but not in a bad way... on the contrary, in a positive but especially mature way. I respect her as a woman and I care for her like she was someone very close to me. People around me are now used to the fact that I love Britney, but still, they see that as something weird and don't accept that very well... She is in my cell phone background. She is in my laptop background. She is in my Xbox 360 background and my PS3 background. She is the background in my PS Vita. She's everywhere. And it all started with Baby One More Time. It's been an amazing journey !

 

 

That is just amazing. Beautiful story. I was so young when I fell in love with her, it all started with Born to make you happy. Britney is amazing, she's been apart of my life for nearly 15 years. It makes me wanna cry lol Dude at 7years old, I was dancing to Brinney songs. DEAD

[hannahscircus]

15 years wowwww.

And it went 4x Platinum in my country Australia yayyyy