Britney Spears takes us to Mars in Oops!… I Did It Again

00:00:00:00 - 00:00:10:20 Speaker 1 Hey everyone, welcome to Rewind in React. And today we are continuing our one shot series on Britney Spears. Her iconic music videos. And 00:00:10:20 - 00:00:17:11 Speaker 1 we are going to talk about the first single on her second album, oops, I did it again. 00:00:17:13 - 00:00:26:24 Speaker 2 Yeah, it's interesting that the first single off the first album was Dot baby one more Time and then we get oops, dot dot dot, I did it again. Oops. Exclamation point. 00:00:26:27 - 00:00:38:12 Speaker 1 Should you know, it's, I read about that and apparently they were going to say like, hit me, baby one more time. But apparently there was like controversy at the time that that word hit me, baby meant like some kind of domestic violence. 00:00:38:12 - 00:00:40:08 Speaker 1 there's like, interviews where the Swedish 00:00:40:08 - 00:00:43:03 Speaker 1 producer was like, oh, you know, that's just what we say. 00:00:43:03 - 00:00:53:03 Speaker 1 And it wasn't, you know, it was weird that people would think that. So apparently they, like, made a decision to add that dot baby one more time to kind of hide that. 00:00:53:06 - 00:01:04:29 Speaker 2 Yeah. Hit me in their term that call me like, hit me up. Yeah. Things we probably should have said in the Baby One More Time episode, but if you haven't heard that one, check it out. I should be right before this one. 00:01:04:29 - 00:01:10:24 Speaker 2 let's jump a little bit into the future for both Britney and pop music as a whole. 00:01:11:01 - 00:01:35:19 Speaker 2 The video for oops! Exclamation point again, I Did It Again presents a playful sci fi fantasy starring Britney as a confidence space age figure on Mars. It opens with an astronaut discovering a slab on the Martian surface. Featuring the album cover of oops, I Did It Again, a scientist on Earth watches via video transmission and then says, oh, cute! 00:01:35:19 - 00:02:03:00 Speaker 2 And the astronaut replies, oh, it's cute. All right. Just as the ground shakes and a stage rises, Britney then appears, descending onto the stage in a red latex catsuit, surrounded by dancers. The bulk of the video intercut sequences of her singing and dancing on the Mars stage, with alternate scenes of her lying barefoot on a white web style pad in a white crop top and skirt outfit. 00:02:03:06 - 00:02:25:08 Speaker 2 She then later flips mid-air to reach the astronaut, who gives her a symbolic heart of the ocean Blue diamond, a reference to the film Titanic, and afterwards she says, oh, you shouldn't have. She then walks away. He shrugs and moonwalks through Mars and throughout the video. The choreography is energetic, the costumes are bold, the setting is surreal and glossy. 00:02:25:08 - 00:02:28:18 Speaker 2 This is as polished as pop music gets. 00:02:28:21 - 00:02:29:25 Speaker 1 Yeah. And 00:02:29:25 - 00:02:33:14 Speaker 1 baby, One More Time was a low budget, but still well done 00:02:33:14 - 00:02:48:23 Speaker 1 This is Britney is superstar. She's kicked off a genre of a lot of other artists. And now we have kind of a highly polished, albeit it does look a little dated music video with her as knowing that she's a star and she's older too, right? 00:02:48:23 - 00:02:50:15 Speaker 1 So what did you think of it? 00:02:50:18 - 00:02:58:22 Speaker 2 So this is a great one to like. Obviously, I think Baby One More Time is iconic for launching Britney Spears and for the whole, 00:02:58:22 - 00:03:06:26 Speaker 2 school outfit and everything. This one was so fun to me because it's so over-the-top in its production. I want to say 00:03:06:26 - 00:03:10:20 Speaker 2 the Michael Bay movie Armageddon had just recently come out before this. 00:03:10:20 - 00:03:10:28 Speaker 2 So 00:03:10:28 - 00:03:18:10 Speaker 2 space. Travel was a big thing at that point, at least in like the pop culture is like Geist. Can we get a reference to Titanic? The movie? 00:03:18:10 - 00:03:22:20 Speaker 2 the set is amazing. I think like as far as, like the set design with 00:03:22:20 - 00:03:30:18 Speaker 2 the guys pulling the levers and like the Martian atmosphere, you get the the outfit that Britney is wearing, the red spandex outfit. 00:03:30:19 - 00:03:36:09 Speaker 2 it was the perfect next step, I think, for the Britney Spears experience. 00:03:36:09 - 00:03:50:10 Speaker 1 that's a great way to put it. I think campy is definitely the the term for this video. Yeah, yeah. So I'll be honest, I didn't like this one as much. I think it was a little too campy, too cheesy. 00:03:50:10 - 00:03:55:25 Speaker 1 it wasn't like maybe one more time and now I'm going to be like in her future videos, toxic and things like that. 00:03:55:25 - 00:03:56:16 Speaker 1 But 00:03:56:16 - 00:04:04:28 Speaker 1 this is a big release for a new album to keep that star momentum going. And I think it fit in with that 2000 feel. 00:04:04:28 - 00:04:11:29 Speaker 1 blink 182 has those kind of songs that are mocking things. Eminem's having songs that are mocking things like it's very full leaning into that, right? 00:04:12:03 - 00:04:25:02 Speaker 2 Yeah. It was it was a time to be campy for sure, that the Titanic dialog, it's quirky, it's memorable. But upon the first time I watch this and leading up to this podcast episode, watching it again, it's so cheesy. 00:04:25:02 - 00:04:27:14 Speaker 2 it makes me cringe. 00:04:27:14 - 00:04:48:28 Speaker 1 Titanic was already three years older when 98 or 97, you know, it wasn't like this was a recent reference. And I think I read somewhere that the producer wanted to put that line in there because he thought it was funny. And I just yeah, it doesn't translate well. Like I, you know, it's one of those you wish they could skip that part in the song because it derails the song, first of all. 00:04:48:28 - 00:04:54:10 Speaker 1 And then it's just such a bad interaction, especially in the video when she's 00:04:54:10 - 00:05:05:26 Speaker 1 twirling and then she lands and she's in a different outfit, which is cool. She takes off his helmet and his head like bulbs up, and then it's like bad animation all around, you know? You, I will say they did. They they created a great set. 00:05:05:26 - 00:05:21:17 Speaker 1 But you can definitely tell it's almost downstage with greenscreen, which I think is why I like the other one better, because it was more realistic. Like, you know, you didn't have the soundstage greenscreen. But yeah, his head bobs up. Then he does his line, you know, you shouldn't have. Then he walks. He walks away. You know, it's this. 00:05:21:19 - 00:05:24:04 Speaker 1 Everything is like, oof, it's rough to watch. 00:05:24:11 - 00:05:37:06 Speaker 2 Yeah. That oh my God, that part. Yeah. The animation on his head when she takes the helmet off, it's so bizarrely bad. But I feel like at that almost stands the test of time because clearly they were not trying to make it look real. 00:05:37:06 - 00:05:43:01 Speaker 2 they were like making it look artistically comical, you know, like, if you watched, 00:05:43:01 - 00:05:49:13 Speaker 2 it's a total recall where Arnold's up on Mars and like, his face is like popping when they take off the helmet. 00:05:49:17 - 00:05:53:11 Speaker 2 Like, if you look at that now, it's like, oh God, that looks terrible. 00:05:53:11 - 00:06:01:02 Speaker 2 But this one, it's like, okay. It's just kind of like silly what they're doing here. So I didn't I felt like that almost stood the test of time because they didn't try to make it look real. 00:06:01:03 - 00:06:13:26 Speaker 1 Yeah, that that's fair, I guess. I mean, you know, maybe Nigel Dick will come out and say, well, we actually really tried to make it look real, but I can't imagine he would say that. But yeah, yeah, there's there's some visuals that were interesting for this video. 00:06:14:00 - 00:06:39:25 Speaker 2 So something they did in the editing process that I loved is there's this like partial freeze frames with the fire. It's like fires shooting up behind her. And they freeze the fire like it's like as if you had like pause or whatever, but she's still moving. And then the fire is going up. I loved that they do a couple other cool editing things with the way that, you know, they put like little lines through her, stuff like that, just to like make little cuts, like almost like a mirror or something like that. 00:06:39:25 - 00:06:44:02 Speaker 2 It's hard to explain, but yeah, I'm on an audio medium. I'm trying to do it. 00:06:44:05 - 00:07:00:01 Speaker 1 Well, yeah, I would say I tried to find a way to explain it, and it's kind of like refractions or something like that. But I do want to say I did love that portion of the video because there's a little bit of those refractions, there's a little bit of pauses, there's a little bit of like jump cut ish things of her moving around. 00:07:00:05 - 00:07:03:12 Speaker 1 I think that part was great. Just the rest was a little rough. 00:07:03:14 - 00:07:04:10 Speaker 2 Yeah. This one. 00:07:04:10 - 00:07:16:18 Speaker 2 That whole astronaut narrative. It's so light. But I feel like again, we're with a Britney Spears music video. We're looking at like the ambiance and the visuals that take center stage. That being said the the red catsuit is, 00:07:16:18 - 00:07:23:08 Speaker 2 one of the things you think of when you think of Britney Spears, like, if there's two outfits once the catsuit, once the baby, one more time. 00:07:23:08 - 00:07:24:07 Speaker 2 Schoolgirl outfit. 00:07:24:07 - 00:07:39:05 Speaker 1 I thought it was fine. So I read, you know, there's a lot of behind the scenes and how for this, this latex red suit. Nigel actually had, like, an outfit in mind. And I don't know if it was, like, a red suit also. But then Brittany, he's like, oh, I have, I did wardrobe where Michael Jackson had to come up with a suit. 00:07:39:05 - 00:07:46:01 Speaker 1 So let's go with that one. So this rubber suit or whatever was her outfit. Apparently there were also 00:07:46:01 - 00:07:56:24 Speaker 1 red shoes, but they weren't comfortable for her to dance. And because that was another concern, too, she showed up with this red latex suit and how she going to choreograph everything and move in a weird way. So it obviously they made it work. 00:07:56:24 - 00:08:13:25 Speaker 1 And she switched to the black. She like black shoes she brought that day and that's what she wore because it was more comfortable and easier to do the dance routine. And so I think I would be curious to see what the original idea was, because the idea for this video was hers, too. She wanted to do something on Mars and like some kind of Mars exploration. 00:08:13:25 - 00:08:28:10 Speaker 1 So you can see a lot of her influences and maybe she maybe she's a fan of camp. I don't know her like story that well in that sense, but maybe she does really like this cheesy stuff and that's why she wore it, so I don't have a problem with it. I think it's fine. I don't really have much of an opinion, I guess, on it. 00:08:28:15 - 00:08:45:07 Speaker 2 Yeah, it's interesting that she was the one who really pushed for that red jumpsuit. I did read that they required a special powder to help her get in and out of it, because it kept sticking to her. And believe it or not, this is not an American Dad reference. But have you seen the friends episode where Ross is the leather pants? 00:08:45:14 - 00:08:53:07 Speaker 2 Yeah, he tries to put the lotion on the paste or whatever to get it off. Yeah, baby powder. That's all I could think of when I was reading about this. It's the same like, oh. 00:08:53:07 - 00:08:57:16 Speaker 1 No, what have I done? Yeah, well, that's that's not the only mishap. 00:08:57:16 - 00:09:03:02 Speaker 1 some kind of bike riding piece, a matte box, I guess, or a camera piece fell on her and 00:09:03:02 - 00:09:06:22 Speaker 1 she had to get stitches. She returned to the shoot, which was probably not the best thing 00:09:06:22 - 00:09:16:02 Speaker 1 this again, was a time period where it your artist gets injured. You just kind of keep him working no matter what. But apparently that scene happened during the scene where she's lying on her back with that kind of webbed. 00:09:16:07 - 00:09:17:20 Speaker 2 Yeah, with the white spinning thing. 00:09:17:24 - 00:09:19:00 Speaker 1 Yeah, the white outfit. 00:09:19:00 - 00:09:39:21 Speaker 2 You know, I read about that, and I thought about it. I was like, wait, so something hit her in the head and they had to put stitches in. Where is this? Like, you know, how are they covering that up and then watching it back again after I read about that, they've got like, her hair coming across the right side of her forehead, like, whereas the other side is showing the whole way. 00:09:39:21 - 00:09:45:03 Speaker 2 I was like, I wonder if they had to like, pin her hair there to like, cover like a scarf. 00:09:45:05 - 00:10:12:08 Speaker 1 Yeah, I was, I was trying to figure that out too, because I think that there's a MTV making the music video for this one, and there's it's fairly good, a lot of kind of fluff and some of them are. And I was trying to get a timeline because I think she filmed all the red suit stuff first, and then she filmed that, and I think they were able to cover that up with like kind of an extension or fixing her hair a little bit so she can just keep singing along without showing off the damage. 00:10:12:11 - 00:10:24:02 Speaker 2 Yeah. The choreography done by Tina Landon, she was very significant pop dance choreography person worked with Janet Jackson very closely. 00:10:24:02 - 00:10:26:21 Speaker 2 if you've seen anything in common with Rhythm Nation, that's 00:10:26:21 - 00:10:36:14 Speaker 2 where the inspiration is coming from. And now that you know that if you watched the video and watched the way that her and the dancers are moving when she's in the red outfit, you could see some Janet Jackson influence there. 00:10:36:17 - 00:10:37:09 Speaker 1 Oh, interesting. 00:10:37:09 - 00:10:44:03 Speaker 1 I did like the choreography for this one too. I thought it was well done. And again, maybe it's went the way they did the editing as well. But it 00:10:44:03 - 00:10:44:14 Speaker 1 It's a fun. 00:10:44:14 - 00:10:54:13 Speaker 2 Watch. Yeah. I think the choreography in this one is actually better than maybe one more time. Yeah. Just the way they move and everything. And you know, definitely that red catsuit draws your eyes to the choreography. 00:10:54:13 - 00:11:13:27 Speaker 1 Speaking about kind of the the workers doing like the gears or whatever the Martians or however they kind of define them, how that felt like. And I don't know if you've seen that Madonna video express yourself from. Yeah. So and I know that's like a whole different video, but it felt like that feel where the big workers are moving these giant metal levers that do nothing probably. 00:11:13:28 - 00:11:23:26 Speaker 2 Yeah, definitely. Yeah. I never thought about that, but I know exactly the ones you're talking about in the Express Yourself video. Yeah, I totally see it. Maybe it's just like a nod to Madonna. I know Britney and her are pretty close. 00:11:23:27 - 00:11:40:20 Speaker 1 going back to some of the campiness. So just to kind of point out some more things, I thought it was very weird that she, like, connects them to a, like a chain that like, lifts them up and then he's just like watching her again, greenscreen, like wiggling around. And I'm like, again, what's the purpose of this? 00:11:40:20 - 00:11:46:27 Speaker 1 And then it like later shifts to he's out of that chain out in space. And she flips over to get like 00:11:46:27 - 00:11:55:00 Speaker 1 Nigel Dick, he has a lot of good videos. He seems like if you've ever watched some of his and in the behind the know making of the video, you can see him. He's definitely a quirky guy. 00:11:55:00 - 00:11:59:11 Speaker 1 I think he just has these wild, random ideas that thrown in videos. 00:11:59:11 - 00:12:03:22 Speaker 1 to me it didn't work. I can appreciate some of the campiness, but this was just like a little weird. 00:12:03:23 - 00:12:20:26 Speaker 2 It was super silly to have him like chained up, raised for whatever reason. I know why they did it is so that they could do that bird's eye view like top down choreography. I don't think it was necessary. I think you could have just done that choreography however you want it. It's a music video. You don't need to show us where the astronaut is. 00:12:20:29 - 00:12:22:24 Speaker 2 But I did love that. 00:12:22:24 - 00:12:24:24 Speaker 2 top down choreography of them, 00:12:24:24 - 00:12:31:18 Speaker 2 on the floor dancing. And they can do just so much more with, like, the way they move the bodies and make shapes and spirals 00:12:31:18 - 00:12:37:03 Speaker 2 I love that part of the choreography, so I'm glad we got that. Yeah, the chain was weird and unnecessary. 00:12:37:09 - 00:12:37:27 Speaker 1 Yeah. 00:12:37:27 - 00:12:54:04 Speaker 1 Also, the NASA employee eating popcorn, Bob and his head to the thing. And again, I was like, we're getting rid of the campiness of it. But it was, first of all, is this where a NASA budget is going to watching Aliens on Mars, which we haven't even made it to yet? Dancing around? I don't know, but it just felt like that. 00:12:54:07 - 00:12:59:06 Speaker 1 That wasn't even necessary. We could have kept the whole thing on space or everything in Mars and not have 00:12:59:06 - 00:13:00:09 Speaker 1 those NASA shots. 00:13:00:11 - 00:13:06:26 Speaker 2 Yeah, you're right, it was very campy. I think that goes back to, you know, the Armageddon and deep impacts of the world 00:13:06:26 - 00:13:18:17 Speaker 2 where we put a big emphasis on mission control in movies for a while. So I think they were just fine to throw that in. I did think it was a weird casting choice for the NASA employee at Mission Control. 00:13:18:17 - 00:13:21:20 Speaker 2 He looks like he might be 18 or 19. 00:13:21:22 - 00:13:23:11 Speaker 1 Well, maybe that was intentional, right? 00:13:23:11 - 00:13:26:03 Speaker 1 Here's someone that works at NASA that looks just like you. 00:13:26:06 - 00:13:27:23 Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, that could be it. 00:13:27:23 - 00:13:31:05 Speaker 2 every time I see the video, I think of the Terminator from American Pie. 00:13:31:12 - 00:13:34:01 Speaker 1 Yeah, I kind of look up. 00:13:34:02 - 00:13:42:20 Speaker 2 Speaking of the actors, though, the astronaut, played by Eli Swanson, who ended up becoming an orthopedic trauma surgeon. So good for him. 00:13:42:21 - 00:13:45:02 Speaker 1 And he said, I think in one of his interviews, 00:13:45:02 - 00:13:52:29 Speaker 1 that spacesuit was actually a real NASA suit that they borrowed. And he said it was very heavy, which, of course, it's an astronaut suit, but yeah, very heavy and hot. 00:13:52:29 - 00:13:56:08 Speaker 2 Yeah. And then he's getting strung up on a chain. 00:13:56:10 - 00:13:58:21 Speaker 1 Exactly. Yeah. I went through torture for it. 00:13:58:29 - 00:14:13:12 Speaker 1 So maybe one more time I think one maybe video of the year on MTV, I can't remember, but this one was nominated for I think four awards female Video, Dance Video, Pop Video and Viewer's Choice. And I agree with all these because she didn't win in any of the categories. 00:14:13:12 - 00:14:16:10 Speaker 1 The real big winner that year was Nsync's Bye Bye Bye, 00:14:16:10 - 00:14:21:29 Speaker 1 it hit a lot of records, that album and that video, Bye Bye Bye, which we'll probably discuss one day, is actually good. I watched it, 00:14:21:29 - 00:14:25:08 Speaker 1 for the first time recently just to get an idea of why it won. 00:14:25:08 - 00:14:36:13 Speaker 1 It's a better video for sure. So that won most of the awards and then Alia won for female video, and I can't remember now the name of the song, but it was in that Jet Li movie. 00:14:36:14 - 00:14:37:05 Speaker 2 Yeah. 00:14:37:07 - 00:14:38:29 Speaker 1 It'll come to my mind eventually, 00:14:38:29 - 00:14:52:16 Speaker 2 Yeah, that's a good video. Bye bye bye. I do still kind of favor this one over that, but they're both very good. By the way. I did look it up, Lauryn Hill's doo wop was the one to win video of the year of maybe One More Time. And she actually didn't even win Best Pop Video for that. 00:14:52:16 - 00:14:54:10 Speaker 2 That went to live in La Vida Loca. 00:14:54:16 - 00:14:59:13 Speaker 1 Oh wow. Which I think had the similar choreographer for one of the other Britney videos. 00:14:59:13 - 00:15:00:11 Speaker 2 Yeah, I would imagine. 00:15:00:12 - 00:15:21:05 Speaker 2 You know, the song itself, it's kind of got like that slap bass, that boom boom, but that like funky hybrid of pop just on the bass line. I love that. I think that was so much fun is, you know, it's different than a lot of her other songs, but yet it's still kind of it almost replaced that piano boom boom boom baby, one more time. 00:15:21:05 - 00:15:22:28 Speaker 2 We just kind of took it in a different direction. 00:15:22:28 - 00:15:39:06 Speaker 2 even if it was campy, I think this one repositioned Britney as like the top of the pop ecosphere. Even if she is losing to In Sync or whatever the movie or the video awards, it was the next like logical. I think thing for her to do is like a more big budget video. 00:15:39:06 - 00:15:41:27 Speaker 2 as we see Britney's career go from here, 00:15:41:27 - 00:15:49:03 Speaker 2 we get toxic and womanizer, things that are even more well produced. But at the time, this was a pretty big step for her. 00:15:49:04 - 00:15:58:21 Speaker 1 Agreed. And you know, she was still top of the female pop scene. So even if anything was taking over, she still had that that title to hold on to for a while. 00:15:58:21 - 00:15:59:27 Speaker 2 Yes. 00:15:59:29 - 00:16:01:20 Speaker 1 All right, Rob, anything else for this episode? 00:16:01:23 - 00:16:02:28 Speaker 2 That's all I got here. 00:16:03:04 - 00:16:05:28 Speaker 1 Well, then, you know, it's time for your favorite game. 00:16:05:29 - 00:16:07:08 Speaker 2 Oh, this is my favorite game. 00:16:07:08 - 00:16:26:02 Speaker 1 Yes. Trivia time. And as I mentioned in the last episode, we are continuing with Britney Spears and maybe another pop star of that time period. So oops, I did It Again was released a few years after, of course, her first album. So we're going to go with Britney Spears and Avril Levine. Okay? You pop people that you know pretty well. 00:16:26:04 - 00:16:44:13 Speaker 1 I feel confident here. Yeah. And you know, I think as we go on, I might run out of Britney Spears factoid, so I might have to switch it up. But right now I think I have enough to keep things going. So let's get started. Which artist released their debut album at age 17, selling over 16 million copies worldwide? 00:16:44:19 - 00:17:05:04 Speaker 2 Oh, I hate it when you put those numbers in there because they mean nothing to me, but I'm 17. Oh man, that's tricky. So I know that Britney Spears is close to my age, and she came out when I was in high school, so that would line up. Then I knew Avril Lavigne, probably a little younger than me, and she came out when I was in college, so that doesn't help at all. 00:17:05:09 - 00:17:07:19 Speaker 2 I'm going to go Britney Spears. 00:17:07:22 - 00:17:16:18 Speaker 1 It was actually Avril Levine. I think they were one year off in age, but also, I think Britney Spears album sold more than 16 million copies. 00:17:16:23 - 00:17:19:07 Speaker 2 Oh yeah, by those numbers. 00:17:19:09 - 00:17:20:08 Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. 00:17:20:13 - 00:17:22:13 Speaker 2 They get me every time. Exactly. 00:17:22:16 - 00:17:35:08 Speaker 1 But yeah, you were you were thinking it right. And it was a trick question since they were so close in age. Okay. Which artist debut single became one of the best selling singles of all time and reached number 1 in 22 countries? 00:17:35:08 - 00:17:43:11 Speaker 2 Oh, gosh, this could be either one of them best selling debut singles of all time. Okay, it's got to be Britney Spears. 00:17:43:14 - 00:17:47:06 Speaker 1 You are right, baby. One More Time of Better was the big hit complicated? 00:17:47:06 - 00:17:50:13 Speaker 2 It's huge, but I don't think you could call it biggest all time. 00:17:50:16 - 00:17:58:16 Speaker 1 Yeah, correct. You're right. It's just the number. They're extraordinary. Okay. Which artist has appeared in films such as crossroads. 00:17:58:20 - 00:18:02:02 Speaker 2 I hope this is not a trick question because I know I'm going to say Britney Spears. 00:18:02:10 - 00:18:11:06 Speaker 1 You are right. Isn't that a trick question I don't know. She's appeared in many other films, but that was like her big debut and I never seen the movie, but I absolutely imagine it was that great. 00:18:11:10 - 00:18:25:29 Speaker 2 It's okay. I mean, it's, you know, for what it was, you know, it's a, you know, chick flick road trip thing. It was it was better than you'd expect, I think. Yeah, I was, I was just waiting for you to say I really was like an extra or something. Like Britney Spears was in one of the Austin Powers movies. 00:18:25:29 - 00:18:28:03 Speaker 2 Just as, like a cameo, though, I think, oh. 00:18:28:03 - 00:18:29:28 Speaker 1 You're right where she was. 00:18:29:28 - 00:18:32:08 Speaker 2 Oh, I think she's playing herself, actually. 00:18:32:11 - 00:18:41:05 Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Nice. Okay. Which artist was discovered after sending a homemade performance video to L.A. Reid, who signed her almost immediately? 00:18:41:06 - 00:18:42:13 Speaker 2 It's got to be Eva Levine. 00:18:42:13 - 00:18:45:22 Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, I didn't know the video, but you must've known, right? 00:18:45:22 - 00:18:57:02 Speaker 2 Yeah, I've seen that video. And, you know, obviously Britney Spears was in the Mouseketeers and everything, but yeah, the Avril Levine video is like when she first came out, there was cycling a lot. That video of her at home when like VHS camera, you know, oh. 00:18:57:04 - 00:19:05:12 Speaker 1 I have to look it up. I've never seen it. I didn't even know it existed. All right. Which artist won a Juno Award for artist of the year? Multiple times. 00:19:05:12 - 00:19:10:13 Speaker 2 So I don't know much about the Juno Awards, but I think they're Canadian, so I'm going to go over Levine. 00:19:10:15 - 00:19:21:16 Speaker 1 Yes, you are right. And they are Canadian. And she is Canadian, as we all know or as we know now. So I figured it was like enough that you would know if you knew the Juno Awards, but I wasn't sure if you knew them enough. 00:19:21:16 - 00:19:28:04 Speaker 2 I think I know them mostly because of some 40 1 a.m. familiar enough with the Juno Awards was like, they are Canadian, right? 00:19:28:06 - 00:19:35:25 Speaker 1 There's so many Canadian artists out there, right? Which artist performed with a giant albino python at an MTV VMAs? 00:19:35:28 - 00:19:36:05 Speaker 2 Britney. 00:19:36:05 - 00:19:46:12 Speaker 1 Spears? Yeah, yeah, that's a famous image. Iconic, yes. Yeah. Pretty iconic. You're right. Which artist released a comeback album after battling Lyme disease? 00:19:46:14 - 00:19:47:12 Speaker 2 Avril Lavigne. 00:19:47:14 - 00:19:50:24 Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh my gosh. You know you're Avril. I didn't even know about this. But again I knew. 00:19:50:24 - 00:19:59:10 Speaker 2 About the Lyme disease. Yeah okay. Such a weird thing to get like as a pop star. Oh not really a pop star but yeah, rock star whatever. 00:19:59:10 - 00:20:02:07 Speaker 1 You also know what I mean. No one immune to diseases per se. 00:20:02:07 - 00:20:09:09 Speaker 2 So. Yeah, but it's like, you get it, you get out in the woods and I guess, you know, it's not like they don't go out into the woods at all. Yeah, it just seemed like a weird thing. 00:20:09:09 - 00:20:21:02 Speaker 1 Yeah. I guess it only takes like, one tick bite to give it here. So stay safe out there. That's why I don't go outside. Which artist voiced a character in the animated film Over the Hedge? Oh. 00:20:21:05 - 00:20:25:05 Speaker 2 Man. So I've seen this movie a long, long, long time ago. Whenever it first came out in. 00:20:25:05 - 00:20:26:22 Speaker 1 Thousand and six is when it was out. 00:20:26:22 - 00:20:34:21 Speaker 2 I don't recall Britney Spears being on that like marquee, and they would have pushed it really hard if she was. I'm going to go with Avril Levine. 00:20:34:23 - 00:20:36:12 Speaker 1 You are correct. Yeah. 00:20:36:17 - 00:20:38:25 Speaker 2 I think it was like Bruce Willis was like a squirrel or something. 00:20:38:25 - 00:20:43:28 Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. I can't I don't think I've seen it. Do you remember if it's any good, good enough. 00:20:43:29 - 00:20:47:19 Speaker 2 You know one of those on the level crossroads. 00:20:47:21 - 00:20:50:02 Speaker 1 The animated crossroads. 00:20:50:05 - 00:20:55:21 Speaker 2 Thank you for what it was. It's clearly made for kids. But for some reason, my wife and I decided to watch it. 00:20:55:23 - 00:21:10:22 Speaker 1 Which artist cites earlier influences coming from country music acts such as Garth Brooks, The Chicks and Shania Twain, as well as alternative singer songwriter such as Only This Morissette, Lisa Loeb, Natalie Imbruglia and Janis Joplin. 00:21:10:24 - 00:21:17:14 Speaker 2 Just find a way to fit Natalie Imbruglia back into this song to yeah, because there was so much country in there. I got to go. 00:21:17:14 - 00:21:19:06 Speaker 1 Eva Levine you are correct. 00:21:19:13 - 00:21:30:07 Speaker 2 Yeah. They wanted her to be a country song when she first came out. That was the hint there. Also, I guess some of those would have been Britney Spears would have already been kind of out there. Yeah, maybe not Imbruglia. It was like early 90s. 00:21:30:07 - 00:21:48:07 Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, it's it's enough of a coverage where it could have been both because they were all popular acts at the time. So yeah, it's easy to yeah, find inspiration from both. All right. And then finally, I don't know how accurate these numbers are, but which artist has sold over 150 million records, making her one of the best selling artists in history. 00:21:48:09 - 00:21:50:08 Speaker 2 Okay, well, that's got to be Britney Spears. 00:21:50:14 - 00:21:56:04 Speaker 1 Yes. You're right. Perfect. Well, I think you had another 90%. Did we miss one. 00:21:56:10 - 00:21:58:04 Speaker 2 Or that first one? I think you're not. 00:21:58:04 - 00:21:58:23 Speaker 1 Yeah, one. 00:21:58:23 - 00:22:00:10 Speaker 2 Of the first ones. Yeah. 00:22:00:13 - 00:22:03:23 Speaker 1 So 90% on both the trivia so far. That's a pretty good record. 00:22:03:23 - 00:22:09:10 Speaker 1 I'll have to get more creative. I'm finding out the trivia to get you not tripped up per se, but, you know, give you the close enough answers. 00:22:09:13 - 00:22:17:08 Speaker 2 Bring up the challenge level exactly. And I'm too familiar with Eva living. If only I was more familiar with the record sales numbers, I would have gotten them all here. 00:22:17:10 - 00:22:27:13 Speaker 1 Well, if you have time to brush up on all that, well, thanks everyone for listening and feel free to follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, all of the socials and I will chat with you soon. 00:22:27:13 - 00:22:41:05 Speaker 2 Yeah, we've got all of our socials on our website along with everywhere that this podcast is listed. Rewind and react comm. So yeah, check this out. You can also email us there and let us know what you think or if you have any video suggestions for us, send them there. 00:22:41:05 - 00:22:52:12 Speaker 1 Yeah, definitely. And don't forget to check us out. Oops, I did it again. I mentioned the socials. I was going to use that word. Oh no. Okay. Do you want to do it? Because I think you guys like it because I didn't know if you had a good ending. So guys. 00:22:52:15 - 00:22:55:17 Speaker 2 Yeah, I was going to do something with the I again. But no, that's great. That's great. 00:22:55:19 - 00:22:58:00 Speaker 1 We'll make it work. All right. Well thanks everyone. 00:22:58:03 - 00:22:59:05 Speaker 2 I see you guys.