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Background and composition
In 1999, Spears began work on her second studio album, Oops!...I Did It Again (2000), in Sweden and Switzerland. After meeting with Max Martin and Rami Yacoub in Sweden, recorded several songs for the album, including the title track, which was written and produced by Martin and Rami, with additional writing done by Alexander Kronlund. After going back to the United States, the singer revealed in an interview with MTV News, "I just got back from Sweden, and did half [of] the material [for Oops!] over there. I was really, really happy with the material, but we had [such] limited time to get so much done. So I've just really been in the studio nonstop, which is cool, though." Spears recorded her vocals for the song from November 1999 to January 2000 at Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. It was released on March 27, 2000 as the second single from the album.

"Oops!... I Did It Again" is a teen pop and dance-pop song that lasts for three minutes and thirty-two seconds. According to the digital music sheet published at Musicnotes.com, the track is composed in the key of E major and is set in time signature of common time with a moderately tempo of 94 beats per minute, while Spears' vocal range spans from C♯3 to A4. The theme of "Oops!... I Did It Again" evolves around an alleged relationship where a man is attracted to a woman. The woman, however, says that she "not that innocent", and is only playing with the man's feelings. The spoken bridge features a dialogue which references James Cameron movie Titanic (1997). Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone noted that "in the terrific title hit", the music is inspired by Barbra Streisand's "Woman in Love" (1980) and the lyrics evokes "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish" (1987) by The Smiths, "but that brutal growl is all Britney, articulating a violently ambivalent sexual confusion her audience can relate to, kicking and screaming for the right to figure out her desires before the world decides for her."

Critical response
"Oops!... I Did It Again" received generally positive reviews from contemporary critics, with Chuck Taylor of Billboard declaring it as "a solid pop song that should add further heat to this superstar's red-hot career." A review written by the NME staff compared the structure of the recording to Michael Jackson's 80s riffs, and called the track "essentially a harder, carbon copy of '...Baby One More Time', but easily as good as her breakthrough single". Andy Battaglia from online magazine Salon said that "as a don't-go-there anthem from teenie pop's most forbidden fruit, the song makes for a sweetly sadistic companion piece to the masochism lite lurking beneath her debut". Bill Lamb from About.com ranked "Oops!... I Did It Again" as the sixth best song by Spears', deeming it as "catchy, a triumphant return to formula, and deliriously witty. The spoken word allusions to the Titanic near the end of the song cap a triumphant second act for Britney." Critic Robert Christgau and Allmusic contributor Stephen Thomas Erlewine both selected the track as a highlight on the album. In a separate review of Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (2004), Erlewine selected it as one of the "track picks" and described it as "so silly it's hard to resist". In 2001, "Oops!... I Did It Again" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and also in the category of "Favorite Song" at the 2001 Kids' Choice Awards.

Public reaction
The lyrics and image that Spears acquired with "Oops!... I Did It Again" were subject of controversy among the press, parents and teenagers, because, as Spears was growing up, her musical and performing styles were changing. MTV writer Jocelyn Vena commented that the lyrics "reflected Spears' evolution from naughty schoolgirl to intergalactic sex kitten." Author Sheila Whiteley also commented that the sexualized image created around the singer with the song was a marketing plan from her managers, who "orchestrated a sophisticated guessing game about her level of sexual awareness, alternating apple pie wholesomeness with the brazen acts of sexual provocation which led to a global obsession with the question of Britney's virginity." According to author Dave Austin, "Oops!... I Did It Again" turned out to be sucessful on the music industry because the suggestive title "immediately makes the listener want to know just what it is that Britney did, how often she did it and with whom".

On the book Raising Stable Kids in an Unstable World (2002), David Ryan Marks comments that, as a parent, after seeing his child singing along to the track, "images of her wearing a belly shirt and dancing seductively, à la Britney Spears, immediateçy ran through my mind. I was horrified. Spears sings, 'I'm not that innocent,' but I'd like Becca (and my two sons) to be innocent for as long as possible." Marks also added that other parents were concerned because the new image of Spears led to children wanting to skip "their teenage years and go right to adulthood." Pedagogue Marguerite Helmers later did a research and found out that, while teenagers had a tendency to criticize pop music and Spears as untalented, they still bought the single and album, a fact that can be viewed as an "[example] of multiple subjectivity."

Chart performance
In the United States, "Oops!... I Did It Again" achieved moderate success, peaking at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Pop Songs component chart, both on the week ending June 10, 2000. As of June 2012, the song has sold 57,000 physical copies and 465,000 digital units in the country, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Music video
The accompanying music video for "Oops!... I Did It Again" was directed by Nigel Dick on March 17 and 18, 2000. When Spears first wore the red overall for her character on the video, she felt uncomfortable, and decided to wear another outfit, which inspired by strippers. However, both Dick and Jive Records were against Spears' choice. Dick commented that "Britney always had her voice heard during the creative process. ... But on that case, her idea seemed strange and wasn't going to work". Jive had plans to keep a cohesive image of Spears e did not want her exploring her own sexuality so explicitly because the singer admitted to the public that she was still a virgin. When Dick refused Spears' costume change, the singer explained that she wanted to look more sexualized and that the overall wouldn't help her to do so. After several discussions, both agreed on a red catsuit instead. The shoot finally started and, on the second day, during a dance sequence, a camera fell on Spears' head, which resulted on her being rushed to the hospital. The singer quickly recovered and finished the video, which would be the last where Spears worked with Dick. The director said that "his disagreement regarding the outfit and her attitude on the video really bothered her. Britney was already waiting for everybody to agree with her and do things the way she wanted. I was hired to produce a good music video, not to receive orders from Britney." The music video premiered on MTV's Making the Video on April 10, 2000. It received three nominations in the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, including the Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Viewer's Choice categories.

The music video starts with a brief scene of an astronaut on Mars finding a stone slate with the cover of Oops!... I Did It Again. A scientist, back on Earth, sees it through the video transmitter and says, "Cute. What is it?" The astronaut replies, "Oh, it's cute alright. It couldn't be..." Shortly after, the ground begins to shake and Spears appears on a stage wearing a red-latex jumpsuit as the music begins. She begins to sing and dance, while she suspends the astronaut in mid-air above her. During the bridge section of the song, Spears does a flip through the air to where the astronaut is and appears in a white jacket, short black leather skirt, and matching leather boots. The astronaut then gives the "Heart of the Ocean," the jeweled necklace from the 1997 film Titanic, to Spears, as a symbol of his love for her. She wonders where he found it, saying, "But I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean in the end," to which he replies, "Well, baby, I went down and got it for you." However, she shows no acts of affection towards him, by just saying, "Oh, you shouldn't have." The heartbroken astronaut shrugs and walks off. The dance continues, and, at one point, the astronaut is seen moonwalking. The command center on earth moves to the music coming through on the transmission from Mars. The video also features clips of Spears in a short white top and skirt, lying barefoot on a white pad with dancers on the ground around her.