Talk:...Baby One More Time - Knowledge (XXG)

917:"Britney Subliminal" as well as google as many reputable sources have catched on to it. Also, if your unsure about how effective subliminal messaging is youtube "derren brown subliminal" and watch him influence people using subliminal messaging. Backmasking is deliberate in many cases and it is v. effective, if you have time log on to blackwell synergy and read the studies made on back masking and subliminal persuasion, the results are overwhelming. The school uniform and school based (which has nothing to do with the lyrics btw) video it self backs up the subliminal message. In other words, all the school girl fans of Britney listening to the track are subliminally encouraged to break their age limited moral for not having sex. Someone down the chain from Martin Max must have been a Babylonian purvert. Anyway, back to the backmasking part of the article... I tried to change the "hidden message" to "subliminal message" with subliminal in brackets to link to the subliminal article, as it is a more accurate description of the type of message the backmasking portrays. It is thought your sub conscious understands the reverse, but your conscious doesn't, which is why subliminal is used to describe subconscious messages, not hidden. Anyway, as I tried to change "hidden" to "subliminal" as well as to add the lines that need to be reversed for the message to be heard, (with you I lose my mind, give me a sign), some Smackbot (robot) reverted the changes. Perhaps one of you could change "hidden" to "subliminal" as well as to add the lyric part (with you I lose my mind, give me a sign) responsible for the backmasking.-- 1092:

your usual drink or the bartender asking you what you want to order, depending on how predictable you are and how much the bartender knows you)... which is probably what the actual usage was supposed to be in the song. It always astonishes me actually, how often people try to read "physically abusive boyfriend" into the picture, when it's probably so simple as an unusual (but not implausible) permutation of extant slang meant to emphasize how much she wants a second shot (if you'll excuse the pun) at his affections. The fact that asking for a second serving or hit is sometimes done by saying "hit me again" would seem to lend credence to this, especially given the existence of lyrics like "my loneliness is killin' me" and "when I'm not with you I lose my mind", and the fact that it's portrayed in the video as a young (and I'd argue, therefore particularly addictive) love. Haha! Mild pseudo-drug reference, anyone?

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track has is to get it labeled "subliminal", which generates controversy, rumors, basically a bunch of free press and publicity. Honestly, I think its a whole lot more believable that the people producing this audio track would pull such a stunt for the purpose of getting people to listen to it then talk about it, eventually perhaps triggering purchases somewhere down the road, rather than to suggest that people working in a profit-driven industry are behind any sort of plot to use subliminal brainwashing to create an army of horny and disinhibited schoolgirls, no matter how absolutely awesome that might be...

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but I don't know the running time for the track. A version titled "Sharp Platinum Vocal Radio Remix" that runs 3:27 is floating around the internet, but cannot be verified any more than the 6:50 "Sharp Platinum Vocal Mix (Edit)" can. As with the "Lenny Bertoldo X-Mix", these mixes seem simply to be

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I'd also like to point out that in American English slang, "hit me" is commonly used to ask for say, a "hit" of a drug, or a shot or glass of a (usually alchoholic) drink (the most common use I've seen is to say "hit me" while slapping your hand or money down on the bar, followed by receipt of either

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It is quite obvious what to say about the controversy of the song. It is an intentional double entendre upon two meanings of the line "hit me one more time." The claimed meaning is like the artist stated, that it just means "i want your (romantic) love back" and the subliminal meaning is that she is

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was actually sent to radio in June of that year and if you look at the chart performance, it started charting soon after that. But it wasn't released physically until September. Obviously the June date is when it was being pushed as a single and started charting, so that's what should be used as the

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and put in the earliest date I could find, moving all others to a Release History section. October 23 wasn't in this article's table (or at least not when I saw it earlier—thanks for adding it!), so I decided to take it here. You may want to keep an eye on Britney articles, because a redlink user is

2021:", but I can't make the album primary again as it was before. The song's success could not outmatch the album's success, but I guess the song's must have contributed to the album's and sparked more singles from the album. But the album's shouldn't overcome the song's either. Even with two topics and 935:

Its been my understanding that while rapidly flashed words or images, or hidden images are understood by the brain and have been used, reversed spoken words have not been proven to have anywhere near such a powerful effect, and that the primary effect that backmasking a message into any given audio

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sorry to bump this talk, but should the song's date be listed as september 28th or september 29th? on the front page, it says baby one more time was sent out to pop radio on september 28th, but on the going for adds section, it says september 29th, which is what someone updated the article to say a

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archive. Back in the day, songs were sent to radio months before physical releases and finding sources for that information can be difficult, but that magazine has been a Godsent! I know some people have argued that it should be based off the physical release date, but once a song has been sent to

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You can browse through the issues via the left hand side of the page with month, year, dates, news section and page number available for selection. To make it easier, I have browsed through all the following weeks the song charted on Iceland's official music charts in the 90s, Islenski Listinn Top

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is given as a source for several countries' sales figures for this single, but the site is for Japanese sales only, and doesn't even seem to have a listing for Spears' single. (There are a couple album and a video statistic for Spears from that ref.) I request an interested party to respond here

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These derogatory genre names are obviously someone's personal opinion. The song was originally offered to R&B group TLC and can therefore not bee considered bubblegum or teen pop. Britney Spears herself might or might not be considered a teen pop artist, but this discussion is about the song

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I've wondered that as well. I note that I've only heard this at the skate rink, but my first instinct is and has always been that she's saying "Look, if it gets you back, I'll put up with the physical abuse and pretend I like it"--which is not, I think, what she's actually saying. But the more

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Based on the next 4 months after Baby One More Time peaked at #11, it only charted for two more weeks at #16 and #39 before falling out of the charts and never re-entered it. So I think it is safe to say #11 was its highest chart peak in Iceland. I hope this settles once and for all this issue.

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3 genres are excessive on a single. It is irrelevant what Spears is considered, all that matters is THIS song. Pick the genre that best matches this song. Best if you can back it up with critical evaluations, charting and awards. Teen pop is the best match. Bubblegum pop conflicts. Either way -

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on the basis that it was original research. I would like to know why this is considered original research—according to the No Original Research page, a video is a primary source, rather than an original piece of research (and I did not make the video). The policy page says "...make no analytic,

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Common sense is not original research and wikipedia does allow common sense. Whats next? Perhaps we should also cite that a light bulb emits light? Or the sky is blue, we need to cite that too. This citation business is getting out of control. Anyway, the back masking is real, you can youtube

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There was an inflation of the U.S. sales number, however, from 1 million to 4.5 million. The RIAA site lists it as Platinum, and as that is the ref, that should be the figure noted. (Indeed, the article states the song is Platinum, not 4x Platinum.) As such, the song's number at

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I have only now just seen the message here after a few weeks but here is a link where you can browse through all the following weeks of the song's peak on the Iceland music chart published in newspapers every Friday issues of "Dagblaoio Visir" to check for yourself. Link---:

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The two main objections (from moralists such as U.S. conservatives) would be the pre-adolescent extramarital sexuality along with the tarting up of the parochial school uniform. Both are seen as abuses, as conservatives often feel that girls and boys should avoid sex before

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Who removed the bubblegum and teen pop genres? The lyrics have a simple structure and vocals that is aimed at teenagers and pre-teens? Plus Britney has always been considered a teen pop star! I'm going to add them again! If you disagree please reply via my talk

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I can't find any verification that either the "Lenny Bertoldo X-Mix" or the Sharp Platinum Vocal Mix (Edit)" were ever officially released anywhere by Jive. There was a "Sharp Platinum Vocal Radio Remix" released on Colombia promo #33250 seen here

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I'm asking because the chart is from November 1998. How do we know that this is the actual peak and not the song's position in that week? In the US, the song peaked at #1 in early 1999. Same goes for France, Norway, Sweden, and other countries.

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I think I understand now—the Japanese site is given as a corroboration of what sales level the various award levels correspond to in the respective countries, while the actual award levels do have their own references, so no need to respond

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This article reads as if the writer was making a big show of pausing to think in the middle of sentences. Regardless of the album cover's typographic treatment, the title of the song is "Baby One More Time", without the punctuation.

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I came to this article wondering what the song was about. In what sense does she want to be "Hit"? Can anyone say with any authority? In which case please put it in the article. I doubt if it is anything to do with pagers.

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floating around the internet for download, but have apparently never popped up on any official Jive product. I would also question whether the Wade J. Robson Remix or the Cabaret Mix qualify as "Official Remixes".

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I disagree that it can not be labeled as bubblegum or teen pop just cause it was offered to a R&B group. The sound of a song is more what makes the genre. For instance, I've heard the Britney version of

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synthetic, interpretive, explanatory, or evaluative claims, unless such claims are verifiable either from the primary source itself". I believe the video verifies my claim. Would anyone agree or disagree?

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in the dark for some unexplainable reason. Probably because it takes next to forever to search for something what with all the information it publishes. I need to accept the fact that it's a gold mine.

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likely "poke me one more time" reading (that is, have sex with me) seems not to suit the song so much either. Dunno. (How the HECK did I get to a Britney Spears page?? Oh, right, DDR.)

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I think there should be something on live preformences pof baby one more time like other songs. This could include things like how it's the only song to feature on all of her tours.

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I remember watching an interview with the teen queen herself on MTV during the controversy, and she explained that "hit me one more time" merely meant "give me your love again."'.

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like to point out that in American English slang, the linking of the term "hit" with its meaning in "I'd hit/tap that" is so thoroughly widespread, it caused McDonald's to pull

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i personally have reversed this song in Sony sound forge, and i assure you it is real. Also, its hilarious. The Swedish guy who wrote this song must have done it on purpose.

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What of the now infamous remakes. This song has been reworkled by the likes of Fountain of Wayne and others...and has been drastically remixed by various club DJ's

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The track genre is sourced. It's not R&B just because it was offered to TLC. The lyrics were offered, not the entire song. Also, TLC records pop music too. -

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The song and Britney's costume are described as "infamous", without explaining why they are infamous. Just because the video is sexy, or is there more to it?

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or, obviously, view a hard copy of the production notes on a cover sleeve. EDIT: Don't worry, I didn't realise I could edit the page without signing up. Fixed.

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The section on the backmasking seems to have been removed without reason given, so I'm putting it back until someone can give reason for it being taken out.

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Lol - also if we include the "subliminal messages" of Another One Bites The Dust or Stairway To Heaven then I think this one should be atleast mentioned :)

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Please, can someone explain how this can be "top" importance to the "pop music" project, yet only "high" importance to the "Britney Spears" project?

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Britney Spears said in her booklet that comes with the CD for "The Singles Collection" that "...Baby One More Time" debuted on November 21, 1998.

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about which release date should be included in infoboxes, and I eventually became so overwhelmed with IPs and reversions that I just decided to

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RIAA says October 29th, and Radio & Records literally says "Impacting Top 40 and Rhythmic Crossover September 28th" on the front page

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I hear this song has a subliminal message that says "sleep with me, i'm not too young" when played backwards. someone should add that.

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40, after its peak of 11 and will list it's chart position and date of issue from the papers and page number it can be found on.

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It's been a week since I added this to the talk page. Since there's no objections, I'm removing Iceland from the chart table. --

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Was the song released on September 15, 1998, or October 23, 1998? Various sources within the article contract each other.

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The front page conflicts with page 37 which lists all the songs being added on September 29. So that source is a wash.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20141006142033/http://www.hitlistan.se/netdata/ghl002.mbr/lista?liid=43&dfom=19990001

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http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Britney%20Spears&titel=...Baby%20One%20More%20Time&cat=s

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Not sure if this is relevant (it's definitely unsourced), but the music video now has 200 million views on VEVO. -

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Someone might disagree with it due to the hatnote, but once the change happens again, a hatnote may be removed.

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itself. Just clean and simple pop is the most neutral genre name, and I have therefore changed the genre,

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The music video image seems unusually small when expanded, compared to the rest of the article pictures.

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will be reduced by 3.5 million, as that number has no ref and is based at least in part on this article.

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