Critical Reception
"Oops!... I Did It Again" received positive reviews from music critics. A review of Billboard commented the track as "a solid pop song that should add further heat to this superstar's red-hot career." Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone compared the track musically to Barbra Streisand's "Woman In Love" and lyrically to The Smiths' "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish", and stated that "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". NME 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, "... Baby One More Time"." Bill Lamb from About.com listed the song at number six on Spears' Top 10 Songs, saying: "Oops!..I Did It Again" is 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".
In 2001, "Oops!... I Did It Again" received a nomination from the 43rd Grammy Awards on the category of Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, but lost to Macy Gray's "I Try" (2000). The song was also nominated in the category of "Favorite Song" at the 2001 Kids' Choice Awards.
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