She still admires the singer’s razor-sharp creativity when it comes to her own look and videos, and greatly attributes the success of “Oops!” to Spears’s initial vision. More than two decades later, the stylist says working with Spears was one of her wildest, most fun projects.
Read more: 10 Dazzling Giorgio Armani Gowns At Cannes Film Festival “But she was a trooper and went right back to work,” recalls Stanley. During a scene where Spears is lying down and the camera is pointed at her from above, a piece of the camera got dislodged and hit her on the back of the head. ET to hear Rolling Stone Music Now broadcast live from SiriusXM’s studios on Volume, channel 106.Read more: How Did Priscilla Presley Find Her Dream Las Vegas Wedding Dress?
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And she wasn’t terribly happy about that.” Dick never worked with Spears again after that video: “I’m guessing that had quite a lot to do with me questioning that outfit she was wearing.”ĭownload and subscribe to our weekly podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on iTunes or Spotify (or wherever you get your podcasts), and check out two years’ worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth, career-spanning interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Halsey, Ice Cube, Neil Young, the National, Questlove, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Scott Weiland, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Costello, Donald Fagen, Phil Collins, Alicia Keys, Stephen Malkmus, Sebastian Bach, Tom Petty, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, the Zombies, Gary Clark Jr., and many more - plus dozens of episodes featuring genre-spanning discussions, debates, and explainers with Rolling Stone’s critics and reporters. “I questioned whether it was right for her to be wearing it in the video for her audience, and both management and label said, ‘Yeah.’ But they didn’t want to say anything, so I said, ‘You know Britney, we need to go back to a trailer and see what else you’ve got. You flirt with the audience.”ĭick rejected an outfit Spears wanted to wear, worrying it was too sexy for her age. It’s like a burlesque, isn’t it? You have the feathers and everything – you don’t deliver the goods until the final moment as the lights go out. “So you just sort of think, ‘Oh my God, what am I going to do?’ So I remember putting the shot list a bunch of close-ups, so you could have that as a little montage. “You don’t want to fire all the guns at once and reveal the big set,” says Dick.
The opening shot of Spears’ lips reflected how iconic a figure she’d already become. I said, ‘This bit about the Titanic, what am I going to do with that? How does that fit in?’ And she goes, ‘Oh, you’ll think of something!’ So, you just go, ‘I’ll write something, and we’ll see if they like it.’ And as I recall, I don’t think there were any revisions on my treatment.” And then suddenly the brakes squeal, and you do an about-turn and you go back to 19-whenever it was when the Titanic sank. “You’re going, ‘What the fuck?’ I’m on Mars, which obviously means somewhere in the middle of the 21st century. So now you have to just try and make this idea work.”ĭick found the song’s infamous Titanic interlude baffling. You know, everything is now going to be red. Which for me, makes life a lot easier… Having Britney say, ‘I want to be on Mars’ immediately narrows it. “And she says,’ Well, I want to do this video. The sci-fi concept for the “Oops!” video came straight from Spears herself. The director shared the story of his time with Spears on the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. Nigel Dick had already directed videos for Guns N’ Roses, Oasis, and many others by the time he met Britney Spears in 1998, but even the “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Sweet Child O’ Mine” clips couldn’t come close to matching the culture-shaking impact of “…Baby One More Time.”ĭick went on to helm the videos for “(You Drive Me) Crazy” and “Sometimes,” and when it came time for the all-important first single from Spears’ second album, Oops!… I Did It Again, she and her team turned to him again.
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