Britney Spears: Baby One More Time Live (4 Days After #1 Hit)

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‪@britneyspears‬ performs "Baby One More Time" on The Dini Petty Show exactly four days after the song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. At 17, she had just achieved her dream. The world was watching.

This performance aired February 3, 1999, four days after January 30, the day her life changed forever. The album had been out less than a month. The video was in heavy MTV rotation. And here she is on a Toronto soundstage, performing the song that would define not just her career but an entire era of pop music. What you're watching is lightning in a bottle: Britney at the exact moment between "before" and "after."

In the full interview that followed this performance (also available on this channel), she talks about singing in front of the TV as a little girl, getting rejected from Mickey Mouse Club at age 8, writing her first B-side, and what she wants to represent to her fans. There's a confidence here, an unguarded joy, that would become harder to find in later years. This is Britney before the scrutiny, before the tabloids, before everything that came after. This is her at 17, four days after her first number one, performing the song that made her a star.

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