Britney Spears' hit single Hit Me Baby One More Time celebrates its 25th anniversary
dailyrecord.co.ukIt's been 25 years since Britney Spears pulled on a school uniform and danced her way along a school corridor to music video history.While the teenage singer's debut single Hit Me Baby One More Time was a huge pop hit with 25million sales, it was the song's super-slick promo that went stratospheric with 821million views to date.So what makes an iconic music video that will still be watched in decades to come?
Here are the best of the rest.NOTHING COMPARES 2 U Sinead O'Connor, 1990 The Irish singer became an instant superstar with a cover of a Prince ballad with nothing more than the power of her face and voice, turning the song into a global hit.
It won the MTV award for Video of the Year.WATERFRONT Simple Minds, 1983 The video was a visual love letter to Glasgow. It was filmed on the Renfrew Ferry, with shipyard cranes in the background, and at a free gig the band did in the Barrowland Ballroom.
The video led to the reopening of the dance hall as a music venue. Frontman Jim Kerr said the song was about the rebirth of the city.SLEDGEHAMMER Peter Gabriel, 1986 With animation by Wallace And Gromit creator Nick Park, this video required Gabriel to lie under a sheet of glass for 16 hours.
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