From time to time, fans of Britney Spears resurface a rumor that the pop star has drawn its emblematic album cover “Oops! … I did it again” at the house of Lenny Kravitz.
The “funny fact” has once accumulated thousands of votes in a Reddit wire, and a viral Instagram message on the “fascinating” treat left “speechless” followers.
But longtime speculation has finally been demystified once and for all on the 25th anniversary of the exit.
“I can confirm that the album’s cover was not shot in Lenny’s House,” said the executive producer of photographer Mark Selicer, Ruth Levy, said, nevertheless said that Seliger and Kravitz are “close friends”.
A Historian of Spears who directs the story of the Britneysvault fans, meanwhile, informs us that the princess of pop actually posed for works of art in the studios of Quixote in West Hollywood, California – nearly 3000 miles from the former house of Kravitz in Miami.
While Kravitz did not lend Spears his home inspired by Y2K after all, the rock star took her daughter, Zoë Kravitz, to meet the singer “… Baby One More Time” on the Soundtage of Los Angeles scene in 2000.
“My father surprised me. He had gone a lot on tour and all that. He was really nice when he came to town to try to do something fun and surprise me,” recalls the star of “Batman” in Variety in 2020.
Zoë, who was 11 years old at the time, was even able to take a photo with Spears, then 18, behind the scenes.
The actress spoke that the meeting “the largest star in the world” was “very, very cool”, adding: “Britney Spears is always a big problem for me”.
For filming, the production designer Walter Barnett built two sets: one for the cover of the album “Oops” and another for its eponymous single head, both photographed.
Barnett told Britneysvault in messages visualized by page six that he had been inspired by the conceptions of the 1960s and had to “browse and get images from books and printed magazines”, because Google Images was only introduced.
He remembered a padding of a semi -humorous backdrop with artificial gold and button leather so that the spears are held.
For the final touch, Barnett used a fine thread to chain a variety of chandelier crystals to hang from above, allowing them to drape the shoulders of the idol for adolescents.
The final product – which included a baby lance with a crop top with brown lacers and lace -up pants with low height – would become one of the most renowned album covers of all time.
“OOPS” was also a commercial SMASH, becoming the first LP by a female artist in the history of the United States to sell 1.32 million copies in only his first week.
Spears held the record for 15 years until Adele’s “25” moved 3.38 million copies in 2015.
In addition to his title song, “Oops” generated the successful singles “Lucky”, “Strong” and “Don’t let me be the Last to Know”.
The Grammy Winner, now 43, released an edition of the 25th anniversary of his second album on Friday, including bonus songs and new remixes.
