Oops!... I Did It Again Tour

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The Oops!... I Did It Again Tour is the third concert tour by American recording artist Britney Spears. It supports his second studio album Ups!... I Did It Again (2000) and visited North America, Europe and Brazil. This marks the first time Spears has toured outside North America. The tour was announced in February 2000, while Spears was in the middle of the Crazy Tour (You Drive Me). The stage is much more complicated than the previous tour and featured video screens, fireworks and mobile platforms. This setlist was composed by songs from his first two studio albums, ... Baby One More Time and Oops!... I Did It Again as well as some cover. Showco is a healthy company, which uses PRISM systems to adapt events to every place. Spears used handheld microphones and headsets during the show, while ADAT was used to replace her voice during an energetic dance routine.

The show consists of four segments with each segment followed by a dash into the next segment, and ends with an encore. The show begins with Spears coming down from a giant ball. Most of the songs feature an energetic dance routine with the exception of the second segment, which features most ballads. Encore consists of performances with fireworks. Oops!... I Did It Again Tour received positive reviews from critics, who praised Spears' energy on stage as well as the band. It was also a commercial success, the date reported by Billboard averaging $ 507,786 in grosses and nearly 15,841 in attendance, carrying a total of $ 43.6 million and over 1.4 million tickets and being one the highest grossing tour of 2000. Oops!... I Did It Again Tour was broadcast by many channels around the world.

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On February 22, 2000, Spears announced a summer tour to support his second studio album, Ups!... I Did It Again (2000). The tour marked the first time Spears toured Europe. He commented, "I will go to Europe, and basically go anywhere for six months, [...] I have never toured outside the US I have never experienced another fan in other places, and performing in front of them will very interesting. "Before the tour started, reported that the concert promoter SFX Entertainment guaranteed it at least $ 200,000 per show. Sponsorship tour of leg 2000... Baby One More Time Tour, Got Milk ?, and Polaroid, persists. Herbal Essence Clairol is also added as a sponsor. Spears recorded a song for the latter called "I Have a Boost for Herbs" to use on their radio campaign, though she chose not to attend a photo shoot for the product when she decided to support a 86-day strike by Screen. Actors Guild (SAG). He then donated $ 1 from every ticket sold from the Inglewood, California event on July 28, 2000 to the union. For the European Leg of the Tour, Spears will initially join 'N Sync following their No Strings Attached Tour, as a co-headlining tour.

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Development

Jamie King was chosen as the tour director. Tim Miller and Kevin Antunes served as production directors and music directors, respectively. Mark Foffano was chosen as the lightning director. Spears described the tour as "like a Broadway show". The setlist includes material from his first studio album ... Baby One More Time (1999) as well as seven songs from Ups!... I Did It Again . Spears explains, "I've been singing the same material for a very long time, it would be better to change it a bit." He also talked about his hopes for the tour, saying, "I'm impatient, I'm going on a world tour, I'll have more dancers, bigger stage, more pyro... just much bigger". The proscenium stage is much more complicated than the previous tour stage and includes video screens, mobile platforms and a variety of different props. It costs $ 2.2 million to build. The tone of the show varies from the beginning: for "Born to Make You Happy", Spears sings in a set that resembles a children's bedroom, complete with great toys and cushion exercises. Instead, he launched a more sophisticated drawing for "Do not Let Me Be the Last to Know", and followed him with an obscene show for "... Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again".

Sound equipment is provided by Showco which uses the PRISM system, which customizes events for each place according to the height, width and scope required. The sound was mixed by Front of house engineer Monty Lee Wilkes on a combination of PM4000 and PM3000 Yamaha consoles, an unusual choice for the Spears show. He uses a dbx 903 compressor for kick drum and snare. Compressors are also used on Spears microphones, Beta 58A handhelds and capsule heads-CM1AAE Crown Crown. Spears vocals are mostly vivid - previously recorded sounds run in parallel on the ADAT machine during the show, and are used to replace the microphone directly when the dance routine becomes too energetic for good voice control. The Spears band, backline technicians and Raza Sufi monitor technicians are all equipped with in-ear monitors and headset microphones, allowing fast and clear communication around the stage area. Spears did not use it, preferring the ambient sound of the eight wedges Showco SRM batteries scattered across the downstage area. This is coupled with a full-range Showco SS sidefill and a pair of one-by-18-inch sheet on each side of the stage. Sufi also uses dbx 160A to limit Spears' hard moments, while backing vocalists is controlled by the dynamic equalizer duo of BSS DPR901. The effects are limited to reverb vocals and drums. Amplification for wedges and FOH systems are all Crown-based, with a pair of stool shaker drums completing the line-up. All cables used during the tour were taken from the US, even in Europe, something unusual in audio production.

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Concert synopsis

The show started with the introduction of the video "The Britney Spears Experience", in which three pictures of Spears welcomed the audience for the show. Then, a giant metal ball was lowered on stage and raised again to reveal Spears standing behind her, wearing a pink halter top (some orange performances), side silver jacket, and glittering jeans. Spears started out with two dance-oriented shows "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and "Stronger". This was followed by "What U See (Is What U Get)" where he took off his silver side jacket and he danced on a stripper pole wearing a pink cowboy hat. The action ended with Spears talking to the audience and sitting on the bench to perform "From The Bottom of My Broken Heart" with his guitarist Skip.

After he left the stage, there was a video distraction organized by * NSYNC (via the screen) and two Spears singer backgrounds (two female background dancers in Europe) where contestants perform various games to meet Spears. She appeared on stage to meet the selected fans and then greeted the audience to her bedroom. Wearing pajamas and white sandals, she performed "Born to Make You Happy", which included a segment of the dance near the end. He then goes on to "Lucky" featuring two background singers (two female background dancers during all European performances) helping Spears get ready for a typical day. In the middle of the song during the dance break, the male dancers all wore navy sailors' costumes doing routine before Spears continued the rest of the song dressed as captain of the ship. "Sometimes", where it turns back to white pajamas and sandals (coincidentally clothing similar to the one he wore in the music video of the song) and featuring Spears and his dancers throwing teddy bears, beach balls, and spraying the audience. with water guns. In the end, he climbed the stairs and spoke briefly to the audience before moving on to the show "Do not Let Me Be The Last To Know", where he wore a long white dress trimmed with boa fur (dressed as in a music video like Lucky ).

A band interlude featuring a mix of funk and progressive rock from the band followed, and Spears reappeared to do his cover Sonny & amp; Cher's "The Beat Goes On." During the show, he was lifted into the air wearing a kimono that covered most of the stage. He goes on to "Do not Go Knockin 'On My Door" and his cover of The Rolling Stones "(I Can not Get) Satisfaction", which ends with a series of dances to the original version.

Furthermore, there is a dance break where dancers show their individual movements while their names appear on the screen. Spears takes the stage again in a conservative schoolgirl to do "... Baby One More Time." She tore it in the middle of the song to reveal the cheerleading ensemble. Spears then thanked the audience, took the bow and left the stage. He returned shortly afterwards (wearing a two-piece black shirt printed in orange flame) to perform "Oops!... I Did It Again", which included an extended dance separation after the second choir, fireworks and other special effects. He ended the show disappearing through the fire tunnel.

Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again (Live In London) - YouTube

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Reception

The event generally received positive reviews from critics. Andrew Miller of The Pitch states "[concert] at Sandstone proves that many critics of [Spears] are off-base observations from people who have never actually attended one of these stars' performances. Music comes from a talented band, not a DAT, and the bass line for songs like "... Baby One More Time" and "The Beat Goes On" rises into a funky growl in the live setting.For others, Spears vocals are real, when he sings in a low tone that captivates [...] but by either hitting high notes [...], however, he leaves the upper octave task for his background singer [...] during Spears' most dance routine weight ". Richard Leiby of The Washington Post believed that the show was "very good". And Aquilante of the New York Post said that Spears "seemed to enjoy the show as much as her fans, maybe it was a cowboy hat like Mariah who was pushed back into her little hammer or perhaps a stripper mast that was borrowed from Madonna's closet, [...] Spears is in its element and has a ball ". Letta Tayler of Newsday said: "For half the show, he's still an old Britney, a newborn teen who dreams of romance, but the rest of the time, he is teasing full-throttle, sprayed on clothes, which is tougher for the tekno and pop hip-hop layered matches ".

Jon Pareles of The New York Times stated "What you get from this 18-year-old singer is a big smile, a small voice, a sigh of sincerity, a hard-working dancing routine, shameless advertising and a determination to play both side of puberty for all their grades ". Jim Farber of the New York Daily News commented that "Although very spicy, the core of the Britney concert suffered because of the intimacy and greed of all the teenagers roads showing these days." The sparklers, explosions and flying dancers are obliged to fit into corniness entertainment amusement park ". Ticket price is set at $ 32 in North America. The reported dates averaged $ 507,786 at gros and 15,841 were present. Susanne Ault of Billboards also reported that many shows were sold out in one day. This tour has a total gross of $ 40.5 million. It became the tenth best-selling tour of the year in North America, as well as the second best-selling tour by solo artist, just behind Tina Turner's Twenty Four Seven Tour. Roger Moore from Orlando Sentinel analyzed Spears to mimic "many of Janet Jackson's old concert actions and clean it up for a younger audience," also choreographed what looked like "Rhythm Nation" precision. "

Britney Spears - Oops!... I Did It Again Tour @ Dortmund, Germany ...

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Broadcast

On November 30, 2000, the September 20 concert at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans aired on Fox. Particularly titled No Place Like Home . The show at Wembley Arena was filmed and broadcast by Sky1. The performances in Rock In Rio are broadcast on DirecTV.