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Song Vs. Song

120: "Baby One More Time" vs. "Genie in a Bottle"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7752 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Two pop princesses blitzed the charts in 1999, and they would always be compared even though their paths quickly diverged. There's no chance that the iconic "Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears could be upset by Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle," could there?

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Todd Nathanson.

0:03.7

And I'm Elena Morgan.

0:04.9

This is Song versus Song.

0:07.5

I don't know how we went this long without doing it.

0:10.5

We are doing Baby One More Time by Britney Spears versus Jeannie in a bottle by Christina Aguilera.

0:17.3

This matchup made sense to me.

0:20.7

Uh-huh. Did it make sense to me.

0:21.4

Uh-huh.

0:23.5

Did it make sense to you?

0:28.7

I mean, so it depends upon whether or not you mind a blowout.

0:30.3

All right.

0:34.4

And I think that we've kind of accepted that occasionally they will happen.

0:39.1

And when you said it, I was like, well, it's, I know how this is going to play.

0:42.0

It's not a mystery.

0:45.1

Which one of these songs has the juice?

0:48.2

Had it at the time still has today.

0:51.5

And which one is kind of forgotten largely.

0:54.6

I don't feel like Jeannie in a bottle is forgotten.

1:02.4

Well, you say that. Perhaps you'll have some evidence. I feel like I could make a case for Jeannie in a bottle here. Like obviously, I can remember when we did Let It Go versus how far I'll go.

1:08.8

Like, let it go is obviously like the more significant song. But how far I'll go. Like, let it go is obviously, like, the more significant song.

1:13.3

But how far I'll go is the one that won that, like, baby one more time is, like, a toweringly

1:20.1

important song in my lifetime.

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