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"Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" Single by Britney Spears from the album Oops!... I Did It Again Released January 17, 2001 Format CD single Recorded November–December 1999 Genre Teen pop Length 3:50 Label Jive Writer(s) Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Keith Scott, Shania Twain Producer Robert Lange Britney Spears singles chronology "Stronger"
(2000)"Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know"
(2001)"I'm a Slave 4 U"
(2001)"Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" is a song by American recording artist Britney Spears, taken from her second studio album, Oops!... I Did It Again (2000). It was released on January 17, 2001, by Jive Records as the fourth and final single from the album. After meeting up with Robert Lange in Switzerland, the singer started to record several songs for the album, including "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know", co-written by Lange, Shania Twain, and Keith Scott. The teen-pop ballad, speaks of a woman wanting to hear her boyfriend say that he needs her all the way and that he loves her, and features a similar sound to David Bowie and Iggy Pop's song "China Girl" (1983). It received positive reviews from music critics, with some considering the song a sweet ballad where Spears showcase her vocals.
"Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" attained commercial success, reaching number one in Romania, and peaking inside the top-ten in Austria, Europe and Switzerland, while reaching top-twenty positions in many European countries. However, the song failed to chart in the United States' Hot 100, peaking at number twelve on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100. An accompanying music video, directed by Herb Ritts, portrays Spears in love scenes with her fictional boyfriend, played by French model Brice Durand. The singer's real-life boyfriend at the time Justin Timberlake, however, was said to be miffed at the kissing scenes, while the original video was considered too racy at the time by Spears mother, Lynne, because it contained sexually explicit material. Parts of the video were edited before its release to the public on March 2, 2001.
Spears has performed "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" in a number of live appearances, including at TRL, Saturday Night Live, The View, and in four of her concert tours. It was first performed on Crazy 2k Tour (2000), where Spears appeared onstage sitting on a magic carpet and flew over the audience while singing the song. Spears also performed song at the Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour (2000), at Dream Within a Dream Tour (2001), and, most recently, at the Femme Fatale Tour (2011). Spears has named "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" as one of her favourite songs from her career several times. The song was nominated at Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in the category of "Best Song" in 2002.
Contents
Background
In 1999, Spears began work on her second studio album, Oops!...I Did It Again (2000), in Sweden and Switzerland.[1][2] After meeting up with Robert Lange in Switzerland, the singer started to record several songs for the album, including "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know". After finishing the track, Spears revealed in an interview with Billboard that "with the first album, I didn't get to show my voice off. The songs were great, but they weren't very challenging. This song is incredible. It's going to surprise people in the best way."[2] "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" was written and produced by Lange, while additional writing was done by his then-wife Shania Twain and Keith Scott. Spears recorded her vocals for the song between November and December 1999 at Mutt Lange's and Shania Twain's chateau in La-Tour-de Peilz, Switzerland, and it was later mixed by Nigel Green and programmed by Cory Churko, Kevin Churko and Richard Meyer.[3] During a live concert at Hawaii, included on her second home video release Live and More! (2000), Spears claimed the song as one of her favourites on Oops!... I Did It Again.[4] "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" was released on January 17, 2001 as the final single from the album.[5]
Composition
"Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" is a teen pop ballad that lasts for three minutes and fifty seconds. The song is composed in the key of E major and is set in time signature of common time with a tempo of 76 beats per minute. Spears vocal range spans from F♯3 to D♯5.[8] The song's lyrics talk about how Spears wants to hear her boyfriend say he needs her all the way and that he loves her. Spears considered it a "pure and delicate" song. "It's just one of those songs that pull you in. That's why I like it, and I like singing it as well," she continued. "I think they wrote it 'specially for me, because the lyrics of the song, if you really listen... they're more of what I can relate to, 'cause they're kind of young lyrics, I think. I don't think Shania would probably sing some of the words that I'm saying."[9] A review of NME compared the song to David Bowie and Iggy Pop's "China Girl",[6] while Stephanie McGrath of Jam! said the song is "a nice break from the 'baby babys', 'yeah yeahs' and insistent drum beats that pepper the other songs" of Oops! [sic].[7] David Veitch of Calgary Sun compared the backing vocals "with nicely old-fashioned shoo-be-doo-doos".[10] Tom Terrell of MTV said Lange worked with a similar riff to A Taste of Honey's cover of "Sukiyaki" and fingersnaps in the song, commenting that the "Eagles-esque chorus" features "an '80s hair band power ballad groove" where "Britney soul-maxes with a vocal that channels both Stevie Wonder (via "Knocks Me Off My Feet") and Shania herself."[11]
Reception
Critical response
"Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" received mixed reviews from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic named the song a "sweetly sentimental ballad" along with the other ballads on Oops!... I Did It Again.[12] Stephanie McGrath of Jam! called the song "the best showcase of Spears' talents,"[7] while NME considered the song "absolutely frightening," after comparing it to Iggy and Bowie's "China Girl".[6] Tracy E. Hopkins of Barnes and Noble considered the song a "polished ballad", and praised Shania Twain for the songwriting.[13] While reviewing 2011's Femme Fatale Tour, Jocelyn Vena of MTV considered the song, along with "Toxic", "old-school jams".[14] A Rhapsody review also considered the ballads from Oops!, including "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know", "perfectly constructed ballads".[15] Michael Paoletta of Billboard commented, "Spears may not be a vocal acrobat à la colleagues Jessica Simpson and Christina Aguilera, but she does have an instantly recognizable style-and Oops!... indicates that she's developing a soulful edge and emotional depth that can't be conjured with a glass-shattering not", nothing that "[t]his is particularly apparent on the hitworthy, Shania Twain-penned ballad 'Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know'."[16] The song was nominated at Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in the category of "Best Song" in 2002.[17]
Chart performance
"Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" failed to make an appearance on the United States Billboard Hot 100 chart, due to its weak airplay, peaking at number twelve on Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.[18] Spears scored her eighth top ten hit on the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles when it peaked at number nine.[19] The single also reached the top ten in Austria, Europe and Switzerland.[5][20] "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" was a moderate success in the United Kingdom, entering the UK Singles Chart on April 7, 2001 at the twelfth position. The song spent eight weeks on the chart.[21] In Romania, the song was commercially successful, debuting at the top position of Romania Top 100. It also peaked at number three on the year-end chart for 2001.[22] In Denmark, the song reached number fourteen,[20] and was later certified Gold by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), for selling over 5,000 units of the single.[23] As a way of promotion, the single was included as bonus second disc of the limited edition of Oops!... I Did It Again.[24]
Music video
The music video for "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" was directed by the American photographer Herb Ritts, and shot at Key Biscane in Miami, Florida on the last week of January 2001.[27] According to Ritts, Spears "wanted to do something fresh. There was one outfit, no dancing, and that meant that it boiled down to her. She really had to act the song, and she was very impressive."[27] He also revealed the setting of the video was built as "a funky beach shack" similar to Madonna's "Cherish" (1989) and Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" (1989).[27] "The story is, pretty much, Britney longing for him to tell her the words", said Ritts,[27] who was impressed with the chemistry between the singer and her fictional boyfriend, played by French model Brice Durand.[27] Spears' real-life boyfriend at the time Justin Timberlake, however, "was said to be miffed at Spears' kissing scenes with French model," according to Jennifer Vineyard of MTV.[25] Spears mother, Lynne, also criticized considered the original music video for being too racy at the time, because it contained sexually explicit material.[26] Parts of the video were edited before its release to the public.[28]
The music video debuted at number one on MTV's TRL on March 2, 2001.[29][30] The video begins with Spears and her boyfriend in a hammock. Cuts of her cuddling with her love interest beside a fire are also included. We also see her and her boyfriend on the seashore doing a love scene. Inside a tiki hut, Spears exclaims the words she wants her boyfriend to know. In the second half of the video, she is seen on a tree where her boyfriend reaches for her. There are also scenes where she is running on the beach and her boyfriend is chasing after her. Spears wears only a bikini top and a pair of cutoff shorts during the whole video.[29] The music video was considered by Spears as "the funnest video I've ever done."[27] An alternate footage of the video can be found on the DVD of Spears first compilation album Greatest Hits: My Prerogative.[31] Vineyard considered the footage as the one that "makes the most use of Britney's body of work, with the spaceman from "Oops!... I Did It Again", an opening door from "My Prerogative" and a guy from "Toxic" all making cameos".[31]
Live performances
The first performance of "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" was on March 8, 2000, during the Crazy 2k Tour in Pensacola, Florida, where Spears appeared onstage sitting on a magic carpet and flew over the audience while singing the song.[32][33] After releasing her second studio album, Oops!... I Did It Again, Spears performed the song on the American music show TRL,[34][35] on Saturday Night Live[36] and on The View.[37][38] She also performed the song live on 2000's Oops!... I Did It Again World Tour. After performing "Sometimes", she climbed the staircase and briefly spoke to the audience before moving into the performance of the song, for which she wore a long white dress trimmed with boa feathers.[33][39] "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" was performed also on 2001's Dream Within a Dream Tour. The performance consisted on Spears singing the song on an elevated platform wearing an evening gown with artificial snow falling from the ceiling, while two of her dancers performed a routine.[40][41]
Almost ten years later, "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" was peformed by Spears on her 2011's Femme Fatale Tour.[42] The performance consists of Spears sitting on a swing singing the song, whilst a male dancer dances beneath her, at one point attaching himself by his feet to the swing whilst midair.[43] Shirley Halperin of The Hollywood Reporter named it one of the best performances of the show along with "Piece of Me" and "3", stating that "ironically enough, [they] were the ones with fewest frills."[44] In a review of the special broadcasting done by American premium television channel Epix of the tour, Jocelyn Vena of MTV summarized her thoughts about the performance saying, "It's rare these days to see Britney Spears show her soft side, but she takes a break from the nonstop, fist-pumping music during the spectacle that is the Femme Fatale Tour and kicks it old-school, showing us she still has the heart and soul to bust out a power ballad."[45]
Track listings
- "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" – 3:50
- "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" (Hex Hector Radio Mix) – 4:01
- "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" (Hex Hector Club Mix) – 10:12
- "Stronger" (Mac Quayle Mixshow Edit) – 5:21
- "Stronger" (Pablo La Rosa's Transformation) – 7:21
- European CD single 2[48]
- "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" – 3:50
- "Oops!... I Did It Again" (Riprock 'n' Alex G. Radio Mix) – 3:56
- "Stronger" (Mac Quayle Mixshow Edit) – 5:21
- "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" – 3:50
- "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" (Hex Hector Radio Mix) – 4:01
- "Oops!... I Did It Again" (Rodney Jerkins Remix) – 3:07
- "Lucky" (Jack D. Elliott Radio Mix) – 3:27
- "Stronger" (Miguel 'Migs' Vocal Edit) – 3:42
- "Oops!... I Did It Again" (Ospina's Deep Edit) – 3:24
- "Oops!... I Did It Again" (Instrumental) – 3:30
- The Singles Collection Boxset Single[51]
- "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" – 3:50
- "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" (Hex Hector Radio Mix) – 4:01
Credits and personnel
Credits for "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" adapted from Oops!... I Did It Again liner notes.[3]
- Technical
- Recorded at Mutt Lange's and Shania Twain's chateau in La-Tour-de Peilz, Switzerland.
- Mixed by Nigel Green for Out Of Pocket Productions, Ltd.
- Personnel
- Britney Spears – vocals
- Robert Lange – songwriting, production
- Shania Twain – songwriting
- Keith Scott – songwriting
- Kevin Churko – programming
- Cory Churko – programming
- Richard Meyer – programming
- Michel Gallone – assistant recording, mix engineer
- Chris Trevett – vocal engineer
- Paul Oliveira – assistant vocal engineer
Charts and certifications
Weekly charts
Chart (2001) Peak
positionAustria (Ö3 Austria Top 75)[52] 7 Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[53] 13 Belgium (Ultratop 40 Wallonia)[54] 34 Denmark (Tracklisten)[55] 14 Europe (Music & Media)[19] 9 Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[56] 17 France (SNEP)[57] 27 Ireland (IRMA)[58] 12 Italy (FIMI)[59] 22 Netherlands (Mega Single Top 100)[60] 21 Norway (VG-lista)[61] 20 Romania (Romanian Top 100)[22] 1 Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[62] 12 Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[63] 9 UK Singles (The Official Charts Company)[64] 12 US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100[18] 12 Year-end charts
Country Position Romanian Top 100[22] 3 Certifications
Region Certification Sales/shipments Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[23] Gold 5,000^ ^shipments figures based on certification alone
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External links
- Official music video on "Vevo" — Vevo.
Britney Spears Discography · Videos · Unreleased songs · Tours · Films · Products · Awards and nominations Studio albums ...Baby One More Time · Oops!... I Did It Again · Britney · In the Zone · Blackout · Circus · Femme FataleCompilation albums Greatest Hits: My Prerogative · B in the Mix: The Remixes · The Singles Collection · B in the Mix: The Remixes Vol. 2Video releases Time Out with Britney Spears · Live and More! · Britney: The Videos · Live from Las Vegas · In the Zone · Greatest Hits: My Prerogative · Britney & Kevin: Chaotic · Britney Spears Live: The Femme Fatale TourConcert tours Filmography Television The Mickey Mouse Club · Britney & Kevin: Chaotic · "The Mansion Family" · "Buy, Buy Baby" · "Ten Sessions" · "Everything Must Go" · "Britney/Brittany" · Britney Spears Live: The Femme Fatale TourFragrances Related topics Book · Category · Portal Britney Spears singles ...Baby One More Time Oops!... I Did It Again Britney "I'm a Slave 4 U" · "Overprotected" · "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" · "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" · "Anticipating" · "Boys"In the Zone Greatest Hits: My Prerogative B in the Mix: The Remixes Blackout Circus The Singles Collection "3"Femme Fatale Other singles Promotional singles Other songs "You Got It All" · "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" · "My Only Wish (This Year)" · "Out from Under" · "Kill the Lights" · "Shattered Glass" · "Mmm Papi" · "Inside Out" · "(Drop Dead) Beautiful" · "Big Fat Bass" · "S&M (Remix)" · "Whiplash"Book:Britney Spears · Category:Britney Spears · Portal:Britney Spears Categories:- Singles certified gold by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry of Denmark
- 2000 songs
- 2001 singles
- Britney Spears songs
- Pop ballads
- Songs written by Robert John "Mutt" Lange
- Songs produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange
- Music videos directed by Herb Ritts
- Songs written by Shania Twain
- English-language songs
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