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You Won’t Believe Who Tried to Steal “Baby One More Time” from Britney Spears Before She Released It · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan seacrest, long before he was
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Speaker 1: a judge on shows like American idol and America's got talent.
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Speaker 1: Simon cow was an influential and highly successful music exact
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Speaker 1: helping his shape pop music, particularly the UK. But he
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Speaker 1: just revealed on his a G T co stars Howie
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Speaker 1: Man Dell does stuff podcast. There was a moment over
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Speaker 1: two decades ago that didn't go his way that might
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Speaker 1: have completely rewritten pop music history as we know it.
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Speaker 1: Simon says, I had a boy band at the time
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Speaker 1: called Five, who I put together. That was on the
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Speaker 1: verge of breaking in America. Someone phones me about a
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Speaker 1: song written for T lc. TLC passed and he played
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Speaker 1: it for me and I was like, Oh my God,
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Speaker 1: I've got to have this song. So I phoned up
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Speaker 1: Max Martin and begged for it. I offered him a
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Speaker 1: Mercedes s l but he had promised it to a
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Speaker 1: new artist named Britney Spears, and I said, Max, let
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Speaker 1: me give you some advice. No one's gonna have a
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Speaker 1: hit with the name Britney Spears. The song was baby
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Speaker 1: one more time, Britney's debut single that launched her superstar career.
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