One of Britney Spears' most legendary songs almost went to a huge British boyband. Aged just 16 years old, pop princess stormed onto the charts in 1998 with her banger ..
.Baby One More Time. The track was a defining song of the 1990s, and propelled Britney to international fame and spawned the beginning of her music career.
However, while the song dominated the charts at the end of the decade, Britney almost missed out on being given the song to record. This is because the breakout song for the singer was almost given to another iconic act from the 1990s – but a bit closer to home. Boyband 5ive have revealed they were offered the chance to record the song, but opted to turn the song down.
As a result, this gave music execs the opportunity to hand the song to a fresh face and soon gave the song to Britney, who would make it one of her most well-known songs. Coming together as part of a new documentary series looking at the rise and fall of boybands, 5ive admitted they were not that interested in the song at the time. Speaking to the , who was producing the series, the band admitted they almost sabotaged their own careers by rejecting future hits.
The band's manager Chris Hebert said that they were offered a chance to record a demo for ...
Baby One More Time, but the group were not impressed. "The boys went, ‘It’s f***ing w**k’; this couldn’t get any worse," he confessed. This was not the only song that the band turned down which would go on to became a defining track .
