(RESEARCH) Music Video Analysis: Britney Spears - "Baby One More Time"

This music video "Baby One More Time" presents the artist, Britney Spears, as a school girl that is looking for teenage love. She depicts this through an experimental music video that is a narrative with a performance moreover, the lyrics anchor the visuals.

In the opening scene, we see the class, that is evidently bored, looking up at the clock in eagerness to leave the class. This message is presented through the students body language as they are slouched and away from their work. This is additionally anchored through the mise-en-scene of the teacher as she is dressed in grey clothes, towering over her students, which implies she is vigorous and strict therefore suggesting that her students do not want to be there.