...Baby One More Time

"...Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears started life as a demo TLC turned down.

Max Martin wrote it in his Stockholm studio in 1998 and pitched it to TLC first. They said no. Jive Records had a 16-year-old from Kentwood, Louisiana waiting for the right song — this one made her a star before most people could find Louisiana on a map.

Did TLC make the right call, or hand Britney the song of the decade?