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Surprise: The video for Britney Spears' "Gimme More" has wormed its way into the world three days before its MTV premiere. And it's about as well-crafted as anything you would expect from Spears at this point in time:
Blonde Britney is at a bar with two other blonde friends (NB: the line "It's Britney, bitch" is not lipsynced, for some reason), and she notices a dancer—a gum-chewing (!) Brunette Britney—sitting in the corner. Brunette Britney then struts over to the pole conveniently located in the middle of the room and starts lipsyncing "Gimme More" in a fashion that's slightly more alive than her performance on the VMAs a few weeks back (although the twitchy jump cuts, spaced-out lighting, and super-heavy eyeliner certainly help her "performance," as it were). As the song continues, the following things happen: Brunette Britney takes off the half-jacket she is wearing for a few frames, so it looks like she's topless; Blonde Britney laughs with her friends and attempts to send a come-hither look or two over to the dance floor; a few other dancers join her; we get to see that Brunette Britney is wearing ripped fishnets and open-toed patent-leather heels; there are a few shots that can only be described as "ass shots"; and there is a guy who looks like a morphed-together Leonardo DiCaprio and K-Fed somewhere in the bar, or at least nearby enough to get on camera. The dance ends, there's another shot of Blonde Britney and pals, and then the clip ends.
Surely some smarter-than-thou critic out there is going to say that this is all part of Spears' big metacommentary on fame that has been evolving over the year, and that we're supposed to say "Gimme More" at the clip's close, so she can bust out a trilogy of her own. But I'll believe that when I see anything else from her that resembles an actual effort—I've watched this clip four times now, and more and more it just looks like cutting-room-floor footage stitched together at the last minute in order to keep a flailing pop star's career alive for reasons that are at least slightly music-related. It's sad—though perhaps inevitable—and even watching "Toxic" again only makes it more so.
Britney Spears - Gimme More [Brightcove]
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You mean she was re-united with the pole.
Hey those housewife poledancing classes paid off! Totes!!1!
is this the one where she was supposedly pilled up (or whatever), and ended up pissing in full view of the crew? or am i confusing it with another trainwreck of hers?
When it comes to pole dancing I've seen games of tetherball that were sexier than that.
I predict big things for the Stunt Butt.
Remember when you had a paper due in college and you couldn't write enough to make the page length requirements? You'd do things like change the typeface, throw in some creative use of kerning, maybe make the borders widers, etc. This video is the equivalent of writing a paper that comes up severely short. F-
WHY can't we have slammin' hot Britney and a nice (actual) dance sequence? It's not rock bottom yet, Brits...
Stripper poles are done. We need to raise the bar.
Ugh... sleeve of wizard!
wow, that was unbelievably awesomely bad.
Does this mean we get another "Leave Britney Alone!" video after this premieres?
@MTS: Totally, it looks like some sort of Steven Segal action sequence. Also, if you're going to use this Summer's biggest flop (I know Who Killed Me) as the basis of your video, please follow through and cut off some limbs.
Not one of Spike Jonze's better videos.
More brick walls than Randy Pausch's last lecture.
What? too soon?
Britney should just make music and not be seen. I LOVE THIS SONG!!
@CharlesRockyPamplin: That was the OK photo shoot (I hate that I know that.) But I think it's safe to assume where ever she goes there's piss and pills.
THIS IS BRITNEY'S SARGENT PEPPER'S!!!!!
THIS SONG WILL LIVE IN INFAMY AS THE GREATEST SINGLE MUSICAL COMPOSITION SINCE GARY GLITTERS ROCK AND ROLL 2!!
GREATEST EVERERERERR!!!!!!!
It's so grusome you can't look away! But seriously, remember when she was all about, I know I LOOK sexy but I'm still a sweet virgin? And now she's pole-dancing. Badly. I mean, what is the point of that pole anyway? She does a couple of hot humping hip-thrusts when she remembers, but just mostly, sad, sad, sad.
Piss and Pills=great band name.
I just threw a wad of crumpled up dollar bills at my computer screen.
"Want more singles, Brunette Brit-Brit? You gotta earn em baby! Show me somethin'. Some nip, a little butt-crack, somethin."
Even I can bust out better pole tricks than that, and I'm old and lame. (The trick is to rub Purell all over your hands, so they don't stick.) Not that I think a fireman-back arch-inverted crucifix on the pole would save her career; I just wanna see her try.
OMG- According to CNN, this piece of crap is a HUGE HIT for the Britster.
She showed about as much enthusiasm in this video as she did at the VMAs.
Sooooooooo, Britney stumbled into this bar in the middle of the day, there were four other people in the bar (I'm not counting where she sees herself twice) annnnnnd apparently someone shot footage of her humping a pole with a cell phone camera. Brilliant. I almost had a fucking seizure.
I suppose that Brit's next video will show her magically lap-dancing for a clone of herself. "Gimmie" is perfectly taylored for MTV - it basically gives repeated shots of the same image, therefore it's solid enough for a 30-second clip on TRL.
@janine: Limb-cutting would have been waaaay more entertaining!
1. Four minutes I would like back.
2. When the it ends, the video player reads: "Nothing Playing." That pretty much sums it up.
wow, she totes looked like lilo at some points. and um- all she did was walk around the pole and look at herself with really fake blond hair. wtf?
Decidedly not a hot video.
Is it just me, or is she starting to vaguely resemble Lisa Marie Presley? Scary.
I couldn't watch the whole thing -- it's so sad and embarassing, it feels supremely unfair to mock this train wreck.
Blonde Britney clearly thinks Bru Britney's pole dance is pathetic, too. Otherwise, why would she keep smirking and giggling every time she looks toward the pole?
What a bitch! Not a single cameo of the "LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE" queen.
It looks like the "music video" they are working on when the detectives from Law & Order visit the edit bay to interview the snotty director, but the director acts like a tool and Jerry Orbach briefly suspects that the director was involved in the crime but all us viewers can tell it is NOT the director, because we saw a more famous actor (say Lindsay Crouse) playing the victim's ex-wife in an earlier scene. That is the attention to detail lavished on this production.
Ah, Web 2.0 in full effect!
Two comments:
* I love the song "Gimme More". The video sounds boring.
* Maura should write more transcriptions of pop videos.
@30f: HA! Exactly.
I hate that I actually like this song. Can't we watch the team of recording engineers who actually synthesized it writhe around instead? I don't care if it would look like a Furries vs. Klingons reinactment of Showgirls, it would at least hold one's interest for more that two minutes.
THIS IS BRITNEY'S DARK SIDE OF THE MOON!!!! BRAVA LA PRIMA!!!! ENCORE!!!
Did Federline get custody of production values, too?
@BeRightBack: OMG. A Furries vs. Klingons reenactment of Showgirls. That is simultaneously the worst and most hilarious mental image in the whole world. I think someone needs to contact Andy Samberg STAT.
@francophony: I have a feeling the "rivalry" between Blonde & Brunette versions of Britney would have been fleshed out in a better version of the video -- you know, if she hadn't shown up all pilled up, causing them to abort the whole shoot.
@therichgirlsareweeping: I agree. It's like piling on a suicide.
The woman is clearly intoxicated in the video, which is an upsetting thing to notice considering that they had multiple choices of shots. They should have just shown stock footage of weiners being made. That would have been less disturbing.
Uhm, so she's going to get help soon, isn't she? Please?
@francophony: Blonde Britney clearly thinks Bru Britney's pole dance is pathetic, too. Otherwise, why would she keep smirking and giggling every time she looks toward the pole?
Blonde Britney is playing Rihanna?
@mel's diner: Aw, you think Britney actually has a hand in creating any of her music. Looks like someone believes in Santa Claus!
Good lord this makes Avril's new video "Hot" (which was released today) look good. Avril's video sucks on its own, but is better produced.
Maybe the point of Britney's "Gimmie More" video is to depict strippers and strip clubs in a more realistic light.
This looks like Britney's version of "The Double Life of Veronica." It's so deep we're missing it people.
I know the editors did their best to make a full-lenght video out of too little footage, but that's three Window Movie Maker filters too many.
This looks like a video by some local trollop who's trying to make a singing career out of a mixer, layered sex noises, and a buddy's art/film school degree. Poor poor production and really bad lighting effects.
However, she at least looks hot...enough. Anything's an improvement. She looked good. But then again, I never really got a good still solid view of her. The cuts and jumps were almost epileptic.
The "pole dancing" theme is just an added bonus - the pole's real purpose was to keep her from falling on her bloated ass. At least blonde-Britney got to sit down the whole time.
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