Britney Spears' 'Gimme More' Video

Oh, Britney. How far you've fallen from the "Baby One More Time" and "U Drive Me Crazy" days. No one ever really applauded you for having an exceptional voice, but you sure could dance. Play up your strength and don't phone in your videos.

Please, go back to Kiddie Jazz and redeem yourself!

It is a terrific mess! I feel so bad for her! She seems oblivious to the fact that she is not moving or even lypsyncing properly:-( Her record company should be ashamed of themselves for releasing it. She needs to quit doing anything else (performance wise) until she can really get back to a level that makes us remember the old Britney. It's not about weight it's about lethargy. I wish someone would help her by preventing crap like this from coming out.

BORING!!!! Same shit than at the BMA, step step ho, step step ho, I laugh at how they had to tint her film so you would not see how she looks like a sweaty pig.

The video made me cry. Britney makes me sad. Her schtick is now tired and misguided. Britney needs a vacation from herself.

My friend says that she's just one step away from doing porn...I think this video proves just that!

PATHETIC. And that is the nicest thing I can say. I don't know where to even start. What a shame that she has turned into THAT. And honestly, I agree that her record label should not release a cd until she straightens up. The scary thing is, I hear this 'video' was her 'vision.'--She wants to be a stripper-- ok, well, she is well on her way to that if she keeps making crap like this.

ugh it sucks! she doesnt even dance...she just kind of wiggles around...it looks like a video some random slut would make with her friends, not britney.

I can't view the video (work comp) but I remember reading a statement from her record company that she did this video on her own, paid for it out of her own money, and told the director what she wanted it to look like. Jive did not fund nor release this video, she did it all.

1992

I love how it's all blurry the entire time. Pretty much what I imagine the world looks like through her eyes.

Briiiiitneeeey, you don't have to put on the red light! Get off the pole Ma. If you're not going to perform a dance routine, I wash my hands of you. I also love that her solution to getting in shape is just using an elongated lens to give the appearance of being thinner. It's like she doesn't get that she has to make a comeback. There are no laurels to rest on Brit. Gimme more.

What the hell? She just kind of walked around a poll with a wig on. Then filmed herself laughing at herself with another wig on...

I don't think it's a bad video! Not as good as her old ones were, but better than her VMA performance for sure and not bad..

I love this blog, I think it's great!

The thing that I don't understand about this whole thing with Britney is not so much about her but about eveyone else. It seems the judge gave the kids to FedEd, I guess he does not do drugs that bottom of the barrel idiot(that's what the judge thinks). First of all Britney has people taking care of her kids and lots of money and they don't look neglected as both their cheeks are bulding out of their face. The courts should worry about kids who have to live in filth but they are not worried about those, they would rather take away kids who live in the lap of luxury. Also, if everyone is concerned about Britney getting a life, they should get one, she has a life, she is a multi-millionare and drives a brand new mercedies every day!

I think she still looks "pretty good".
She's not fat.
I kinda like her.

Bunny, I think you've said it all...

And here I thought this post was about her video, rather than her inability to care for her own children.

Silly me.

The video kind of reminds me of a cross between an old Scandal video and some of the New Kids on the Block black-and-white videos from back in the day when MTV still played videos.

It's not as horrific as Paula Abdul's "Cold-Hearted Snake," but it's still fairly hideous.

Tina, you miss the point
Just because kids live in the lap of luxury does NOT mean they are being loved and cared for properly. There are plenty of trailer park kids who are loved and cared for and paid attention to. And there are plenty of rich kids whose parents neglect them. Just like Brit's, those kids need real stability and parenting.

anyways, the video is a hot mess. she looks pretty dang good however, slim and trim and well, hot. the video sucks though, and the editing was horrible. just a few frames of anything BUT her dancing (if thats what you call it) on the pole. maybe it'd be cooler, if blond britney got up on stage and started dancing with brunette britney...

Cdawg, behold the power of video editing. Soft focus, a little fuzzy, and a lot of stretching to make her seem leaner than she is.

I'm not saying she's fat - clearly, she's not. However, we've all seen the stills from that fateful shoot.

the blurriness and graininess of the video works great because you can't really tell it's a fat bald mess. the "dancing" is horrendous, the song is crappy, and what you can see of britbrit, she looks like shit. but we knew that from the photos taken from the few days of the video shoot. the record company and producers should be ashamed, whether they financed it or not. but still, there will be many sadsacks to spend their parents money on this shit, so i guess, put it out. but her "career" is definently over. she should go ahead and spend the rest of her money on crack, meth, wild turkey, and fried chicken, and go live behind wal-mart.

I thought she looked hot. I liked the video. I want to see any one of you get up there and shoot a video, sing and dance. Like you would even know what to do!! Walk a mile in her shoes and you would have a different opinion, I am sure. She is beautiful and hopefully she will find her way back into your cold, mean hearts.

I like it, the old blonde "good britney" looking at the now dark caricature of her former self. Deep.. the dancing not so good, her ass don't look like it did eh?

I'm thinking she had an ass double.

Two things.

One - how many times can they recycle the same shot? Oh, I'd say about 50.

Two - if you are not capable of doing any stipper pole maneuvers except dancing near it and grabbing onto it, don't feature the damn thing in your video.

She's wearing a wig.. and it SO looks like a wig! ha!

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Unfitney is such a loser and this video is really bad! The pole dancing! the wardrobe! the wigs! the classy "not so classy" blond brit brit!The psyco faces! the same shot like 50 times! the song! She looks cheap! She needs to pull it together! her career is sooooo over... tragic!

"I want to see any one of you get up there and shoot a video, sing and dance. Like you would even know what to do!!"

um...for someone who MADE THEIR CAREER doing those things, her performance was pretty bad. if I had been trained as she had, voice coaching, a choreographer, and money coming out of my ass, you can BET I'd do it a lot better than she did.

compared to what we know she can do, this piece of garbage is...well, a piece of garbage.

Alyssa, I'm pretty sure any of us could have done that video. What was the difficulty, dress slutty, dance slutty near a pole and lip-synch a song. Hmmm, you can go to any club on a Friday or Saturday night and pretty much all the girls on the dancefloor can do that.

I love the argument, "I'd like to see you try." Always such a lame point. When it's your job, I expect to see something a little better.

Ok, I don't hate the song. I'll download it off Limewire or something rather than pay for it and if I can't have it for free, I'll be ok without it. But the video..... because it's Britney, it's a terrible video. Even Toxic was a great video. While she writhed around that pole, I at least expect a high kick or something. No, she just gyrated. Remember the dancing in Me Against the Music or Slave 4 You (or whatever the title was)? They were great.

As someone else said, I too expected them to bring together "good" and "bad" Britney but if this was "her vision," there was no vision, she just saw a pretty wig she wanted to wear.

a mess :(

First of all, Alyssa, I'm pretty sure that if you gave anyone the right producer, director, makeup artist, stylist and choreographer they could make a video just as good, if not better. No, I wouldn't know what to do, that's why you hire people that DO know what to do. The point is that she refused any help on this video and it shows - I miss the old Britney.

I think the blonde Britney looked good (from what I could see, as it was mostly the brunette Britney that was shown). I really hope she can get to a place where she's happy - I really do.

As for walking a mile in her shoes - I totally wouldn't want to do that, you're right. However, she put herself there - she's the one who allegedly calls the paparazzi to tell them where she is. She's the one who doesn't wear underwear to the club. She's the one who bombed at the VMAs. I bet, and of course I'm just speculating, that her "shoes" would be a lot more comfortable if she got the hell out of the limelight and cleaned herself up (detoxed, sought counselling, just plain got healthy, physically and mentally).

Until that happens, I'll be wishing her the best and hoping that she can get back on track.

ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... it says a LOT that this is a video about a stripper, and ALL THEY SHOW is her FACE.

nasty bugger:

are you a boy or a girl? b/c as a boy you would have no idea what it is like to be married to a psychic vampire then get pregnant twice, deliver them and then try to get your old 'moves' back. i thought she looked hot and you are obviously a cynic and a mean, nasty piece of garbage. boy or girl, she is hotter than you could possibly hope to be.

i stand by what i said: you go and get trained, have voice coaching, and work with a choreographer and YOU WILL SUCK!!. and while you are at it...try to think of a way to take out your bitterness.

i think persistant cat hit the nail on the head. the perfect description for the video: britney saw a pretty wig she wanted to wear.
-the end-

That shit was hot...
Stop hating on her. That song is off the hoook to and it makes you want to dance. I agree...she should have premeiered the video at the VMA instead of perfoming like a zombie....I love it though. I hope she makes it through her tough time. I can imagine having a life like hers. Even her using the bathroom was on the news...WTF??? Who cares. To be honest I think the media is MOST to blame for her down fall. NO ONE has it as bad. That's why Ben and Jen had to break up...this kind of publicity can eat you up in sooo many different ways.

Why do people treat pregnancy like it's some sort of physical affliction? Really Alyssa, BFD that she had two kids. She's got trainers and all sorts of cash at her disposal. I take martial arts and I train with a woman that tested for her black belt two months after giving birth. She was always very healthy and likes exercise so it was nothing for her and it WASN'T HER JOB to do that.

I'm so sick of the "if you had kids." I know a lot of women who've had kids who look great and are very fit and active. I also know some who saw kids as a chance to let themselves go and get fat and dress badly out in the suburbs.

Yes, a lot of people could have done a better job. God, what was that awful show that used to be on MTV or MuchMusic or both or whatever where they would let people re-create music videos. Those were better then what we just saw here and they were contest winners.

"psychic vampire"? never heard that one to describe K-fed, but OK...

alyssa, whether I'm a boy or girl is irrelevant. all of those things that you mention, her marriage, her kids, etc...those were her choices. She pursued K-fed, though he was already with someone...a pregnant someone. she chose to have his children, knowing all the while that he left his pregnant girlfriend to be with her.

and it seems to me that her second kid is a year old now. I think that's plenty of time to get back in shape and "get your moves back". again, considering that she made her career doing this, and knowing what she's capable of, this is pretty lame.

and there's no need for insults; I didn't say anything personal against you, but since we're offering opinions on each other, I'll let you in on mine of you.

vapid, empty-headed child.

Speaking of Paula Abdul, there is some serious Promise of a New Day video stretching going on here.

nasty:

yes, she chose all those things and yes, she should have made wiser choices. like anyone is perfect. but you keep casting those stones. and you picked me out of all those comments and kept with the bitter crap. and that is all i commented on.

i defended her. i would again. projection is great, isn't it? and gee, how could a vapid, empty-headed child know how to come up with an optimistic comment instead of all the nasty things being said by everyone. no, it isn't personal as long as you get to say whatever you want and no one says differently.

Well there you have it. Since the comments were optimistic, you are the better person. Congrats on that one.

what "stones" am I casting, alyssa? as you are entitled to your opinion, I am entitled to mine. and my opinion is that, based on what we know she's capable of, and what she has at her disposal, this is crap.

I chose your comment because it's the one that I happened to disagree with. it's ridiculous for you to say that none of us could do better since you don't know any of us, what we do, what we're capable of, or what we look like.

and no, yours was more than just a comment. it was a personal attack. I didn't insult you in my first post, just disagreed with you and told you why. YOU chose to get nasty toward another poster. I simply responded in kind.

how could a vapid empty-headed child come up with your comments? beats me, but somehow you managed.

I thought the director did a decent job working around the fact that she can't really perform anymore. It reminded me of the "videos" that Tupac has been coming out with since he died.

And the song itself sucks out loud, but we already knew that.

the song is actually not bad...
but how could anyone greenlight the video or the vma performance?
that is just cruel.abusive.
If anyone really cared,they would kindly say'no'.
she really needs some good people in her life,not all of these creepy,user-poseurs.

Persistant Cat,
I can't comment on Britney...just can't... BUT
I have a cat story for you. I told you I adopted a couple of strays. One of them decided that she was tough enough to take on a pre-historic-looking crane that was fishing in my pond. The cat looks at me, looks at the crane, puffs herself up so she looked twice as big and starts dancing sideways along the edge of the pond. The crane sees her so she takes a flying leap and tries (doing a complete backflip in the process) to snag the crane out of the air. She dreams big that one!!! I laughed my butt off!

I'm still waiting to learn what a "psychic vampire" is...

Mediocrity at its best

She needs to differentiate herself from all the other women in the world who can do what she does with that pole! Otherwise why is she special? I liked this song when i heard it on the radio. But the video is crap and has ruined it for me. That usually only happens, for me, with hip hop songs.
She's like an accident happening and us spectators just can't tear ourselves away. Tragic, really.

What the hell was that? I think the most entertaining part of the video was when she is laughing at herself at the bar just as I am snickering to myself. Furthermore, her ass jiggled waaay more than it needed to. Poor thing. I don't mind the song, but I think that she is past the point of no return

"psychic vampire"... maybe they meant "psyche vampire"

... which is a lot like an "emotional vampire". Someone who takes and takes from your psyche, your emotions, but never gives back. They bleed you dry until the relationship collapses, then they move on to someone new, with a fresh mind or free-flowing emotions to tap from.

For a few seconds, you see flashes of the old Britney in there--but the rest is crap. She doesn't work the pole, just does the same four or five spins/bumps/shakes with it. What's the point of that then? Not too impressed-but WAY better than the VMAs

I am a mother of 2 boys, and not every person has the same pregnancy, or easy weight loss blessings as others. Also the poor girl went through not nine months, but pretty much two years of pregnancy. That's not easy on a body. The girl looks amazing. I don't know too many people after having children that wouldn't kill for the body she has now! Besides, people are such jokes(if she was thin she'd be in the catagory of lindsay lohan and nicole ritchie on her way to deaths door)The girl may have problems, but does anyone ever stop and put the shoe on the other foot, if it was anyone of you, seeing the mean cruel world out there, and what there saying about your life every second of every day. Do you think it helps to feel that everyone hates you, and that that there waiting for you to screw up and trip on stage helps her performance any. I think she showed true guts, after months of ridacule to even stand on that stage at the mtvs and say hello, let alone being expected to perform like she did 2 years ago. If it was someone in any of your families you would die to hear the way people are talking, and you'd defend them. And i don't care how rich she is, if that was my child i would get her the help that she so desperatly needs, nomatter what security gate i would have to break down. I think it's time for people to stop looking at the celebrities like there not real people with real problems, and help them instead of following them around waiting for them to screw up. Just cause you're watching it on t.v doesn't make it a t.v drama, it's a young womens life with her two beautiful children.

nasty:
i wasn't being literal, but since you are so sensitive and take everything personally... MOST people couldn't do better. is that ok? that i said most? i never got nasty with anyone on this site, btw. i shared my fairly optimistic viewpoint in defense of brit. nothing more.

and calling people mean when they are being mean is calling it like it is. so when someone is projecting their crap on to me i will call it every time. go cry on your wee pillow- you named yourself nasty bugger and it fits. go figure.

"psychic vampire"

I would pay to see that movie.

you know what? i liked it

you know what? i liked it

It was pretty boring... kept waiting for her to do something that wasn't just pole dancing, or at least pan the camera out so you could watch the dancing & not just her face.
She looked good, though. & it could have been much, much worse.

Here's what I don't get: she's got more $$$ than Satan, why can't she spend some of it on a wig made from human hair and a step above Lee press-on nails?

"If it was someone in any of your families you would die to hear the way people are talking, and you'd defend them."

Well no, if a family member of mine was driving around unlicensed with the kids riding improperly, without seatbelts, and even on her lap in a way that could kill them all instantly, no, I would never defend that person.
So many Britney supporters seem to desperately shut their eyes to her actual behaviour. I want to know why the children don't seem to matter at all to her supporters.
In my opinion they are the ONLY things that matter. They didn't ask to be dropped into this hellish and dangerous life they have. She owes it to them to take proper care of them.
But she obviously doesn't want them, so things will probably work out exactly as they should, with someone else (anyone else) raising them.

I can no longer hold this in. Britney is a professional pop star and we should expect no less than a kick-ass professional performance from her. When she doesn't deliver, she isn't doing her job, period. I don't care how much she's got going on in her personal life. Deal with it and produce, or get out of the game. It's as simple as that.

I give the video a 3 out of 10. It wasn't horribly bad, but it wasn't very entertaining. I didn't understand what the story was behind it (if there was any). Was she trying to seduce that dude we saw for, like, half a second by putting on a strip show? Was Brit and her girlfriends laughing at him? We're they even at the same place as him? All you saw was Brit dancing around the pole with one hand on it and flipping her hair. Oh, and she was frisking against a mirror. Now if she was actually doing some real stripper moves, like flipping upside down or whatever, it would have been cool. Anyone could do what she was doing in the video...ok, except maybe someone in a wheelchair, but you get my point. I also don't understand what the whole "stripper theme" even has to do with the damn song! All she wanted to do was make a slutty video to prove to everyone that she's still "hot", and guess what? It didn't work. Now she looks like an even bigger fool than before. Very sad...

"you are obviously a cynic and a mean, nasty piece of garbage. boy or girl, she is hotter than you could possibly hope to be."

"you go and get trained, have voice coaching, and work with a choreographer and YOU WILL SUCK!!."

um, how could one NOT take those words personally? you directed them at me, how am I supposed to take them? you did more than "share your optimistic viewpoint", you insulted me. or tried to, at least, with some puerile words.

I find it funny, and incredibly hypocritical, that you called me mean, and yet you spewed venom when all I did was disagree with your "optimistic viewpoint". which, in truth, wasn't really an optimistic viewpoint. It was a poor defense of someone by using the "you couldn't do better" excuse. even if that were true, it's irrelevant. Britney made herself famous by doing those things. It was her job. It's not unreasonable to expect a little bit better from her, but she just doesn't care. She has the time, the experience, and the money to do those things again, and do them well. She chooses to be mediocre, and she'll never have a comeback with that attitude.

I don't see how I am "projecting" anything onto you. You have your opinion, I have mine, and clearly we disagree.

and BTW, what's a "psychic vampire"?

Yeah, I was kinda wondering the same thing...

I want my four minutes back that I wasted on watching this video!

Message board fights always escalate into these ridiculous epic battles, but in reality they're just really cowardly.

This isn't Darfur we're talking about here. This is just to have a laugh during a lunch break. Everybody chill.

Apparently this is just the i-tunes exclusive video and the full video will premier on TRL on monday.. This is just one scene of the video, and the full video will include other different britneys.. and much less stripper britney.

Apparently this is just the i-tunes exclusive video and the full video will premier on TRL on monday.. This is just one scene of the video, and the full video will include other different britneys.. and much less stripper britney.

Nolamama, are you here in New Orleans? :)

The girl is trying to hard to be sexy. She still can't sing.

and for all of you who asked: Psychic Vampire- ruby was right. it is someone that takes until you are left with nothing, no self respect or hope or faith. they won't leave until they have everything. maybe kfed is a good dad, who knows? we never see him with the kids. but i do think he was a pv and sucked all that energy out of her. yes, she pursued him but i don't think she had a clue who or what he was. sad but true...

AGAIN b/c you were not listening, still sensitive and telling ME how mean I AM!! ok kettle. whatever. i defend her, you attack me. that doesn't make me anything put sympathetic and sad for all the people who are throwing rocks at brit.

"i wasn't being literal, but since you are so sensitive and take everything personally... MOST people couldn't do better. is that ok? that i said most? i never got nasty with anyone on this site, btw. i shared my fairly optimistic viewpoint in defense of brit. nothing more.

and calling people mean when they are being mean is calling it like it is. so when someone is projecting their crap on to me i will call it every time. go cry on your wee pillow- you named yourself nasty bugger and it fits. go figure."

and if you are mean and don't like being called mean then stay OFF THE BLOG!! go hit a pillow or something.

alyssa, dear, you did attack me. your words are there for everyone to see. if you don't remember what you wrote, perhaps you should scroll back up and refresh your memory. Not that you really need to, since I quoted you in my posts. Do you have selective illiteracy?

you "defended" her with "like any of you could do better" which is not a defense. it's a deflection.

as for your advice to stay off the blog, I suggest you take your own advice since you're unable to handle any criticism of your dear Brit, and seemingly unable to realize/remember/admit when you've attacked someone.

Sad? yes, that's certainly what you are.

Shasta said it best, she's a pop star. And it's Britney, she should be held to a higher standard. She's made some fantastic videos and this thing was terrible.

And how did it take guts for her to go on the VMAs? It's her job. Maybe it would have taken guts had she tried but did she? You can't say she did.

Britney's attitude should be "it's Britney bitch, and I can do this better then any of y'all" and she used to.

I don't care about the kids or how's she hounded or how she was married to a "pyschic vampire" (seriously, go look up the word psychic), she's made a fortune off it and of being a popstar. She should have done better.

Zekers, good for your kitty. Mine can't even kill an ant, she's that embarrassing.

to loob:
What i meant to say was that if it was someone in my family, (after the first incident) that i would never have stopped trying to help them, not that it's alright to do the things that she's done. BUT... if it was someone in my family i would not just stand around and let her be ridaculed in the media, I would not stop until she got the help she needed. I mean, really, god knows where her trouble started. It could have stared with post partum. All i know is like i said before, if i was her mom i would not be over at k-feds home playing gramma, i'd be trying to get my grandkids back with my daughter(since she fought tooth and nail to get her into the bussiness, i'm sure she could find her way back to her daughter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For the multitudes what Ms. Spears did on the pole was correct...it would have been 2 much and out of her target markets reach if she had turned into skank on the pole..it was very flirty very cutesy. She's not big with horny teen boys more like tweenys. And the video was SO GOOD ! It really spoke to what she is trying to do. She is not a little girl anymore and now the whole world has seen the very gritty and creative video. Very artsy. And being an artist of mix media myself I can agree !

Skank on a stick

i agree that i would not be defending her after all this time, BUT it never should have come to these extremes. If she was my daughter(like i sais earlier) it would never have came to the extemes that it has. I would have called the cops, or done anything after the first couple of episodes, not just handed them over to a man that does not care about his kids(if he did he would have stayed with his girlfriend pregnant and other baby, instead of marring Britney for her money and her child support)

Skank on a pole. I don't think anyone could have said it better.

NYLA, are you serious? Seriously, are you serious? I hope not. I think after being married and having two kids and being, oh I don't know, 25, I don't think she has to prove she's a woman now. Besides, she had that bad song a few years ago to clear that up. I'm pretty sure she had a bunch of songs in which to clear that up.

There's nothing flirty or cutesy about dancing with/on/against a pole. Nothing. It's skank and somewhat demeaning to women. And there wasn't much creative about the video. It was four minutes or her shimmying against a pole. I'll admit, I don't mind the song, it'd be fun to dance to in a club, but I want the old Britney to come back. That girl wasn't much of a singer but man could she dance. I want dancing Britney back.

The video was up all day on Webcastr.com. I don't know if you saw it but I would say - concept good, dancing weak. The song of course is the song which is good. The video looks a bit cheap and dark. You can see some of it here still as they have coverage even after it comes down. www.webcastr.com.

This video fucking sucks,.,. it's SOOOOOOOOOOO BAD.,. I mean do you even remember toxic?,.,. and the diamond dress??,. and the hot-sexy-heroe-brunett britney?,.,.,. do you even remember it?,., THIS IS JUST BAD.,., I'M SO PISSED OF,., CUZ I'VE WAITED LIKE 3 WEEKS to see this dumb bullshit,,.., is awfull,., IS THIS IT????,.,.,. I MEAN REALLYY'??' AND WTH??????,., SHE'S DONE,., I'M SORRY,,.,AS MUCH AS I LOVE HER,.,. THIS WAS 2 FUCKING MUCH FOR ME,., I'M JOINING PEREZ' CAMPAING TO BOICOT BRITNEY...This is her extinction as an artist,., if she ever were one

welll,
i thought i was bored!

i though tthe video was ok- nothing spectauular.
the song is the same....
but i do think she looks hot for a mother of 2 young kids...i have an 8mth old and i have about 15kilos to lose and it shows! she looks great!
and at the end of the day; i really dont thinnk she would care what any of us think, but look what were doing, talking abOut her and giving her more publicity- exactly what she would want!
GO BRITNEY!!!

This video was horrible. I got motion sickness watching it. She could have at least stufied how to use a stripper pole properly. I think that she should have let the other back up dancers do all the pole dancing. Babies sure have made her a stiff person. She should stick to hitting cars and eating McDonalds instead of shooting videos and making songs that say the same thing over, and over, and over. Guess it is so she doesnt forget her lines if she comes to work drunk one day. Oh, wait. That happened already. VMA's