Mar 12 2008Britney Spears' new video is way cooler than it should be

You can't make me watch it! You're not the boss of me.

k thats a weird vid

It's cool if you turn off the volume.

It's a little bit like "Toxic." I don't blame them for using a cartoon instead of the real thing.

Noticed a few "Matrix" rip-offs...

It actually looks good...probably because she's not in it!

Suckers! It contains subliminal messages! You will be buying Cheetos and Starbucks before the day is out. Mark my words.

SUCKED!!! We need the old Brit. back, her music and moves are much better than this crap!!

the beginning is strangely similar to a scene in ghost in a shell

To be fair this video could have been applied to any one of her new songs, it doesn't have a topic, nor is it related to the song, still fits however.

The anime to represent musician isn't anything original. I specifically remember Aaliyah doing it for her album promo. Don't know if anyone did it before her...

Dye her hair purple, shorten it, and you got yourself a very short episode of Ghost in the Shell (the opening shots are almost identical) with a little bit Jin Roh and Cowboy Bebop thrown in.

i hate anime AND britney

#4

Agreed, that was ridiculously similar to Toxic.

Simply A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!!
i love it!
So perfect!
So symbolic!
So Britney!

That wasn't too bad. It was nothing but pastiche and not all that original, but it was competently directed and plotted.

i thought it was total shit

This only proves that anime' stopped being cool 20 years ago. Once it has been co-opted by Brit it has already jumped the shark.

They should have made the anime chick fat. Then I would have recognized her as Britney.

anime just got screwed over...

I'm in agreement with 3, 9, and 12. I was starkly reminded of Ghost in the Shell. I was actually pretty happy with the idea to make it a cartoon. It removes a lot of her influence (it can anyway). But for all the creative effort that went into it, they may as well have just used footage from say, "America's Funniest Home Videos" for all the plot mattered.

Ummm... it's Ghost in the Shell intro scene (Almost IDENTICAL), then it's Kill Bill's animé scenes, then it rips off the Matrix animes, this is the least original animated (non-parody) animé I've ever seen.

Thats right GHOST IN THE SHELL!

WHAT THE FSCK???

This is some bullshiat right here!!

There were even similarities in the scene with the blond in that tube.

It was like Ghost in the Shell meets the worhtless skank Aeon Flux!!

What a piece of crap.

and #8, are you a masochist?

doobie:$5
Cable TV:$80
Inspirational Saturday AM Cartoons:Priceless

It looks like the, seemingly unfortunate, love child of Pokemon and Sluterella. Much to the chagrin of the Japanese manga culture.

Sorry

KICK ASS!

What a great video to go along with such a great album! This will be the TOP video soon enough and even better, it's to be continued which means we haven't seen the last of this pop princess.

GREAT JOB ON THE VIDEO BRIT!

Love ya! xoxo

I loved the actual video (although it made no sense) and I love anime. However, the song is real shit (it's Brtiney so that's no surprise) and so the video, therefore, sucks big ass. Too bad, if somebody else used it, it would have been better.

yawn!

I love the whole album!! I dance to it on the way to work ALL the time!!

I knew I hated anime for a reason.

I don't like Britney's music. I haven't listened to much from her for a while except for snippets of the flops from her last album. But oddly, I liked this song.. I liked the techno sound.

why the fuck are so many people here saying that Britney's album is good, has the whole world gone crazy? you people don't belong on the superficial

Looks like any other shit anime to me. Lots of non-motion

to 33
Dha! We can love Britney and her albums, and we can like the superficial too!
DHAA!!!!

to 33
Dha! We can love Britney and her albums, and we can like the superficial too!
DHAA!!!!

The new cd isn't bad, actually. Many reviewers are saying just that.

I have to admit, if this were a show, I'd watch it. I thought it was kick ass.

It did make me miss the old Britney though. I hope she gets back on track and makes a good comeback.

Hey, if anyone told me Christina Aguilera was going to stop being a skank and turn her image around, I'd have laughed at you. But she did it.

Kind of bad-ass?

That, sir, was embarrassing shite. A tepid rip-off of Ghost in the Shell featuring a grinning mannequin with horse lips and hot pants. Clunky action, ridiculous plot, and oh, an unlistenable song.

As an anime fan, i call shenanigans.

Good, now I wanna see the real, formerly crazy hot Britney Spears back on her next video, not a cartoon trying to replace her.

Just saw pictures of Eliot Spitzer's call girl.

Now I understand. Completely.

that was stupid. it had nothing to do with the song lyrics & had a lesbian undertone with the whole "making out with the frozen chick behind glass" thing. she's washed up.

That actually was entertaining to watch. Kind of a Aeon Flux meets the Matrix.

Look I'm a girl and not a geek so I don't get this shit. The last cartoon I watched was beauty and the beast and belle was hotter than this cartoon and the beast is hotter than present day batshit crazy Britney.

The lady (who looks nothing like Brit ,she wishes she was that tall and lean) has weird thin lips and the video is messy and all over the place it has no real point, no real story, it could have been really well done but, it's not.

P.S. Superfish revealed WAY too much of himself by complementing this
and Randal that better be a joke, the last thing we need is our own literary Chris Crocker because here at the Superficial we will NEVER leave Britney alone.

Dude, that looked like a crappy AMV. I love Brit's album (God help me), but that is probably the worst video I've ever seen.

Yeah, this is not anime. This is a blatant rip-off of action animes converted into a choppy, plotless pile of drivel. There's nothing original about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVj-gLW-Hs

I respect Britney for venturing out & trying something new...
but she blatently ripped the late A A L I Y A H off.
Aaliyah said herself that she doesn't fancy copy-cats.

I watched all of Britney's passed videos the other night
& her DVD for "In the Zone"...
It's becomes very clear that this is a girl who was used by her label.
They fed her every word, every breath, she did not have a mind of her own.

They made her what she is today...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVj-gLW-Hs

I respect Britney for venturing out & trying something new...
but she blatently ripped the late A A L I Y A H off.
Aaliyah said herself that she doesn't fancy copy-cats.

I watched all of Britney's passed videos the other night
& her DVD for "In the Zone"...
It's becomes very clear that this is a girl who was used by her label.
They fed her every word, every breath, she did not have a mind of her own.

They made her what she is today...

Nope, I don't like it at all. It's just another lame slack-as5 attempt at putting out a video that is a half-assed [attempted] cover-up of the state of Ms Spears.

To me, it just looks like this is a project someone was already working on — for starters the chick in the video doesn't even look like Britney at all, for the most part — that some producer or whoever thought may be ripe for hi-jacking and passing off as a music video.

Secondly, where is the lip-synch? Had this character sung along in the video to the lyrics then I might have thought this collection of anime images was actually MEANT to be a Britney Spears video.

Overall, another cop-out (in my opinion!)

ANDY

Whatever happened to her trying at Millenium Dance Studio, specifically for this music video "Break the Ice."

I agree with Andy full heartedly.

Oh Brit, Brit...I ate a bag of Cheetos today & thought of you.

Jimbo I want you to spred your seed in my garden.

**Oh, I just had a thought.

This video looks like nothing more than a fan video on YouTube, with a song set to images from a completely irrelevant anime cartoon (that isn't even very good).

Needs more tentacles.

It'd be generous to say that this video was "inspired" by Ghost in the Shell. Rip-off is more like it. And I definitely saw some elements of Cowboy Bebop in there as well. The reason they probably went with it is because neither Britney nor her manager know enough anime to know this is a blatant imitation. Meanwhile, the anime nerd they hired to execute this was completely unoriginal.

At least this music video is better than watching the actual Britney Spears flail around. My, how she's fallen.

What series is this from anyway? This obviously wasn't made exclusively for her! Not the most original idea anyway, Daft Punk did something similar for their video back in 2002 (taking clips from an anime).

Oh, and by the way - Yes. It is 12:19, I am here in my apt. alone and I am on this site.

I'm old, I'm high, I'm single and desperate and I'll never have kids because no one wants to fuck me. There, you happy? For fuckssake man, it's whatever you want to call it.

Now that we're past that...
Does this chick actually have the last name Loose? Who the fuck is she? Ah well, no reason necessary for showing tits, I suppose.

If it feels like anything you've seen before, its because you have. A full blown rip off of anything from The Matrix to Ghost in the shell mixed with a little bit of Spiderman...no big deal. I will comment on the directing, editing and pacing.....unfortunately well done. This Geek knows his shit, and will rip off any good shot he sees, so beware artists willing to take a chance to break the mold....some of these guy's are paying attention, and will cash in on what is as new, as you knew............beware

Forget its hers its actually good, and the music who cares it goes with the vid.. I was not expecting this...

WTF?!?!?! This was the best song off the album, and her only possible chance for a comeback. But this video is so cheesy and embarassing, I actually thought it was a joke.

R.I.P. Britney Spears

Here a way better explanation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lziegNIssyc

It's a copy of the only scene of Ghost in the Shell I've ever seen. Nothing new there, which is typical of Britney. Personally, I was hoping for Goku to appear and kill her. And I don't meant in the video.

#11
Daft Punk did 4 of their videos anime-style starting with "one more time". some of the characters would sing the songs but i don't know if they were really supposed to represent Daft Punk themselves...but good stuff.

I love ANIME and the animation on this video was fairly good. It's good to make something a little different I guess.

Pretty good video.

lmao@all the people who can't handle Britney having any success or happiness. Life's too short to be that bitter.

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Given the choice between watching a video with a anime britney or the real thing, I'll take this. Nothing is worse than watching BS flop around a stripper pole and try to act sexy. I'd rather see some huge 400 pound bitch flop her titties around than see another half-assed britney video.

How can this jittery piece of crap be badass? Hook me up with a server that can actually stream video properly, or if it "loads" to memory, actually plays more like a video and less like a fucking slideshow?

I'm not even reading what anyone else said. I think it was an amazing video and a brilliant way to use her talents while covering her bloat and failure and creating an awesome track.

Seriously, though, aren't we ALL rooting for Britney? Who DOESN'T want her to make a huge comeback, giving her middle finger to the world, sans the fake British accent?

The video was kinda OK. The music was more of the lifeless, synthesized, cheap garbage that is commonplace now. It's just sad. The song could have been much, much better had it been performed by real musicians and not some hack with a keyboard and a drum machine.

This is what having no real music education has brought us.

Dude, no matter how many times you cut and paste, it still doesn't make it fucking true.

PS= I see you've seen my latest vid. Thanks.

Another vote for Ghost in the Shell rip-off, and I haven't even seen it, I'm just going on the opening frame, so I'm obviously in an excellent position to judge.

shenanigans, indeed.

FIRST!!!!!

Groan! I hate anime! This video was way better than Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop and ur pokemans because there was a good twenty minutes or so less of it to suffer through.

Poor Britney is such a mess. I really want her to release a song that I like, maybe clean up her act a little, so that I can go back to being a dick without feeling pangs of guilt about it.

I fucking love it. Yeah, it IS a lot like Toxic.

Leave Britney alone. It seems Britney is seeking true love online now. I saw her profile on millionaire&celeb dating site "W e a l t h yR o m a n c e.c o m" last week.

I don't understand. There was a long evolution of cartoons in the US, until they reached a state where animation was perfect. And suddenly, Japanese release their half-animated ugly robots, characters with round eyes and two-position mouths, and BAM, they take the world over, US included. We have guys in Europe wo actually wear headbands and pointy hair although they are over 25 and they look totally retarded.

And the giant sucking sound of Britney was released, and there was a gnashing of the teeth as an influx of dumb fuck Britney fans swarmed the site and proclaimed their undying devotion and love for the beast...,

Brit, you ran ape shit crazy in your little pink wig until your Daddyo swooped down from on high to confiscate it and control the monies. He made you shower again and get a better weave and now K-fed gets more of your money than you get. Compare your mere pittance of $72,000 a year to K-fed getting $200,000 a year for the kids. I guess he needs to have enough money for golf and gratuities at Hooter's? You were getting 700,000 a month at one time! The question is, "Can YOU handle YOUR own truth now, Brit?" You went into heat when you met Kevin...got knocked up, spawned, went back into heat, got knocked up again, spawned again, then had both your young taken away before you could eat them alive, asshat. No one wants to see you waddle and lip-sync songs anymore and you know it so you think you can pass this anime off as a legitimate performance because you know it's way better than your lazy talentless act.

britney is insulting the world of anime!

This should be a mantra: Thank peeps.

Because here at the Superficial we will NEVER leave Britney alone.

Total Ghost in the Shell ripoff. The music doesnt suit the video. And yeah, the music sucks. Bad luck Britney

I can't stand it when people who say they hate anime because of shows like Pokemon & Dragonball Z. You haven't even got a clue.

It's like saying you hate pop music when all you've heard is Britney Spears.

Blah.

I love the irony of you being #69 - you wish! And that which exists is true. That was your shall we say "poem" you expertly penned.
Listen doll. There are a wide array of shall we say sexual prosthesis for amputees such as yourself (no penis in your life) - vibrators, giant dildoes of all shapes (yes gigantic ones) and colors (yes nigerian blue black extreme sized for uh big gals).
There is so much more to life (man this is hard to contrive) than romance sweety. Let's see, you can try herb gardening (zzzzzzzz), bird watching (cuckoo - cuckoo), volunteer to help the elderly at a nursing home (you will be in one soon enough dear), knitting and oh how about postage stamp collecting?
Waking up in the middle of the night so very terribly alone after a horrible dream with noone to hold you is not that big a deal (shudders in pity) you must be strong (like Job).
I am here for you Ript.

draft punk did it better.

I didn't watch it because, well, it was Britney singing, but I'd still say it's genius because it doesn't feature a (too much) flesh and blood Brit trying to shoehorn her rolls into a small outfit like she did in her "comeback".

I hate anime, and that didn't even look like any new kind of anime. Same old dumb cheesy crap. Geeks answer: nonsensical "plot" aside, is that animation even good? It looked so cheap.

I'm most disappointed by the "to be continued" so we're going to have ANOTHER dumb cartoon video? Ugh.

I love her album but what the hell is this shit.....

Oh, and by the way - Yes. It is 12:19, I am here in my apt. alone and I am on this site.

I'm old, I'm high, I'm single and desperate and I'll never have kids because no one wants to fuck me. There, you happy? For fuckssake man, it's whatever you want to call it.

Now that we're past that...
Does this chick actually have the last name Loose? Who the fuck is she? Ah well, no reason necessary for showing tits, I suppose.

That video made absolutely no sense whatsoever. At least the anime videos for Daft Punk's album "Discovery" had a discernible plot. This is just a random jumble of people running around, punching, and falling with no actual logical connection between events that I can see. How retarded.

I like it. It is a good start on a come back. Yes, a little like Matrix, but who cares?

I think this is one of her better videos because she isn't in it and who really cares if she ripped off a lot of other things, most music videos don't look original.
But this song is horrible and the video is better viewed with the sound off, I promise.

eh- it was ok to watch. I would think that an animated music video would go to the music it's being animated for. I mean plot wise. Still there were a bit too many rip offs/similarities to find this video above mediocre. (matrix, ghost in the shell, aeon flux, etc.)

Entire meme stolen from Ghost In The Shell. Even a lot of the imagery. Meh.

It was ok. I go out into the world, meet people, get laid, all that - so I'm unfamiliar with this other gay-anime stuff that people are referring to when they say the video is a ripoff. But clearly others have seen it and are deeply emotional about it. How sad for you.

i think it's really good. true--- it's not anything new or original but none of britney's videos scream originality; at least it's well done.

blegh

that was crap

The funny thing is she kisses the guy, he seems to get a virus and then dies. Is this a sign of things to come?

That's the gayest shit I've ever seen.

all her songs sound the flippin same, especially the recent ones. she's always talking (mostly at the beginning). and i hate the electronic shit she does with her voice. and whats with her crackling voice. she's not exactly singing is she, its the same note over and over and disguised with electronics and talking! her music (background) is more or less the same aswell.

uhhhh, sooo a few things are going through my head after watching this:

1. Why does she look more like Madonna (scary huge eyes, wide thin mouth)
2. I don't like anime cause they're so hard to follow ANYWAY so I'm probably far off BUT - She saves the day with her slut tactics? (did she just makeout w/ the 'badguy'?)
3. They totally didn't want the real Britney in the video. teehee.

....btw wtf?

I can't believe how many fucktards know all about anime and "ghost shell". Shit, you have never been laid. Anime was cool in the 70's. For about two months. Move on.

Britney's new album is her best yet. I'm not a huge fan of hers, but have to admit even with all the crap in the media, this is her best album. If it wasn't for the craziness around her this album would have sold great.

I'd love to see the meeting record exes, producers and the director had with her. There's NO WAY she came up with this. Here's what the jerks in charge prolly said. Peopl in showbiz speak nohing but lies and bullshit so I have taken the time to translate for you. You're welcome.

"Look Britney"
(batshit crazy lady with the mental capacity of an eggplant)
"you've had so much exposure lately "
(especially since you showed the world your cootch)
"and the paparazzi has been all over you"
(especially since you started fucking one of them)
"and there's been so much of your personal life in the media"
( because you behave like a deranged mental patient on a pathetic mission to humiliate yourself for life and destroy everything you've ever had)
"We think we should try something new "
(people are sick of looking at you, especially because you're ugly now)

"and maybe with something different we can create a whole new image"
(you're fat and you look fucking awful and no amount of makeup or airbrushing change that).
"Your sound is so unique so we want to try something completely original for your next video"
(your sound is old, lame and overdone so we're going to copy Aliyaah because she can't sue us, funny it's shocking that she isn't alive today and yet you are).
"So we thought we'd do something animated "
(we're going to pray that using a cartoon image of a chick who is hotter than you EVER were will make people forget what a hideous mess you've become long enough to make us greedy bastards some more money).
"This will put you back on top Britney"
(you're our batshit crazy money train but, just remeber you won't profit from this and you'll never be a success again).
"This is the begining of something amazing Miss. Spears
( could you put your clothes back on and please do that in the bathroom ,also how soon can you leave).
"thank you for your phenomenal creative input"
(here are your crayons, thank you for drawing a mural of "unicorns" (which just looks like scribbles) on the wall of our brand new conference room)
Shakes Britney's hand as a sign of goodwill
(gives Britney the hair extensions she pulled out and threw acroos the room while the meeting was in progress)

Definitely GITS ripoff. First Adult Swim drops 90% of their anime, now this. Kill me.

You know she has to turn to anime because she cant loose the weight or give up that bucket of KFC....that Fing porker

Anyone else think that they completely ripped off Aeon Flux?

#101 That was excellent

Why couldn't this video have her slashing her way through paparnazis with samurai swords I mean it isn't like there wasn't already plenty of material to go with.

That's what I'd prefer to see.

Who cares if it rips off GITS or AF? Seriously, I just watched an Idoru-style Britt make out with a cybernetic replica of herself behind a giant test tube, give a guy some sort of cyber STD, fight a giant flaming K-fed (?) and a battalion of glo-stick bearing Riot Police. Then shit blows up and she flies out of the building like the Millenium Falcon out of the Death Star. If this thing keeps going and going, it could be my next TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET.

Hilarious that it was actually well done anime, but ridiculously too similar to the ghost in the shell intro. That is hilarious that they will not release i on youtube yet, and are taking all copyright infringments down pretty quick. >>.... I hate to say it but omfg - just die already brit. Yes i saw the video piece of me, whilst searching for this vid on youtube - and everyone wants to take a piece of her because shes an idiot and i keep thinking surely everyone is tired of seeing her right??? Ty for not appearing in this since yes your tummy is still saggy as in p.o.m. She did used to be beautiful, and if other leading ladies can work on it - you would think that even post babies she could manage as well to show off to the world.

I'm going on lack of sleep for four days straight, I'm slightly delirious, and still I recognize the fact that this video is the equivalent of a late-term abortion.

Go to hell Superfish
That video rocks!
It reminds me of the Daft Punk Thing
It's so cool

You called a Britney Spears video badass?! What is this world coming to?!?!

I doubt she had much say in the creativity process. She probably just said, "Ya'll know what I think we should do. I should be, like, a sexy, skinny cartoon, ya'll. . . . . .ya'll." *Slurp* *Munch* Then walked away while her team got to brainstorming.

LOL -- the oreo will be double stuffed.....

Shot Pepsi through my nose on that one.

The video actually syncs up pretty well with OK GO's INVINCIBLE. Turn Britney down and check it out.

that would have been some good anime if that shit song wasnt playing in the background. they are taking the focus of how shithouse the song is by giving it an interesting flim clip.

I hope she gets treatment and gets her shit together & proves all the heaters to be merely jealous & pathetic.

wtf? that op scene with the blond chick wrapped in shreds of pink was SO Sailor Moon...

#4, 14, 73, This is in fact a sequel to the Toxic video.
its completely different to the aaliyah video.
and there is little to no chance that anime these days could be original, and even then i wouldnt want an original idea to be wasted on a music video.

clearly she didn't show up at all for the video shoot, and someone said "maybe we should just do it all in animation?" Simple as that.

Ultimately? Boring as fuck.

The fight scenes are practically lifted from Elfin Lied, too. And I thought Kappa Mikey sucked ass...

Quit hating, otaku. Ms. Spears is probably an otaku too, considering her Toxic video, and frankly, it's kinda cool. Just enjoy it and quit being so indie about it.

the song sucks, and this cartoon has nothing to do with it. anime is lame.

I didn't like the video, but like the song. She's a professionally trained dancer out of school in Newy York by her IMD page and now with the 3rd hit off her new album that actually sounds good, I'd say she made a decent come back. Sorry for all you haters, but it's true, she appears to have talent, but now if she'd only quit being a pole dancer, she would be really good.

I didn't like the video, but like the song. She's a professionally trained dancer out of school in Newy York by her IMD page and now with the 3rd hit off her new album that actually sounds good, I'd say she made a decent come back. Sorry for all you haters, but it's true, she appears to have talent, but now if she'd only quit being a pole dancer, she would be really good.

A DECENT COME BACK?!?!? A comeback of any kind requires that the "artist" in question actually SHOWS UP. As proven by her less than half-assed, unrehearsed, drunk off her ass VMA "performance", and now this piece of crap, Britney herself doesn't give a shit about her "career" anymore. So why does anyone else?

song is shite. what the hell is she saying? and stop with the spoken parts. u sound like a retarded, crazy baby. and stop with the singing partz

and vid does not sync up with the song at all!!!!

overall score of: CRAPULENT PUSTULAMA!

You could make that exact same video using clips from ghost in the shell or any other anime with similar styling.

In fact - search youtube in a while and you'll find people who've made their own version from existing anime already!

britney spears needs to stay the fuck out of my anime.

(that animation is nice though)

72. melissah - March 13, 2008 2:27 AM

"Groan! I hate anime! This video was way better than Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop and ur pokemans because there was a good twenty minutes or so less of it to suffer through."

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT???

Do you even KNOW what you're TALKING about!??

There was a Ghost in the Shell movie before there was ever a Ghost in the shell half hour series.

But damn if the series went over your head you must be pretty daft, punk.

BRITNEY sock-em rock-em bad zombie dudes! My verdict: it's cool. Good luck to Brit-brit in her recovery -- MWAH! Love ya Britney!

I am glad I wasn't the only one that noticed it looks just like Ghost in the Shell, so people should stop saying it's "so original"

I love Britney! I really like this song

i dont think this is really the video

not as good as her 'Hot As Ice' she should make a video for that song....

lmfao, i've never giggled so much in my life. Anime blows, Britney is psycho, and her album is surprisingly good thanks to technology that edits her voice, and the people who write her lyrics and music. good job everybody. They definitly tackled the viewers they wanted. Now next time lets shoot for a different audience, you know, people who don't sit on the couch eating cheetos, with the x-box head set on, wishing their backs weren't covered in acne, and some day hoping they'll feel a womans warmth.

#101 you are my idol