Britney Spears is hard to write about. Being flippant over the singer’s hairball-alley antics and misguided romantic liaisons just seems a bit ham-fisted. On the other hand, we’ve always had trouble taking Miss Spears seriously when she tries to assert herself. After all, “It’s Britney, bitch!†is one of the more unintentionally hilarious utterances made by a celeb attempting to discard her past image. MTV-makeouts or no, Brit-Brit ain’t exactly a reinvention queen on Madge’s level. Dropping the royal we for a moment, I imagine Berkowitz assigned me this piece because I’m the only scribe around this joint who’s also directed a music video. I’ll attempt to do my best here.
In her new clip, “I Wanna Go,†directed by Chris Marrs Piliero (The Black Keys, Ke$ha), Britney attempts to make light of her past to somewhat negligible, fluffy effect. You know what? Forget it. Who am I? The guy who wrote “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls†and then went on to bum out Vincent Gallo? You can watch the video for yourself. Let us, instead, speak about Volkswagen. Mme. Spears gets felt up by a cop over the hood of a 2012 Beetle, a scene that prominently features Spears’s calf in the same frame as the VW emblem. She subsequently escapes from got-flavor, Terminator! paparazzi in a smart black Karmann Ghia driven by Weeds actor Guillermo DÃaz. Who is reallyâ€"yeah, you got itâ€"a time machine, er, Terminator. We called Volkswagen for comment, but they hadn’t gotten back to us regarding the terms of the product placement by the time of publication. Perhaps Britney just really, really likes Volkswagens and wants to sell 800,000 of the! m in America by 2018?
Truth be told, we’d probably actually really, really like the songâ€"if only it were in Japanese.
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