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August 18, 2004

Details Emerge About Britney's 'Prerogative'

MTV News obtained the video treatment for "My Prerogative" and it goes a little something like this...

The singer ignores streetlights and traffic laws as her sports car speeds up a dark road in the Hollywood Hills toward a hillside manor, which has an air of old Hollywood about it. A party is in progress, which the singer gladly disrupts, jumping the curb in her car, crashing through a fence and splashing into the pool.

That sort of thing might put a damper on most people's party plans, but Spears just crawls atop the car as it sinks and starts singing, "Everybody's talking/ All this stuff about me/ Why can't they just let me live?"

Her dress soaking wet and clinging to her skin, she steps off the car and goes into the mansion, giving partygoers a look that commands respect and fear. She passes couples making out on the couches as she makes her way into a stainless-steel kitchen, where gourmet food is on display. She grabs a butcher knife, walks across the kitchen brandishing the knife, and just as she steps out of the room, she cuts the straps off her wet dress, letting it fall to the floor.

While it's not clear if she's wearing anything now, Spears walks into a study, where a man sits in the dark with his back to her, watching a black-and-white film projected on a pull-down screen. It looks like a skin flick from the 1940s or '50s, but as he watches it, his cigar smoke curling up and illuminated in the projector beam, it becomes clear that the sexy footage is actually of Spears.

She then heads into a dressing room, where mirrors show all angles of her wearing nothing but her knickers, high heels, stockings and a short fur jacket, as she continues singing, "Why can't they just let me live?/ It's my prerogative." From there she heads into a bedroom, where a dress is laid out on the comforter. She walks toward the bed and away from the camera, letting her jacket fall to the ground. She holds up the new dress as the camera cuts to the party outside, where people are waiting, anxiously, for something, someone.

What they're waiting for, and what they get, will be the surprise of the video, which we won't reveal here.

And then there's this story about the last thing Britney had in her mouth (link via Best Week Ever).

Posted at 2:29 PM




21 Comments

i'm on the edge of my seat

Posted by: x. at 08/18/04 2:43 PM | Reply
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ooo the suspense of it all....

Posted by: sven at 08/18/04 2:57 PM | Reply
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Is it humanly possible for me to care less?

Gawd, Britney blows. In so many ways.

Posted by: Amanda at 08/18/04 2:58 PM | Reply
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that treatment sounds like a very bad porno movie...

Posted by: tylla at 08/18/04 3:05 PM | Reply
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Maybe she refers to her fiance as "a dildo" like the rest of us do...so down to earth, that Brit.

Posted by: ll at 08/18/04 3:35 PM | Reply
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"I thought her answer would be something like chicken escalope."

That's quite honestly the best thing I've read today.

Posted by: Magnificent Bastard at 08/18/04 3:38 PM | Reply
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"a look that commands fear & respect from partygoers" ??!?!?!??!?! unless the girl is wearing the face of sir sean connery, it's highly unlikely that britney's commanding anything other than the state of not wearing knickers!

Posted by: selena at 08/18/04 5:35 PM | Reply
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For what it's worth, and accepting that most people won't belive me, I asked Jenna Jameson's husband recently about Britney (having heard from mutual friends that they knew each other...very well if you get my drift), and he told me that Brit loves the lesbian sex... I couldn't get him to cop to a Jenna Brittney sandwich... but it was enough to confirm my suspicions...

Posted by: Chase at 08/18/04 6:00 PM | Reply
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Huh, no dancing. I guess the knee's still not better. I wonder if the surprise guest is some washed up or almost washed-up "star" that can dance in her stead.

Posted by: janine at 08/19/04 10:21 AM | Reply
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I find the "gourmet food" part a tad suspicious.

Since when is a fun pack of Cheetos considered gourmet??

Posted by: Care at 08/19/04 10:22 AM | Reply
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she is so lame, why cover a song by an artist thats a hasbeen? sure it was great back then.....
emphasis on "back then."

Posted by: sweetpea at 08/19/04 1:59 PM | Reply
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*the big surprise is that she marries a Kevin Federline lookalike at the end of the video. The dress that she's putting on is of the white wedding variety.

p.s. they should totally cast the guy from color me badd as the kevin lookalike.

Posted by: chad at 08/19/04 4:38 PM | Reply
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what ever happened to the video she was filming when she injured her knee? did she ever finish that? or has she been too busy chowing down on cheetos and dildos?

Posted by: mel at 08/19/04 8:29 PM | Reply
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Pics from the "My Prerogative" shoot:

http://efgforum.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=590606&f=5786044&m=684106412

Posted by: stereogum at 08/20/04 12:41 PM | Reply
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That Fun pack of Cheetos comment up there...goddamn that was hilarious.

And ooh the antici...

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...pation of it all! Oh my!!

Posted by: FoShame at 08/21/04 1:00 AM | Reply
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And that "dildo" that was in her mouth...where do you think THAT was last?

*hurl*

Posted by: FoShame at 08/21/04 1:06 AM | Reply
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was that 6-paragraph essay i just read supposed to be interesting?

Posted by: ash23 at 08/21/04 5:08 AM | Reply
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it sound like a cool video i hope the song is good too !! i am a big fan from Britney i just wish that sometimes she would wear more clothes she would look better ... try it Britney !!!
ur the BEST Britney !!

Posted by: mimi at 08/22/04 12:01 PM | Reply
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challenging the reader with obscure, olympics referential puzzles, she also evinces a clay aiken rare grasp of emotional chemistry. This jennifer lopez "fictional essay" on marriage and adultery--really jenna jameson an impressionistic poetic meditation--cuts kazaa more truly, more deeply than any plain-spoken pamela anderson confessional monolog, dramatizing inner britney spears and outer conflict with a precise, knowing poker

Posted by: Carmen Electra at 09/07/04 7:01 PM | Reply
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it is Kevin in the video....who she married.

Posted by: vlyndertje at 09/30/04 4:16 PM | Reply
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thank you very much for your help. You guys 18121 rock, thanks again.

Posted by: Tuki Medaber at 10/04/06 1:14 PM | Reply
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