Britney Spears – I Wanna Go
Apparently - Spears Wants to Go Right Over There
Britney Spears, what a career eh? From a cute girl in a schoolgirl outfit taking the Pop world by storm, to a more edgy early 2000’s career, never leaving out the highly publicized relationships of course, a complete mental breakdown and now a climb back to sanity and mass popularity. For better or worse, Britney Spears has always been a very prominent public figure.
Fast forward to 2011 with Spears’ latest single, “I Wanna Go” off her newest album Femme Fatale (released in March of 2011), in which Britney sings about all the things she’s been imagining in her head – uncontrollably.
What are those things exactly? Well, as the music video would tells us it involves dropping enough F-bombs to make Cee-Lo Green blush, flashing police officers and young boys, and assaulting people with a microphone (in more ways than one!).
The video starts with Spears holding a press conference, addressing those rumors that we’ve all been curious about such as, has she really banned sunshine and laughter from her Femme Fatale tour? Is she really having Brad Pitt’s kids? Does she really hate puppies?
Spears, eager to show that she does not hate puppies, hands out f-bombs to everybody except actor Guillermo Díaz – before leaving to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting streets.
This does beg the question though, has Spears really had that much dirt or negative press on her since her breakdown? I mean, it seems that she’s been in good graces with the media and the general public since, so I’m not sure where this idea of overwhelming negative press is coming from.
Oh! This is what Spears has been imagining in her head – as much negative press as she received a few years ago. The kind that nearly ruined her career! Makes perfect sense…………I guess….
The video picks up with Britney in the streets outside of the building, grabbing a fan’s ass, flashing a cop, having implied public sex with the aforementioned cop. You know, just a normal day for one Britney Spears.
After taking some pictures for, and then destroying the camera of, a member of the paparazzi Spears hops on top of a taxi and swings a microphone around at more paparazzi members (who have taken this occasion to jump on some cars as well). After they get hit and fly off the hoods of the cars, no doubt severly injuring them, it’s revealed that the paprazzi are actually robots with an intent to photograph Spears, the “main target”. A not so subtle hint that the paparazzi are heartless bastards out to destroy Spears’ life.
Pictured: A Heartless Bastard
With Spears now losing the numbers game to the paparazzi, Díaz pulls up in a car and tells Britney to hop in as they escape the robot infested streets of Paparazzi City (I’m going to pretend that’s where the video takes place). Spears dances half naked in the car while her knight in shining armor decides to pour milk on himself while driving.
Low and behold the apparently less than intelligent robot starts to smoke and spark from his milk bath, to which Britney looks horrified. He was another member of the evil paparazzi trying to sully her good name and ruin her life!
Next scene? Spears is snapped out of a daydream and we are back at the press conference fielding questions. After a question is asked, Diaz tells the reporters there will be no more questions before handing Britney Spears a handful of sea-shells. The video ends with Diaz and Spears walking out of the press conference complete with a reference to the end of “Thriller”.
I must admit that watching the video and reading the lyrics, I am baffled by what it is that Spears wants exactly. Does she want the negative press that most celebrities would love to not have? Does she see the paparazzi as a group of dirt-hungry robots that she must destroy? Does she have a milk fetish?
Putting all the seriousness aside, the video is an enjoyable way to spend 4 minutes or so even if it doesn’t make a lot of sense. The song itself is just okay, nothing special but nothing horrible either. The vocals are way over-produced even for a Britney Spears song, but the chorus is alarmingly catchy so it’s not all bad. Overall I’d give the video and the song, a 7/10