Video Facts

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• ...Baby One More Time

• In the music video for ...Baby One More Time, Britney's cousin, Chad, portrays her love interest. 
• The ...Baby One More Time music video was shot in the same school as the movie Grease.
• ...Baby One More Time was named the most iconic video ever by TRL. The rest of the top 5 was: Eminem's The Real Slim Shady, Backstreet Boys' I Want It That Way, *N SYNC's Bye Bye Bye, and Christina Aguilera's Dirrty.
• Britney shouts out ...Baby One More Time in the If U Seek Amy video. Her daughter in the end of the video has the same school uniform and pink ribbons.
• Nigel Dick said in a 2009 interview that Britney came up with the idea for the schoolgirl outfit in the ...Baby One More Time video. He also said that the clothes were from Kmart and were not more than $17.
• Britney's assistant, Felicia Culotta, played the teacher in the ...Baby One More Time video.
• Sometimes

• The shoot for this video was delayed with 2 months because of her knee injury.
• In a scene in the video where 2 extras are standing by Britney, one of them can be seen scratching her crotch.
• In the scene where they make a heart, the shadow of the camera can be seen.
• The temperature got down to 30 degrees at some point of the shooting of the video.
• It can be seen Britney is sitting next to a BMW despite the logo being blackened out.
• Paul Walker was supposed to play Britney's love interest.
• Part of the video was shot outside Britney's beach house.
• Blink 182 shot a parody of the video for their single All The Small Things in 2000.
• (You Drive Me) Crazy [The Stop Remix!]
• Adrian Grenier didn't want to be in the video but he was convinced by Melissa Joan Heart and Nigel Dick.
• Wade Robson appears in the video.

• Born To Make You Happy
• The video isn't in synch with the song in the first part.
• Britney fell during the pillow fight part but luckily, she wasn't hurt.

• From The Bottom of My Broken Heart
• Britney got stung by a bee during the filming of the video in the sunflower field.

• Oops!.. I Did It Again

• She had 3 choices for an outfit for the video - the red catsuit, a black catsuit and something else. But Britney choose a hooker outfit instead. Her team disapproved it, so she chose the red catsuit.
• During the filming of the scene when she lays on a platform in white, a camera fell on her head and her head started bleeding and she needed stitches.
• The dancer in the top/right messes up the choreography when she sings "I cry watching the days."
• During the shooting of the video, they decided to sew in pads for the catsuit because Britney thought she looked too flat.
• In the scene where she says "But I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean in the end" she references the movie Titanic.

• Lucky

• It was shot for 2 days, so Britney could go back to Louisiana for Jamie Lynn's recital.
• The video and the song are considered "a cry for help" because they predicted Britney's 2007 breakdown.
• Stronger

• Her knees were bleeding after she fell during the filming of the chair scene.
• The chair scene was her idea and was inspired by Janet Jackson's The Pleasure Principle.
• The choker in the video is rumored to have been very expensive.
• Don't Let Me Be The Last to Know

• Britney edited the video, because she and her team thought it was too sexual.
• The video sparked conflict between Britney and Justin Timberlake, because he was annoyed she was making out with a French model. Her mother also thought the video was too racy considering its nature.
• I'm a Slave 4 U

• She wore underwear on top of her jeans in the video.
• There was a lizard on a mirror in one of the scenes.
• DJ Skribble makes an appearance.
• The video is supposed to be set in Hong Kong.
• The concept of the video is about people in a club that was out of drinks.
• It was shot on the same stage as Jurassic Park.
• Britney took belly-dancing classes to prepare for this video.
• Everyone was covered in baby oil to make it look like sweat.
• Britney didn't know that there would be so many dancers and she was worried that it wouldn't look good.
• The face licking scene was not planned and Britney wasn't pleased when it happened.
• Overprotected

• The instrumental of Bombastic Love is played in the beginning of the video.
• Britney wears a red key chain on her belt which falls of in the video and it's not edited out.
• Britney wears her own brand of sunglasses - Shades of Britney in the video.
• The walls in the empty room are all covered in the Oops!.. I Did It Again cover picture.
• I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman

• There are 2 versions of this video - one with Crossroads scenes, and the original video.
• Britney had to be set down with a safety wire to get to the edge of the cliff. The crew didn't want her to do it but she was determined.
• The music video for this song was shot months before "Britney" was released and months before I'm a Slave 4 U was shot. It was premiered almost a year after being shot.
• Overprotected (Darkchild remix)

• The scene when she's in an alleyway with her girlfriends and she's looking up - residents were very angry because of the loud music and spotlights in 4 AM. They threw buckets of urine on her and that made Britney cry so the shooting was ended soon after that.
• I Love Rock 'N' Roll

• Britney has the name Ben and a phone number written on her hand in the video. It was speculated she was having an affair with Ben Affleck, whom she admitted she had a crush on back then but it was actually a Crossroads reference.
• Anticipating

• Anticipating was released as a single in France instead of I Love Rock 'N' Roll. The video is a performance of the song at the Dream Within a Dream Tour: Live from Las Vegas special shown on HBO.
• That's Where You Take Me

• A music video for this song was released in the Phillipines and other Asian markets. It's with montages from the Dream Within a Dream Tour and backstage from the tour.
• Me Against The Music

• There is a lot of product placement (Mazda car, a Pepsi can and a Motorola phone).
• When she parks the car in the beginning of the video, it says on the wall "No parking 24 hours" on the garage.
• Both Madonna and Britney wore Kabblah bracelets.
• There was a debate if Madonna would show up to the shooting of the video because she and the director didn't like each other.
• Toxic

• The budget of this video was 1,000,000 million dollars and is one of the most expensive videos ever made.
• Her body was only covered with diamonds in the dancing scene. Each one was hand glued and it took 9 hours to complete.
• Only the director and the cameraman were allowed in the room with Britney during the shooting of the naked scene.
• The scene with the two girls touching each other in the motorbike scene were cut out of the US version for it being too racy.
• There are some errors in the video. In the scene when Britney's singing to the ugly guy, we can see him standing behind her and in front of her at the same time.
• The video won Britney her first Grammy for Best Dance Recording.
• Everytime

• Stephen Dorff (Britney's boyfriend in the video) came up with the idea of saving Britney from drowning. He said he was told to undress first but he just went in with his clothes.
• According to a source, Britney wanted to cancel the shoot for Everytime because it wasn't the concept she wanted. She was compliant on the first day, but locked herself in a hotel room on the second. Finally, she agreed to go out but she wanted Red Bull and someone to call her a doctor.
• Near the ending of the video, when she is taken out from the hotel and put in an ambulance "predicted" her being hospitalized 4 years later during her breakdown.
• Outrageous

• Rumor has it that Britney faked her knee injury in the video because she was exhausted and to focus on her marriage with Kevin Federline.
• Britney wears a cap in this video which says "F.I.B.S." - Frequently Incorrect and Biased Statements.
• My Prerogative

• The house in the video is actually the house from Halloween: H20 and Scream 3.
• Britney's brother Bryan and his wife make a cameo.
• Kevin Federline also makes an appearance in the video.
• Do Somethin'

• Originally her label was against making shooting a video for this song, but Britney pushed for it.
• It's her first co-directing debut.
• Britney is credited as "Mona Lisa", which is her alter ego.
• Her girlfriends are some of her Louisiana friends.
• She choreographed this video.
• The Love Boat shirt she wears was previously seen in the Making of Toxic video.
• She wears an "F.I.B.S" hat again.
• Gimme More

• It's revealed Britney isn't wearing a bra in the released Gimme More video and it can be seen that her breasts have a rose design.
• There is also a version where her breasts have Xs over them.
• The outfits were inspired from the Royal Jelly show.
• Britney had a tattoo of a snake on her lower left arm, and a red tattoo of a rose on her upper right arm. The red and grey symbol that was on the vest was actually a picture of a silhouette of a woman. Britney got this vest from Las Vegas, she saw it and asked if she could use it in her video. It was later auctioned on Ebay.
• Piece of Me

• She showed up 12 hours late for the shooting of this video.
• They made Britney look skinnier digitally on the video.
• There are 2 versions of this video - US (with jeans and a coat) and International (with a bob wig and a purple dress on).
• Britney's face was pasted on the body of another girl in the beginning of the video.
• Apparently Britney hates this video or doesn't like how it turned out to be.
• She choreographed this video.
• The video won 3 VMA awards.
• Britney insisted on having her hair tied up in a bun for the dance scene but the director convinced her to try a scene with her hair down. That explains why her hair keeps changing in the scene.
• Rats magazine is meant to be a piss take for Star magazine who always wrote false rumors about her.
• On November 27, 2007, MTV launched the contest "Britney Spears wants a piece of you", in which fans could direct their own version of Piece of Me using footage from interviews and performances. The winner's video premiered on TRL on December 20, 2007 and MTV, Jive and Britney herself chose the best video. The winner also received a Haier Ibiza Rhapsody device, a one year subscription to Rhapsody and Britney's whole discography released in the US.
• Break The Ice

• This is Britney's first animated video and it's in Japanese anime style.
• Womanizer

• The video's budget was 500,000 dollars.
• The ugly guy from Toxic also appears in this video in the scene with the copy machine.
• She is wearing nude colored underwear in the sauna scenes, which was edited out to make it seem like she was naked.
• Britney came up with the concept of the video but Joseph Kahn came up with the sauna idea.
• She was originally meant to have red hair in the apartament in the beginning of the video.
• There is an error in the car scene: the car's windows are blank in the first seconds.
• This was the most streamed video of 2008 on MTV.com
• The phone in the first scene includes a reminder for a "Product placement meeting".
• Circus

• The video leaked a few days before its release on a Chinese site. Britney's team claimed it was not the finished version but when the video came out, there weren't any differences.
• The elephant in the video is the same one as in the movie Water for Elephants.
• Andre Fuentes, Britney's choreographer, makes an appearance.
• Peta asked Britney to stop using animals in her videos and performances after Circus was released (referring to the I'm a Slave 4 U VMA 2001 performance.)
• If U Seek Amy

• There is a possible minor outtake - a photography agency said that when they were taking pictures in front of the house from the video, there was "I Love You" with large letters on the front door.
• The presenter at the beginning and end of video is a piss take reference to Fox presenter Megyn Kelly, who made negative comments for the song due to its controversy.
• Radar

• All the clothes in the video are from Candie's, which Britney was representing in 2009 and 2010.
• The concept was meant to be like Madonna's "Take A Bow" video.
• The director of the video said Britney was very shy around the guy who played her lover.
• Kill The Lights
• In 2009, a fan fiction contest was launched in Britney's official website. The winner's plot would become an actual music video for a song. It was later revealed that Eliana Moyano had won with her concept for Kill The Lights, titled Known Everywhere.
• Many believe the video is a continuation to the Break The Ice video.
• Hold It Against Me

• There is a body double in the scene with the paint.
• Britney came up with the idea for the fight between the two Britneys.
• This is probably the video with the most product placement in Britney's career (her own perfume - Radiance, cosmetics company Make Up Forever, an online dating site Plenty of Fish and Sony). Sources claim that Britney got 500,000 dollars for them.
• Rumor: It cost 40,000 dollars to edit Britney's face in the video.
• Britney freaked out when she saw the original choreography for the video so it had to be changed.
• The comet hitting the ground in the beginning represents her debut song and album and changing the music industry.
• The screens all around her represent how her private life was actually public and exposed.
• The creepy smile is supposed to represent Britney "fake smiling" for the media and the fans while she was feeling lonely and miserable.
• The faceless people surrounding her and dancing around her are her fans who stayed with her no matter what happened.
• The paint on the white dress is her ruined image. It means no matter how hard she tries, she would never be seen as the old innocent Britney again.

• Till The World Ends

• There is a dance double in the video because, apparently, the choreography was too hard for Britney to do.
• Britney didn't like shooting in the basement because she felt like "there was poop everywhere" and that it was disgusting.
• Rumor: An extra was kicked from the set for talking about poop and farting.
• A prop beer bottle was removed from the background to avoid issues with Britney's rehab and comeback.
• I Wanna Go

• The quote "Fuck you. You're cool. I'm out" is actually from the movie Half Baked.
• The guys she says "you're cool" to is actually the guy that said the quote above in Half Baked.
• There is a Crossroads (Britney's first big movie role) reference on the theatre in the fighting scene. It says "Crossroads 2: Cross Harder".
• Criminal

• Jason Trawick (Britney's fiance at the time) plays Britney's boyfriend and the criminal in the video.
• The video director didn't like the idea for Jason Trawick appearing and wanted to hire an actor instead.
• The video was shot with VHQ cameras with which movies are usually shot.
• Ooh La La

• Britney's two sons, Sean and Jayden, and her niece Maddie appear in the video.
• Perfume

• The video's entire concept was scrapped. Read more about it in the "Unreleased Videos" page.
• Pretty Girls

• The video is based on the 80s movie Earth Girls Are Easy. Britney wanted a video similar to Fancy which she loved, so Iggy Azalea suggested a Geena Davis tribute. Britney loved the idea so they went with it.
• Britney's earrings in the car scene are the same as the ones Katy Perry wore in her Last Friday Night video.