Britney Says Controversial New Video Is About Reincarnation
In 'Everytime,' Spears dies in a bathtub but is living again by the end.
By Jennifer Vineyard
Madonna's rubbed off on Britney in more ways than one. Spears courts a bit of controversy with her latest video, "Everytime," in which her wrist spontaneously starts bleeding.
Premiered Monday on "TRL," just one day after Easter, "Everytime" doesn't quite go the length Madonna's "Like a Prayer" did to invoke stigmata, but what first appears to be a red Kabbalah bracelet on Spears' wrist becomes a line of blood, only made apparent when she pulls her hand into a bathtub and a small red fog appears in the water.
Instead of taking her own life as described in the video's original treatment, Spears instead dies a more mysterious death, since the amount of blood she loses is small — but she slips unconscious under the water nonetheless.
Despite her death, Spears ends up in a white-lit hospital room as a new mother gives birth. The final shot shows a fully alive Spears re-emerging from the bathtub, with a smile on her face. One way or another, she lives again.
"It's more like a movie," Spears explained when she called in to "TRL" on Monday. "It's different than anything I've ever done. It's dark, and it shows me in a different light. Of course, I'm going to go back and do dance videos, but I wanted to be inspired and challenged."
Though she didn't get a chance to say it for herself during her on-air chat, Spears called "TRL" back as the video was playing and asked the show to explain for her that the video's concept was about reincarnation.
Madonna's rubbed off on Britney in more ways than one. Spears courts a bit of controversy with her latest video, "Everytime," in which her wrist spontaneously starts bleeding. Premiered Monday on "TRL," just one day after Easter, "Everytime" doesn't quite go the length Madonna's "Like a Prayer" did to invoke stigmata, but what first appears to be a red Kabbalah bracelet on Spears' wrist becomes a line of blood, only made apparent when she pulls her hand into a bathtub and a small red fog appears in the water.
Spears dies a more mysterious death, since the amount of blood she loses is small - but she slips unconscious under the water nonetheless. She says that "it's more like a movie. It's different than anything I've ever done. It's dark, and it shows me in a different light. Of course, I'm going to go back and do dance videos, but I wanted to be inspired and challenged." The theme of the video is to be more of a re-incarnation than of suicide as originally reported.
Synopsis: When it starts, the two are in the limo. Britney Spears tries to talk to him, he refuses to listen yet. The reporters are all swarming with copies of tabloids and magazine articles. On the stand the headlines read: "Britney's Shocking Secrets Revealed" and "Still in Love?". The second is key in that it poses the question she's about to answer in the video.
They make it into the room but there's a heated conversation where Britney asks him (In the hallway when you threw the stuff) "Why though?" and her boyfriend responds "Look, I'm sorry.." and tries to hug her but she pushes him away and cries "Just stop!" He proceeds to tell her "Yeah? Well ***** you!" while smashing a vase. Britney turns away in disgust and goes into the bathroom.
I didn't even notice. Well the rest of the video is sort of detailed in the first two posts. She has a band on her wrist which is some Kabbalah faith band which turns into a line of blood and then she sinks into the bath unconscious and Stephen Dorf tries to rescue her but she dies.
Then she is reincarnated and walks around a hospital or something. I can't find it now, but give me time I am downloading the video now and should be finished in about 20 minutes. I will post more once I have actually seen it.
Man, none of my pictures/ images are staying online very long
OK - so the Video is Britney (as herself) and Stephen Dorf playing her b/f. They are in a limo and he is being an ******* to her then they get mobbed by a crowd of fans and paparazzi and he doesn't protect her she has to be saved by bodyguards and so she goes mental at him, they fight and he thorws stuff and she throws stuff anf t hey yell a bit and then she goes to have a bath and kills herself (or just dies?).
She then "wakes up" in a hospital walking around and watching people. In the meantime Stepehen Dorf has found her body in the bath tub and is trying to revive her and the ambulanace comes and takes her away and even while she's dead on the streacher, fans come up to her dead body with pens and magazines to get autographs.
Then you see a baby being born and it is implied that the spirit of Britney has passed into that baby, therefore making the Video about reincarnation not about suicide.
SOMEONE really needs to pop Britney Spears' ego balloon. So she got a No.1 single with Toxic does that give her the right to be so poisonous? For her new video Everytime she's seen dying in a bath after cutting her wrist. But she didn't do it on purpose, so her record company are claiming it's not so bad. And they did change the original video which had her commiting suicide with pills. Since the only people buying her records are, in the main, under 14s any dying image is grossly irrisponsible.
MTV News Poll: What Really Happens in the Everytime Video
It's funny how three minutes can raise so many questions.
We were thrilled to take an early look at Britney Spears' new video for "Everytime" late last week. We even encouraged one of our reporters to write up a preview after that screening, and we published the piece - along with quotes from Britney herself - on Monday.
It seemed simple enough at the time, but it turns out that the clip isn't so clear-cut. Our writer saw Britney's red Kabbalah bracelet appear to turn to blood as the singer slipped into her tub and on to the afterlife. But apparently there's more than one way to watch a Britney video, as a number of you wrote in to share your interpretations (or flat out tell us we were wrong). The responses sent us scrambling back to the tape, where - with the aid of digitally enhanced freeze-frame technology - we can conclusively say without a shadow of a doubt that we have no idea what's going on in that video..
Does Britney suffer a head wound? If so, why isn't she bleeding before entering the tub? Is the fatal wound to the back of her head somehow caused by a camera grazing the side of her head early in the video? If she suffered a life-threatening blow to the head, why doesn't she appear to be in pain? How does she die from losing so little blood? Is seemingly abusive beau Stephen Dorff somehow involved?.
We know this much: Britney says the video is about reincarnation, so her character passes away somehow ... or not, as she is seen emerging from the tub with a wide grin at the end of the video. But how exactly does Britney meet her end (or her near-death experience)?
"Everytime" was at number one again today on TRL! Make sure you keep voting for her! You can vote by clicking on the link below! It is really, really easy to vote through this quick link, so everyone should vote! You can also now stream the "Everytime" video at Jive's official website for Britney, britney.com
A leading California suicide prevention counsellor has condemned Britney Spears for appearing to commit suicide in her misleading new video.
Britney insists the promo is all about reincarnation, not suicide, but Don Austen fears her young fans won't see it that way.
In the video, Britney is seen stepping into a bath after a row with her boyfriend, and then slipping under the water as her spirit watches the lifesaving efforts going on around her. In a final scene a mother gives birth in a hospital ward, suggesting Spears has been reincarnated as the baby.
But Austen, the founder of Los Angeles' Thursday's Child, insists the eerie video is open to misinterpretation and could encourage troubled teens to take their lives.
He fumes, "Britney Spears is one of the most influential teen role models on the planet, and this video is frightening in terms of its potential repercussions.
"When kids see this video over and over, it has a desensitizing effect. There are a lot of confused kids around, and Britney's not considering the copycat effect. Instead, she's selfishly using controversy to market herself."
Here is a new "Everytime" pic, never seen before. There is something i realized about this pic, dont you think it was taken from the scene where Britney was going to commit suicide in the video, which was deleted. It kinda make sense to me! Damn i wanna c that scene!
This ^ is supposedly from the version of the clip where she jumps off the balcony to kill herself, so they made a whole heap of different versions. The released one where she dies in the bath, they made one where she OD's on pills and the above one. Why make so many? Is it specifically for the fact that one version might not get good coverage and they might need to tone it down? Why not jsut make one that you know will be good?
04-14-2004 03:36 AM
