My Prerogative (Random Video Comments)
Britney Makes Party-Crashing Her Prerogative In Next Video
by Jennifer Vineyard
Britney Spears' next single, a cover of Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative," makes a statement about her life, and the accompanying video will too, making it clear that Spears follows no rules but her own.
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, according to a copy of the video treatment obtained by MTV News. 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. After all, it's our prerogative.
The "My Prerogative" video is slated to shoot later this month. Spears' Greatest Hits: My Prerogative LP is due November 16.
Britney Marries Kevin in Her New Video
Tuesday Aug 24, 2004
By Stephen M. Silverman
PREVIEWED: Britney Spears's fiance, Kevin Federline, will appear in the pop princess's new video for her cover of Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative," a Jive Records rep confirms. The track is one of two news songs on Spears's album of greatest hits, to go on sale Nov. 16. The video, set to premiere next month, will depict Spears's wedding day and show her putting on a gown to walk down the aisle with Federline, according to Access Hollywood. Creators of the video, meanwhile, say that, besides wearing a wedding dress, Britney will be seen in her undies – after first cutting off the straps of her wet dress with a kitchen knife after she drives her car into a pool.
Billboard.com: Spears Drafts Familial Video Stars (+ Greatest Hits News)
Britney Spears' former backup dancer and current fiance Kevin Federline can
add another title to his resume: co-star. A Jive Records spokesperson confirms
Federline is featured in Spears' upcoming "My Prerogative" video,
set to debut in mid-September.
The song, one of two new tracks off the pop star's upcoming "Greatest Hits" release, is a cover of Bobby Brown's No. 1 1988 Billboard Hot 100 hit. The album is due Nov. 16.
According to a message posted by the artist's mother, Lynne Spears, on the singer's official Web site, fans can also expect a cameo by another man close to the "Toxic" diva: her brother Bryan. Lynne tells fans to "look for that good-looking hunk of a son of mine," who has a cameo at the beginning of the clip.
She also said the video is "going to be like none other." Because Spears' injured knee is still not fully healed, the clip "is all about capturing gorgeous close-ups and very subtle movement. It has an element of old Hollywood glamour and mystery"
Another Spears Cameo
Britney Spears is keeping it all in the family for her forthcoming "My
Prerogative" video: Two of the closest men in her life are making cameos.
Spears' brother, Bryan, makes a brief appearance in the beginning of the video, while her fiancé, Kevin Federline, plays a crucial part at the end.
Spears' mother posted on the singer's Web site Monday, telling fans to keep an eye out for "that good-looking hunk of a son of mine," while also describing some of the shoot itself, and how the production managed to work around the singer's injury.
"Since Britney's knee is unable to do choreography, the video is all about capturing gorgeous close-ups and very subtle movement," Lynne Spears wrote. "It has an element of old Hollywood glamour and mystery."
Part of that mystery, though, comes from the video's story line, which makes it appear that Britney has crashed a party — literally — and needs a new dress after hers is soaked from driving into the pool.
After going to a bedroom and putting on a new dress, she makes her way to the party outside, where people are gathered, looking like they are waiting for someone, something. Only then is it revealed that the dress the singer put on is a wedding dress, and the party she's crashed is her own wedding.
As she walks down the aisle, the groom is then revealed to be Federline, her real-life future husband, according to a source close to Spears, and the video's statement is then made all the more clear, as she sings rebelliously, "It's my prerogative."
Britney and Kevin Actually Getting Married Onstage at VMAs
And speaking of newlyweds -- who could forget last year's Madonna and Britney
wedding-themed kiss. Well, this year's over-the-top Britney in a wedding dress
moment could be the real deal.
MTV wants viewers to believe rumors that Spears and fiancé Kevin Federline might be getting hitched onstage.
"Well, lets put it this way... There is a lot of stages here, some may look like a chapel you never know... It's a good platform to celebrate your love. Lets put it that way," said Calderone.