Britney Spears’ brand new video for “Break the Ice” debuted today. Like I posted yesterday the thing is all kinds of crazy anime and was supposedly Britney’s idea. I seriously doubt she has a single clue what’s going down in this video but it’s, admittedly, kind of badass. She probably just stared at the pretty colors and clapped her hands until someone brought her a cookie. Coincidentally, for her next video, Britney wants to be played by an Oreo which, for the sake of accuracy, will be Double Stuffed.
Thanks to Paul who’s a Fullmetal Hardass.
Video: MySpaceTV
Igottabemeeee | March 12, 2008 at 7:29 pm
You can’t make me watch it! You’re not the boss of me.
gttabme | March 12, 2008 at 7:29 pm
k thats a weird vid
Snarf | March 12, 2008 at 7:34 pm
It’s cool if you turn off the volume.
granada | March 12, 2008 at 7:34 pm
It’s a little bit like “Toxic.” I don’t blame them for using a cartoon instead of the real thing.
joeypants | March 12, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Noticed a few “Matrix” rip-offs…
meanmofo | March 12, 2008 at 7:35 pm
It actually looks good…probably because she’s not in it!
Igottabemeeee | March 12, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Suckers! It contains subliminal messages! You will be buying Cheetos and Starbucks before the day is out. Mark my words.
ksp | March 12, 2008 at 7:37 pm
SUCKED!!! We need the old Brit. back, her music and moves are much better than this crap!!
bia | March 12, 2008 at 7:39 pm
the beginning is strangely similar to a scene in ghost in a shell
Guy | March 12, 2008 at 7:40 pm
To be fair this video could have been applied to any one of her new songs, it doesn’t have a topic, nor is it related to the song, still fits however.
kitty_kat | March 12, 2008 at 7:41 pm
The anime to represent musician isn’t anything original. I specifically remember Aaliyah doing it for her album promo. Don’t know if anyone did it before her…
AL7AIR | March 12, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Dye her hair purple, shorten it, and you got yourself a very short episode of Ghost in the Shell (the opening shots are almost identical) with a little bit Jin Roh and Cowboy Bebop thrown in.
alice | March 12, 2008 at 7:45 pm
i hate anime AND britney
Mrah | March 12, 2008 at 7:51 pm
#4
Agreed, that was ridiculously similar to Toxic.
HoLy | March 12, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Simply A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!!
i love it!
So perfect!
So symbolic!
So Britney!
Anonymous | March 12, 2008 at 7:56 pm
That wasn’t too bad. It was nothing but pastiche and not all that original, but it was competently directed and plotted.
manda | March 12, 2008 at 7:56 pm
i thought it was total shit
Igottabemeeee | March 12, 2008 at 8:05 pm
This only proves that anime’ stopped being cool 20 years ago. Once it has been co-opted by Brit it has already jumped the shark.
mer | March 12, 2008 at 8:11 pm
They should have made the anime chick fat. Then I would have recognized her as Britney.
NeoDeGenero | March 12, 2008 at 8:15 pm
anime just got screwed over…
Darci | March 12, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I’m in agreement with 3, 9, and 12. I was starkly reminded of Ghost in the Shell. I was actually pretty happy with the idea to make it a cartoon. It removes a lot of her influence (it can anyway). But for all the creative effort that went into it, they may as well have just used footage from say, “America’s Funniest Home Videos” for all the plot mattered.
Ross | March 12, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Ummm… it’s Ghost in the Shell intro scene (Almost IDENTICAL), then it’s Kill Bill’s animé scenes, then it rips off the Matrix animes, this is the least original animated (non-parody) animé I’ve ever seen.
salient | March 12, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Thats right GHOST IN THE SHELL!
WHAT THE FSCK???
This is some bullshiat right here!!
There were even similarities in the scene with the blond in that tube.
It was like Ghost in the Shell meets the worhtless skank Aeon Flux!!
What a piece of crap.
Ross | March 12, 2008 at 8:23 pm
and #8, are you a masochist?
yukadoozer | March 12, 2008 at 8:27 pm
doobie:$5
Cable TV:$80
Inspirational Saturday AM Cartoons:Priceless
bobbo | March 12, 2008 at 8:28 pm
It looks like the, seemingly unfortunate, love child of Pokemon and Sluterella. Much to the chagrin of the Japanese manga culture.
Sorry
Randal | March 12, 2008 at 8:29 pm
KICK ASS!
What a great video to go along with such a great album! This will be the TOP video soon enough and even better, it’s to be continued which means we haven’t seen the last of this pop princess.
GREAT JOB ON THE VIDEO BRIT!
Love ya! xoxo
Frank Lucas' Bitch | March 12, 2008 at 8:32 pm
I loved the actual video (although it made no sense) and I love anime. However, the song is real shit (it’s Brtiney so that’s no surprise) and so the video, therefore, sucks big ass. Too bad, if somebody else used it, it would have been better.
Edeath | March 12, 2008 at 8:49 pm
yawn!
Heidi | March 12, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I love the whole album!! I dance to it on the way to work ALL the time!!
missy | March 12, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I knew I hated anime for a reason.
Jade | March 12, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I don’t like Britney’s music. I haven’t listened to much from her for a while except for snippets of the flops from her last album. But oddly, I liked this song.. I liked the techno sound.
What the Fuck | March 12, 2008 at 9:01 pm
why the fuck are so many people here saying that Britney’s album is good, has the whole world gone crazy? you people don’t belong on the superficial
xcents | March 12, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Looks like any other shit anime to me. Lots of non-motion
HoLy | March 12, 2008 at 9:06 pm
to 33
Dha! We can love Britney and her albums, and we can like the superficial too!
DHAA!!!!
HoLy | March 12, 2008 at 9:06 pm
to 33
Dha! We can love Britney and her albums, and we can like the superficial too!
DHAA!!!!
Sarah | March 12, 2008 at 9:08 pm
The new cd isn’t bad, actually. Many reviewers are saying just that.
I have to admit, if this were a show, I’d watch it. I thought it was kick ass.
It did make me miss the old Britney though. I hope she gets back on track and makes a good comeback.
Hey, if anyone told me Christina Aguilera was going to stop being a skank and turn her image around, I’d have laughed at you. But she did it.
ELF Radio | March 12, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Kind of bad-ass?
That, sir, was embarrassing shite. A tepid rip-off of Ghost in the Shell featuring a grinning mannequin with horse lips and hot pants. Clunky action, ridiculous plot, and oh, an unlistenable song.
As an anime fan, i call shenanigans.
where's the real hot Britney? | March 12, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Good, now I wanna see the real, formerly crazy hot Britney Spears back on her next video, not a cartoon trying to replace her.
Jimbo | March 12, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Just saw pictures of Eliot Spitzer’s call girl.
Now I understand. Completely.
yomomma | March 12, 2008 at 9:38 pm
that was stupid. it had nothing to do with the song lyrics & had a lesbian undertone with the whole “making out with the frozen chick behind glass” thing. she’s washed up.
sheridan | March 12, 2008 at 9:39 pm
That actually was entertaining to watch. Kind of a Aeon Flux meets the Matrix.
peeps | March 12, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Look I’m a girl and not a geek so I don’t get this shit. The last cartoon I watched was beauty and the beast and belle was hotter than this cartoon and the beast is hotter than present day batshit crazy Britney.
The lady (who looks nothing like Brit ,she wishes she was that tall and lean) has weird thin lips and the video is messy and all over the place it has no real point, no real story, it could have been really well done but, it’s not.
P.S. Superfish revealed WAY too much of himself by complementing this
and Randal that better be a joke, the last thing we need is our own literary Chris Crocker because here at the Superficial we will NEVER leave Britney alone.
Jenny | March 12, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Dude, that looked like a crappy AMV. I love Brit’s album (God help me), but that is probably the worst video I’ve ever seen.
The Duke of Funk | March 12, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Yeah, this is not anime. This is a blatant rip-off of action animes converted into a choppy, plotless pile of drivel. There’s nothing original about it.
A A L I Y A H | March 12, 2008 at 10:19 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVj-gLW-Hs
I respect Britney for venturing out & trying something new…
but she blatently ripped the late A A L I Y A H off.
Aaliyah said herself that she doesn’t fancy copy-cats.
I watched all of Britney’s passed videos the other night
& her DVD for “In the Zone”…
It’s becomes very clear that this is a girl who was used by her label.
They fed her every word, every breath, she did not have a mind of her own.
They made her what she is today…
A A L I Y A H | March 12, 2008 at 10:19 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkVj-gLW-Hs
I respect Britney for venturing out & trying something new…
but she blatently ripped the late A A L I Y A H off.
Aaliyah said herself that she doesn’t fancy copy-cats.
I watched all of Britney’s passed videos the other night
& her DVD for “In the Zone”…
It’s becomes very clear that this is a girl who was used by her label.
They fed her every word, every breath, she did not have a mind of her own.
They made her what she is today…
an9elboy | March 12, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Nope, I don’t like it at all. It’s just another lame slack-as5 attempt at putting out a video that is a half-assed [attempted] cover-up of the state of Ms Spears.
To me, it just looks like this is a project someone was already working on — for starters the chick in the video doesn’t even look like Britney at all, for the most part — that some producer or whoever thought may be ripe for hi-jacking and passing off as a music video.
Secondly, where is the lip-synch? Had this character sung along in the video to the lyrics then I might have thought this collection of anime images was actually MEANT to be a Britney Spears video.
Overall, another cop-out (in my opinion!)
ANDY
IN LOVE W/ JIMBO | March 12, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Whatever happened to her trying at Millenium Dance Studio, specifically for this music video “Break the Ice.”
I agree with Andy full heartedly.
Oh Brit, Brit…I ate a bag of Cheetos today & thought of you.
Jimbo I want you to spred your seed in my garden.
an9elboy | March 12, 2008 at 10:29 pm
**Oh, I just had a thought.
This video looks like nothing more than a fan video on YouTube, with a song set to images from a completely irrelevant anime cartoon (that isn’t even very good).