While the world waits for Britney Spears' "Hold It Against Me" video, being doled out in one 5-second scrap at a time, feast your eyes on this re-edit of her ...Baby One More Time-era VHS, Time Out with Britney Spears. This was back when she was funky, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool and capable of delivering a modern anthem like "Email My Heart" ("Everybody's been doing emails!" is her rationale for the song's relatability). It's so amazing to me in this oppressive cards-to-the-chest climate of celebrity sound bites that they allowed a 17-year-old to just babble and babble at a camera with no concern of how inane she was coming off. Aw! I miss the old days. Also, be sure to stick around for her serenade a decidedly latent pre-teen with "Born To Make You Happy." Even though he's at least 10 years her senior, this kid fully aware of how icky that is. Precocious!
ten years her *junior*, no?
Posted by: Esque | February 10, 2011 at 01:21 PM
cool!
Posted by: raina | February 10, 2011 at 02:12 PM
lol that kid looks soo uncomfterble
Posted by: sandraaaaaaa | February 10, 2011 at 02:14 PM
That poor kid! He looks so awkward!
Posted by: Vanessa | February 10, 2011 at 02:30 PM
So THAT'S where Janet got her idea for the Velvet Rope tour.
Posted by: Noah | February 10, 2011 at 05:19 PM
Thanks for sharing that. I loved that video. And you included my favourite email quote. Hilarious.
Posted by: Emily | February 10, 2011 at 06:10 PM
Xavier is thinking "Why is there no sound coming out of your lips but I can hear your voice?"
Vanessa Bayer, who does a dead on Miley Cyrus on SNL, must have seen this at some point cause, it's, like, really cool.
Posted by: Vanessa M | February 10, 2011 at 08:12 PM
Funny to think that this girl became the biggest pop star in the world at one point. She's so not...cool.
Posted by: Merideth | February 10, 2011 at 10:54 PM
If I could make gifs, Rich, I would make a gif of Xavier's expression. It sums up all responses to all pop culture, everywhere, forever.
Thanks for this.
Posted by: Jennifer | February 10, 2011 at 11:00 PM
I lost it every time you cut to her mugging/sunglass lift! This video was like, like um so cool and funky!
Posted by: Trex | February 11, 2011 at 12:26 AM
This video was adorable and really showcases her innocence that I think is still in there somewhere under all the hurt. I hope she can find her way back her again.
great post, it was 'really cool'.
Posted by: Andy S. aka 'O' | February 11, 2011 at 09:30 AM
This video was excellent - such great editing!
Posted by: valerie | February 11, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Very cool, Rich. I just love, um, seeing a video that is so funky, and very, very cool.
Posted by: La_chica | February 11, 2011 at 12:35 PM
Wait, did she just say "goobs"?!
"We started jumping on the bed like total goobs!"
Amazing. I'm stealing that.
Posted by: Rob | February 11, 2011 at 06:03 PM
This is the Britney video my heart has been waiting for for months.
Posted by: Ben | February 11, 2011 at 09:51 PM
This is brilliant. Also brilliant: the category "crazy young ladies" under which you filed this video. I laughed out loud at Xavier's shifty eyes.
Posted by: TyTyBaby | February 11, 2011 at 11:05 PM
I cried of laughter every time the Seinfeld-esque clip of her lifting her stupid sunglasses came up. I miss the 90s.
Posted by: molly | February 12, 2011 at 10:59 AM
Baby Xavier looked so terryfied!
Posted by: m. | February 13, 2011 at 03:43 PM
Woah! I have never actually seen Max Martin. Not at all what I imagined.
Posted by: Eli | February 13, 2011 at 08:29 PM
Gah, this made me so sad. If only Brit Brit could see this now and have a ~breakthrough.
Posted by: Julia | February 14, 2011 at 12:04 AM
Amazing... thank you
Posted by: Jake Lodwick | February 16, 2011 at 10:15 PM
This video footage is really funky. She behave like cool girl.
Posted by: eye lift | February 28, 2011 at 02:20 AM
I did a piece where i extracted every single "baby" that shes ever said in her entire music video career. you should see it.
Posted by: nia burks | February 28, 2011 at 07:05 AM
I'm already a fan of Britney when I was still living in Scottsdale a couple of years ago. Way back, she was so innocent, sweet and charming. Now, almost everything has changed about especially her physical appearance. Did she go to a breast augmentation op? Because I think her breasts are kinda bigger now. And as we can see, girls are more into having a procedure called breast enlargement (Phoenix) which enhances the look of every women.
Posted by: Bettie Comeford | March 02, 2011 at 04:01 AM
This video of her is the one that gives an impression that she is simply talented.hmmm, can't say about that now.
Posted by: kate welsh | April 06, 2011 at 09:53 PM