Britney Spears’ VMA Performance: What Might Have Been
It’s been two months since the Video Music Awards, although the post-traumatic stress from that night is still raging around my consciousness, which is why I watched the above video–featuring the original choreography for Britney Spears’ performance of “Gimme More”–with a little bit of fear. Would I be brought back to that tornado of jagged edits, drunkenness, and bad one-liners through the power of a leaked clip?
Well… no. While the video does shed some light on the “hotness” of the dance as it was intended (complete with crotch-grab at 1:38, which I guess I missed during the first go-round, and the second, and the Zapruder-film thing, or maybe she missed it–the split-screen version really doesn’t help much), really, the whole thing just seems, as Jess astutely called at 9:01 p.m. on that fateful night, like a slightly updated version of Paula Abdul’s “Cold Hearted” video, only without the scaffolding, and with less of the “tastefully hot” thing going on (cf. crotch grab):
Come to think of it, the two songs kind of sound alike, don’t they?
