Earlier this week Britney worked all through the night to film the video for her fantastic forthcoming single Piece of Me which is now set for release in the UK on 7th January 2008 – what a way to start the new year!
The video was shot in LA and directed by Wayne Isham who has worked with Britney previously on her I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman album as well as working with artists as far ranging as Metallica to Michael Jackson, N*Sync to Bon Jovi. The video is now in the editing stage and could be hitting our TVs as early as next week. Watch this space to find out more!
Want to see what Britney has to put up with every day? In the following video, you can see Britney going to Target, Starbucks, a bookstore, an underground car park… you know, every exciting place you can think of! Who the hell actually wants to watch/buy this stuff?!
You can see Britney get really pissed off and ask for the police due to the amount of paparazzi (there must have been about 50), then she pushes people out of the way and goes back in the store. Later, she gets harassed in a bookshop and has to run away from them, and even gets followed into the toilet at Starbucks. She had some good words to say about the staff at Target, “Can I just say, that the Target police are definately better than the blue [LAPD]“.
Britney also joked to a cameraman when asked about rumours about her being pregnant again (how many times has she been pregnant this year according to tabloids? 20?). She said “Me and Kevin are getting back together, we’re having twins!”
With the kiddos back with K-Fed, working mother Britney Spears pulled the night shift at a Hollywood club — shooting her new “music” video.
TMZ cameras caught Spears leaving restaurant/club Social around 6:30 AM, where her new video for “Piece of Me” had been filming since 9:30 PM Tuesday. Spears both arrived and departed in her pajamas, with Sam driving the new Britmobile.
Cameras caught the video’s director, Wayne Isham, after the shoot — who had only good things to say, like, “She’s a beautiful professional!” Of course she is!
Balancing mommy duty and her music career – it’s all in day’s work for Britney Spears.
After spending Tuesday with her two sons Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, Spears switched into pop-star mode, arriving at L.A. restaurant and nightclub Social Hollywood to shoot the video for her tabloid-bashing single “Piece of Me” – the second single off her album Blackout. (It’s being directed by Wayne Isham, who helmed Spears’s “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” video.)
Spears and her backup dancers donned identical blonde bob wigs and black trench coats. The premise? “The paparazzi are following [Britney], so they’re dressed alike to trick them,” a source close to Spears tells PEOPLE. “They all go into a club to get away. One [photographer] sneaks in, but Britney, in the end, discovers him.”
The stakes are high for Spears, whose video for “Gimme More” was poorly received when it was released in October. (The song itself, however, was a hit.) “[Spears] is really freaked out about everything,” said the source. “She’s just really nervous and feels like everyone might make fun of her again.”
“Blackout” has fallen 14 places to #50 this week on the official UK album chart.
Meanwhile, “Gimme More” has fallen 5 places to #18 in the singles chart. The song has had a really good chart run so far, all things considered. The song has sold over 100,000 copies in the UK alone.
While lawyers were in two L.A. courthouses Monday arguing over her various driving violations and custody issues, Britney Spears spent her time readying for her next musical move: a new video.
Usmagazine.com has learned that production on the video for her single “Piece of Me” is scheduled to begin Tuesday at 8 a.m. at the Hollywood Athletic Club. A source tells Us that the video will be directed by Wayne Isham, who helmed the video for the 2002 Brit hit, “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman.”
A set source tells Us that since Spears, 25, has a scheduled visit with sons Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, on Tuesday, she will only be available to film for two hours, between noon and 2 p.m. During that time she will shoot scenes where she dances on a bar and runs down a staircase. There will be 15 extras, as well as a body double for Brit.
Meanwhile, at a hearing in her ongoing custody battle with ex Kevin Federline on Monday, lawyers for both Spears and Federline discussed holiday visitation plans and whether a representative for Child and Family Services should have access to sealed case documents.
Following the hearing, court spokesperson Allen Parachini told reporters: “There was a great deal of interaction over issues that were important to the parties. There was an order made relating to DCFS access to the files. There were extensive discussions over a visitation agreement over the holiday period. Holiday visitation will be different from the existing schedule. There was another matter discussed that I can’t discuss. The next court hearing is January 23.”
The first decision was in regard to the Dept. of Children & Family Services’ petition for the unedited report on Britney’s parenting abilities. When the minutes of the hearing are released tomorrow, it might be revealed whether or not the Dept. was granted full access.
The second was about modifications in the visitation schedule for the upcoming holiday period, which has been “significantly modified.” It is believed that the court has likely allowed Britney extra days to spend with the boys, perhaps even allowing her to take them out of town for a short time.
The third ruling remains a mystery, with the court press officer saying only that he “couldn’t discuss” it. However, insiders believe this ruling is likely tied to either Brit’s reportedly positive drug tests, or her rather public driving incidents.
While many had expected that today’s hearing in the ongoing custody war between Britney Spears and Kevin Federline would be a day with at least a handful of final, definitive rulings handed down from the court, the legal eagle for wannabe rapper K-Fed tells OK! that, in actuality, things are far from over.
“It’s not like in a civil trial where an order will be handed down to resolve the case,” Mark Vincent Kaplan explained to OK! after Monday’s hearing. “In family court, a case can go on as long as the children are minors.”
Well, considering the oldest of the two boys is barely 26 months old, that could mean almost two more decades of courtroom showdowns. Does Kaplan see any hope for a resolution in the near future? “I have to say that much will be resolved at the April hearing when we expect the evaluation will be done,” he tells OK!. “You can’t expect to go to a full hearing if one set of evaluations is not complete.”
As of now, the lawyers aren’t set to duke it out until after the New Year. But as we’ve seen, that can change in the blink of an eye — or a stop light.
Seen as Britney has thankfully been keeping her head down lately, there hasn’t been much to update with. Here are “Break The Ice” and “Ooh Ooh Baby” played on the piano.
Here is the first good remix of Britney’s next single that I’ve heard. It’s not official, but it’s quite good. It’s the Sam998899 American Dream Remix.
One of Britney’s dancers, Criscilla Crossland, has added a new blog to her MySpace profile saying that she will be filming a new music video soon. Criscilla, who danced for Britney on the House of Blues tour earlier this year, and the “Gimme More” and “Do Somethin’” music videos, doesn’t say who the video is for, but it’s pretty obvious it’s for Britney. She updated just before she shot the “Gimme More” video too.
She says, “I guarantee it will be hot,” she adds that fans “will be pleased”.
