She never smiles.

Musically, Ashley's demo is better than this.

I want an anime video of me doing back flips in the lobby where I'm a receptionist, and then juggling styrofoam cups under the water cooler spout, crazily filling them like an acrobat, and then sorting mail with the speed of like a robot.

Oh, and it ends "To Be Continued..." which I thought we stopped doing about ten years ago when the whole mini-movie music video craze began to fade away.

Wasn't R. Kelly still pulling that crap up until last year?

I kind of love this. Damn you crazy (brilliant?) Britney! You always suck me back in!

This is just the next logical step in the progression. Britney Spears™ Music Enterprises doesn't require any participation from the actual, human Britney any longer (participation which, in truth, was probably pretty minimal from the get-go).

Other people write, arrange and produce the music, choreograph and direct the videos and sample and auto-tune her voice to the point that what appears makes it onto the record probably has very little to do with what came out of her mouth. All that's been left for her to do is dance and lip-synch to her music on stage once in a while, and get filmed in videos. The former is now history since the VMA debacle, and now they've removed the latter, too.

I'm guessing they don't really need her to sing these days, either; her voice is probably sampled and encoded to death through banks of computer/synthesizer equipment, and they can probably make her "sing" whatever they want at the touch of a button.

So now she just gets photographed by paparazzi. That's her job. And maybe listens to "herself" ont he radio once in a while, or - now - watches her cartoon self on TV.

It's good to remove the actual, human girl from a money-making music enterprise like this. Much less messy, and more efficient.

did Madhouse do this? (oh, this just isn't the right place to ask that question.)

I keep waiting for the pitch for E-Surance at the end.

Also: very approrpriate that this is all "Ghost in the Shell". Isn't that about all that's left of her?

@BK_KT: tooootally. damn it britney, I can't quit you!

Super Britney is here to save the day!

@MisterHippity:

Well, BLACKOUT credits something like seven or eight female vocalists and at least half of the heavily treated singing sounds nothing like her. I think it's pretty clear she was absent for most of the recording. And, for the type of music, there's not a bad track on it.

This new Daft Punk video sucks...

but, but, the animation isn't even GOOD. they could have tried a little bit harder. now it's even harder for me to justify that little place in my heart that still loves The Britney.

This video would work with any number of songs. Any song, really.

I don't get it. I'm scared. I'm hungry. I want a glass of milk. Hold me.