It is reported that Spears made over $500,000 from this music video from the brands featured in it alone. One-second clips in the video begin like a montage of dollar signs for endorsements including Britney’s own Radiance perfume (which, by the way smells like rotten berries), Make-Up Forever concealer… then the dating website PlentyofFish. The focus of this music video is Britney making love to the camera. I Wanna Go (2011)īritney gets searched by a cop on a Volkswagen, whose rims glisten as the camera pans on the action of the cop slowly making his way down Britney’s body. Fitting attire for a song dedicated to Britney being a ringleader of a…circus. It begins with Britney spraying her brand name perfume and putting on Bvlgari jewels. As if we’re supposed to believe anyone uses a Nokia to sext. Post meltdown-shaved-head, Britney’s immensely catchy “Womanizer” features a Nokia phone. Sbarro pizza even makes a branded appearance. This was the first product placement in a Britney Spears music video - 10 years ago! Britney shows up to a party to meet Madonna in a Mazda! Careful focus is zoomed on the car’s logo and the angled parking job to show the car’s curves. Britney’s next single is rumored to be titled “Perfume.” Imagine the product placement possibilities. In celebration of “Work Bitch,” here are the top Britney Spears music videos with product placement. The Queen of Sexual Innuendos changes to so obviously and shamelessly plugging products. We first bought the idea that Britney was a virgin Catholic school girl in “…Baby, One More Time” and now we’re buying actual things because they are in a Britney video. The crazier Britney got, the more accelerated the product placements were in her music videos to distract us from everything else. A remix of the song only enforces the brainwashing.
But, it’s a whole other money ball game when those endorsements turn into product placements so heavily focused on in the music video, that it feels like you’re looking at a very expensive commercial and dancing in nightclubs to a jingle. Even athletes make a majority of their income from brand endorsements and being spokespeople for the brand– which Britney is not (have you seen her speaking skills on the US‘ X-Factor?) Yet, BritBrit is no stranger to endorsements she signed a multi-million deal with Pepsi in 2004 and even starred in their actual commercial.
Banned in the UK from being broadcast on TV before 10 pm, the video features a Lamborghini whose spotlights are used to shine on a thrusting Spears Beats by Dr.Dre is used as a gag for a female model and Spears’ own perfume Fantasy Twist is a nauseating reminder of the sex appeal we are promised to gain from the little bottle.Īrtists are no strangers to endorsements and being brand reps. After several teaser videos in anticipation of Britney Spears’ new music video “Work Bitch,” the public received a music video acting as an advertisement on some of the items they too can one day be objectified by if they work hard and slutty enough for.