Joseph Kahn directed Britney Spears’ “Perfume” music video off the Britney Jean album, though it famously didn’t go according to plan. “The video’s actually done in two parts,” Kahn tells us. “The first part was she meets this guy, and it’s random, she’s beautiful, they fall in love. In my head I wanted to embrace all the **** people used to complain about her, like her being white trash and walking around with bare feet, and I wanted to use all that iconography and say ‘now here’s the super ****ing ‘Perfume’ commercial of it.’ I put her in jeans, I didn’t have her in her big chunky boots, dressed her down and made it look like an anti-Britney. The first part of the video is that, but then you find out she’s killing people and she’s an assassin and halfway through the video, you find out the guy she’s having this relationship with… she has to kill him.” “It’s like ‘La Femme Nikita,’ and then I actually break the song, and there’s a moment in the middle where she’s about to kill him, and she doesn’t,” he continues. “Here’s where it gets a little weird… it turns into a metaphor. Suddenly you see another girl come into the picture, and that girl takes her place. Britney the character doesn’t kill him, and the second half of the video is her waiting in a motel room. Then, we actually see the two characters that she didn’t kill go on and get married and have a life. Meanwhile, the people that hired her basically come in and beat the **** out of her, and we see her suffering as these other people thrive. She gave that gift to him. In my head, it was a metaphor for how… in certain types of relationships you may love someone so much and they will never know that gift that you gave them. It’s that type of love. To me it’s almost like how I view the idealistic version of what women do. Women, if they’re great mothers, they give so much to their kids, give so much to their partners, and they feel so much pain – this beautiful pain that I think traditionally is a female thing, and I wanted to express it as a metaphor.” ( x )

Originally posted by jomarr Was about to post this

Originally posted by NOW So, they actually did film these scenes?

I'm gonna mark my territory!



I wish they'd released the original version. The actual is so boring.

I don't think this will ever leak. Gimme More's 'original' video only leaked because it was on the director's (?) website and nobody bothered to check there.

Originally posted by Kaes Joseph Kahn seems to really like using murder plots.

Originally posted by MrMinum I don't think this will ever leak. Gimme More's 'original' video only leaked because it was on the director's (?) website and nobody bothered to check there.