Britney Spears: The 2nd anniversary of "Womanizer"
This day 2 years ago (September 26th, 2008), the infectious Womanizer, Britney's third single in 2008 was released, after a six month gap, in which she recuperated from her health issues, the first single from her sixth studio album, written and produced by two relatively unknown Atlanta producers, Nikesha Briscoe & Rafael Akinyemi, better known as The Outsyders. The track, now one of Britney's signature songs, with a stunning video from Joseph Kahn, helped the Queen of Pop get her second #1 in the US and her eight worldwide #1 single.
The Grammy nominated futuristic pop masterpiece peaked at #1 for 2 weeks on the worldwide top 40 chart becoming Britney's eight #1 single and has sold over 5.5 million copies ending up as one of the best-selling selling singles of the year and one of the best-selling singles of all-time. The single became Britney's second US #1, breaking the record for the largest jump to #1 and the largest jump to any position in the history of the chart, jumping from #96 to #1. It also garnered first-week download sales of 286,000 copies, the biggest opening-week tally by a female artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking digital downloads in 2003 and went on to sell over 3 million downloads becoming Britney's best-selling single in the US.
When asked about the song during a live interview in October 2008, Britney described it as a girls' anthem and named it her favorite song on the album. The critics welcomed the single naming it the perfect comeback single and the single of the year as well, praising the genius hook and complementing Britney, saying she seems most at ease as she's playing the teasing vamp.
The concept for the music video was created by Brtiney as a sequel to the music video for "Toxic". The video portrays Britney as a woman with three alter egos (a secretary wearing horn-rimmed glasses and a pencil skirt, a redhaired waitress in a restaurant and a chauffeur) who follows her boyfriend through his daily activities to expose him in the end by revealing that she was all the three women he was "womanizing" all along, mixed with the scenes of Britney naked in a steam room, all oiled-up writhing around in nothing but a smile, as a response to the attacks she had received over the years about her weight. The video received highly positive reviews, with many critics calling it arguably the best music video of her career and it was considered as a return to form for her, a welcome return to the Britney we love: gorgeous, gyrating, greased up and gamely playing the vamp. The music video became a worldwide success, gaining seven million viewers on the internet in less than 48 hours. It was listed as the best video of 2008 by MTV and won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video.
its a great song, but seriously its not ICONIC! CIRCUS deserves to be #1 more than WOMANIZER in my opinion? i even think 3 is better, and 3 isn't even close to BRITNEY best song!
anyway, i cant wait for THE QUEEN B to slay my life all over againnnnn. Brit should really release her single this week, so she can use all these GLEE HYPES as part of her FREE promotion
ICONIC
