Britney Spears: The Videos (1998)
Over the years, various music videos of Spears have been hailed for their major impact on pop culture and are deemed amongst the most influential music videos of all time. At the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, she was honored with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, presented to her by Lady Gaga, who said "the industry would not be the same without her". Spears ranked at four on VH1's 50 Greatest Women of the Video Era list, ahead of most of her contemporaries and behind only veterans such as Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Whitney Houston. In 2020, Billboard ranked her eight on its 100 Greatest Music Video Artists of All Time list.
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Episode 1 - Me Against the Music
Release Date: 2003-10-21The video starts with Spears going into a New York nightclub. Madonna, who is in a room filled with men smoking cigars, observes her from television monitors throughout the club. This is followed with Spears performing a dance routine inside a blacklight paint graffiti room, and the two women dancing around a metal bedframe. Spears then begins chasing Madonna in a wooden-like maze, and the latter enters a room covered with fallen leaves and stands in a swing. Once Spears finds the room, Madonna is nowhere to be found.
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Episode 2 - Toxic
Release Date: 2004-01-13Spears appears with blonde hair dressed as a flight attendant, lifting the in-flight intercom as if on a phone call. After serving some of the passengers, she "accidentally" spills a drink into the lap of a seated male passenger; later beckoning a middle-aged, overweight, bespectacled male passenger to the bathroom where she seduces him. Spears then appears, completely re-dressed, and takes a ride on the back of a Ducati 999. Spears then enters Toxic Industries and gains access to a vault from which she steals a vial of green poison. The action narrative is repeatedly intercut with scenes of Spears, on all fours on the floor, wearing only diamonds.
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Episode 3 - Everytime
Release Date: 2004-04-12It features Spears as a pop star fighting with a male companion as she is hounded by paparazzi. She starts to drown in her bathtub after bleeding from a head wound. In the hospital, doctors fail to resuscitate her, while simultaneously a child is born in the next room.