Man. She *did* look terrible. Sure, her body looks fine, but nothing else did. she looks stoned, for one thing, and she moved very carefully as if she couldn't remember the steps or she was about to fall down, or both.

Her career is on the rocks if that's all she can bring.

>In other words, Google would have paid Viacom for letting the VMA video go to YouTube. Instead, in order to keep the video on its own site, Viacom ran an ad on Google pointing to MTV.<

Google would have paid Viacom only if they actaully had a deal in place, which is extremely unlikely given the current lawsuit.

The VMA video on Youtube does nothing to help Viacom - no ad revenue, no traffic. And it's not promotional; promotion is for things that you want people to watch when the couldn't care less, not for something hot that everybody wants to see.

Viacom got exactly what they wanted, which was a spike in traffic to the MTV site.

... after searching all over YouTube and Google Video to find the clip for my girlfriend who was dying to see it. Let these media dinosaurs trudge on towards extinction. They have repeatedly shown they do not understand nor want to understand how to generate revenue in the digital age. That's fine by me. I'll stick with my unapproved but fast, easy, and unencumbered source for media.

Man, that sucked! I think Brit has always had a personal life that is a trainwreck, but at least she used to put on a good show.

I concur, she looked stoned. Her dancing was um, lame! Her lip synching wasn't believeable at all. It sort of seemed like she thought she could be really lame in her sparkly bikini and people would just swoon. Nope Brit, there is Rihanna now, there are the Pussycat Dolls, you gotta do more than look hot in a bikini to be a "superstar".

Maybe she should beg Justin to hook her up with Timberland.

As for where to find the video, thanks for not making me go to MTV.com! These companies will rail and scream at the internet just like they did at VCR's. Boo hoo, change is coming figure out how to change with it and earn that enormous salary as a CEO instead of just whining about how the staus quo must be maintained.

Anything that prevents people from seeing this video is a good thing.

Britney has not evolved or changed. She's just going through the motions (literally) of what has sold in the past. The song is an uncreative, pre-fab set of styles and poses. I pray that we will not be subjected to it for the next 10 years in malls and elsewhere.

Madonna started this and should be held responsible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W6-vUZLzXE

But it gets even worse.

For non US residents like myself, even if we go to the MTV website to watch her performance we are still told that the video is restricted to be shown outside of the US.

Although I am a fan of hers I'm predicting that the performance itself is anything but exciting...and all this hype and anticipation for us fans to see the video will still not be able to rescue "Gimme More".

Come on folks. Britney is a fine musician. Do you think Ella Fitzgerald or Dame Kiri Te Kanawa could lip sync and dance any better in a bikini. I don't think so.

Making pop records is a producer's medium and this one is no worse than many.

The Britney Spears audience is mostly young women who are in the market for trendy clothes and makeup, so she is promoted for that audience (market). You may remember that it was only a short while ago that she was being marketed as America's Oldest Living Virgin until her maidenhood was stolen when she was impaled by the dastardly lothario Justin Trousersnake, or whatever his name is. From that point onward her descent into degradation and baseness has been precipitous, climaxing in the publication of a photograph in which it appeared that she had not wiped her bottom properly.

However, we dirty old men know that beneath the sleazy exterior, there beats the heart of an innocent young girl who had been badly wronged.

You go, girl!

is:

1. Fat

2. Talentless

3. A drunk

4. A shitty and detached mother (ironic that Kevin Federline is and will always be better a parent than her)

5. Not very attractive, and never was (short, stubby legs that are chunky; long waisted; etc.

6. White trash

7. A borderline moron

I knew it was going to be great television watching her implode, like a slow train wreck, and I wasn't dissappointed.

Those are the only possible explanations for that grotesque "act" she pulled, setting her career back...well, God alone only knows where. She obviously had not rehearsed, was probably hung over, and that costume!!

Spears looks damn good for a woman, even a young one, who has had two children. But the boots and bikini looked trampy, not sexy. And yes, she does need to get back into shape. Her bulging belly was embarassing to look at, and this is pop - like it or not, looks count.

What an incredible disaster. I really feel badly for her...just not too badly.

And fuck Viacom. YouTube is free advertising, and if they'd cut a deal with Google instead of suing them they could make an enormous amount of cash. But they don't, because they're tools and fools.

In pursuit of complete control of its content, Viacom would rather pay Google than take Google's money. Viacom shareholders, are you listening to this?

Avoiding any direct discussion of herself, this has been Viacom/MTV's model for music video promos for decades - they have been notorious for cutting off access to product for any other budding video channel, either by threatening the record companies that produce them or by threatening the cable providers .

Then they decide that MTV doesn't need to show videos anymore! (Yes, I know they show them in the early morning. That's the exception that proves my point.)