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Pop princess Britney Spears has landed herself in another controversy. This time- it’s over the new music video for her song, “Criminal.” E! News has a sneak peak…
“She races from the building with her partner in crime. In another shot, the duo are on the run, getaway bags in hand. A trustee sidekick and a metal revolver, looks like Britney is saying Goodbye to her ‘good girl’ image.”
The “Bonnie & Clyde” themed video is shot in Hackney, London. After the recent UK riots, which badly affected East London suburbs, the Hackney council thinks the video is adding salt to wounds.
WENN quotes a local Hackney politician who told London Tonight…
"I think she should apologise and make a sizeable donation to a Hackney charity that deals with young people ... for the rudeness and damage she's done to this community.”
But is the council just overreacting? Digital Spy quotes the MP defending the decision, telling London Tonight…
“It is only a music video but it’s images like this, with pop stars glamorising gangs, which means that some young people … get drawn in. Britney should really know better.”
A writer for Huffington Post thinks it’s the Hackney Council that should have known better.
“Of course, had they read the lyrics sheet, they may have been clued into her intentions. After all, first verse reads, ends with the words, ‘He is a sucker with a gun, gun, gun, gun.’”
Or, does the whole thing reek like a PR stunt? A blogger for Stoke Newington People thinks so…
“Making a global superstar act out thefts on shops in North London six weeks after we hit international headlines for being plundered by hundreds of hood rats does seem like an unlikely thing to forget when choosing locations for a major video shoot. Is this just a PR stunt to get her newest track into the UK limelight?”
The single is off her latest album, 'Femme Fatale' which was released in March.
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