After years of being a straight hot mess, you remember: the bad hair weaves, crotch flashes sans panties to the papparazzi, rehab stints and let’s not even mention that painful comeback performance that wasn’t on the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, Britney Spears should feel lucky to be accused of glamorizing anything.
The 29-year-old pop star has come under fire after filming scenes in the United Kingdom for her new video, “Criminal,” the fourth single off Femme Fatale. During the Bonnie-and-Clyde-style video shoot, Brit Brit, along with her agent and boyfriend Jason Trawick, fake rob a Hackney convenience store with a plastic revolver. Because, like, how else are you going to rob a store, right? Despite the clearly fictional scene, Britney is being targeted by London’s Hackney Council for shooting the video in the Hackney borough which experienced devastation after anti-government riots ravished the area this past summer.
“We did not agree that a replica gun could be used at Stoke Newington Town Hall and we are disappointed,” said Hackney Councilor Ian Rathbone. “We will be raising this matter with the production company. I think she should apologize and make a sizeable donation to a Hackney charity that deals with young people, in compensation for the rudeness and damage that she’s done to our community.”
Hackney’s Member of Parliament, Diane Abbott, added, “It is only a music video, but it’s images like this, with pop stars glamorizing gangs, which means that some young people get drawn in. Britney should really know better.”
Britney knowing better? Well that’s a stretch but the diva’s camp did respond, stating, “The video is a fantasy story featuring Britney’s boyfriend, Jason Trawick, which literally plays out the lyrics of a song written three years before the riots ever happened.”
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