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  • @Mj-id3fj
    @Mj-id3fj 3 роки тому +207

    This mv was 3 years before her breakdown...and it’s crazy how every scene in this mv literally foreshadowed her life. Thank God she’s still alive today. So strong.

    • @Michellef1117
      @Michellef1117 3 роки тому +5

      Seriously. There was a time when that guy Sam Lufti was in her life that I was worried this would be true.

    • @toyangrn
      @toyangrn 3 роки тому +11

      Honestly now looking back to some of her songs i think it really foreshadowed her life ahead sadly. But i hope sooner she'll have the freedom and a normal life she ever dreamed of.

    • @paablooooo
      @paablooooo 3 роки тому

      Hey oomf

    • @siumahin9049
      @siumahin9049 3 роки тому +3

      I can imagine she's dead inside when she performed Lucky on the vegas show, that song literally predicted her future and there she is singing that song by force on stage

    • @ChandraLeigh
      @ChandraLeigh 3 роки тому +3

      Britney never had a breakdown. The paparazzi just harassed her and turned her reaction into “Britney has lost her mind”...She shaved her head while her friend got a tattoo..Britney didn’t want a tattoo, but while talking to the tattoo artist... she wanted to release something and he suggested she shave her head. She declinecat first, and then realized her hair held a lot of bad history and was damaged from all the extensions... so she did it. The paparazzi were always following her.. that day she asked them to get away from her car... they wouldn’t. So she got out and grabbed an umbrella from her backseat and threatened them with it. They shot a photo that night and used it with the headline “Britney has gone crazy!” Poor girl could never catch a break. 🙏🏼💛

  • @Yayomeow
    @Yayomeow 3 роки тому +146

    Britney wrote this song and came up with the piano melody herself.

  • @uindyloveable
    @uindyloveable 3 роки тому +90

    I really love that you said, “Everyone has an opinion but not everyone needs to hear it”. Perfectly put. 👏🏻 We all need to do a better job at minding our business.

  • @erin6621
    @erin6621 3 роки тому +60

    This was before she even married Kevin and had kids. People have pointed out that it predicts her Vegas residency and being taken away in an ambulance with the paparazzi in pursuit.

  • @danicao5010
    @danicao5010 3 роки тому +50

    I remember watching the episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch when Britney was a guest star. Sabrina was talking about how lonely she felt since moving to Paris to live with her dad and when Britney said she knew how that felt, Sabrina couldn't understand why. She made the comment about how Britney was always surrounded by people and Britney replied "Sometimes that's the loneliest place." That one sentence spoke volumes about what she was feeling & going through even then. It's heartbreaking how none of the people around her, ever really seemed to have her best interest, including her family. She was just money in their eyes.

  • @Ivashaaa
    @Ivashaaa 3 роки тому +95

    You’d love “overprotected” by her. She hasn’t performed it since before 07. It’s pretty clear why, her team doesn’t want the song preformed bc it’s so telling of Britneys situation!

    • @tomasleon3148
      @tomasleon3148 3 роки тому +4

      Since 2004*

    • @dmvsav
      @dmvsav 3 роки тому +9

      The Darkchild Remix song and music video is sooooo goood!

    • @marklouis1890
      @marklouis1890 3 роки тому +5

      Overprotected is one of my favorite Britney songs

  • @brinaf2857
    @brinaf2857 3 роки тому +52

    I'm an EMT, this type of thing happens in the lives of "normal" people too...I had to tell people to back off more than once while trying to help someone in a car accident or someone who had any type of problem in a public place.
    It actually makes me very angry.
    It's not a show people, I understand curiosity but do not hinder our work, we're trying to save lives here!

  • @ashlynncoleman9360
    @ashlynncoleman9360 Рік тому +4

    even the paprazzi followed britney in the ambulance and documanted her shaving her head. britney spears deserves a lot of support because her sister and father are just not giving to her. britney is a walking legend and she is why i decided to have my own music career of my own

  • @Josemanuel-sv8xq
    @Josemanuel-sv8xq 3 роки тому +142

    The original suicide was Britney overdosing on pills, but her team thought it was too intense. Then, they forced her to add the final scene of her coming out the tub to imply that she didn’t really die, which ruined the video’s message.

    • @JohnnyHandsometm
      @JohnnyHandsometm 3 роки тому +10

      I feel like her going unconscious and then drowning in the tub from the wound on her head from the camera is way more intense.

    • @Alex-rh8mr
      @Alex-rh8mr 3 роки тому +5

      @@JohnnyHandsometm that part hit my younger self soo hard when I saw that part😭😭

  • @zaqqaz
    @zaqqaz Рік тому +3

    This song is even more sad now that we know what is was specifically about.

  • @1omarella
    @1omarella 3 роки тому +54

    The end scene of Britney coming out of the tub was not the original. The record label made her have an alternate ending.

  • @RandomBeing
    @RandomBeing 3 роки тому +51

    The Things this Women had to put up with are insane. People may say "Yeah but atleast shes famous/rich/whatever" yeah so was chester bennigton.

    • @NightmareKhaos
      @NightmareKhaos 3 роки тому +9

      To piggyback on what you said just because someone is rich and famous does not mean they are happy because mostly they put on a façade of being happy when deep inside they’re hurting and falling apart

    • @yamiswife101
      @yamiswife101 3 роки тому +4

      🎵And they say: she’s so lucky. She’s a star.🎵

    • @RandomBeing
      @RandomBeing 3 роки тому

      @@NightmareKhaos piggyback all you want its important :)

    • @RandomBeing
      @RandomBeing 3 роки тому

      @@yamiswife101 exactly. also thx for the earworm :D its on my playlist since billy reacted to it :D

    • @Izaan2810
      @Izaan2810 3 роки тому +1

      True. Spot on!!

  • @honestlytelling7481
    @honestlytelling7481 3 роки тому +3

    The paparazzi was exactly like that when she was taken from her home on that stretcher going into the ambulance in real life

  • @Cassandra.Northcott17
    @Cassandra.Northcott17 3 роки тому +20

    This music video hit me HARD when I saw it for the first time, and I always wondered why no one talked about it. She was always dropping hints.
    Please Overprotected next 💕

  • @RaisaMendozaMakeup
    @RaisaMendozaMakeup 3 роки тому +1

    Fun fact is that the label made her add the scene of her emerging from the Tub. She intended for the video to end w her apparent death.

  • @alexisessome6412
    @alexisessome6412 3 роки тому +54

    Billy This song was in response to Justin Timberlake’s Cry Me A River ❤️

    • @moonglow630
      @moonglow630 3 роки тому +2

      Never knew there was a response

    • @candaceleon1724
      @candaceleon1724 3 роки тому

      It's much more than that

    • @santangelogaia19
      @santangelogaia19 3 роки тому

      That speaks volumes on their personalities 😎😎 Justin wanted revenge when he had his responsabilities and was disrespectful towards a woman who loved him while her was asking sorry among other issues when she was not the only responsible 😭😭

  • @toyangrn
    @toyangrn 3 роки тому +24

    That Framing Britney Spears docu is an eye opener especially to American society but it is sad it tooked them all those years for them to realized now that they have ruined so many celebrity / women / young artist lives.

  • @ouroboros253
    @ouroboros253 Рік тому +3

    7:25 the most saddest part is that it actually happened...she was taken to facilitty on 31 st jan 2008 without her own decision :(

  • @awesomeyou6815
    @awesomeyou6815 Рік тому +4

    The real reason why she made this makes it even sadder

  • @cruzinbosco
    @cruzinbosco 3 роки тому +16

    This song always kills me, especially back then, as it's clearly so much about life after Justin. The line "without my wings" gets me so much, knowing her symbol was always a fairy (it was even part of her signature back then), and in Justin's video, you have him knocking one over or destroying it (can't remember). The song just HURTS.
    Listening to this again after all these years has also made me see how similar Selena Gomez's life has become to her. It's weird enough that the guy's name is the same, but how she's had to deal with the mental pain from the end of a relationship to even once again using the wings as a metaphor in her recent single. At one point, she was even singing Britney's songs at concerts while going through similar feelings.

  • @meagan6864
    @meagan6864 3 роки тому +3

    Paparazzi actually shot a picture of her in the back of the ambulance when her breakdown was taking place. #FreeBritney

  • @princesskagome1986
    @princesskagome1986 2 роки тому +1

    So i found thus out recently that she wrote this song about her anf Justine Timberlakes break up. she knew it was her fault and she knows what she did, and she was heartbroken over it but she still felt bad hurting him the way she did. knowing that now you can hear it in the lyrics.

  • @mommyspikervlogs792
    @mommyspikervlogs792 3 роки тому +5

    Early 2000s, this video. Who would've thought Britney will have her LV residency later on? This is her response to JT' Cry Me A River. At least they don't use a JT look-a-like!

  • @a_marie
    @a_marie 3 роки тому +3

    They also showed her in the ambulance in that documentary and the paparazzi still did not care.

  • @vladmoriendi
    @vladmoriendi 3 роки тому +1

    My favorite Britney song.

  • @MCMNasty2
    @MCMNasty2 3 роки тому +13

    This hits so different after that documentary.

  • @Jessss4
    @Jessss4 3 роки тому +2

    Britney is truly an icon. This video is simply amazing, she wrote and came up with the whole concept herself too, other than her coming back to life at the end.. her team made her add that. Britney is too pure for this world & deserves so much better than what has happened to her
    #FreeBritney

  • @cherylwaite3255
    @cherylwaite3255 3 роки тому +1

    Wow yes I agree, thanks Billy

  • @deannawalker7022
    @deannawalker7022 3 роки тому +4

    This is such an emotional video. Brings tears to my eyes...

  • @monkeybrown5218
    @monkeybrown5218 3 роки тому +13

    She wrote this song because of the pain she caused Justin. This was a really dark and beautiful song.

  • @ameliamiller3431
    @ameliamiller3431 3 роки тому +4

    This song gives me chills every single time. I haven’t seen this in years. Thanks for the amazing content. You’re discovering new music and we’re rediscovering a lot of it with you!

  • @marybree6719
    @marybree6719 3 роки тому +2

    STEPS! Look up Tragedy I was obsessed with them too

  • @Justamy1973
    @Justamy1973 3 роки тому +4

    She’s extra beautiful in “Lucky”

  • @shaa3706
    @shaa3706 3 роки тому +4

    Yes, Billy the part of the doc that you talked about made me so mad. He said that when she said “leave me alone” she meant that day because she didn’t say “leave me alone forever”. Which is one of the most idiotic things I’ve ever heard cause she also didn’t say “leave me alone today” she just said to leave her alone. This is one of the saddest videos for sure though and the fact that it basically predicted her breakdown and the treatment she got during that time 3 years later is still so scary.

  • @JeffreyD44
    @JeffreyD44 3 роки тому +2

    This song/ video is very deep and I loved your reaction and talking! No complaints. Thank you sir.

  • @valeriefischer8791
    @valeriefischer8791 3 роки тому +16

    This video is sad and that everyone needs their space no matter who they are

  • @sarahfrench6522
    @sarahfrench6522 3 роки тому +1

    This is my favorite song and video of hers!!

  • @davidprice6994
    @davidprice6994 2 роки тому

    Everyone need their privacy no matter how popular they are ,great reaction .

  • @JenPope79
    @JenPope79 3 роки тому +1

    Loved your reaction. And loved the message of what you were saying in the beginning of the video starting.

  • @cariann2220
    @cariann2220 3 роки тому

    Love your reaction to this video. It was such a personal video for britney

  • @jhonnyh8249
    @jhonnyh8249 3 роки тому +1

    #FREEBRITNEY 🧚🏻

  • @sarahdrake3007
    @sarahdrake3007 2 роки тому +1

    Great video

  • @Horrormoviefan9
    @Horrormoviefan9 3 роки тому

    This is my favorite Britney song, I cry everytime. 🧡

  • @tracymaddux229
    @tracymaddux229 3 роки тому +1

    Always loved this one

  • @eves1503
    @eves1503 3 роки тому +4

    Actually happened in real life, unfortunately, later, after she had her kids and was taken to the hospital, the paps still got the pics of her in the ambulance. They were so distressing to see. They really preyed on her.

  • @xochitloch3054
    @xochitloch3054 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you for being you and being so funny

  • @lunarose698
    @lunarose698 3 роки тому +14

    She wrote this song after her break up with Justin timberlake.

  • @tiawilliams504
    @tiawilliams504 3 роки тому +2

    She was treated like absolute shit. Its no wonder she has issues now. I love her

  • @Sara01977
    @Sara01977 3 роки тому +1

    It’s not only tragic how prophetic this video was for her own life, but also how many celebs it’s mimicked before her and after. I feel like maybe she was reflecting on Princess Diana’s death and how the paparazzi literally took pictures after the crash as she lay dying in her seat.
    You should watch the new Demi Lovato docuseries on UA-cam. In one scene, her friend calls ER after they find Demi passed out from overdose and people are yelling at her to tell the ambulance to turn the sirens off as to not alert the paparazzi. Demi was dying & yet her team was worried about the bad press. It’s so disgusting and sad the pressure some of these young women are under.

  • @ASkarsgardWoman
    @ASkarsgardWoman 3 роки тому +2

    The scene where she’s in the hospital - that symbolizes her being born/and reborn again

  • @RitsychServare
    @RitsychServare 3 роки тому +1

    Probably one of the best of Britney's slow ballad type songs. In fact, I can't think of another one more beautiful than this since "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" and "Don't Let me Be the Last to Know".

  • @NightmareKhaos
    @NightmareKhaos 3 роки тому +6

    Just because someone is rich and famous and seem happy does not always mean that they are because most celebrities or every day people could seem happy on the outside but deep inside they are hurting and falling apart and nowhere near happy

  • @diyah4580
    @diyah4580 3 роки тому +1

    There are a few songs Britney put out that felt like she was trying to tell us something. Everytime, overprotected, and even lucky. I'm sure there were plenty move

  • @sherrythomas3028
    @sherrythomas3028 3 роки тому +1

    #freebritney... She was treated horrendously.

  • @yehezkielnainggolan8403
    @yehezkielnainggolan8403 3 роки тому +1

    SPILL THE TEA BILLY! YAS!

  • @bicknell67
    @bicknell67 3 роки тому +1

    Its crazy because the same thing happened when she was carried off in a ambulance and they still hounded her.

  • @Sassyglbeauty
    @Sassyglbeauty 3 роки тому +1

    Most of us all have really crazy moments in our lives. Luckily, we can have our craziest moments with only those closest to us witness us at our weakest. My heart has always hurt for Britney that she had such a public breakdown. And who can blame her with everything she was going through.

  • @AriesFiyah
    @AriesFiyah 3 роки тому

    Britney is still such an amazing, brilliant performer and human being. Always stand up for and support this woman.

  • @JennNofficial
    @JennNofficial 3 роки тому +9

    React to Britney Spears - Stronger!!! I loved her movie crossroads and the song “I’m not a girl , not yet a woman” from that movie

    • @sghsrox09
      @sghsrox09 3 роки тому

      Loved the movie haven't seen it in a minute tho!

    • @mirayoon1992
      @mirayoon1992 3 роки тому

      I like Stronger song

  • @debbiemarch1952
    @debbiemarch1952 3 роки тому

    She did awesome on this

  • @organisedchaosxo
    @organisedchaosxo 3 роки тому +5

    This video always makes me so sad whenever I would see it.

  • @mynameisntchristine1006
    @mynameisntchristine1006 3 роки тому +4

    In the vidoethe Paparazzi hit her in the head with his camera and that’s why her head was bleeding in the bathtub.

  • @mw6901
    @mw6901 3 роки тому

    I'm a hardened metal listener, but this song is unbelievably good.

  • @marybree6719
    @marybree6719 3 роки тому +1

    thr battle of - I SWEAR - All 4 one and John michael montgomery, Midnight in Montgomery is one of my FAVs of Alan Jackson, whom i'm also relatled to but have never met, 7th cousins on my dads side

  • @SweeranSwift
    @SweeranSwift 3 роки тому +2

    This is heartbreaking.. It was totally her life.. Please react to Stronger by Britney

  • @bellavita1323
    @bellavita1323 3 роки тому

    I am a recent new subscriber and your videos bring so much happiness, in moments that it hurts to even breathe. Youre a very admirable person and it shows. Thank you for your service and thank you for bringing happiness to so many. Wishing you all life has to offer! God bless

  • @giorgiokevinl1001
    @giorgiokevinl1001 3 роки тому +3

    Please react to Britney’s Don’t Let Me Be the Last to Know! It was written by Shania Twain! Would love to see your reaction to it

  • @marybree6719
    @marybree6719 3 роки тому +1

    S club 7 - never had a dream come true

  • @M__1740
    @M__1740 3 роки тому +8

    In this video she dies and is reincarnated in the baby girl. They couldn't really show her dying so she pops up at the end.

  • @booklover4330
    @booklover4330 3 роки тому +3

    Britney Spears: Dramatic
    Britney Spears: Mona Lisa
    Britney Spears: Overprotected

  • @alisong826
    @alisong826 Рік тому +2

    It’s wild bc it is a true story 6:13

  • @mustangsally00gt
    @mustangsally00gt 3 роки тому +1

    Paparazzi are the devils. Did you know the night princess Diana died the paparazzi caused the wreck (or played a major part in it aside from her driver being drunk) they stood there 20 feet from her taking pictures instead of helping and calling for help. She didn't die instantly she was actually talking to the paramedics before she died.
    It's really sad britney is literally trapped. She won't be free until her dad dies unfortunately. That's what I think will have to happen for her to be able to get control over her life back. She can't drive her own cars, she can't have a phone, she can't post to social media unless it gets approved, for fucks sake she can't even have another baby or get married. It's been 14 years since she had the meltdown and she seems to be doing ok now. She's not doing anything outrageous for people to question her mental health. And what's really sad is when she dies she's not going to be remembered by her music and the great things she's done. She's going to be remembered by her breakdown and her being controlled and the rest of the negative shit. I can't believe in this country she doesn't have civil rights or have a say about anything. Her dad is the worst human ever. The paparazzi were at her house the night she took her son's in the bathroom and refused to open the door to give them back to their dad. And she finally did and as she was being put in the ambulance I guess to take her to the hospital for evaluation. They got pics of her in the ambulance and she just had a blank look on her face. She looked like a lost child. So sad. I really hope she is doing way better now.

  • @strangenate27
    @strangenate27 2 роки тому

    Your saying about the paparazzi, but that's part of being famous. They should have known

  • @natalie_rose2861
    @natalie_rose2861 Рік тому +1

    I feel so bad for Britney. She went through so much between 2005-2008. Justin Timberlake, her divorce, post pardum depression, paparazzi on her 24/7 with planes going over her home for photos. Anyone would have lost it & w/ mental instability running in her family with her dads mom having mental health issues, she was even more susceptible to it.
    I was in 3rd grade when Britney's first album came out. I owned her 1st 3 albums, & I saw Crossroads in theaters 4×. She was the 1st musician I idolized as a kid from 3rd grade - 6th grade.
    That said my opinion on her now isn't a popular one... I'm warning anyone reading this rn...so if you're a STAN don't continue on...
    Like I said her situation was out of her control & she wasn't in her right state of mind however, I get so frustrated when I see & hear people saying they faked her breakdown, she didn't need a conservatorship, her family was out to steal her fortune, Kevin is a POS, her kids are shit, but Britney is a perfect queen!
    It would be so much more helpful to face & admit the truth of the matter, learn from it, & allow it to help change the narrative around mental health issues & celebrities.
    The way I see it, Britney was having a complete mental break. It was reported by multiple people in her home on the day that she was 5150d in 2008 that she had locked herself & son in her bathroom, called Kevin's lawyer & offered him 50 million dollars to give up custody of the boys & never see them again. When he said no, she threatened to harm Jayden via bathtub & herself. Google it. When they entered the bathroom her tub was filled with water. When she came out she was naked, laughing hysterically, Jayden was freaking out & showing signs of major trauma & they had to take him to the ER. That's all fact. IMO it seems obvious James Spears is not intelligent enough to fake even a doctor's note. James Spears brother stated their mother was committed in front of them as little kids after she lost a baby. She was delusional, depressed, & she would tell stories of events way different than they were. She killed herself a few years later. So it makes too much sense why he'd try to prevent Britney HIS DAUGHTER from going down the same road cuz he couldn't save his mom.
    Britney exaggerates beyond, she lies, & says things like she wasn't allowed to do things she was & says she couldn't drink coffee, drive, take aspirin, drink. It's like YEAH UR ON MEDS THAT YOU CAN'T MIX WITH THAT STUFF! She needs to stop being a victim & take responsibility & apologize to her kids. And grow the eff up.

  • @rimisark
    @rimisark 3 роки тому

    I like your t-shirt!

  • @ChandraLeigh
    @ChandraLeigh 3 роки тому

    This song was written for Justin Timberlake. Stephen Dorff the actor is supposed to be Justin.

  • @marklouis1890
    @marklouis1890 3 роки тому

    This was my song as a kid. Now that I listen to this as an adult. It's really sad

  • @TheJulieVirgo
    @TheJulieVirgo 3 роки тому

    I love this channel omg💖

  • @christianbolze2441
    @christianbolze2441 2 роки тому

    Monet X change is in the house ;)

  • @stephaniementillo7018
    @stephaniementillo7018 3 роки тому +1

    you should react to to 98 degrees because of you,the hardest thing or give me one more night

  • @ashleybaker5219
    @ashleybaker5219 3 роки тому +1

    Im not a girl not yet a woman video by Britney Spears!

  • @marybree6719
    @marybree6719 3 роки тому +1

    Do you remember La Bouche?! Be my lover song was everywhere, unfortunately Melanie passed in 2001. #react to that and Real MCcoy Another Night! I use to repeat these soooo much , Vengaboys! we like to party

  • @beargomez2423
    @beargomez2423 3 роки тому +1

    Hi Billy, I thought you were reacting to the FREEBRITNEY DOCUMENTARY. I hope you do a reaction to it as I think you really would do a good job, just by what you are saying here. Her family and paparazzi brought her down so badly! I really hope you do a reaction to that documentary.

  • @darrenbird9077
    @darrenbird9077 3 роки тому

    This video was a warning and nobody did anything. Now she is going through this conservatorship. Let her be give her her life back

  • @ericvaeyens128
    @ericvaeyens128 3 роки тому

    She was supposed to slit her wrist at the end her team went against it she wrote thisbsong her self too

  • @hugofernbom
    @hugofernbom 3 роки тому +2

    React to "Stronger" and "Piece Of Me"!

  • @williamalvarez7549
    @williamalvarez7549 3 роки тому

    She predicted herself being hospitalized in Jan 2008 with all the paparazzis and helicopters covering the moment she was rushed to the hospital. That moment wasnt showed in the documentary, I think because it was her worst moment ever. We all thought the worst that day

  • @luattack123
    @luattack123 3 роки тому

    People are mean, they don't care, whatever this song is about the video say it all. Poor girl

  • @natalie_rose2861
    @natalie_rose2861 Рік тому

    If I remember correctly she actually wrote this song herself on the piano about her break up with Justin Timberlake.

  • @azrael3758
    @azrael3758 3 роки тому

    Billy checkout her stronger MV about :58 seconds into it that hip thrust will forever make me a fan of britney.

  • @einalemmorttub8542
    @einalemmorttub8542 2 роки тому

    The live version on trl is the best

  • @kadenjensen3972
    @kadenjensen3972 3 роки тому +1

    Can you react to that’s my job Conway twitty, I lost my dad this past year and it would mean the world to get your reaction

  • @elijah2604
    @elijah2604 3 роки тому +1

    React to Gimme More by her. Its iconic

  • @NEO-SLACKER
    @NEO-SLACKER 9 місяців тому +1

    People wonder why Michael Jackson ended up so messed up.

  • @Melomane3
    @Melomane3 3 роки тому

    #FREEBRITNEY
    this song it's really sad she sing this song for Justin Timberlake....

  • @jiminsjimjams9477
    @jiminsjimjams9477 3 роки тому +1

    You should react to Green Day's song 'Coming Clean'!

  • @arthurantunes9573
    @arthurantunes9573 3 роки тому +1

    Please, react to Bruno Mars’ new song “Leave the door open”! Won’t regret ma boy

  • @jehurog
    @jehurog 3 роки тому

    BILLY PLEASE REACT TO BRITNEY’s “BOYS” ft. PHARELL WILLIAMS 💯🙏🏻🥺

  • @rebeccaleon9133
    @rebeccaleon9133 3 роки тому +1

    I refuse to watch the "documentary" because I lived her career with her as a fan. She is only about 3 years older than me. It's a documentary made without her consent. So again it is imposing onto her life.

  • @captaincory9133
    @captaincory9133 3 роки тому

    Ray Stevens sitting up with the dead