14 DAY TRIAL // Pop star Britney Spears is getting ready for the release of a brand new album, “Femme Fatale,” which drops in March. Until then, she’ll also be releasing an official video for first single “Hold It Against Me,” but how much she appears in it is now subject to debate.
Though Britney has reportedly been working out and rehearsing for the video for weeks before she actually got started working on it, rumblings online have it that she wasn’t quite able to carry the choreography through.
More specifically, she didn’t learn it, TMZ writes, citing inside sources. Her director was so upset with her that she didn’t give it her best that he actually had to hire a body double for the dance sequences.
“Britney Spears doesn’t do the dance moves in her new music video, ‘Hold It Against Me.’ She couldn’t nail the routines, so a dance-double stepped in to do the legwork,” TMZ writes.
Admittedly, the e-zine has several sources who confirm the same story: the women we’ll see dancing in the video is not Britney because she couldn’t do the routines.
“Multiple sources on the music video set tell TMZ, Jonas Akerlund, the director, was upset that Britney hadn’t practiced enough so he asked her dance-double – Allison Kyler – to fill in,” the e-zine goes on to argue.
“We’re told it got so heated between Britney and the director – the singer left the set crying on the second day,” TMZ writes.
Contacted for comment on this, Britney’s camp is rubbishing all claims that it’s not her who does the dancing in the video: Britney has always been known for being a good dancer and that’s exactly what fans will get with the HIAM video.
Akerlund himself has come forward to speak on the issue, saying rumors are false and promising the video will be “awesome.”
“[Britney’s] been great throughout the entire process. At the end of the shoot I got the warmest hug I ever got from an artist, and I look forward to hugging her again very soon!” he says for TMZ.
“I’ve been around long enough to know when an artist gives it their all, and to me it doesn’t get better than this,” Akerlund explains.