14 DAY TRIAL // Much has been said about Britney Spears’ third single off the “Circus” album and the much controversy it has generated, but seemingly it has been not enough to make the singer go for the altered track name for the official video. The official video for “If U Seek Amy” has premiered on Britney’s official website a couple of hours ago and, from what we can see, it has been received most warmly by fans.
In the first part, the clip shows the singer doing the usual dance routines, surrounded as she is by many, mostly male, dancers. The words in the chorus are enough to help anyone understand the symbolism behind the dance moves – which have already been interpreted on dedicated forums as Britney’s way of hitting back at the media and the public that have been so quick to jump at her throat for violating indecency laws.
As a matter of fact, it has been said, this becomes obvious even before she appears on screen, as an anchorwoman is shown, reporting on the “obscenity” of the name of the track (one has to read “If U Seek Amy” really fast to understand).
However, the coupe de grace is delivered with the final minutes of the clip, when Britney is seen as an old-fashioned housewife, equipped with a perfect (in the Ken-plus-Barbie way) husband and two perfect kids, smiling from behind a picket fence. Not only that, but the singer even goes out of the house to serve homemade pie to the paparazzi, which would count as her second most recent response to the way the media has been handling her story, the first being the video for “Piece of Me.”
As regards the name of the track for which Spears has got so much heat in recent months, PTC (Parents TV Council) President Tim Winter told Billboard that, even if Britney’s label dropped the “k” in “seek,” the song still violated indecency laws, for which reason he asked radio stations to refuse to play it between 6am and 10pm.
“There is no misinterpreting the lyrics to this song, and it’s certainly not about a girl named Amy. It’s one thing for a song with these lyrics to be included on a CD so that fans who wish to hear it can do so, but it’s an entirely different matter when this song is played over the publicly-owned airwaves, especially at a time when children are likely to be in the listening audience.” Winter stressed in a public appeal towards the end of January.
Be that as it may, even if the single will be released as “If U See Amy,” for the video, Britney went with “Seek” as it was initially planned. To check out the official video, please go here.