Britney Spears released her new music video a few minutes ago. The Break the Ice video features an animated version of the singer, in Japanese anime style. It was produced by Robert Hales, the man behind the music video of Crazy (Gnarls Barkley’s hit single), and it is an animated sequel of Toxic (Britney’s hit single). The original concept of the video was also a Britney’s idea.
The music video premiered on a website created for the event and can be seen below.
Her own idea, akin to toxic, yer right! This video is a Ghost in the Shell rip off from start to finish, the song even sounds like the start music to the tv series, except its not as good. And if you dont beleive me heres a list of exactly how it rips off GitS.
Ghost in the Shell, starts with the heronie jumping off a huge building to smash through glass and take out her target.
Throughout all of Ghost in the shell are images of clones/cyborgs within floatation tanks, the image of britneys face getting so close to the glass,liquid surface is a direct rip off.
The interface on the tank womans head is the same shape as the vr file interfaces used in Ghost
And the building exploding like that, can you say fiirst climax in Stand Alone Complex.
As an animated character she bears a very close resemblance to a robotic body used by a major character called the Puppet Master in Ghost.
The video also rips of iconic image compasitions from Sailor Moon and Aeon Flux, as well as many many more maga series. The bit with the moon behind her head, Sailor Moon or Elven Lied anyone?
The only way she came up with this idea is if she’d just watched Ghost in the Shell, more likely one of her PR people heard the track and made the link cause muscially the song could fit in to a Ghost episode.
Oh by the way in cyberpunk ICE stands for Intrusion Countermeasure Electronic (kinda ultra hard firewalls) Ice Breaking is akin to hacking.