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Britney Spears premiered her new video for her third single off Femme Fatale, “I Wanna Go.”Spears was looking to create a “bad girl image," wearing pink “emo girl” extensions. "Britney was headed in the direction of 'emo girl.' All the colors came as a way to soften the bad girl image of the video but still keep it Britney," a stylist who worked on the video shoot told Us Weekly.
The video, however, "emo" extensions aside, was complete with sarcasm and playful rips at the media, it also features a number of pop culture references, according to MTV News.
In the beginning of the video, starting with Spears’s outfit, she is wearing a Mickey Mouse skull shirt, this is in reference of her time as a member of The Mickey Mouse Club. Next, when she tells the reporters “f--- you,” she is referencing the 1998 stoner flick Half Baked. She verbalizes the exact line from the film: "F--- you, f--- you, f--- you, you're cool and f--- you ... I'm out!"An added bonus, according to MTV, Half Baked star, actor Guillermo Diaz, appears in Britney’s video.
Other references, pointed out by the website, a whistling baby and dogs, similar to the popular E*Trade babies, a Kill Bill inspired battle scene against the paparazzi using a microphone, to which Spears also references her 2002 film Crossroads. "Crossroads 2: Cross Harder" is displayed outside the theater during the fight scene.
Spears’s robot paparazzi are an easy reference to The Terminator, while the seashells that are handed to her at the end aren’t. According to MTV, the seashells represent security. By video’s end, Spears realizes the robot paparazzi were all a product of her daydream, or were they? In the final reference, the man Spears deemed “cool,” in a Thriller-esque way, looks into the camera with red glowing eyes. Watch “I Wanna Go” below, along with the pop culture references pointed out, via MTV.