Britney Spears Debuts 'Hold It Against Me' Music Video

By AOL Music Editors Posted Feb 17th 2011 11:30PM

Britney Spears' 'Hold It Against Me' video is finally here! The lead single from her upcoming 'Femme Fatale' album is the first new music we've heard from Spears since her 2009 hit '3.'

Directed by Jonas Akerlund, who worked on the Lady Gaga/Beyonce 'Telephone' clip, the video for 'Hold It Against Me' has been the subject of much speculation. Rumors of dance doubles and a Super Bowl debut have since been replaced with painfully short previews of the video in 13 installments over the past two weeks. Despite only being five seconds in length each, they have already amassed a total of 10 million views, according to YouTube Trends.

Watch Britney Spears' 'Hold It Against Me' video.

The preview shows Spears -- wearing a tie-dyed jacket, silver short-shorts, fishnet stockings -- getting her grind on with some male dancers. This all seems fitting for the Dr. Luke and Max Martin-produced single, which focuses on the usual Britney Spears themes of love, school-girl vulnerability and overt sexuality.

Already a record-breaking single, those close to Spears are promising the visuals for the song will beyond compare. According to Brian Friedman, the video's choreographer, Spears is "definitely setting the bar" with 'Hold It Against Me.'

"She's showing that you have to push it as an artist: that you can't just settle, that you can't be calm with your choreography, that you have to make a statement," he told MTV. "There's so many people out there competing in this world to be the queen of pop, and she's definitely claiming her throne."

Friedman added that Spears "pushed the envelope" further than any of her past videos, and the result is "a masterpiece." Meanwhile, her manager Adam Leber called it "epic."

Spears' album 'Femme Fatale' is set for release on March 29.

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Monday 21 February

By ctatum

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Dont care for this one, If I had to guess I would guess that someone was on drugs to put this one out there.

Wednesday 23 February

By Basil

Britney is a talentless sleeze! If, and I stress, if, she has any talent at all, it is dancing but who can tell when her videos switch from scene to scene so fast! You can't even see but maybe one move at a time...without the producers putting her voice through what I call the "Voicebox 2000", she can barely carry a tune!

Thursday 24 February

By Reese

Ive been a Britney fan for a very long time ...and this has to be the most disappointing video I have ever seen from her!!! It makes no sense whatsoever!!! On top of that..she went to the director of Lady Gaga's Telephone video...why on earth would you do that?? If that video was a P.O.S and didnt relate to the song at all!!! Britney can do way better..she needs to step up her game...before the fans step on her for the next best thing!!!

By wufinz

Boring, bad and dull song (with like three lyrics). Pointless staccato video, nothing here worth listening to or watching. She looks better than she has in a while, but she is still the Tonya Harding of MTV

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