“They want more? Well, I’ll give ’em more…”
Britney Spears can order ice cream off the streets of New York City, teach dance classes to little girls on weekends and nearly drown while frolicking unattended in 6-foot waves on the shores of Hawaii.
It wasn’t so long ago, however, that her life was, truly, a circus.
In 2007, following her divorce from Kevin Federline, Britney couldn’t step out on the scene without being flanked by scores of paparazzi, shouting and running and tripping over themselves, all trying to get a piece of her as she did even the most basic things: gas station bathroom breaks, shopping trips to the mall and pitstops for Starbucks frappes became loud, frightening flashbulb blitzes. She was effectively ostracized from society by her own fame.
In that time came a masterpiece: Blackout, and the Jake Sarfaty-directed music video for “Gimme More,” the lead single from Britney’s icy robo-opus, has since been cemented in her catalog as an iconic, rebellious relic of that dark era.
It’s a gritty clip, as the brunette pop princess twirls, hair-flips and giggles ominously to herself on a stripper pole alongside her dancers — a major departure from the high-gloss pop videos that colored her discography up until that point. Coupled with her wobbly, critically panned performance of the song at the 2007 MTV VMAs that year, the state of Britney’s career never felt more dire.
She’s rebounded since, of course: “Britney’s back” became a narrative used with each album cycle until, finally, time distanced Britney from those late night paparazzi chases and her career took shape as a full-time Las Vegas headlining entertainer. But “Gimme More” remains mysterious as ever, as more fragments of the video surfaced over the years.
Fans turned to conspiracy theories to justify the unfinished-feeling final product: What was that outfit she wore on the sidewalk, and why didn’t it make it into the video? Was there a funeral scene? Was she acting erratic on-set? Why were there different cuts of her pole-dancing? Surely that wasn’t it.
A few months ago, Theo Hand, a photographer largely rooted in the skateboarding world who was unexpectedly enlisted as the on-set photographer that day, posted a photo on Instagram of Britney filming one of the unreleased scenes of “Gimme More.”
“The whole experience was very surreal and eye opening to say the least,” he wrote. Naturally, I had to know more (moah). I spoke to Theo about that day, the seemingly shady situation on set, and what, if anything, we didn’t get to see from the outside. He was also kind enough to share some exclusive new photos from behind-the-scenes of “Gimme More.”
**Interview http://www.muumuse.com/2016/10/gimme-more-photos-set-interview-theo-hand-exclusive.html/
Source: Bradley Stern via MuuMuse + All photos credited to photographer Theo Hand.
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