Spears skilled a minor tabloid scandal after the discharge of the music video for the album’s fifth and closing single, “From the Bottom of My Broken Heart,” when it was revealed that its director Gregory Darkish had beforehand labored on grownup movies.
“It’s time to admit that the new teen pop isn’t heavily coded XXX made for and marketed to teenagers,” a write-up in LA Weekly on the time claimed. “In fact, it‘s explicitly made and marketed as such.”
A rep for Spears on the time mentioned, “As far as I’m aware the director just does music videos. This is a video for young teenage girls and not sexy at all.”
And, in a considerably ironic twist, the director informed Leisure Weekly they really employed him to tone down her picture for the video.
“They wanted to re-image her a bit [from the naughty schoolgirl of “…Child One Extra Time”],” Darkish, who additionally labored with Mandy Moore on a music video, mentioned to the journal. “They wanted a much more story-oriented video without dance, one that was serious and emotional.”
