

Britney was rushed to hospital where they discovered she had floating cartilage in her knee and she underwent surgery. While shooting the video in Queens, New York City, with Snoop Dogg, who was due to appear on a remix of the song, Britney injured her knee while performing some choreography. So what went down? Well, 'Outrageous' was allegedly meant to be the theme song for the 2004 Catwoman film starring Halle Berry. It was where Britney injured herself, forcing her to cancel the rest of 'The Onyx Hotel Tour', which, if you believe in speculation and conspiracies, was the beginning of nearly ten years of difficulties for Brit, including accusations that her dancing was never the same again. 'Outrageous' sparked a decade of difficultiesīritney lore would later place a lot of importance on the 'Outrageous' video shoot. We can kind of understand why this wasn't quite the final version, can't you?Ģ. "Is Britney alive? Dead? A ghost? Did she kill herself off before the tabloids could? Did she kill herself so that she could be reborn?" Allegedly, the video was to end without any resolution. "Ambiguity is all that remains," MTV is quoted as saying. Like in the video that was released, we were meant to see Britney wondering around, but unsure if she was alive or not. The original treatment for the video was loosely based on the 1995 Nicolas Cage film, Leaving Las Vegas, and would have seen Britney take an overdose, surrounded by pill bottles.
According to MTV, 'Everytime' was originally meant to see Britney attempt to take her own life in the bathtub.

While the finished product touches on themes of life, death and rebirth, the original concept for the video was also weirdly close to the bone. There's even a massive poster for "Britney Spears: Live in Las Vegas". Spears would be vehemently hounded by the press and paparazzi just years later, and wheeled out on a stretcher for the world to see. This is, we guess, partly due to the prophetic nature of the video it scarily predicted the way Ms. Directed by David LaChapelle, 'Everytime' is one of those Britney videos that lingers with you well after the four minutes are up.
