A video for a new Britney Spears song that dares to say "Who needs 88 keys when only 5 will do?" has just been released. Sort of. It's playing now over here. Just in case you come from the same brain-trust as the newly anime-atized Spears or have trouble with the first level of Not Pron, the "2 secret words" are "danger" and "victory."

Once entered in, you'll get to chat it up with a host of 40 year old perverts young fans, as well as watch the video for "Break the Ice." It should be immediately obvious to most of our dedicated readers, but the video heavily plagiarizes seems to be inspired by Ghost in the Shell, maybe with a little Fullmetal Alchemist and Jin Roh thrown in for good measure.

We've fallen a long way since Daft Punk's incredible Interstella 5555 created with Leiji Matsumoto. More recently KanYe West (friend of the site) found inspiration in the anime world (not to mention Daft Punk,) but this thing from Spears is just horrible. It's on par with those new ads for insurance that have "hip" animated characters. I'm not sure who the target audience is for this, since it's not big-eyes and purple-haired enough to be anime, but not full of enough singing mice and dancing teacups to be a cartoon.

Then again, it also has a creepy Sharon Apple feel to it. I can easily imagine a endless barrage of idealized animated homunculi parading around while the bloated and half crazed host bodies lie in cryogenic sleep, silently screaming inside their frozen minds.