Archive for 16th October 2008

Britney’s Product Placement

While everyone’s talking about Britney’s body in her new video, I’m taking note of something else: the phone. Of course, cell phone product placement has become ubiquitous in pop and hip hop. So ubiquitous that ‘Womanizer’ makes a little joke of it, about fifteen seconds in. Check out the womanizer’s 10:15 meeting:

Womanizer's Product Placement

Here’s the whole video, so you can contemplate the joke (and Brit) in full context:





-Kent, Yahoo! Video Team

P.S.: Oh yeah, the phone is the Nokia 5800, aka ‘The Tube.’ Almost forgot that.