After a decidedly skanky performance at the MTV video music awards, two trips to the bughouse, some Svengali hopping and a nipple flash, all since last fall, burned out singer Britney Spears decided it would be better if she was a Japanese anime character in her next music video instead of her flawed human self. Also in the video, she's a superhero instead of a wreck whose father runs her life by order of government authorities. The Sun claimed Spears "told label bosses" she wanted the video done this way, but more likely the record company remembered how difficult Spears can be at a photo shoot and realized she'd been to the psychiatric wing of the hospital twice in the first two months of the year, and decided to just hire some animators in Asia and be done with it. After the jump, a look at new clean cartoon Britney interspersed with shots of messy real life Britney.

[Animation clips via Oh No They Didn't, Sun, People]