Music Video
On June 15, 2006 she visited Total Request Live and showed a preview of the video for the song. Six days later she attended the TV show again and premiered the whole clip.
In the song's music video, Aguilera plays her alter ego Baby Jane. The video opens with Aguilera arriving to a club. Aguilera gets ready in the backstage area, and then comes up the stage performing along with the song. In between scenes, there are short vignettes that show Aguilera in gold and silver dresses, singing into a microphone, while photographers take pictures. The video opens and closes with clips from another Back to Basics song, entitled "I Got Trouble". The song is played as if it were on the radio with minor white noise.
The music video was directed by Bryan Barber and co-directed by Aguilera herself. Aguilera stated, "it intrigued me that this man, Bryan Barber, had been very locked into and had surrounded himself with this whole world of the '20s and '30s era," in response to Barber's film project, Idlewild. Aguilera planned the original choreography, based on black-and-white films, and performed it in her living room for Barner and choreographer Jeri Slaughter. Aguilera's character is named after a nickname that rapper Nelly had given her, and her back-up dancers' characters were assigned by Slaughter. It was released exclusively to iTunes on June 20, 2006. It then premiered on MTV's Making the Video on June 21.
The music video was nominated for four MTV Video Music Awards in 2006, for: Video Of the Year, Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Best Choreography.
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