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Everytime is a song written by American singer-songwriter Britney Spears and her back-up singer Annette Stamatelatos, and is included on Spears' fourth album In the Zone (2003). Produced by Guy Sigsworth, it was released as the album's third single during the second quarter of 2004 (see 2004 in music). Critics have rated the song, "By far the best vocally," from Spears, and it is also commonly cited by fans as being one of her best songs. This single was released June 8, 2004

[edit] Official Versions

• Everytime [Valentin Remix] 3:27
• Everytime [Album Version] 3:53
• Everytime [Hi-Bias Radio Remix] 3:31
• Everytime [Above & Beyond Radio Mix] 3:50
• Everytime [The Scumfrog Vocal Mix] 9:55
• Everytime [Video Version] 4:01
• Everytime [Dr. Octavo Translucent Club Mixshow] 4:19
• Everytime [Above & Beyond Club Mix] 8:20
• Everytime [Above & Beyond's Extended Mix] 8:49
• Everytime [Dr. Octavo Translucent Remix] 5:14
• Everytime [Human Highlight Reel Vocal Extended Mix] 8:05
• Everytime [Larry Legend Dub] 7:52
• Everytime [Larry Legend Vocal Mix] 8:21
• Everytime [Pander's House Of Love Mix] 6:52
• Everytime [Scumfrog Haunted Dub] 8:22
• Everytime [Valentin Hot Tracks Mix] 5:42
• Everytime [Valentin Mixshow] 5:32

[edit] Music Video

Directed by David LaChapelle, the controversial music video for Everytime was originally supposed to depict Spears' character dying in a bathtub from slitting her wrist. When word leaked out about the video's content, protests led to it being changed.

The video begins with Spears and her boyfriend (Stephen Dorff) in a limo. They arrive at a building where the paparazzi are awaiting. Spears is hit in the head with a camera, but keeps walking. When in the lobby, Spear's boyfriend begins throwing some magazines around and pushing photographers. Spears and her beau are escorted out of the room and are taken into hallways which lead them to her room. They have a fight in which her boyfriend throws a vase at the wall. He leaves and Spears begins filling her bathtub and removing her clothes. When she's in the tub, she realizes she's bleeding from the head, suffering a concussion from when she was hit in the head with a paparazzo's cameras. She loses conciousness in the tub. Later, her beau finds her dead in her tub and calls rescue. Unconscious, Spears follows her body to the hospital, not before being shown running towards the camera away from a bright light—a scene often associated with the transition into afterlife. Spears then sings directly to the camera; behind her, her body can be seen with doctors fighting to revive her, and then the camera pans around to show the birth of a baby, symbolizing reincarnation. The video then shows Spears running away from the camera and towards the bright light seen before—implying her liberation from life and her acceptance/longing for death. The video was at number one on MTV's Total Request Live countdown for six days, and it also reached number three on both VH1's Top 20 Countdown and MuchMusic's Countdown.

In an extended cut of the video, following these scenes, Spears is shown rising from underwater in the bathtub and resting her head and smiling. This implies that she was imagining the entire scenario and never became unconscious to begin with. This was added to perhaps lessen the severity and controversy of the explicit content of the video.

The video was #2 on MuchMusic's 50 most controversial videos for the blood, partial nudity, and graphic scenes. Based on over 45 reviews, it currently has a 4/5 rating on Itunes.

It was premiered in the U.K. on the MTV show trl.

In the bath scene, Spears is seen wearing the red string worn by members of the Kabbalah Centre. This comes months after Spears was introduced to Kabbalah by Madonna. The red string was often mistaken for bloody wrists in a suicide attempt.

The video debut on TRL April 13, 2004.

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