Britney Spears is a pop singer who appears as the main villainess of her music video for Criminal (release date October 18, 2011). The video began with Britney attending a lavish party, alongside her British boyfriend. The man was quickly shown to be an emotionally abusive boyfriend to Britney, chastising her for not smiling and grabbing her by the face before she ran away.
After freshening up in the bathroom, Britney returned to the party and was angered to find her boyfriend flirting with another woman. After storming up the pair, Britney angrily glared at her boyfriend before insinuating that the woman was a prostitute. Angered at Britney, her boyfriend took her outside to lambaste her, with his rant culminating in him slapping Britney in the face. At that moment, one of the waiters from the party attacks the abusive man, punching him several times and knocking him to the ground. He and Britney then proceeded to leave on his motorcycle, but not before Britney delivered a kick to her former beau's crotch.
After that, Britney moved in with her savior and the two became a couple, even after Britney learned of the man's status as a wanted bank robber. Britney additionally became her lover's partner in crime, as shown by her assisting him in robbing a convenience store, holding the clerk at gunpoint as he went on to take money from the register, with the couple later stealing a woman's car to escape in. In the video's climax, the police closed in on Britney and her lover's apartment, with the robbers sharing a passionate kiss as the authorities fired bullets into the dwelling. But when the police stormed in, they found the two had fled the apartment, with the video's final scene showing Britney and her lover riding away on his motorcycle.
