Britney Spears
David LaChapelle's gritty original 2016 video was abruptly scrapped by Britney Spears' team (officially "creative differences") and replaced with a simpler version, leaving the original considered lost media for years. After snippets leaked in 2019, YouTuber Carlos Paglieri painstakingly reconstructed the low-res clips into a full, coherent video, restoring LaChapelle's central metaphor of Britney trapped inside a cage while the world watches — a reading that turns the song into commentary on her conservatorship. LaChapelle had previously directed her darker "Everytime" video (2004).