"Our analysis: Looks like it was shot in one take on the cheap and then gussied up with a bit of cutting and camera work," Rolling Stone says on its Web site. "There's no real choreography (just a bit of dancing near a pole) and all the smoke and mirrors – literally and figuratively – made us nauseous."

Entertainment Weekly writes "I've seen sexier pole work during an afternoon of fly-fishing."

And Stereogum.com says that this Tale of Two Britneys "hurts like the Dickens."

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