Britney Spears vs Lady Gaga

Britney Spears has a new video to the lead single "Hold It Against Me" from her upcoming Femme Fatale album --- and it's the best song yet from the Southern California superstar.

Lady Gaga's new song, "Born This Way", is too New York, too gay, and too Madonna 1989.

(Sorry, Gaga, it's totally lame to anyone outside of NYC who's not gay.)

Los Angeles definitely beats New York in this latest round in the Battle of the Pop Divas.

"Hold It Against Me" by Britney Spears is a techno masterpiece.

While the lyrics are suggestively cliche', the music is electromanic and very 2012.  No Gaga or Madonna rip-off in Britney's new single at all.

The song rocks on its own ORIGINAL merit through EXCELLENT PRODUCTION, man.

Amid much buzz and hype, L.A.'s own Britney Spears premiered her highly anticipated music video on MTV before a record number of viewers who, surely, were thrilled with the high-quality video for the "Hold It Against Me" single.

The official video features Spears and 10 male dancers performing sexy dance sequences in eye-popping costumes.  Jonas Åkerlund, who has worked with both Lady Gaga and Madonna, directed the video shoot in Los Angeles.

It's hard to figure out if Britney Spears is having her knock-down drag-out fist-fight with Lady Gaga or herself, but the girl-fight special effects in the video totally rock!

"There's so many people out there competing in this world to be the queen of pop, and she's definitely claiming her throne," declared Britney's choreographer, Brian Friedman.

Taking back the pop throne from Lady Gaga is not that difficult.  With this new video, Britney has.  It is the video of 2011, hands-down.

Of course the #1 California blog would be assumed to side with Britney Spears, the Californian, but her new song really is much better than Gaga's goo-goo.

Britney Spears' video for "Hold It Against Me" is superb.  Very high-tech, very apocalyptic, very beautiful, and very, very L.A.

Britney Spears is BACK and slapping Lady Gaga back across the Hudson --- and I can almost hear Madonna cheering Britney on.  Chalk one up for California, dude.

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