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On July 26, 2011, Britney Spears released the official music video for I Wanna Go (Desi Hits! Remix) which featured vocals from Indian singer Sonu Nigam. The video itself is just a shortened version of the standard song's video (it misses most of the intro), without any new scenes, which might be why it's overlooked by most fans. The main difference being just the Bollywood style of the song and the new vocals provided by Sonu. At the time, Britney posted on Facebook about the collaboration: And Sonu told Times of India: Earlier in June, another official remix of the single by DJ Frank E & Alex Dreamz had also received the video treatment. This one does scramble the scenes from the original video, and adds a warm filter to give it a different vibe. This video however, wasn't uploaded to her official YouTube account.

Guillermo Diaz who worked with Britney Spears on the "I Wanna Go" music video shares his experience: "Britney Spears' "I Wanna Go" music video (2011) "I was supposed to be in the beginning of the video where she says my line from Half Baked then she points to me and I give her a thumbs up," Diaz says about the initial plan for the pop princess' "I Wanna Go" video. But a few days before the shoot, someone dropped out and Diaz suddenly found himself with a bigger role, driving around with Spears and pouring milk on himself. Diaz remembers Spears and kind and powerful, and, while she was shy in between takes, she came to life when the camera started rolling. "I'm so proud to be part of something with Britney Spears because I just love her and it was such an awesome moment in my life," he says. He even has a sourvenir from the experience: "I remember driving home after the shoot in my milk-soaked pants because they let me keep the jeans."" The full article where the actors talks about his others works can be found here: EW

On June 13, 20111, following a poll on her official website, Britney Spears released I Wanna Go as the third single off her album Femme Fatale. The song was written and produced by Max Martin and Shellback, with additional writing of Savan Kotecha. This would be Britney's last single released under Jive Records, which was absorbed by RCA later that year. #justice4TripToYourHeart The dance-pop / hi-NRG song features a heavy bassline as well as a distinctive whistled hook that appears in the pre-chorus, and it talks about wanting to let behind her inhibitions and the restrictions that others put on her, tired of hiding her real thoughts and pointing out that "everybody is thinking it" anyways. At the same time she ironically apologizes for her urge for ***ual release. The song, originally registered as "I I I Wanna Go O O", was written and recorded in 2009 at Maratone Studios in Stockholm, along with other songs from Femme Fatale, such as Criminal and Up 'n Down, as well as The Singles Collection track 3. On February 22, 2011, Britney Spears retweeted a snippet of the song which was originally shared by Dr. Luke. In an interview for Rolling Stone, when talking about the collaboration of Max Martin on the album, Britney commented about IWG: I Wanna Go originally charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at #73 on April, upon the release of the Femme Fatale album. After the single was released, it eventually peaked at #7, while topping the charts of Canada, Israel and South Korea, as well as the US Dance Club Songs, Dance/Mix Show Airplay and Mainstream Top 40 charts. It was Top 10 in several other countries. On July 15, a remix EP was released featuring Alex Dreamz, Desi Hits!, OLIVER among others. I Wanna Go never got any tv promo performances, however it was first included on the setlist of her Femme Fatale Tour in 2011, and later it would be performed in her Las Vegas residency Britney: Piece of Me from the beginning in 2013 until August 2015, when Pretty Girls was added to the show. Related:

This song and video is so much camp I love it because Britney's never done really campy videos aside from this and Pretty Girls. This song is so much fun and even though it was a successful hit and everyone loves it I feel it was overlooked by Till the World Ends Do you stan I Wanna Go?

On November 26, 2012, a series of videos were published on Britney Spears' official channel where she received from her fans the #VEVOCertified awards for I Wanna Go and Till the World Ends, which were the only two videos of hers that had surpassed 100M views on her YouTube channel. She also discussed some of her classic music videos, which years later would surpass in views the two awarded videos of this occasion. In fact, in 2021, I Wanna Go is only her 7th most watched video, and Till the World Ends sits at #10.