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The Official Britney Spears Thread; New album "Glory" in 2016
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I NEED a full version of Inside Out NOW :rant: :rant:
Such a great song! I've been listening to the 31-second snippet all day.
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I NEED a full version of Inside Out NOW :rant: :rant:
Such a great song! I've been listening to the 31-second snippet all day.
one of my faves too. :drama:
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Britney Spears has revealed that she was inspired by Madonna's career when starting out in the music business.

The 'Till The World Ends' singer famously collaborated with Madonna on 2003's 'Me Against the Music'.

When asked who she had intended to model her career on, she told Out magazine: "Madonna. No question. She is an amazing entertainer.

"I also admire Sarah Jessica Parker's career and her shoe collection." :rotfl:

Spears also commented on some of the collaborations on her upcoming album Femme Fatale. Elaborating on her duet with will.i.am she revealed that she is "a huge fan of Black Eyed Peas" and that she had always wanted to work with the singer-songwriter.

The pair have worked on a track titled 'Big Fat Bass' for the album, with will.i.am posting a teaser of the song on his blog last month.

Femme Fatale is due to be released March 28 in the UK and March 29 in the US.

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oh, Britters :lmao: :manson:
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a matter of hours/days before it leaks?

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This is doing the rounds on forums at the moment...

"I'm one of the lucky few who have -- through a certain LA journalist -- been able to listen to the full record. Spear's team really missed the ball on the second single. This is a monster, and should've been it. Wait until you hear it in high quality! The guitars on the actual chorus are fantastic, and the bridges are reminiscent of Mariah's fast-singing on her big hits like "Touch My Body" and "Shake It Off."

"I Wanna Go" is a definite standout, but I can't help but wonder if it will ever see the light of day on radio because it's basically just a poppier, more radio-friendly, and more-melodic version of Till The World Ends with more Britney-like lyrics. Not only that, but it's actual hook is far stronger, and the whistles alone will stick with people forever -- remember Peter Bjorn and John's "Young Folks"? Moreover, it has almost the exact same medley. It's like they gave that track to Kesha to listen to, made it darker, and took out half the substance.

Till The World ends makes sense as an album opener - it's perfect for that - but it wasn't the right single choice. I'm very familiar with radio, especially today, and have a good ear for a hit: this is it. And I'm kind of shocked that they had so many tracks and kept going back to record more because the newer ones don't have any more (infact, much less) single potential. That being said, the sampler I heard had 12 songs. As for the Will.I track, while the snippet he posted was promising, in actuality the song is quite possibly his weakest production to date. More importantly, the only melody you hear in the track is at the beginning and in the middle -- the rest is cheap casio chords void of any pleasantness with worthless lyrics and terrible vocal processing. It's the only BAD track on the record.

Don't get me wrong: this is a really solid album, and given that I've only heard it once, maybe I'll appreciate it more fully on repeated listens. But this is no Blackout Part II, and it's not because of the production. Aside from the Will.I.Am track, it's easily Dr. Luke and Max Martin's most innovative work to date. As for Britney, well, there's a lot of auto-tune, and I'm familiar with studio trickery (lots of layering where you don't hear it - making a lead vocal sound like a single lead vocal that's actually three vocals), but her real voice, which does shine through much more on this record than on the last two, sounds much stronger.

On Blackout it was obviously used for pitch-correction -- while there's some of that on here, it seems here like more of an aesthetic to fit the type of music she's doing (think of Katy Perry's vocals on her latest record -- although since Spears's higher register naturally sounds more "bubblegum pop," so it's slightly more obvious). But for the most part, she's given up on that breathy/nasal sound and sounds better than she has in years. What really hinders this album and probably will take it from a lot of 10s to 6s or 7s, is the lyrical content: whoever wrote a lot of this stuff was writing for an 16-year-old, not Britney Spears. Sure, she's allowed to sing about partying, sex, booze, and the like, but a lot of the lyrics seem like teenybopper diary entries thrown together, and ruin songs that potentially could've been much more effective with stronger lyrics ("Seal It With A Kiss," "Criminal," "Drop Dead Beautiful," and "Trouble For Me").

This record has it's fair share of filler, like Circus, whereas Blackout almost sounded like a Greatest Hits. It's more cohesive than Circus, but much less cohesive than Blackout, aside from the Max Martin/Dr. Luke songs using a lot of the same synths and drum machines. What's great about it, though, is it contains three of the best songs of her career: "Hold It Against Me," "I Wanna Go," "Inside Out," (arguably the best track on the record) and "How I Roll" (the clip posted here does the song absolutely no justice). I'd say Fatale is a definite step-up from Circus, and about on par with In The Zone, but given the amount of silly lyrics, it's less mature than both. Dr Luke/Max and Britney Spears Managing Co., if you're listening, mad respect for a solid pop album, but don't make the same mistake of releasing a single without gauging a better reaction from a more diverse group of listeners (i.e. crazy fans that will love anything, and bloggers who prefer instant gratification as opposed to a song that will actually stick with people). The big heads will be pleased regardless.

The obvious singles remaining on this record are "Inside Out" (Is there any other option for the third single? This is the best thing she's done since "Toxic"), "I Wanna Go" (shame this didn't go as planned second), and either "Trip To Your Heart" or "How I Roll." Given her track record of singles from the last two records, they'll probably screw her over and go with stuff like "Beautiful" and "Seal It," but despite the fact that they're catchy and feature stellar production, they seriously fall flat when it comes to substance. They're fun, but they come and go.

Britney needs more "career hits" like "Baby One More Time" and "Toxic" that define her career as opposed to novelty releases that wear thin after their three month shelf life. The aforementioned three tracks ("Inside Out," "I Wanna Go," and "How I Roll") are those tracks.

Read more: http://www.popjustice.com/forum/index.php?topic=26138.7710#ixzz1GCyU0OXB
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Super-HQ cover of FF:
http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Features/a5/5a/60/dj.nrmdrxvi.jpg
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Mar 10 2011, 08:24 PM
thanks!
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popjustice review: :drama:

So the recent history of Britney is a bit like this: recorded by a detached superstar at the height of some rather desperate lows, 'Blackout' quickly established itself as Britney's surprise masterpiece. Britney's next studio album was 'Circus'. Despite an amazing lead single 'Circus' sounded like the work of a popstar who was involved too much and too little at the same time, the victim of the sort of absent-minded hands-on approach that does more damage than good. 'Circus' was not the sort of album Britney Spears should have been making. It was, quite simply, not very good.

Well we had a listen to 'Femme Fatale' earlier. And here's the good news: 'Circus' feels like the work of a different artist. Here's the even better news: 'Femme Fatale' is another 'Blackout'. :drama: It's bursting with all that album's best bits - the slightly deranged production, the hard and dark spirit, the massive beats and the big tunes. And while it might be less of a surprise, as Britney is obviously pretty much back on top of things now, on first listen it might just be as much of a masterpiece. It's also a relief, because if 'Femme Fatale' had been a bit of a dog's dinner Britney-as-a-recording-artist would have been over.

To listen to 'Femme Fatale' we went over to Britney's label earlier tonight. The tracks only arrived in the UK at about 6pm, having been whizzed across the Atlantic via a spooky download link thing for internal use by Sony.

For anyone amused by the apparently tokenistic dubstep breakdown in 'Hold It Against Me' - and the genre's trademark gloomwobble did rather seem to appear from nowhere then disappear back there just as abruptly - the big news from 'Femme Fatale' is that the foray into dubstep was more than just flirtation. There's dubstep in the DNA of this album. It's rarely as blunt as in 'Hold It Against Me' - there's no "ooh look at me I'm dubstep" showboating - and 'Till The World Ends' is a far better indication of the album's sound. With some exceptions, this is a heavy, dark and dangerous-sounding Britney album. It's a sound you'll hear in 'Inside Out', one of various songs leaked so far in clip form.

Even the will.i.am track 'Big Fat Bass', which sounded unbearable on first listen and seemed likely to reinforce will.i.am's reputation for turning in the worst tracks on otherwise amazing female-fronted pop albums - sounds great. We made notes on the songs one by one and had prepared the title 'Big Fat Pile Of Shit' in anticipation of this song starting but, halfway through, we'd crossed that out. It was surprisingly bearable partly because the second clip that emerged is a far better reflection of the track and partly because the rest of the album makes sense of it.

Lyrically - well, on the surface it's about what happens when you go out and what happens when you get back home, and beneath the surface it may well turn out to be that too. Pop right now doesn't really feel like it needs another set of songs about how great it is to a) go clubbing and/or b) have sex, and 'Femme Fatale' is preoccupied by both those topics, but it feels like Britney manages to sidestep the clublolz trap in the usually awful David Guetta sense or that sometimes awful Ke$ha sense. 'Femme Fatale' is an album with a perfectly defined sound and a clearly established personality. It's a club record in the same sense 'Blackout' was. It hangs together, it makes you feel like having a bit of a dance. It's playful. Gone are the slightly laboured, joyless moments of 'Circus'.

Some tracks are fast and some are slow but the nearest 'Femme Fatale'-era Britney gets to a ballad is closing track 'Criminal' which has the flavour of 'American Life'-era Madonna - the 'Intervention' and 'Love Profusion' sort of sound. :drama: Flute and guitar are high in the mix here but with hefty, whalloping beats. To these ears it's a darkly comic song about a guy who's basically awful ("he's a killer just for fun fun fun") and whose various character flaws are described all the way through the verses until the chorus arrives with "but... Mama I'm in love with a criminal, and this type of love isn't rational, it's physical; Mama please don't cry i will be alrgiht, all reason aside I just can't deny, I love that guy". Typing those lyrics out it looks a bit bad. But it sounds great. Really great. And when the middle eight swings around we're in classic - and by classic we mean the 'Oops!' album - Britney territory. Coming moments before the album's end it's a brilliantly timed glimpse of the traditional tuneage that put Britney at the top of pop over a decade ago. It doesn't sound much like anything else on 'Femme Fatale', but what's interesting is that it doesn't jar either. Her new album may be stuffed with fantastically aggressive robopop but, at the end of the day, Britney's still Britney.

We'll be able to discuss the album in more detail in coming days via a track by track sort of review but the key points from this overview are:

1. No crap songs.

And that, really, is all you need to know.

Usual disclaimers apply: we heard it all the way through once, it might sound less amazing on repeated listens but, equally, it might end up getting even better.

This hasn't been a very well written review so apols for that but finally, if you're still reading, we would like to say a thing. From what we've heard from this album (which is the whole thing, bar deluxe edition bonus tracks) and from what we've heard of the Lady Gaga album, they are entirely different bodies of work with entirely different influences and objectives from two entirely different artists at entirely different stages in their respective careers. Between them they offer a fantastic account of pop music in 2011 and should be viewed as complementary, not contradictory. There is room for both. Let's all just try to get along. :clap:

Read more: http://www.popjustice.com/#ixzz1GExWmHIM


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extended 1-minute snippets of 'inside out' and 'i wanna go', both sound FANTASTIC :alexz:

http://www.zshare.net/video/87638374e8139d54/
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12-track megamix :drama:



1. The Big Fat Bass (0:08)
2. Gasoline (0:43)
3. Drop Dead Beautiful (1:15)
5. Inside Out (1:23)
6. Big Fat Bass (1:31)
7. Seal It With a Kiss (1:46)
8. Gasoline's instrumental (2:02)
9. Trip to your heart (2:17)
11. I Wanna Go (2:30)
12. How I Roll (2:57)
13. Till the World Ends (3:47)

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Mar 11 2011, 02:54 AM
extended 1-minute snippets of 'inside out' and 'i wanna go', both sound FANTASTIC :alexz:

http://www.zshare.net/video/87638374e8139d54/
FUCK! :celebrate: Thanks! Sounds great!

The full album needs to leak already!
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Mar 11 2011, 03:10 AM
12-track megamix :drama:



1. The Big Fat Bass (0:08)
2. Gasoline (0:43)
3. Drop Dead Beautiful (1:15)
5. Inside Out (1:23)
6. Big Fat Bass (1:31)
7. Seal It With a Kiss (1:46)
8. Gasoline's instrumental (2:02)
9. Trip to your heart (2:17)
11. I Wanna Go (2:30)
12. How I Roll (2:57)
13. Till the World Ends (3:47)

Reupload:

http://www.4shared.com/audio/FdybsCX8/BritneyBoardsorg_EXCLUSIVE_-_1.html

I still think How I Roll sounds promising.
Edited by Vancho, Mar 11 2011, 03:56 AM.
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extended 50-sec LQ snippets of '(drop dead) beautiful' and 'gasoline'

http://soundcloud.com/loosho/drop-dead-beautiful-50s

http://soundcloud.com/kingsleyyy/gasoline

edit: Vancho, how do i embed soundcloud links?
Edited by bulgar, Mar 11 2011, 03:57 AM.
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the album is obviously out there. just a matter of time before it leaks in full. :drama:
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LEAKAGE ALERT: :drama:

(Drop Dead) Beautiful has leaked in full

http://soundcloud.com/jiminybillybob/the-new-veggietales-theme-song
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edit: Vancho, how do i embed soundcloud links?
Click Share, copy the Embed Code. It will look like this:
<object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F11789732"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F11789732" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/jiminybillybob/the-new-veggietales-theme-song">The new veggietales theme song</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/jiminybillybob">jiminybillybob</a></span>

Extract the http link (in bold) and put it in flash operator like this:
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[FLASH=750,81]http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F11789732[/FLASH]

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^ thank you, dear :flirt:
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I might be able to buy that Popjustice review if I hadn't just listened to '(Drop Dead)Beautiful', which despite what the review says about there being 'no crap songs', is pretty crap. The very definition of filler.
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