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The Official Britney Spears Thread; New album "Glory" in 2016
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bulgar
Mar 29 2011, 08:24 AM
her best photoshoot in years :clap:
Indeed.

If only she actually LOOKED like that in real life though. :chuckle:
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She doesn't look like herself there. Photoshopped to the max
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Her big news was that she's to go on tour with Enrique Iglesias. :manson:
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:manson: but well calculated
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Yeah, it probably is a wise move in a commercial sense.
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Mar 29 2011, 08:26 AM
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Mar 28 2011, 04:52 PM
Goddamit I love the album :(
She's such a useless, disaster of a popstar but a good song is a good song and at least half of this tracks are great..
It's that kind of album alright. You know it's wrong, but ultimately they're just good silly pop songs!
Britho can't do no wrong. Great album.
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Mar 29 2011, 01:31 PM
Her big news was that she's to go on tour with Enrique Iglesias. :manson:
huh isn't she like 100 times more popular than him :confused: who the hell likes Enrique :confused:
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Mar 29 2011, 01:31 PM
Her big news was that she's to go on tour with Enrique Iglesias. :manson:
huh isn't she like 100 times more popular than him :confused: who the hell likes Enrique :confused:
your new co-worker?
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Titney tweets Orangetina :drama:

britneyspears Britney Spears@Thanks @TheRealXtina. Can't wait to watch you on your new show. Hope we get to hear that voice on The Voice. -Brit

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Oh no, it looks like Britney’s new album won’t go to Number One in the UK

Bad news for Britney Spears – the 29-year-old singer’s new album Femme Fatale looks very much in danger of missing out on the Number One spot this weekend. This makes us sad.

We think Femme Fatale is Britney’s best album to date, but it seems the record buying public don’t agree – Brit’s seventh album is at Number Three in mid-week sales chart, behind Adele and Radiohead. Radiohead’s The King Of Limbs is only a few thousand copies ahead of Brit, but Adele’s mega-selling 21 has sold more than 42,000 copies verses just over 13,000 sold by Britney. Obviously these figures only take one day of sales into account, but Britney’s going to have to do more than pose with her leg in the air if she wants to debut at Number One.

http://www.heatworld.com/Entertainment/Music/2011/03/Oh-no-it-looks-like-Britneys-new-album-wont-go-to-Number-One/

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NYT basically trashes Britney's new album

There’s something irretrievably last-decade about Britney Spears, once the bionic princess of the pure pop revival and now a relic of quainter times. For today’s female stars, pop is the medium, but the modes of delivery are convoluted, even counterintuitive: Lady Gaga’s moody, dizzying performance art; Kesha’s wastoid slacker rap; even Katy Perry’s doe-eyed stumbles toward complexity.

Ms. Spears is above all that and also incapable of any of it. Her voice is thin and sweet and coy. It’s little more than a lure, and also a pretense. Without the singing there is no stardom, but the stardom was conferred for everything but the singing. Even when Ms. Spears is no longer famous, she will still be a star.

More than any of her previous releases “Femme Fatale” is blank. Ms. Spears isn’t much more than a celebrity spokeswoman for the work of the producers Max Martin, Dr. Luke and others, who need artists like Ms. Spears as calling cards. But whereas her collaborators in the past — these and others — have used her as a guinea pig for their cleverest work, much of the music on this album feels flat and redundant, no more invigorating than the average European dance-pop album of five years ago.


A decade ago, when she was at her apex, Ms. Spears might not have been a great vocalist, but she was a risk taker with an ear for forward-leaning dance-pop. “Femme Fatale” is her seventh album, an accomplishment of its own, and an impressive total from someone who’s given over huge chunks of time and energy to the tabloid morass. But now Britney Spears albums ask very little of Ms. Spears.

There are words on this album, though they generally don’t express meaning so much as create a structure, a reason for Ms. Spears’s attendance. Ms. Spears has no writing credits here, and in some places the lyrics she’s provided with read as a cruel prank. The energetic single “Hold It Against Me” is, in essence, seduction based on a Groucho Marx joke. On “(Drop Dead) Beautiful” she intones airlessly, “Got me kinda hot but I ain’t sweating you/Steaming like a pot full of vegetables.” (An exception is “I Wanna Go,” on which Ms. Spears sings of the scrum that surrounds her — “Lately people got me all tied up/ there’s a countdown waiting for me to erupt” — though with utter disinterest.)

Throughout, she’s barreled over by the high-octane cacophony: everyone lands punches but her. The only artful assault, though, is “How I Roll,” produced by Bloodshy, Henrik Jonback and Magnus, a stream of video game noises, hiccups, digital groans and twee sighs. It’s the point at which this album wakes up, albeit briefly, and at which Ms. Spears is used as a vital instrument, not just window dressing.

Read more at ONTD: http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/57782438.html#cutid1#ixzz1I18hNd2B
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Mar 29 2011, 06:56 PM
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Her big news was that she's to go on tour with Enrique Iglesias. :manson:
huh isn't she like 100 times more popular than him :confused: who the hell likes Enrique :confused:
your new co-worker?
she didn't make it to the noughties yet :lol2:
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The Trouble With Britney Spears

Four years after Britney Spears’ breakdown, she’s again promoting a new album, Femme Fatale, out Tuesday, though it’s far from clear she’s fully recovered. But industry sources tell Jacob Bernstein that won’t hurt her career.

How do you market a pop star with a fragile connection to reality and a work ethic that appears to be somewhat diminished?

It’s a question record labels have faced over and over again, from the worst days of Stevie Nicks and Chaka Khan’s careers in the late 1970s and early ’80s, to Whitney Houston’s comeback attempt last year, and finally to Britney Spears.

On Tuesday her new album, Femme Fatale, is released, and Jive/Zomba is doing everything it can to keep her in the public eye, while at the same time avoiding the glare that comes with that.

The solution: Britney Spears, everywhere and nowhere, all at once.

She’s doing interviews with magazines over email (enabling her to control which questions get asked and answered), pre-taping performances on morning shows (helping to insure that there won’t be a repeat of her 2008’s MTV Music Awards fiasco), and going on Glee, where her appearance can be scripted to the letter.

Even in the case of the hit Fox TV show, the results from her episode last fall haven’t exactly inspired confidence from people around her, insiders say.

A source on the Glee set tells The Daily Beast that Spears appeared “out of it” during the filming of her scenes and totally reliant on her team of career minders in order to function professionally. “They led her to her mark and she’d sit there like a deer in the headlights until she had to say her lines,” the source says. “When she was finished, they’d take her by the hand and lead her away again.” (A spokesman for Spears did not respond to requests for comment for this article.)

The whole thing feels rather like Weekend at Bernie’s, but instead of a murdered gangster, there’s a catatonic entertainer.

But what else is Spears’ team to do? Four years ago, their golden goose had a meltdown of Charlie Sheen-like proportions, shaving her head and then attacking a car with an umbrella, as a slew of paparazzi went snap, snap, snap. From there, she spent the next few months checking in and out of rehab centers, failing to show up at custody hearings for her children, and being hospitalized, presumably for having a psychological break. Her money was placed in a conservatorship that her father, a notorious stage parent, controls to this day.

Since then, things have gotten quieter, but there have been conflicting indications that Spears has fully come out the other end, or that she even wants to be famous anymore. Touring in 2009 for another album, the appropriately titled Circus, the singer of mega-hits like “…Baby, One More Time” and “I’m a Slave 4 U” barely addressed her fans on the microphone in between songs. During an appearance on Ellen around that time, Spears did a skit where she went caroling with the chat host, but she hid the entire time beneath a pair of sunglasses, again saying little.

One source whose company makes money from Spears says, “The idea of a star having a breakdown and putting them back into place is near impossible,” before going on to liken her promotion process to putting “an alcoholic back in a bar and expecting them to be OK… So you end up putting in safety cushions and still, it seems weird.”
That it does. One after the other the interviews come, and one after the other, the elephant in the room just gets bigger.

In V, the indie fashion bible, just about the only things revealed in the interview accompanying Mario Testino’s photo portfolio are Spears’ views on astrology (“I like to believe there is a little magic in the world, but I also believe we choose our own path”), whom she would most like to collaborate with (“you’ll just have to wait and see”), and what’s been on her iPod lately (The Black Eyed Peas, M.I.A., and Christina Aguilera).

Oh, and she informs readers that she doesn’t read mean things that get printed about her. “I’m past of all of that,” Spears, or someone close to her, says. “I try to block it all out and not pay attention to anything they write about me in the magazines or online. I’m done with that.”

In Out, meanwhile, Spears gives up who’s her favorite Golden Girl (“Betty White, because she’s so sweet and innocent”), that Lady Gaga is “unique,” and that she has a phobia of flying because she’s “not in control.”

“If you’re limited in what you can do [on the publicity trail], eventually the public figures it out,” says the last source. “She’s in a busy market with Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Ke$ha. There’s a lot of artists in that lane. It’s hard to keep putting Band-Aids on and hoping the problem goes away. Eventually, the public figures it out.”
Maybe so, but what’s most surprising is that many in the industry continue to believe Spears’ career will be just fine whether or not the public believes that she’s gotten her marbles back and and whether or not there’s an ethical problem with all these people around Spears trying to make money off a woman who may be psychologically disturbed and is certainly ambivalent about her fame.

Already, Femme Fatale’s first single, “Hold It Against Me,” went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts. And buzz on its follow-up, “Till the World Ends” is largely positive. Further, a surprise performance by Spears at a Vegas nightclub Friday night seemed to go well enough, though Spears continues to show little of the incredible dancing technique she possessed in the earlier days of her career. (She also does not seem to be singing much of anything, although that was pretty much always the case.)

“I think she’ll do well” with this album, says Bob Lefsetz, writer of an industry newsletter that’s big with A&R types. “She’s a brand name and she’s working with the best people in the business.” (These folks include Dr. Luke, who produced much of the album and is currently the most in-demand producer in the industry.)

As Lefsetz sees it, Spears has always appeared to be a tool of marketing people, an “inanimate object” who is largely presented as such. “She works with these people who churn it out, there’s no soul, the records come and go…Everyone knew Madonna was intelligent. She was a phenomenal marketer. No one believes Britney is pulling the strings… You just don’t want to take her too seriously.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-28/britney-spears-troubled-comeback-femme-fatale-fame-post-meltdown/





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Britney's tour is being sponsored by Big Lots!!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
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Enrique Iglesias is no longer co-headling Britney's upcoming tour

"Plans called for Iglesias, who is currently on tour in Europe, to be much more than a standard opening act; he was slated to carry full production on the Spears tour. While two such high-profile artists with top-shelf production values was sure to be attractive to fans, such an endeavor is also very expensive to produce."

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Her big news was that she's to go on tour with Enrique Iglesias. :manson:
huh isn't she like 100 times more popular than him :confused: who the hell likes Enrique :confused:
He's had two of the biggest hits of his career within the last year here in the US.
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Enrique Iglesias is no longer co-headling Britney's upcoming tour

"Plans called for Iglesias, who is currently on tour in Europe, to be much more than a standard opening act; he was slated to carry full production on the Spears tour. While two such high-profile artists with top-shelf production values was sure to be attractive to fans, such an endeavor is also very expensive to produce."

billboard.com

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How disappointing. Seeing Britney and Enrique trying to "dance" their way through completely-mimed songs on the same stage at the same time would have been car crash entertainment at its best.
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Now, they're saying that Enrique is *considering* doing it. WTF?

Obviously, they want her to co-headline. Something's up.
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Enrique Iglesias 'not doing Britney tour'

A representative for Enrique Iglesias has officially confirmed that the popstar will not be touring with Britney Spears this summer.

Spears, whose seventh album Femme Fatale is out now, revealed on Tuesday morning's edition of Good Morning America that she would be touring North America with Iglesias this summer.

However, Billboard later reported that Iglesias had pulled out of the 26 date tour.

In a statement, Iglesias's representative Gary Mantoosh said: "Unfortunately, Enrique Iglesias and Britney Spears will not be touring together. Instead, Enrique will be continuing his solo tour in support of his album Euphoria.

"Enrique has great respect for Britney and is a longtime fan of her work. He is very sorry for the confusion this might have caused to anyone."

Iglesias is currently in the middle of a European tour to promote his latest record. Representatives for Spears and promoters Live Nation have not yet commented on the reports.
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