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The Official Britney Spears Thread; New album "Glory" in 2016
Topic Started: Dec 31 2007, 11:08 PM (68,301 Views)
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at least she's being honest about herself.
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She's such a cunning linguist :nonplus:
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Popjustice reviews the 5 track promo:

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Alright then, due to 'overwhelming public demand' (ie a string of emails ranging from the polite to the downright offensive) here are some words about tracks from the Britney album.

'CIRCUS'
This is the title track. This means the song's called 'Circus', and it's from the album 'Circus'. "I run a tight ship," Britney announces, "so beware - I'm like the ringleader, I call the shots, I'm like a firecracker I make it hot, now put a show". What does this mean? Well, she is a ringleader on a ship - we presume this is something to do with a special circus on a cruise liner of some sort. Basically Britney is comparing herself to lots of things at the same time. Your English teacher will tell you this is a silly thing to do - but Britney is allowed to do it, because she is Britney. The track comes with massive thudding electronic R&B production and there's a lot of stopping and starting, including a a built-in MTV-style dance breakdown segment. The chorus lyric is "all eyes on me in the centre of the ring just like a circus" but the best bit's the bridge, with its "I feel the adrenaline moving through my veins, spotlight on me and I'm ready to break, I'm like a performer with this world as a stage" bit. There's all sorts of other stuff about "don't stand there watching me, following me, show me what you can do". Bits of it are a lot like 'Break The Ice' from the last album, but with an extra layer of Big Production.

OUT FROM UNDER
'Blackout' didn't have any big ballads so here is one for 'Circus'. It's incredibly similar to this version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-6kf1UwXPQ

...of the song but with more guitar (weedy guitar, not big proper guitar). The production's a lot less sparse and a great deal more 'Britney ballad' (in the 'I'm Not A Girl Not Yet A Woman' tradition). Basically the most interesting thing about Britney's version that you can't hear on the Joanna Pacitti original is the finale, which ends with a great "from under, from under, from under" bit.

KILL THE LIGHTS
Well this one has definitely leaked so we're bollocksed if we're going to spend time trying to describe it when we can just post this YouTube link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aSZgGNThJ4

The fact that this has been on YouTube for two days already without Sony pulling it via a copyright claim suggests that Sony leaked the song themselves, but it might just be that everyone at Sony is busy doing something else, like watering the plants or eating Haribo.

IF U SEEK AMY
This is the one people are excited about because the words "if you seek Amy" sound like "F-U-C-K me". After a "la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la" intro the song sort of throws itself into a ridiculous faux-lesbo 'romp' in which Britney looks for girl called Amy in a club ("oh baby baby have you seen Amy tonight, is she in the bathroom?"), can't find her while the club's closing, bangs on about "love me hate me, say what you want about me but all the boys and all the girls are ready to f-u-c-k me" and then goes bonkers over a lot over a thunderous Timbaland vs Scooter production job. There are some "ha ha he he ho ho ho" bits, a great whooshing noise into the final chorus and an overriding sense that this might be one of Britney's most ridiculous recordings to date.

'VERDICT': It's 'Blackout 2.0' - this is good news, 'Blackout' was a phenomenal album - but seems to include a lot of posturing and also seems to be quite gimmicky, which hopefully won't extend across the entire album. The inclusion of a song like 'Out From Under' suggests that this album, as a whole, might be a bridge between 'In The Zone' and 'Blackout', or at least a bridge between 'Blackout' and a next album more along the 'In The Zone' lines. That didn't make any sense at all, did it. Anyway if these are the very best songs on the album we're probably heading for a 7/10 sort of affair but it's hard to second guess a Britney album so what it will end up like is anybody's guess.

^^ Award winning music journalism at its very best, viewers
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Blah... those descriptions of tracks really do nothing for me unless I'm really excited about the songs.

And Britney's music isn't exactly thrilling.... good and enjoyable but hardly something to 'rock my world' (puts on Sandra Bernhard voice)...
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Apparently there is a 8 minute album mix on http://www.breatheheavy.com/

It seems it has crashed due to all the traffic though :(
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YAY I'M IN
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GOD IT'S HOT
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Noooooooooooooooooooo it stopped :(
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I really like the sound of Circus (the track)!
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I'll put a link to a rip in multimedia
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She clearly sings f.u.c.k me in that song!
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I do NOT hear fuck me in that song

SO FRUSTRATING
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I also hear clearly 'if you seek amy'. Oh well.
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I could only hear F.U.C.K. me
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well this is akward
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I still don't.

BUT

I do think Britney is a better artist than Madonna at the moment and also firmly believe 4 Minutes is the worst song she ever released. :flirt2:
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this is the perfect time for me to walk the dog!
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:lol2:
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Frédéric
Nov 12 2008, 06:48 PM
I do think Britney is a better artist than Madonna at the moment and also firmly believe 4 Minutes is the worst song she ever released. :flirt2:
Tragic. Simply tragic.
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Nov 12 2008, 06:52 PM
Frédéric
Nov 12 2008, 06:48 PM
I do think Britney is a better artist than Madonna at the moment and also firmly believe 4 Minutes is the worst song she ever released. :flirt2:
Tragic. Simply tragic.
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