BRITNEY!

And what is up with that cover?

It's crap, is what it is. And the idea of her covering "I Love Rock and Roll," only one of the greatest songs and performances ever of all time and stuff, fills me with ten times more simultaneous bemusement and abject revulsion than any goddamn Rolling Stones cover.

I stand by my thought that the new single would be fantastic if she wasn't in it.

And what is with that cover? She looks like a chick at a Cat Power concert that is waiting in line to use the bathroom and is trying desperately to hold it in just a bit longer...

Britney could have done better than that, meh.

Not a very good cover but then nor were the covers of her last two albums. Both of which I own so I'll probably buy this too. "I'm A Slave 4 U" is a good song but not one she knows what to do with.

1) are you suggesting that intelligent people can only like Britney to be cool and contrary?

2) either way, do you really think said people haven't been around for the last two years? Surely the disposition of a number of people here towards Britney would suggest otherwise. Or are we only being ironic?

http://www.bongoclub.it/weekgirls/BritneySpearsOLD/Britney% 20Spears%202.jpg http://www.gorskys.com.au/photo-album/photos/britney- spears.jpg http://www.britney-spears- photos.com/smcbritneyspears01.jpg

No, no, I'm sure there's something worthwhile about the clueless vapidity of a totally sheltered mouseketeer who can't sing, can't play music and doesn't write her own dance numbers, even, and when she writes part of a song it's a big deal. Hey, yeah. If she doesn't turn out as fucked up as Michael Jackson, I'll be surprised. But, at least Michael can sing and sorta writes songs (you can tell he has a lot of input, becuase who's gonna coach him to breathe loudly into the mic after each line and blurt out shit like "hambone" or "shemon")... and I believe all that wiggly-arm and tippy toe "dancing" shit he does is his own creation.

Also, did anyone see the MTV Diary a few weeks back? She said something to the effect of 'when I'm home, I like to wear dirty jeans and, y'know, like, a simple shirt...' and they cut to her wearing a shirt that is quite simple because there's not a lot of it there to complicate things...

For what it's worth, I think her new album cover is one of the best pics I've seen of her. I don't think she's very attractive (I'm gay, what do I know, right?), but at least zonked and smacked-out beats grade-B porn model vapid. In my book. I like the Strokes, though.

Like clueless vapidity is a bad thing. If I want deep thoughts I sure as hell don't look for it in music, at least with intent of purpose.

Wouldn't you rather just see the people that wrote the music play it themselves while the people that taught her to dance coreographed a whole stage full of hotass lolitas in skintight & revealing clothing? I sure would. You know, almost like a female Menudo.

i. computer graphics aren't good enough yet. Lara Croft and the people in Final Fantasy are realistic enough to make you respond to them on a plot-based, fictional, level (though good prose could do that) but not - for me anyway - on a performative level.

ii. part of what is contradictory and fun about pop is the potential for things to go wrong - having a human performer makes this potential more acute and more interesting.

This is a minor point, though - basically, you're right. I would have no problem enjoying records performed by fictional characters, for instance.

"Britnillaz!"...?

That cover is also a shame. It looks very Adobe Photoshop.

Britney Spears records 'aggressive' new material

Britney Spears’ new album is under way and according to the producer with whom she is working, it’s “real aggressive”.

Rodney Jerkins, who created hits with the likes of TLC, including the enormously successfully ‘No Scrubs’, and Brandy on her ’Full Moon’ album, is collaborating with Spears for the first time in seven years and says the new material is "very dance-y, very up-tempo, in the clubs, real aggressive, and catchy...very, very hook-friendly."

Jerkins told Rap-Up TV that Spears is a fast worker and that he plans to reinvent her sound for the 2009 release.

"It usually takes people a long time to record songs and we just did a song. She walked in at 8:30 and was out by 10:30 -- did the whole song -- in and out. …I love working with her. I'm just trying to reinvent her and reinvent myself with her project."

The pair have been working together for around four weeks and Jerkins says that after after her failed 'comeback' at the MTV Awards last year, the singer is on a new path to success.

"I was very happy to see that she was working on the positive side and she's moving toward new things now. I think it's about to be her time again."

--By our New York staff.

BRITNEY SPEARS is looking back to her old self and it seems the people who matter are taking notice.

Bosses at MTV could be set to ask her to return to September's Video Music Awards (VMAs) despite her disastrous performance just 12 months ago.

She gave a dreadful and out of time rendition of single Gimme More at the bash in Las Vegas. She was later spotted crying backstage.

So could Brit be set for her second "comeback" in as many years?

MTV president Van Toffler revealed: "Everyone deserves a second or third chance, right?"

Let's hope Britney gets it right this time.

Jerkins certainly did a bang up job on Janet's comeback single, he must be the man for the job here

"Britney is back (again), but this time she has the help of a fellow diva.

The singer revealed to People that she and “Fancy” rapper Iggy Azalea collaborated on a single that will drop May 5.

Azalea confirmed to the Associated Press earlier this month that the song will be called “Pretty Girls” and will most likely appear on her next album."

is it too gauche to pre-emptively crosspost this in rolling worst songs

:(

Maybe this will be a return to form as iggy is at this point in time considered "toxic"

yes, i am available for subheading gigs :)

it's iggy iggz!!! and britney, bitch

some choice instagramming from britney lately https://www.instagram.com/p/BF1l0D5m8Nk/?hl=en

new track from GLORY is co-produced by mattman & robin, who also worked on 'run away with me' and 'gimme love'

britney working with E•MO•TION personnel might be one of the best pop looks of 2016

to be fair they've written like 50% of non-edm pop radio songs lately

"do you wanna come over?" is the only song i've liked from the album so far

I address the implications of "I'm a Slave 4 U," John Ashcroft's ordering statues to cover themselves, and the sinister figure of Justin Timberlake: https://www.stereogum.com/2165554/britney-spears-britney-turns-20/reviews/the-anniversary/

Good stuff.