Britney Spears - Blackout

Surely her best, but she can do better. If next time around she gets rid of those Timbaland proteges and instead uses someone like Richard X, to make a similar album, only with straight 4/4 beats and a more true 80s-retro sound, it will be even better.

You seem to have gotten lost, Geir:

http://poptimists.livejournal.com/

the other day i was struck by how much "piece of me" sounds like a justin timberlake song; not just the melody and instrumentation but the WAY that she sings those lines, with the same kind of insistent, almost monotone that he uses

I think it sounds like Virginia Woolf tying stones to her shoes. Great song.

Her skin is bad?

Officially break the Ice is by far the best thing on this. It sounds different on every different stereo/headphone whatever you play it on too.

wow I just realised how risqué the lyrics are

do people (and by people I mean 'people who aren't record companies') still care about chart placement in this day and age where no-one actually buys music?

by which I mean: this album and the single seem to be in a weird place where they have sold relatively ok, placed well in charts, have gotten critical acclaim, and yet everyone still has a terrible opinion of her and the media is out for blood (not that she is helping them in that regard...and I guess you could argue the album's critical success has little or nothing to do with her)

It is all about her though!

They wanna look, we can give 'em a ENCORE!

yea it's not about the album it's about her. which is too bad. but actually for the people who don't follow all the bullshit (like my parents), the bottom line DOEs sometimes seem to be -- well the album is fairing well. it's just when you pay attention to like Access Hollywood that things get messy

i'm sorry but this is just hot

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g192/rrawn/brit.jpg

in a big way.

& she lost even more weight no?

Easiest mash-up in the world: "Piece of Me" and "Word Up".

Such a sucker for these things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixlHxS3ZpZM

akm: I wouldn't say "critical acclaim", rather mixed reviews: http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/spearsbritney/blackout

Surely the best album of Britney, but it's mainly because of their previous ones were shite. This is just half-shit.

the same kind of insistent, almost monotone that [justin timberlake] uses

it's like halfway to rapping (at least) - so cool how her voice is literally played on a synth despite how many times this has been done - shades of "j-j-jam it on the one" as if theo was hanging out in booka shade's studio instead of stevie wonder's

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I don't really like Hot As Ice all that much, but there's pretty much no song on this that you could say is less than good. About 50% is brilliant and 40% is incredible

definitely not half-shite, if you appreciate pop music.

"Hot as Ice" sounds like it could fit on Felix da Housecat's Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever.

Yeah, seriously, this album is like the definition of unfuckwithable

I do appreciate good pop music...
But this is just half good. Sorry about that, Brit.

That Turtles song "Ooh Baby Baby" or whatever it's called is garbage, and "Why Should I Be Sad" is kind of blah, but otherwise yeah this album is wicked. The three-song stretch "Get Naked (I Got A Plan)"/ "Freakshow" / "Toy Soldier" is *LEGENDARY*.

How do the Turtles get here?

it samples/interpolates some Turtles song...

"happy together"

Strange, but I can't hear The Turtles there... but the song is really shit, you're right.

I don't understand why they didn't put "Kiss U All Over" on the album, it's one of the best songs from the Blackout-sessions.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1r-mJb1ERF4

theres some good songs on the new album but id like to hear songs like why am i so sad sung by someone else.

"Radar" and "Piece of Me" are masterpieces. Then there's about five or six lesser ones. Her best album.

You are forgetting Break the Ice, from the moment you really hear it, it sounds amazing!

yes.

putting it on

"why should I be sad" is so nice and sad. great one to end the album after all the synths and freaky beats...

Apparently she is supposed to be dead within the next half-year. So I guess this is her swansong album then....

PERFECT LOVER

i don't rly know that there's a bad song on here? i'm not HUGE on Get Naked but everything else sounds great to me.

get naked (i has a plan)

"Heaven on Earth" gets better and better, and it was already my favorite song.

If it's her last album, it's a great one to leave with (and "be sad" would be a good final).
the rest of the album is really amazing, indeed. for me, with no order in particular, the best would be : gimme, naked, break the ice, heaven, sad, ice... almost all the album actually ! (and it's such a joy to listen to with good earphones).
any idea what the next single will be ?

Britney to Make 'Purr-fect' Album

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Troubled popstar Britney Spears today announced plans for a new album entitled "Epic Fail." Spears further said that all lyrics for the album will be written in something she referred to as "loll-cat."

"I has producers. I has artistic vision," Spears said at a press conference. "Nom nom nom nom nom."

At times, Spears seemed agitated, yelling for no discernable reason. "I IS SINEAD CAT," she said. "WHERE IS MONORAIL BABY?"

At other times, however, she was playful, pointing at a photographer and saying, "Invisible ethics."

The press conference finished as confusingly as it began, with Spears asking, "My bucket--has you seen it?"

Representatives at her label had no immediate comment.

shutup, i'm really gullible so just tell me ur kidding

just joeks

this has already dropped to a mere fiver in your local Woolies.
i'm still getting into it to be honest.

me too

i'm at that stage where it's all i wanna put on

I seriously can't listen to anything else anymore, not since Tusk has an album so thoroughly ruined the rest of my listening.

i'm at that stage where it's all i wanna put on

-- Surmounter, Friday, January 25, 2008 7:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

I think I actually broke my (admittedly refurbished) mp3 player by playing this album exclusively while commuting 3hrs+ a day on the bus for two months straight. Now I have no music. Now I am depressed.

What is so great about Tusk? I have a 2CD Fleetwood Mac greatest hits, and I like a handful of songs, but I'm a little baffled whenever I hear people speak so reverentially of that album in particular. Is it that different from, say, Rumours (most of which is on the greatest hits)? All I know is that they use marching bands on it.

there was a marching band only on the title track. the rest of the album is just very good songwriting, with a particular weird sheen to it all...so where Rumors is good and solid pop songwriting, Tusk is good and solid WEIRD pop songwriting

Cool, maybe I will check it out.