Britney Spears - Blackout

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

mark e, Friday, 25 January 2008 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link

me too

Surmounter, Friday, 25 January 2008 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Surmounter, Friday, 25 January 2008 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link

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

I know, right?, Friday, 25 January 2008 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

Finefinemusic, Friday, 25 January 2008 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link

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.

jaymc, Friday, 25 January 2008 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link

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

akm, Friday, 25 January 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link

Cool, maybe I will check it out.

jaymc, Friday, 25 January 2008 21:26 (sixteen years ago) link

If you've only heard the three singles on the comp, jaymc, you haven't heard Tusk; it's much weirder.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 25 January 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link

I think there are five songs on the comp: "Tusk," "Think About Me," "Storms," "Sisters of the Moon," and "Sara." I just listened to all of them, and they're all pretty good, but "Sara" is especially sweet.

jaymc, Friday, 25 January 2008 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link

"Sara" is my favorite Nicks song ever, and indicative of how the album sounds.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 25 January 2008 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link

Awesome. My favorite Nicks song is "Dreams," and I think "Sara" has some sonic similarities -- the hazy, languid quality of her vocals meshing with those crisp drums is key.

jaymc, Friday, 25 January 2008 22:07 (sixteen years ago) link

yea i need to check this album out too. (Tusk)

Surmounter, Friday, 25 January 2008 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link

so Break The Ice is happening for me now.

Surmounter, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link

I wouldnt say that Tusk sounds that much like "Sara". If I had to choose a representative sample, I'd probably go for "Think about Me".

baaderonixx, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link

The 90s techno synth on Break the ice is so great (the beat and melody/singing too). You want to hear the track blast in a rave in some suburban boarded up factory !

AleXTC, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link

absofuckinlutely

Surmounter, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link

FAR ! (fancy a rave)

AleXTC, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link

Well, I learned to love Rumours when I was around seven and I bought Tusk about a year ago, so that's why I said Tusk. Also, they're both batshit brilliant pop albums where the dislocated fragmented nature finds an almost conceptual base in the Britney and Lindsey chaotic lives of the artists.

I know, right?, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link

On my Radar is kind of a crowd pleaser, it's funny. i mean i think it's great and all but it was definitely a bit of a grower for me.

Surmounter, Thursday, 31 January 2008 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link

it's 8am and i want to put this on. i tink it's because my radio alarm went off this morning with an alert that brit's in the hospital

again

girl needs to chill

Surmounter, Thursday, 31 January 2008 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link

Finally coming around to heaven on earth, reminds me a bit of The One of Kylie's new album,

I know, right?, Friday, 1 February 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link

yes!

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 1 February 2008 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link

It's in the echoey piano part.

I know, right?, Friday, 1 February 2008 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link

echoey piano is one of my new favorite elements in a song.

Surmounter, Friday, 1 February 2008 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Sorry.
But no part of Blackout comes anywhere near to the brilliance that is The One
I picked up Blackout cos of the love on this thread, but after a week, I'm still not getting why this has been met so positively.
Caveat : There is a strong case that in a few weeks I wil regret this post.

mark e, Friday, 1 February 2008 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link

yea

it took me a little while with this album!

Surmounter, Friday, 1 February 2008 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link

Really? I was hooked when they posted those samples on people! Piece of me was the one that jumped out and just sounded tremendous at first, but now I don't see it as being as good as , say , Break the Ice. Yeah, the One is pretty fantastic. The new Janet single has this same feel, but it doesn't have the heart. I guess Kylie takes it on that one though, but this album is an incredible machine.

I know, right?, Friday, 1 February 2008 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link

I find Blackout cold and distant.
I feel hugged and loved by X.

mark e, Friday, 1 February 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link

yea i need to hear The One.

Blackout is cold to me too, but that's what i like about it -- it's like she is cold and she wants you to know or something. i know, deep.

well, this DID sound big to me at first -- but i didn't really get the subtlties in it until a bit later.

Surmounter, Friday, 1 February 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link

There's so many warm facets to Blackout though. The more I listen to it the more Britney's voice becomes the golden key to getting it. It makes all these nice warm effects when its multitracked that are just so soft. It cuts throught the metallic beats or at least drapes itself over them.

I know, right?, Friday, 1 February 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link

xpost, yeah like harmonies on Radar are just so subtle at first but they eventually dominate the song. And on freak show, just the way she moves around the speakers is entrancing, its like a Yes record, you could watch her voice bounce around the room for hours.

I know, right?, Friday, 1 February 2008 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link

Has there been a bad remix of "Piece of Me" done yet? The three I've heard so far (Boz O Lo, Tiesto, Bimbo Jones) are ridiculous good.

musically, Saturday, 2 February 2008 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link

i COMPLETELY agree, IKR. her voice. the layers, the production, the way they soften it so MUCH, just cascades over the treble-heavy beats. one of my favorite examples of this is the chorus of Perfect Lover. "you're the best -- you got me obsessed." they make her sound like honey.

freakshow is amazing. and yes, i love the dancing between speakers -- one night, i caught myself actually leaning toward one speaker and then the other as i was listening.

my favorite part in piece of me is when she says "please"

yum

Surmounter, Saturday, 2 February 2008 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link

i think that's what i meant by subtlety -- i didn't get this at first.

Surmounter, Saturday, 2 February 2008 01:12 (sixteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

i love piece of me a lot.

it is funny tho how the chorus vox are so much higher than the rest. sounds a little like my speakers are fucking up sometimes. still amazing.

Surmounter, Saturday, 1 March 2008 03:46 (sixteen years ago) link

true to form i am so late with this album. i gather everyone's past it now. oh well.

Surmounter, Saturday, 1 March 2008 05:58 (sixteen years ago) link

better late than never.

The Brainwasher, Saturday, 1 March 2008 05:59 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm not past it. I listen to it all the time. I'm still holding out hope that "Toy Soldier" (or "Radar") will be a single and a gigantic hit.

!Alicia!, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link

i love Toy Soldier. Radar isn't a single? what HAS been released as singles? Just Gimme More? Or Piece Of Me too?

Surmounter, Monday, 3 March 2008 01:30 (sixteen years ago) link

"Gimme More" and "Piece of Me" have been released as singles. "Break The Ice" is rumored to be the next single (a mistake, I think), but I haven't read anything official.

!Alicia!, Monday, 3 March 2008 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link

i don't know, Break The Ice is intensely hot.

Surmounter, Monday, 3 March 2008 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link

it's all in the "hot hot hot hot"

Surmounter, Monday, 3 March 2008 01:45 (sixteen years ago) link

I looked it up and it seems Jive HAS confirmed "Break The Ice" as the next single. It's being released to radio tomorrow, in fact!

I know a lot of people love it, but it hasn't really grabbed me. I usually skip it to get to the songs I really love though, so maybe I'll come to like it more if I give it some proper attention.

!Alicia!, Monday, 3 March 2008 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link

it didn't grab me at first either -- ooh tomorrow!

Surmounter, Monday, 3 March 2008 02:07 (sixteen years ago) link

Why Should I Be Sad is so great, and sad

Surmounter, Friday, 14 March 2008 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Yeah, as I said before on this thread, it's a great and beautiful track. one of the best and most touching britney's tracks ever IMO. also, one of the best things the neptunes have done these last years.

AleXTC, Friday, 14 March 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link

very touching, AND catchy, which is a great combination

Surmounter, Friday, 14 March 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link

yup.
one of the great things on this album is there's no real slow, romantic whatever song (which always suck, at least on britney's previous albums). only bangers, dark synth pop. and then this final track that's sad but not in an obvious way. more like a beautiful spleen (ah, this description could be the title of a Suede song !).
I still listen to this album on a regular basis. still brilliant.

AleXTC, Friday, 14 March 2008 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link

yes, no sappy songs. just that token of sweetness.

Surmounter, Friday, 14 March 2008 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link


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