Britney Spears - Blackout

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

so Break The Ice is happening for me now.

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".

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 !

absofuckinlutely

FAR ! (fancy a rave)

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.

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.

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

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

yes!

It's in the echoey piano part.

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

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.

yea

it took me a little while with this album!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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