Britney Spears - Blackout

haha =) another time

a cappella http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q40p0DeCAZA&feature=related

omg

the little harmonies on the chorus

Break the Ice is even better!

I can really hear Robyn in the background of POM!

does anyone else always hear the sound effect from the beginning as a chicken? and how weird is that?

(of piece of me)

i get it, and it's always weird

!

I mean, who's idea was it? Every time I wonder.

what's running through my head is you
up in my face

ok, pussycat dolls "when i grow" up> most of this album

STFU THAT IS TOTAL BULLSHIT AND YOU KNOW IT SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND STOP ACTING THE PLEB

Sacrilege. Ban.

Seriously, these songs are so rich harmonically.

Diamanda Galás on Britney:

"What about Britney, then?
Oh, I’ll always love Britney. My ex-boyfriend used to work with her. He was a mastering engineer and he worked with her back when she first came out. The reason I love Britney Spears -- I don’t know if it’s Britney I love, I’m not really sure -- but the reason I love her voice so much is that it’s not really human. I know a lot about electronic music -- you have a very small vocal signal which is interfaced with a lot of signal processing stuff to tune it -- because she sings out of tune. So you have harmonizers and these different signal processing instruments and by the time they get through with it all the voice is not human. It sounds like a cockroach. And I love that sound because it’s so unique. So it sounds like -- [tries to imitate Britney’s voice for a second or two]. I can’t do it, but it’s such a funny little sound that I like it. One of my favorite science fiction films is a film called Squirm and it’s kind of the revenge of the radioactive worms in the South -- I don’t know where in the South, it could be Alabama. So they took these worms that they had and put through electroshock. They’d put water on them and they shocked them -- and they got the sound of them. It’s horrifying. And they interfaced that with some really sleazy analog synthesizers. I like Britney for all the wrong reasons -- I like her because there’s a total pedophilic worshipping station there but it sounds like radioactive worms! It doesn’t sound like anything else. For example -- the singers who want to sing like Whitney -- they all sound the same. They sound like Whitney -- and Whitney still sounds better than all of them, especially when she’s on crack. She still sounds better. But that’s me -- I just have a perverted sensibility of voices for my own reasons. I don’t like to be bored."

Does she not know how to say Autotune?

where's that diamanda quote from? i love reading her interviews.

the tutor played 'when i grow up' at hip-hop dance class yesterday, it was banging. I WANNA SEE THE WORLD, DRIVE NICE CARS, I WANNA HAVE GROUPIES

how can anyone say they are not feminists

here baby

http://www.out.com/detail.asp?page=1&id=23696

awez, cheers

haha she is endlessly quotable. she's otm about e john being a "dreadful, dreadful, horrible little midget corpse". and!

"People can go and do their fucking yoga and all that shit but speed is speed. So, instead of doing a double fucking fuck on people that take speed and saying, “You deserve to get the fucking AIDS virus because you’re a fucking asshole who’s still taking drugs,” why don’t they do something intelligent and mix a cocktail of speed and prophylactic antivirals?"

"double fucking fuck"!!!!

Yeah, that's all so great. So wonderful.

Nick's in a bad mood.

nick's like 45, he always is!

i mean spiritually

hahahaha

Double fucking fuck.

You wish.

Maybe I should listen to one of my Diamanda Galas LPs. I fear they would seem pretty corny now though, compared to when I would read Re/Search books and "Apocalypse Culture" and all that.

via ONTD/BreatheHeavy:

Jive Press Release: New Britney Single Out Sept. 22nd; Album Titled Circus out Dec. 2nd

First Single "Womanizer" Is Slated To Hit Radio On September 22nd

Jive/Zomba recording artist Britney Spears announces her sixth studio album, Circus, set for release December 2nd. The first single from the album is titled "Womanizer" and was produced by the up-and-coming Atlanta production team The Outsyders. The album release date coincides with Spears' birthday.

On the heels of an MTV VMA awards sweep, where Britney walked away with three Moonmen awards for "Video of the Year," "Best Female" and "Best Pop Video" for "Piece of Me," Jive Records is preparing her latest album, Circus, a follow-up to her critically well received album, Blackout. For her latest effort, Britney has enlisted a stellar group of established producers/writers that include Dr. Luke (who wrote and produced the album's title track, "Circus"), Danja, Max Martin, Bloodshy & Avant and Guy Sigsworth (Madonna, Alanis Morissette, Bjork).

Britney Spears is one of the top-selling artists of the last decade, and to date, she has sold in excess of 62 million albums worldwide that include Baby One More Time (1999), Oops!...I Did It Again (2000), Britney (2001), In The Zone (2003), and Blackout (2007), eight #1 worldwide singles and four consecutive #1 albums.

The Zomba Label Group consists of record labels Jive, LaFace, Volcano, Verity, GospoCentric and Fo Yo Soul. These labels represent a varied group of artists including Justin Timberlake, R. Kelly, Usher, Tool, Ciara, Chris Brown, Pink, Britney Spears, OutKast, Kirk Franklin, Three Days Grace, 311, Nick Lachey, T-Pain, Byron Cage, Bullet For My Valentine, Buddy Guy, Living Things, Anthony Hamilton, Donnie McClurkin, John P. Kee, Fred Hammond, Hezekiah Walker, Marvin Sapp, Kelly Price, J. Moss and Backstreet Boys.

so soon!

I'm pretty sure the last one was only recorded in a matter of a few weeks (or a week's worth of days over the course of a topsy turvy month) so I hope that it'll hold up!

help me up

the Outsyders......????

ooooh SO SOON!

I love that you're here for this

ME TOO. i hope i'm still here when it comes out.

surotmter

surm, are you leaving ilx? that would suck

What? I only just bought Blackout last night!

(And it is the best thing I've heard in ages.) The production on it is just like candy, it's so textural and at the same time so spartan.

I heard Piece Of Me by accident in Woolworths and my ears just pricked up with the whole WHAT IS THAT!??!? It took me a while to realise it was Britney - I thought it was some bizarre Madonna out take. I'm beginning to realise that Toxic wasn't a fluke, and she might be more interesting an artist than I realised.

Perhaps I should take the time to wade through the 300 posts on this thread. But, um, if it's the usual crew, um, probably not.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/2860174939_8556a88945_o.jpg

No, we formed our own crew.

Like, it starts off badly then gets really worse with lot of vague meandering about "the state of pop", or something, skip all that. At about the point where people hear the album, it gets really good. I remember the day I spent trying to find the leak, good times, good times.

any wagers on Womanizer being about that guido fuck she was hanging out with for a while?

guido fuck?

(this question is double-proged, as in, I don't know anything about that or indeed what it means)

no i'm not going anywhere :)

um, is Womanizer a new song?

I assume....

Perhaps I should take the time to wade through the 300 posts on this thread. But, um, if it's the usual crew, um, probably not.

Usual crew? This is pop, hardly LBZC material.

I'm not talking about LBZC, I'm talking about the "We're Not Rockists" Rockists.

But never mind, work has just been too busy today to read the rest of it. Maybe tomorrow if it's less insane.