Britney Spears: Classic or Dud?

True.

And Blackout is outrageously good.

We know!

I really really like "blackout" but couldn't give a shit about the latest album.

^^

you're missing out on some killer songs. it definitely has a few that aren't good. blackout didn't have that problem. but still, missing out.

http://i36.tinypic.com/r0o3ef.jpg

I won't hold it against her!

Lies. (Maybe not.)

Her US chart history really is odd, I would have thought "I'm a Slave 4 U" and "Piece of Me" were top tens also

I love “Til the World Ends”

listening to it now

what about "3"?

Huh I thought “Slave 4 U” was a top 10 hit in the US. In Europe and LatinAmerica it definitely was. Was the video too much or got censored for American audiences?

the "i'm a slave 4 u" video was really big on mtv. it was radio that didn't play it much compared to a lot of her other songs.

What is this #freebritney shyt?

Seems like fans reading too much into things?

Does the new song ("Swimming in the Stars") slap? I'm trying to decide.

I briefly got very excited in the final thirty seconds when it threatened to go drum & bass, but turns out it's the cruellest mirage ever.

beat the press by the butthole surfers sums up her material!

she's no William Orbit, that's for true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is0hVNZJTOU beat the press by the butthole surfers sums up her material!

https://i.ibb.co/BzHvRkp/mashup-video-of-a-baby-goat-that.jpg

So this NYT documentary on Hulu is something. The Y2K era paparazzi scene was even more vile than I remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXG28S8cAJU

I just discovered her Instagram (via an article around the doc and "Free Britney" phenomenon) -- it's a trip.

What is this #freebritney shyt?

Seems like fans reading too much into things?

free britney

fuck everyone else in this story

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jul/01/britney-spears-judge-denies-request-to-remove-father-jamie-from-conservatorship

But why?

that’s fucked up

I reiterate fuck everyone except britney

the why I assume includes a lot of misogyny and ableism

This is an absolute travesty.

It is beyond terrifying that your rights can be taken away permanently after a mental health crisis.

I can't find the tweet I saw last night that delved into it a little more clearly, but apparently that Variety article from yesterday was just reporting on a ruling made in November 2020, before her testimony, and has a very misleading headline.

I mean, not to dispute how tragic and horrible this entire thing is, but apparently she still needs to file a new petition and her request was not freshly quashed after that testimony.

It's like they timed it with Cosby's release just for maximum shittiness. Ugh.

agh, missed jon's posts. nm

it wasn't a ruling made in november, it was a ruling on the request to have her dad removed from the conservatorship then

timing is just coincidental

*the request made then

Right sorry, I was trying to find the tweet that cleared it all up. Important takeaway that was buried in the Variety article and not mentioned in the misleading headline, is that it wasn't a fresh denial in light of her testimony from last week, which is the narrative that, perhaps understandably, took off on twitter last night.

Britney's...free?

https://www.tmz.com/2021/08/12/britney-spears-jamie-spears-conservator-step-down/

(Not quite yet as such, but read the whole thing.)

Sounds like it's true (for those who avoid TMZ links): https://variety.com/2021/music/news/britney-spears-father-jamie-spears-quits-conservator-1235040690/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CZ3CYZ4gF5l/?utm_medium=copy_link

:/

not a word of a lie 🙌

and like we can go easy on the slantyface, ya grl don’t need that energy unless she goes nazi or antivax or whatever (knock on wood)

what do we think about "cold heart" pt 2?

i like it on first listen. obviously very shameless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hLtlzkoGPk

It's no Solid Wall of Sound.

Britney's voice is not suited to this kind of melody at all, I actually love her vocal fry and how she uses it to convey sexiness or urgency or sadness in so many other songs but this doesn't work.

"Her US chart history really is odd, I would have thought "I'm a Slave 4 U" and "Piece of Me" were top tens also"

I know this comment was three years ago, but yes, I didn't realise until that post that "Slave 4 U" wasn't even a top twenty hit in the US. It reached number 27.

I always assumed she had hit after hit, but purely in terms of single chart placings she had a freak #1 with "Baby One More Time" in the US then had flop after flop until 2007-2012 then flop after flop again. She was far more popular on our side of the pond. I wonder if it's something to do with chart rules in the US. They have weird chart rules about radio play.

e.g. "Born to Make You Happy" got to number one here in the pop-loving UK but wasn't even released in the US. I always thought that song sounded sad. There's an air of desperation about it. There's a certain kind of song I associate with standing in Blockbuster Video or McDonalds on a winter's night at 09:30 and the rain is lashing down and its miserable, but there's supposedly cheerful pop music on the tannoy that sounds desperately sad because you're in the Blockbuster / Argos / McDonalds contemplating your life choices.

https://www.vulture.com/article/britney-spears-conservatorship-fans-conspiracy-theory

https://www.vulture.com/article/britney-spears-conservatorship-fans-conspiracy-theory.html

(maybe this link works)

Interesting article... some of these folks need to get a grip. (Wonder why it doesn't address the recent Victor Wembanyama thing)