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.
― Surmounter, Friday, 13 March 2009 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i36.tinypic.com/r0o3ef.jpg
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 27 September 2009 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I won't hold it against her!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:57 (four years ago) link
Lies. (Maybe not.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:58 (four years ago) link
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
― Josefa, Thursday, 6 June 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
I love “Til the World Ends”
― Theodor Adorno, perhaps the greatest philosopher alive today (morrisp), Thursday, 6 June 2019 02:22 (four years ago) link
listening to it now
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 June 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
what about "3"?
― monotony, Thursday, 6 June 2019 06:45 (four years ago) link
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?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 6 June 2019 07:44 (four years ago) link
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.
― dyl, Friday, 7 June 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
What is this #freebritney shyt?
Seems like fans reading too much into things?
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
beat the press by the butthole surfers sums up her material!
― xzanfar, Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link
she's no William Orbit, that's for true
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is0hVNZJTOU beat the press by the butthole surfers sums up her material!
― xzanfar, Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/BzHvRkp/mashup-video-of-a-baby-goat-that.jpg
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
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
― Darin, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
I just discovered her Instagram (via an article around the doc and "Free Britney" phenomenon) -- it's a trip.
― babe for the weekend (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 February 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
What is this #freebritney shyt?Seems like fans reading too much into things?
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Sunday, 27 June 2021 08:09 (two years ago) link
free britney
fuck everyone else in this story
― Left, Sunday, 27 June 2021 09:13 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jul/01/britney-spears-judge-denies-request-to-remove-father-jamie-from-conservatorship
But why?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 July 2021 09:39 (two years ago) link
that’s fucked up
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Thursday, 1 July 2021 09:45 (two years ago) link
I reiterate fuck everyone except britney
― Left, Thursday, 1 July 2021 09:54 (two years ago) link
the why I assume includes a lot of misogyny and ableism
― Left, Thursday, 1 July 2021 09:56 (two years ago) link
This is an absolute travesty.
― treeship., Thursday, 1 July 2021 14:25 (two years ago) link
It is beyond terrifying that your rights can be taken away permanently after a mental health crisis.
― treeship., Thursday, 1 July 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
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.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 July 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
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.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 July 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
It's like they timed it with Cosby's release just for maximum shittiness. Ugh.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 1 July 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
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
― ufo, Thursday, 1 July 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
*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.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 1 July 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link
Britney's...free?
https://www.tmz.com/2021/08/12/britney-spears-jamie-spears-conservator-step-down/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 August 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
(Not quite yet as such, but read the whole thing.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 August 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
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/
― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Thursday, 12 August 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CZ3CYZ4gF5l/?utm_medium=copy_link:/
― circa1916, Saturday, 12 February 2022 23:03 (two years ago) 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)
― SEES! TURNS! (cat), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 02:34 (two years ago) link
what do we think about "cold heart" pt 2?
i like it on first listen. obviously very shameless.
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Friday, 26 August 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hLtlzkoGPk
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Friday, 26 August 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
It's no Solid Wall of Sound.
― MarkoP, Friday, 26 August 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
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.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 26 August 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
"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.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 27 August 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/article/britney-spears-conservatorship-fans-conspiracy-theory
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 1 August 2023 14:55 (eight months ago) link
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)
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Tuesday, 1 August 2023 16:33 (eight months ago) link
stories like this really make it clear how thin the line is between Qanon & the rest of the general public
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 1 August 2023 16:54 (eight months ago) link
Her audiobook is currently free on Spotify — anyone else listening to it? I’m on ch 13 iirc. I love the part of all musical memoirs where they talk about their childhood relationship w music.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 November 2023 23:07 (five months ago) link
I found her book really frustrating. It felt like it was written by AI, or maybe under-written (in the literal sense). She's just like this automaton - and then I did this, and then I did this, I went out for drinks, and then I recorded an album and went on tour, and so on. Just no revelations and the most shallow bits of introspection, no details or insight where I hoped to get some. And lots of red flags that made me question her credibility. Like when she dismisses the claim of some bodyguard at a hearing that she was doing drugs because "he wasn't cross-examined," but then a couple of pages later she writes "I probably shouldn’t admit to this, but I was hell on wheels. I was taking a lot of Adderall." And then a couple of pages after that, after defending her behavior as overblown, admitting "I’d had my moments. I’d had my wild spell. I’d been high on Adderall and acted crazy." Or claiming news of her distress was inflated, and then in the next chapter she literally admits she had a breakdown.
More troubling are bits where she keeps getting busted popping unnamed "energy pills" that she defends as harmless because they're over the counter, or how she repeatedly and specifically pines for alcohol when she's being controlled in the conservatorship, downplaying her drinking while admitting to getting "wasted." There are passages that remind me of the Chappelle Rick James sketch (where he denies rubbing his boots on Eddie Murphy's couch and then in the next breath admits it). In her case, "When I walked in, she screamed at me and we got into a huge fight. She said it was because I was wasted. She wasn’t wrong. I absolutely was. But ... " etc.
Just kind of extra sad, since even now, in the book, in the *title* of the book, she continues on this self-infantilization track. Yes, I was legally an adult, but I still felt like a kid. I may be 40, but I feel like I'm only now becoming an adult. And so on. She was treated like shit and taken advantage of, but never once seems to learn lessons from her mistakes (mistakes she readily admits to) that would have saved her so much trouble and pain. And even more tragic, never questions her circumstances, or invokes her agency, just doing what she's told from the start, unaware she can ever say no, or that she has options. Like, she's given a court-appointed lawyer that she apparently pays $500,000 a year, not realizing she could hire her own lawyer until *13 years* have passed. Just rough. I wish someone had been looking out for her.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 27 January 2024 19:36 (two months ago) link
the whole thing is terribly sad to me
I'm not sure if I can read the book
some of her mouth noises are more interesting than 95% of what the entire music industry can do with their whole voices, I still listen to some of her tracks to this day on repeat more than I can stomach most other pop songs, and when she was younger, in interviews, she had the maturity of the world, and the kindness
the whole story over the years is just painful. brilliant artist
― Swen, Sunday, 28 January 2024 17:29 (two months ago) link