Britney Spears - Blackout

just like britney!

that said

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3162&Itemid=105&limit=1&limitstart=10

This album is still so amazing. sigh

guys this album soundtracked a very particular period of my life and i think its going to be a long time before I can really listen to it again : (

― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), jueves 13 de agosto de 2009 19:37 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I feel you. :(

sorry for sleeping :(

at least you're here now

lol still can't believe this album happened. i just did a cover of piece of me at a show. it was fun.

A chance hearing of 'Break The Ice' last week has got me listening to this again on a daily basis. What an incredible album, time for a ten-year anniversary vinyl edition please :)

Jeez, forgotten what "meritless offal" Alex in NYC was.

Ha -- I misssed this yesterday. My favorite Britney songs. This album dominates.

I went back to this album following this thread revival: it still holds up and sounds great.
I also discovered "get back" on the extended version on Spotify. It's pretty good !

not today i'm not! how shall we break this down? deliciously ironical lyricky self awareness? 'stars are blind', 'fighting over me', 'screwed'. blithely wealthy industry appropriation of modern musical trends? 'turn it up', turn you on'. fuck you world and you yes you in particular? 'jealousy'. all britney has over paris is a vague hazy rage and people's insane lust for electro-toss and hacky robodiva crit; paris only covered 'do you think i'm sexy' once, not 12 times.

whh-tshh!

― r|t|c, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:27 AM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha note to self only think whh-tshh next time do not type

― r|t|c, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:30 AM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In fairness, electro-toss and hacky robodiva crit is 90% of the reason I prefer this to the Paris record.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:40 AM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also do the whh-tshh again.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:41 AM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whh-NO I WILL NOT BE EXECUTIVE PRODUCED DAMN YOU PAPARAZZO

― r|t|c, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:50 AM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great thread

this thread is weird. remember when ppl cared how much credit britney deserved or didn't deserve for making amazing music? feel like that was a big topic when i was in college. first it went 'britney is talentless hack' then 'even if she makes good music other ppl deserve the credit for doing it for her' then 'well she probably deserves some credit for curating this' then 'well she probably deserves lots of credit bc u know this is her voice and her decisions and her album' then 'fuck u britney is awesome'

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

Please do not invoke "Being Boiled" when discussing the meritless offal that is Britney Spears. Thanks.

this otm tho. "Piece of Me" compared to this is laughable

Human League have 10 other songs better than the offal known as "Being Boiled."

u know, i knew Perfect Lover was great the 1st time, but when i heard it the second time i really got it

― Surmounter, Friday, October 26, 2007 12:43 PM (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love this too

'Being Boiled' is an absolute classic. Good to see people comparing nonsense to synthpop classics isn't a new thing on here.

uh Blackout is a synth pop record, most of it good or classic.

this thread is weird. remember when ppl cared how much credit britney deserved or didn't deserve for making amazing music? feel like that was a big topic when i was in college. first it went 'britney is talentless hack' then 'even if she makes good music other ppl deserve the credit for doing it for her' then 'well she probably deserves some credit for curating this' then 'well she probably deserves lots of credit bc u know this is her voice and her decisions and her album' then 'fuck u britney is awesome'

― Mordy, Saturday, February 25, 2017 12:24 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the "this is her decisions and her album" argument almost always bothers me, because in order to combat the "talentless hack" argument -- I mean, a legit goal -- people tend to overcompensate and misrepresent/gloss over reality, generally business/industry reality. Britney is a rare case where some of this is actually public (i.e. she's still under a conservatorship, meaning "this" quite literally is not her decisions and her album)

It's that phenomenon whereby non-critics who like music don't much discuss who produced albums or how it was made but when it's Britney they never fail to point out how many people are involved in making it even when they don't know their names.

xp Also plays to the old rockist argument of the importance of the person the record is credited to be 'controlling' the content as a producer would - wgaf when it's firing on all cylinders.

Fuck happened to Danja tho huh?

I wouldn't call that a non-critic phenomenon -- with pop artists, this sort of thing tends to crop up among professional, somewhat old-school critics

glad this thread got bumped, I almost forgot how fuckin' strange this was. I hated Ms. Spears for a long time but as soon as "It's Britney bitch" dropped I changed my tune. I remember hearing the single for the first time and just being in disbelief, felt like it just had no commercial potential whatsoever. then I heard the full thing and it was like 12 "Windowlickers" in a row. its even better than the Teen Mom album.

20 years since ....Baby One More Time

Pete Paphides:

True story. At the end of 2009, employed as The Times’ chief music correspondent, I was commissioned to ask my colleagues for their favourite albums of the decade & collate their nominations into a Top 100.
When the votes came in, it transpired that I had been the only one who voted for Britney Spears’ Blackout. Which meant that it barely scraped the 100. This was clearly an unacceptable state of affairs. So I bumped it up to number 5 anyway. #noregrets