Britney's new CD out Tuesday, October 30th — Page 3

All Saints did a great cover of Lady Marmalade. I have that cd.

I'm excited after reading the great feedback for Blackout - should I download it off iTunes or buy it?

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Mom you're making me jealous!

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Aw, thanks supportivemom :).

The girl who I gave the CD to in my Economics class today gave me a hug and told me I made her day, which hadn't been going well at all. She was showing all of her friends that I gave her the CD. The guys in the class were sort of laughing of course, but several of the girls were jealous :-P.

Rath, I HAD to buy the actual CD--I collect CDs though... It's a pretty CD too, so I think it's worth it :). Buying it on iTunes just isn't enough for me. Go get it at Best Buy! You'll spend just as much on it there as you will on iTunes (9.99!). :) I'm glad she's getting such great feedback!

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Radar's been stuck in my head for the past week, with any brief intervals filled by parts of Piece of Me. Oh, Britney. How could we ever doubt you? $100 mil in net worth gets you the best producers money can buy!

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Ahhh! I can't stop listening to it! I LOVE "Ooh Ooh Baby" and "Get Back."

I've never been so energized on a morning subway ride.

PS- I *hearted* All Saints.

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is this CD better than her album "In The Zone"? cause i loved that CD

I think this is her best effort. There's only a couple of songs that i skip past - the rest are solid dance numbers.

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Not since Billie Holiday has a frequent and habitual drug user been able to create this much magic in a recording studio while being stoned out of her gord.

That's just blasphemy. Pure blasphemy.

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I don't know how long that Salon article is, as the following page(s) won't load for me. But i disagree with most of what the writer starts off saying.

As far as Britney "being our bitch" I think it goes both ways. She may provide fodder for water-cooler talk, but she's also laughing all the way to the bank while "we" talk about her.

As far as "Gimme More" being the only hit on the album - no way. There are a handful of songs on this one that will chart.

I'm giving 95% of the credit to the producers, but hey, Britney did have to show up and record something.

I do, however agree somewhat with the "bad sex" angle. This is why i firmly close my eyes and conjure up a circa-2001 Britney when I listen to the "sexier" songs.

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Here's the final couple paragraphs from the salon article:

"And whereas Madonna wrote the book on sex, Prince wrote the Bible, Janet Jackson preached it, and Aguilera translated it, Spears has yet to read it. "In the Zone" made a special, if calculated, effort to burn off whatever residual Mouseketeer stigma remained with her, and for a moment we believed that a white chick from Louisiana would admit to being our slave. But "Blackout's" attempts at sexual liberation ache with desperation: In "Get Naked," Spears, presumably drunk and/or high at 3 a.m., accosts someone leaving a party with unsexy lines like, "Baby I'm a freak and I don't really give a damn" and "I'm crazy as a mother****er." Maybe you'd better sleep this one off, Britney. Stop unbuckling our belt. Likewise, the "more" she pleads for in the Peaches-esque "Gimme More" is publicity, not sexual pleasure: "Cameras are flashing while we're dirty dancing/ They keep watching." Then there is the atrocious, patently ridiculous "Hot as Ice." Not only does any 3-year-old know that ice is not hot, any 23-year-old knows that declaring yourself cold, even indirectly, even accidentally, isn't the least bit arousing. No matter how much you coo and preen.

"Spears' career has never felt quite so prostituted before. Her blank, low-energy vocals, punctuated by a gasp here, a moan there, don't help sell many of these commercials. The combination of her lackluster, faxed-in performances -- the vocal equivalents of her MTV dancing -- with off-putting horny come-ons creates a trashy atmosphere that sounds like lots of fun on the first couple of listens. In fact, it sounds like exactly the record she should make right now, given the erosion of her public image. But there's nothing empowering or inspiring about this extravaganza; her producers are simply talented enough to create greater demand for their own product while bypassing the issue of Spears' nonattendance. And by having her unenthusiastically give bad sex the hard sell, they callously drop off Spears in cheap hooker territory on their way to the next superstar."

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Namo - you're on my "radar"!!!!!

Updated On: 11/1/07 at 10:28 AM

Tab - I was JUST going to post that LOL - I think it deserves its own thread, its just too good.


OMG its the funniest thing ive ever heard.

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Updated On: 11/10/07 at 05:04 PM