I Got Soul.
Mr. Brightside
All this work keeping people from having sex. Now I know how the catholic church feels. ZING!
Posts: 10,836
|
Post by I Got Soul. on Oct 14, 2007 12:00:16 GMT -5
That is from an old photoshoot I believe.
|
|
|
Post by lc06 on Oct 14, 2007 12:01:46 GMT -5
From this year It is still a nice photo i think for the album.
|
|
Fremmy
The Little Snowflake Angel
Posts: 2,029
|
Post by Fremmy on Oct 14, 2007 13:31:49 GMT -5
Album cover revealed. Its funny how they only have ONE picture of brit to use for the entire promo of her album. And that cover is awful tbh. It doesnt look professional at all, and the font's HORRIBLE. wtfff And its also funny how brit's career goes without brit herself as there's hardly promotion from herself. Jive is doing everything ! (well at least the least that there is)
|
|
CRAIG:
KYLiE Freak
Posts: 10,902
|
Post by CRAIG: on Oct 15, 2007 22:25:44 GMT -5
That is from an old photoshoot I believe. It's her single cover picture, so I doubt it's too old. As for the album cover itself...
|
|
I Got Soul.
Mr. Brightside
All this work keeping people from having sex. Now I know how the catholic church feels. ZING!
Posts: 10,836
|
Post by I Got Soul. on Oct 22, 2007 14:37:41 GMT -5
The first review for the album, and it's overwhelmingly positive.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle2718710.ece
From Times Online October 22, 2007 World exclusive: first review of the new Britney Spears album Blackout Pete Paphides
4/5 Stars
Finally, a good week for Britney Spears? Just as we were getting to think that a lunar eclipse might come sooner, here’s some tentative cause for celebration.
In the space of 24 hours, the woman who yields roughly 82,000 results if you Google her name along with the phrase “troubled singer”, has been granted temporary visitation rights to her children and seen her new single Gimme More leap into the British chart's top three.
Now, if Britney’s record company is to be believed, a good week just got better. Apparently, “unprecedented popular demand” has prompted SonyBMG to bring the release date of her comeback album Blackout forward by three weeks.
Cynics might point out that, one way or another, they would have been compelled to do so. MP3s of songs from the album have been circulating among fans over the last few weeks. That they have been moved to do so, does at least, serve reminder of the very thing that is perhaps most easily forgotten among her recent roll-call of infamy.
She is first and foremost a pop star. In a life not exactly saturated with joy, she should take a certain amount of pleasure in the fact that Blackout coheres far better than sprawling recent sets by her fellow Mickey Mouse Club alumni Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera.
Far from apologising for a roll-call of adversity that takes in custody battles, hit-and-run offences, extreme hairdressing, sudden lingerie loss and umbrella-on-pap savagery – she comes out fighting on the utterly wonderful Piece Of Me.
“I’m Miss bad media karma/Another day another drama/Guess I can’t see no harm in working and being a mama,” she declaims over an adhesively catchy chorus.
Britney may have grown up in front of MTV, perfecting Madonna’s dance routines, but she isn’t the self-determining control-freak that her heroine turned into. Neither, it should be added, does she need to be. Her recent mishaps have only compounded her status as muse of choice to top-notch writer producers such as Swedish hitmakers Bloodshy & Avant, Timbaland protégé Danja and The Neptunes.
On the Pharrell Williams-written Why Should I Be Sad and, indeed, most of what precedes it, Britney is a strangely disembodied presence – her heavily treated voice suspended amid an icy fug of minor chords and brittle synthetic beats.
If truth be told, certain songs wouldn’t have sounded too different if her vocal were totally erased. On Get Naked (I Got A Plan) and Radar her voice is a piece that slots tidily into a finely sculpted piece of burnished future-pop.
But when the whole works so well, it makes no sense to mind. Perfect Lover and Toy Soldier are quite simply two of the most strangely wonderful tunes to emerge on any record this year – exercises in sonic risk-taking that, until this point, have never hitched themselves to a Britney Spears record.
So why now, then? Well, perhaps it was in the spirit of having nothing to lose that someone suggested Britney try her hand at a marching-pace sex-fantasy about a soldier which pitched itself somewhere between Prince’s female alter-ago Camille and the sensation of watching Full Metal Jacket as ten Glade Plug-Ins infuse the air with amyl nitrate. Who knows?
Furthermore, does this stuff work on any profound level? Well, ever since she appeared in 1999 with Hit Me Baby One More Time, Britney has enjoyed a certain status as metatextual plaything of Late Review guests and chin-stroking post-ironics (no mean feat, this – Kylie and Madonna had to ensure years of highbrow snobbery to get to the same point). When it comes down to it though, the answer is no, not really. A gaggle of schoolchildren exchanging ringtones on the top deck of the bus will just as easily tell you why these songs work. They tick almost every box in the checklist of great pop, period.
Perhaps that shouldn’t be so surprising. After all, Britney Spears learned to be a pop star way before she learned to be an adult. In a sense then, it’s fitting that her facility for great pop moments is the very last facet of her to shut down.
|
|
|
Post by Gerardo on Oct 22, 2007 19:03:56 GMT -5
Officially leaked. At a blog online near you.
|
|
|
Post by lc06 on Oct 23, 2007 3:09:37 GMT -5
I really think Britney will do well with this album I will be shocked if she doesn't But i don't know why people make a big deal about the song Piece Of Me The words are very real but the song it's self is not good
|
|
I Got Soul.
Mr. Brightside
All this work keeping people from having sex. Now I know how the catholic church feels. ZING!
Posts: 10,836
|
Post by I Got Soul. on Oct 23, 2007 6:56:51 GMT -5
Yeah I wasn't too wow-ed by POM. But I did love Radar.
Unfortunately, that's all I've heard so far.
Internet buzz is enormous for this album. So much positivity.
|
|
|
Post by M! on Oct 23, 2007 9:10:43 GMT -5
I've heard the entire album and I can say that sonically its her best album to-date. The album as a whole is pretty consistent, heading more towards the futuristic-sonic-pop direction (I don't know how else to describe it) -- I'd give credit to Danja and Bloodshy & Avant for that. When I say sonic-pop, I mean along the likes of "Do Somethin'", but a whole lot better.
As for the songs themselves, they're not as catchy as songs from In The Zone. Nothing stands out like "Toxic", but "Break The Ice" is pretty darn close.
"Heaven On Earth" is a slice of future-disco-pop, which sounds a bit like Goldfrapp. "Get Naked" sounds like it came from the same cloth as "Miscommunication" on Shock Value.
"Why Should I Be Sad" is pretty weak though. It's the slowest number on the album.
|
|
|
Post by lc06 on Oct 23, 2007 11:14:59 GMT -5
I love the people she has worked with I love Keri Hilson and i was suprised to find out she wrote Gimme More I think Keri will get more recogniton for her song writing skills
There are at least 9 songs from that album i think that stand out. 4 of them would make good singles excluding Gimme More.
|
|
I Got Soul.
Mr. Brightside
All this work keeping people from having sex. Now I know how the catholic church feels. ZING!
Posts: 10,836
|
Post by I Got Soul. on Oct 23, 2007 15:36:05 GMT -5
Ok so I just downloaded it, and I completely agree with Bry. This is by far the best work she's released, it's her most complete and consistent album to date.
And although nothing quite reaches the stunning heights of "Toxic" (although yes, "Break the Ice" comes extremely close), I am extremely happy that it is in that direction of sound where the album headed. Everything is so polished and extremely well produced. It's a fantastic mix of "Toxic", "Breathe on Me", and Goldfrapp-esque material.
This is the North American equivalent to Kylie Minogue's "Fever".
|
|
|
Post by lc06 on Oct 24, 2007 3:36:07 GMT -5
I have been listening to all of Britney's album's slowly over the past week and a half In The Zone is her weakest album i would say Her first two albums are her best which is maybe why they both went diamond. I both like them as much as each other
I would say Blackout is her best album since her second. Her third album was ok, but was not as weak her In The Zone.
|
|
CRAIG:
KYLiE Freak
Posts: 10,902
|
Post by CRAIG: on Oct 24, 2007 17:11:08 GMT -5
Popjustice's overwhelmingly positive review:
|
|
I Got Soul.
Mr. Brightside
All this work keeping people from having sex. Now I know how the catholic church feels. ZING!
Posts: 10,836
|
Post by I Got Soul. on Oct 26, 2007 0:19:59 GMT -5
Britney's new 'Blackout' her best everBy Nekesa Mumbi Moody, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Just when it seemed safe to write off Britney Spears as a punch line only capable of entertaining people through tabloid escapades, she goes and gets all musically relevant on us. "Blackout," her first studio album in four years, is not only a very good album, it's her best work ever - a triumph, with not a bad song to be found on the 12 tracks. Granted, a Spears rave should be put in its proper context - it's not like we're talking Bob Dylan here. Spears is a lightweight singer who only flourishes when she has great songs and great producers to supplement her minimal vocal talent. But when she has that help, she's fierce. And she gets that boost on every single track on "Blackout," a sizzling, well-crafted, electro-pop dancefest that should return her to pop's elite. This is a shocker, given all the lowlights Spears has given us this year. From her embarrassing MTV Video Music Awards performance to her bizarre public antics to allegations that she's an irresponsible parent, Spears has been a walking disaster. It seems amazing that she even found her way to a recording studio, let alone did anything of value while in it. But Spears emerges on "Blackout" as the antithesis of her tabloid persona - confident, sensual, and in control. "I got my eye on you," she coos on one of the album's best tracks, "Radar," a sexy techno groove that you can't help but bounce to - a feeling that permeates all of "Blackout's" tracks. You won't find any saccharine ballads or fluffy pop on this disc - it's all about generating heat on the dance floor (and if Spears has shown us anything in the last year, it's that she knows how to party). On the aptly titled "Freakshow," produced by Danja (who worked on Justin Timberlake's "FutureSex/LoveSounds"), Spears gets voyeuristic with a tantalizing promise to get wild in the club. The hypnotic "Get Naked (I Got a Plan)," also produced by Danja, features Spears breathlessly asking, "What I gotta do to make you move my body" before demanding, "take it off, take it off, take it off." It's not all about grinding to the music, though. On rock-tinged "Piece of Me," produced by Bloodshy & Avant, she defiantly addresses her critics: "I'm Mrs. Bad Media Karma, another day another drama ... I'm Mrs. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, I'm Mrs. 'Oh My God That Britney's Shameless."' And on the slow-burn, Neptunes-produced "Why Should I Be Sad," the album's last track, she cops to heartbreak but refuses to let it get her down, a rare vulnerable moment. Listening to "Blackout" is not only an energetic release, it's also a relief: No, Spears hasn't completely lost it, and yes, her career has a flicker of fire left - actually much, much more. But with all the damage Spears has done and continues to do to her public image, will anyone outside her core fan base (and who knows what that consists of these days) care anymore? This album is the first, great step in making that happen.
|
|
|
Post by lc06 on Oct 26, 2007 3:45:53 GMT -5
Love that review GO BRITNEY
|
|