The Criminal That Everyone Loves and that's Britney Spears, B!@#$ (4th Edition)

[Delicious n Bold]

Still think that Blackout is her best album.

[BlackSilence]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

^"Bad choice of genre" is a matter of taste... Music-wise, I prefer post breakdown Britney over almost anything she did during her peak.

Spoiler:

are we going to argue who's taste is better? jeez.... i'm not trying to say anything of that sort here...>_> i'm just saying that instead of jumping on the bandwagon she can do so much better, she still CAN. And i know that 99,99% of whoever listens to her calls whatever she's doing "a best thing ever". And people in general these days are abandoning music that breathes, and are obsessed with all the stuff there's now on the wave. SO it's really no wonder.. And i always had been a lot of the oposite from what everyone else likes. And well i grew up with her being in peak so no wonder i feel nostalgic hearing her SING again instead of reading a "poem" *caughworkbitchcaugh*. She still can pull the singing part and i don't know why she doesn't.

Long story short: she has vocals, she still has emotion in it, she should use them more than just 3-4 songs since her breakdown ended. That's my main point here. I thought she f-ed up her voice with all that stress and habit and god knows what else and is now only selling because that shit is popular these days and because she has a name made for herself throught all those golden years. BUT i kept silently hoping she will come back with something that has a feeling because i still didn't wanna believe it. AND SHE DID. SO. YEAH.

I personally lost interest in her musical activities after In The Zone. It was the last album i enjoyed and, well , then my music habits turned to rock genre. HOWEVER, i still looked/look after her hoping she's/'ll get back on her feet, and she did! Even if i absolutelly couldn't stand anything she's done since then, i was very glad she got her life together and was doing good in the bussiness again. I grew up listening to her so even to this day i still feel sort of connected lol And i still do check on her. And i have to say these couple of songs just asured me that she's still THAT Britney, it's just that her talent gets pushed away by popularity standarts and what sells. I am in fact very happy she is doing good in all ways.

[Andrenekoi]

^Again, you are acting like your personal taste in music is an objective information. It isn't.

And she isn't following "popularity standarts" as much as she is following an aesthetic she herself made popular, considering Blackout is the blueprint for much of was made in pop-music from 2009 to 2013 (Rolling Stone goes as far as considering it the most influential pop album of the last years).

I also disagree that filtering your voice (as not everything is autotune) doesn't mean taking the emotion out of it... As you can check on sad-robot-song It Should Be Easy.

edit:
About her albums... IMO very few popstars out there can put out one album on the same level of quality of In The Zone, Blackout and Femme Fatale. Her music is really underrated

[BlackSilence]

You are actually writting n the same manner that i do, but i am not going at you with stupid assumptions that you're better than everyone who thinks differently, am i? I am not. Truth is we both are right, if you hadn't realized yet. Also I never said that it's about filtering her voice that kills emotion, where did you find that? it's THE WAY SHE SINGS...*facepalm* See you're not even understanding/reading me clearly...

ALso i think from now on i'm starting every less popular opinion statement of mine with "IN MY OPINION WHICH IS NOT A FACT" from now on....it's starting to get a bit paranoid around here..Can't people just say what they think and go "I see. I got it. However, i'm still gonna stick to my thoughts". That probably wouldn't happen anyway.

[Andrenekoi]

Oh please, cut off the drama... If you don't want people disagreeing with you move to some forest without people. On the same way you are entitled your opinions people are entitled opinions about it.

Work Bitch at vegas:

[waterballoon]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

Work Bitch at vegas:

HOT DAMN BRITNEY!!!

[Andrenekoi]

a 15mins overview of (almost) the whole thing:

[brener]

I really don't like that Work Bitch performance :~ The first half with that globe is so... zzzz~ and then she dances with such less energy compared to her dancers, seriously I couldn't watch it till the end

The show does have better moments like Me Against The Music and Slave 4 U, but I really hope she will improve her dancing skills and also lose that fatty tummy >>"...

[brener]

Britney Jean - billboard (USA)

Spoiler:

1st Week
Position: #4
Copies: 107,000
Total: 107,000

2nd Week
Position: #22
Copies: 30,000
Total: 137,000

3rd Week
Position: #27
Copies: 27,000
Total: 164,000

4th Week
Position: #23
Copies: 29,000
Total: 193,000

5th Week
Position: #19
Copies: 15,000
Total: 208,000

6th Week
Position: #29
Copies: 7,800
Total: 215,800

[Andrenekoi]

The whole concert on good quality!

[Zeke.]

Since when the Hell was Britney known for her emotion? She has one hit which portrays emotion: Everytime. Britney was never known for that kind of thing since day 1. She made sinfully catchy, fun, POP music, and she still does as such. Femme Fetale was effing phenomenal because the production was top-notch. They really explored the layering and processing effects of her vocals there NOT to disguise her (in)ability to sing, but for the greater good of the final product. Just because a song uses processing doesn't make it a a bad song. The beauty of producing electronically is that you can CREATE sound, which is what music is all about.

[brener]

Britney Jean - billboard (USA)

Spoiler:

1st Week
Position: #4
Copies: 107,000
Total: 107,000

2nd Week
Position: #22
Copies: 30,000
Total: 137,000

3rd Week
Position: #27
Copies: 27,000
Total: 164,000

4th Week
Position: #23
Copies: 29,000
Total: 193,000

5th Week
Position: #19
Copies: 15,000
Total: 208,000

6th Week
Position: #29
Copies: 7,800
Total: 215,800

7th Week
Position: #47
Copies: 5,200
Total: 221,000

8th Week
Position: #80
Copies: 4,000
Total: 225,000

9th Week
Position: #101
Copies: 3,500
Total: 228,500

10th Week
Position: #110
Copies: 3,000
Total: 227,500

11th Week
Position: #113
Copies: 4,000
Total: 235,500

[brener]

Britney Jean - ORICON STYLE (JPN)

Spoiler:

1st Week
Position: #17
Copies: 8,417
Total: 8,417

2nd Week
Position: #31
Copies: 3,925
Total: 12,342

3rd Week
Position: #38
Copies: 2,757
Total: 15,099

4th Week
Position: #61
Copies: 2,264
Total: 17,363

5th Week
Position: #51
Copies: 2,001
Total: 19,364

6th Week
Position: #67
Copies: 1,169
Total: 20,533

7th Week
Position: #80
Copies: 923
Total: 21,456

8th Week
Position: #111
Copies: 761
Total: 22,217

9th Week
Position: #172
Copies: 640
Total: 22,857

10th Week
Position: #166
Copies: 450
Total: 23,307

11th Week
Position: #189
Copies: 367
Total: 23,674

[Andrenekoi]

Sales still sucks... But they seen to be quite stable!

I hope it can reach 1 million worldwide...

[brener]

I don't. I think she deserves these numbers for putting up such an album consisted of demo quality songs. She could have done so much better. For me the sales are nothing but reflecting the quality of her work, she didn't even care to promote this album in a decent way. It is time for her to work with people that's not will.i.am or David Guetta, they're pretty much the problem revolving "Britney Jean". will.i.am did a great job on "Femme Fatale", now it's time to go. She should work with the people who produced her best albums so far in my opinion, "In The Zone" and "Blackout".

Worldwide numbers are around 500k. She will need really strong singles to reach 1M.

[Tom Punks]

^ I'm glad I'm not the only one because I literally could NOT think anything other than "they're trying to tank Britney aren't they" when Work Bitch and Perfume came out. Honestly, if they WEREN'T trying to tank her then I don't know what they were thinking because that album sounded like one big demo from beginning to end. After the extremely top notch production of Femme Fatale, Britney Jean was just... jarring.

[happiholic★]

I finally got around to really listening to the songs on Britney Jean and I have to say, I felt it was a huge step backwards. The album anything but exciting. Its a chore to download. I just don't want to be bothered.

[NintendoHTF1242]

I've been playing the album on loop trying to digest it. I actually like the dance songs because I'm a sucker for that genre, although the lyrics are awful.

[Andrenekoi]

If she works with the people who produced her best works (what I agree are Blackout and In the zone, but I add Femme Fatale on the list too), people will say she is repeating herself.

And I really like Britney Jean, it's not her best work, but it's really nice and easy to listen and covers pretty much every aesthetic she went for on her career... That would be the album I would use to introduce someone to her.

A TV performance would be nice, but the Vegas contract forbides her from performing anywhere else for the duration of the residence.

[marty]

Originally Posted by brener

I don't. I think she deserves these numbers for putting up such an album consisted of demo quality songs. She could have done so much better. For me the sales are nothing but reflecting the quality of her work, she didn't even care to promote this album in a decent way. It is time for her to work with people that's not will.i.am or David Guetta, they're pretty much the problem revolving "Britney Jean". will.i.am did a great job on "Femme Fatale", now it's time to go. She should work with the people who produced her best albums so far in my opinion, "In The Zone" and "Blackout".

Worldwide numbers are around 500k. She will need really strong singles to reach 1M.

THIS, SO SO SO MUCH!!!
You just spoke my mind, lol.