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PrintableI thought it was crap when I first checked it out but always loved Gimmie More and Hot As Ice although her voice is terrible and it's still britney the teen pop star. Break the Ice is a nice single too, reminds me of the 80's. I don't listen to her stuff voluntarily though, only if it's on the radio.
I don't know how she could have such catchy songs at times, but be an annoying vocalist, even if she had good technique at one point. I think someone with a better voice should have gotten her material. | |
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alphastreet said: I thought it was crap when I first checked it out but always loved Gimmie More and Hot As Ice although her voice is terrible and it's still britney the teen pop star. Break the Ice is a nice single too, reminds me of the 80's. I don't listen to her stuff voluntarily though, only if it's on the radio.
I don't know how she could have such catchy songs at times, but be an annoying vocalist, even if she had good technique at one point. I think someone with a better voice should have gotten her material. Have you listened to Perfect Lover? Her vocals are fantastic on that track. | |
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lastdecember said: "In the zone" is still hard to beat, and it was the album that inspired everyone from Justin to Christina to mix their albums up and not just be straightforward teen pop.
. I disagree. I thought she was following them since Justin's "Justified" was a R&B album. Xtina has really been a black fav since she first came out so it was kinda inevitable with her. I actually think Xtina should go for the pop crowd again though. Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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and I bought In the Zone cause of Madonna but ended up liking most of the album. Shadow and Everytime are beautiful, though her voice did not impress me in Shadow and someone like Avril Lavigne would have pulled it off better, it was written by her songwriters anyway.
Outrageous, Touch of My Hand and Toxic were also well done, Brave New Girl reminded me of Material Girl and Ray of Light. | |
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I listened to perfect lover and her voice is smooth but it's computerized and nasally!
I just don't like it much. | |
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paisleypark4 said: lastdecember said: "In the zone" is still hard to beat, and it was the album that inspired everyone from Justin to Christina to mix their albums up and not just be straightforward teen pop.
. I disagree. I thought she was following them since Justin's "Justified" was a R&B album. Xtina has really been a black fav since she first came out so it was kinda inevitable with her. I actually think Xtina should go for the pop crowd again though. But as soon as Britney sexed it up on "Britney" and "In the zone" then Xtina became Xtina, Jessica Simpson did "irresistible", everyone was going that way at that point. As for Xtina i have no clue where she will go this time, she is almost done with a new record but no hint on direction, shes at a crossroads because now she has an older crowd diggin her, so if she comes out with some Akon or Flo-rida remix shit, that will lose her cred. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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lastdecember said: Anxiety said: i heard blackout and i was surprised at how much fun it was.
i mean, first off, it's not a britney spears album. it's an album by her PRODUCERS, and she just warbles over whatever they came up with for her. the production is great. it's good trashy dance music. as for her contribution, it's meltdown-era britney at her pro-tooled best. if you don't take her seriously, you might actually find yourself enjoying her dumbass lyrics and distorted-beyond-belief vocals. i had a lot more fun listening to this album than trying to sit through hard candy. i'm glad someone said it before me, cuz it's true.  though i agree on the PRODUCERS front, you have to include every artist nowadays that gets produced by the beatmakers, that goes from Duran Duran all the way to Britney. sure, though some artists are more collaborative than others. i mean, timbaland produced a bjork track and i can't really see her sitting there saying "oh, you know, do whatever you want and i'll just sing over it, it's cool." | |
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Anxiety said: lastdecember said: though i agree on the PRODUCERS front, you have to include every artist nowadays that gets produced by the beatmakers, that goes from Duran Duran all the way to Britney. sure, though some artists are more collaborative than others. i mean, timbaland produced a bjork track and i can't really see her sitting there saying "oh, you know, do whatever you want and i'll just sing over it, it's cool." You see im not so sure about that. I think we all wanna think, "oh its britney and what does she know about sound, and doesnt know any better so whateever beat gets laid down gets laid down" i thinkwe might be underestimating some of these artists and their involvement or OVER estimating some and their involvement in the "being produced". "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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lastdecember said: Anxiety said: sure, though some artists are more collaborative than others. i mean, timbaland produced a bjork track and i can't really see her sitting there saying "oh, you know, do whatever you want and i'll just sing over it, it's cool." You see im not so sure about that. I think we all wanna think, "oh its britney and what does she know about sound, and doesnt know any better so whateever beat gets laid down gets laid down" i thinkwe might be underestimating some of these artists and their involvement or OVER estimating some and their involvement in the "being produced". there's being vocal about what you want from a producer, and then there's knowing what you want and knowing how to communicate it to a producer. i think that's the difference between a pop star puppet and a collaborative artist. | |
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Anxiety said: lastdecember said: You see im not so sure about that. I think we all wanna think, "oh its britney and what does she know about sound, and doesnt know any better so whateever beat gets laid down gets laid down" i thinkwe might be underestimating some of these artists and their involvement or OVER estimating some and their involvement in the "being produced". there's being vocal about what you want from a producer, and then there's knowing what you want and knowing how to communicate it to a producer. i think that's the difference between a pop star puppet and a collaborative artist. Could be but i still cant understand "duran duran" allowing the removal of "the band" from their record for the sake of "beats". "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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lastdecember said: Anxiety said: there's being vocal about what you want from a producer, and then there's knowing what you want and knowing how to communicate it to a producer. i think that's the difference between a pop star puppet and a collaborative artist. Could be but i still cant understand "duran duran" allowing the removal of "the band" from their record for the sake of "beats". Many of the fans can't either. How do you "produce" a band? No matter how decent the record was (and it was def a great Duran offering) it couldn't replace what the band offered.. I think many of uswonder what the shelved album would have sounded like. Christian Zombie Vampires | |
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alphastreet said: I listened to perfect lover and her voice is smooth but it's computerized and nasally!
I just don't like it much. Uh..there's no computerising on her vocals on that track. Or any of them for that matter...they've been "smoothed" a bit with autotune but there's no digital manipulation on any of the tracks. That's always confused me when peeps listen to this album and conclude it's too robotic...eh? When? Compared to In The Zone and even some songs on Britney, this is her best vocal work yet. Try the end of Heaven on Earth, no WAY you can say "computerized" there! Listen to her demos, they're not that different from the final results. | |
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