estelle81 said:

She's not dancing much in that part of the video because she's already done the routines, hello?!

Britney's voice was "changed" by Jive records when they decided they wanted her to have a more commercial friendly voice. Before that, she sounded almost the same as Christina in terms of vocal strength and sound.

After a year or so of grooming at the hands of Jive, her voice became what we know today.

There's still evidence of her old/real voice in some early performances, but at the stage this tour was, her voice was beyond repair.

Now, she only really seems to perform well vocally in the studio, where she can do multiple takes and of course has back up and auto tune to help her along.

Since she rebelled from pretty much everyone in her life, I think she started working on strengthening her voice again. If you listen to the clip Rebellion on youtube, her voice is quite deep. Also Let Go, while awkward sounding, still sounds like she wants her old voice back.

Blackout, vocally, is fantastic. I don't know why most complain about how "robotic" it sounds when these are some of the most natural vocals she's recorded. The demos hardly sound different from the end result. She seems to still have her falsetto, have a listen to Break The Ice, her voice sounds great on that track.

I hope she sings live at the VMAs, she hasn't sung live for almost 5 years now And her live voice was never what fans fell in love with and has never done anything to dampen her popularity or star power.

I agree Beyonce can dance and sing live but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the difference in vocal strength between Beyonce and Britney.

As for Christina Aguilera dancing :
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purplesweat said:

cool i can't wait to see the VMA's tomorrow. i hope she rocks it whatever she does. love me some brit brit yo!

purplesweat said:



That's why I made the comment about voice control by learning proper breathing techniques.



I've seen old footage of both Christina and Britney before they hit the big time and they have never sounded anything alike. Anyone with the ability to hear can hear that their vocal strengths and ranges are nothing alike at all. Brit had a very unusual voice as a child, but nothing to throw a party or pee yourself over. The fact that her voice is now hidden by all that cancer stick residue doesn't help any. I never understood why artists smoke. Why destroy your voice? It's your meal ticket.



True. All those professional producers and audio technicians could make mating cats sound like the Tabernacle choir. That's why studio artists will never compare to live artists to me. It's alot harder to sound good when you have to sing live without the option for multiple takes.




When Brit rebelled, that's when her life fell apart. The point of rebelling is to take control of your life. She had not a bit of control when she dumped everybody and now she's back to where she started...relying on others to keep her from falling off. If you're going to rebel, you have to be ready to stand on your own two feet, otherwise you'll be a lost and out of control child. She obviously either wasn't ready to jump out of the nest, or she didn't really know how to walk on her own to begin with, because nobody ever taught her how and/or she never took it upon herself to really learn.



The vocals were heavily altered by producers because she was bearly there after she laid them down, not uncommon in the music biz nowadays. She sounds studioed out on the album, which isn't bad, because that's what she is...a studio produced artist.



True. Her fans fell in love with the image and the girl-next-door personality (something that many Brit fanatics argue isn't true). Sadly, 90% of that image was made by Jive...main reason for the rebellion from what I've heard. She either grew out of that image, never really was that person to begin with, or wanted to be someone else. Jive had her image and career mapped out before the ink dried on that contract. Sad, but many artists start to think for themselves at some point which is why many of them start demanding they get more producing, songwriting, and composing freedom. Britney's last album was written, produced, and composed by other people and it's her what 4 or 5 record. Can't demand control if you have to rely on others for the majority of the work.



Yet, you just said that Britney and Christina had a similar vocal strength and sound in the beginning...uhhh, no.

Christina Aguilera
Voice type: Spinto Soprano
Highest note: C7, G#6
Lowest note: C3, D3
Vocal range: 4 octaves (C3-C7)
Longest note: 20 seconds


Beyonce
Voice type: Full Soprano
Highest notes: D6 , E6, possible F6
Lowest notes: C3, D3
Vocal range: (approx) 3.5 octaves (C3-E6)

E6 - A live 'Whoooooh' after singing her hit "Work It Out"
D6 - She hits it in her song "Happy Face"
C6 - During a live performance of "Emotions", Kodak Theatre, 2002
C6 - The highest note in "Emotions" from Destiny's Child Survivor CD
E3- "Dangerously In Love", Grammys, 2004


Britney Spears:
Voice type: Soubrette
Highest note: A5
Lowest note: E3
Vocal range: 2.5 octaves


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She sure is dancing her ass off here:




Britney is a good performer, I'll give her that, but if she misses her choreography sessions, she's a fish out of water and that was super obvious on last years VMAs. When you're more a dancer than a singer, going to rehearsals is extremely important....and that goes for any artists from Janet and Madonna to Ciara and the Pussy Cat Dolls. If the dance routine is terrible, the outfits are tacky, and you don't have a Mariah Carey or Celine Dion voice, than hope to save the performance is practically non-existent. Brit needs to worry about getting herself 100% on track and free of a guardian and then work on strengthening her relationship with her babies...everything else needs to take a backseat because she's not hurting for money. Comebacks can wait.
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christina could sing circles around britcunt spears

im at work and none of you have said what the song is

paisleypark4 said:

If we knew, we'd tell ya!

Sdldawn said:

Tears of laughter...TEARS, I say... Voice of the Angel of Death, I suppose.

I can't stand her voice, but I liked it a lot when she put out her first album and on the track Satisfaction which is probably her best work. I believe smoking screwed up her voice on the second album.