The Wednesday Canon: BRITNEY

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The most-requested canon ever - with Brit riding high in the Now Polls it seems a good time to overview her curious career. You get SIX picks so choose wisely.




[Poll #735177]

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A DEFENCE OF THE TRACKS I TICKED INSTEAD OF THE BIG THREE

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Born To Make You Happy' - er I assume you have all read Tim's "Britney and Co-Dependence" article yes? I don't know where the FT archives are kept to link to it :(
'Stronger' - together with 'Overprotected' the pinnacle of the Maxproduction, 'Baby' and 'Oops' were but prototypes for these two. For ages I thought she was singing "I'm not your property, I swing both ways"
'I'm A Slave 4 U' - this basically ensured that pop and r&b would feed off each other and raise each other to increasingly awesome heights for a few years
'Overprotected' - this is where the patented Britney "maaaaeeeeeyyyy" comes from! Also the way she sings "do about my destiny" is beyond lovely
'Boys' - "kitty-kitty! kitty-kitty!" Brit and Pharrell's interaction is superb
'Everytime' - the most heartbreaking brilliant ballad EVAH, and her best video to boot. She wrote it for Justin, you know :(

Re: A DEFENCE OF THE TRACKS I TICKED INSTEAD OF THE BIG THREE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think both the big Neptunes ones are rubbish tbh and was delighted when she shifted tack for the 4th album.

Re: A DEFENCE OF THE TRACKS I TICKED INSTEAD OF THE BIG THREE

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

The Neptunes ones are amazing! I think the third album, Britney, is possibly the best pop album-as-album EVER. It's amazingly well-sequenced and internally coherent - the Maxpop and Nepspop sit alongside each other v well; it's forward-thinking and completely insane; it was a really effective statement of reinvention

Re: A DEFENCE OF THE TRACKS I TICKED INSTEAD OF THE BIG THREE

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Slave 4 U" was the moment when I thought, right, the Neptunes have lost it: not that it was bad (though I've liked it less and less since, give or take a couple of good dancefloor moments) but it didn't surprise me at all. And I've always preferred Britney sounding pouty-melodramatic to Britney sounding sexxay, too. Though I think Britney is quite sexy.

Re: A DEFENCE OF THE TRACKS I TICKED INSTEAD OF THE BIG THREE

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think she's GREAT when she's sexxay - her voice is uber-breathy anyway, so if the lyrics and production and vocal performance don't mesh perfectly her more melodramatic moments can sound strained (admittedly they mesh v often - BTMYH!), but it's been ridiculously over the years to just turn her weird robo-voice into another sexxx-noise ('Showdown' and 'Breathe On Me' do this superlatively on ITZ)

Re: A DEFENCE OF THE TRACKS I TICKED INSTEAD OF THE BIG THREE

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/britney.html

there's a tiny little link at the top right of the FT front page to the archives.