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]

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I put off doing the Britney canon, even though people kept asking for it, is that there's *so much* agreement on the high points of BS' single career.

Unusually for a modern pop star, her B-Sides are often amazing. The 2-CD "Unreleased Britney" rarities comp I got off bit-torrent is more than a match for any of her actual albums.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I'm curious as to what zenith's comment about class war means, I've missed this aspect to her work!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

And if you take out the Big Three it's more than a match for her hits album too.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

miss_newham is right - she hasn't done as many good songs as I thought she had!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think it's because there's a definite divide among Britney's 'people', or maybe between Britney and her people - the divide between "let's do a DFA remix" and "this DFA remix will sell 0x copies", though that's a bad example because the no-DFA faction were right.

Anyway what it means is that there's several more flavours of bubblegum going on below whatever one (Max, Neps) she's pushing at the time.

ALSO THERE'S THIS

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Not only her b-sides but her album tracks - the non-singles off her last two albums were mind-bendingly weird and amazing, even more than the singles.

Haha I didn't tick ANY of the big three!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Haha I didn't tick ANY of the big three!

Don't think we didn't notice, indie boy.

Re: ALSO THERE'S THIS

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

And hot on its heels this (http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2006/03/letter_of_fug_p.html), aka the best piece of writing I have read in this or any year.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ballads != indie

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Tell that to Embrace :(

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Was there an earlier celebrity whose critics revealed their fear and loathing of "white trash" to such an extent?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Britney was offered 'Graffiti My Soul' before Girls Aloud! Her people turned it own because it had no chorus

theory of ticky

[zenith.livejournal.com]

'I Love Rock N Roll' = deliberate act of conceptual provocation, causing those who would once have sneered at Joan Jett to add her to their "do not debase by covering!" canon and thus reveal their own ridiculousness.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Embrace could only dream of making a ballad as heart-achingly magnificent as 'Everytime'

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

LOLZ and shaken heads at not ticking toxic :-D

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

WOT NO STEPS

There had BETTER be a Steps canon next week mr_tigger!

[celentari.livejournal.com]

Dolly Parton?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Toxic' is great and would have been my seventh tick but it is nowhere near as good as the ones I did tick!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

TBH I might to another canon TODAY since the PWC is delayed again.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

hopeless

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

dolly parton has no critics!

the answer = jade goody (er except for the "earlier" bit)

mysteriously i do not seem to have received her biography as a freeby yet

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I WILL DO A SHINE POLL

Re: theory of ticky

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"those who would once have sneered at Joan Jett" = surely such people do not exist!

yr pal joan jett's actual girlfriend

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes!