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My latest Pitchfork column is a big old review of the Britney album, in all but name. Thanks to the people reading this whose ideas I've drawn on!

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chezghost.livejournal.com

re GN(IHAP) it does the 'turning to the darkside' thing very well particularly because it doesn't throw up the 'i'm a bad girl/superfreak' cliche without demonstarting it convincingly in the music too (unlike that Lisa Maffia track which is great too but the 'bad girl' sentiment is far less potent there and she might as well be saying something else entirely). there's a great elegance about the whole thing at the same time. it's like a ghost train burlesque show without the tack, and instead of there being skeletons it's all just people in Eyes Wide Shut costumes, at it. ha ha.

Endless fun making up a video in your head to go with it yes...

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katstevens.livejournal.com

I picture Danja as a disembodied head floating around Britney, all distorted like the Wizard Of Oz's big green head.

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chezghost.livejournal.com

seeing how cheap the Gimme More video was i realised they'll never spend big money on a Britney vid again...unless it was just a cautious toe-dip because they thought Blackout would flop. oh ye have little faith. this album needs the biggest budget videos ever but it won't happen bah.

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datura800.livejournal.com

I'm not sure the problem with the GM vid was the budget - didn't Britney insist on choosing the director and take 'creative control' over it? I'm sure she could have done a much slicker video if she'd wanted.