General Britney Spears Discussion

[lauc05]

While we were on the topic of Britney ballads, my list would go:

1. Someday (I Will Understand)
2. Everytime
3. From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart
4. When I Found You
5. Where Are You Now

E-mail My Heart? E-MAIL MY HEART.

Gimme More and Get Naked are cringey?! I'm confused.

[Itty Bitty Piggy]

Get Naked is possibly her greatest song and the most exciting pop song of the last decade. It combines "urban-pop" sensibilities and beats with a completely un-hinged and deranged vocal performance. I agree with DirtyPornStar about how creepy it is.

Perhaps if you just listened to it in the background through laptop speakers then it could be dismissed as an über-sexy, bouncy, hip electro jam. But there's so much more to it! Danja's chorus sounding like some perverted circus clown. Britney begging "PLEEEASE" with more emotion than she expresses anywhere else on her past three albums. That fucking spine-tingling, icy, staccato ascending synth riff. The pulsating baseline, etc, etc, etc...

It opens with a cackle from producer Danja, and "Get Naked" is almost a duet, except that he's subject to the same vocal gravity well Britney is and his laugh is smeared and stretched until it sounds like creaking wood. Britney contributes a series of gasps, sighs and chants while Danja sings the chorus, his voice slowed to a decaying moan. The track's 4/4 bounce never varies but it still sounds fearfully unstable, the backing synths slipping into quicksand while other keyboard runs spiral up on a helium rush. It's thick with chopped-up detail, Danja and Britney's voices taking turns to distort and break up. Halfway through, after a particularly queasy downtempo shift, Danja starts speaking with a dead metallic tang: "I just want to take your hand". Britney's reply is - for almost the first time on the whole of Blackout-- sung with perfect clarity, a desperate, front-of-the-mix "Please!"

Also, Perfect Lover is perfect.

[bryan89]

The best thing about this X Factor deal is that we'll get new music this year. There is NO WAY they won't capitalize on this exposure..... I'm thinking a once off single ie.Three.

Thank god for X Factor... Without it we'd have to suffer through a year of momsy paparazzi pics and bullshit articles about her kids starting school.

of course we will. she's on a break so, surely we'll get another singles collection? (mind you, i'd really like one)

[lauc05]

All this Gimme More and Get Naked talk makes me want a Gimme More and Get Naked pt.2.

[RomanZolanski]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf6ax...eature=related

Get Naked's performance was the best of the whole Circus tour (bar Piece of Me), and one of the best of her career

So amazing.

[22nathancarlos]

Top 5 Britney Ballads:
Everytime
FTBOMBH
My Baby
Someday (I Will Understand)
Where Are You Now

It's a shame Little Me/Just Yesterday wasn't finished. The melody is beautiful and I think people would have respected her for actually writing/composing her own stuff.

I also think they we will get a new track out of the X Factor. This excites me! I just hope it's just Britney and not a dreaded will.i.am collab or anything!

[Fire]

I love you for including My Baby in your list! Also, I'd take a will.i.am song over another Max Martin/Dr. Luke song. Don't get me wrong, I adore Max at least, but every single she's released since Circus (excluding Radar) has been by one or both of them.

[miklc]

Sometimes
Sometimes
Sometimes
Sometimes
Someday I Will Understand

[MadgeBrit]

Get Naked doesn't "open with a cackle from Danja" it opens with britney hissing "DJ" and audibly chewing gum before the beat drops in.

Sometimes think people aren't hearing the same songs as me.

[Katungeh]

Um, it is Danja that opens Get Naked...? He says "Danja" and then cackles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fehzr9rA2DU

[Goodjorb]

Get Naked is my favorite pop song ever. It's just incredible the amount of atmosphere that song has. You listen to it and it immediately takes to you to the dark, claustrophobic club with Britney rubbing up on you and whispering "Get naked, take it off," while the bass throbs in the background.

It's a perfect song and there are so many feelings I have about it that I can't really put into words. (Itty Bitty Piggy and the Pitchfork article got close though)

[Itty Bitty Piggy]

Keri Hilson needs to quit her Walmart-touring day job and get back to writing songs for Britney.

[MadgeBrit]

Um, it is Danja that opens Get Naked...? He says "Danja" and then cackles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fehzr9rA2DU

no, that is Britney saying "DJ".

[EnsnareTheSenses]

no, that is Britney saying "DJ".

No, it is Danja. Saying 'Danja'. Then he chuckles.

And I for one get sick and tired of people always fawning over how great Britney looks whenever a new pic of her emerges when she's actually brushed her hair, but even I'll admit that she looks bloody hot in that 'Circus Tour' performance.

[Itty Bitty Piggy]

I know Britney has a funny accent sometimes, but I don't think she would ever pronounce DJ as "Deh-jeh".

[Fire]

I used to think he was saying "B Job" and that was his 'plan'.

[Katungeh]

Plus, that's way too deep to be Britney's voice! Even for Homme Fataleney.

[MadgeBrit]

That "voice:" isn't deep at all. It's quite soprano. It's BRITNEY BITCHES.

[LightningRider]

E-mail My Heart? E-MAIL MY HEART.

I was debating whether to put that as 5, but I can't resist the sentiment of Where Are You Now. It's so beautiful. E-Mail My Heart comes close, it's just not as heartbreaking. Also, "Calling out your name" > "Forever".

Also, it's clearly Danja, not DJ. You can ever hear the "n" in between, and it sounds much more like he's saying danger.

[Kirkland]

I'm not a huge fan of her earlier stuff. Truth be told I only really started to like Britney with Slave 4U. What a song!

[DarkSacoura]

That "voice:" isn't deep at all. It's quite soprano. It's BRITNEY BITCHES.

ARE YOU INSANE, IT'S DANJA.

[22nathancarlos]

[QUOTE=Kirkland;2123514]I'm not a huge fan of her earlier stuff. Truth be told I only really started to like Britney with Slave 4U. What a song![/QUOTE]

Pop justice.

[J-Babes]

It's OBVIOUSLY Danja.

[Katungeh]

The Britney album is definitely when she started becoming an "album artist" in terms of quality. Anticipating is still amazing, and i'll probably get shot for that comment. Her ultimate bubblegum track.

[ElectricPlatypus]

Get Naked is amazing but there's no doubt in my mind it is influenced by the Timbaland "Maneater" sound. And honestly when I first heard "Gimme More" I thought "Oy, Britney's doing her 'Sexyback'", much like I felt "Me Against The Music" was likely inspired by "Like I Love You". I still think Britney epitomized the sound best and sold it most convincingly. Nelly Furtado and Justin's albums feel more contrived to me.