LMAO @ the trolls. Britney did not jump on any bandwagon when she's been doing dance since early 2000s, Max being in her career since the beginning & Dr. Luke has been working with her since Blackout sessions.

Christina's album is not risky. It was trash with Blackout/MIA/Goldfrapp knockoffs.

Loose and Blackout are clearly different albums. Same for Futuresex/Lovesound though I can see similarities between "SexyBack" and "Gimme More" (which is still grittier and darker).

Blackout put its own spin on the electro-pop movement with songs such as "Piece Of Me", "Heaven On Earth", "Why Should I Be Sad","Freakshow", "Hot As Ice"... The mood was harsher and more electric, with influences from Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder and 90s Eurodance (the genre that would be later on "revived" on the Hot 100). Maybe I'm a bit naive but I always see this album as Danja's answer to the Timbaland Factory. What kind of album would the disciple made without his handler?

We've already had these conversations, and it seems it's always the same type of people who are eager to doubt that Britney's albums are always ahead of the curve even if their influences can easily be spotted in the evolution of the pop landscape. I've already made several essays about them so you can just check my post history, if you're interested.

Anyway, to answer the poll, except "Bird Of Preys" and "Elastic Love", I fail to see the risks taken by Christina... At least, the dubstep influenced FF led the way in its field ( as seen with Rihanna, Madonna, Chris Brown...). I'm not saying it wouldn't have taken on its own without her (yes, I can't predict these kind of events) but she was the first to have a record breaking no1 song with that particular sound!

Wow, I don't even remember what I wanted to say. Yes, I don't think you can 100 % attribute the dubstep trend to Britney but saying the poster girl for pop music, after Madonna, had no influences AT ALL is just as ridiculous.

PS/ And I see someone trying to give the credit to the producers. Well, it doesn't work that way in the real world. If a normal person hear a song that sounds like "Tik Tok", he's not gonna say "What a lessor song, it's a Dr Luke ripoff" but "Hey, this sounds like Ke$ha!". Just like everyone dragged Christina to hell and back, not the producers, when "Not Myself Tonight" was premiered. Once you get hold of a song, you're gonna benefit of suffer from it so be very careful!

FF is a very safe album.

But ignoring that, Britney did her thing. X-Tina tried something that was "in" tbh

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Oh and she failed with that

Bionic featured MIA and there's nothing risky about FF, so I'll go for Bionic.

What is risky about FF?

Christina, she never sounds the same

Bionic was risky for Xtina, because it didn't sound anything like her previous works.

Just because Bionic flopped in historic fashion doesn't make it a risky album "Not Myself Tonight" was taken straight out of Lady GaGa's playbook, she used Nicki Minaj on a track (how very original), and her ballads didn't sound any different than her previous work. Meanwhile, Britney experimented with dubstep, harder electronic beats, and just all around more interesting music than Xtina.

Xtina.

I was cackling a lot and enjoying this thread until I saw some IDIOT say Lady Gaga was the one who brought dance music to mainstream b/c her dance music was more successful. Honey, Blackout will always be the album that introduced heavy dance music to mainstream. The critics loved it and the fans loved it. Gimme More went #3 on the Hot 100 and Blackout was the #2 album. Hell Brit's disastrous VMA performance of Gimme More was enough to influence mainstream music. W/o Blackout I STRONGLY feel like albums like The Fame would have never happened.

People always try to take away from Britney's accomplishments and importance because at the end of the day she will ALWAYS be more important than their fave. She'll be here forever, while your fave is just a fad. Get over it and stop trying to knock her.

And most importantly.. stop trying to prove Gaga is original and sets trends. The only thing she is Queen of is taking trends and turning them into circus acts with her mediocre avante garde ********.

FF is not risky. The only experimental thing was the dubstep, but it's not featured enough on the album to make the album as a whole 'risky' FF has sounds similar to her previous albums, which were risky themselves - but you can't be 'risky' if you've tried it and it's already been successful.

Bionic isn't THAT risky, but there is a distinct theme with Bionic, so basically if you didn't like that theme, Bionic wasn't for you. I fail to see an overriding theme in FF.

So on that, Bionic is more risky

Xtina took more risks

Xtina.

Bionic. And I slightly prefer it over Femme Fatale. And I'm a Britney fan.

Exactly. Christina ALSO worked with some of the biggest and most well known producers/writers in the industry, Polow da Don, Switch, Tricky Stewart, Ester Dean...

Bionic was anything but a risky album.

Xtina, easily.