ABOUT THIS ALBUM
ARTIST: Britney Spears
TITLE: TBA
RELEASE DATE: 2007/??/??
Confirmed Producers
Britney Spears
T-Pain
Jonathan Rotem
Swizz Beatz
Sean Garrett
Pharell Williams
Ne-Yo
Scott Storch
Nate Hills (Danja)
Kara Dioguardi
Lukasz Gottwald
Max Martin
NEWS/REVIEWS
Britney's fifth studio album was originally scheduled for 2006. People magazine reported that it was scheduled for a November release. However it's been delayed due to Spears' second pregnancy which she announced on May 9, 2006. Spears has confirmed in the recent issue of People magazine that the album will be released next year and that it will be the best of her albums.
-MTV has confirmed that rapper
T-Pain has been asked to produce a few songs for the new album.
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Sean Garrett has finished three tracks.
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Jonathan Rotem, a well-known R&B producer, is now in the studio with Spears. His record label's official site mentioned that he is working on a few songs for Spears' new album, two of which are entitled "Everybody" and "Who Can She Trust".
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Swizz Beatz, along with
Sean Garrett, is currently working on the album.
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-Rolling Stone Magazine has recently confirmed that Britney is also working with
Nate Hills on her upcoming new album.
-After giving birth to her second child, Spears is now back in the studio since October 27, 2006. In November 2006,
Pharrell Williams announced to People Magazine that he is producing tracks in New York with Britney.
-Access Hollywood have reported that Britney is in the studio with
Scott Storch.
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Kara Dioguardi has confirmed on her official website, that she's currently working with Britney.
-Britney has recently reunited with ex-manager Larry Rudolph, who will be managing her during the recording/release period of the fifth album. It's rumored that Britney plans to announce the title of the album on her official website, closer to the album's completion.
-11/19/2006
Also on Friday, Spears went into the Palms' recording studio with producer
Lukasz Gottwald to mix tracks on her new album.
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-Producer
Patrick J. Que Smith has confirmed that he just finished two tracks with Britney for her new album in the studio.
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-In December 2006,
Sean Garrett talked about Britney's upcoming album saying that it would be "incredible". He defined the seven tracks that they've done as "exciting, aggressive, and fun". He added that they were "definitely getting back to the basics and trying to make the world dance and sing to her beat".
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-Spears' manager,
Larry Rudolph, estimated in an interview with USA Today that the first single would be put out near the end of summer 2007 and the album would be released in the fall; he also added that half of the album is completed
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-On January , a video circulated of Britney listening to two new demos from her album in her car. Currently the video is viewable at x17online.com.
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-In February 2007, producer
Ne-Yo said that Britney's record company had told him right from the start that "we don't need no songs about Kevin". He stated that the songs that he is writing will be "songs about all the controversy, then, you know, aside from all that, they'll be just regular quality songs. Songs about love, songs about hate, songs about whatever."
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-In March, highly-praised music producer
Timbaland stated that he wanted to work with Spears on her album once she was out of rehab. He also mentioned that when he asked Timberlake, whom he has cited as his "best friend", if he was okay with the idea, he approved and even said he would work with Britney as well, as long as she was "serious".
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-In April,
Sean Garrett told PEOPLE magazine, "I'm working with Britney. It's really coming together right now. I know she'll do exceptionally well now that she's out of rehab. Her new album is like Toxic times 10. It's going to be a lot of fun and it's really exciting. We did a lot of great work before her break. Britney is a superstar. She definitely knows how to handle herself, but it's tough sometimes. The pressure sometimes gets to you, but I think she has done such a great job keeping her composure under the circumstances."
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Jonathan "J.R." Rotem confirmed to People on April 19 he and Spears are still "working on the album".
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-In an interview in the May/June 2007 issue of Scratch,
Nate "Danja" Hills announced that he produced a track for Britney that sounds like music from a video game.
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Ne-Yo was interviewed by KISS fm , and he said that he has been preparing couple of songs specially for Britney. He also mentioned that he wrote a song for her called
"Impossible" and he said that one of his favorite lyrics in the song is where it says
“doubt me, I want you to. I want you to think I’m drowning in myself. But baby no after what I’ve been through, lessons learned story’s told I know that nothing is impossible”.
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-In May, People magazine has reported that Britney started working on her album in 2006 with producer
Max Martin.
COMMENTS
Whose comeback are you most anticipating?
Britney Spears 65%
Whitney Houston 31%
Michael Jackson 4%
(people.aol.com)
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