Since Britney Spears emerged on the scene nearly a decade and a half ago, she's run the gamut of pop music: from sugary bubble-gum to dirty, sexy dance tracks. In that respect, her longtime collaborator and Femme Fatale producer Dr. Luke says that the superstar has in many respects become bigger than pop. In fact, he says it's hard to confine her to just one genre.
"I feel like Britney kind of has her own genre: If you look at songs like 'Toxic' and 'Piece of Me' and 'Oops! ... I Did It Again,' they all were sort of influential and led the way," he told MTV News on Thursday (April 28) at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards.
So when the pair sat down to work on her latest release, Dr. Luke said her pop-music shape-shifting was very much on his mind. "She wanted to keep on with that and do stuff that was forward-thinking," he continued. "So we put some dubstep stuff in there, in bridges; snuck it in different places and I hope it ended up good. I hope you like it."
It seems every time Spears drops a new album, it's declared her comeback record. But Dr. Luke noted that Brit has really never gone anywhere. "Where'd she go? I don't know. I didn't know she ever disappeared, really," he said. "She's always been selling out concerts and records, so I don't know that she ever disappeared."
So what do Spears and Luke have up their sleeve now? "Not yet ... give me a second to breathe, come up for air!" he told us.
Plus, even with Femme Fatale already in stores, it seems like the pair are always finding ways to update the songs. Take, for example, the recent remix of "Till the World Ends," which features Ke$ha (the track's songwriter) and Nicki Minaj.
"Well, we already had Ke$ha on the song 'cause she co-wrote the song ... and she sounded really good on it," Dr. Luke explained. "And then Nicki got on the Femme Fatale Tour so we put Nicki on it and it just sounded amazing. She killed it."
Good news, kids. Beyonce's working on making a new music genre. "I'm actually in the studio now writing songs and producing," the singer revealed recently. "I have a lot of live instruments that I'm putting into the tracks to try to change the sound and make my own genre of music." Yeah, it sounds just like R&B/pop, except it's got Beyonce doing vocals. It's crazy. [ET]
I already know how this thread is going to turn out.
I'll just say that people are so eager to believe every negative things written about Britney but they never trust the people who have worked closely with her and who are saying positive things about her.
It's 100% transparent.
It's the stan/hater caricatural dichotomy in full effect.
Don't forget that the dubstep influences on "Femme Fatale" are as musically brutal and as adventurous as it gets and by far the most aggressive or rather assaultive beats out right now and that Britney is the first artist to introduce dubstep to the mainstream radio and mix it with pop. Britstepop.
I will give them credit for putting Dubstep into the mainstream - definitely a big influence. Not denying that. Although, I do think that this article goes a little too far. She's putting out good dance music - that isn't that revolutionary; but there's no doubt that her discography is pretty damn amazing.
Don't forget that the dubstep influences on "Femme Fatale" are as musically brutal and as adventurous as it gets and by far the most aggressive or rather assaultive beats out right now and that Britney is the first artist to introduce dubstep to the mainstream radio and mix it with pop. Britstepop.
Exactly.
I asked a friend of mine who don't listen that much to pop music why she liked Britney.
She told me that she thought she was progressive with her sound and fearless about what she does in the realm of mainstream pop music.
It seems every time Spears drops a new album, it's declared her comeback record. But Dr. Luke noted that Brit has really never gone anywhere. "Where'd she go? I don't know. I didn't know she ever disappeared, really," he said. "She's always been selling out concerts and records, so I don't know that she ever disappeared."
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Originally posted by Blur
Exactly.
I asked a friend of mine who don't listen that much to pop music why she liked Britney.
She told me that she thought she was progressive with her sound and fearless about what she does in the realm of mainstream pop music.