The track by William O. was co-written by the guy that did 'Piece of Me'.
Stop reminding me. We could've gotten a meaningful life reflective Britney track done by William Orbit! **** Dr. Luke. I gave him my trust & he screwed me over. I thought he was giving me an album full of Circus (song) instead I got autotune up the ass. Danja should've taken over the job as exec producer cause he would've slayed with a theme called Femme Fatale and actually allowed other people on it.
I am just ... I understand that her people have such little faith in her that they don't want her to go on an Oprah. But, Britney can't handle Ellen, or Rachael ****ing Ray? COME THE **** ON. If she did Good Morning America - a sit down interview - I'm pretty sure Larry and dem would DEMAND it be a softball interview.
And the international "promo." I mean, I thought Christina and Bionic was terrible re: international promo ...
Right? Britney has no confidence at this point, and the fact that they won't book her for even the most basic, softball, interviews with people like Ellen won't help her reclaim that natural charm and easiness she had in her early career.
We've had this age of pop female domination, but I think people are really getting sick of it. It's not cool to like any of them anymore. Women have ruled pop music for about thirty years to some extent, but the late 2000s/early 2010s are especially significant in that regard. I think that radio and people, as a collective, are moving on.
I can understand why. I love K$, but when I hear Blow every ten minutes, I want to punch my radio. GaGa is oversaturated and overhyped. Katy is just vaguely annoying and an empty, nostalgic symbol of American consumer culture. Britney is a non-entity in the realm of public opinion. Bey's song makes some people's ears bleed. Rihanna just doesn't go away. Why SHOULD they be interested?
Well, Britney & Beyonce are getting older so that's their excuse. Gaga, I really don't know about her and where she'll stand in the future...
And the other girls aren't really dominate-all-media-types, just some endorsements here and there, a fragrance, as compared to toys, clothing line, etc that the others have. Not really opposing anything you've said, I agree with you.
And I don't care how horrible people think RTW is, there is no reason that Bruno Mars's Lazy Song is ******** harder than it in success. It bothers me.
The 'trinity', as you wanna call it, are not performing as well (except for Gaga) because there are more interesting acts out there. Rihanna, Katy Perry, even Ke$ha, have completely outshined Britney and Beyonce with their music.
Why can't Britney just release "Original Doll" already? Britney was finally ready to take her music to the personal depths that people were asking for and was bound for critical acclaim, but she goes and get pregnant. The project gets shelved where it never sees the light of day ever...much to Jive's delight. They much prefer her to keep with the upbeat music. The tracks we heard were amazing!
And don't even get me started on scrapped/unreleased tracks.
And then they wonder why Britney is rarely nominated for a Grammy , all of her emotional, deep, REAL tracks are scrapped....and I'm not saying her dance tracks are bad.....but I would love to see some critical acclaim/personal tracks.
Well, it is laughable, admittedly. There I am declaring that it's all so simple and I still wrote more than anyone is willing to read to get my points across.
I read it.
A lot of people are aware of ~the Illuminati outside of websites/stanning. It's not something as big as the OP suggests, but it still gets some people to pretend to be Righteous for a few seconds.
And I don't care how horrible people think RTW is, there is no reason that Bruno Mars's Lazy Song is ******** harder than it in success. It bothers me.
I think we can all agree that there's no reason why The Lazy Song should be more successful than anything.
The 'trinity', as you wanna call it, are not performing as well (except for Gaga) because there are more interesting acts out there. Rihanna, Katy Perry, even Ke$ha, have completely outshined Britney and Beyonce with their music.
Everyones gunna hate me for this but I want my "LoveGame" GaGa back . Just Dance, LoveGame, Telephone >>>. I just love her fluffy generic pop songs.
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Run The World flopped because it really isn't that good. It had no hook & the production combined with the sample was a big fat mess. Beyonce has some incredible work, like Irreplaceable & Single Ladies that will be remebered for years to come but radio just wasn't interested in Run The World. It just sucked. I'm sorry. Give me another "Crazy In Love".
Most people listened to it once and gave up on it. The song is amazing once you hear it a few times and many people have agreed to that.
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Judas flopped because it was another bad song in my opinion. There's no excuse, it had the high budget video, some promo & the best lable in the business behind it. Born This Way did miles better because it's the better, more original song, & Edge Of Glory will become her biggest hit ever because it's universal, relateable, & downright amazing.
Judas is ****ing amazing.
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Britneys problem is her & her lables laziness & unwillingness to promote. I can see why Hold It Against Me didn't do as well as hope, but Till The World Ends should have been a multi week #1, and at least triple platinum.
Truth.
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fact is, Rihanna, Ke$ha, & Katy are doing better is because they're giving th public exactly what they want.
The 'trinity', as you wanna call it, are not performing as well (except for Gaga) because there are more interesting acts out there. Rihanna, Katy Perry, even Ke$ha, have completely outshined Britney and Beyonce with their music.
Not necessarily. TTWE has gone on to be Britney's biggest radio hit and FF's sales are decent given the time of release. Britney is just underperforming given her name....and even GaGa is struggling a bit, though her CD will be huge for the first few weeks.
It's not that Katy, Rihanna and K$ are more interesting...they're just safer....thus, which takes us back to sats' original point.
Sister, MBDTF was the definition of a mess in terms of promo, but I think that was all Kanye's fault. He said (via his mouthpiece, John Legend) that he was done with "traditional promo," and was relying on the mass aggregation of hype and buzz to sell it.
Forgetting that he's a global star.
And that records still need to be worked at radio.
I can't get over the fact that the man who has the makes of becoming the biggest thing in the music industry (and is arguably one of the biggest already) is an egotistical jerk who does the stupidest things to his career all for the sake of being "different". Or whatever he's aiming at with all of this. He basically threw a masterpiece at us & just let us play with it.
Can anyone else get into a top ten with Lupe, Kanye, Bruno, Wiz, & Breezy thrown into it? Only me?
And I don't care how horrible people think RTW is, there is no reason that Bruno Mars's Lazy Song is ******** harder than it in success. It bothers me.
The Lazy Song. I just don't get it, why...?
I don't know why I just can't get into his music... it just bothers me so much. All of it.
What would you do differently with all three of them?
Speak Now - I think Mine was a very good FIRST single, but the album needed a LEAD single directly after it - ESPECIALLY internationally. My idea was to, after Mine, completely split the Country and Pop/International releases.
Pop would get BTD, Haunted, Enchanted and Better Than Revenge.
Country would get BTD, Mean, Long Live and Never Grow Up (that would have gone number one on Country radio. I KNOW IT WOULD HAVE.)
Born This Way - BTW makes perfect sense as a first single - but Judas as second/lead was such a terrible, terrible decision. Like, epically bad - that's not convincing ANYONE to buy the album. Just like the album, a song like Judas needs to be led into; that means fourth/fifth single AT BEST. The Edge of Glory would have been sent to radio and iTunes the same week - the first week of May. Instead of the new promo single at iTunes everyweek, maybe a mixtape/megamix of six or seven of the best tracks?
In my mind, BTW - TEOG - MTN - Y&I are very clearly singles 1-4. 5-6/7/8 could be any combination of Judas, Schiesse, Americano and Unicorn Highway. Nothing else on this album could be a single.
Femme Fatale - TTWE was released to iTunes globally two weeks too early, it should have been repressed until FF was released. (But sent to radio at the exact time it was.) Then, I Wanna Go screams summer and He About to Lose Me SCREAMS FALL - it's EXACTLY the type of song that Britney at almost thirty should be making, and would gain her some new listeners/respect. Close the album out with Big Fat Bass, and have something new ready for Fall 12/Spring 13.
The mention of a male artist makes me want to jump on the fact that male artist's eras are always a COMPLETE mess and basically allow the femmes to dominate the charts.
Its about promotion and people seem to dislike promotion these days. The artists are all getting lazy and comfortable. No one wants to get their ass up and make us want to buy their ****. Gaga only performed Born This Way once live which shocked the **** outta me. And if Beyonce doesnt promote the life outta RTW like she did Single Ladies I will be very angry.
I am just so disappointed we didn't get another Britney/Oprah show. This is the last season of Oprah and her camp showed NO INTEREST in doing a special on Oprah. The Queen herself expressed her interest in having Britney back on her show, it's been 9 years since she was last there.
I just don't understand why she can't do the most basic interviews in person? She's known Carson Daly since the beginning of her career yet they wanted to screen questions before the interview. Needless to say, he wasn't pleased at the idea. Can we also talk about WHY she isn't going to the BMA's? Vegas is not that far away from LA, NO EXCUSE why she couldn't be there. Move tour rehearsal up earlier that day then fly her ass to Vegas. I mean really? If they wanted to just release music then release a damn mixtape and not an album.