While I'm so pumped for the album there's no excitement for this era at all. Like it doesn't even feel she's releasing an album even FF felt exciting. This is just so boring... I guess this is the only complaint I have there's nothing exciting ever happening. In FF era at least we had the singles discussion, how they were doing good but now. Ah idk I guess we just gotta wait and see.
It's a buzz album, the real one comes right after it
Passenger& Alien seem like the only songs above a 7/10. Feels like they're releasing this album just for the sake of keeping her name out there, rather than actually being happy with the quality
"Disappointed" isn't a good word because I didn't have high expectations. I don't blame Britney, although her voice doesn't sound as good as it used to. I blame will.i.am. This album reminds me a lot of The Beginning. It sounds very rushed, with lazy production.
My favorite was Passenger, it really does sound like it was something Katy would have worked on.
"This album sounds like..." BITCHES YOU'VE JUST HEARD A 30-SECONDS SNIPPET. GET OVER IT AND WAIT.
LOL all of this. I will support this by reiterating my post in the "review" thread:
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I do believe the part of a song being personal meaning that it expresses some truths about an artist, yet given that you don't know anything about her personal life over the last couple of years, you don't know that these songs don't resonate personally with her or come from a personal place -- and, again, couldn't even begin to speculate on this because we don't have the full album. Just because you individually think that "anyone" could have recorded some of these songs doesn't make it any less personal. And all we've heard are clips, so the fact that there have been so many preliminary "reviews" and final judgments made about this album already is absolutely ridiculous at this point.
The assertion I'll never understand is that people think at this point that if she's not singing explicitly about her conservatorship or her woes of 2007 or the trials and tribulations that the public is particularly aware of, she must not be having any deep connection with her songs or have written any of them from a personal place. It's the same way that someone who sings an album full of depressing ballads cannot really be proven to have any personal connection to these songs, despite the general belief that sad emotive songs = personal. Listening to an album in full and making a judgment call based on your personal tastes is one thing, but the influx of negative posts in the album thread coming from people who act as if they've heard the final product are just as asinine as the people who are praising it to the high heavens without having heard it. True objectivity wouldn't utilize 30 second snippets to make such a decided judgment call on the whole album's level of cohesiveness, lyrical content or overall production values (vocal or otherwise), because there's not enough evidence to support any of that. End of story.
im going to bet its a continuation of criminal... just because...
I think Joseph Kahn essentially shot down the whole Criminal continuation thing on twitter, but I do agree everything that we've seen screams Criminal 2.
I think Joseph Kahn essentially shot down the whole Criminal continuation thing on twitter, but I do agree everything that we've seen screams Criminal 2.
meh. guess we will have to wait and see.
Also really want this to leak in full like ASAP. need chillin with you.