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Originally posted by BSNMology
How is it lazy?
Particularly for Britney, who explained it is what her family calls her and she specifically named it this to connect with fans because it is indeed a personal record?
I don't think it's lazy. If that's what an artist chooses to represent the work, then it means something to them.
Lazy would have been naming it "8", as though her fans can't count.
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Well the opposite of lazy is industrious and it certainly is not that. It is not ingenious nor does it seem like much thought or creativity went into it. It represents exactly what it means, which is Britney Spear's first and middle names. While it does have the connotation of being more personal, and it is successful in that, there are so many other ways in the English language to create a personal title rather than making it a name that her family calls her. It'd be like if Whitney released an album called, "Nippy". It's too matter-of-fact.
I understand it's pop music so we're not likely to get a poetic name, and I'm sure that her team put a lot of thought into picking the name, but the end result is an end result that so many other people have already done. Even Mandy Moore has beaten her to it.
And I agree that 8 would have been a lazy name, if 8 had no other meaning aside form it being her eighth album.