Will.i.am is no one's major producer. His work is alienating and criticized constantly for how unique and different it is. The Frida Kahlo of production.
wasnt i gotta a feeling and boom boom pow made by him?
WB is grittier EDM, it throws out all sensibilities of pop like melodic choruses and replaces it with faux British accents. That's what makes WB so ahead of its time.
The American public is collectively suppressing the fact that the economy has gone down the tubes and that we are in the middle of a recession. Just like during the Great Depression, the American people are using music as a form of escapism and they simply do not want to hear someone telling them to get to work.
It will not be until at least a decade from now when Britney's avant-garde political genius will finally be recognized and put in the history textbooks once and for all.
Yes and Britney will bring it to mainstream, like she always does with these underground sounds. Who else did it before her? Taylor was already inspired by S&S's impact, but who gon do it with pure EDM music?