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Music News: Britney Spears - 'Femme Fatale'
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After further listens and with more bass I now love Big Fat Bass and Trouble for Me!...Now I Love the Whole Album, at this point anything could be a HiT single, and in some cases SMASH HITS!!!!!!!!
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The "Big Fat Bass" has grown on me some, partly because I love the not-so-subtly disguised allusions to growing penises and partly because Britney's delivery is sort of quirky.
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so sad about the promo of the single..
sorry girls, hate if u want but I'm sad.
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Originally posted by -Derek
so sad about the promo of the single..
sorry girls, hate if u want but I'm sad.
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Promo of what single? 
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I'm on my 315th listen of "Inside Out." I had it on repeat for hours on my flight to and from Hong Kong as well as when I walked around. I LOVE THE SONG!!! 
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Originally posted by foxaylove
I'm on my 315th listen of "Inside Out." I had it on repeat for hours on my flight to and from Hong Kong as well as when I walked around. I LOVE THE SONG!!! |
Wow dude! But atleast wait till the album comes out to play it that much!
I'm waitin till it's officially out to, ***** it out lol
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Originally posted by Cahleb
I won't be getting banned anytime soon..
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Foxay, please deal with that thing somehow.
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Member Since: 10/8/2009
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Originally posted by Jared
Promo of what single? |
 Take your pick
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Member Since: 11/8/2010
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maybe if we buy till the world ends over and over and over and over again it will remain in the top 10. 
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Member Since: 10/14/2008
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My iTunes hits alone. The cable that connects my iTouch to my car is nowhere to be found, therefor I've been playing Femme Fatale from an MP3 Player on my car. I've been traveling from town to town for the past 2 weeks, the most time I listen to music is on the road - which is why I have poor iTunes plays, they're not counted. If we count them all, HIR would be at 50.
Post yours y'all.
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Member Since: 11/18/2010
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Originally posted by Louie
My iTunes hits alone. The cable that connects my iTouch to my car is nowhere to be found, therefor I've been playing Femme Fatale from an MP3 Player on my car. I've been traveling from town to town for the past 2 weeks, the most time I listen to music is on the road - which is why I have poor iTunes plays, they're not counted. If we count them all, HIR would be at 50.
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My itunes is glitching like mad and doubling play counts. It says I've played Inside Out 785 times, when I know I haven't played it that many times.... when the issue gets fixed. I'll post my play counts.
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Member Since: 10/4/2009
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Spears' Second Act:
Britney Spears lands her 10th top 10 hit as "Till The World Ends" jumps from #20 to #9 in its second week on the Hot 100. Remarkably, Spears has amassed more top 10 hits in the past four years than she did in the first eight years of her career (when she was at her peak) as a record-seller and pop-culture icon.
Many people wrote Spears off in 2007 when she was going through a hard time in her personal life. In September of that year, after a much mocked performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, Entertainment Weekly ran a cover story: "Oh, The Horror! Is Britney's Comeback Already Over? Or Does She Have A Prayer?" The headline inside was even worse: "Down For The Count?"
But a funny thing happened on the way to her predicted demise. Spears proceeded to land one of her biggest hits, "Gimme More," which reached #3 in October 2007. And she has since amassed five more top 10 hits: "Womanizer," "Circus," "3," "Hold It Against Me" and now "Till The World Ends."
By contrast, from 1998 to 2006, Spears notched just four top 10 hits: "...Baby One More Time," "(You Drive Me) Crazy," "Oops!...I Did It Again," and "Toxic."
How to explain this? It may be that fans' relationship with Spears deepened when she went through her troubles. They have seen her through highs and lows; triumphs and humiliations. This is a shift from the way things used to be, when stars when to great lengths to sanitize their images. Karen Carpenter never went public with her battle with anorexia, which made her death in 1983 such a shock to fans. Freddie Mercury finally acknowledged that he had AIDS just one day before his death from AIDS-related complications in 1991.
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/cha...rs-second-act/
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Hopefully Till The World End gets a boost to the top 3 of iTunes after the GMA performance. If it does, it will already have by then 50-70 AI, that and 180-240k digital downloads will give the song a #2-#4 peak. I will NOT tolerate it having a Toxic/Oops! peak. 
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Originally posted by Louie
Hopefully Till The World End gets a boost to the top 3 of iTunes after the GMA performance. If it does, it will already have by then 50-70 AI, that and 180-240k digital downloads will give the song a #2-#4 peak. I will NOT tolerate it having a Toxic/Oops! peak. |
I still haven't lost hope for that #1
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It depends on the week. It will sell around 180-250k digitally with the performance and album release. It's airplay will be high by then too, but I doubt it will be an easy week. Let's say the #1 single is at around 280 points that week. She will need 220k digital downloads and 70 million+ AI. If it keeps freefalling on iTunes, it will be literally impossible to gather 220k digital downloads off a single performance, and I doubt it will manage 70 million impressions.
My prediction of TTWE's performance on the album's release week (which is like, it's only chance of hitting #1).
180k + 50 AI = 230 points - around #2-#4.
We can't really judge how it's going to do at this point though. I'm sure I will change my thought once GMA happens.... hopefully to the better.
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Googling for academic articles about Britney Spears is one rabbit hole I've managed to avoid falling down thus far, but one imagines there are reams of the things. From demonically driven Disney child star via pigtailed Lolita and sex-droid air hostess to shaven-headed loon lunging aggressively towards her public through the paparazzo's lens, she's provided no end of provocative and iconic images, and stirred up all kinds of problematic issues around post-feminism, celebrity and voyeurism, while remaining an odd non-presence at the centre of it all.
Not an obvious provocateur like Madonna or Lady Gaga, she generally comes over as either a simple down-home, hard-partying southern gal thrown adrift in a media culture, or rootless and unreal product of and inhabitant of that culture. This is a young woman who has been literally the most famous person in the world - the original "number one search term" of the internet age - whilst undergoing complete personality meltdown. Anyone with a stack of Baudrillard books and a bag of strong drugs could easily theorise on that until their head fell off.
Oh, and Britney makes consistently amazing records too. Not just that patronising term “amazing pop records”, but amazing records full stop, with her albums growing in consistency and quality up until the absolutely extraordinary electronic club album Blackout (2007) – which was recorded and released at the height of her breakdown and concomitant constant deranged game of kiss-chase with the L.A. paparazzi. Sadly the follow-up, Circus, was frankly a bit slapdash, and with the age of 30 approaching and younger, hungrier Gagas and Rihannas snapping at her heels, it looked as if Britney as lady mayoress of pop might be on the wane.
Thankfully she wasn't on the wane at all, and Femme Fatale is another great Britney album. OK, it's not as good as Blackout, mainly because it hasn't got the belligerent middle-finger-to-the-world attitude of songs like “Freakshow” and “Piece of Me”, and instead is overladen with rather tired saucy single-entendres like “if I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?” (“Hold it Against Me”) and “I wanna go all the way” (“I Wanna Go”). Every single song is about sex: sex with dangerous exes, break-up sex, sex on a night out, sex as a relief from life's pressures, sex as dancing, dancing as sex, etc etc etc. And, providing more fodder for the academics, just about every song treats men as sexual objects, anonymous conquests, dangerous animals, or simply a pleasure to be bought (as on “Drop Dead Beautiful”: “I would pay whatever just to get a better view”).
'The relentlessness of the robot rave sounds and demands to drink neat spirits, go clubbing, “fly higher” and have athletic sex could get a bit much.'
It's almost all set to hefty uptempo dance grooves, with Britney's voice frayed at the edge by weird and druggy effects. The much trumpeted “dubstep influence” is there as part of the palette of club sounds the producers draw from, but actually no more so than on Blackout – the frankly filthy “Inside Out” here does have dubstep's lurching half-tempo rhythm throughout, but really is as much based on American R&B at its most vainglorious as anything else, and it has less of dubstep's wobbly bass than Blackout's "Freakshow" did. There's a Will.I.Am collaboration too in “Big Fat Bass”, which thankfully sees him in the same mode as Black Eyed Peas's great “Boom Boom Pow”, creating super-high-tech rubberised bouncing electro and sonic innuendos aplenty. Overall, if you don't like fizzing, buzzing, whirling electronic sounds that beset you from all angles and tickle your underparts unbidden, then... well, I'm surprised you've read this far really, but no, this album really isn't for you.
Actually the relentlessness of the robot rave sounds and demands to drink neat spirits, go clubbing, “fly higher” and have athletic sex could get a bit much for just about anyone if they're more in the mood for Antiques Roadshow and a nice lamb casserole. But at most other times than Sunday evening, the way it all holds together sweeps you along, and Britney's mad, sparkly, shag-happy world doesn't seem such an awful place to be at all. Where she actually is in all of this and what she's thinking beyond “ooh I fancy doing some bonking” is, as ever, hard to fathom – but the fact that she's made it so far, somehow marshalling music of this intensity into such coherent form around her, suggests that she might very well yet continue staunchly on into the Gaga era, making lots more great records. Which is good news for cultural theorists and pop lovers alike.
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http://www.theartsdesk.com/index.php...iew&Itemid=107
I love how critics finally love Britney Spears 
I took them 13 years
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If we said this album was amazing, would you hold it against us?
Her first album since 2008’s Circus, Femme Fatale is best viewed as a sequel to her shockingly awesome 2007 album Blackout. Much like Blackout, Femme Fatale brings us Britney in a delicious cocktail of dirty electropop and Eurobeat with a dash of dubstep and a healthy dose of what she does best: pure pop. We’d go so far, even, to say that Femme Fatale succeeds in almost totally erasing the dodgy Aguileresque Circus from our memory.
Femme Fatale is an undeniable treat of filthy beats, itchy glitchy production, breathless Brit-vox and MASSIVE TUNES. Shoulda-been-lead-single ‘Til the World Ends is a rip-roaring jolly good time, made for nights with too much eyeliner, too much cheap gin and too many bad decisions. ‘Til the World Ends just isn’t getting enough credit for its awesomeness, and we don’t understand why; it’s a breathless sex-riot-inducing pop tune, the likes of which have not been heard since Britney first implored you to hit her one more time, but with added electronic bits. Ubiquitous irritant Will.I.Am pops up (as is his wont) on Big Fat Bass, and save for his obligatory rap bit, this song, with its refrain of “I can be the treble, baby, you can be the bass” is genuinely danceable, though we might be more inclined to shimmy to a remix, if any DJ were so inclined. Lead single Hold it Against Me sits comfortably amongst these tight electro tracks, and it’s always good to hear Brit replacing “baybeh” with “hayzayyyy”. Trouble For Me sees Britney embracing the sort of sound we usually get from one-hit Dutch wonders, with slowed-up house synths and a sugary vocal that drives the whole track to an enjoyably understated ending. Inside Out may not be the best track on the album, feeling a little slower than it should be, but it includes the lyric “hit me one more time, it’s so amazing”; just, like, soooo meta-pop.
All this is not to say that there aren’t any duff tracks; Gasoline and weirdly flutey Criminal could have been missed out for all we care, and Seal it with a Kiss is genuinely a bit crap. But even at her crappest on this album, Britney is leaving any young pretenders to her pop crown in the dust.
This album is all about the sex. Not the ‘ooh I respect you as a woman and an equal’ sex or comfortable relationship sex. Femme Fatale is practically a concept album about going to a club, seeing someone, thinking “ooof, yeah” and then doing a lot of satisfyingly rude sex with them. True to the Femme Fatale mould, though, Britney finishes and doesn’t give you her number or any idea where she’s going next. Welcome back, Britney.
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http://www.holymoly.com/reviews/musi...me-fatale54266
Another good review
In fact only Slant magazine has gave it an average review
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5. Britney Spears - Till the World Ends - 158,000 (Total: 275,000)
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So, she basically sold 275k in 10 days?
HIAM - 411k > Womanizer - 286k
TTWE - *around* 240k > Circus - 225k
And TTWE did it without a GMA performance, yet. 
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Member Since: 10/14/2008
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Britney should just forget about the Femme Fatale era and release 'When I Found You'. 
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Wow tht is a long ass review..love it though...ff is gonna be awesomely reviewed!..
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