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Music News: Britney Spears - 'Femme Fatale'
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18. Till the World Ends - Britney Spears
39. I Wanna Go - Britney Spears
56. Up n' Down - Britney Spears
64. Hold It Against Me - Britney Spears
66. Till the World Ends - Britney Spears
103. Inside Out - Britney Spears
107. (Drop Dead) Beautiful [feat. Sabi] - Britney Spears
117. Big Fat Bass (feat. will.i.am) - Britney Spears
132. Hold It Against Me - Britney Spears
167. Trouble for Me - Britney Spears
179. Selfish - Britney Spears
197. Don't Keep Me Waiting - Britney Spears
198. He About to Lose Me - Britney Spears
205. How I Roll - Britney Spears
241. Seal It With a Kiss - Britney Spears
Maybe TTWE could have more chances to go Top 10 if they remove the single version.
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Dead tired right now. Night night, hopefully tomorrow we will have aome info regarding her first day sales in the U.S
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Dead tired right now. Night night, hopefully tomorrow we will have aome info regarding her first day sales in the U.S
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goodnight shir! 
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I see the US is stanning the best for the queen like always. 
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I see the US is stanning the best for the queen like always. |
France is stanning hard for her too ^_^
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I don't like how TTWE isn't moving up on iTunes.
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Originally posted by Green
18. Till the World Ends - Britney Spears
66. Till the World Ends - Britney Spears
Maybe TTWE could have more chances to go Top 10 if they remove the single version.
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People might just be buying the album. Honestly I would rather the album sell than have TTWE be #1 on iTunes. If people are buying the album (which already has TTWE on it) then there would be no reason to buy TTWE.
Up + Down and He About To Lose Me should have been on the album. Delete Seal It With A Kiss and add another track, screw that 12 track obligation **** both of these songs are epic and gave us some variety to an already amazing pop album.
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Originally posted by djkeith24
I don't like how TTWE isn't moving up on iTunes.
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same!
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If she had performed I Wanna Go it would be Top 10 by now...
Big Fat Bass hasn't even entered the Top 100 
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Britney Spears' 'Femme Fatale' Track By Track Review
1. "Till the World Ends"
"Till the World Ends'" message is simple -- and one that's been echoed incessantly over the past year in countless Hot 100 top ten hits: dance until you drop from exhaustion. With its roof-shaking chant-chorus, "Femme Fatale's" opening track comes on hard like its the sexy spawn of Usher's "OMG" and Baltimora's "Tarzan Boy."
Rush-released to digital retailers in early March after it leaked, the song immediately debuted at No. 20 on the Hot 100 before vaulting to No. 9 the following week -- marking Spears' 10th top 10 single.
2. "Hold It Against Me"
It shouldn't surprise anyone that the anticipation for the set's first single, "Hold It Against Me," was so great that the song immediately debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It marked Spears' second chart-topping debut and her fourth No. 1 overall.
From the opening thumpy-thumps of its bassline and Sears' come-hither "hey, over there" -- it's clear whose in the driver's seat in "Femme Fatale's" kick-off number. The verses are rhythmically mechanical, while its punny choruses are dreamy with layered vocals -- in a way giving us both sides of Spears as siren-on-the-dance-floor. On the one hand she's a no-nonsense "gimme what I want" girl, while on the other a delicate dancer on the floor batting her eyes at her target. By the time the daring dubstep bridge appears around the 2:15 mark, the song has hit a homerun. The stuttery stop-start beats simply beg for a massive dance breakdown during the diva's upcoming tour.
3. "Inside Out"
Easily a natural pick for "Femme's" third single, the oh-so-saucy "Inside Out" begins demurely enough, with Spears singing over a grinding beat about "sittin' in the mirror gettin' pretty." But things take a seriously scandalous turn when her perhaps soon-to-be-ex shows up at the door. Next thing we know, Spears is crying out "So come on! Won't you give me something to remember? Baby shut your mouth and turn me inside out." Whoah! Did it get hot in here, or is it just us? Spears even goes as far to (intentionally?) reference two of her earlier hits in "Inside's" chorus: "...hit me one more time, it's so amazing.../...you're the only one who drove me crazy..." (riffing on "...Baby One More Time" and "(You Drive Me) Crazy"). Finally, with a beat reminiscent of Ginuwine's "Pony," we await the inevitable mash-up of the two singles.
4. "I Wanna Go"
"I Wanna Go" is the sister track to "Till the World Ends" in that both are driving, throbbing, Spears-commands-you-to-dance tracks about letting go. "Wanna" is vague in specific intentions, wrapping its message in generalities about "going all the way" over a pulsing beat. "Wanna" was one of the tracks initially teased to fans by Dr. Luke well before the album dropped, a good sign that it may be a candidate for a proper single release.
5. "How I Roll"
Put your hand up if you thought Spears sang "You could be my f*** tonight" on "How I Roll"... before you realized she was actually singing the much tamer "You could be my thug tonight?" OK, maybe that's only our hand we see in the air. "How I Roll" lets listeners take a break from the disco inferno of "Femme's" first four tracks, as it pop-pops along like a bubble machine with a perky little summery beat.
6. "(Drop Dead) Beautiful" featuring Sabi
With giggly lyrical couplings like "your body looks so sick, I think I caught the flu" and "you must be B.I.G. because you got me hypnotized" -- "Beautiful" doesn't take itself too seriously. Halfway through the number, the luckiest rapper in the world, Sabi, appears, inexplicably rhyming "sweatin' you" with "vegtables" (pronounced as "veg-ta-bulls"). (Truly, you didn't know who Sabi was either until she appeared on "Femme," right? She thus finds herself in a most fortunate position -- as one of only two guest stars on "Femme." And the only one that's unknown.)
7. "Seal It With a Kiss"
In the way that "I Wanna Go" is a sibling to "Till the Wold Ends," here we find another kissin' cousin: "Seal It With a Kiss" is clearly the companion piece to "Inside Out." In our minds, we hear "Seal" -- which describes a (wished for?) secret affair -- as the prelude to what ultimately ends with "Inside Out." On "Femme Fatale," Spears is at her best when working her sex-kitten smolder, excelling on the tracks -- like "Seal" -- where the listener is pushed to the emotional edge of either a feverish meeting on the dancefloor, or a sexy romp in a bedroom or backroom.
8. "Big Fat Bass" featuring will.i.am
After seven nearly-sterling tracks, "Femme Fatale" hits a slight bump in the road with this will.i.am-produced thumper. The sparse tune clocks in at a too-long 4:45 minutes and is "Femme's" lengthiest track. Like the Black Eyed Peas' "The Time (Dirty Bit)," also produced by will.i.am, "Big Fat Bass" comes across as a pastiche of interesting moments and sounds instead of a fully realized song. That said, we can completely hear this track blasting in a club, with Spears cooing "I can be your treble" while the crowd screams back "you can be my bass!"
9. "Trouble For Me"
Think of "Trouble For Me" as a high-concept tale: a man who is toxic in a relationship, but is also the life of the party. Again, the emotional thread of "you're bad, yet good" (heard earlier on "Inside Out") rears its head here -- but with lesser effect. It's bouncy and springy enough, but it's definitely one of "Femme's" lesser tracks. (Though we are now pontificating who inspired this song in real life…)
10. "Trip To Your Heart"
We're in the home stretch of the album and we're getting to the tunes that are either going to be loved or hated. This particular track, "Trip To Your Heart," with lyrics like "spread my wings out into the dark / I'll fly away on a trip to your heart," divided many fans on Twitter. While some admire its tender, lovey-dovey sentiment, others have suggested it's quite out of place on another otherwise aggressively button-pushing feet-on-the-floor set.
11. "Gasoline"
"Gasoline" works every possible pun involving fuel. Take your pick: "my heart runs only on supreme," "you're setting me on fire," "your touch burning me," "you burn up everything," etc. If one can get past the lyrical silliness, there's a rather pedestrian pop tune underneath. Again, "Gasoline" is buried towards the end of "Femme" for a reason.
12. "Criminal"
Spears channels her best "Madonna-with-acoustic-guitar" here on "Criminal," the only true ballad on the album. A skittery, "Don't Tell Me"-like beat is accompanied by a sad strummy guitar whilst Spears sings "Mama I'm in love with a criminal / and this type of love isn't rational, it's physical." (Weirdly, during the singsongy chorus couplings, where all the words end with "als," we kept hearing -- clearly an unintentional nod -- Supertramp's "The Logical Song.") "Criminal" -- while some of the lyrics are a teensy clunky at times -- is a fitting closer to a nearly-completely excellent album.
Bonus Tracks on Deluxe Version:
13. "Up N' Down"
The first of "Femme Fatale's" bonus tracks heads back to the dance floor, where we find ourselves picturing an aggressive Spears going "Up N' Down." (Now, we can only assume she's doing deep knee bends, funking to her favorite song.) In "Up," Spears does one of the things she does best: play the part of club queen. In this mode, she plays super vixen: eyeing men in the club, sizing them up and taunting them with her "Up N' Down."
14. "He About to Lose Me"
A song about a relationship that's perhaps about to go awry, "He About To Lose Me" packs a serious emotional punch. Spears sings about being at the club, entranced by a new man she's made contact with -- all the while thinking of her current beau, who's at home. Will she leave the club with the new guy? Or will she go home to her man -- a guy she's not even all that sure loves her anymore? There's more drama in this 3:49 track than in most soaps! (One incredible flaw to the song? We're not positive Spears is singing on the chorus -- unless her voice has been processed beyond recognition.)
15. "Selfish"
"Be my prisoner of love tonight." Ahem. In "Selfish," Spears' boy-turned-man conquest for the evening is virtually tied up by the diva and ordered to do her bidding. It's a fun number and would have totally worked as a proper inclusion on "Femme" instead of being relegated to bonus track status.
16. "Don't Keep Me Waiting"
A new wavey rock moment for Spears, where fuzzzed-out guitars are paired with what sound like live drums on the ready-for-the-arena track. If your head isn't thrashing about during the chorus, there's something seriously wrong. It barrels through like a locomotive: "don't keep me waiting / i'm goin' crazy / got me waitin' come and take it from me!." (Whatever could she possibly mean by "it?")
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http://www.billboard.com/#/features/...05098152.story
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Originally posted by Vini
If she had performed I Wanna Go it would be Top 10 by now...
Big Fat Bass hasn't even entered the Top 100 |
i agree! I wanna go is a smash waitin to get unleashed.
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Originally posted by WiddLe
US iTunes
18. Till the World Ends - Britney Spears
40. I Wanna Go - Britney Spears
57. Up n' Down - Britney Spears
64. Hold It Against Me - Britney Spears
68. Till the World Ends - Britney Spears
104. Inside Out - Britney Spears
109. (Drop Dead) Beautiful [feat. Sabi] - Britney Spears
118. Big Fat Bass (feat. will.i.am) - Britney Spears
135. Hold It Against Me - Britney Spears
168. Trouble for Me - Britney Spears
179. Selfish - Britney Spears
195. Don't Keep Me Waiting - Britney Spears
197. He About to Lose Me - Britney Spears
204. How I Roll - Britney Spears
243. Seal It With a Kiss - Britney Spears
303. Gasoline - Britney Spears
329. Criminal - Britney Spears
331. Trip to Your Heart - Britney Spears
491. Toxic - Britney Spears
543. Womanizer - Britney Spears
581. 3 - Britney Spears
749. Circus - Britney Spears |
#36 I Wanna Go - Britney Spears (+4)
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I Wanna Go and Up N Down outselling every other track of the album. 
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Let's stream I Wanna Go to help it's Hot 100 debut
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How's Inside Out doing? One of my fav songs on Femme Fatale.
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Can anyone update iTunes France, Norway and Sweden please? 
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Billboard spills the tea on Inside Out and Big Fat Flop!!! 
3. "Inside Out"
Easily a natural pick for "Femme's" third single, the oh-so-saucy "Inside Out" begins demurely enough, with Spears singing over a grinding beat about "sittin' in the mirror gettin' pretty." But things take a seriously scandalous turn when her perhaps soon-to-be-ex shows up at the door. Next thing we know, Spears is crying out "So come on! Won't you give me something to remember? Baby shut your mouth and turn me inside out." Whoah! Did it get hot in here, or is it just us? Spears even goes as far to (intentionally?) reference two of her earlier hits in "Inside's" chorus: "...hit me one more time, it's so amazing.../...you're the only one who drove me crazy..." (riffing on "...Baby One More Time" and "(You Drive Me) Crazy"). Finally, with a beat reminiscent of Ginuwine's "Pony," we await the inevitable mash-up of the two singles.
8. "Big Fat Bass" featuring will.i.am
After seven nearly-sterling tracks, "Femme Fatale" hits a slight bump in the road with this will.i.am-produced thumper. The sparse tune clocks in at a too-long 4:45 minutes and is "Femme's" lengthiest track. Like the Black Eyed Peas' "The Time (Dirty Bit)," also produced by will.i.am, "Big Fat Bass" comes across as a pastiche of interesting moments and sounds instead of a fully realized song. That said, we can completely hear this track blasting in a club, with Spears cooing "I can be your treble" while the crowd screams back "you can be my bass!"
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How's Inside Out doing? One of my fav songs on Femme Fatale.
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Floping like it's supposed to be .
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