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Tournament: The Song Game 3
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SENT.
Sorry for the "brief" paragraph. 
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Originally posted by Duca
SENT.
Sorry for the " brief" paragraph.
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It's okay, you did the "bare minimum". 
Screw it, I'm submitting for Rihanna, this game needs to end. 
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SEMI-FINAL / Album
Judge on how well they explained why the album was submitted. 
Duca - Britney Spears "In The Zone"
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Britney's self-titled third album, "Britney," was a transitional album, capturing Britney at the point when she wasn't a girl and not yet a woman, but its follow-up, "In the Zone," was a record of personal liberation where she has finally completed that journey and showed us the real Britney.
"I can’t be like that anymore," she sings in "Early Mornin'." Britney was the biggest teenage dream, but she repeated commercial successes by repeating the formula that made her a superstar and it obviously worked, with 57 million album sales of her first three albums, making her the biggest star of her generation. "In the Zone" still managed to find the same, in some territories even bigger success, with the album going straight to #1 as well as all of the album's singles, despite being anything but that. Britney indulged herself for the first time and finally delivered an album that has no filler. The tracks on "In the Zone" are neither safe nor coy and each of the album's twelve tracks is a standout.
The record was not only accomplished, but much more varied than any of her previous albums. Freed from Max Martin for the first time, she took full advantage of that freedom and chose to play the field and worked with a bunch of different collaborators, including Madonna, Moby, the Matrix, Trixster, Roy "Royalty" Hamilton, Bloodshy & Avant, and R. Kelly. "In the Zone" also illustrated Britney's development as a songwriter. She takes the wheel, having writing credits on ten of the record’s tracks, which is ten more than she had on her debut.
The album features some of her best singles, including "Me Against The Music," the dance anthem on which, with the help of Madonna, she relishes her new role as nightclub siren and shows her love of the good time, then the critically embraced Grammy Award winner "Toxic" featuring unrepeatable drum breaks and strings combined with Britney's most daring and incredibly sexy breathy vocals, and finally, a simple yet effectively fragile confessional piano ballad, "Everytime," which gives her a closure on the Justin Timberlake era.
By mixing pop, new wave, dance, house, crunk, reggae, trance, Diwali beats and Neptunes-style hip-hop with a heap of campy sexuality and controversy to create a futuristic sound, she took her biggest musical risks with "In the Zone" which was a primer on the sound of pop in the '00s. No longer a girl, freed from slavery, now fully a woman, she's living large and in charge, growing up, doing it with style and a lot of dirty giggling. Whether she's singing power ballads ("Shadow," "Everytime") or sex-princess-on-the-loose anthems ("Me Against The Music," "(I Got That) Boom Boom," "Showdown," "Toxic"), she never fails to deliver. The up-tempos are irresistible ear candy, and the ballads are sweet harmonies that can't help but impress, in what is surely Britney's most ambitious, adventurous, revealing and best album to date. The album is my personal favorite from her, featuring some of her very best songs, and I dare to call it one of the best records of all time.
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Flashing Lights - Rihanna "Loud"
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Loud is Rihanna's 5th studio album, and features some of her best work yet. It features the hit singles "Only Girl (In the World)" and "What's My Name?". She took a chance and experimented with different genres, such as Hip-Hop (Raining Men), Alternative (California King Bed, Cheers), Reggae (Man Down), and House Music (Only Girl). While some may see it as a safe album, I personally see it as Rihanna letting her influences from all around the world transform her music into something unique and creative. 
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UnusualBoy - Christina Aguilera "Stripped"
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Well, I consider this best Christina's album because, it's not a simple pop album, there's a mix of many genre inside of it: r&b, a little bit of rock (Fighter), pop. Besides this album meant the change of Christina style from classic pop to this mix of genres, you can find since sexiness talking about Dirrty to one of her the signature's song: Beautiful, which shows us once again how epic is Christina's voice.
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supaspaz - Kelly Clarkson "Breakaway"
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This was the album that launched a superstar: four top 10 hits, over six million copies sold, two Grammys and it's still going. But it's mega-success would mean nothing if it weren't an album worth remembering. The reason people connected so strongly to Breakaway is because it is a work of brilliance. Kelly Clarkson fills song after song with euphoric hooks and staggering heartbreak, bearing her soul for the first time in her music. The world connected to Breakaway as a place to simultaneously experience tremendous music and their own emotional catharses, and it has survived as a gold standard in contemporary pop.
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VOTE OFF ONE
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OFF:
Flashing Lights - Rihanna "Loud"
The awesome album Loud deserves to have a longer & more specific review 
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Originally posted by simon2011
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Flashing Lights - Rihanna "Loud"
The awesome album Loud deserves to have a longer & more specific review
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is that "review" a joke? 
+1 Off: Flashing Lights - Rihanna "Loud"
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Member Since: 3/30/2009
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OFF:
Rihanna - Loud 
And that's not her best album, he should have picked "Good Girl Gone Bad" or "Rated R."
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Bump.
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I say Loud, as well. Keep the votes coming in.
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ATRL Moderator
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ATRL Moderator
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Bump! Let's finish this game.
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Member Since: 3/18/2008
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Loud 
Duca your description of In The Zone
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SEMI-FINAL / Album
YOUR TOP 3! 
1. Christina Aguilera
2. Kelly Clarkson
3. Britney Spears
 Eliminated
1. Pedro - Jessica Simpson
2. fiercE - Jason Mraz
3. KT&T - Shayne Ward *
4. remeese - Adam Lambert
5. Golden Trigger - Beyoncé
6. Mickey - Utada Hikaru
7. Satellites - Whitney Houston *
8. Joao - Darin *
9. Beatfreak - Black Eyed Peas
10. Music - Girls Aloud
11. Hellohello - Ke$ha
12. MusicLoverDude - Cascada
13. Ivan - Coldplay
14. Mr.Link - Kylie Minogue
15. Jake - Katy Perry
16. Amanda - Alanis Morisette
17. BeamMeUp - Usher
18. qwerty22 - P!nk
19. Flashing Lights - Rihanna
*Did not submit
Thanks for playing! 
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FINAL ROUND / Grand Finale
It's that time! This time, you'll have two things to submit: a song that you feel represents your artist's career the best, and then list why you chose this artist.[/B]
YOUTUBE LINK DUE BY SUNDAY
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ALMOST THERE.
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