I'm not reading this. Just know the general public doesn't acknowledge Femme Fatale as dubstep but as dance pop. The same way they acknowledge Annimal, Cannibal, and to a lesser extent Teenage Dream.
Yeah, thankfully the critics acknowledge its "sleekly produced, seductive sound."
It's sill that high with more reviews than Animal and Teenage Dream.
I'm not. I love Beyoncé regardless of how one-dimensional she is. And 4 is brilliant, her best album yet.
You may love Beyonce, but you love Britney so much more that you you say things so delusional and make it hard to have any sort of productive debate. You calling her "one-dimensional" proves that. I'm not going to post ridiculous flamebait just to defend my fave against things I know are not true.
It packs a heavier beat than anything out on the charts does. It's as musically brutal and as adventurous as it gets, and by far the most aggressive or even assaultive beat on the radio right now. It’s definitely not the prime representative of the genre, but the fact remains that Britney is the first artist to introduce dubstep to the mainstream radio, which is coming from an artist of her caliber quite an accomplishment.
Still setting trends after thirteen years.
The problem I've always had with this is that HIAM was a weak performer compared to her other songs, it hasn't really set a precedent for successful integration of dubstep in pop and the dubstep breakdown is the worst part of the entire song (and most people can't even identify which part of the song IS the dubstep breakdown, which is sad in itself).
If it was so influential and so successfully carried out, then it would have performed so much more poorly than her subsequent singles which lacked the strong influences. HIAM is probably one of my two favorite songs on the album, though.
I'm not reading this. Just know the general public doesn't acknowledge Femme Fatale as dubstep but as dance pop. The same way they acknowledge Annimal, Cannibal, and to a lesser extent Teenage Dream.
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Yeah, thankfully the critics acknowledge its "sleekly produced, seductive sound."
It's sill that high with more reviews than Animal and Teenage Dream.
The problem I've always had with this is that HIAM was a weak performer compared to her other songs, it hasn't really set a precedent for successful integration of dubstep in pop and the dubstep breakdown is the worst part of the entire song (and most people can't even identify which part of the song IS the dubstep breakdown, which is sad in itself).
In YOUR opinion.
Most people list the breakdown as one of the best parts of song.
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On top of that, it doesn't really appeal to any dubstep crowd. You either have the dubstep kids into the ambient, dark dub of artists like Burial and James Blake or you have the mainstream obsessed dubs looking for the sickest, nastiest dub beat out there while working on their own ****** productions at home. I've just seen no real reaction to Britney's pop dubstep, aside from massive over-acknowledgement on this site.
I mean, the song was like Born This Way in that it came and fell swiftly: the only problem was that it came weaker, got spun less, reached less audience, sold less copies, hardly hit #1 anywhere and wasn't as acclaimed.
HIAM hit #1 in 8 countries and top 10 in 13 others. It may not have been as successful it should have, but it was still a hit, and a record breaking and setting one at that.
And HIAM is more experimental than Born this way as well...
The problem I've always had with this is that HIAM was a weak performer compared to her other songs, it hasn't really set a precedent for successful integration of dubstep in pop and the dubstep breakdown is the worst part of the entire song (and most people can't even identify which part of the song IS the dubstep breakdown, which is sad in itself).
I mean, the song was like Born This Way in that it came and fell swiftly: the only problem was that it came weaker, got spun less, reached less audience, sold less copies, hardly hit #1 anywhere and wasn't as acclaimed.
Promotion. Gaga promoted during the release week. Hold It Against Me was performed for the first time three months after its release. Britney didn't make any appearances or do any interviews; it was "promoted" through Twitter.
The dubstep bridge and the last, rave chorus are the best parts of the song. The video edit of the bridge >>>>>>>
Most people list the breakdown as one of the best parts of song.
Most people on here might have. I'm not sure I've ever heard a pop listener in person tell me the same. On top of that, I can't help but suspect that there is a correlation between the fact that her singles without dubstep breakdowns were more successful, despite not having the hype of being lead singles.
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HIAM hit #1 in 8 countries and top 10 in 13 others. It may not have been as successful it should have, but it was still a hit, and a record breaking and setting one at that.
And HIAM is more experimental than Born this way as well...
I have nothing to say about the last line of this; you may assume what you wish. As far as it hitting #1 in 8 countries, it debuted there and quickly died off almost everywhere. In fact, that's why I drew the Born This Way comparison, because it's everyone's favorite criticism of the song's success.
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And it was more acclaimed than Born This Way.
Less scrutinized, maybe. More acclaimed, hardly. Yes, it was received well.
don't mean to interrupt your talk but FYI the song sold 400k in three days and broke radio records before Gaga started promoting. Actually before she even tweeted that she has a new single out