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Poll: Is Britney the most influental female artist since 1998?
View Poll Results: Is Britney the most influental female artist since 1998?
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Yes, she is
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No
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Originally posted by jomarr
But Blackout is the most influential pop album of the last 5 years (2007-2012) and Hold It Against Me started a little trend in Pop Music back in 2011
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Little trend??? Madonna, Justin bieber, Taylor swift, Kesha, some Kpop bands .... Use it. And most of those songs are hits
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Originally posted by B2R4D
I don't think anyone wants to be "exactly" like Britney like they do with Madonna, but that doesn't mean she's not influential. Her influence was more profound in inspiring female artists to strive for those "big" moments that people will remember in popular culture. The music videos, the performances - everything on a large scale. Britney kind of took what Madonna did in terms of passion and moulded it towards her own artistry.
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Spot on!
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only in brtiney stans world. Britney has been a non factor in the industry since 2008. Gaga influences all the new pop girls today. Brit was knocked oout of the game long time ago.
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Originally posted by Hotshot
only in brtiney stans world. Britney has been a non factor in the industry since 2008. Gaga influences all the new pop girls today. Brit was knocked oout of the game long time ago.
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Tell that to Blackout and Hold It Against Me
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Yes!! Yes Yes!!!
She is the bigegst artist from the last 15 years!!
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Originally posted by Hotshot
only in brtiney stans world. Britney has been a non factor in the industry since 2008. Gaga influences all the new pop girls today. Brit was knocked oout of the game long time ago.
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Most of her #1 songs have been since 2008.
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Originally posted by Hotshot
only in brtiney stans world. Britney has been a non factor in the industry since 2008. Gaga influences all the new pop girls today. Brit was knocked oout of the game long time ago.
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Comments like this really confuse me because of MANY reasons.
* Britney has had the most single success in her whole career since 2008
* She was an artist on one of the biggest singles of 2012/13
* She was a judge on XFUSA
* She has been nominated for many awards and won many since then
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Originally posted by Hotshot
only in brtiney stans world. Britney has been a non factor in the industry since 2008. Gaga influences all the new pop girls today. Brit was knocked oout of the game long time ago.
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Since 2008 Britney has:
- 4 No1 singles that 2 of them debuted at No1
- 2 No1 albums and one no2 album
- Blackout is the most important album of the last 5 years
- soldout tour Circus which grossed 131M WW and hit tour Femme Fatale tour
- highest paid female musician of 2012
- Michael Jackson Vanguard award
Your fav has non of these
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Potentially, but people are/were influenced by the old Britney. Nobody has taken influence from Britney after Blackout...and even that's a stretch. Save me the dubstep bs
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Originally posted by gagakyle
Potentially, but people are/were influenced by the old Britney. Nobody has taken influence from Britney after Blackout...and even that's a stretch. Save me the dubstep bs
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Ask Gaga ... She said she loves Sonetimes and Piece of Me. Sometimes was released pre-breakdown. Piece of Me was released during Blackout era.
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It is a fact and not up to debate.
/thread
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Yes. Pretty much everyone has listed Britney as inspiration (Lana, Gaga, Selena, Miley, Rihanna, etc.) are ones who are selling millions of records. Other girls are praised by people who don't have much a career. I noticed it with those who claim Beyonce' (Brandy, Kelly Rowland, Nicole S., etc.)
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BYE
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Yes. "Britney Spears" is the standard Pop Princess. Nobody wants to be like Lady Gaga.
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Originally posted by gagakyle
Potentially, but people are/were influenced by the old Britney. Nobody has taken influence from Britney after Blackout...and even that's a stretch. Save me the dubstep bs
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How is Blackout being influential a stretch?
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Britney Spears' critically acclaimed 2007 album Blackout has not only topped a million in sales but it is now the pop star's only album to be added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's music library and archives. The Hall developed the archive to be the "most comprehensive repository of materials relating to the history of rock and roll … in order to broaden awareness and understanding of rock and roll, its roots, and its impact on our society."
The Celebrity Café reported earlier today (June 13) that the album was added to the archive this month, so we reached out to the Hall of Fame to get the details on the acquisition.
"We purchased that CD a few months ago as part of a project involving the acquisition of the most critically acclaimed albums of the past couple of decades," Andy Leach, director of Library and Archives at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, tells MTV News via email.
Leach cited the album's appearance on Rolling Stone's list of the top 50 albums of 2007 as the reason it ended up on the Rock Hall's list of album's to acquire and archive.
Esteem for the album, which was released during a particularly turbulent time in Spears' life that culminated a few months after Blackout's release with the singer being physically removed from her home by police, placed in an ambulance and escorted to the UCLA Medical Center, has grown in the years since its release.
In a 2010 blog post talking about Spears' demo of Lady Gaga's "Telephone" (the song was originally written for Spears and was recorded by Gaga only after she decided against using it), Rolling Stone paid the album a very big compliment, writing, "People love to make fun of Britney, and why not, but if 'Telephone' proves anything, it's that Blackout may be the most influential pop album of the past five years."
It seems the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame seems to agree.
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Britney Spears' Blackout Added To The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Music Library
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While a more complete demo told only part of the story Monday, legions of Britney Spears fans have no doubt spent the better part of Tuesday morning (January 1) reveling in Brit Brit's return with her new single, "Hold It Against Me," which was made available for download at midnight.
Dubstep Producer Skrillex Comments On Britney Spears' 'Hold It Against Me'
In many ways, Ms. Spears has served up a jam in line with popular music's current craze, EDM (electronic dance music), but make no mistake, "Against Me" is a hard-hitting thumper of a pop electro-house tune. What's especially unique about the Dr. Luke- and Max Martin-produced single is that, in typical trailblazing fashion, Spears has saluted the dance music world by including a section of dubstep in the surefire radio hit.
About 2:20 into the song, the track slips into a simple dubstep break with Spears calling out, "Gimme something good/ Don't want to wait, I want it now/ Drop it like a hood, and show me how you work it out."
Already, less than 24 hours after the song's official release, some are questioning whether Spears has hammered a nail into dubstep's coffin. Some of underground EDM's purist fans are worried that Spears has watered down their guarded and beloved art form.
But the current prince of dubstep told MTV News he thinks Spears is doing a great thing for the genre, even though he isn't in love with the section used in "Against Me."
"The more the stuff that is underground becomes mainstream, the more the underground is gonna change," Skrillex explained Monday. "I think it's gonna inspire people to obviously do something different."
Los Angeles-based Skrillex, born Sonny Moore, has a background in the post-hardcore metal scene, but in the past two years, has achieved popular success in the EDM world. He signed with deadmau5's mau5trap records and, toward the end of 2010, released a slew of dubstep singles that topped beatport.com's chart, even holding eight positions on the dance-music site's top 10 at one point.
"I thought the track ["Against Me"] was great overall," the face of popular new dubstep said. "I'll be honest, man: I love Max Martin. I think he's an absolute genius. And Dr. Luke did it, right? I think they are a f---ing dream team. I love the track!
"I thought the dubstep part was unnecessary," he continued. "Not to say it was done wrong. I feel like it was very self-aware and consciously put in there to be 'the dubstep part.' I can see a lot of people getting pissed about it — the purist dubstep and drum and bass fans — but at the end of the day, it's cool that people are trying new things. Sooner or later, anything that happens in the underground — be it watered down or not — it always makes itself into the mainstream. It's cool to hear."
To Spears' credit, Skrillex, who it would seem couldn't come from a more opposite musical background than Spears, spoke of her legacy.
"I really respect her," he admitted. "From being a Mouseketeer to all the controversial stuff and to all the stuff she has been through. She does have an incredible legacy and an incredible story. The fact that she is still making records just says a lot."
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Britney Spears' 'Hold It Against Me' Is 'Gonna Inspire People,' Skrillex Says
She's like so influential like
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A CD being added to a library =/=influence
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Originally posted by Sexy ****
No.
But Gaga is the most influential artist of the decade
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That's sad and it's a shame that he is banned.
britney's impact having other base members banned. Wow
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Originally posted by the floacist
No. Beyonce and Gaga.
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Beyonce is not an influenced in pop...r&b definitely but she has less than a handful of pop culture moments. The fact that you said gaga...I mean Rihanna is more influential than gaga
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Originally posted by jomarr
But Blackout is the most influential pop album of the last 5 years (2007-2012) and Hold It Against Me started a little trend in Pop Music back in 2011
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Originally posted by Gangsta4alife
Aretha Franklin
Whitney Houston
Mariah Carey
Janet Jackson
etc...... Disagree
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Beyonce fans doing the most. This thread is from 1998-present. Tell me what Aretha, Whitney and Janet did for you to say that. At least Mariah had We belong together still. This is not about all time so the whole Madonna thing too is funny.
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Originally posted by jomarr
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One of her many examples.
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Yes.
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Madonna, Janet, Mariah, Grace Jones, Courtney Love and Whitney are the greatest influence i can name atm , they sure influenced me
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