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Post by CammyCan on Mar 25, 2008 1:44:36 GMT -5
I'm actually surprised no one has asked this before (or maybe I'm wrong lol) since these two albums have a lot of parallels, at least IMO.
FS/LS was helmed largely by Timbaland, Blackout was produced mostly by Timbaland's protégé Danja, and both have a large emphasis on a more synthesized and electronic sounding pop. Which do you prefer?
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Post by The Visionary Vantage™ on Mar 25, 2008 2:24:34 GMT -5
Oh wow! It IS SO CLOSE for me, but I have to go with Blackout. There are a few songs on FS/LS that are better than anything on Blackout but I love pretty much all of Blackout, where as I can do fine without listening to like 5 songs on FS/LS.
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Post by **βécky**™ on Mar 25, 2008 3:49:02 GMT -5
OH MY, both of these are amazing. But i have to give the edge to Blackout, with the same reasons that Will just mentioned.
Justin + Britney = <333
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Post by Positive Tension on Mar 25, 2008 6:00:52 GMT -5
Blackout. I love the whole CD and think all of the songs are of about equal quality.
I loved half of FutureSex/LoveSounds- the second part of the CD was meh to me, and overplay ruined "WGACA" and "Lovestoned" for me.
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Post by carriefan0209 on Mar 25, 2008 7:54:27 GMT -5
Blackout.
I always thought Justin's songs were too long with all those interludes and what not. I absolutely abhor "What Goes Around" simply because it takes 6 minutes of my freakin radio time in the car.
Plus ITS BRITNEY BITCH beats IM BRINGIN SEXYBACK anyday
However another parallel is both sound like girls! (I thought Sexyback was a new Madonna song or something rofl)
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Post by Adonis the DemiGod! on Mar 25, 2008 8:25:10 GMT -5
Blackout
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Post by Kal-El on Mar 25, 2008 8:35:46 GMT -5
FSLS is by FAR the superior album.
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Post by freakyflybry2 on Mar 25, 2008 9:14:02 GMT -5
It's gotta be "Blackout" for me... "FutureSex/LoveSounds" is rather inconsistent for me.
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Post by ETERNAL BRITNEY on Mar 25, 2008 9:45:18 GMT -5
BLACKOUT is better than FS/LS.
1.- BRITNEY . . . . . . . . . . . Justin
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Post by PaNdeM0niuM! on Mar 25, 2008 20:34:11 GMT -5
justin = michael jackson wannabe.
Britney's album is far superior.
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Post by Pulse on Mar 25, 2008 20:46:18 GMT -5
FSLS is by FAR the superior album.
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Post by hearthemusic11 on Mar 26, 2008 1:22:16 GMT -5
Blackout definitely. There really aren't any bad or horrible songs on Blackout. Even the worst song (WSIBS) is pleasant. FS/LS on the other hand has some bombs on the second half of the album. It also gets very tiring. Blackout is a fun album to let run through all the way.
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Post by Love Plastic Love on Mar 26, 2008 2:16:18 GMT -5
I LOVE both. I think I give a slight nod to FSLS because it seems like Justin was a lot more involved in the music, the process to create the music/album, and the image. But...there are obvious reasons why Britney was not
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Post by monuda89 on Mar 26, 2008 8:42:36 GMT -5
Justin
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Post by jrnleblanc on Mar 26, 2008 10:44:47 GMT -5
Blackout by a long shot.
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Post by Monroe on Mar 26, 2008 21:27:07 GMT -5
Blackout by an embarrassing lead.
I think the greatest cuts from "Future Sex/Love Sounds" are the singles. "Sexyback", "My Love", "What Goes Around Comes Around", "Summer Love" and "Love Stoned" are all strong singles and are all strong pop contenders. All of them show a level of commercialism and good quality. Justin does a good performance in his songs. However the rest of the album is trite, uninspired, limited and generic. "Chop Me Up", "Sexy Ladies", "Until The End of Time" and the disaster called "Losing My Way" are all prime notes of this. There are also moments in which we find Timberlake to be insincere, and heavy handed during these songs. So I am unable to choose FS/LS over Blackout for these reasons.
Blackout however is a work of pop/dance/electronic artistry. It never fails and it always offers the listener something different in terms of variety. It plays to Britney's strengthens and is a solid work that embellishes all of Britney's strength which has always been her charisma and her adventurous versatility into different genres of music. The album offers strong dance cuts like "Gimme More", "Radar" and "Break The Ice" while also offer introspective songs like "Piece Of Me" and "Why Should I Be Sad". It also offers versatility in the forms of "Get Naked", "Freakshow" and "Toy Solider". It also offers a nice change of pace and gives on fluffy love ballads to keep the album from sounding like a hard dance album with the pieces of "Ooh Ooh Baby" and "Heaven On Earth". This album has everything and above all the record sounds realistic and sincere. We don't doubt Spears portrayal and performance in these works because she sounds the part. We can easily see her in these roles and her performance is charismatic and she delivers the hooks with ease and grace. Compare this to Justin's performance in his album and he comes off looking desperate, insincere and like he has no idea what he is talking about. Justin most likely has no clue about a crack addiction, loss of ones self or the darkness one would feel after being on top of the world to being a nobody.
Britney wins hands down in terms of quality, believability, performance, versatility and overall freshness. None of the songs on Blackout burn out. I can't say the same for FS/LS.
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Post by hearthemusic11 on Mar 26, 2008 22:29:41 GMT -5
Yeah the wannabe factor on JT's album is something I forgot to mention on my post. It was also sorta a problem with his first solo record as well. I can't listen to his music over and over very long because it just isn't very genuine to me.
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Post by CammyCan on Mar 27, 2008 0:44:23 GMT -5
I'm going to go with FS/LS. I love Blackout, it was one of my favorite albums last year, but I just feel like its the equivalent of a soda. Tastes good while you're drinking it in, but after its done, its really just empty calories. Blackout is fun, no doubt...but nothing else. FS/LS, while no where near perfection, just satisfies me in a way Blackout can't. I really don't know where skin is coming from when they say Britney sounds sincere, it seems to me that Blackout is her least genuine album by far. She sounds like a robot half the time, hardly what I would call emotion. Justin sounds like a Michael/Prince imitator sometimes on FS/LS, but he still conveys actual emotion on the songs that call for it, and has a fun attitude on the songs that call for that. Maybe when she's "whole" again, Britney can accomplish that. For now, Justin takes this round.
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Post by Monroe on Mar 27, 2008 18:28:45 GMT -5
I'll disagree again. lol.
I say Britney sounds sincere because she can easily play the role of a woman who wants to have fun, is enamored by a man or is fed up with fame. She easily plays the roles and I never doubt what she is singing about. She sounds like she has lived threw all of these things and she sounds each and every bit as the character/person she is portraying. Her performance on Blackout is spot on and it hits all of the emotional notes it is supposed to. She doesn't sound trite or contrived (ala Timberlake) when she sings about falling in love in Heaven On Earth it is believable, when she sings about flirting with a guy in Ooh Ooh Baby we believe it, when she sings about seducing a man in Radar it's believable, when she sings about everyone following her and looking at her every move in Gimme More and Piece of Me it's not a falsehood. She sounds sincere, charismatic and she sells it all to the hilt.
Timberlake sounds forced, contrived and like he is protesting too much. When someone talks about Sex, sex and more sex it makes it sound like they're not getting it rather then they're getting a lot of it. Yes Spears album has a lot of talk about sex but it's subtle. It isn't as in your face as Timberlake. If you just look at the track list you see what one means. You have the first three song titles with the word "sex" in it while Timberlake doesn't even sound sincere in his seduction. He sounds cold and calculative and formulaic. Like he is painting by numbers it's not organic or natural (like when Spears coo's "I'm going to blow your mind") it sounds trite and uninspired like he is looking for something to follow.
I don't believe him in his love songs either. I don't buy his performance on Until The End Of Time, Losing My Way or Another Song All Over Again. It all sounds uninspired and tired. A role of clitche's littered into slow songs in an attempt to feign love feelings. I don't believe his deep love. It's much easier to swallow Spears infatuation in Heaven on Earth then it is to believe his endless dribble during the end of FSLS
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2008 18:52:54 GMT -5
It's gotta be "Blackout" for me... "FutureSex/LoveSounds" is rather inconsistent for me. I agree that FSLS is very inconsistent, but it's high points are good enough to make me vote for it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2008 0:20:53 GMT -5
Both albums are very good. Blackout has only a few skippable tracks, but I pretty much liked every song on FS/LS.
FS/LS gets my vote
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Post by 4 Minutes to be a Legend on Mar 28, 2008 0:29:29 GMT -5
Only on pulse will you ever find an album that spawned 3 #1 singles and sold 8 million copies losing to an album that was released by an artist going through a public meltdown and sold 2 million copies.
Honestly, female singer biaseness aside (cause this board is all about female singers), 'FutureSex/LoveSound' was a great hip pop record. It made Justin relevant as the dominant pop artist of the decade. 'Blackout' was nothing more than left over FSLS and Loose tracks. Justin started the trend, Britney borrowed it (or rather Britney's producers did as it's obvious Britney had nothing to do with the production of this album).
Lets comare the singles...
SexyBack vs Gimme More: They are both good tracks, but SexyBack became a pop culture phenomenon and made Timbaland the hottest producer on the block (i know Promiscuous came out first, but SexyBack was more recognized as a Timbaland original. 'Gimme More' is a good song, but now it's mostly associated with that VMA performance.
My Love vs. Piece of Me: The winner here is 'My Love,' another great song by Timberlake. The melody is just right. Britneys song is like 'Overprotected' and 'My Prerogative' put together. It was nothing new for her.
What Goes Around vs. Break the Ice: I will give this one to Britney. It is a brilliant track and should've served as the 1st single, but mistakes happen. To me WGACA was the blandest single released off of his album. Nothing but a Cry Me A River copycat, and i hate copycats.
As for the rest....we have 'Summer Love' 'Lovestoned' 'Chop Me Up' 'Sexy Ladies' which are all more superior than 'Radar' 'Hot As Ice' 'Get Naked' and 'Toy Soldier'. Although 'Radar' is really the best of these rests...the other ones drag down the album.
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Post by hearthemusic11 on Mar 28, 2008 0:38:08 GMT -5
Just was the first to start using electro/synthy pop sounds? No. And BTW, "Loose" came out before FS/LS so it wouldn't have been Justin who started the trend anyways if we're giving Timbaland sole credit for that since HE is the reason for the sound on both Nelly and Justin's records.
Justin was responsible for the sound on his album? No. (Obviously it was mostly or all Timbaland/Danja)
Chart success is the basis for determining how good an album is quality-wise? No.
And FS/LS made Justin the dominant male pop artist of 2006/2007 but how is that such a huge accomplishment when there basically are NO other solo male pop artists out right now really? Well actually Usher could be considered poppy. His album sold a lot more than Justin's and had several #1 hits and he has already proven he could follow that right up with more #1 hits. Justin has yet to prove that. And look at what happened to Kelly Clarkson, it's not a given.
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Post by CammyCan on Mar 28, 2008 0:39:39 GMT -5
Just was the first to start using electro/synthy pop sounds? No. Justin was responsible for the sound on his album? No. (Obviously it was mostly or all Timbaland/Danja) Justin co-produces all his songs, and every producer he has worked with says he plays many of the instruments that are on his tracks.
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Post by hearthemusic11 on Mar 28, 2008 0:42:37 GMT -5
Just because you play an instrument does not mean you come up with anything else. You could just be given the sheet music.
And technically Beyonce "co-wrote" Irreplaceable and well we now know how much input she actually had with that. How can Justin be given the credit for the sound of his album when that sound has been reproduced in a lot of other places (most notably "Loose" which was released before FS/LS) and the only similar factor is TIMBALAND.
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Post by 4 Minutes to be a Legend on Mar 28, 2008 0:44:28 GMT -5
Just because you play an instrument does not mean you come up with anything else. You could just be given the sheet music. And technically Beyonce "co-wrote" Irreplaceable and well we now know how much input she actually had with that. How can Justin be given the credit for the sound of his album when that sound has been reproduced in a lot of other places (most notably "Loose" which was released before FS/LS) and the only similar factor is TIMBALAND. If Justin wasn't greatly involved with the production of his album, then why is he doing side projects with 50 Cent and Madonna? It's obvious Timbaland & Timbo are partners in crime.
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Post by CammyCan on Mar 28, 2008 0:45:45 GMT -5
LOL, Loose is probably one of my favorite albums of all time, and I don't think it sounds like FS/LS AT ALL. Other than Timbaland being a major producer on both, they have no connections. And why would every single producer, songwriter, etc. say that Justin had huge input in production and the general sound (and since he gets production and songwriting credit on each song, he's obviously a major contributer) if he did not?
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Post by hearthemusic11 on Mar 28, 2008 0:46:05 GMT -5
How does him now being best friends with Timbaland and doing vocals on some of Timbaland's side projects prove he was responsible for the sound of his album or even those other side projects?
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Post by hearthemusic11 on Mar 28, 2008 0:51:29 GMT -5
LOL, Loose is probably one of my favorite albums of all time, and I don't think it sounds like FS/LS AT ALL. Other than Timbaland being a major producer on both, they have no connections. And why would every single producer, songwriter, etc. say that Justin had huge input in production and the general sound (and since he gets production and songwriting credit on each song, he's obviously a major contributer) if he did not? "Loose" doesn't sound like FS/LS at all? Really? Listen to "Promiscuous" then listen to "FutureSex/LoveSound" (the song) for starters. I'm not saying Justin isn't involved at all in the production but it's obvious FS/LS's sound was basically crafted by Timbaland since he has had some many people work with him by now that they all sound very familiar with some rare exceptions. So did Timbaland steal Justin's master plan for the new pop sound and then just reproduce it with everyone else he worked with? I highly doubt it. I don't even really like Timbaland that much but I still know who to give credit for for crafting the sound of FS/LS, Loose, etc.
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Post by CammyCan on Mar 28, 2008 0:55:54 GMT -5
No one said it was Justin's "master plan" and that the production was all his idea, but they worked on it together. Timbaland has said it numerous times that Justin had equal input in production, how is that not enough. The producer HIMSELF is saying that Justin had equal input. And it's not even just Timbaland, Will.I.Am has said the same, Pharrell has said the same, Brian McKnight, even Rick Ruben. I'm really not trying to be combative, and I respect your opinion, but I don't really see how people can discredit Justin's work. What more do you want?
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