Britney Spears: Artist Discussion

[Juan Carlos]

Giorgio Moroder was interviewed by the Official Charts and he said the following about working with Britney:

"With Britney, I still have to work with her. We started with the main part [of the song] but I've added a bridge to it, so as soon as she's free we have to finish that.

She's difficult to get in contact with! One thing I noticed is that the singers themselves are so involved these days. One of the problems with working with Britney is that now she's so busy - for example she's in Vegas - and she has contracts that say she can't do certain things. She cannot do a video because of I don't know exactly what. It's different from the way I used to work."

O. So, the song isn't finished yet and I guess this may not be a single

And he said the following about how the collaboration came about:

"I spoke to her on the phone. She called me and told me she wanted to do the song – it was her idea and she wanted to do it together in the studio, but unfortunately I was in Europe.

I heard the track and I only changed a little bit – she did a good job with it actually. I hope she finds the time to do the little bridge – it's just eight bars. I'm going to meet her soon and tell her!"

[BOBO]

[Living Legend]

Britney just won 3 reader voted polls on Billboard.

#1 Best Song of the 2010s...so far (Till The World Ends)
#1 Best Video of the 2010s...so far (Work Bit*h)
#1 Defining Artists of the 2010s...so far

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6450769/britney-spears-rules-best-of-2010s-so-far-readers-poll

[think pink.]

My queen choosing my other queen. #Queens

https://vine.co/v/OIj3xMmV1O3

[think pink.]

[Juan Carlos]

A little bit of nostalgia. This happened 15 years ago in the UK. Great! I feel old now.

From the Official Charts:

Teenage sensation Britney Spears sees off the Manic Street Preachers to score her second Number 1 with her fourth single, a true fan favourite.

Oh baby, baby, how were we supposed to know that the new millennium would belong to Britney Spears? Well, the clues were always there, really, what with her debut single "...Baby One More Time" being the bestselling song of 1999 and passing a million sales in just five weeks.

We didn't have to wait too long for a second chart-topper from Britney, but the song that made it was a little bit of a surprise. "Born to Make You Happy" was the fourth single from Britney's debut album, and didn't even get a worldwide release – "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" was the single in other countries.

For every song that gets to Number 1, there has to be a song that gets the boot, and this week it was Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers who had to make way for Britney. The band had scored their second chart-topper with "The Masses Against the Classes", but after just a week they were well and truly Speared and Britney took her place at the summit.

"Born to Make You Happy" is something of a forgotten Britney Number 1, overshadowed, perhaps by bigger singles that came after it, including chart-toppers "Oops!...I Did It Again" and "Toxic". And while "Born to Make You Happy" stayed at the top for just a week before Gabrielle's "Rise" came along, nobody can take that Number 1 status away from it.

"Born to Make You Happy" has sold over 335,000 copies in the UK, and was the second of six Number 1 singles for Britney. Her most recent was "Scream & Shout" with will.i.am.

Britney's top selling single is, of course, "...Baby One More Time", which shifted 1.4 million copies in 1999 alone.

Anyway, "Born to Make You Happy" is one of my favourite songs from ...Baby One More Time, along the title track, "Deep In My Heart" and "Autumn Goodbye", and I'm still pissed off it didn't have a US release, mainly because my local radio station decided to spin "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" instead, despite it was 'technically' a single here

[PrinceAli89]

"Born To Make You Happy" is just flawless. It's a shame it didn't get the full "single treatment" in the US as well.

[Marooned@Midnight]

BTMYH would have smashed in the US as well. It was the first of many single choice gaffes to come, but I would say is probably the biggest miss of them all. <3

And that perfect video! Aaarrrgg what were they thinking!

[Deleted]

BTMYH is one of those I really wish she'd randomly perform again her next tour. The BTMYH "remix" is even better imo.

[Ginger Spice]

I'd die for a "Born to Make You Happy" performance. The lyrics are very adolescent, but then again so are the lyrics to most of the songs she still performs from that time period, so I don't think that would matter much.

[Marooned@Midnight]

Jan 25, 2015 20:55:56 GMT -5 @aaront said:

BTMYH is one of those I really wish she'd randomly perform again her next tour. The BTMYH "remix" is even better imo.

I agree. I mostly only use the remix. It improved an already almost perfect song. Makes it pack more of a punch.

[Ginger Spice]

If we're talking about the remix from the CD single, I believe that was the original demo of the song? I heard that somewhere, though I'm not sure if it's actually true. It wouldn't surprise me, given it's basically just a stripped down version of the original.

[Marooned@Midnight]

Jan 26, 2015 1:07:11 GMT -5 Ginger Spice said:

If we're talking about the remix from the CD single, I believe that was the original demo of the song? I heard that somewhere, though I'm not sure if it's actually true. It wouldn't surprise me, given it's basically just a stripped down version of the original.

It is from the cd single, but it doesn't sound like a demo at all to me. It sounds more like the what they did to Crazy with the stop remix. Bigger notes, more vocal inflections, heavier music. I always assumed it was a US radio edit, but plans changed.

[skizzo]

Yeah I dont know wth they were thinking to not release it worldwide. I think it would've been an easy US top 10 for her.

[#brayden]

"Born To Make You Happy" has always been one of my favorite songs from her debut album. Looking back it kind of seems like it would have been a more obvious choice than "FTBOMBH" for the US & Canada. Since we're talking about songs from her debut, I'd like to point out that "I Will Be There" is also awesome / one of my favorites.

[think pink.]

"Kyle" the reliable Britney source had some things to say.

-Britney isn't covering ''Call Me''.

-We will find the name of the song she's covering soon, the song is different for Britney and it was 100% her idea, it's not disco influenced.

-He doesn't know if the song is going to be a single.

-And as for the Iggy collab he said ''Some female "rappers" opened their mouth before they should have. I'll leave it at that.''

-He said that ''timing for some of the plans has shifted, but not by much''.

-Also about the Superbow he said ''we can all dream, can't we?''.

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A) God bless Iggy getting scrapped.
B) Glad it's not 'Call Me', she can't pull that off.

Everything else was vague as hell, but I'm not sure he's at liberty to be too specific.

[MiniMusic]

LMFAO please tell me Iggy was literally dropped from the song

[Keelzit]

Jan 27, 2015 12:41:19 GMT -5 @touch said:

B) Glad it's not 'Call Me', she can't pull that off.

I creamed when I saw that the rumored cover would be Eric Prydz's song but then I realized that that anthem is called Call On Me and is also not that old. Not to mention that if she were to cover a song called Call On Me it'd probably be Janet's song so there goes my dream. #randomestthoughtever

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Prolly just my crazy little psychotic mind, but, it seems stupid to scrap a song/collab/whatever just because Iggy revealed it was being done. It's not like she gave away a lot of details about the song or anything. Seems like a waste to cancel it just because it's not a "surprise" anymore. If it has in fact been scrapped, or if her part has been cut, its because it wasn't very good. Just my two cents.

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Jan 27, 2015 19:32:13 GMT -5 @aaront said:

Prolly just my crazy little psychotic mind, but, it seems stupid to scrap a song/collab/whatever just because Iggy revealed it was being done. It's not like she gave away a lot of details about the song or anything. Seems like a waste to cancel it just because it's not a "surprise" anymore. If it has in fact been scrapped, or if her part has been cut, its because it wasn't very good. Just my two cents.

I thought he meant that her team hadn't decided if they wanted to use the song or not yet, but Iggy got ahead of herself by assuming they were and the ultimately decided not to. I don't think anybody assumed it was because she spoke too early.

[Eqbk]

Her team opting out of using the Iggy collab wouldn't be too surprising. Similar situations like this have happened in the past to producers.

[kanimal]

Jan 27, 2015 19:32:13 GMT -5 @aaront said:

Prolly just my crazy little psychotic mind, but, it seems stupid to scrap a song/collab/whatever just because Iggy revealed it was being done. It's not like she gave away a lot of details about the song or anything. Seems like a waste to cancel it just because it's not a "surprise" anymore. If it has in fact been scrapped, or if her part has been cut, its because it wasn't very good. Just my two cents.

The bold is right.

Iggy does have a history of being overzealous in making announcements (she reported her song was #1 before Billboard did, she confirmed she was on the AMAs before ABC did, etc), and I'm sure that rubs some marketers the wrong way.  But if the song was a guaranteed hit, there's no way it would be held back from release because the surprise "leaked" (when leaking the surprise, if anything, served to build anticipation).

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Jan 27, 2015 22:10:51 GMT -5 kanimal said:

Jan 27, 2015 19:32:13 GMT -5 @aaront said:

Prolly just my crazy little psychotic mind, but, it seems stupid to scrap a song/collab/whatever just because Iggy revealed it was being done. It's not like she gave away a lot of details about the song or anything. Seems like a waste to cancel it just because it's not a "surprise" anymore. If it has in fact been scrapped, or if her part has been cut, its because it wasn't very good. Just my two cents.

The bold is right.

Iggy does have a history of being overzealous in making announcements (she reported her song was #1 before Billboard did, she confirmed she was on the AMAs before ABC did, etc), and I'm sure that rubs some marketers the wrong way.  But if the song was a guaranteed hit, there's no way it would be held back from release because the surprise "leaked" (when leaking the surprise, if anything, served to build anticipation).

There was no build of anticipation. Initial reactions to the possible collaboration were negative due to Iggy's controversial public image right now. I'm inclined to believe the track wasn't very good too, but her team is smarter than they're given credit. They could've seen the potential backlash if the public response to Iggy continues to trend more and more negatively.

The only thing that got people excited was that Iggy basically confirmed new Britney music was coming, which we hadn't known before.

[kanimal]

Jan 27, 2015 23:06:26 GMT -5 @touch said:

Jan 27, 2015 22:10:51 GMT -5 kanimal said:

The bold is right.

Iggy does have a history of being overzealous in making announcements (she reported her song was #1 before Billboard did, she confirmed she was on the AMAs before ABC did, etc), and I'm sure that rubs some marketers the wrong way.  But if the song was a guaranteed hit, there's no way it would be held back from release because the surprise "leaked" (when leaking the surprise, if anything, served to build anticipation).

There was no build of anticipation. Initial reactions to the possible collaboration were negative due to Iggy's controversial public image right now. I'm inclined to believe the track wasn't very good too, but her team is smarter than they're given credit. They could've seen the potential backlash if the public response to Iggy continues to trend more and more negatively.

There were a billion articles about it.  Azalea's confirmation absolutely drove buzz, and a lot of it was of the positive or curious variety.

As for the negative reaction, yes, there was that too.  But that would have happened no matter when news of the single broke (and her "controversial public image" was also going to be a factor no matter what).

I'm not necessarily ruling out the possibility that Britney's team thought an Iggy collaboration was a bad strategic move at this point. Or even that negative reaction to the news helped Britney's team realize it was a bad strategic move. I'm ruling out the possibility that the collab was dropped exclusively because Iggy talked about it -- that it was some sort of punishment for Azalea spilling the beans.

And I'm also ruling out the possibility that this would have happened if the song was so good that Britney was positive she had a #1 hit.

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Jan 27, 2015 23:11:41 GMT -5 kanimal said:

Jan 27, 2015 23:06:26 GMT -5 @touch said:

There was no build of anticipation. Initial reactions to the possible collaboration were negative due to Iggy's controversial public image right now. I'm inclined to believe the track wasn't very good too, but her team is smarter than they're given credit. They could've seen the potential backlash if the public response to Iggy continues to trend more and more negatively.

There were a billion articles about it.  Azalea's confirmation absolutely drove buzz, and a lot of it was of the positive or curious variety.

As for the negative reaction, yes, there was that too.  But that would have happened no matter when news of the single broke (and her "controversial public image" was also going to be a factor no matter what).

I'm not necessarily ruling out the possibility that Britney's team thought an Iggy collaboration was a bad strategic move at this point. Or even that negative reaction to the news helped Britney's team realize it was a bad strategic move. I'm ruling out the possibility that the collab was dropped exclusively because Iggy talked about it -- that it was some sort of punishment for Azalea spilling the beans.

I agree with the last statement, I just don't think we really know why it was dropped either and I don't think it's a reach to assume her team didn't want to take a chance on featuring Iggy. The song very well could still be intact, they could have just taken her off of it.

[Hussy]

LMFAOOOO at the title change

[tamed09]

I'm pretty sure that if Brits team didn't want Iggy to speak on it she wouldn't have which she didn't speak for awhile. So that doesn't make sense. Even after she spoke on it she was still in Vegas to support brit and that was just weeks ago. I think everything will be fine.

[Marooned@Midnight]

Jan 28, 2015 7:27:05 GMT -5 tamed09 said:

I'm pretty sure that if Brits team didn't want Iggy to speak on it she wouldn't have which she didn't speak for awhile. So that doesn't make sense. Even after she spoke on it she was still in Vegas to support brit and that was just weeks ago. I think everything will be fine.

Yeah I don't buy that the Iggy collab isn't happening. I don't really care one way or the other, but it seems like they've had Iggy really go out on a limb with the thing - the tweets, going to Vegas to show support, answering fan questions about the song. To me, that seems like a point of no return for the song to exist and to be heavily involved in whatever the project ends up being (probably another greatest hits ????).

[BOBO]

I don't care if it's a collab with Dora the explorer, I JUST WANT NEW BRITNEY MUSIC!