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Post by Daenerys on Oct 29, 2023 13:17:40 GMT -5
The only thing I wished she touched on more was how much freedom she had when making her earlier albums including why her voice changed. It would be interesting to know if she had to fight for songs to be on an album or a certain single to be released. She alluded to this a bit during the section of the book where she talked about Me Against the Music. The story is a bit of a different account than what we heard from Madonna back in 2003. It's clear that Jive wanted her to go in more of an urban direction with In The Zone. It's odd to me that their argument was they wanted to hear more songs like I'm A Slave 4 U, when I don't think any tracks on ITZ have that sound, and most of the singles released during ITZ charted better than IAS4U and the Britney era. It's clear she was rebelling by pushing for the releases of MATM, Toxic, and Everytime. While her label wanted Outrageous and I've Got That (Boom Boom). The 2003 - 2004 time period is an interesting one. It's clear that she shouldn't have been touring during that era, but I also get the sense that her team just wanted to keep her busy as when she was bored she would do weird shit like get married in Vegas. She also seemed to have liked the specials In The Zone and Out All Night and the ABC Special so it's clear she liked at least some of the promotion for that album. It seems like she just wanted and needed a break, but it's also odd in that ITZ is one of her most involved albums ever. It's just a mess of contradicitons. She also seemed to be pretty active in the material for her Greatest Hits package with pushing for both My Prerogative and Do Somethin'.
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Post by bee on Oct 29, 2023 13:50:43 GMT -5
The only thing I wished she touched on more was how much freedom she had when making her earlier albums including why her voice changed. It would be interesting to know if she had to fight for songs to be on an album or a certain single to be released. She alluded to this a bit during the section of the book where she talked about Me Against the Music. The story is a bit of a different account than what we heard from Madonna back in 2003. It's clear that Jive wanted her to go in more of an urban direction with In The Zone. It's odd to me that their argument was they wanted to hear more songs like I'm A Slave 4 U, when I don't think any tracks on ITZ have that sound, and most of the singles released during ITZ charted better than IAS4U and the Britney era. It's clear she was rebelling by pushing for the releases of MATM, Toxic, and Everytime. While her label wanted Outrageous and I've Got That (Boom Boom). The 2003 - 2004 time period is an interesting one. It's clear that she shouldn't have been touring during that era, but I also get the sense that her team just wanted to keep her busy as when she was bored she would do weird shit like get married in Vegas. She also seemed to have liked the specials In The Zone and Out All Night and the ABC Special so it's clear she liked at least some of the promotion for that album. It seems like she just wanted and needed a break, but it's also odd in that ITZ is one of her most involved albums ever. It's just a mess of contradicitons. She also seemed to be pretty active in the material for her Greatest Hits package with pushing for both My Prerogative and Do Somethin'. I caught that. I mean with Baby, Oops and Britney. I did catch about how she went out the night before and her voice was tired when she recorded Baby One More Time.
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Post by Ryan on Oct 31, 2023 11:51:36 GMT -5
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Post by jamatthews83 on Oct 31, 2023 12:17:30 GMT -5
#justiceforbeforethegoodbye #justiceforirunaway
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Post by think pink. on Oct 31, 2023 21:59:56 GMT -5
I Love Rock N Roll is one of the sexiest most underrated music videos. Britney in all leather straddling a motorcycle? Oof ๐ฅ.
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Post by Ryan on Nov 1, 2023 4:47:59 GMT -5
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Post by think pink. on Nov 1, 2023 8:14:59 GMT -5
The power that she has. This memoir was a culture reset tbh.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Nov 1, 2023 10:33:54 GMT -5
The book is enough, honestly, though I would kill to have at least a skit of Justin Timberlake, preferably played by Michelle Williams, meeting Ginuwine. SNL would never, since Lorne and JT are buddy-buddy, but a guy can dream!
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Post by Daenerys on Nov 1, 2023 11:29:55 GMT -5
I Love Rock N Roll is one of the sexiest most underrated music videos. Britney in all leather straddling a motorcycle? Oof ๐ฅ. This. I sort of wish Pharrell had kept Hella Good and gave it to her, with this music video ๐ฅ. The Britney era music videos in general were just fire. Some of her greatest choreography and music video performances in her entire career just back-to-back -- Slave, Overprotected, Boys, I Love Rock N Roll all were top notch. Regarding the film rights to the memoir, I always felt Ryan Murphy would have done an amazing American Crime story anthology limited series version from it, and still do. I would skip the biopic, go with that approach, and have Britney executive produce it, just like Monica Lewinsky did for her season.
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Post by Choco on Nov 1, 2023 11:32:23 GMT -5
The Britney album is a personal fave of mine too. The videos were sexy, the songs were hot and she looked amazing all through the entire era.
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Post by think pink. on Nov 1, 2023 19:15:47 GMT -5
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Post by eyeofthestorm on Nov 1, 2023 19:17:20 GMT -5
Looks like the book sold 1.1 million in the US it's first week. I'd post the article but I refuse to acknowledge TMZ. If anyone can find another article i'm sure there will be one soon from a less disrespectful source.Ninja'd
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Post by slw84 on Nov 1, 2023 19:28:14 GMT -5
Love this for the certified legend. #1 25 years in.
Living legend you can look but don't touch.
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Post by myhouse911 on Nov 2, 2023 2:05:17 GMT -5
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Post by Ryan on Nov 2, 2023 11:32:58 GMT -5
Another documentary:
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Post by Daenerys on Nov 2, 2023 11:46:40 GMT -5
The Woman In Me sold 2.4 million copies globally just with the print versions, and is now on it's 4th printing due to the massive demand since the first week, with stores restocking the book. This is all Amazing considering it's a $20-30 dollar book. Britney got the holiday rush early. This will print money going into Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Post by Ryan on Nov 2, 2023 11:54:06 GMT -5
The song that gave birth to the pop culture has crossed 700 million streams on Spotify. Her 2nd song to achieve this.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Nov 2, 2023 13:48:29 GMT -5
I'm about 80% done with the book now, but I feel like the book was more impactful than I was expecting, from a personal standpoint. I feel like I understand her much more now, especially during her darkest moments and what was going through her mind. I definitely understand all those petty IG comments aimed at her mom and sister. I can't really say I blame her, based on what I've read in the book. She's not the first person to have a shitty family, but man, does her's suck!
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Post by schnetzka on Nov 2, 2023 15:22:17 GMT -5
I managed to get the audiobook from my local library but I wish I was able to checkout the physical copy. Hopefully Michelle Williams does the story justice.
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Post by eyeofthestorm on Nov 2, 2023 22:30:44 GMT -5
She invented teen pop. She broke records with Oops opening week. She created the best pop album of all time in 2007. She invented dubstep in 2011. She invented work in 2013. Single-handedly saved Vegas. And now she has a best-selling book. Makes it all the more depressing that those idiots made her not wanna do anything anymore.
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Post by myhouse911 on Nov 3, 2023 1:56:54 GMT -5
"According to Luminate, her U.S. streams increased 24% over the previous week โ from 16 million to 19.8 million; her album sales were up 61.4% and digital sales 49%." Here's to hoping more certs will come before christmas (or sooner)!
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Post by bee on Nov 3, 2023 9:46:09 GMT -5
I'm about 80% done with the book now, but I feel like the book was more impactful than I was expecting, from a personal standpoint. I feel like I understand her much more now, especially during her darkest moments and what was going through her mind. I definitely understand all those petty IG comments aimed at her mom and sister. I can't really say I blame her, based on what I've read in the book. She's not the first person to have a shitty family, but man, does her's suck! The book was a good reminder that your childhood and parents/guardians set you up for life. It makes sense now why she was so polite, didn't call anyone out, always kind. That's how she was raised in a southern house. Her mom never stood up for herself. Glad the book is doing so well and there's positive press around her right now.
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Post by Ryan on Nov 4, 2023 7:01:29 GMT -5
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Post by Daenerys on Nov 4, 2023 13:47:06 GMT -5
The book was a good reminder that your childhood and parents/guardians set you up for life. The way they treated Britney was disgusting, but it seems very clear that they were doing all they could to try and increase Jamie Lynn's popularity as a fall back.
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Post by HamedM1 ๐ on Nov 7, 2023 13:28:17 GMT -5
Not this, he still bitter over Blackout...
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Post by Ryan on Nov 7, 2023 13:35:18 GMT -5
Disgusting.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Nov 7, 2023 14:14:35 GMT -5
WTF is wrong with him? A MUZZLE? She's not a fucking dog. She's a human being. Repulsive.
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Post by Daenerys on Nov 7, 2023 15:28:09 GMT -5
Really bad optics considering Britney was under gag order for 13 years under the conservatorship.
The only good thing is it sort of highlights what kind of people Timberlake surrounds himself with. You can bet they are saying similarly awful things in his inner circle about her, and the situation. His N'SYNC bandmates likely feel the same way.
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Post by think pink. on Nov 7, 2023 15:31:17 GMT -5
I remember he was so pissed when she ignored his request to โsave her careerโ (๐๐๐) and chose his protege Danja instead. He went on to say that Gimme More didnโt sound like a hit ๐๐๐๐๐.
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Post by Marooned@Midnight on Nov 7, 2023 19:42:32 GMT -5
Gross.
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