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Post by kmbgs on Mar 30, 2016 11:20:13 GMT -5
SO pleased to see all the love for:
TIG Up 'N Down Toy Soldier He About To Lose Me Gasoline
on this page1 But where is BTMYH?
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Post by poplife on Mar 30, 2016 11:39:12 GMT -5
Playing Femme Fatale now... I never really cared much for (Drop Dead) Beautiful, and I think I realized it's all because of Sabi. She makes the song so gross. Who says "vegetables" when they're trying to be sexy? The rest of the song is actually good though and of course the semi-iconic 'caught the flu' line.
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Post by poplife on Mar 30, 2016 11:44:47 GMT -5
SO pleased to see all the love for: TIG Up 'N Down Toy Soldier He About To Lose Me Gasoline on this page1 But where is BTMYH? I've actually been obsessively playing the '(Bonus Remix)' version of that song. That clearing of the throat in the beginning followed by acoustic guitar? Authentic artistry. My only complaint is that they should've kept the original chorus at least one time, instead of breaking off into the "that's the way our lives should be--". But I love both versions of the song, perfect pop.
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Post by kmbgs on Mar 30, 2016 12:11:23 GMT -5
what is the bonus remix?!!1 what!!!!!
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Post by poplife on Mar 30, 2016 12:49:39 GMT -5
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Post by Ginger Spice on Mar 30, 2016 14:25:53 GMT -5
What happened to this Adam manager in addition to Larry? I wonder if she still has that assistant. Her interviews with sway are cringe worthy but the behind-the-scenes of her life are pretty enjoyable. He kind of dropped off the map, kind of like her old assistant Brett from For The Record. It'd be safe to assume neither work for her anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 15:12:17 GMT -5
Brett and Adam sucked. Queen Felecia >>>
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 20:59:33 GMT -5
To be honest, my most listened to Britney song at the moment is Amnesia. It's definitely up there as one of my all-time faves from her, and actually exactly the kind of music I would love from her right now. I absolutely LOVE her vocal and delivery on this song.
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Post by poplife on Mar 31, 2016 8:49:27 GMT -5
Amnesia was probably the first Britney song I truly LOVED. I've been an odd fan over the years. I actually didn't become diehard/stan territory until recently, but I remember specifically getting the UK deluxe edition instead of the US back in 2008 solely because of the song.
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Post by poplife on Mar 31, 2016 15:28:18 GMT -5
Come onnnn... let's talk about Britney... something :'( I'm a bored loser constantly checking this thread for at least some shade or something to talk about.
Forget Myah, let's start some sh*t from even earlier! In Anticipating, does anyone notice that major autotune glitch at 2.21-2.25? Josh and Brian should be ashamed of themselves! That is honestly worse than that complaint over the vocal glitch in Alien.
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Post by Ginger Spice on Mar 31, 2016 16:07:21 GMT -5
Come onnnn... let's talk about Britney... something :'( I'm a bored loser constantly checking this thread for at least some shade or something to talk about. Forget Myah, let's start some sh*t from even earlier! In Anticipating, does anyone notice that major autotune glitch at 2.21-2.25? Josh and Brian should be ashamed of themselves! That is honestly worse than that complaint over the vocal glitch in Alien. I'm ashamed at some of the forums I've been reading to satisfy my thirst for new Britney news, even though none of them ever have any actual news. :'( I always thought this was intentional, you can hear vocoder in some of her earlier songs (not to mention Brian & Josh are fans of obsessive vocoder, see Willa Ford's "I Wanna Be Bad"), you can also hear it in the second chorus of "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" ("just let it go-o-oh-oh"). I think that was more a trendy thing, considering vocoder is not the same as autotune anyway. The "Alien" glitch, however, was a complete fuck up.
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Post by poplife on Mar 31, 2016 17:43:00 GMT -5
Come onnnn... let's talk about Britney... something :'( I'm a bored loser constantly checking this thread for at least some shade or something to talk about. Forget Myah, let's start some sh*t from even earlier! In Anticipating, does anyone notice that major autotune glitch at 2.21-2.25? Josh and Brian should be ashamed of themselves! That is honestly worse than that complaint over the vocal glitch in Alien. I'm ashamed at some of the forums I've been reading to satisfy my thirst for new Britney news, even though none of them ever have any actual news. :'( I always thought this was intentional, you can hear vocoder in some of her earlier songs (not to mention Brian & Josh are fans of obsessive vocoder, see Willa Ford's "I Wanna Be Bad"), you can also hear it in the second chorus of "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" ("just let it go-o-oh-oh"). I think that was more a trendy thing, considering vocoder is not the same as autotune anyway. The "Alien" glitch, however, was a complete f**k up. Haha it's funny you mention Willa, I love how the CD single specifically listed "(With Vocoder)" on the tracklisting. That's interesting, I guess I never noticed those other little glitches, I'm going to listen to them now lol. Alien's glitch is noticeable, but for some reason it doesn't take away the song's charm to me. But it could've been easily fixed before release.
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Post by Ginger Spice on Mar 31, 2016 18:34:36 GMT -5
I'm ashamed at some of the forums I've been reading to satisfy my thirst for new Britney news, even though none of them ever have any actual news. :'( I always thought this was intentional, you can hear vocoder in some of her earlier songs (not to mention Brian & Josh are fans of obsessive vocoder, see Willa Ford's "I Wanna Be Bad"), you can also hear it in the second chorus of "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know" ("just let it go-o-oh-oh"). I think that was more a trendy thing, considering vocoder is not the same as autotune anyway. The "Alien" glitch, however, was a complete f**k up. Haha it's funny you mention Willa, I love how the CD single specifically listed "(With Vocoder)" on the tracklisting. That's interesting, I guess I never noticed those other little glitches, I'm going to listen to them now lol. Alien's glitch is noticeable, but for some reason it doesn't take away the song's charm to me. But it could've been easily fixed before release. Yeah that's always made me laugh, about the Willa CD single. It makes me wonder if the version without vocoder ever leaked because it would sound like a totally different song. On Spotify it's listed as "I Wanna Be Bad - with rap and vocorder ALSO ALBUM VERSION", which is even funnier to me, especially since vocoder is misspelled. (I also think it's funny she had a song on her album trashing Britney and teen pop when she built her whole music career around sounding and looking like Britney, but I digress.) I've played "Alien" enough to where I don't notice the glitch unless I specifically listen for it, but I really don't know why they messed around the with the demo, which at least didn't have any technical errors, and she sounds a lot better in the pre-chorus.
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Post by think pink. on Apr 1, 2016 2:37:19 GMT -5
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Post by Lockheart on Apr 1, 2016 10:35:31 GMT -5
She's clearly been working out.... and got a new pair of breasts to match the new nose. But whatevers... she looks hot and her body hasn't been this hot since 08. I love it. She looks like shes getting ready to slay.
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Post by think pink. on Apr 1, 2016 23:45:41 GMT -5
Whaaaa? Her boobs look like they've always looked.
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Post by poplife on Apr 2, 2016 18:55:29 GMT -5
Not to keep rehashing Britney Jean drama, and I'm sure this has been discussed 3 years ago but it's at least something to rediscuss now lol.
Would the album have had a different trajectory if Alien had been the lead single? I think that was a miss opportunity. Work Bitch would've been a great legit buzz track, no video, then drop an awesome release for Alien.
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Post by MiniMusic on Apr 2, 2016 19:04:50 GMT -5
That question comes up a lot and I think it would have definitely had a different type of success if BJ started out with a different lead single. For me, I always thought Now That I Found You would have made a great lead single. It was personal but also dance-y and light-hearted and fun. The song has that little banjo-vibe in the chorus so I think it would have been cute to have made it like a big southern rave music video where she's dressed in like jean booty shorts and a tied up flannel shirt- it would have been hot and it also would have been personal which was the whole marketing scheme they had for the album. Work Bitch could have came with it's perfect music video later on in the era as like the 4th single for summer 2014.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 20:08:57 GMT -5
Tbh, I think the album's strongest choice of lead single was rightfully belonged to Work Bitch. It just could've used some more promotion, it was VERY strong at first and made for a very memorable track in her collection. I wish it made it 2 a year end chart, deserved much better along with Perfume.
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Post by Ginger Spice on Apr 2, 2016 21:33:34 GMT -5
"Alien" would have been an interesting buzz track, but I don't think it should have lead. I can't imagine anything on the album would have done any better than "Work Bitch" as a lead. Even though it wasn't a huge radio hit, it was played a lot in clubs, catering to her most loyal fanbase by far (the gays), and sort of worked as a "theme song" to the Vegas residency. Nothing from that album was going to smash, although I think a few things could have at least done better than "Perfume," but it doesn't really matter anyway. She wasn't going to promote anything but her residency no matter what.
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Post by Keelzit on Apr 2, 2016 22:25:59 GMT -5
Work Bitch would only work as the lead single cause it's such an in-your-face song that if released later on after non-hits/flops it'd be the biggest flop in history and no one would care for it while as a lead single it'd create some buzz. It was the right choice. The wrong choice was releasing Perfume instead of Alien as the 2nd single and even that wouldn't save the era but at least Alien could perhaps make it near the top 10 on pop radio. I only gave Perfume 3-4 listens and haven't listened to it since the video was released. It's just that bad, boring, etc.
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Post by Anticonformity on Apr 3, 2016 5:47:10 GMT -5
That question comes up a lot and I think it would have definitely had a different type of success if BJ started out with a different lead single. For me, I always thought Now That I Found You would have made a great lead single. It was personal but also dance-y and light-hearted and fun. The song has that little banjo-vibe in the chorus so I think it would have been cute to have made it like a big southern rave music video where she's dressed in like jean booty shorts and a tied up flannel shirt- it would have been hot and it also would have been personal which was the whole marketing scheme they had for the album. Work Bitch could have came with it's perfect music video later on in the era as like the 4th single for summer 2014. YES! My fave song ever... Maybe not 1st single but I feel like it was the hit of the album so like final 3/4th single... I so wish it was added to her set cause it would be fucking epic and as much as i love TTWE ending the show I would love to have seen this be the final/mixed with TTWE... Speaking of, are there stems out there of NTIFY? I would give anything for them since it's my fave, all I could find was a snippet :(
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Post by poplife on Apr 3, 2016 14:36:51 GMT -5
I don't know why I'm so hung up on Alien lol, I think it is so different from what she's done before (especially vocal delivery) but I agree with you all. Logically, Work Bitch was the right choice because it has that 'first single' sound even though it's not at all the album's strongest song. But that's how these kind of things work I guess. I totally love Now That I Found You as well! I always thought that was too good to be a bonus track.
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Post by think pink. on Apr 3, 2016 14:38:24 GMT -5
"Work Bitch" is still fukn fire. I go so hard to it in the gym.
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Post by KissMyAxe on Apr 5, 2016 5:30:41 GMT -5
can anybody tell me what do stems of a song mean? are they the original recordings of the song?
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Post by MiniMusic on Apr 5, 2016 9:23:37 GMT -5
can anybody tell me what do stems of a song mean? are they the original recordings of the song? I think stems are meant to mean you can get a specific part of a song by itself, so for example, you can have a stem of only the leading vocals of a song, or you can have a stem of the background vocals, so it's like taking a song apart. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not totally sure, lol. But I guess it's supposed to mean like how a tree is the whole thing (the song) and then you have stems (the separate parts of a song).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 13:30:44 GMT -5
That's basically it.
A stem is an isolated "track" that would normally be mixed and mastered into the rest of the other "tracks" (or stems) to create the final song. Usually, each instrument gets its own stem; so, for example, 'Work Bitch' has 3 different stems for each kick drum used in the song. As there are around 40 different instruments used to make the 'Work Bitch' instrumental, there are 40 different stems; each stem has an arrangement of that instrumental, and if you layered all of them on top of each other, you'd have the final product (albeit unmixed and unmastered). These same rules apply to vocals. Vocal stems are each and every part of the acapella arrangement isolated into their own track, meaning you'd get a lead vocal, and all other instances of backup vocals on their own tracks. A good example is 'Gimme More', where you can almost make the track a Keri Hilson song using the stems.
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Post by Ginger Spice on Apr 10, 2016 0:44:44 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2016 8:44:20 GMT -5
Not believing it till she says it herself. That is an AGGRESSIVE release schedule with only a 4 week gap.
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Post by KissMyAxe on Apr 10, 2016 9:30:30 GMT -5
I highly doubt that. She isn't Adele, we all know that her album sales will be abysmal so releasing a lead single and then directly an album after 4 weeks? Oh no honey not even a #1 lead single will save that poor album
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