When people criticize autotune, it's because the technique smooths vocals over to create faultless, airless productions. From the moment a chorus of voices barge into "Gimme More" the album surrenders its vocal center- Britney is subjected to sudden drop outs, octave falls, pitch-bending, stutters and warps, often afflicting only a word or two at once.
If she seems marginalised on Blackout, it's because her voice is being constantly splintered, chopped, and interrupted. Blackout reminds me how instantly recognisable Britney's vocals are, treated or untreated: Her thin Southern huskiness is one of the defining sounds of 00s pop. However good the music on the record is, and most critics agree it's pretty good, surely this poor half-there creature can't have had much to do with it? I want to hold off the wider question of Britney's agency for a while but simply as a vocal presence she's all over the album. Britney's disastrous VMAs performance- speaking of dead eyes and jerky shuffles- has set much of the tone for reviews of her new album, Blackout. On one level Palmer's story is a cliché- sour secrets of the suburban everygirl, virginal beauty off the rails- but it's a cliché we seem to have an endless appetite for: Witness the fascination with Britney Spears and her messy life. Their voices are backwards-looped and treated, their dances a jerky shuffle, all adding to a sense of mocking evil that the rest of the show never tries hard to shake. The show's most intense moments happen in a strange spirit-world, a red-draped room where a dwarf converses and dances with a pallid, marble-eyed eidolon of Palmer. “The WORD as in WORDS … ‘Show me how you want it to be … tell me baby cause I need to know … give me a f-ing sign … HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME !!!’ Well I have asked for what I wanted for 14 years … a different version of ‘Baby’ but have the producers actually work for me and put it together.David Lynch and Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks" begins with the discovery of a body and spends 30-odd episodes on the trail of a soul, both belonging to Laura Palmer, a prom queen of dazzling smile and doubtful habits. “This is me yesterday doing laundry and separating clothes … I haven’t shared my voice in an extremely long time … maybe too long … and here’s me playing at my house with a different version of ‘Baby,’” she wrote.
#Big time rush show me britney spears free#
Spears recently implied that she may be interested in making music again - this time, as a free woman - when she took to Instagram in July to share two videos of her singing her breakthrough 1998 hit song “…Baby One More Time” a cappella with some more adult lyrics, swapping out “give me a sign” in the chorus with “give me a f-ing sign.” Most notably, the collaboration will mark Spears’ official return to music since the end of her 13-year conservatorship.
“Hold Me Closer” is the pop princess’ first new music since her 2016 studio album Glory, which also included deluxe tracks “Mood Ring,” “Swimming in the Stars” and the Backstreet Boys-assisted “Matches” that were released in 2020. A post shared by Elton John Dancer,” originally included as part of John’s 1971 album Madman Across the Water, was released as a single in 1972 and peaked at No.
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