BJ was just terribly rushed. You can tell that there was probably only what was recorded. Like no demos.

 

I can agree that the production was rushed (that said most will.i.am production seems pretty thoughtless!?) but I think the songs themselves were pretty good on the whole! Also obviously the campaign was half hearted to say the least!

It just feels like they started recording for the era then "Work" came along and they wanted to cash in on s&s' and vegas' success resulting in a rushed album.

It just feels like they started recording for the era then "Work" came along and they wanted to cash in on s&s' and vegas' success resulting in a rushed album.

 

That might be the case, but I still don't understand why they take forever to make an album for her. She could've recorded stuff during 2012 while she was on x-factor and hence Britney Jean wouldn't have been a rushed release.

 

I feel like the longer she takes to chose producers and record stuff, the better the album turns out. That's what makes albums like In The Zone and Blackout her very best.

Nah, the thing that makes 'In The Zone' and 'Blackout' the best/the albums that they are, is how personal they are, imo. Just how much involvement she herself had in those albums, which just showed how much she actually wanted to make them.

And that has been the problem, she's not having much input on the albums she's been releasing since 2008.

I thought she had much more input into Britney Jean, as in it's about the only album where she had writing credits on each track and she actually sounded passionate in her voice and not just like an autotuned robot (well, on the majority of the songs anyway).

OMFG AT YOUR SIG. (Luciano) :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Bravo my friend, BRAVO.

 

Oh and Yeah, I know :cry:

 

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Oh and Aly is correct. I still think 'Britney Jean' is a great album. It's her most "personal" in the sense that she's had a lot of involvement in the writing side of things, she just had to let will.i.am go and do everything else, which was a bit of a shame.

This is gonna suck ass. Nothing with Igloo Australia can be above -1/10.

It just feels like it was written in a month.

If Britney Jean was produced by Bloodshy & Avant it would have been f***ing iconic.

 

Bar "Work Bitch" and "Alien" which are prime examples of Britney productions at their best. :wub:

Britney Jean gets way too much stick just because it flopped, it has some seriously wonderful stuff on there and she sounds a lot more human than she has done in years on most of it.

 

I hope she can have as much involvement in this next album.

It's really not for that reason it gets stick. 'Work Bitch' is incredible despite flopping but the album as a whole is completely void of soul and creativity. Songs like 'Till It's Gone' sound like something your average bargain basement Romanian flopstar would create to no acclaim and for an album that has Britney co-writes on every single track I see absolute none of her in it. If you want Britney doing dance then Femme Fatale does it infinitely better.

 

I've never been disappointed in a Britney album like I was when I listened to Britney Jean.

I agree 'Till It's Gone' is fairly anonymous (the two duets and 'Don't Cry' are poor too), but I think songs like Alien, Perfume, Passenger and Brightest Morning Star have a lot more natural Britney than there has been in years. Tik Tik Boom is quite unique, the 'Wake Me Up' clone is solid and I love 'Body Ache' too, despite its genericness.

 

Femme Fatale had its moments but that was way more robotic and soulless I thought.

If it had done much better then most people would be talking about how amazing the album is and how you can really hear Britney's natural vocal and that it was great to see her with so much writing credit in an album etc etc

 

The album did badly because she was too lazy ass to promote it one little bit and her name alone was no longer good enough to sustain amazing sales... So it flopped and because it flopped, lots of fans are claiming it's because she didn't have much I put or will i am screwed it up or it's soulless etc. That's my opinion anyhow.

 

I'm just really hoping she promotes this next single because at least then she'll have a chance of actually doing well with it.

Edited January 1, 201510 yr by London81

I agree 'Till It's Gone' is fairly anonymous (the two duets and 'Don't Cry' are poor too), but I think songs like Alien, Perfume, Passenger and Brightest Morning Star have a lot more natural Britney than there has been in years. Tik Tik Boom is quite unique, the 'Wake Me Up' clone is solid and I love 'Body Ache' too, despite its genericness.

 

Femme Fatale had its moments but that was way more robotic and soulless I thought.

I just don't see Britney in the songs, even stuff like 'Passenger' which out to be a big emotional moment doesn't feel like it. Only great thing about that song is the amazing intro. 'Alien' I never got the fuss on and while 'Perfume' might be a more "raw" song that doesn't stop it being boring as hell (with a terrible missed opportunity of a video to boot). 'Brightest Morning Star' is actually something of a gem that I forgot but it and 'Work Bitch' can't carry an album on their own.

 

And frankly the existence of the generic songs just invalidates it as a "personal" album to me anyway. I am 99% certain that Britney's idea of personal music does not just happen to be what everyone was doing and getting hits with the year before, with featured artists she most likely hasn't heard a single song by.

 

To me Britney Jean and the existence of an Iggy Azalea collaboration just tells me that she's more happy to just follow her label's orders than ever. As far as I'm concerned the whole "every song has a Britney co-write!" thing was just a label gimmick.

Britney Jean is her worst album, I agree.

 

But, to dismiss a track before it's released is just uncalled for? Like, you are just expecting something bad? Possibly she has created a great track with Iggy? Would it be better if it was Azalea Banks? I'd much rather her collaborate with no one, instead of the latter. Her wanting to collaborate with Iggy Is brave at this point. And it further proves Britney does what she likes and does not follow trends. THE LABEL THING TO DO would be to drop Iggy from the project.

 

Britney Spears is so tangible in the music market, it's crazy. She has fans that will follow her to the end, and her image is EXTREMELY marketable. I mean look at the expansion of young fans with Circus and Femme Fatale. Britney just shows an OUNCE of effort, they will come.

 

But, regardless. Let me tell you this. Britney's lead single always causes a commotion. After the f*** up with the era that is 'Britney Jean', it will not happen again. Bitch is still the money maker of pop music. More than any of her peers. Don't discount her because of a misstep with a second single on one album.

 

She may have to prove something to the UK. But, America is in the palm of her hand if she wants it to be. And America is what has always brought her the paycheck. HENCE, VEGAS. BYE.

Edited January 3, 201510 yr by TOXIC_AIR

^^I tend to agree with everything you've said but honestly, I'd rather her NOT collaborate with anyone. She doesn't need to, she just needs to release an amazing hit song that becomes a trademark song for her, a quintessential hit.

 

Work Bitch turned a lot better than most people make it to be... the song is bloody amazing and I'm sure its success goes way beyond its Billboard chart position would suggest. The problem with Britney Jean is that it seemed like an excuse to launch her Vegas residency more than being an album for the sake of releasing an album. And the worst of all is that it was marketed as her most personal ever, that alone generates immense expectations.

Britney Jean is her worst album, I agree.

 

But, to dismiss a track before it's released is just uncalled for? Like, you are just expecting something bad? Possibly she has created a great track with Iggy? Would it be better if it was Azalea Banks? I'd much rather her collaborate with no one, instead of the latter. Her wanting to collaborate with Iggy Is brave at this point. And it further proves Britney does what she likes and does not follow trends. THE LABEL THING TO DO would be to drop Iggy from the project.

 

Britney Spears is so tangible in the music market, it's crazy. She has fans that will follow her to the end, and her image is EXTREMELY marketable. I mean look at the expansion of young fans with Circus and Femme Fatale. Britney just shows an OUNCE of effort, they will come.

 

But, regardless. Let me tell you this. Britney's lead single always causes a commotion. After the f*** up with the era that is 'Britney Jean', it will not happen again. Bitch is still the money maker of pop music. More than any of her peers. Don't discount her because of a misstep with a second single on one album.

 

She may have to prove something to the UK. But, America is in the palm of her hand if she wants it to be. And America is what has always brought her the paycheck. HENCE, VEGAS. BYE.

I think the label thing to do is to be completely behind the times in not realising that Iggy Azalea is not a name you want attached to your work, honestly. The label thing to do is also "omg featured artists make hits let's get more of them". I miss when Britney albums didn't come complete with random collaborations that nobody needs.

 

The song as a whole may not be terrible but it does mean it'll have at least a ~30 second section of nightmarish noise. I hate Iggy's feigned accent more than most anything I've heard.

Are you guys on crack? Iggy is the current It Girl for features like Nicki was back in 2011. Just look at her repotire already... Shakira, Ariana, jLo, T.i, Jennifer Hudson...

I don't get how that makes things any better. Jumping on an obviously visible bandwagon that also flopped with her last single and is currently at the centre of a massive racism controversy accomplishes what for Brit, exactly?

I'm sure that they'll bring catchy tune so idc