Umi

The boxing crab is so hideous and tacky! Least favourite design of the generation by far alongside the bear. Fire dragon turtle is not really for me but it's pretty cool regardless.

I believe the guy in the chorus is Justin Tranter, who obviously wrote the song with Britney and Julia Michaels, so that's fun. I can pretty easily imagine them having a lot of fun making this song given how massively camp and over the top his chorus vocals are and that Britney seemed to get along with them when working with them! The thing that pleases me most about this album is how many new people she's working with, because 2008-2013 was a very repetitive time in Britneyland. I'm ok with the abandoning of people like Danja and Bloodshy & Avant if that sort of attitude is what it took to free her from Dr. Luke and Max Martin, but it's still kinda blah. There are so many producers she's worked amazingly with and then randomly stopped using.

Not sure I've ever seen a thread with less information about its topic than this one.

I know for a nearly-fact that Britney's team aren't intending for any of the instant grats to be the second single at this point. DYWCO might be a single eventually but not yet, I think.

This is a bomb. Kinda wish it was the lead because this sounds like the perfect song for an iconic VMA performance. 'Make Me' is probably more commercial overall but I really can't imagine it being an amazing song for performances. There's so much you could do with this, though. It's really nice to have songs that feel like Britney again. This is gonna join ITZ and Blackout in most people's holy trinity, I think. It's so... genuine.

So the Vegas perf was terrible.

I couldn't bear to watch it one more time. Even in the Britney plug.dj sessions I actively muted it and looked away from the screen for most of it. I don't want it to ruin the song for me.

Everyone looks so weirdly embarrassed to be part of this. Willing to believe that that's just my awareness of her commercial situation shining through but I've never seen a party video look quite so transparent about trying to look fun.

There's nothing in that that isn't recycled from somewhere, it's not real.

I think she does it a bit closer to 11pm EST so maybe it'll probably be closer to 4am UK time, but an hour doesn't make much difference once you get to those times.

I'll almost certainly be there.

I believe she started out writing her songs properly (I think she wrote with her guitar?) and nowadays she's generally less active in it. For Delirium she only co-wrote lyrics, I believe, 'Love Me Like You Do' has no credit for her on it and 'Burn' I believe is a vanity credit. So she mostly still writes lyrics but that's about it, and she'll accept songs she'd had no hand in on occasion.

It's only been registered? How do we know this song will ever be a single or ever even make an album?

Pretty great video, terrible song though. Always felt like one of her "People will respect me more if I do something like this!" efforts and it feels really laboured. It's also just quite dull.

I'll be on but I will have to disappear for a ~45 minute period at some point most likely :o I'll try to make that happen for the Britney Jean era.

I'd honestly be up for tomorrow, it was that good.

This rate feels like a testament to how good Femme Fatale was. A song as good as 'Trip' only 9th is crazy. I have absolutely no idea what songs are left, by the way.

I will be there barring horrible forgetfulness!

Thank you for the warm reviews guys :wub: I really loved going back through her videography and seeing what all of the videos she made meant for her and how they come together as a whole. I really look forward to seeing yours, Kye! It's really fun and interesting (and cool and funky...) to get different perspectives on something like this.

My rate (including some vague, dull commentary cos this > BuzzRate) 09 ...Baby One More Time 06 Sometimes - this video gives me so many feels about the time it came out for Britney/the world and the terribleness is kind of endearing but the choreo and backup dancers are just amusingly bad here. 08 (You Drive Me) Crazy - this video feels kinda iconic to me? Sabrina cameo was so perfect, and I feel like everyone wanted to dance with Britney 05 Born To Make You Happy - I feel like this video was the start of Britney and co trying to make slightly 'interesting' videos with some weirder setups featured, but they didn't really know what they were doing just yet 06 From the Bottom of My Broken Heart - am I right in thinking that the "Welcome to Cedar Springs!" sign is the birth of Britney product placement? Cute video for a hilariously terrible single. 10 Oops!...I Did it Again - I actually think this video is super underrated by the fanbase and is better than 'Baby'. SO much more ambitious than a Britney video had need to be and I don't think videos like 'Toxic' would exist if this didn't. I love it, it's kind of hilarious. 09 Lucky 07 Stronger 05 Don't Let Me Be The Last to know 09 I'm a Slave 4 U - the transition between DLMBTLTK and this is... jarring to say the least. You can kinda see why this didn't have amazing success worldwide. 08 Overprotected - bonus points for Anastacianey 07 I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman 05 I Love Rock N Roll 05 Boys - Proto-ITZney was kinda cringe. 08 Overprotected Darkchild Remix 10 Me Against the Music - unpopular opinion: Suitney is probably the sexiest she's ever looked. 11 Toxic - my favourite song & video ever, and the reason I became a stan. 10 Everytime 11 My Prerogative - there is SO MUCH I could say about this video/song combo, and it breaks my heart that it's so underrated both by the fans and the general public (WHAT HAPPENED AMERICA IT WAS A BRITNEY LEAD). Like, for a time when "err, is Britney kinda going off the rails?" was just starting to become a thing, this video was absolutely perfect. She looks so amazingly sinister and so very happy at the thought of looking that way, the lyrics are perfectly creepy for the imagery, the black and white bed setup is somehow perfect and she looks beyond incredible (maybe better than Suitney, I'm not sure). Everything to do with the car at the start should be iconic, also. Amazing. 09 Do Somethin' - honestly I wish this wasn't the only video Britney directed. This is fabulous and was similarly perfect for the song and time. 04 Someday (I will Understand) 01 Gimme More - this is still dire 9 years later. The scenes where looks almost dementedly happy show some promise for a 'My Prerogative' 2.0 but everything else is just so horrid. It's just so boring even before you take into account the ugliness and so on. 06 Piece of Me 07 Break The Ice 10 Womanizer - I always found this a bit too cartoony in comparison to 'Toxic' but it's grown on me over the years. Probably her best video post-breakdown. 08 Circus 09 If U Seek Amy 06 Radar - how exactly has this video got as many views as 'If U Seek Amy' and MORE than '3'? 07 3 08 Hold it Against Me - there are parts of this video that are really crappy but there's also some properly amazing stuff to it, even if the editing can mar even those bits. The paint breakdown is sooooooooo good and so clever. Product placement is disgusting in this though. 05 Till The World Ends - why anyone thought a dance party Britney video was a good idea in 2011 is beyond me. The choreo is painful here. 07 I Wanna Go - tries a bit too hard and the mic singing is just kind of crap but some good stuff here 08 Criminal 06 Scream & Shout 05 Ooh La La 10 Work Bitch - probably better than 'Womanizer' actually 02 Perfume 04 Pretty Girls - there's some good to this as well as the bad! -1 Make Me... - I know this seems quite overreaction-y but I really do think it'll always be my least favourite Britney video. She's done boring videos, yes, but I've never found her unlikeable in a video until 'Make Me'. It deserves the -1 for making me actually spend 4 minutes disliking Britney. What I learned from this rate is how insanely fast Britney matured in her career. It's crazy that videos like 'Everytime' were coming out only 6 years after she started her career as such an innocent, parent-pleasing act. Jive were really brave to let her evolve the way she did - I get the impression that her progression would have been much, much slower if she'd started today. At the same time, I'm surprised she managed to last as long as she did considering just how jarring a lot of the transitions she made were. Going from the Oops! era to the Britney era was such a huge transformation with so little time between it that I am surprised people weren't just like "Nope" to it, and Britney going to In The Zone was pretty big too. I feel like it was the Blackout era which cemented her as an established, adult popstar, at which point she could have done pretty much whatever she wanted and got away with it, but we should probably be grateful she got that far. Hope people found any interest at all in that commentary ~

I think that's gonna kill me. Hope her pronunciation is better than Cheryl's on 'Promise This'!

'Don't Keep Me Waiting' is kinda cool. Chorus is a bit lazy (still like the second half, though!) but the middle 8 is really fabulous and the production is more intricate than you might expect. The new element added to the second verse is really great too. 'Trouble For Me' kinda creeps me out, though. Ever since someone told me you could relate the lyrics to her relationship with alcohol I've found it a kinda disturbing ode to her breakdown. "Me and you were a disaster And you're only a danger to me But the party ain't the same without you That's why you're so good for everybody else But you're trouble for me" I know it's just a generic song about a guy who's bad for her but that part is so vague about it, it makes me uncomfortable. 'Seal It With A Kiss' is a top 5 on the album! Probably 10/10.

Doing this now and it's really tough to compare her earlier and later videos! Videos like 'Crazy' and 'Sometimes' seem so trashy now because they were aimed at a younger audience but at the time they seemed like really good videos... How to rate them? If child Umi was doing this he'd give 'Crazy' like a 10 but if I was to be really harsh in 2016 I could probably go below 5.

I can get behind all of this, just the 0 comment was... horrifying. Having read your later posts I can totally see giving 'Me Against The Music' a MEDIOCRE score, just not anything approaching a zero. Cos that's crazy talk.

I'm almost certain that's not the LaChapelle shoot. That said it doesn't look like Randee either so I'm not sure who I'd pin it on. Maybe we'll find out when the album comes?