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Post by dannywales on Apr 21, 2006 9:54:28 GMT -5
"She doesn't have too much." To be honest I thought she would have quite a bit by now.
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Post by jonneth on Apr 21, 2006 10:05:39 GMT -5
Oh no, I smell 'urban' producer... Britney back! (Friday April 21, 2006 10:14 AM) Britney Spears has signalled her intention to return to the world of music by beginning work on a new album. The pop superstar has retained her profile in the public eye in recent months in a series of tabloid stories about her family and possible TV and movie roles in front of the camera. However, hot-shot producer Jonathan "JR" Rotem has announced plans to put Britney back on the pop map, as his works on new material for her return. Rotem, who has worked with Destiny's Child, 50 Cent and Lil Kim and is currently producing The Game's new album, has been talking about his work with Spears. Speaking to Billboard, he explained: "Britney is pretty much starting out right now. She doesn't have too much. It's coming along but it's at its early stages." Britney's last proper album release was 2003's "In The Zone". Grrr sounds like they are going to try to make britney urban/r&b again.. do they not learn.. britney fans want toxic not that rubbish. And even if she recorded the best urban songs ever.. the people who listen to that kind of music wouldnt buy it anyway as it's britney. "hey dogg quit listning to da game n let me put britney's new shit on... " (most probs NOT how people who like urban music speak, but you get the idea) They going to get her to sing about guns and bling? and her homies? yeah right. o_0
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Post by Showtime on Apr 21, 2006 10:21:47 GMT -5
Well, I don't really get all the fuss about Britney working with Totem. Rihanna anyone?
I think it's great people are talking about Britney's music again. The endless "discussions" about her pregnancy I read in tabloids annoy me.
We know Britney is capable of doing great things and I don't think she will let the opportunity of a superb album go by.
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Post by Federline! on Apr 21, 2006 12:48:18 GMT -5
Made her a household name as well. I've always said this, but she owes her whole career to that song. If that hadn't have been such a big hit, or if TLC or Five had recorded it seen as they were offered it before her, then I think her music career would have lasted about as long as Mandy Moore's. It wouldn't have been as big a hit if TLC or Five had recorded it, and she deserves credit for THAT video which drew a lot of attention (instead of the proposed Power Rangers spoof one) Unquestionably...but I think "...Baby One More Time" was really a case of lightning in a bottle. All the elements came together as if by fate. Even her voice works best for the song, and the fact that it is one of the best pop songs ever written combined with her sex appeal, attitude, and the fact it was a debut single (and ushered in a whole era of music) really made it bigger than any of those factors--the sum is far greater than the parts. I don't know, I think factoring away everything I mentioned above, "Oops! ...I Did It Again" is possibly the best sophomore lead single in pop music, and "Slave" and "Toxic" are both monster smashes that didn't sound like anything else at the time. Britters always has at least one undeniable, genre-and-demographic-defying smash that keeps her on the path to iconhood. That's why she can fill the rest of the album with crap. On another note, the more of these 'articles' and 'interviews' with producers/writers I read, I'm really beginning to wonder if any of them are actually working with her or are just using the label's huge song request to garner more publicity for themselves....
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Post by DruBear on Apr 21, 2006 13:18:34 GMT -5
Me Against the Music was massive. Surely someone else must think so, too?
In The Zone, as an album, was quite consistent and probably her best. I don't know why you lot are so opposed to an urban track here or there? I'd pick an Outrageous or a Hook Up over some of the dreck on album #3 any day. Urban Britney doesn't hold a candle to Dance Britney (Girls & Boys and Over To You Now come to mind), but is still infinitely better than Soppy Westlife Ballad Britney.
As for Graffiti My Soul, are you people serious? The thought of Britney singing this song makes my ears hurt. The song is all attitude, and not in a Britney Spears sort of way. I can just picture her trying to talk through the song in that scratchy, sickly voice of hers, the same way she talks through I've Just Begun (Having My Fun). Atrocious.
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Post by Federline! on Apr 21, 2006 13:54:43 GMT -5
Different strokes, different folks.
I don't hate "Me Against The Music," but I think it was a horrible choice for lead single and the worst possible waste of Madonna--I don't mind that she guested on it, but the fact that the song wasted our chance for a Brit/Madge duet infuriates me. I actually kinda like the "I'm-up-against-the-speakers-tryin'-to-take-on-the-music/it's-like-a-competition-me-against-the-beat-I-wanna-get-in-the-zooooooone" bits (which is, interestingly, why I think she could have totally rocked out on "Graffiti My Soul"--maybe not better than the Aloud, but certainly it would have been great).
I'm not opposed to a great hip-hop track...as I've said, "Slave" is great and actually one of my favourites. But T-Pain and Ne-Yo are hip-hop flash-in-the-pans. If she were working with Dr. Dre or Timabaland, I'd be thrilled--but even established R'nB writer/producers tend to give her less than their best material ("Outrageous," "The Answer"), and I think that has a lot to do with not wanting to tarnish their 'street cred' by working with the Bubblegum Queen.
Agreed, Ballad Brit is atrocious, but I like "Everytime." And Dance Brit is forever, but I didn't really love "Over To You Now." So again, different strokes for different folks.
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Post by vasilios on Apr 21, 2006 14:07:05 GMT -5
I love R&Britney! My love for Boom Boom and Outrageous way outlasted my love for Touch Of My Hand and Breathe On Me, for some reason. Come on I don't get this fascist all r&b is poo attitude, it's like living in 1988 and saying PWL is crap. OK not that important as PWL but when r&b is done well it's brilliant.
I also agree on In The Zone beiner best album. ...Baby one more time, the album scared me so I skipped the Oops! album, but I got it last year and it is really stale and rushed. The singles kick ass but the rest, hu hom. I have a feeling the Britney album would be better if Crossroads never happened at all, it kinda took the album some place it shouldn't have gone.
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Post by James on Apr 21, 2006 14:23:04 GMT -5
I don't believe all these R&B rumours, I'd imagine that many producers that want to get their name out there would namedrop Britney, as it's a surefire way to get publicity.
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Post by Steve on Apr 21, 2006 14:52:47 GMT -5
Ne-Yo actually said in a Channel 4 interview he had been approached by Britney's people for the album, and from the way the MTV article read, I assume the same happened with T-Pain. I would have thought this was different to them hearing Britney was recording a new album through their management/publishers and submitting a song.
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Post by bydaface on Apr 24, 2006 15:27:49 GMT -5
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Post by freakface on Apr 24, 2006 18:14:04 GMT -5
^That sounds good. Hopefully more Loose my breath than Goodies.
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Post by dannywales on Apr 24, 2006 18:24:43 GMT -5
All this sounds awful. Whatever happened to Bloodshy & Avant?
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Post by dannywales on Apr 25, 2006 10:42:21 GMT -5
She has already recorded stuff with J.R Rotem:
AllHipHop.com: I know that you’re kind of transitioning into doing work with people like Britney Spears. How did that come about and how do you feel about working with her?
JR: I was always just trying to work with talented dope artists in any genre. We just really made an effort to really get out there and work with all these people; I’m working with Mya, Jojo, Britney Spears, all that kind of stuff. Working with Britney specifically is great, I mean, she’s very talented and she’s just like a veteran, even though she’s young, she’s been performing and doing things for like 20 years. When you get in the studio with her, she’s focused; she knows how her voice is. Even writing, we wrote a song and I was really impressed by her creativity and how well she knows herself. She’s just dope, she’s a veteran.
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Post by superglowy on Apr 25, 2006 10:52:51 GMT -5
More from him:
JR: To be honest with you, it’s kind of a combination. I love Hip-Hop, and people tell me even when I’m doing Pop and R&B, I think they come to me because I have a certain edge in the music and the Hip-Hop is there. Definitely that feeling is in there, that groove is in there. But you know, it’s still Pop music, it’s still very her, it’s just next level Britney. We’re working on a few different songs, some are just, it’s hard to explain, like dark and dramatic, others are more dance and still others are just straight club, Hip-Hop people can feel it, and Pop.
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Post by PeterJ on Apr 25, 2006 17:49:25 GMT -5
Lose My Breath is actually Rodney Jerkins/DarkChild productions. www.destinyfulfilled.co.uk/bio.phpI read in some rag magazine (New or something) that Justin Timberlake has actually been writing for Britney(?!) but that it was 'Just a fun project for the moment'. I'm not declaring this to definitely be true, what with the source and all, but I'll scan it in at some point soon.
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Post by xolondon on Apr 25, 2006 21:16:43 GMT -5
So when is this album due out? Summer 2007? That's two lifetimes in the pop world.
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Post by canuckfuck on Apr 25, 2006 22:33:44 GMT -5
So when is this album due out? Summer 2007? That's two lifetimes in the pop world. I know, eh? You'd think that everyone would've learnt something from the Spice Girls' FOREVER fiasco. x
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Post by Snuff on Apr 26, 2006 4:29:30 GMT -5
So when is this album due out? Summer 2007? That's two lifetimes in the pop world. This year I think...
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Post by xolondon on Apr 26, 2006 5:29:48 GMT -5
The year is almost half over. That oughtta be a challenge having a baby n the fall. Don't hold your breath.
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Post by Steve on Apr 26, 2006 7:23:56 GMT -5
The album was said to be released in November; if she is pregnant that will clearly change, unless they truss her up like Jordan and make her perform songs for international promotion from her house or something!
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Post by bydaface on Apr 26, 2006 15:09:18 GMT -5
"In 2005, Bloodshy and Avant have begun to lay out some new tracks for new album (rumored to be titled "The Original Doll"), following the success of "Toxic". Some of the songs produced thusfar are "Ghetto Star (The Guitar Passion)", "Lonely Sun", "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" and "Street Fame." These tracks will be considered for inclusion on Spears' next album, although nothing has been definitively decided as of yet."
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Post by PeterJ on Apr 26, 2006 17:44:29 GMT -5
Stick with Bloodshy and Avant Britters! I'm never sure why Cathy Dennis gets as much credit as she does - the lyrics to Toxic aren't so hot, nor those to Can't Get You Out Of My Head - it's most definitely the respective producers that should get all the praise.
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Post by freakface on Apr 26, 2006 18:55:49 GMT -5
Cathy comes up with the melody as well I assumed. But yeah Bloodshy deserve the credit for the strings bit. They haven't come with anything since though.
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Post by Jon on Apr 27, 2006 7:33:16 GMT -5
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" As in The Righteous Brothers' song? You have to be kidding!
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Post by bydaface on May 15, 2006 10:08:32 GMT -5
Article MTV News
Britney Spears has a new arrival on the way — no, not that one. She's been working on a new album, and from what one of her collaborators has to say about it, she's so dedicated she's practically working every day on it, despite the demands of motherhood.
"She's been a mother and she'll still be doing that, but she's very much into her music," said producer Jonathan "J.R." Rotem (50 Cent, Destiny's Child).
Still, it's early on in the process, according to the singer's rep — Spears said she was just writing music and "meeting with different people to work on the album" when she talked to the U.K. version of Glamour for its June cover story. But because she has a home studio, not only does she have the benefit of working "at home in my sweatpants," she also can work whenever the mood strikes her — as can her husband, Kevin Federline, who's also working with Rotem ("America's Most Hated" was one of their creations; see "Thomas Dolby Won't Turn Blind Eye To Kevin Federline Sample").
"He played me some stuff that sounded a lot hotter than what most people would think," Rotem said of K-Fed. "Right off the bat, you're at a disadvantage being a white rapper. And being a white rapper who's Britney Spears' husband? You're tackling credibility issues. He's aware of that, but he's really putting his heart and soul into the project. People were suspicious, but when they heard the song, they were like, 'He sounds good on it. Let's see where he takes us.' "
But where will Britney take us? One of the singer's other collaborators, Sean Garrett (Jamie Foxx, Keyshia Cole), said that on the three tracks they did together, they tried to do "some real crazy-ass stuff that the world is going to love." Rotem translates that to mean her songs will really connect with people, and will make them say, "'Hmmm, I haven't heard Britney say things like that before" (see "Britney Spears Working On New Album To Boost 'Boring' Pop Scene").
He said her writing so far reflects where she's at in her life, and like her husband, she's got a song about the attention she gets for just going out of the house. "She literally can't go anywhere without her privacy being invaded," Rotem said. "Everybody is trying to get information. So the record we wrote, it addresses the 'who do you trust' kind of thing."
Rotem said she also has up-tempo club songs "like in the vein of [Rihanna's] 'S.O.S.' " as well as relationship songs "and everything in between." She even raps a bit ("Not rap rap, but talk rap," Rotem clarified).
"It's definitely Britney, but the next level," the producer said. "With songs like 'Toxic,' she was very innovative, and we're trying to top it. Push it to the next thing."
But won't it also be pushed to the next year — what with her second pregnancy (see "Britney Pregnant Again")? Spears' rep stressed that nothing had been scheduled as far as a release date is concerned, so the singer can take her time. And Rotem said that for now, Spears plans to do "a bunch of work" and then take a break and resume.
"The album wouldn't come out in a while anyhow, since it's at the very beginning," he explained. "When it comes time to promote the album, she'll be in a different headspace where that's going to be the main thing. But right now, she's happy juggling music and motherhood."
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Post by bydaface on May 15, 2006 10:10:36 GMT -5
Britney Spears writes song about paparazzi
Sounds like Britney Spears has had enough and is ready to fight back - at least through her upcoming album.
"She wrote a song with me that's kind of introspective about how people and the paparazzi are constantly following her around," reports the latest "It" megaproducer, J.R. Rotem, who's been in the studio almost daily with Spears, who is expecting her second child.
Just as an innocent bystander, Rotem says the media frenzy that follows Spears "is annoying. Their life is crazy. I'm also working with K-Fed, her husband, quite a bit on some hip-hop stuff, and literally every time he comes over, he's followed by, like, five to eight paparazzi trucks. They just camp out in front of my place while we work and try to take pictures of anything. They cannot go anywhere without being followed. It's amazing and very aggravating."
The classically trained pianist ¡ª who's masterminded some 60 hit tunes in the last year alone for the likes of Mya, Busta Rhymes, Talib Kweli and Rihanna, whose single, "S.O.S. (Rescue Me)" just rocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart ¡ª says he and Spears are "working on about three or four different songs at the same time." He adds, "She's definitely touching on subjects that have to do with her everyday life ¡ª being married and having a baby and what her life is now ¡ª that will be reflected in the album, but it's going to be a combination. Britney's the queen of pop, and she's not going to go off on some weird tangent. We'realso doing the club kind of stuff, that's very pop, dance with hip-hop. It's like next-level Britney. Her fans are not going to be disappointed."
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Post by Scruffy on May 15, 2006 10:24:54 GMT -5
This is exciting. As much I love the idea of Britney working with Bloodyshy and Avant and Xenomania it's becoming old hat to throw those names around. Rotem sounds like he gets the pressure on Britney's shoulders in terms of the sound she needs but seems willing to give her something with all the right flavours but still pop. hopefully it will work out good though what with baby number 2 I'm not expecting it straight away.
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Post by freakface on May 15, 2006 11:08:07 GMT -5
I can't see the Britney and Xenomania thing happening now, but I'm still keeping fingers crossed for Richard X and Britney. I think that is a perfect match, all out power chorus machinery electronic onslaught.
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Post by xolondon on May 15, 2006 13:00:06 GMT -5
whatever it is, it's going to be a long while before this stuff is heard.
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Post by dannywales on May 15, 2006 14:04:42 GMT -5
It could still be released this year if the baby is born in August, but I'm not going to get my hopes up over it.
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