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viernes, 6 de diciembre de 2013
miércoles, 20 de noviembre de 2013
Britney Gets Personal on 'Britney Jean': Behind Spears' New LP
Look back at Britney Spears' life & career in photos
Now, with Trawick out of the picture, Spears seems to be asserting herself on her new album, Britney Jean, out in December: "After having a huge breakup this year, I had a lot to say in the studio," she said this fall. At the center of the new album is Will.i.am (who collaborated with Spears last year on the hit single "Scream & Shout"). Over the course of two months this past spring, Spears and the Black Eyed Peas leader met up for a series of long lunches in Los Angeles.
"It really became like Will quasi-interviewing her," says Spears' longtime manager, Larry Rudolph. Adds Will.i.am, "I would ask her questions about her trials, tribulations, relationships." Spears told Rudolph, "I want Will to be a central figure in the album; I don't want to have hundreds of songs sent over."
Will.i.am ended up executive-producing Britney Jean. "Sometimes I'd write songs; some of them came from other people. But Britney wrote a lot of the songs." Australian hitmaker Sia contributed heavily to the single "Perfume," a track she penned with Katy Perry titled "Passenger" and an uplifting midtempo number called "Brightest Morning Star." "Britney was extremely sweet," says Sia. "She came in with the title 'Brightest Morning Star' and told me that's how Jesus found his way. She wanted to write a kind of gospel song that wasn't ramming it down your throat." David Guetta, Diplo and William Orbit also wrote and/or produced songs.
Rolling Stone readers pick the best Britney Spears songs of all time
Instead of touring, Spears will kick off her two-year Las Vegas residency at the Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino on December 27th, playing 48 shows a year, for a reported payday of $30 million. The 90-minute show, Britney: Piece of Me, will feature a retrospective of hits, plus a few songs from the new album. The venue itself is small by Spears standards, holding only 4,650 people; ticket prices will start at $59, and stretch up to $3,000 group VIP packages. "We want you dancing and having a good time," says the show's director, Baz Halpin. "There will be bottle service, and we even have a later start time than a regular Vegas show."
Rudolph says that the Vegas run fits into Spears' family life. (Her sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James, are eight and seven, respectively.) "Now that she's a mother, it's a whole lot less wear and tear on her," he says. "It's a thing that can continue for a while pretty effortlessly. Right now, she's committed to the idea of getting out there and killing it."
This story is from the December 5th, 2013 issue of Rolling Stone.
Source: RollingStones
martes, 22 de mayo de 2012
Big Fat Bass on Rolling Stones "Big Playlist"
This month, Rolling Stone listed out 73 songs that feature “big beats and big mouths,” so BFB seemed fitting.
miércoles, 25 de enero de 2012
Rolling Stones named Britney 2nd best dancer of history
2. BRITNEY SPEARS
3. JAMES BROWN
4.MICK JAGGER
5.LADY KAKA
6.PRINCE
7.MADONNA
8.JANET JACKSON
9.NICOLE SCHERZINGER
10.THOM YORKE
jueves, 22 de diciembre de 2011
Rolling Stones named "How I Roll" best song of 2011
Britney hooks up with the Swedish production duo Bloodshy and Avant, who also gave her “Toxic” in 2004 and “Piece of Me” in 2007, and like the first two chapters of the trilogy, it’s fiendishly inventive girl noise. Every sound effect that jumps out of the mix – Brit slurring the word “speakerrrr,” digital finger-snaps, a real beatbox pretending to be a human beatbox – builds the tension. There’s even a plot: An ordinary girl sits in her lonely room, dreaming of party lights far away, wishing she could escape to a place where she can show her kneesocks and drink tequila on the rocks, where there’s music and there’s people and they’re young and alive. But the mean old world won’t let her break free, so she just sings along with the machines until she turns into a machine herself, because only the beat understands her. There’s your story of pop music right there.
2. Big Sean featuring Nicki Minaj, "Dance (A$$) (Remix)"
3. Beyoncé, "Countdown"
4. EMA, "California"
5. Bon Iver, "Beth/Rest"
6. Jay-Z and Kanye West featuring Frank Ocean, "No Church In The Wild"
7. Pistol Annies, "Hell on Heels"
8. Rebecca Black, "Friday" --- (WTF???)
9. Nicki Minaj, "Super Bass"
10. Stevie Nicks, "Annabel Lee"
11. Rihanna, "We Found Love"
12. Destroyer, "Kaputt"
13. Azealia Banks, "212"
14. Kurt Vile, "Runner Ups"
15. Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
16. Radiohead, "Separator"
17. Neon Indian, "Fallout"
18. Thurston Moore, "Mina Loy"
19. The Horrors, "Still Life"
20. Xeno and Oaklander, "Sets and Lights"
21. Paul Simon, "Rewrite"
22. Avril Lavigne, "What the Hell"
23. Yuck, "Get Away"
24. Nicki Minaj, "Girlfriend"
25. Lady Gaga, "Edge of Glory"
Source: Rolling Stones
sábado, 10 de diciembre de 2011
jueves, 8 de diciembre de 2011
Till The World Ends #3 Best Single of 2011
Brit delivers the Apocalypse Now of Eurotrash electrotrance disco songs, as that throbbing pulse builds to a pure drop-the-bomb chorus. And that “whoa-ho-ho” choir sounds like Cher leading an aircraft carrier full of gay sailors.
Here’s the Top Ten:
1. Adele – Rolling In The Deep
2. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Niggas In Paris
3. Britney Spears- Till The World Ends
4. Foo Fighters – These Days
5. Paul Simon – Rewrite
6. Radiohead – Lotus Flower
7. Lady GaGa- The Edge Of Glory
8. Beyoncé – Countdown
9. Lil Wayne ft. Cory Gunz – Six Foot Seven
10. The Decemberists – Don’t Carry At All
Source: Rolling Stone
viernes, 2 de diciembre de 2011
Celebrities send their bday wishes to Britney
Los40_SpainLos 40 Principales
@Los40_Spain
Happy Birthday Britney Spears! Por cierto, ¿Has oído ya Love 2 Love U? - http://Los40.com http://www.los40.com/actualidad/noticias/has-oido-love-2-love-u-el-nuevo-temazo-de-britney-spears/nota/1400899.aspx vía
(ALELLUJAH!!!!)
candiesbrandcandie's
Happy Birthday Britney Spears! We ♥ our former Candie's Girl! XO http://twitpic.com/7n36q5
JosephKahnJoseph Kahn
Happy 30th birthday to one of the artists I really truly adore... @BritneySpears!
usweeklyUs Weekly
Happy Birthday#BritneySpears! She hits the big 3-0 today! To celebrate, we have pics of Brit & Jason Trawick in love: http://bit.ly/vhPBz2
Happy Birthday
billboardBillboard
@BritneySpears! In honor of your big 3-0, here's a look at your top 20 biggest Billboard hits http://bit.ly/uBOz7I
Happy birthday,
VH1VH1
@BritneySpears! A toast to the pop superstar's most hottest looks: http://on.vh1.com/tUQajh <3
Happy 30th Birthday
@OnAirWithRyanOn Air/Ryan Seacrest
Celebrate @BritneySpears’ 30th Birthday With Her Top 5 Best Live Performances [VIDEO] http://bit.ly/v54N60
peoplemagPeople magazine
#HappyBirthdayBritney trending! http://ow.ly/7MBHF
It's Britney's 30th birthday! Check out her 30 biggest OMG moments—and let's get
TheRealXtinaChristina Aguilera
Happy 30th birthday @britneyspears!!!
MileyCyrusMiley Ray Cyrus
Let's make @britneyspears day & show some love! Let's trend #HappyBdayBritney
SabiSoundzSab-bion
Happy 30th birthday @BritneySpears! Do it big! http://youtu.be/Q8kSiAZCax4 #happybirthdaybritney
"Yo, Britney, happy birthday!You're still a babe at 30!" Gabe Saporta(Cobra Starship)
"Happy birthday, Britney! loved watching you growing up. You made a difference in music, and you made a difference in my life."Jason Derulo
"If there's someone that influenced a generation in every aspect of the word, I'd say it's Britney Spears," he said. "Happy birthday, sweetheart!" WILMER VALDERRAMA
"Happy birthday, Britney!Happy 30th! That's awesome!" Kris Allen
Britney, you're 30, girl. I see. You get your grown woman on!" Nick Cannon
@heidiklumHeidi Klum
Happy 30th Birthday @britneyspears !! Hugs and Kisses!
"Yo, Britney, happy birthday!You're still a babe at 30!" Gabe Saporta(Cobra Starship)
"Happy birthday, Britney! loved watching you growing up. You made a difference in music, and you made a difference in my life."Jason Derulo
"If there's someone that influenced a generation in every aspect of the word, I'd say it's Britney Spears," he said. "Happy birthday, sweetheart!" WILMER VALDERRAMA
"Happy birthday, Britney!Happy 30th! That's awesome!" Kris Allen
Britney, you're 30, girl. I see. You get your grown woman on!" Nick Cannon
Happy 30th Birthday Britney Spears: Here's to 10 More Years of Pop Awesomeness
Happy 30th birthday, Britney. It's safe to say you had the awesomest 20s of any pop star ever. Ten years ago, Britney rang in her 20s by wearing a python to do "I'm A Slave 4 U," a song about seething party-girl desperation that compares her vagina to a kitty cat; she rings in her 30s with "How I Roll," a song about seething party-girl desperation that compares her vagina to a kitty cat. If you don't think that's artistic integrity, there's something wrong with you.
When Britney turned 20, in her "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman" days, it already seemed crazy she'd stayed famous so long. Little did we know how much more we had to look forward to. We'd never met K-Fed, with their love immortalized by the Britney and Kevin: Chaotic DVD currently going for $4.89 on eBay. We'd never met the other guy she married in Vegas for 55 magical hours. We'd never seen her snap her gum at Matt Lauer, with one of her fake eyelashes dangling sideways, and drawl, "I think everybody should be pro-love, you know?" We had yet to inhale the heady fragrance of Cosmic Radiance while slurping Cheetopolitans and watching the Crossroads "hi Kim Cattrall! I'm your long-lost daughter! What's for dinner?" scene.
But the really astoundo thing is we hadn't heard her best records yet. Just look at her output in her 20s: "Boys" in 2002, "Toxic" in 2004, "Do Somethin'" in 2005, "Piece of Me" in 2007, "Womanizer" in 2008, "3" in 2009, "I Wanna Go" in 2011. She just never fucking stops, and never should. She's been easily the most influential pop singer of that timespan, expanding her signature Brit-growl into the distorto-robot glitch-glam computer-blue vocal style that everybody else imitates now.
In her teens, she was the midriff-disco princess of the stellar TRL Class of '99, but who guessed she'd be the one left rocking at 30? Backstreet Boys, NSync, Ricky, Xtina, Monica, Brandy, O-Town: all those people, all those lives, where are they now? Only Justin's had her staying power, and he did it by ditching music for the movies. (Part of why I loved him in The Social Network, as Napster co-founder Sean Parker, is because when I interviewed Parker in 2000, he kept arguing with me for giving Britney's latest album a rave review. If only I'd had the prescience to tell him, "Someday her boyfriend will play you in a movie.")
Britney always gets underrated as a hitmaker, because people like to assume she has nothing to do with her own music. That's understandable but not necessarily persuasive, given the freakishly consistent sicker-than-the-remix excellence of her musical output. She keeps nailing the fizziest, splashiest, bestest synth-pop records of the moment, in a deceptively quasi-anonymous robo-voice that any pop fan can recognize in seconds. If she gets snaps it's for being a star, or (that most chickenshit of compliments) an "icon," but how many brilliant hits does she have to release before people give Mrs. Oh My God That Britney's "Shameless"credit for doing it right?
Only Beyoncé's had a comparable impact on how music sounds, and of all the countless weird things these two killer B's have in common, the weirdest is that they're still making their best records in 2011. Whether you think Brit's "I Wanna Go" makes a better countdown-to-ecstasy rave than Beyoncé's "Countdown" is pretty much a coin toss. Brit's most recent single? The bizarro Ray Davies pastiche "Criminal," which starts with a flute playing the Kinks classic "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" and then gets all Village Green Preservation Society. Why does she get away with crazy shit like this? Because she's not like everybody else.
The winter she turned 20, the New York subway system was plastered with posters of Brit in a white Elvis jumpsuit, advertising her Vegas HBO special. (She did an Elvis impression in the TV ads: "Thank you. Thank you very much.") But the comparison doesn't seem like as much of a joke as it did then, because she rode her teenage-rampage beat into a pop career for the ages. From "I'm a Slave 4 U" to "How I Roll" is a decade's worth of seething party-girl desperation, but no singer-yes-I-said-singer has ever voiced that emotion so intensely. She always augurs the pop future. Remember how her 2004 wedding to K-Fed had a cash bar and a Journey song? (Their first dance was "Lights.") We all should have known that meant an impending economic catastrophe. Plus an impending Journey revival.
We've seen so many pretenders to her throne come and go. (Thanks for the memories, Miley! Don't ever change, Bonus Jonas!) We'll see more of them. People keep waiting for Britney to be over. They can keep waiting. When people stop claiming she's over, I guess that'll mean she's over. But they won't. And she won't be. So happy birthday, Britney. And gimme more.
SOURCE: Rolling Stones
viernes, 15 de julio de 2011
Rolling Stone's 10 Favorite Dancing Musicians
Rock, hip-hop, R&B and pop all evolved out of music designed for dancing, and so it should come as no surprise that many of the greatest musicians of all time happen to be world class dancers. With this is mind, we asked our readers to name their favorite dancing musician of all time. Here are the results.
01. Michael Jackson
02. Britney Spears
03. James Brown
04. Mick Jagger
05. Lady Gaga (WHAT?)
06. Prince
07. Madonna
08. Janet Jackson
09. Nicole Scherzinger
10. Thom Yorke
Britney Spears took a whopping percentage of the votes in this poll, clearly establishing the pop starlet as your favorite female dancer. The music video for the 2001 hit "I'm A Slave 4 U" is prime Britney, with the singer deliberately subverting her still-girlish appearance with overt, unapologetic sexuality.
Source: RollingStones:com
sábado, 2 de julio de 2011
Vote Britney Queen Of Pop
Rolling Stone magazine this week declared that Lady GaGa is the Queen of Pop, but do you agree? They were pretty strict in their criteria - a solo album in the last three years was a must - and used a sort-of-scientific ranking method to come to their conclusion.
Here at Digital Spy, we're much more in favour of the brutal simplicity of mob rule democracy. So, we've created our very own 11-name shortlist and invite you to vote in our exclusive poll. You can also tell us just why you've made your choice in the comments box below.
PS: BRITNEY WIN WITH 41,6%
LADY GAGA 30,7%
CHRISTINA AGUILERA 7,2%
MADONNA 5,4%
BEYONCE 4,2%
RIHANNA 3,1%
| Britney Spears |  | 41.6% |
jueves, 17 de marzo de 2011
Britney talks about new album with Rolling Stone
Do your kids like the new record? What have they said about it?
Yes. They definitely dance to it but its kind of funny because they are still confused …. It’s like, ‘who is this Britney Spears singer in contrast to mommy?’
How has your involvement in the record-making process changed over the years?
I have always been heavily involved in every album I have ever made. I’m very stubborn when it comes to recording and will only record songs I love, which is why it takes me a long time to make an album. I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it’s a good process because I love all of my music. I know there are a lot of artists that hate songs they recorded. I don’t feel that way.
What was your idea for the overall sound of this album?
I wanted to make a fresh-sounding album for the clubs or something that you play in your car when you’re going out at night that gets you excited but I wanted it to sound different from everything else out right now. I also wanted to experiment with all the different types of music I love which is why you hear a mixture of pop, hip-hop and dance throughout the album. I also really wanted to play with my voice and change up my sound here and there which was really fun.
You hear traces of some real cutting-edge dance music on the album – for instance, the dubstep break on “Hold It Against Me.” How do you find new sounds?
I listen to a lot of different music from all over the world and I guess I just gravitate towards what sounds fresh and what makes me want to move. I really didn’t want to record anything on this album that could be mistaken for anyone else out there. I think my first two singles, “Hold It Against Me” and “Till The World Ends,” sound completely different from anything else and I think when my fans hear the rest of Femme Fatale they’ll see how fresh every song is.
Do you still go out to clubs? What kind of dance music do you like?
I don’t go out that much anymore but when I do, I definitely like to go out and dance. I’m a big vibe person when it comes to music so a song really has to make me feel a certain way in order for me to fall in love with it. I love hard pounding dance songs with really beautiful melodies over them. Those are my favorites.
What kind of music do you listen to at home?
I love the Peas but I also love Deadmau5. I guess I’m all over the place. Lately I have been listening to Robyn and Adele non-stop but I also love to find new artists that very few people know about. It’s one of my favorite things to do because it’s like being part of a secret. Friends and people around me are always showing me new artists that they love and that’s how I learned about Sabi and ended up working with her on “(Drop Dead) Beautiful.” I have always wanted to feature a new artist on one of my albums and she is really cool.
What led to your collaboration with willi.am? What was it like working with him?
The Peas make incredibly catchy, fun pop/dance records and I LOVE will.i.am’s style. I have always wanted to do a song with him and would love to work with him more in the future. He is so interesting.
Dr. Luke has become a big-name producer in his own right since your last album – is it different working with him now?
Not really. We have known each other for a really long time. Most people don’t know this but we actually worked together when I was recording “Blackout.” He was incredible back then and he has only gotten better over the years.
Dr. Luke said last fall that “I want [the sound] to get harder in some ways, and maybe a little more deep into electronic — grimier.” Did you have that same agenda for the album? Do you feel like you accomplished that?
When we first sat down to talk about Femme Fatale I knew I wanted to make a dance album that was ahead of everything else out there but unique to me which is why I was so picky with the recording process. I only wanted songs that I immediately connected to. I also wanted to make sure that this album was completely different from Circus or anything else I had ever recorded. I love Circus but I wanted something darker and edgier. I also wanted to make an album and didn’t want to just record a bunch of songs and put them together. I think Femme Fatale is really connected from start to finish.
What is it about Max Martin that makes you so comfortable collaborating with him? How much bigger of a role did he take on this album than he did for “Circus”?
Max played a huge role on this album and he has been there since the beginning so there is such a huge level of trust. He gets exactly what I am saying when I tell him what I want and don’t want musically. His melodies are incredible and he is always coming up with weird sounds, which I love. The whistle on “I Wanna Go” still gets me every time I hear it. Who would have thought of that? There is nobody I feel more comfortable collaborating with in the studio.
How would you characterize the studio relationship between Max and Dr. Luke?
They are two peas in a pod. It’s a total bromance
Yes. They definitely dance to it but its kind of funny because they are still confused …. It’s like, ‘who is this Britney Spears singer in contrast to mommy?’
How has your involvement in the record-making process changed over the years?
I have always been heavily involved in every album I have ever made. I’m very stubborn when it comes to recording and will only record songs I love, which is why it takes me a long time to make an album. I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it’s a good process because I love all of my music. I know there are a lot of artists that hate songs they recorded. I don’t feel that way.
What was your idea for the overall sound of this album?
I wanted to make a fresh-sounding album for the clubs or something that you play in your car when you’re going out at night that gets you excited but I wanted it to sound different from everything else out right now. I also wanted to experiment with all the different types of music I love which is why you hear a mixture of pop, hip-hop and dance throughout the album. I also really wanted to play with my voice and change up my sound here and there which was really fun.
You hear traces of some real cutting-edge dance music on the album – for instance, the dubstep break on “Hold It Against Me.” How do you find new sounds?
I listen to a lot of different music from all over the world and I guess I just gravitate towards what sounds fresh and what makes me want to move. I really didn’t want to record anything on this album that could be mistaken for anyone else out there. I think my first two singles, “Hold It Against Me” and “Till The World Ends,” sound completely different from anything else and I think when my fans hear the rest of Femme Fatale they’ll see how fresh every song is.
Do you still go out to clubs? What kind of dance music do you like?
I don’t go out that much anymore but when I do, I definitely like to go out and dance. I’m a big vibe person when it comes to music so a song really has to make me feel a certain way in order for me to fall in love with it. I love hard pounding dance songs with really beautiful melodies over them. Those are my favorites.
What kind of music do you listen to at home?
I love the Peas but I also love Deadmau5. I guess I’m all over the place. Lately I have been listening to Robyn and Adele non-stop but I also love to find new artists that very few people know about. It’s one of my favorite things to do because it’s like being part of a secret. Friends and people around me are always showing me new artists that they love and that’s how I learned about Sabi and ended up working with her on “(Drop Dead) Beautiful.” I have always wanted to feature a new artist on one of my albums and she is really cool.
What led to your collaboration with willi.am? What was it like working with him?
The Peas make incredibly catchy, fun pop/dance records and I LOVE will.i.am’s style. I have always wanted to do a song with him and would love to work with him more in the future. He is so interesting.
Dr. Luke has become a big-name producer in his own right since your last album – is it different working with him now?
Not really. We have known each other for a really long time. Most people don’t know this but we actually worked together when I was recording “Blackout.” He was incredible back then and he has only gotten better over the years.
Dr. Luke said last fall that “I want [the sound] to get harder in some ways, and maybe a little more deep into electronic — grimier.” Did you have that same agenda for the album? Do you feel like you accomplished that?
When we first sat down to talk about Femme Fatale I knew I wanted to make a dance album that was ahead of everything else out there but unique to me which is why I was so picky with the recording process. I only wanted songs that I immediately connected to. I also wanted to make sure that this album was completely different from Circus or anything else I had ever recorded. I love Circus but I wanted something darker and edgier. I also wanted to make an album and didn’t want to just record a bunch of songs and put them together. I think Femme Fatale is really connected from start to finish.
What is it about Max Martin that makes you so comfortable collaborating with him? How much bigger of a role did he take on this album than he did for “Circus”?
Max played a huge role on this album and he has been there since the beginning so there is such a huge level of trust. He gets exactly what I am saying when I tell him what I want and don’t want musically. His melodies are incredible and he is always coming up with weird sounds, which I love. The whistle on “I Wanna Go” still gets me every time I hear it. Who would have thought of that? There is nobody I feel more comfortable collaborating with in the studio.
How would you characterize the studio relationship between Max and Dr. Luke?
They are two peas in a pod. It’s a total bromance
lunes, 14 de marzo de 2011
Rolling Stones review Femme Fatale
Britney Spears is pop music’s stealth avant-gardist. For years, critics have dismissed her as a cipher with a wisp of a voice. But from the minute she burst on the scene — heralded by the keyboard power chords of “. . . Baby One More Time” — her music has steered bubblegum into weirder, woollier territory. “Toxic” was a mélange of Bollywood and spy-movie guitar; “Piece of Me” was an essay on 21st-century tabloid infamy crooned over 22nd-century club rhythms. Then there’s this year’s “Hold It Against Me,” which dissolves into a furious dubstep breakdown — easily the most assaultive beat on the Hot 100 right now.
Femme Fatale may be Britney’s best album; certainly it’s her strangest. Conceptually it’s straightforward: a party record packed with sex and sadness. Max Martin and Dr. Luke, the world’s two biggest hitmakers, are responsible for seven of 12 songs: big melodies and bigger Eurodisco thumps. But other producers go nuts, tossing the kitchen sink at Britney. The Bloodshy-helmed “How I Roll” is sputtering, oddly beautiful techno. In “Big Fat Bass,” Will.i.am turns Britney into a cyborg obsessed with low-end. (“The bass is getting bigger!” she exults.) On nearly every track, Britney’s voice is twisted, shredded, processed, roboticized. Maybe this is because she doesn’t have much of a voice; it’s certainly because she, more than almost any other pop diva, is simply game. Femme fatale? Not so much. But say this for Britney: She’s an adventuress.
Source: Rolling Stones Magazine
jueves, 3 de febrero de 2011
DR. LUKE REVEALS FEMME FATALE DETAILS
“We’re in the middle of it right now. It’s a little bit fluid right now. I can’t even say at this stage what songs for sure are making it and what songs aren’t. We’re working with a lot of producers and overseeing it with her A&R and record label and management and trying to make something cohesive.”
The album, of course, will contain “Hold It Against Me,” co-written by Dr. Luke, Martin and Bonnie McKee.Originally, Dr. Luke and Martin, the Swedish songwriter behind some of Spears’ biggest hits, including “…Baby One More Time,” planned to give the song to Katy Perry. “We might have played it for her, but it definitely wasn’t a Katy Perry record,” Dr. Luke says by phone from Conway Recording Studio in Los Angeles. “We had it for a while. I wanted to make sure it didn’t sound like everything else I’ve done. I brought it into Billboard, and he just killed it. It can be hard in the verse, and the bridge is super, super hard, but the chorus is super-pop. You can play that chorus acoustically on a guitar and it’s still going to sound great.”
Top 40 radio stations continue to spin “Hold It Against Me” in regular rotation. “It feels like a really obvious, easy-to-listen-to first single,” says John Ivey, program director for KIIS in LA, which played the song once an hour the first day it came out. “You hear all those little parts that are so Britney – ‘here’s the video-breakdown-dance part of the song.’ That’s what my listeners love about her.“
Although her 2008 album Circus sold fewer than 2 million copies, not a huge number given Spears’ history of blockbuster sales, retailers have high hopes for the March release. “[Circus] ended up doing well, but we were a little cautious about it — a little tense comeback issues were going to be relevant,” says Mark Hudson, music buyer for Trans World Entertainment, who predicts the new album could sell 500,000 copies in its first week. “But this time around, her stock is higher.”
Dr. Luke also noted that he and Martin, the executive producers, plan on working on several songs directly in addition to “Hold It Against Me.” He also confirmed Bloodshy (who co-produced Spears’ classic “Toxic”) and Benny Blanco (who worked on Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” and Perry’s “California Gurls”) were among several big names who would make production appearances.So far, Spears has dropped by the LA studio two or three times to lay down her vocals. “Britney’s really fast,” Dr. Luke says. “She gets it done.”
Source: RollingStone.com
viernes, 9 de abril de 2010
Britney have one of the most sexys cover in Rolling Stones
On April 15, 1999, the disclosure of pop then took the cover of this magazine with a photograph that you took the renowned David LaChapelle. The image is remembered as one of the first to reveal the sensuality of Spears, who at that time was just 17 years.
This cover is one of the most memorable in history, and yes, Britney is on it :)
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