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• Anonymous
• Sep 29, 2009, 23:38
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In my opinion “3″ is a very clever single, even though i disagree with the fact that it is released with a “Singles” album (yes its the kicker to augment sales). You see, Britney, management, producers etc… realize Britney Spears fans are now between the ages of 21-25 therefore creating catchy more mature songs is the way to go. It is unnecessary to say that an artists fans are made primarily when an artists is presented to the world, this is obvious. Therefore little screaming teens that went to watch Britney shows are now late in college years, graduating, or young professionals. This is why Britney’s music has gone from Pop to what I like to call commercial club pop. Take her first single, Baby One More Time… how awkward would it be to go have a drink at a clube with some friends and listen to that song, it has hard slow beats makes it hard to dance to unless its remixed and I would much rather listen to something that makes me bob my head when I’m trying to have fun. Now take Slave 4 U, this was really the first CD (Britney 2001) that had a “club song”. This song had hard beats, was danceable, chicks loved it, not to mention she was freaking hot in the video. Then comes In The Zone 2003 with songs like Outrageous, I Want That (Boom Boom), Me Against the Music, The Hook Up, which are clearly produced for dance floors. Very “Hip Hoppish” very danceable, very “crazy drunk girl working the bar”. Yet if you look into these songs, you may notice they talk about NOTHING. Lyrics are unconditional, they are basically just made to beats with a moan here a “woo” there and elaborate choreographies. Take a leap to Blackout. Blackout is what I like to call a mesh of producer hits. It was completely unrecognized, unregarded, and unnoticed because of the “Crazy” stage the lady was going through, yet if you look into tracks, most of them produced by different individuals, new concepts, new ideas, more sexual mature lyrics, very catchy tunes, the whole album is a work of art. Its a collection of songs with Britney’s voice that make a statement for every producer that collaborated in it basically used as an opportunity to say “here is what i got, here is what i can do, check it out”. Black out (until Circus came out) is probably the ONLY Britney Spears album which I could listen to in whole, well maybe I skipped 1 track, but that was it. Year later, come Circus. Circus, Britney’s “comeback” album, is a very good album indeed, though in my opinion, as one of your reviews stated, it is kind of all over the place and it lacked organization, but overall pretty decent. I have always wondered why it was called a “comeback” album, because it wasn’t really a “hey guys! I’m back!” it was more of a “Im good at what I do and Im here to stay” album, a slap in the face to all the people that thought she was not gonna make it (even more of a slap when she successfully completed her tour two days ago in Las Vegas, the most successful tour of 2009 so far). Now that being said, this album shows a perfect harmony of songs that have mature lyrics with double meanings (If You Seek Amy, Phonography, Womanizer, Radar) to original “Britney like” songs like Circus, Kill the Lights, Shattered Glass, and pop ballads like Unusual You, My Baby. This album is a perfect example of producer and management genius. It has everything, songs for the 21-25 year old Britney fans that realized what she was saying in If You Seek Amy by the second time they heard the song and that get a kick of Phonography when listening to it; songs for potential new young fans, Circus and Womanizer; songs for the emotional cute old school “sometimes” Britney fans, Unusual you, My baby; and NEW songs with new beats and a new concept, Radar and Mannequin. Now, given the success of the album and the high response they got from the tour, they realize that people going to the shows are now older people, in their 20′s that jump up and down, and yell at the top of the lungs praising an idol of their teen years, so what do they do? They come out with “3″ a perfect blend of the new concept music, with a super beat, a constant thump, that talks about threesomes! PERFECT! Personally, i would have much rather have the song be released with a “special edition” version of circus, rather to have it released with songs that I already own, or even maybe with the release of a tour DVD or BluRay, still, it doesn’t take away that the track is a master piece of beats, sexuality and genius. “3″ is the next step, I would not be surprised if the song gets amazing airplay, and is spun at clubs, bars uncontrollably. I like to think that this is exactly what they were aiming for, and they will be successful at it as a single, as a record though (The Singles Collection) I am unsure.
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• Chris DeLine
• Sep 30, 2009, 0:03
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Dear Anonymous,
I agree with everything but calling the song “master piece of beats, sexuality and genius.”
My opinion might change regarding one third of that claim when the music video is released, however.
-Chris
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• Jon Behm
• Sep 30, 2009, 8:57
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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off- then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs- commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds of water-gazers there.
Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?- Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster- tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?