David Lynch and Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks" begins with the discovery of a body and spends 30-odd episodes on the trail of a soul, both belonging to Laura Palmer, a prom queen of dazzling smile and doubtful habits. As an album, it holds together better than any of her other records, echoing the sleek club-centric. Blackout is an easy album to overpraise based on the lowered expectations Britney's behavior has set for her audience, as none of her antics suggested that she'd be able to deliver something coherent and entertaining, two things that Blackout is.
Britney's disastrous VMAs performance- speaking of dead eyes and jerky shuffles- has set much of the tone for reviews of her new album, Blackout. Spears 2003 november&233 ben kezdett dalokat &237 rni a lemezre, amikor egy akusztikusabb hangz&225 ssal k&237 s&233 rletezett.On one level Palmer's story is a cliché- sour secrets of the suburban everygirl, virginal beauty off the rails- but it's a cliché we seem to have an endless appetite for: Witness the fascination with Britney Spears and her messy life. Okt&243 ber 26-&225 n jelent meg a Jive Records gondoz&225 s&225 ban, n&233 gy &233 vvel In the Zone c&237 m elz lemez&233 nek kiad&225 sa ut&225 n. Blackout is one of Britney Spears most.Blackout (Britney Spears-album) A Blackout Britney Spears amerikai &233 nekesn &246 t&246 dik albuma, mely 2007. Their voices are backwards-looped and treated, their dances a jerky shuffle, all adding to a sense of mocking evil that the rest of the show never tries hard to shake.Rolling Stone magazine has considered Britney Spears Blackout to be one of the 500 best albums of all time.
This would be just neato studio trickery except the playing around is totally in service to the song's content. Rated 321 in the best albums of 2007.On slithery second single "Piece of Me", for instance, the constant pitch-shifting on Britney's voice bleeds into the throb and swell of the electronics, with individual backing vocalists not only repeating the chorus hook- "You wanna piece of me"- but doubling up some of Britney's verse words too, creating a weird effect like reading a comic book where speech is emphasised at random. Genres: Dance-Pop, Electropop. Released in October 2007 on Jive (catalog no.
She's credited on Blackout as Executive Producer, which could mean anything, but it's hard to listen to the record and not credit her with a degree of agency. Her typically clipped vocals make the line sound like "You want a piece of meat." Do we?Britney Spears didn't write the lyrics for "Piece of Me", and you could say it's good art about Britney as much as good art by her. One of the backing vocalists, to the delight and relief of connoisseurs worldwide, turned out to be Swedish star Robyn. The multiple backing vox fragment identity further, turn the song more universal. We understand her through a filter, and that's how we have to hear her too. But the hypertreatment of the voice, the way it edges into the music, suggests that the price of fame is identity erasure.
This is mostly phoney: After all, there's a big mainstream market for novelty. It would have fit better on Britney's last record, but now it just sounds like an afterthought, a belated wave goodbye to a discarded pop style.A style being replaced by.what? If you're writing about music there's sometimes a temptation to overstate a record's oddness or experimentalism, to construct an audience who might be shocked by it. That bad Neptunes track- "Why Should I Be Sad?"- sounds like the toy raygun pop they used on the first Kelis album. Especially if a star can keep sonically up-to-date in a fast-moving market. The Revolver blueprint for pop albums- every track good, every track a potential hit- makes more sense than ever.
The result is "Freakshow", built around the "wobbler" effect that's a genre standby. When Team Britney require a dubstep track, for instance, they simply borrow some production tricks and make one. Unlike her superstar ex (no, not K-Fed), Britney's borrowings from urban music don't have a safety net of contact book authenticity: There are no ""'s on Blackout.
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Britney contributes a series of gasps, sighs and chants while Danja sings the chorus, his voice slowed to a decaying moan. This is a song about sex, nothing else, but the level of studio tricknology applied to it turns it claustrophobic, as frightening as it's exhilarating.It opens with a cackle from producer Danja, and "Get Naked" is almost a duet, except that he's subject to the same vocal gravity well Britney is and his laugh is smeared and stretched until it sounds like creaking wood. This dramatic, near-random identity switch is what suddenly made me think about "Twin Peaks", and if there's one song that takes Britney right into the Black Lodge it's the album's centrepiece, "Get Naked (I Got a Plan)". The crux of "Freakshow" isn't the wobbler, it's the unnerving moment when Britney suddenly starts repeating her lines in sick, flat vocals pitched down so low it's like she's turned mid-song into a man. Not because it's Britney, or because of its innovation, but because of its creepiness, its black hole heart.
And Britney's off-disc life is both distraction from and enabler for this extraordinary album. But remember that what made "Twin Peaks" so great wasn't the central good-girl-gone-bad story, it was the strangeness that story liberated. Britney as walking catastrophe makes for great car-crash copy and her record can fit into that if you want it to. Britney's reply is - for almost the first time on the whole of Blackout- sung with perfect clarity, a desperate, front-of-the-mix "Please!""Get Naked", like most of Blackout, is superb modern pop, which could probably only have been released by this star at this moment. Halfway through, after a particularly queasy downtempo shift, Danja starts speaking with a dead metallic tang: "I just want to take your hand". It's thick with chopped-up detail, Danja and Britney's voices taking turns to distort and break up.
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