britney spears pretty girls?

otm

is it shitty for me to say that i wish she'd drop the overly worn spangled leotard and the over-the-top ooo boy look at my body nonsense that was on display at the VMAs? It feels dated and beneath her.

its fan service tho

yeah the stage persona is really dated and embarrassing at this point.
it's a bit pathetic to try and compete on that (dubious) aspect with today's 20yo popstars...
she's gonna end like Madonna !

as for the album, the more I listen to "man on the moon" the more I like it : there's not 1, not 2 but 3 killer melody parts !
the first verse melody (intro)
the second verse melody (after the intro)
and the chorus, of course.
(there's another part, a kind of pre-chorus, that is sub par)

and another great thing about that song : there are not two verses sections alike.
the first verse section is : intro melody + second melody + pre-chorus
then after the first chorus it's : first melody + pre-chorus
after second chorus it's : second melody instrumental + second melody + pre-chorus/spoken words

how brilliant is that as a songwriting structure !

and in a perfect pop world, "slumber party" would be a big hit !

and yeah, "make me" is very good (I didn't like it much at first) except that terrible rap section that almost ruins the song.
if I could excise it...
(just like on Selena Gomez "good for you". at least on that one, there's a rap free version !).

it's kinda weird when pop isn't popular, I dunno just to see ppl trotting out these old "Man in a perfect world the Replacements shoulda been HUGE!" arguments any Britney

hum. yeah. maybe not "perfect world" but in a less decadent/mediocre pop world, then !

so obsessed with If I'm Dancing right now https://twitter.com/sadhoeflo/status/768697237283098625

im loving the back half of this album - Better to Coupure Electrique is a pretty great run. Also just chuffed about the atmostpheric rise of Bloodpop.

this seems to be the Glory thread. the 2020 Deluxe version just came out (please don't confuse it with the 2016 Deluxe version!). it has three newnever before released songs, four years after the fact, no one gives a shit**, but I do like "Matches", the song with the Backstreet Boys that forks posted on another Britney thread earlier today - the gallop in the chorus & post-chorus is exquisite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0hb8oYDAcs

**HOWEVER, we do get the ORIGINAL "Slumber Party", which had been scraped off the internet, back. The superfluous Tinashe version has been disposed of. Four years too late, but still.