Britney Spears Vs. The Music

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― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The band? There's four of them, they'd deck her.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Has enough time passed for people to start admitting that "Me Against The Music" wasn't actually as bad as everyone pretended it was? Madonna parts excluded?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I pretended nothing. My first impression of the record was that first track and first single, and it kinda sucks. There are good tracks on the album, but that's not one of them.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah fair enough but some people were acting like it was a new nadir for pop music.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

It sounds like an attempt at a Basement Jaxx sound, no wonder they tried to get them to remix it.

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

GHP's "Me Against the Music" mash-up with PiL makes it tolerable (and almost great), but it's the worst song either Britney or Madonna have touched in recent memory.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Britney Spears Vs. PiL

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I really like most of the album even though Britney made no impression on me previously. I especially like "Me Against the Music", although nobody else does.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

haha tim i suggested the same to one of my friends (the only one who is really into pop,normally my allie in such opinions) and she looked at me like i had two heads,or like the rest of my friends look at me when i mention how much i like other pop music...

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the rapid fire britney part except when she says "zoooooone" it ruins it. And the Madonna part is hard to ignore, jesus.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't even remember what part of it i liked,i just remember there was something that caught my attention

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

full disclosure:i was fairly stoned and this probably had something to do with it...

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

excuses excuses!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronan, how did you feel when you heard Madonna's voice? I think she's full-on sexy here, but what do I know...

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

the madonna parts are the only good ones

― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

full-on sexy = COME OVER HERE I GOT SOMETHIN' TO SHOW YA

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I think we've discussed how much this song needs a quiet bit. and then some "Drums!"

― Jole, Wednesday, 31 December 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

By the way. I reckon if they got in a fight BS would emerge as victor and The Music as producers.

― Jole, Wednesday, 31 December 2003 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I quite liked it, but there are WAAY better tracks on the album. And Madonna sucks.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Bringing Madonna into the album could have been a good idea. Only trouble is, the Madonna track is the worst thing Madonna has been involved with since "Erotica"...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's the most out of touch Madonna has ever sounded. As I've said before listening to Get Into The Groove or something makes Madonna seem cooler than listening to her new stuff.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

sexy != "come over here britney, and go get your grandma a pack of kools from the corner store."

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It's weird how it only took five years (Ray of Light) for her to completely move her finger ("Me Against the Music," American Life) away from the pulse of popular culture.

Love her or hate her, she used to set the trends, but now (like the Beastie Boys), she's a few years behind.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

she never set trends.
what trends did she set?
voguing? yeah, that was a real trend there trendmeister.
blahblahblitheringblahblahmadonnablahblahoverratedblahblahclotheshorse

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Five years is an eternity in pop music.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

she never set trends.
what trends did she set?

In 1982: girls in malls had feathered hair and wore tight jeans, white female artists didn't do r&b dance music, and the only one-named female superstar was Cher.
In 1983/84: girls in malls had scrunched/hairsprayed hair and wore mesh tops and leather jackets, the charts were littered with white girls doing dance tunes, and people were saying "Cher who?"

Five years is an eternity in pop music.

True, but for someone who was on the mark for over a decade, it's odd that she'd lose her way so quickly.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

In 1982: girls in malls had feathered hair and wore tight jeans, white female artists didn't do r&b dance music, and the only one-named female
superstar was Cher.
In 1983/84: girls in malls had scrunched/hairsprayed hair and wore mesh tops and leather jackets, the charts were littered with white girls doing dance
tunes, and people were saying "Cher who?"

what about Tenille?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Martika!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Tiffany!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

For the love of god someone please shoot me in the face fast!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

*pow*

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Lulu

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

she never set trends.
what trends did she set?

Prior to 1983-84, how many female pop (as opposed to rock) artists wrote their own material rather than having some male write all of their stuff?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Carole King.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate Bush.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG, I wrote Carole King, and then didn't hit submit!!!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Huck we really ought to stop, like, being the same person. It's weird.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you and, uh, Adam/Nordic ever do this too?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

er, they both have the standard non-revolutionizing pop music in anyway at all 2 names.

After Madonna came along and empowered women in pop to drop the patriarchal second name, an abundance of pop princesses lept forth from malls across the world...

Tiffany, Martika,Sonia, Sabrina. Even Kylie Minogue now feels sufficiently in control of her magpie like path to now be simply, Kylie.

The R'n'B world has also benefited from Madonna's struggle: Aaliyah and Tweet and Jamelia and Lumidee.

― Nik (Nik), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Fabian.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

RuPaul

― Nik (Nik), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

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