Best Spears Song...

[Nighthawk 0]

Britney Spears has done enough already to save her from being a joke. You're right though, it was never about actual talent. Britney the persona is better than Christina the persona. Singing talent may give Xtina a singing career later on, but Britney won't fade into obscurity. She'll be Cher at the worst. Minus the academy award winning acting performances.

[SamoaRowe 0]

All the while, I just couldn't figure out what was so special about N'sync.

Something was special about N'sync?

Most of my classmates seemed to think so, at least.

 

I remember hearing them on the radio and being absolutely indifferent to them. Then, all of a sudden, they were this huge sensation and I was just left standing there and wondering why.

 

I also didn't have MTV in my house until i was 15, which might have helped.

[Downhome 0]

I'm also in the seemingly minority, in thinking that Christina is the more purely beautiful of the two gals.

 

Her latest Blender pictures.

[Guest Flyboy]

Yeah. I have that Blender and Christina is still fucking ugly.

[SamoaRowe 0]

Britney USED to be cute. Now she's just trashy and produced.

 

 

Aguilera USED to be trashy and produced... now she's just trashy

 

Just kidding, I do like how Aguilera is more natural looking now. It suits her.

[Nighthawk 0]

I'm also in the seemingly minority, in thinking that Christina is the more purely beautiful of the two gals.

 

Her latest Blender pictures.

I'm with you, but I wouldn't use the words 'purely beautiful'. She nasty. In a good way.

[Downhome 0]

Britney Spears has done enough already to save her from being a joke. You're right though, it was never about actual talent. Britney the persona is better than Christina the persona. Singing talent may give Xtina a singing career later on, but Britney won't fade into obscurity. She'll be Cher at the worst. Minus the academy award winning acting performances.

She wont even be a Cher.

 

I just don't think she'll be around, with a singing career, in more than three or five years. I just get a total feel off of her, with how she's done over the past year or so, that she'll be gone soon. I don't wish anything bad for her, I think that inside she regrets some of what she has done, I almost feel sorry for her as a person at times, I just get a weird vibe from her at times...I can't exactly explain why.

 

Whatever though, I just don't think she has enough true talent to sing for a great number of years, that's all. I don't HATE her or anything, if you know what I mean.

[SamoaRowe 0]

Whatever though, I just don't think she has enough true talent to sing for a great number of years, that's all. I don't HATE her or anything, if you know what I mean.

Yeah, I don't think any of us here are fans of these women even if we compliment them from time to time.

[Downhome 0]

I'm also in the seemingly minority, in thinking that Christina is the more purely beautiful of the two gals.

 

Her latest Blender pictures.

I'm with you, but I wouldn't use the words 'purely beautiful'. She nasty. In a good way.

Hey, she is presented as nasty, trashy, slutty, and everything else.

 

Still, under all of that I see a really beautiful woman, someone who could be a huge fucking force in the music industry if she'd just change a few things up.

 

I don't see her as she is now as purely beautiful, of course not...but I do see that she HAS it, and is underneath what she presents to everyone. Once again, if that makes sense.

 

I'm sorry I hijacked this thread, heh.

[Nighthawk 0]

She doesn't really have to sing, though. She can get away with just going to high profile parties and being famous for doing pretty much nothing, and maybe put out an album every ten years.

Also, I see the potential in her to be huge with gay men.

 

edit: talking about Britney, just to clarify

[SamoaRowe 0]

My friends all think that Aguilera might want to drop out of singing for a bit to pursue a career in porn.

[Downhome 0]

She doesn't really have to sing, though. She can get away with just going to high profile parties and being famous for doing pretty much nothing, and maybe put out an album every ten years.

Also, I see the potential in her to be huge with gay men.

 

edit: talking about Britney, just to clarify

Oh yeah, she'll still be in the public eye as she's got so big already. I just don't think she'll have a consistant musical career, that's all. On the other hand, I just feel and KNOW that Christina has the ability to be able to do so.

[SamoaRowe 0]

 

edit: talking about Britney, just to clarify

Oh yeah, she'll still be in the public eye as she's got so big already. I just don't think she'll have a consistant musical career, that's all. On the other hand, I just feel and KNOW that Christina has the ability to be able to do so.

Where do you see Pink being as time goes by? It sort of seems as if she might already be yesterday's news.

[Guest El Satanico]

none of them

 

Christina looks better when she doesn't dress like a super slut. Be a slut all you want, but god damnit stop dressing like a cracked out prostitute. Christina has a good voice, but I don't like her.

 

Pink is the only current "pop princess" that I can stand listening to. I don't think she gets enough credit.

[SamoaRowe 0]

I like to think that people will one day remember Tori Amos over Pink, Avril, Britney, and even Christina combined.

[Guest El Satanico]

The "pop" is always remembered before the "artsy".

[SamoaRowe 0]

The "pop" is always remembered before the "artsy".

Sad but true. It is a crime that will always exist.

[Downhome 0]

Where do you see Pink being as time goes by? It sort of seems as if she might already be yesterday's news.

I think that if Pink ever really found herself, I still don't think she has totally, that she would also be able to be around for many many years. Hate her for some of her songs, hate her for her product, hate her for whatever reason, but in my opinion Pink has a hell of a lot of talent that should be used in a more productive way.

 

I loved her last album, and I have loved what I've heard of her new one. Hell, I even liked a bit off of her first album.

 

She's also quite the guilty pleasure of mine, I'd love to hit this ba gawd.

 

 

[SamoaRowe 0]

Good gawd... those pics just made Pink gain ten points of overness with me.

[Downhome 0]

I also like Pink in EVERY way more than Britney, from her voice to her musical material to her body to her face...everything.

[SamoaRowe 0]

It also helps that Pink has a personality. Britney just comes across as a dumb cheerleader who is focused only on impressing whoever might be in the room at that particular moment.

[Downhome 0]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SamoaRowe 0]

Oh hell yeah!

 

 

Seriously though, Pink has some real spunk. She's talented and she's not quite as image-conscious.

 

I still think that out of all these "women" for some reason I'd rather do Dido.

[Downhome 0]

One of the reasons that I like Pink so much, is because she's just about the total oposite of everyone that I've ever been involved with before...and I'm sure I'm not the only one who is like that.

 

I also think she's just so fucking cute, one of the cutest out there to me.

 

I love Dido also btw, heh.

[SamoaRowe 0]

I also think she's just so fucking cute, one of the cutest out there to me.

 

I love Dido also btw, heh.

That makes a lot of sense. Pink is like every nice guy's fantasy that they won't admit to.

 

 

And yes...Dido is absolutely adorable... and she's classy as well

[Guest El Satanico]

I also think Pink looks like she'd be more fun to fuck than Christina or Britney.

 

I have a feeling both would be uptight when it came down to actually fucking. Britney seems like she'd be way uptight about it and worried about her hair. And something about Christina makes me think she's not the super slut in private like she wants you to believe. I mean if Christina is such a slut, why don't we hear about sexual adventures involving her. If she's the super slut she portrays herself to be, there's no way she would've been able to keep them all secret.

 

Also Britney would likely spout off shit like she dresses like she dresses to be a strong indepentant woman and that sex just degrades us.

[Downhome 0]

I also think Pink looks like she'd be more fun to fuck than Christina or Britney.

Agreed 100%.

 

More fun...and everything else.

[spiny norman 0]

I think Beautiful was a step in the right direction for Christina, as I felt it was the kind of song her voice needs (though preferably less sappy).

 

She could so easily be something really special though. Even if Britney can get the right song, she'll have to work much harder.

 

And Ernie Rowe, some people I know can't believe I think The Beatles are better than Beyonce. I think my idiots outweigh your idiots.

[Ravenbomb 0]

Jesus, she looks like Vin Desil in that pic

[EdwardKnoxII 0]

http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article....spx?news=141672

 

Sexing Up the Music

Britney tries to get people to focus on her music with her latest release, 'In the Zone'

 

By Rashaun Hall

Billboard

 

If you can believe it, Britney Spears would like people to focus on her music, not her midriff. But seeing is believing, and since the debut of her music video "I'm a Slave 4 U" two years ago, fans have seen Spears take an increasingly provocative journey into sexual exhibitionism.

 

From her love life to her infamous MTV Video Music Awards kiss with Madonna to her National Football League kickoff concert and her most recent performance in New York's Times Square, the artist has tested the limits of her sexuality.

 

But now comes the moment of truth. With her new album, "In the Zone," her label, Jive Records, can only hope that her midriff won't overpower her music.

 

The challenge for the record label is to get across that Spears, 22, has matured as an artist and is ready for a grown-up and more musically diverse audience.

 

In an interview with Billboard, Spears tries to make the point clear that she's just being herself.

 

"I'm doing my thing, and it's the media that's misconstruing the whole conception. It's not me," she insists. "I can't help the fact that they write about me going to Starbucks 24-7."

 

Ironically, her album sales seem to have declined in direct proportion to her increasing public profile.

 

Her 1999 debut, "... Baby One More Time," sold 10 million copies. Subsequent releases -- 2000's "Oops! ... I Did It Again" and 2001's "Britney" -- sold 9.1 million and 4.2 million copies, respectively, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

 

"Certainly, the kiss at the MTV Awards segued into the Madonna single and video in a big way," Jive president Barry Weiss says.

 

Perhaps. But so far, public reaction to the new material has fallen well short of the media excitement.

 

"Me Against the Music," the album's opening single (featuring ample guestwork by Madonna), is up 13-11 this week on Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart. But on The Billboard Hot 100, it slips six slots to No. 44 in its fifth week.

 

"In the Zone" marks a musical departure for Spears. Instead of traditional pop, the singer opts for a darker, more dance-oriented sound.

 

"It was a weird process at first," Spears says. "I didn't exactly know what direction I wanted to go in, but I took my time. That's why I like this album so much.

 

"I did it right. I waited to find myself with other people that I really had chemistry with and could really be creative with," she says.

 

The album includes production from Moby, Bloodshy & Avant, R. Kelly and the Matrix, among others.

 

For Larry Rudolph, Spears' manager for Reindeer Management, it was important for Spears to continue moving away from a traditional pop sound.

 

"On the last album, she kind of departed from that with the Neptunes-produced stuff that she did, like 'I'm a Slave 4 U' and 'Boys.' Those departures were really what worked best for us on the last album," Rudolph says. "We recognized that going into this album."

 

After weighing their options, Spears and her camp decided on a more dance-oriented album.

 

"Dance music is really pop music anyway, it just has sort of a different label to it," Rudolph says.

 

The new direction was felt immediately with "Touch of My Hand," the first song that Spears cut for the new album.

 

"It really did provide a balance for the rest of the record. We just went from there," Spears says of the track, which was produced by Jimmy Harry and Shep Solomon, who have worked with such artists as Kylie Minogue and Clay Aiken.

 

Spears co-wrote seven of the album's 13 songs. "She has achieved what she set out to achieve, which was to make a mature album that didn't sound like something she would have done three years ago while still making a commercial album that has hit singles," Weiss says.

 

"It's a little moody. It's very dance-oriented and very mature," he adds. "It's the kind of record she should be making right now, and it came down to her to make it."

 

Clear Channel Entertainment will produce next year's 56-date Spears tour. The outing will play West Coast arenas from March 3 through April, then hit outdoor amphitheaters in mid-July.

 

Jive plans to release a Spears DVD in mid-March, with previously unreleased footage.