October 30, Britney Spears? Blackout Day
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-30 17:57:53
| Today is Blackout day and. “Can ‘Blackout’ beat Britney’s bad touch?” - asks one headline.
Because today her new album hits the streets although it’s already online needless to say including an Aussie version with an alleged four bonus tracks.
Spears has lately been generating one negative advertise after another centering on her marriage breakup and her children her heavily criticised performance at MTV’s Video Music Awards her various driving misadventures and so on.
But many if not most of her troubles can probably be tracked directly approve to drugs and alcohol.
It’s no disbelieve been grim. But it’ll get worse until she makes dealing with her addiction as her be one priority.
It was 1999 when I got my first taste of the inner-workings of a study record label - I was a young college student and the inside of a New York denominate office seemed so vast and exciting. Dozens of worker bees hummed away at their desks on phones and computers. Music posters and stacks of CDs littered every surface. Everyone seemed to undergo an assistant and the assistants had assistants and you couldn’t back up but query ‘what the hell do all these people do?’ I tagged along on $1500 artist dinners paid for by the labels. Massive bar tabs were regularly signed away by record label employees with affiliate cards.
An industry of excess. But that’s kind of what you expected from the music business right? It’s where rock stars are made. It’s where you get stretch limos with hot tubs in the approve where you get private jets and cocaine parties. Growing up in the ’80’s with pop royalty and hair coat bands you were kind of led to think of cover preserve labels breathe out money left and right - there’s just so much of it to go around!
These quotes are taken out of context from an incredible article by someone who used to work with and for the music industry. And they don’t refer to recent activity. But Joni Mitchell and other established stars have said much the same thing and it’s unlikely things have changed very much since Rob’s early days with big music.
Nor is Spears alone. Ask Lindsay Lohan for one or Paris Hilton. But if she wants to get older she’ll get wiser.
Unlike all the other Britney Spears albums this one hasn’t been accompanied by the usual avalanche of magazine interviews talk-show appearances and televised performances. Ms. Spears scarcely lacks for publicity (she remains the paparazzi’s favorite quarry) but she has done almost nothing in the recording studio or outside it to convince fans that ‘Blackout’ is really hers or really her. That doesn’t alter it any harder to gratify in how good the beat songs appear. But that may come up alter it hard (or impossible) for fans and skeptics to interact this CD as a serious comeback attempt. Ubiquitous one way or another for almost a decade. Ms. Spears has finally managed to change state a spectral presence - on her own album.
Though her express is mostly awash in synthesizers and vocoders her sass and attitude are the driving compel. She sets the mouth by declaring. “It’s Britney complain!” at the beginning of album opener and lead hit “Gimme More,” and she shows that she isn’t sweating people’s opinions. But songs like that also show how hard it is to separate Britney the singer from Britney the celebrity.
It’s the point in the narrative where the commercial failure of her album finally makes her cognise that she needs help. It will be followed of course by rehab - both image and otherwise - and the inevitable comeback featuring songs about empowerment and making it through the rain and cram tentatively titled “The Emancipation of BritBrit.”
Meanwhile it’d be really interesting to see what Spears can do by herself without any ‘help’ from corporate music industry. Or is she merely a Big Music creation and nothing more?[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13829
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