Britney Spears - Britney Jean
I think... think, I love this album. If I don't love this album later, I would like to share that I think this album is HUGE personally for Britney. Britney is pushing herself vocally, if you listen you can hear her trying to break her niche voice. The lyrics seem like I did some googling. Wikipedia has me all confused on the facts of this, but you guys should know B has never written her own lyrics. Only a handful of songs on her albums have been from her own hand. I'm sure she has written Everytime, Sometimes, and Someday (I Will Understand) the others listed on wiki weren't there a few years ago so I'm not sure. Anyway, point stands, the songs she's written, you can tell, they are personal and usually slower and shed a new light. I again don't know the truth, but listening to this album, I suspect she has written most of these songs.
I've grown up with Britney. I've followed her heartbreaks as if they were my own, supported the crazy. I don't know why, because I recognize Britney is not an exceptional anything really, but I will forever be bound to her and support her. I think she is an incredibly strong person and has been raised and crucified by the spotlight.
This album, taking out all the bullshit, is something tangible Britney. She seems aware of this album, present in the lyrics. She had a say in this one. Britney's other albums are great, the hits are undeniably amazing, and the other filler songs go along with her image of a human puppet. But this album seems like something she wants to do. It's as if she's lost her manager and she's sober in the studio and asking questions and I can't not love that independence.
Some of the decisions on this album we're the wrong ones. I'm not above admitting some of the lyrics are typical Britney pawned trash. Some of the lines are repeated to exhaustion. The overuse of effects and sound is like a seizure to the ears at times. It's too much, way too much. I would guess this is some over ambition of Spears's first day on the job. However, I'm still incredibly proud of her.
My proposition: re-record and re-release this album, Britney Jean, Unplugged. Take out all the bullshit, lay down the tracks in your God given voice, and let the people hear you.
Jamie Lynn made an appearance in Chillin' With You, her voice was nice, nothing special, too auto-tuned, but you can tell she has a sweet little voice.
This album, taking out all the bullshit, is something tangible Britney. She seems aware of this album, present in the lyrics. She had a say in this one. Britney's other albums are great, the hits are undeniably amazing, and the other filler songs go along with her image of a human puppet. But this album seems like something she wants to do. It's as if she's lost her manager and she's sober in the studio and asking questions and I can't not love that independence.
Some of the decisions on this album we're the wrong ones. I'm not above admitting some of the lyrics are typical Britney pawned trash. Some of the lines are repeated to exhaustion. The overuse of effects and sound is like a seizure to the ears at times. It's too much, way too much. I would guess this is some over ambition of Spears's first day on the job. However, I'm still incredibly proud of her.
My proposition: re-record and re-release this album, Britney Jean, Unplugged. Take out all the bullshit, lay down the tracks in your God given voice, and let the people hear you.
Jamie Lynn made an appearance in Chillin' With You, her voice was nice, nothing special, too auto-tuned, but you can tell she has a sweet little voice.
Passenger - Favorite song lyrically. I haven't heard this voice since her first album and holy shit she hits a real note.
Alien - Too auto-tuned, but I like the new direction.
Work Bitch - First single off the album, love it duh.
Perfume - Only listen to the bonus remixed "dreaming" version. The regular version is terrible. The second is beautifully done with piano and acoustic guitar.
Tik Tik Boom - This is probably the most catchy of them all, but it's about sex and I hate that. She's got so much more to write about. Like that Stronger "ooh-yeah-ayy-yeaaaah" at 2:31 and 2:40 though.
It Should Be Easy - It's not easy for me to like this song. My least favorite. The auto-tune makes me want to die. The lyrics are beyond terrible and I blame will.i.am, because he's so easy to not like. "I've been thinkin', just sitin' thinkin' on why you and all the reasons." "You bring me ZIN (zen), yeah you bring me ZIN, you make me feel like a million billion" (oh, there's the rhyme -_-) AWFUL SONG.
Body Ache - Has that great effect from the beat of Scream And Shout.
The songs are okay for the most part, I'm going to listen to them over and over so it is what it is. Listening to the whole album is really a gift though, to hear young Britney in these songs coming back out, talented, living, breathing, thinking Britney...
It's nice. Albeit, you have to dig through the auto-tune,
