Official Britney Spears FEMME FATALE Hype Thread

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New rankings after third listen:

Amazing:

1) I Wanna Go (it's all about that bridge)
2) Criminal (again, very classic Britney, and it's smooth from start to finish)
3) Gasoline (totally grew on me. There's moments of greatness in this)
4) Trouble for Me (reminds me of S&M by Rihanna, meaning I love it)
5) How I Roll (a risky production that pays off in the end)

Good:

6) Till The World Ends (a fun track but isn't really risky or challenging)
7) Inside Out (I hate the verses but the chorus is pretty great)
8) Seal it with a Kiss (also the chorus I like, very tongue-in-cheek)
9) Hold it Against Me (the dubstep breakdown is still the best on the album)

Not Havin' it:

10) (Drop Dead) Beautiful (the chorus I actually really like, but the lyrics/rap are just god-awful)
11) Trip to your Heart (I'm starting to get it a bit more, it's just not that interesting of a song)
12) Big Fat Bass (another song with Will.I.Am explaining all the instruments he's using. WHY?)
 
Soulscribe said:
New rankings after third listen:

Amazing:

1) I Wanna Go (it's all about that bridge)
2) Criminal (again, very classic Britney, and it's smooth from start to finish)
3) Gasoline (totally grew on me. There's moments of greatness in this)
4) Trouble for Me (reminds me of S&M by Rihanna, meaning I love it)
5) How I Roll (a risky production that pays off in the end)

Good:

6) Till The World Ends (a fun track but isn't really risky or challenging)
7) Inside Out (I hate the verses but the chorus is pretty great)
8) Seal it with a Kiss (also the chorus I like, very tongue-in-cheek)
9) Hold it Against Me (the dubstep breakdown is still the best on the album)

Not Havin' it:

10) (Drop Dead) Beautiful (the chorus I actually really like, but the lyrics/rap are just god-awful)
11) Trip to your Heart (I'm starting to get it a bit more, it's just not that interesting of a song)
12) Big Fat Bass (another song with Will.I.Am explaining all the instruments he's using. WHY?)
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Good ranking, I pretty much agree all around. I don't mind Big Fat Bass, though.

Ask me today, and I say it's the best Britney album to date. :O
 
Atomic said:
I Wanna Go is SO fun.
The album is mediocre though.
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Trip To Your Heart is the perfect let's cuddle and then fuck song.


This album gives me so much pleasure. I can't believe it exceeded my already high expectations. <3
 
im having an eargasm listening to "trip to your heart" song just makes me feel good and takes me somwhere.. i like the trance feeling from it
 
The only thing I don't like is that Britney's voice is unrecoginzable in some tracks. What have they done.

The album is fun. But it's no Blackout.
 
So the general consensus is that Blackout is the best album of her career?

I can't listen to leaks anymore, I'm very weak when it comes to supporting the album afterwards :\
 
FTH said:
So the general consensus is that Blackout is the best album of her career?

I can't listen to leaks anymore, I'm very weak when it comes to supporting the album afterwards :\
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I love the album though it's vastly different in style. It's like an evolution or extention of Blackout.

So, with: Run Away, Before The Goodbye, The Answer, Get Back, Phonography, Amnesia, Trouble; all being top-notch AAA tracks, I can't fricken wait for the bonuses. It's been a well known fact that Britney's extras blow everything out of the water.

Can't wait.
 
FTH said:
So the general consensus is that Blackout is the best album of her career?

I can't listen to leaks anymore, I'm very weak when it comes to supporting the album afterwards :\
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There literally isn't a track on Blackout that couldn't have been a single. Except maybe Why Should I Be Sad. There is no filler, and it's still a full-length album. It's fantastic.
 
Atomic said:
The album is mediocre though.
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I disagree. All of the songs are good imo. I hated Big Fat Bass at first, but it's growing on me. How I Roll is good after a few listens.
Stand out tracks for me:

I Wanna Go
Trip To Your Heart (I really like this one)
Criminal
Gasoline
Seal It With a Kiss
Inside Out
 
Since everyone is kind of ranking again, my second day in my top played are:

How I Roll - Still my favorite. :)
Gasoline
Criminal
Till The World Ends
Hold It Against Me

Fake Edit: (Drop Dead) just started playing while I was typing this and I do like it. That's probably my personal underrated song that I don't listen to specifically but I like it when it comes on.

I need to give the others a listen again as I just keep replaying the above over and over. Well, besides HIAM as I've heard it enough on the radio in the last month or two. These are all songs I can see moving forward with me as I get out of that new album hype.

I do kind of like Big Fat Bass but I think if I wanted to listen to a song like that when I'm out I would rather just listen to an actual BEP song.
 
Imma go ahead and say an unpopular opinion but I believe Femme Fatale features some of her best vocal perfermances since In The Zone, altered vocals or not.
 
I don't mind vocal processing expressly done to suit a particular style (like in Femme Fatale). I only mind that shit when it's used to produce a downright LIE like with anything Katy Perry and Rihanna. I can't believe those bitches record the things they do and then keep a straight face while attempting to "sing" them live.

That being said, there are a few instances in Femme Fatale where I would have preferred to hear Britney's raw vocals without the stylistic layer on top of them (such as during Drop Dead Beautiful). The vocals in Hold It Against Me were surprisingly raw, but it turns out that song was the exception and not the norm.

Whatever obviously. I am still in heaven under the light of GODNEY.
 
godels rotating universe said:
There literally isn't a track on Blackout that couldn't have been a single. Except maybe Why Should I Be Sad. There is no filler, and it's still a full-length album. It's fantastic.
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By that very definition, Femme Fatale is that bloody good. IMO after listening all day to this, I am jawdroppingly happy with it.
 
krypt0nian said:
By that very definition, Femme Fatale is that bloody good. IMO after listening all day to this, I am jawdroppingly happy with it.
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When I did my first run through listen I was in disbelief at how good it is. Every song is a radio hit waiting to happen IMO.

I couldnt ask for more.
 
And we still have three bonus tracks left to hear! Circus' bonus tracks were ah-mazing (PHONOGRAPHY), so we might still get even more FINEFRESHFIERCE.
 
Koodo said:
And we still have three bonus tracks left to hear! Circus' bonus tracks were ah-mazing (PHONOGRAPHY), so we might still get even more FINEFRESHFIERCE.
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5, not 3!

Up N' Down
He About To Lose Me
Selfish
Don't Keep Me Waiting
Scary(?) An exclusive Japanese track
 
so far, I'm LOVING I Wanna Go, Big Fat Bass (but Will.i.am totally harshed my buzz...), and Trip To Your Heart above all.
 
Weird.

I went to bed at 3:45AM. I couldn't sleep until 5AM or so, and the whole time Big Fat Bass was running in my mind. I was like, the fuck? I DON'T LIKE THIS SONG. But yeah, it's growing on me. Honestly, if it wasn't the slow slow begning of it I would have loved it more.

But anyway. Yay.
 
I love how virbrant the whole album is. There isn't one dull moment in it. This sounds more like a greatest hits than a new album. Robyn's Body Talk is probably the last album I've heard that offered a good dance track after another.
 
Britney came out of hiding to attend another baseball game of her son and once again she was playing with that same baby. Me thinks she wants another baby!! I would love it if she had a baby girl now

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She looks so happy! And LOL all the young moms dress alike haha.
 
Echoes said:
Weird.

I went to bed at 3:45AM. I couldn't sleep until 5AM or so, and the whole time Big Fat Bass was running in my mind. I was like, the fuck? I DON'T LIKE THIS SONG. But yeah, it's growing on me. Honestly, if it wasn't the slow slow begning of it I would have loved it more.

But anyway. Yay.
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I made a radio edit of it if you're interested.
 
BowieZ said:
I made a radio edit of it if you're interested.
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At first I thought you had cut my favorite part of Big Fat Bass, while leaving Will.i.am's horrendous babbling in. But turns out you just pushed my favorite part (Britney singing "the bass is getting low") to the end of the song. Still, I just want an edit of the song without Will.i.am. I can stomach the first part of his solo, but once the part starts with "For the big big fat fat bass, rocking all in your face, ..." I just want to punch the guy in the neck. I think I've heard that exact same type of rapping and vocals in 5 BEP songs. Uh!

Also, the rapping in (Beautiful) Drop Dead, is that even Britney? I don't recognize her voice in it at all. It sounds more like Ke$ha. And her having worked on the album as well, it's a possibility...? Apart from that, Drop Dead is my least favorite song of the album. I always skip it.

My favorite song for the moment is Trip to your Heart. It's not just a beautiful song, it has an emotional effect on me, for a lack of a better description. I'm not sure if I get happy or rather sad from listening to it. But it does something, lol. I also like how the start seems like a fully fletched Trance song from Armin van Buuren or Push, but once you get to the chorus, it becomes and (almost too) sweet love song.

I Wanna Go is weird in that the beat is really uplifting and pulsing, and the verses and especially the bridge are very nice, but it all falls apart with the chorus. The chorus isn't horrible or anything, but the song had so much more potential imho.




And overall, I love the vocals of Britney on the album. I'm not talking about all the autotune and distortion per sé. It's that I find that Britney typically does 2 types of singing. Either she yells (Toy Soldier, Radar, ...), or she sings very softly, almost as if she's singing a goodnight song to a child (Break the Ice, Trip to your heart, ...). I'm happy that in Femme Fatale she only uses the latter kind. I love Britney's voice color that way. That aside, they've also done other things with the vocals that I like. There is polyphonic singing in almost every track, which makes a song guaranteed better, haha. And in Trip to your Heart, they've added an extra layer of computerized voice over the lyrics, which make Britney sound almost as if she has a sour throat, which I like because it makes it sound more emotional (paradoxically, considering it's because of a computer voice :)).


<3 the album. I'll rank the songs one time or another.
 
Souldriver said:
Also, the rapping in (Beautiful) Drop Dead, is that even Britney? I don't recognize her voice in it at all. It sounds more like Ke$ha. And her having worked on the album as well, it's a possibility...? Apart from that, Drop Dead is my least favorite song of the album. I always skip it.
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That's not Britney rapping, it's Sabi from The Bangz. Honestly though, Britney could have just done that part herself... don't know why they bothered.
 
ROLLING STONE GIVES FEMME FATALE 4 STARS!!!!

Britney Spears is pop music's stealth avant-gardist. For years, critics have dismissed her as a cipher with a wisp of a voice. But from the minute she burst on the scene — heralded by the keyboard power chords of ". . . Baby One More Time" — her music has steered bubblegum into weirder, woollier territory. "Toxic" was a mélange of Bollywood and spy-movie guitar; "Piece of Me" was an essay on 21st-century tabloid infamy crooned over 22nd-century club rhythms. Then there's this year's "Hold It Against Me," which dissolves into a furious dubstep breakdown — easily the most assaultive beat on the Hot 100 right now.


Femme Fatale may be Britney's best album; certainly it's her strangest. Conceptually it's straightforward: a party record packed with sex and sadness. Max Martin and Dr. Luke, the world's two biggest hitmakers, are responsible for seven of 12 songs: big melodies and bigger Eurodisco thumps. But other producers go nuts, tossing the kitchen sink at Britney. The Bloodshy-helmed "How I Roll" is sputtering, oddly beautiful techno. In "Big Fat Bass," Will.i.am turns Britney into a cyborg obsessed with low-end. ("The bass is getting bigger!" she exults.) On nearly every track, Britney's voice is twisted, shredded, processed, roboticized. Maybe this is because she doesn't have much of a voice; it's certainly because she, more than almost any other pop diva, is simply game. Femme fatale? Not so much. But say this for Britney: She's an adventuress.
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A snippet of Selfish has leaked!

Compared to the God Tier quality of all 12 main tracks, the song seems a bit underwhelming. On any other pop album though, it would probably fall under "Good!"
 
The album is okay, the songs are enjoyable, but I really miss the tracks where her voice stands out without processing or autotune. Remember how the producer said last fall how strong her vocals were during the recording? I really can't hear it when listening to the final product. :/ She has a strong voice and she has so much potential in her voice but she never uses it anymore. Criminal is a good song though, I'm happy there was at least one slower song.
 
How I Roll and Trouble For Me have easily become my two most played songs on the album. Although when I played some of the songs to my friends, they UNANIMOUSLY thought I Wanna Go was the strongest song. It definitely has some big top-ten potential.
 
BowieZ said:
Snippets of the four main bonus tracks have been released*:

http://mistermartian.tumblr.com/post/3893678730/femme-fatale-bonus-track-samples

*refuses to say 'leaked'
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They all sound good (especially Up N Down), but I'm a little disappointed that there seems to be no signs of dubstep in these tracks. I guess that's the point of bonus songs though (the leftovers that don't fit with the main entree), but it would have been cool to have some hardcore riské smash beat acid trip track in there (or something totally zany like Phonography).
 
He About To Lose Me's chorus sounds exactly like I expected, and now excuse me while i rofl, lmao, die, etc.

Anyways, How I Roll, Seal it With a Kiss, and Till the World Ends are my favorite tracks. <3 this album is great.
 
Her voice on He About to Lose Me <3 <3 <3

But they're OK. I can see why they didnt make the cut. Obviously the best tracks ended up on the album.

Although we still have to hear Scary
 
Big Fat Bass is amazing. One of my favorites. It's so trippy. I already feel drunk when listen to the song.

All of the tracks are really good. Seriously. It's the second Britney album I actually like. This + Blackout = AAA pop music.
 
After listening to it more this week, I think every song could potentially be a single except (Drop Dead) Beautiful and Trouble For Me, which to me are both crap.
 
Second said:
Big Fat Bass is amazing. One of my favorites. It's so trippy. I already feel drunk when listen to the song.
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You're right. Something about the way she pronounces some of the words, combined with the odd note progressions make it really trippy.
 
I can't, y'all.
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Big Fat Bass + How I Roll + I Wanna Go + Trip of Your Heart = Four Tracks of the Dancepokolips.

me. no. cannot. not. dance...
 
Currently on my 18th listen. I love everything, bar none. Big Fat Bass, which used to be my least favorite Britney track, is now a favorite. WTF. Seriously, top-notch album.

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