She can come over and read the phone book to me and I'll pay attention. Just sayin'...
Which just shows you that pop stars today are signed, groomed and promoted on the basis of looks and image. Hire a few songwriters, musicians and rent a state of the art studio and anybody can be made to sound good. It’s why most of these pop stars all sound the same.
It sounds like the audio was auto-detuned. It has that weird sound you get when you play a record backwards. The “photo” of her is SO reworked it looks like it came from a Playstation game.
I like it.
There is a copy of the released song below, it’s not a rock anthem or anything but it’s nice enough.
I say it is a medium hit.
I like her for some reason. Seems to have grounded herself quite a bit in the last few years. Can’t be more offensive than the rest of the crap that passes for music these days.
That’s so funny! It’s personal, really. I remember when me and some buddies when we were overseas in the military were going to go to the base theater to see “WOODSTOCK” the movie when it first came out.
One of the guys that had just flew in on the island had brought a square of hash wrapped in tinfoil in his wallet, and we planned to smoke it before seeing the movie.
We did, and I sat there in that movie, and the music was gargantuan! Birdsong Melodious!.....I particularly remember “Wooden Ships” by CSN. Sweetest thing I’d ever heard - perfectly in tune!. That pretty much squared me off that the Hippie, Love, Dove movement was nothing but drugged out nothing.
Years later, I watched the same movie and the same song “Wooden....” and I just refused to believe they were the same!........
I guess that’s what this new-fangled “auto-tune” does. Damndest thing I ever heard.....
bttt
bump for later perusal.
I don't like this lady as a human and have never heard her music till now, but this is much ado about nothing. Hardly worth posting.
She can come over and read the phone book to me and I'll pay attention. Just sayin'...
Britt & Baraq
what a pair....
http://www.camloot.com/the-word/britney-spears-joins-forces-with-obama/
“No one ever thought Britney Spears’ songs were untouched in the recording studio”
I did. None of these teenager crooners are natural. They all sound 100% digitally edited.
I use to sing semi-professsional.
I put out all kinds of notes while working out a song but, the final is on key and time.
I make up stuff as I work a song out that many times sounds like I can’t carry a note in a back pack but, there is no way I’d need AutoTune for a final product.
Go listen to any studio outakes for popular artists of the 60’s and 70’s. You’ll hear all kinds of “Ain’t right” and then the final version as the artist works out where they’d like to take the song.
When I woke up this morning, I assumed that there was the usual 0% chance of intentionally listening to Britney Spears singing.
I was wrong.
Wow. Pretty pitchy, dawg, as Randy Jackson would say.
I saw her once on Saturday Night Live many years ago trying to sing without autotune and she was horrible.
It was after she had been caught lipsyncing and I guess she wanted to prove she could sing. She cannot. Most of the people you see on the covers of the magazines at the supermarket who are “singers” can sing.
With or without autotune that song is terrible.
I honestly did not think it was that bad. No real talent there but talent isn’t what sells, I guess. Problem is, she is running short on the other stuff that sells. (youth, hotness, dancing ability, etc.) (:
Singing from the old days without autotune:
Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, “Under Pressure”, a capella
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMQb9LCNGxs
Is she still hot?
This isn’t new info...when she was on the Mouse channel there were times that tape came out of her ‘singing’ .... and it clearly had no auto tune. It is one of the reasons that I dislike most of the ‘entertainers’ who are coming up these days....they don’t have honest voices.... a few do but most are products of the old mix master
It’s the same on American Idol, I expect. All those fab singers are digitally enhanced?