Britney Spears

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V3RYP05H

P'NutButter said:
I've said it before but they should get different actors/actresses to play her at different stages. Similar to what they did with Bob Dylan for I'm Not There -

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Absofuckinglutely.

I wish her book was more like her Instagram posts and just absolute House of Leaves type presentation (with emojis!).
 
colouroffensive

colouroffensive

He/Him
Yesterday marked 14 years since the release of Femme Fatale - the chokehold that album continues to have on me is insane. I remember at the time trawling the internet for full leaks of Inside Out and Seal It With A Kiss, the drip feeding of the snippets was both genuis and incredibly frustrating omg.

I say this all the time but it's one of the few pop albums from that 2010/2012 EDM era in pop music that continues to sound so fresh and exciting all these years later. Till The World Ends gives me such a rush every time I listen to it, the dubstep drop on Hold It Against Me literally changed lives, Sabi and her steaming pot of vegetables!!!

We all know it was a dark period in her personal life and during the tour she was incredible disengaged but I hope she is proud of this record. Just like Blackout, Britney still managed to deliver a banger of an album amid the chaos.

That's mother.
 
NobodyKnowsMe

NobodyKnowsMe

I loved Femme Fatale right away. It was an incredible time to be a fan of the whole pop girl scene. In very short order we had albums by Britney, Rihanna, Kesha, Gaga, Katy was in her imperial phase, Adele came out of nowhere, Bionic was still a lot of fun, Nicki was exploding. It was a great 'choose your fighter' moment in pop music.
 
BananaJean

BananaJean

The only tracks from Femme Fatale I tend to come back to are -

Hold It Against Me
How I Roll
Inside Out
Seal It With A Kiss
Trip To Your Heart
Criminal
Up N Down

The rest I either didn’t particularly enjoy upon release and still don’t or I find them to sound a bit dated now.
 
johnoclock

johnoclock

P'NutButter said:
I truly adore Jon Chu and I love the way his mind is working discussing this. It should be a movie about a survivor and also reflect on how we as society treat those in the spotlight.
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He's very smart and insightful, you could tell from the way he spoke about approaching Wicked. Considering the angle they're going for is facinating. Part of it has to be seeing someone at their peak, at their absolute glory, the biggest star in the world. Another part of it is a story about abuse and survival, resilience. Another about people building up someone only to brutally tear them down the second they don't adhere to their expectations, especially in the early internet, pre-social media age. It's very fertile ground, for sure.
 
NobodyKnowsMe

NobodyKnowsMe

johnoclock said:
He's very smart and insightful, you could tell from the way he spoke about approaching Wicked. Considering the angle they're going for is facinating. Part of it has to be seeing someone at their peak, at their absolute glory, the biggest star in the world. Another part of it is a story about abuse and survival, resilience. Another about people building up someone only to brutally tear them down the second they don't adhere to their expectations, especially in the early internet, pre-social media age. It's very fertile ground, for sure.
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There's so much to explore even just in the idea of having to go on-stage over and over again and present as absolutely in command, powerful, *dominant* ... and then you don't have enough money in your weekly allowance to take your dancers out for a nice dinner.

In being considered so eggshell-fragile and damaged that you can't be expected to care for yourself or your money, but somehow you're healthy enough to travel around the world, perform hundreds of shows, record and promote albums, shoot videos, promote products, give interviews, and basically remain on display for public scrutiny when that same scrutiny almost destroyed your life and your mental health already.

In wanting to give your all on stage because you (at least used to) love what you do, but maybe it feels like giving your all is akin to being a performing seal. Maybe you'd feel like a fool by giving it your all. It feels like validating the machine that's turned you into a servant with no right to self-determination. Why empower and enrich that machine by acting like any of this is normal?
 
La Toya

La Toya

Hopefully if he’s able to approach the conversations with Britney with that much care, we’ll be okay… watching him talk there, I can’t see how it’s been able to get this far, even.
 
freeheadmess

freeheadmess

With Femme Fatale, I remember expecting and hoping for so much.. which we got, but literally crying on my tiny ikea sofa with my ex watching me like a crazy person, past Inside out as I exclaimed "she doesn't sound like herself"... she didn't sound happy. She wasn't. Britney said herself she sabotaged her own performances as protest, and maybe she did with this album. If she did or not, there's so many tracks that are stand out Britney perioid tracks. Testament to the artist because, wow. Girl, you sound bored and I know that but, yes.
 
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