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It's Britney Bitch! The Britney Spears Rate - WINNER!!!
- Thread starter Holly Something
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I think, aside from not being a huge fan of the song itself, my main issue with Britney's take on I Love Rock & Roll is that the production feels a bit... toothless? Other Darkchild productions like Lonely hit harder for me so I wonder if there was some softening of the sound due to the Crossroads tie in.
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I’m so confused that this is the song people are upset about leaving early.
2 more songs until we hit that elusive 6+ average!
Call it the single effect or whatever but I cannot hear this song without thinking of how she just invented butch leather daddies with that "motorcycle ride" in the video..... or the way she made all mechanical bull rides obsolete in 2016 at the billboard awards. I know we're rating the music and not the iconic moments.... but god damn, she's got me in love again.
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This is FAR too early, I get that it’s one of her weaker singles but it’s still great and iconic. We should have at least cleaned out the remaining Britney Jean songs and the weaker Femme Fatale album tracks first…
I don't ever seek I Love Rock N Roll out to listen to, but it's hard not to appreciate how much Britney loves performing it. The DWAD + Vegas performances were both fun if not particularly special. The crowd would go crazy for it in Vegas, though. I remember being shocked at how much people loved it live.
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Just catching up and I can't at y'all defending 'Phlegmy Show'. When you hit the chorus and think the vocal take can't get any worse and she starts ribbiting for the entire duration of the post-chorus, I lose it every time.
With 'I Love Rock 'N' Roll', I feel I remember its release so vividly at the height of her power that it's always sort of stuck with me as the definitive version. I still only gave it a 6 but there's at least 15-20 songs I'd sooner see thrown out before it.
Aside from that, nothing of value was lost.
With 'I Love Rock 'N' Roll', I feel I remember its release so vividly at the height of her power that it's always sort of stuck with me as the definitive version. I still only gave it a 6 but there's at least 15-20 songs I'd sooner see thrown out before it.
Aside from that, nothing of value was lost.
Next elimination is close...
So close you can almost taste it...
139th Place
Right Now (Taste the Victory)
(from Standalone/Soundtrack Singles)
Average: 5.920
High Scorers: 10 x 4 (@Hybridcookie, @maikos87, @Conan, @An Insider)
Low Scorer: 0 x 1 (@1991)
My Score: 4
Right Now (Taste the Victory) is a song recorded by Britney for a Pepsi commercial, released in 2002. It was included on a promotional album called 'Ask For More'. I couldn't find information on who wrote or produced the song, but feel free to let me know/
My thoughts: It's just a bit of a faceless bop. I can see 30 seconds of it being effective in a TV commercial but it becomes a bit repetitive after a while and doesn't leave much of an impression on me.
So close you can almost taste it...
139th Place
Right Now (Taste the Victory)
(from Standalone/Soundtrack Singles)
Average: 5.920
High Scorers: 10 x 4 (@Hybridcookie, @maikos87, @Conan, @An Insider)
Low Scorer: 0 x 1 (@1991)
My Score: 4
Right Now (Taste the Victory) is a song recorded by Britney for a Pepsi commercial, released in 2002. It was included on a promotional album called 'Ask For More'. I couldn't find information on who wrote or produced the song, but feel free to let me know/
My thoughts: It's just a bit of a faceless bop. I can see 30 seconds of it being effective in a TV commercial but it becomes a bit repetitive after a while and doesn't leave much of an impression on me.
@boombazookajoe (6) This is cute for a taste. Yes, I didn't want to swallow either.
@blaze_dave (8) Sounds like a world cup type of single and the way she says now is cool. She looked cute in the advert for this. It does sound like that, which is made worse by the football featured in the advert!
@Sprockrooster (7) #TeamPepsi – Coca cola is for old people. There I said it!
@Rantaro (6.5) It’s pretty catchy, but it feels a lot longer than it actually is.
@unnameable (4) I had completely forgotten this one.
@livefrommelbs (8) Still feels a bit 'demo'-esque, so I kinda wish it slapped a little harder, but I still enjoy it. I was thinking it sounds unfinished as well.
@stereosalt (4) +4 points for the CGI soccer ball
@cdd216 (7) This is cute, but nowhere near as iconic as her Joy of Pepsi song. That sounds like at least 60% of the Oops! album.
@daninternational (6) what is this
@M24 (3) A Pepsi song doesn't have the right to bop so much hahaha. She has so much good material outside her main albums.
@Milotic (7) Inspirational-ney!
@Runawaywithme (5) This makes me feel like I’m at a soft play centre in 2004, and I’m not sure how I feel about it. This is very specific!
@Verandi (2) I can smell the heterosexuality from a mile away.
@Guyhawke! (7.5) A drum-heavy Latin number that doesn’t go anywhere, but it’s fun to hear Britney singing something you can envisage Shakira doing. Also, #JusticeForTheJoyOfPepsi. That's funny, I was thinking I could hear Shakira doing this.
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Fully on board the Justice for Joy of Pepsi train - get it on streaming!
It was promo for the 2002 world cup, right? Definitely feels like it could have been an official world cup song. Always loved it. But it does feel like it's missing that extra punch.
I Love Rock ’n Roll is perfectly fine and I love it when it comes on my shuffle. But it's not a song I myself pick when I want to listen to Britney.
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And nothing of value was lost.
Oh- good.
I don’t hate it but it didn’t feel right it was outlasting some iconic album tracks. I feel like it could have potential if it was polished a little more. I’m of the opinion it would sound 100x better without the chants.
Now just get rid of the remixes and I think I’m pretty happy with most of the stuff that’s left (Bottom of My Broken Heart’s time is closing in, tho)
I don’t hate it but it didn’t feel right it was outlasting some iconic album tracks. I feel like it could have potential if it was polished a little more. I’m of the opinion it would sound 100x better without the chants.
Now just get rid of the remixes and I think I’m pretty happy with most of the stuff that’s left (Bottom of My Broken Heart’s time is closing in, tho)
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The last song below a 6 average...
It's from the early days...
138th Place
The Beat Goes On
(from ...Baby One More Time)
Average: 5.982
High Scorers: 10 x 4 (@Sprockrooster, @eatyourself, @soratami, @Trouble in Paradise)
Low Scorers: 0 x 2 (@Jonathan27, @Rantaro)
My Score: 8
The Beat Goes On appears as track 12 on the debut album ...Baby One More Time. It is a cover of the song originally by Sonny and Cher. It was written by Sonny Bono, with additional writing from Eric Foster White who produced the song with the British electronic band 'All Seeing I'. Honestly if you listen to their version of the song it sounds like Britney just recorded a straight up cover of it so I'm not sure why Eric Foster White is listed as a writer OR producer on this...
My thoughts: Honestly I've always really enjoyed this. It is a totally bizarre decision to cover it but it's a good version of the song. Also I've always felt that a certain Brian Higgins lifted quite heavily from this for Sound of the Underground by Girls Aloud.
@boombazookajoe (1.5) Just ... NO. What a bizarre decision this was. (And it's the first of her MANY annoying covers, sadly.)It's from the early days...
138th Place
The Beat Goes On
(from ...Baby One More Time)
Average: 5.982
High Scorers: 10 x 4 (@Sprockrooster, @eatyourself, @soratami, @Trouble in Paradise)
Low Scorers: 0 x 2 (@Jonathan27, @Rantaro)
My Score: 8
The Beat Goes On appears as track 12 on the debut album ...Baby One More Time. It is a cover of the song originally by Sonny and Cher. It was written by Sonny Bono, with additional writing from Eric Foster White who produced the song with the British electronic band 'All Seeing I'. Honestly if you listen to their version of the song it sounds like Britney just recorded a straight up cover of it so I'm not sure why Eric Foster White is listed as a writer OR producer on this...
My thoughts: Honestly I've always really enjoyed this. It is a totally bizarre decision to cover it but it's a good version of the song. Also I've always felt that a certain Brian Higgins lifted quite heavily from this for Sound of the Underground by Girls Aloud.
@blaze_dave (8) Always found this such an odd inclusion to the album, as it's so different to everything on this album. It was very trance on what is a very bubblegum pop album. I didn't even realise it was a cover of a cover song, but I did enjoy it for being so random. I like that it offered something a little different honestly.
@Sprockrooster (10) The way this track is clearly the oasis in the mediocre desert that is the second half of this album.
@Rantaro (0) I’m fully prepared to get dragged for this, but I’ve never liked this song. The original, or Brit’s version. I didn’t like it in the 2000s, and I still don’t like it in the 2020s. The mixing is awful, the vinyl effect over the entire track is distracting, the instrumentation used sounds like my washing machine when it’s not level, and Britney sounds like she recorded the song with a rotten potato. I just hate it.
@maikos87 (7) The performance from the Crazy 2K tour at Hawaii with the big heart on Brit’s lil southern Louisiana ass is still a scream
@unnameable (6) completely inessential cover
@Ugly Beauty (5) well the beat *does* go on.. Yes, for over 4 minutes ddd.
@eatyourself (10) The birth of quirkney.
@livefrommelbs (5) I'm getting 'Overload' by the Sugababes. But a bit shit.
@Ana Raquel (7) I know this is not exactly a loved track but I always thought it was alright? The original song is not exactly part of my life (sorry, Cher!) so it's a cover I particularly don't mind.
@cdd216 (3) I just do not understand the thought process behind having Britney cover this... it seems highly unlikely to me that anyone in her target audience would have been familiar with it and it just doesn't suit her or the general energy of the album. The production is also so plodding, this track just feels endless. Truly terrible.
@daninternational (7.5) I guess a cover is a quick way to add some depth to a debut album by a teenager. It does a job
@AstronautMikeDexter (8.5) I have always loved this song!
@M24 (1) This one used to be my favorite when I discovered the album… now I find it too samey and monotonous.
@WhenTheSunGoesDown (6) Sound Of The Underground is shaking (not really) It should be! (not really)
@BeingNormal (9) Idk why but it reminds me of Sound Of The Underground Because there are lifted elements from it nn.
@Guyhawke! (8) Eric Foster White does his best production work on ‘The Beat Goes On’. The vinyl surface noise and compressed vocals acknowledge the 1960s origins of the song, but the drum ‘n’ bass influence updates Sonny & Cher’s hit for a new generation. It’s a psychedelic romp that is more inventive than it deserved to be (so much so that Róisín Murphy’s recent cover at Glastonbury was based on Britney’s version). Read the post, I don't think this is all his production...
@Milotic (7) I have no memory of this at all. It's funky, though. I like it.
@Verandi (7) Wait at this being decent? Yay!
@Music Is Death (6.5) Never been a big fan of this song. I like the spacey, spy vibe, and the crackling in the production makes it interesting. Also she sounds great as expected. But it’s just too repetitive, both the chorus and the production with the constant “duh duh” that just gets on my nerves by the second verse. It’s an interesting moment on the album, and a weird way to close the standard edition, but it’s definitely my least favorite cover she’s done. I think if it wasn’t a cover I would like it more because I think that would make it more interesting. But I hope it doesn’t last long.
@lilylu (9) I never knew this was just Britney's vocals on a previously released cover until recently but it slays. Neither did I until I started writing this very post!
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Parrot, Róisín's main collaborator on Róisín Machine, was part of All Seeing I so it's most definitely that version that she based her performance on.
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I can't believe I've never heard the 'Sound of the Underground' similarity before! It's so obvious now.
Such a curious inclusion on the debut, especially given the genesis of this cover version. I never really understood it.
Such a curious inclusion on the debut, especially given the genesis of this cover version. I never really understood it.
This tea. Though Autumn Goodbye is great as well of course.
I really don't get the hate for The Beat Goes On, it deserved to make the top 100 at the very least.