Britney goes electro. And it's amazing...
 

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shits going to sell huge. good for her.

Yes, yes, yes and yes. I approve of this video in every phase. lol

Is Britney a social drug? Nice beats.

She looks like she did 10 years ago.

She may be richer than 99% of America but you can't say the girl don't work.

Ive had hotter....

Autotune is the worst thing to ever happen to the music industry.

This song ****ing sucks.

Britney should just do modeling if she wants to look good. Leave music to the professionals.

Not sure about the song but I approve of the message

yeah, so she can leave millions on the table. Sounds like a plan. also, thats not ****ing autotune either. she may use something for part of the song, but most of it sounds like her. autotune sounds way different.

I dunno. This song is not bad. It's pop music, we get it... but you can't say there isn't something there.

madonna rip off artist #674,047

there hasn't been any decent main stream music for decades just watch the video
and get to work bitch

this is fresh /1991

Too Fat/Omaha

ALL music uses autotune these days. You can't always tell, but even someone like Michael Buble will get pitch adjustments throughout. Just enough to really make every note just "right."

In Britney's case, there's both autotune and processing effects that sound like shit

I'd like to know what you consider a bad song.

Pop music doesn't have to sound like this. A lot of the stuff that's pop doesn't suck at all.

This does.

I was not amazed.

the beat is catchy, but im not a pop fan by any means. i like very very few pop songs, but its going to make her millions and pop fans will eat this song up alive. its a win win for everyone except people that are haters. Them are the ones that can just turn it off. Like there is alot of music people like that i dont, and im sure they dont like what i like (DEFTONES mother****er). IT HAPPENS.

there are parts of the song where you can't tell autotune is working, but nothing goes without autotune in commercial music these days. as for the unnatural pitching of the voice -- it's autotune.

Her stupid vocals have more layers than an onion. Awful voice. I would still rough that ass up though.

Pitch correction has been around since the 70's. The problem today isn't "fixing" a note or two on an otherwise great performance, it's creating a performance out of thin air with Melodyne or Autotune (Melodyne blows away Autotune, IMO).

And I still believe that she ****ed Fred Durst. I remember his praise of her bush.

Good 4 on the floor bassline, but it doesn't feel particularly current. Feels like two years ago. Things are going to a more minimalist feel, imo. This, to me, is much more representative of what is "cool" in pop right now:

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And it's not going away.

I took a very young artist's song to Disney and Nickelodeon last week. The song was written by this artist and has blown everyone away that's heard it (which is a lot of industry people).

The song was produced as a rock song, with no tuning. Great voice, so why tune?

Well, the reaction was this: "GREAT song, great singer, incredible presence. However, we can't monetize as a rock song, it has to be electronic with tuning".

Tune a child's otherwise perfect vocals. Yeah, great.

:rolleyes:

While I agree, she knows here audience. This song was produced for Euro night clubs. She'll sell a few million singles on iTunes.

She actually does. She hires the best songwriters and producers in the biz to create music for her and her audience. She, like Madonna and others before her, have it down to a science.

ya, melodyne is a better pitch correction kit and most pro studios use it. of course, you know this.

is she looking in the mirror when she sings this crappy song?

... and it's about ****ing time.

ya, this is a good example of how pop is becoming more and more about vocals, accented using power stack vocal harmonies with a beat.

"big country" without the guitars. it's happening in hip hop too.

that sucked. Waste of time

there is nothing catchy about that song. it sounds like some chick singing to people snapping their fingers. Maybe its in, maybe its cool, but you cant do anything with that song. cant head bang cant dance to it, cant work out to it, cant even relax while driving and just chill out. lol i dunno what your supposed with that song.

You're insane. That song is the shit. I'll post a video of me later dancing to it and show you how it's done. And I bet in a month, that ear worm will be ringing in your head.

I actually have to agree. I don't hate the song but I don't understand why Royals has become such a popular song. Well not that it's popular... but the fact EVERYONE loves it and is raving about it like it's THE song right now.

She looks great. Sounds great if it's muted and I'm listening to something that doesn't suck ass.

I did chuckle when, as she bleated out the 'better work bitch' refrain, she's standing still and hefting her ENTIRE HAND over her head!!!

Damn, time machine or something.

She looks like she did back in '99.

I don't see how people can't see the appeal of "Royals." The first time I heard it, I said, "Oh. This is going to replace 'Blurred Lines' as the hot song." Jesus. I really don't see how you can't see the appeal of that song. It's catchy as hell and has a cool vibe.

That is going to be THE MOVE this fall club season.

I know. It's like they photoshopped the entire video.

Video is great by the way. I like the girls blowing up.

That song is awesome.

OK. That didn't suck.

yah, this beats the hell out of the Brittney song. Every once in a while New Zealand cranks out some good sounds... if this chick can prove to be more than a one hit wonder that would be nice but we shall see. not really impressed with the lyrics but it's a catchy toon, nice sound.

Amazing?? LMAO

I couldn't even finish it. Yuck.

You obviously don't know anything about autotune. It has multiple uses: one is pitch correction to make hacks like Katy Perry sound normal; the other is the reverb effect used by the likes of T-Pain. This song utilizes both.

Britney has been autotuned for the past decade.

This just came up in my facebook feed by a very confused former student who is a drag queen:

And that's pretty much the target audience.

And she's pretty average compared to the women where I live.

Lasted 45 sec...sorry. She is old news and she knows it.

Next to the plate is Miley (MOlly) and that crap will go away as well.

This video is much better with the sound off.

I listen to that song whenever it's on the radio.

do you teach at UofA?

Longer than that. Hell, Jennifer Lopez's first single was completely Autotuned but it took the engineer more than 40 hours to get it right.

These days, I can a tune a vocal with Melodyne in less than three seconds.

I can see digging it and putting it in rotation. Not sure I see being obsessed or it becoming THE song of the day.

It's too slow to make you move, and too simple a melody to mesmerize you. And the message of 'we have our kind of cool that doesn't depend on you squares' is inventively told but isn't the newest message in pop music.

But the harmonies are nice and quite interesting.

Doubt I'd ever change the channel when it came on, but it's not a world beater.

Heh. I prefer not to advertise my teaching position, but it's not at the college level.

Hey, let's create a catchy beat to get the audience's attention off of her awful voice.

I can see tons of bridal parties (or other chick groups) hitting the floor, raising their glasses, and singing along to it, feeling like they're empowered and glorying in "we have our kind of cool that doesn't depend on you squares."

Maybe it needs to be rapier to surpass "Blurred Lines" though.

Update on former drag queen student. He commented on his own status with

well good because if you're a kc fan you're not very bright and that probably rubs off on your poor students.

Can that really even be considered her voice? At some point, it becomes more machine than (wo)man.

Yeah. My KC fanhood is a long story...

I just absolutely don't understand how someone can listen to that and enjoy it. Nice beat and it's not necessarily Britney because I understand where's she's trying to go w/ this, but that background music is just horribly irritating, much like most techno music. There's some of it that's actually pretty cool...but that there...just beat into my skull and gave me a god damn headache. good lord.

she looks pretty good though. prob the best since that womanizer video a few years ago.

I don't doubt that. There's a demonstrable difference between songs like "Sometimes" and "Toxic", though. The first sounds like a natural singing voice, which is by no means great, but ok-ish, whereas the latter is just "run it through the box."

Know what I mean, not what I type. Gosh dangit!!

There are several different methods for tuning, which would be far too boring to explain.

When you have a spare minute, search Melodyne on YouTube. It's absolutely ridiculous what you can do with this software and it's saved my ass a few times, not with vocals, but with tuning bass guitar in a jam (serious deadline).

I don't mind the autotune processing actually, even when it's used more or less as an effect. this song is written too complex for the genre and there isn't a part that grooves, really. it's old fashioned folk chord structure translated by synths, imo which is worse than all the hipster music out these days.

also of note, this song has no space. the genre requires some space, imo.

I had my students listen to a brief, but very interesting podcast by Time a few years back called "The Deceptive Use of Autotune." Talks about the history and methods of use, which I'm sure you are well aware of. It's excellent for spurring a debate about the nature of authorship/creation and an artistic work.

Looking good....sounding bad.

He's no Chiefs fan. He's a Greenbacker and loving liberal, . . . ie, a decade ago. ;)

Darling come here...

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****ing horrible.

I just don't think it's nearly as catchy as Blurred Lines. I can't explain it. I wish I liked it more...I feel like it needed to go somewhere else than just a girl singing to a beat for 3 and a half minutes. That's basically what it sounds like. I like how she sings it though. It's not a bad song.

Then again, I can't listen to Blurred Lines without thinking of "Got to Give It Up" by Marvin Gaye. So at least it doesn't do that.

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Lorde is just Taylor Swift for attractive people who INSIST they are ugly.

For serious. Lorde is gonna be sippin in that goose and profilin' in that maybach soon if she isn't already.

Plus I hear she's like 4 years older than she claims to be. It's the kitty pryde syndrome. People are so fascinated when these girls do all this at "16"...

lel this is 2013 old men get with the program

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I didn't hate it. She looks as good now as she ever has. I realize much of that is electronically produced for my viewing pleasure but it was better than 100% of the crap on MTV today.

Spears' tune was more tolerable than the Lordes video and speaking of this one...GOOD GRAVY, this Lordes chick, WOW!!! Head & shoulders more attractive than Spears imo.

Skimmed through threads didn't see it.





Anyhoots, now that I've thought about it, neither one of them are real attractive plus they're both too fat. Apparently neither one has been able to drive past a cosmetic surgeon's office without stopping for touch ups'.

I've had better

/CP

:facepalm:

I don't see that at all and wonder what you mean by that..?? The vocals are all in the I chord with a small instrumental chord change about 3/4 of the way through. Totally unlike any folk song chord structure that I have ever heard. Just curious...

More proof that MTV killed good music.

Its ok with the volume down.