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Texas Boy 08-29-2018 12:02 PM

Rate a Britney Spears song "Toxic"
 
I'd give it 4/5 stars.

MicShazam 08-29-2018 02:30 PM

One of her very best songs. 2/5.

The Batlord 08-29-2018 02:57 PM

Honestly I never got why it was so dickrode. 3/5

Key 08-29-2018 04:21 PM

1/5 for subjecting me to partial nudity when I didn't ask for it.

MicShazam 08-29-2018 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Kiiii (Post 1992256)
1/5 for subjecting me to partial nudity when I didn't ask for it.

Yeah, I felt really cheated too. Stop being such a tease!

SGR 09-16-2018 09:07 AM

5/5 - one of her few 5/5s - I'd probably throw Circus in there as well as a 5/5

The Batlord 09-16-2018 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks (Post 1997337)
5/5 - one of her few 5/5s - I'd probably throw Circus in there as well as a 5/5

Holy **** yes on "Circus". That's a song I can throw on repeat for twenty minutes and be pleased as a serial killer with a dumb hooker. "Break the Ice" deserved to be a world beater as well.


SGR 09-16-2018 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by 66Sexy (Post 1997347)
Holy **** yes on "Circus". That's a song I can throw on repeat for twenty minutes and be pleased as a serial killer with a dumb hooker. "Break the Ice" deserved to be a world beater as well.


Nice pick - that's another great one. I'd throw "Gimme More" in the same league - perhaps not a 5/5 but a strong 4/5. Britney had a lot of great singles - it was listening through her whole albums that could be somewhat painful.

MicShazam 09-16-2018 01:12 PM

I listened through all of her albums earlier this year.
She was a singles pop star for sure

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The Batlord 09-16-2018 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks (Post 1997393)
Nice pick - that's another great one. I'd throw "Gimme More" in the same league - perhaps not a 5/5 but a strong 4/5. Britney had a lot of great singles - it was listening through her whole albums that could be somewhat painful.

Blackout and Femme Fatale were her two classics. Aside from that it's a lot of inconsistency but she still had far more good tracks then most pop stars. And two stone cold classic pop albums is more than you can give the vast majority of radio pop artists.

MicShazam 09-16-2018 01:34 PM

I could name several pop stars with more consistent discographies. Spear's discography is pitiful.

The Batlord 09-16-2018 01:52 PM

Except most of them couldn't touch the glory.

Waddles 09-20-2018 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 1992184)
One of her very best songs. 2/5.

I tend to think that's a generous rating. Cher used Autotune in a blatant (read: "artistic") way in "Believe." Britney uses Autotune because she can't sing. Like so many pop stars (and it's getting worse these days), she hides behind modulation, shakes her ass, and sells millions of records.

MicShazam 09-20-2018 05:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Waddles (Post 1998560)
I tend to think that's a generous rating. Cher used Autotune in a blatant (read: "artistic") way in "Believe." Britney uses Autotune because she can't sing. Like so many pop stars (and it's getting worse these days), she hides behind modulation, shakes her ass, and sells millions of records.

I think some contemporary pop-stars are good singers, but Britney is barely even average. Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Anne-Marie, Bebe Rexha, Charli XCX, Ariana Grande, Rihanna, Lorde, etc... those and several more can actually sing. As far as I can tell anyway.

Waddles 09-20-2018 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 1998566)
I think some contemporary pop-stars are good singers, but Britney is barely even average. Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Anne-Marie, Bebe Rexha, Charli XCX, Ariana Grande, Rihanna, Lorde, etc... those and several more can actually sing. As far as I can tell anyway.

I would agree there are several on that list who can sing, at least better than Spears. I also admit I dislike a great deal of pop music, but that's because of the modulation and "performance over quality" mentality.

Britney could be a good singer, if she were trained as such, instead of focusing on being a performer. I think there should be a balance between the two, but today's industry focuses far more on flashy performances, not the quality of the music.

MicShazam 09-20-2018 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Waddles (Post 1998568)
I would agree there are several on that list who can sing, at least better than Spears. I also admit I dislike a great deal of pop music, but that's because of the modulation and "performance over quality" mentality.

Britney could be a good singer, if she were trained as such, instead of focusing on being a performer. I think there should be a balance between the two, but today's industry focuses far more on flashy performances, not the quality of the music.

I love a good pop record if the songs are catchy, well written and colorful. Dropping the snobbery about pop was one of the wiser things I managed to do as a young and arrogant music geek. I'll unironically consider Katy Perry's 2017 Witness a very good album. There's probably plenty of auto-tune on it, but pop of that kind concerns itself with different goals than, say, a folk singer record. Artifice is not just allowed, it's almost a goal in some cases.

The Batlord 09-20-2018 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Waddles (Post 1998560)
I tend to think that's a generous rating. Cher used Autotune in a blatant (read: "artistic") way in "Believe." Britney uses Autotune because she can't sing. Like so many pop stars (and it's getting worse these days), she hides behind modulation, shakes her ass, and sells millions of records.

Who cares if she can sing? It's not opera. Being able to sing doesn't make Mariah Carey any less dreadful. Her voice suits her music and suits it better than 99% of other pop music marionettes.

Britney 4 Lyfe

MicShazam 09-20-2018 10:44 AM

Actually, I'd much rather listen to Carey. Carey's power ballads are pretty bad, sure, but Britney's are even worse.

The Batlord 09-20-2018 10:51 AM

Who gives a **** about power ballads? Carey is just dull ****. Britney comes hard with the bangers. Case closed.

MicShazam 09-20-2018 10:58 AM

CASE CLOSED


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY

The Batlord 09-20-2018 12:01 PM

One decent song makes a career I guess.

MicShazam 09-20-2018 12:08 PM

It's all I need. That, and she's cute.

Janszoon 11-01-2018 03:56 PM

I rate all her songs “toxic”.

windsock 11-01-2018 03:59 PM

TIL this song is supposed to be the musical representation of Zyklon-B. Hence the name.

Black Francis 11-01-2018 05:25 PM

3/5

Good beat, Good vocal hook. No diss here, its a good pop song.

The Batlord 11-01-2018 05:28 PM

It's nothing compared to...



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