Britney Spears- Yay, or Nay?

I agree that Madonna controls her career in a way Britney has never been able to, she's very astute when it comes to business and self-promotion. She wouldn't have lasted this long if she didn't know how to play the game, she has bigger balls than a lot of the men in the industry.

It's hardly surprising that Madonna has released more albums than Britney, she started her career 16 years earlier. Still, Britney is set to release her ninth album soon (in 17 years), that's only four less than Madonna (she released seven albums in the same time frame). Madonna had pretty decent quality control up until Music in 2000 but three of the five studio albums she has released since 2003 had disappointing reviews. MDNA was nothing more than an excuse to tour. She even admitted she wasn't pleased with the finished album. Ray of Light has a few good songs on it (Little Star, Power of Goodbye, Nothing Really Matters), but Confessions on a Dance Floor is vastly overrated.

The Max Martin production on Britney's early albums was everywhere in the 1990s and early 2000s. It's a distinct sound that hasn't dated very well. Britney's problem is she's never evolved as an artist, everything she has released in the last ten years sounds the same. Madonna has always followed fashions and trends. She has a habit of jumping on bandwagons that are popular (new jack swing, R&B, urban, electronica, trip hop, folktronica, Timbaland, EDM, Avicii) which means there's more diversity in her work.

 

Here's some of it.

 

Yay to watching her videos fully muted, while listening to some real music played by somebody else. Same goes for all the other contrived eye-candy "pop divas".

 

She sure looked good..... 10 year ago! Does she sing or is it all auto-tune????

 

Nay.

 

Sorry, a big fat NAY. Another flavor of the week from the factory.

 

All that moving on stage, you tell me. And Milli Vanilli got in trouble for what they did..........

 

lol she's been recording nearly 20 years

 

What a long week.

 

Eh, I've had longer weeks.

 

it takes a real fan to have an MDNA poster

 

The album cover is the most Madonna-esque thing about that record.

 

Britney's album has a release date and it's REALLY soon »

At least @Marble Index will be happy.

Has she really got 47 million Twitter followers? What a terrible state the world is in.

I imagine @TheSeventhStranger is rushing to pre-order as I write...

Why have they made her look like Caroline Aherne on the album cover, BTW?

 

I like her belly button.

 

it may take @Marble Index a while to comment on this, I believe he's busy doing something like this

 

I'm happy to bring a little light into his life.

Apparently, the new album is her strongest work since Britney Jean.

 

There's a rumor going around that she might perform at the VMAs on August 28th. She cancelled these two shows:

 

She's doing iHeartRadio Music Festival too.

 

I need it on vinyl. That's the only way to hear the true sonic fidelity in Britney's music.

 

What's the betting it ends up being more Glory Hole than plain Glory?

 

Well if it's about as good as Britney Jean or "Pretty Girls" ...

 

I liked her earlier school girl uniform period... strictly for artistic reasons, mind you. It had a certain kind of Japanese Quentin Tarantino-esque quality about it.

 

You'll tell us anything.

 

Sometimes I just want to listen to pop divas. Britney and Katy Perry do it well. There's really no harm in this.