My Review of Britney's Blackout Album  


Britney's Blackout album will officially be out on October 30th but I've had the chance to listen to it ahead of its release (thank you Adrian). And let me tell you it's HAWT!!

Some of it is very "Britney" and some of it is quite far from anything she's done before but in this case that's a really good thing. The album is full of Pop goodness with a subtle sense of humour and a really danceable edge throughout.

Overall the album is brilliant, pure Pop, and dare I say it....Oops she's done it again! There, I said it.

Make sure you go out and buy it at your local music store 'cause you'll be hearing these songs everywhere you go.

Here's my track by track review:

1. Gimme More: This of course is the first single from the album. It's been playing all over the clubs and radio stations. It's the Number 1 song on iTunes etc...What else can I say? It's a hot track. Favourite line "It's Britney Bitch" which has now become a classic.

2. Piece Of Me: Nice chilled out song, slower than Gimme More. I like this one 'cause she pokes fun at herself and the attention she gets from the media. Favourite line "They still got pictures of my derriere in the magazine". Well, Brit maybe that's 'cause you don't like to wear underwear in public, maybe, just maybe.

3. Radar: This is one of the leaked songs that have been around for a while. It's an OK song, sounds kinda lazy, not much effort into it. Maybe it's 'cause I've been playing it for a while but I'm just not feeling it. Next song.

4. Break The Ice: Another "nice" song. It's got a danceable beat to it but it's one of those songs that kinda plays in the background while you take a break from the dance floor to go to the bar and refill your drink, know what I mean? Yeah it's one of those. Next!

5. Heaven On Earth: I like this one. It's cute, lovey dovey, very girly and flirtatious. Nice retro beat. Her voice here reminds me a bit of Paris Hilton on "Stars Are Blind".

6. Get Naked (I Got A Plan): It's got a hot beat. Is that her singing at the beginning? Sounds like a dude. I read somewhere that that it's her voice after some extreme manipulation. Sounds kinda creepy at first but really cool midway. I like it.

7. Freak Show: I think she's talking about her personal life on this one. A great rap at the beginning. I like that, she should do it more often. And there's that creepy voice again. What's up with that? Is that really her??

8. Toy Soldier: "Oh I need a soldier!" This is definitely my favourite song of the whole album. I hope it's her next single 'cause this song is hot, hot, hot! Definitely a club hit. I can totally picture Britney with some backup dancers dressed in sexy toy soldier costumes dancing in a line to a River Dance like choreography during her "rapping" bits. Love it!!

9. Hot As Ice: Another song that's been leaked for a while, made me look forward to the other songs. It's catchy, you'll be singing "break it down, break it down..." for a while. Favourite lines "living legend you can look but don't touch" and "To see your foolishness and f**kery and handling my b'ness, holler if you hear me, hey can I get a witness". Hot

10. Ooh Ooh Baby: Love this song too! It's sexy, it's flirtatious, it's slutty, just how I like my Britney. Best lines "I can feel you on my lips, I can feel you deep inside" and "filling me up, filling me up, filling me up...with your love".

11. Perfect Lover: Definitely a club song. Great danceable beat. Favourite line "tick tock, tick, tock, come and get me while I'm hot".

12. Why Should I Be Sad: I'm not big on slow songs but this' one's quite good. Nice sexy beat, very R&B.

So overall the album is great, make sure to go out and support it. Now the question is whether she'll do any promo work for it. I hope she does. I can just imagine the interviews... "So Britney, how do you feel now that everyone around the world has seen your 'booboo' maker?" ...

Britney Spears Blackout Commercial  



Here's the commercial for Brit's upcoming album Blackout. It's on October 30th y'all. Sure she's trashy but you know you're gonna go out and get her new album. I know I am.

Britney Spears Reveals 'Blackout' Track List  


Britney Spears has confirmed the track list for "Blackout," her first studio album in four years. The 12-track set begins with "Gimme More," which holds at No. 3 this week on the Billboard Hot 100.

"Blackout" was moved from a Nov. 13 to an Oct. 30 release earlier this week due to widespread leaks of its songs. Among the collaborators on the album are producers Bloodshy & Avant on "Piece of Me," "Toy Soldier," "Freakshow" and "Radar," Kara DioGuardi on "Heaven and Earth" and Nate "Danjahandz" Hills on "Gimme More," "Get Naked (I Got a Plan)," "Hot As Ice" and "Perfect Lover.

"T-Pain is credited as one of three writers on "Hot As Ice," while Pharrell Williams wrote, co-produced (as half of the Neptunes) and sings backup on closer "Why Should I Be Sad."

Here is the track list for "Blackout":

"Gimme More"
"Piece of Me"
"Radar"
"Break the Ice"
"Heaven on Earth"
"Get Naked (I Got a Plan)"
"Freakshow""Toy Soldier"
"Hot As Ice"
"Ooh Ooh Baby"
"Perfect Lover"
"Why Should I Be Sad"

Britney Spears - Gimme More Uncensored  



Here's the uncensored version of Britney's video for "Gimme More" with more T&A, mostly just more T's, with tiny pieces of tape on them.

I like this version better. It's dirtier, and I like dirty.

Thanks Jay!

NEW Music Video: Britney Spears - Gimme More  



Following her disastruous performance at the MTV VMA's just a few weeks ago, here's Britney's equally disapointing music video for "Gimme More".

Where's the choreography, where are the dancers??

None of that here, just Britney dancing around a stripper pole.

Not impressed.

Live: Britney Spears - Gimme @ MTV VMA's 2007  



Watch this sad, sad performance by Britney Spears at last night's MTV VMA's. I don't know what to say about it other than it was the worse performance ever. What happened? Did she forget how to lipsync? Why didn't she dance properly, was she bloated? She looks bloated. I don't know. I'm very, very disappointed. Your fans were really hoping for a comeback Brit, unfortunately at this rate that will never happen. Sad, sad.

Britney Spears New Songs  


That's right boys and girls, Britney's back with not one but TWO hot tracks from her yet untitled but much anticipated comeback album.

The first song is titled "Gimme More" which is exactly what you'd expect from Britney, Pop all the way. You'll be hearing this song all over the clubs.

The second song is called "Cold As Fire" and that one's a bit unexpected. It's not quite what we're used to hear from Brit but the song grows on you, it's really catchy.

The singer's yet-untitled new album will drop November 13. Ne-Yo, who wrote many potential tracks for Britney, told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show Wednesday that "[Britney has] gotta remind people why they love her in the first place. She's gotta get their minds off her personal life and back on music."

Britney Spears' Allure Photoshoot  

It seems Britney Spears is not in a chatty mood lately. Just as she did for Ok! magazine Brit failed to give a scheduled interview to Allure magazine , but she did manage to complete a photo shoot for them in which the star appears topless. (check out excerpts right here). The accompanying article is an amusing meditation on Britney's past, Dick Cheney (!) and the writer's experiences waiting for the interview to happen. For more, check out allure.com/go/britney.

More Legal Troubles For Britney  


Less than a week after Britney Spears' bodyguard Cesar Julio Camera was charged with battery after beating up a photographer, now there's a new complaint over the incident but this time against the singer herself.

Andrew Deetz and Kyle Henderson claim in a statement released by their lawyers Tuesday (July 31) that Brit threatened them after they took pictures of her at a spa in Las Vegas, The Associated Press reports.

According to the statement, Camera allegedly pushed Henderson against a wall until security asked the photographer to leave, after which the bodyguard allegedly attacked Deetz. After that, Spears is said to have thrown a baby bottle at Henderson and threatened Deetz, saying, "I am going to kill you!" and telling him to get a restraining order against her, because she was going to kill him or hire someone who would.

Spears' lawyer Gary Stiffelman did not comment to AP about the statement. Deetz and Henderson said in the statement that they are preparing to sue.

Britney and Kevin Finalize Divorce  


Britney Spears and Kevin Federline's brief marriage is officially over.

The couple's divorce was granted on Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Judge Scott Gordon signed the decree hours after Spears and Federline's lawyers appeared in court to settle the ongoing divorce battle.

Brit's attorney Laura Wasser made a motion to keep the custody and child support provisions secret, on grounds that making it public would be harmful to the couple's sons Sean Preston and Jayden James. Judge Gordon granted that request, pending a hearing on August 14.

Tmz.com claims the divorce settlement will net Federline $35,000-a-month.

Britney's Disastrous Interview With OK! Magazine  

In a surprising move, OK! Magazine says they're going to show Britney as she really was on the day of her disastrous photo shoot -- the good, the bad and the unbelievably ugly!

In an exclusive statement to TMZ.com, OK! Editor-in-Chief Sarah Ivens said, "OK! Magazine spent a heartbreaking day with Britney Spears and witnessed first-hand an emotional cry for help that will leave you shocked and sad. This week, on newsstands Friday, the truth will be told."

Apparently, Britney had a complete and total meltdown during the interview and photo shoot. And then OK! was faced with a huge decision. They had the choice to either publish the horrifying photos as they are and risk ruining their relationship with Brit (and potentially her career), or run a sanitized, and untrue, article.

How bad was it?

  • She wiped her greasy hands on a $274 designer gown during lunch.
  • Let her puppy poop on a $6,700 Zac Posen gown.
  • Took frequent bathroom breaks - with the door open! - and even brought her assistant in with her.
  • Insisted that her “friends” do her hair and makeup instead of the hired professionals because she complained that the wardrobe provided by the mag’s stylists wasn’t “sexy,” “short” or “tight” enough.
  • Fled the shoot and interview before it was over - still wearing $14,526 worth of OK!’s borrowed clothing.
*UPDATE*

A publicist for OK! said on Tuesday that the magazine wouldn’t publish photos of Spears from the photo shoot they did with her last week due to “legal reasons.”

**UPDATE #2**
So what are the "legal reasons" why OK! won't be running Brit's pictures from their recent interview? Well, apparently OK! was supposed to pay Britney a whopping $1 million for the photo shoot and interview. But because Britney walked out during the photo shoot and acted like such a bitch, the magazine is not going to pay her anything. I guess they needed the money to pay back for the stuff she walked off with.

Gossip: Britney Spears Apologizes to Pap  

Britney Spears delivered a bizarre note to X17 about the umbrella incident pre-rehab. She also included the same message on her official site with info on her latest "roll".

She explains that her act was part of a "stunt" while preparing her "character" for a "roll" (sic) in a movie. "I take all my rolls (sic) very seriously and got a little carried away." "Unfortunately, I didn't get the part."

In other Britney news there's new information about the letter she hand delivered to her mom last week. It was a poem titled 'Dear Mama'.

In the poem, Britney lamented “that she didn’t have a mom anymore and she couldn’t imagine a mother doing what she did to her child,” a source told the tab. Britney delivered the verse, along with legal papers, to her mother on June 28 on the set of kid sister, Jamie Lynn’s television show, “Zoey 101.” The two are reportedly also battling over the affections of Jamie Lynn.

Britney said, ‘Here Momma, I just wanted to see your face,’” a source told Star. “Then she got into her car and drove off. Lynne went into the trailer and broke down in tears.” The CD reportedly contained recordings of phone conversations between Lynne Spears and Britney's estranged husband, Kevin Federline, in which the two are apparently working in cahoots.

Britney is forbidding her mother from seeing her two sons, and in one conversation, Lynne is said to be arranging to meet K-Fed and the boys, and says, “I have to be careful that Britney doesn’t find out!” The recordings were made by a private investigator, according to the tab.

In another call, Federline assured Britney's mother that his court battle with the singer was going well.

“Kevin told Lynne that he had everything under control,” adds the source. “He was just going to let Britney hang herself in court.” [source]

Gossip: Britney Spears VS Mom  

Britney Spears personally served her mother with legal papers ordering her to stay away from her kids.

Britney travelled to Valencia California (where Lynne was supervising a photo shoot for Britney’s younger sister Jamie Lynn) yesterday afternoon to deliver the letter to her mum in person.

Sources claim Britney feels Lynne is currently unstable and the letter orders Lynne to stay away from Sean and Jayden if she’s taking any medication that would impair her ability to care or respond to the children.

Britney's New Message To Her Fans  

Britney Spears just posted the following new picture and message on her official website:

"The reason for this letter is to let everyone know that their prayers have truly helped me. I am so blessed that you care enough about me to be concerned and will continue to live in this brighter state with all of you by my side during this trying time. We are all lights of the world and we all need to continuously inspire others and look to the higher power. You are all in my prayers. Godspeed.

Love, Britney"

Music: Britney Spears' Comeback Mini-Concert  



So all the recent rumours about Britney Spears ' comeback mini-concert turned out to be true. Brit took the stage late Tuesday at the House of Blues, making what is believed to be her first public concert appearance in nearly three years. Starting the five-song set with her debut single “Baby One More Time,” Brit was back in top form. The pop princess appeared onstage in boots, a sparkly pink bra top and a short skirt with her belly ring out. There's tons of amateur videos out there but this one's the only one that shows clips of all the songs she performed, sorry for the bad quality. Apparently she had to do the choreography herself because of a recent falling out with her regular choreographer Brian Friedman but word is that she ended up copying all his old choreographies anyways.

Gossip: Spears' Dad Hits Out at Manager Firing  


Britney Spears' father has criticized the troubled pop princess' decision to fire her longtime manager Larry Rudolph, after he forced her to go into rehab. Rudolph was fired last week, reportedly because of his intervention after a difficult start to the year, during which Spears partied every night for a month and then shaved her head. Jamie Spears claims Rudolph was chosen by the singer's family to encourage her to seek help at Malibu, California's Promises Clinic in February. He tells PageSix.com, "When Larry Rudolph talked Britney into going into rehab, he was doing what her mother, father and team of professionals with over 100 years of experience knew needed to be done. She was out of control. Larry was the one chosen by the team to roll up his sleeves and deliver the message, to help save her life. The Spears family would like to publicly apologize to Larry for our daughter's statements about him over the past few weeks. Unfortunately, she blames him and her family for where she is at today with her kids and career. Larry has always been there for Britney. For this, we will forever be grateful to him." Spears, in response, issued the following statement, "I am praying for my father. We have never had a good relationship. It's sad that all the men that have been in my life do not know how to accept a real woman's love. I am concentrating on my work and my life right now." A friends tells PageSix Britney was embarrassed to be sent to rehab when she was merely suffering post-partum depression: "(She) had no drugs in her system when she was admitted to Promises - they (tested her) and there was nothing. She was embarrassed she had to go in there when she knew she was suffering from postpartum depression, not a drug or alcohol problem."

Gossip: Britney Spears Back In Rehab  

Source: TMZ.com

Britney Spears is back in rehab. Sources say the singer has checked into an in-patient facility in Los Angeles. We're told the move came after family members, including her mom, pressed her to check in.

Spears entered the facility today (Feb 20). After TMZ posted the news, a rep for the singer told PEOPLE "Britney Spears has voluntarily checked herself into an undisclosed rehab facility today(Feb 20). We ask that the media respect her privacy as well as those of her family and friends at this time."

Last week, Spears checked herself into a rehab facility in Antigua but checked out less than 24 hours later.

Gossip: Britney Spears Looses It, and her hair  


A super smiley Britney Spears arrived at LAX from Miami on Friday afternoon after a brief visit at rocker Eric Clapton’s rehab facility, Crossroads Centre in Antigua. Britney, 25, spent less than one day there before checking herself out and returning to L.A.

Around 7PM that same day, Britney paid a visit to Esther’s Haircutting Studio in Tarzana, Calif. to shave her head completely bald. Salon owner Esther Tognozzi witnessed the entire transformation and heard Britney say, “‘My mom is going to freak.” See video footage of Britney Spears with her newly shaven head here.

It’s over now, but there was an eBay listing for Britney’s hair.

And the question I want answered: What does Kevin Federline think of his ex-wife-to-be’s radical new do?

Gossip: Britney Goes In and Quickly Out of Rehab!  

Source: PerezHilton.com

Details are still a bit hazy - like her state of mind - but, according to reports.....this is what went down!

Caving in to pressure from family, friends and business associates Britney Spears checked her fucked up self into rehab this week (apparently in the Bahamas).

Then, less than 24 hours later, proving what a total idiot she is, the hard-pAArtying mother of two checked herself right out of the treatment center and is whispered to be in hiding in Los Angeles.

Gossip: Britney - Not Over Yet  

Source: FoxNews.Com

Britney Spears may look disheveled from too much partying, but rumors of her professional demise are premature.

Sources inside Jive Records tell me that despite stories last week about the pop tart being dropped by her label, nothing is further from the truth.

"Britney is safe. She's been recording since even before the blow up with Kevin Federline," says my source. “She’s working with a lot of different producers. Jive is not dropping her.”

Indeed, with the current crazy climate in the record biz, Jive wouldn’t be very smart if they let go of a known commodity.

“Let’s put it this way,” says an insider, “she’s just a hit away from being back. Why drop her now?”

Dropping Britney would also be a terrible PR move for Jive right now, too. To turn against a single mother of two — even if she is a party girl — would not play well in the public’s mind. If Courtney Love can make a comeback, then Britney Spears certainly can

The source continues: “If you think back to her last record, everyone said she was finished then. The word was that Pink would have the hit album, and that Britney was over. In the U.S., at least, that didn’t happen. It was the reverse. Britney had a monster album.”

So Spears is off the hook for the time being. But patience can wear thin even in the mercurial music biz. So she’d better get back in the studio and get serious fast.