yall entering nicki delusion state if you are saying no

The first and only album where every song sounds like a lead single. It's excellent af and can't be topped

Edited January 8Jan 8 by Tate

Everyone here jokes about the vibes~ but to me that's what made Blackout so special. Britney didn't invent or introduce anything new with it but her signature voice was heavily manipulated and chopped/screwed to the point we couldn't recognize her. It made the album very cohesive and darker/sleazier than the stuff Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake, or even Rihanna put out before.

Yes, it is basically invented PC music and Hyperpop.

The lack of education here is atrocious, the first time Britney used dubstep was for Femme Fatale, in 2011. At the time she was the one of if not the only MPG stateside to use it, and it was predominantly a uk based genre.

It's a great album but no, it's not inventive in the slightest but watch people talk about RoCK aND ROll HaLL oF FAmE!!11 and link to some 2017 Queerty article about how it's a "cultural reset".

3 minutes ago, Joesuxx said:

The lack of education here is atrocious, the first time Britney used dubstep was for Femme Fatale, in 2011. At the time she was the one of if not the only MPG stateside to use it, and it was predominantly a uk based genre.

No, it was with blackout with this banger of album track

1 hour ago, D.M.F said:

Blackout was just a rehash of what Danja did with Danity Kane, Nelly Furtado, and Justin Timberlake. People have also said it started the dubstep (short lived) trend, but the album had no legit dubstep production on it. The album was nothing new and that's 1 of the many reasons it got 0 Grammy nominations imo.

You wish all of this was true

We can proudly say it was ahead of its time, to be honest. It wasn't so commercialized. You had to really be a music lover, be a true fan of music and the love of being open to really appreciate that record. It's just a special piece in Britney's body of work that will forever live on. The older the record gets the more people will come to appreciate it actually and check it out.

Blackout is amazing and it outstreams your faves whole career

Someone doesn't like blackout very much

The crazy thing is the majority of the gp has no idea about this album. It was a huge decline from her, the hits underperformed back then and she had a terrible image. Yet atrl 40 men are pretending that it served 21 sales or smthn. So delusional. Even Norah Jones album from that year was bigger. Loose and FS were much better and were actually fresh with the trend. That sound was overly done by late 2007 and people started moving on to dance pop by 2008.

1 hour ago, Ghostface91 said:

says the Timberlake stan

An infinitely superior artist

4 minutes ago, Johnny Cash said:

An infinitely superior artist

nothing says "artist" like this

Happy rip off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru0K8uYEZWw

51 minutes ago, Joesuxx said:

The lack of education here is atrocious, the first time Britney used dubstep was for Femme Fatale, in 2011. At the time she was the one of if not the only MPG stateside to use it, and it was predominantly a uk based genre.

Girl you were loud and wrong Freakshow was right there. Then it was other mainstream artists like Rihanna in 2008 with Rated R

Probably to gays in their mid 40s now

27 minutes ago, VioletsandRoses said:

The crazy thing is the majority of the gp has no idea about this album. It was a huge decline from her, the hits underperformed back then and she had a terrible image. Yet atrl 40 men are pretending that it served 21 sales or smthn. So delusional. Even Norah Jones album from that year was bigger. Loose and FS were much better and were actually fresh with the trend. That sound was overly done by late 2007 and people started moving on to dance pop by 2008.

gen z know about gimme more, no one gaf about sexyback, and every significant hyperpop act has cited blackout as an influence, gimme more was used by TWO kpop legende (SNSD and IU). We're supposed to care what some balding generation thinks about a higjly influential album that's in the rock and roll hall of fame? Blackout has influenced beyond the judgmental eyes of those cringe, fat, loser millenials that shunned Britney for having a post-partum belly. She pioneered and had high impact because the album reached the audience that matters point black period, and had the industry not been after her, she would've been the first female artist to have her first 7 albums debut at #1 on the BB100

oh bby this album was IT when it came out

7 minutes ago, kataraqueen said:

gen z know about gimme more, no one gaf about sexyback, and every significant hyperpop act has cited blackout as an influence, gimme more was used by TWO kpop legende (SNSD and IU). We're supposed to care what some balding generation thinks about a higjly influential album that's in the rock and roll hall of fame? Blackout has influenced beyond the judgmental eyes of those cringe, fat, loser millenials that shunned Britney for having a post-partum belly. She pioneered and had high impact because the album reached the audience that matters point black period, and had the industry not been after her, she would've been the first female artist to have her first 7 albums debut at #1 on the BB100

Fun fact: All Britney fans are millenial age and so is britney

3 minutes ago, Tate said:

Fun fact: All Britney fans are millenial age and so is britney

ykwim girl 💀 obviously i love yall

OP every time I read ANYTHING you post I can't help but hear it in Ursula's or Invader Zim's voices, inflections and all

Edited January 9Jan 9 by HarajukuPrincess

Yes, I'm aware this is a troll thread. But I'm bored at work and want to answer honestly.

I think in some ways, yes it is innovative. I was actually just listening to it today and the way Britney plays with her voice on that album is very reminiscent of Charli's work with Sophie, particularly on the Vroom Vroom EP. You have songs like Toy Soldier and Hot As Ice where she sounds like she took a hit of helium before stepping to the mic. Gimme More and Get Naked are basically just Britney moaning for 4 minutes straight. Her gorgeous falsetto on Outta This World. Even the autotune on Piece Of Me works to give Britney an unbothered, almost nonchalant vocal take. ~20 years later and I personally think the most interesting thing about Blackout is the way Britney really pushed her voice in unique, different ways, while still being unmistakably "Britney."

Sonically it may be reminiscent of Future Sex and Loose, but while those albums are pop/urban hybrids, Britney takes that sound and pushes it even further in a europop direction. You're not gonna find songs like Radar, Heaven On Earth, or Perfect Lover on Loose or Future Sex. It essentially leads the charge that Gaga would take with The Fame and was able to fully bring europop to the mainstream in America.

Essentially, Britney was able to take what was popular and give it her own twist to make it something that was uniquely "hers." So maybe not innovative, but certainly not a copy of what Justin and Nelly (and Danity Kane???) were doing.

Obviously not

2 hours ago, YourFavoriteWeapon said:

It's a great album but no, it's not inventive in the slightest but watch people talk about RoCK aND ROll HaLL oF FAmE!!11 and link to some 2017 Queerty article about how it's a "cultural reset".

I'll link you to actually published literature instead since you wanna act like its impact has been relegated to two things.

https://www.amazon.com/Britney-Spearss-Blackout-Natasha-Lasky/dp/1501377590

Edited January 9Jan 9 by Hook Up

Seriously, I can't...

Being innovative doesn't mean you weren't influenced by anything that's been done before. That doesn't exist. It means, however, that you pushed the envelope and took things foward. Blackout did that.