Britney Spears - Work Bitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azy6DxYf0Q8

luv u britney

daft punk remix is gonna be hott

best song

we, as a family, have listened 5x in a row.

britney brings us together.

uhh

this is amazing

Like this! She should release an alter ego album under the name Britney Bitch. She could call it "It's Britney Bitch." Every song could have bitch in the title.

Birth Bitch
School Bitch
Work Bitch
Death Bitch

this album is gonna be epic. i can feel it.

I smell concept album.

wtf is up with her inflections on this song

Embracing her inner RuPaul on this one! Kinda.

she sounds like a child imitating a british person

so, like madonna then.

this is the best Britney song I've heard since "I'm A Slave 4 U"

whole last album was the best britney song.

This is great. Top workout song of the 2010s.

A++++++

this is dope though... and i'm stunned there's a cleverness to their use of "work bitch" instead of them just trying to ride the post-ball revival wave

awesome

blood sausage content: 100%

GO CALL THE GUVVERNOR

wtf is up with her inflections on this song

anonymous in that inevitable britney way but this bangs

u want anonymity
u want inevitability
U BETTER WORK BITCH

i was almost ready to give in a little until the 'ring the alarm' part, ugh

I can't hear the song some kind of copyright claim. I searched it out again but ran into a fake.

http://youtu.be/hdB50vDobdc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra-h_p-vD2s#t=17

A+

The bubb-lah.

is there a moombahton remix yet? i should look.

wtf is up with her inflections on this song

lol this song

sounds like that will.i.am one where she sounded british too, it's basically the same "melody"

i guess naughty british spoken word is the new thing!

i actually liked some of her vocal inflections (go call the guh-vah-nah!) but i dunno the initial impression i had was that the backing was way too BEP in EDM mode for me

maybe i will come around.

This is pretty rad! Is there a thread about the second coming of MDMA? Seems to be the thing these days.

Kind of reminds me of 212.

i guess naughty british spoken word is the new thing!

― surm, Sunday, September 15, 2013 6:16 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maybe a couple influences here - Nicki Minaj doing her silly Roman voice ("you've gone mahd!") and a mini-crop of actual British voices on the charts, most notably Cher Lloyd but also Jessie J a little bit.

Not sure I'm seeing the instant-classic qualities of this, it's passable but not earth-shaking. Feels empty, missing something.

this is so bad

it's even less subtle than the typical bep in edm mode

i am still figuring out whether this is a good or bad thing honestly. definitely seems to be missing something.

hell, i should just accept that i will probably end up loving this by the time a video is dumped onto the internet.

the weird britishisms make it sound like she's trying to channel MIA or Yolandi or something?

she sounds like a child imitating a british person

― J0rdan S., Sunday, September 15, 2013 9:05 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so, like madonna then.

― scott seward, Sunday, September 15, 2013 9:09 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It could do with a proper chorus and melody.

proper choruses and melodies are so 2000 and late

i just listened to this with my boyfriend and started crying laughing

what with lady Gaga's APPLAUSE apparently the season is good for hilarious songs

u wanna be fancy
live in a big mansion
party in france
u betta work bitch

also to quote dlisted.com "I love how Brit Brit is telling you to “work, bitch” when she probably recorded this via iPhone in 10 minutes while sitting in her regular booth at Buffalo Wild Wings."

212 was a lot more thrilling than this.

That said this is more in line with the music Azealia should be making instead of whatever boring shit she's served up for the past 12 months

gbx beat me to it--was going to say accent sounds a little like M.I.A.

Love the extra syllable at the end of each line
You wanna live fancy
Live in a big mansion

Maybe a couple influences here - Nicki Minaj doing her silly Roman voice ("you've gone mahd!") and a mini-crop of actual British voices on the charts, most notably Cher Lloyd but also Jessie J a little bit.

or britney is just crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rk2ungFUVI

this is fucking hilarious

hope the whole album stays in manic batshit mode with no ballads, lotsa weird phrasing / cadence / put-on voices

she should collaborate with jay karan or something

when's the last time britney did a ballad anyway?

Maybe a couple influences here - Nicki Minaj doing her silly Roman voice ("you've gone mahd!") and a mini-crop of actual British voices on the charts, most notably Cher Lloyd but also Jessie J a little bit.

or britney is just crazy

She already did the weird british accent for no apparent reason thing in "Scream and Shout".

Would Criminal count as a ballad?

hmmm i think it could. i really liked criminal actually.

i still don't quite believe the "scream & shout" british voice is her, i know what britney sounds like and it's not that

am at a goddamn conference til wednesday and i can't put this on my ipod, it's killing me

single of the year after Hashtag Beautiful imo

also to quote dlisted.com "I love how Brit Brit is telling you to “work, bitch” when she probably recorded this via iPhone in 10 minutes while sitting in her regular booth at Buffalo Wild Wings."

oh come on, she is amongst other things telling you to work bitch, she is also being told to work bitch if she wants those things, also to work the bitch part of her etc etc. it's the reductive zero point of sex, money, music and the female image and it's f'ing great.

^^^^^^^

i still don't quite believe the "scream & shout" british voice is her

i spent two weeks arguing with my kids that she wasn't putting on a weird British accent before it sank in and i admitted defeat

some smart alec cultural critic is going to do wonders with this + althusser

^^^^ off to establish a kickstarter account.

when we have the tracklist for the album it could be a nice ilx precovers !

Yes!

Mykki Blanco has thoughts.

mykki blanco can sit all the way down and maybe try to write a song as memorable as this

it's still amazing, finally got to play it on loop on my own stereo and >>>>>>>>>

also CALL ME THE BUBBL-AH <3 <3

alright, sigh, mykki blanco

it's odd that he seems completely unaware that pop has pandered to or catered to a gay audience since forever. you could write entire books about why gay men are drawn to female pop stars but it's not news at this point. that britney has utilised some slang that possibly has gay origins is not an especially new development ("work" as a club exhortation that plays on the dual meaning of the word is another thing that has been around forever)

if anyone should be annoyed it's ciara who made a video called "work" in which she both twerked and stood on a wrecking ball nearly half a decade ago, on the same album that she talked about "swag" before any other mainstream pop star, and it all flopped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD6qaYFVUng

when's the last time britney did a ballad anyway?

― dyl, Monday, September 16, 2013

There's one on the last album. Not bad, not British.

why does anyone want Britney to sing ballads

aero jr heard this beat drop and immediately started dancing, like his body had told him "we have to do this" and then we had a proper kitchen dance so it gets an A from me

how anybody can hear that vocal and not feel embarrassed for Brit is beyond me though, that "English" accent is, like, worse than when Anglophiles try to adopt words like "daft" for daily use

This is okay to bleh; the EDM cliches are smothering, and she sounds like Britney imitating Madonna imitating Britney. But we had to endure "Hold It Against Me" before "Till The World Ends" so

critiquing the accent on the vocal is sort of like complaining that the hoover in "Dominator" is too rough-edged

the accent is far more like nicki (knows it's a cartoon accent, sounds playful) than madonna (tries to be "proper", fails). it's funny.

"hold it against me" and "till the world ends" are in no way so far apart quality-wise that one had to be endured to get to the other

"everytime" is an incredible ballad and britney should not attempt any more if only because she can't match that ever

lex otm about the accent. its funny. and fun. and it works in the song.

well, Femme Fatale had so many bangers that HIAM just sounds average next to TTWE, "Seal It with a Kiss," "I Wanna Go," etc.

i also didn't know that Ciara was so ahead of her time.

lex otm about the accent. its funny. and fun. and it works in the song.

yes. the song's v fun and exciting to listen to. the accent, whatever it is, esp as a shit English accent is fantastic. esp to imitate in yr head or when doing simplr chores for instance.

it's nice that this song plays up gay culture with a sense of humor, as opposed to straight women like gaga and katy perry who yearn to be sources of INSPIRATION for queer children

the problem is how many queers do want sources of inspiration from female singers

yeah but the "it gets better" style s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g it out shit is a new phenomenon and pretty egregious

fucking Obama

why does anyone want Britney to sing ballads

― WHAT DOES SAMANTHA FOX SAY (DJP), Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:31 PM (25 minutes ago)

because she has some amazing ones!

Birth Bitch
School Bitch
Work Bitch
Death Bitch

― bad bad disco (Eazy), Sunday, September 15, 2013 3:53 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Rockbitch

"the problem is how many queers do want sources of inspiration from female singers"

they are big sources of inspiration to me!

it's nice that this song plays up gay culture with a sense of humor, as opposed to straight women like gaga and katy perry who yearn to be sources of INSPIRATION for queer children

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, September 18, 2013 11:52 AM Bookmark

otm (altho doing the "no, she's really straight" thing with gaga grosses me out, but your point still stands)

I've only just got round to hearing this and a) it's awesome and b) it's made me realise how much I want Britney to cover 'Ima Read'.

omg

O_O

oh YES

Haha

also CALL ME THE BUBBL-AH <3 <3

― lex pretend, Wednesday, September 18, 2013 6:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like to think Brit was referencing this thread:

THIS IS 4 THE BUBBL-AH: traktor (mike delinquent remix) vs dangerous (mr v remix)

Am I the only one who gets kind of a "Wearing My Rolex" vibe from this?

dare i say it but i think this song is getting a little too much credit around here.

it's cute and all but ... it could be way better.

well sure, she could have had random screams pop up halfway through

Am I the only one who gets kind of a "Wearing My Rolex" vibe from this?

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 18 September 2013

one of her english accents (the govanah/bubbl-ah one) is disconcertingly grime-y

i'm listening to it now and i rly just don't think you could call it good or bad tbh

it's just ridiculous

xp sayin tho. also the hard-ass 4x4 kick.

i could call it good.

x-post

the production makes it sound like a hoedown on crack

Wow nice song :)

Creames Fartpoop knows what's up

the problem is how many queers do want sources of inspiration from female singers

― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, September 18, 2013 2:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i wonder if this is sort of received wisdom now... like there was a genuine cultural element in the 80s or whatever in the link b/w gay culture and female pop stars but the most recent iteration feels less natural and more like "oh well this is how it's supposed to happen!" maybe i'm misreading gaga's whole fanbase though idk

either way this brit song feels more "real" to me in that sense

I don't remember such hamhanded appropriations of queer tropes in the eighties. Often we're the ones who read queer tropes in a hamhanded way.

I don't know what the queer kids in 2013 want, honestly. But I bet they want good dancing tunes too.

the production makes it sound like a hoedown on crack

It seems like you are casting this as a negative when it is the greatest thing about this track

GaGa panders to us for sure, and you're right that it can feel pretty stupid. Born This Way is for a specific breed of person that i am not. i think they wear more tank tops than me and vacation in places like Tuscany.

my coworkers would say "a ho on crack."

I don't remember such hamhanded appropriations of queer tropes in the eighties.

http://cdn.funcheap.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/VOGUE.jpg

Also wasn't really appropriated then due to Wham!, Frankie, Culture Club, etc., etc.

Madonna did it badly? really?

o god not this. please let's not and say we did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW5wJYFnbJI

i was just looking at this record earlier in the store and thinking *sigh* everyone used to be so gay. i miss that.

http://www.jasondunn.com/albumart/images/neil_diamond_his_12_greatest_hits_1974.jpg

everyone used to look like Paul Stanley.

and i know what you're thinking well we'll always have male country music stars but its just not the same.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/tasteofcountry.com/files/2013/06/Sexy-Men-2013.jpg

those guys look super gay out of context though

who is gay cowboy bruce willis?

(Alfred, you're right, I was wrong.)

Gay wins!

"those guys look super gay out of context though"

you think? and have you met country's hottest heartthrob, tim mcgraw?

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/theboot.com/files/2013/08/tim.jpg

i love his new look by the way. and sorry ladies he's taken.

http://cdn2.gossipcenter.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/story_header/photos/timmcgraw031813-%20sp.jpg

omg great new look

Am I the only one who gets kind of a "Wearing My Rolex" vibe from this?

― The Reverend, Wednesday, September 18, 2013 4:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

GaGa panders to us for sure, and you're right that it can feel pretty stupid. Born This Way is for a specific breed of person that i am not. i think they wear more tank tops than me and vacation in places like Tuscany.

― surm, Wednesday, September 18, 2013 4:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

classic surm post

after sitting with this for a few days on replay, it's really not very memorable. The initial novelty wears off pretty quickly and you're not left with much more than a decent instrumental and a series of hooks and vocal quirks not good enough to make up for the lack of an actual chorus. almost every single from Femme Fatale had more replay value than this to me.

i'm still not really feeling it either

Part of the reason this works is that it squares the circle from electroclash to EDM, and also because it reserves the huge EDM chords for the final minute like the good lord intended.

It's got the work to payoff ratio pretty much perfect.

who did this old work bitch song? you could do a good mashup in a club:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnF2GibnMgo

nevermind i guess it says right there. Elite Supreme. maybe he could sue. i like both songs!

Two-year residency at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas

This is a great song for the last 5 mins of the commute, really gets me into the office pumped

not feeling this. the instrumentation sounds stock. I think her producers found the backing track on Audio Jungle or something

i heard it on the radio and was anticipating something super edited but it aired all the bitches unchanged. meanwhile tho i am hearing kendrick lamar as "trick don't kill my vibe" lately so i guess i am still unsure about the status of the word "bitch" on terrestrial radio. (what happened w/ meredith brooks anyway?)

There's a radio edit that replaces the 'bitch' with a second 'work', so it sounds like your station just didn't give a fuck about playing the radio edit.

i mean the thing about this song is that like

it just needs more bass, the beat sounds tinny and -

if Brit were to appear on a song like I'ma Read, it would be great

but this is schlocky. the intro - "u wanna" - it's good. it's a lot of things. but this should have been more Violently Happy and less BEP.

"trick" sounds more offensive than "bitch" to be perfectly honest

the best thing BEP did was co-opt Hawtin/+8-style techno and turn it into mainstream pop music so I wholly reject surm's thesis

otoh "Violently Happy" does rule so I get what he's saying but IMO if this song should have swung in another direction, it should have been even more towards F.U.S.E.

"the best thing BEP did" is a reallllllllllll landslide of a conversation there

ha I should really clarify that because I don't think "The Time (Dirty Bit)" is their best song at all; I think it's their best idea because they wholesale stole the style for the verse music from the Hawtinverse, which is what I've wanted pop music to do for the past 20 years

the hacky laziness of the worst and best known will.i.am productions really obscure the fact that he's done some pretty weird and exciting stuff in his time, and is certainly capable of it when he puts his back into it a bit

see: the entire fergie album

Test.

Jeez Dan, I was at least giving you credit that you meant like "Boom Boom Pow" or something, not that worst song ever written contender.

lex otm tho

If the subject is will.i.am I gotta admit that I will always have a soft spot for this jam (maybe it's the Bmore pandering at the end?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqky5B179nM

same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt8VYOfr8To

Why is she only dominating other women in the video? How boring.

Stan wars tribute most likely.

Why is she only dominating other women in the video? How boring.

― Cousin Slappy, Wednesday, October 2, 2013 12:22 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

can't believe i'm about to earnestly respond to a cousin slappy post BUT it's because the song directly addresses women right? (even tho it panders to a gay male fanbase)

Men don't want to look hot in a Bugatti apparently.

Video is just ok but love the sharks. Her dancing is v awkward.

doing her margaret thatcher impression again

haha

I love the idea that this is what goes through Britney's mind when she'd rather be sitting with the children gorging on junk food.

ha

Why is she only dominating other women in the video? How boring.

Part of what I like about the song is there's no sex, no relationships, no men...

Bechdel test

lol

sharks tho

new album is called "Britney Jean," out Dec. 3:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/images.hitfix.com/assets/3504/britney-spears-britney-jean.jpg

it's a shop

it was tweeted from her official account, unless you're just remarking that it's heavily photoshopped in which case yes

i can tell by the pixels.

and from having seen a lot of shops in my time.

finally a decent britney spears album cover! (cf worst britney spears album cover )

Ha, I was just thinking her streak continues apace

has someone been at her nose again

perfume, co-written by sia

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10101423630495255

this song is unintentionally (i presume?!) hilarious

"i'm gonna mark my territory"

"i hope I fill the room, when she's in it with you"

"i hide it well, hope you can tell, but I hope she smells my perfume"

sounds like brit just took a dump in the corner

Wait 'til it's used to sell gift sets for the holidays.

It's way better than "Work Bitch." I find it fascinating how much Sia's guide vocals lead these singers, too—like that first verse sounds beamed in from another galaxy where Britney can belt.

oh wow! i feel like it's been a long time since brit's had a performance this emotive. i love robo-britney and i think 'work bitch' is great, but this is exciting

this is interesting until I hear spots where she sounds exactly like rihanna in "diamonds"

anyone else getting madonna "i'll remember" vibes?? this is a +ve

(sia vibes in pop are incresingly a -ve)

What is this BJ?! It's terrible!

Album is streaming on iTunes

very strange album

If by strange, you mean boring and disappointingly faceless, then yes, strange.

yeah i mean strange as in...where are the hits

basically some BEP knockoffs and some katy perry demos thrown together

yikes, what was the last song she put out that was as boringly empty as "alien"? plodding musically, bland + unevocative lyrics, vocals not engaged with the message at all? and that's the track you start things off with??

The dance tracks are very by the numbers and typical of will.i.am, the midtempos are largely forgettable and clearly not being song by her. This is an album of 5s and 6s waiting for a couple 8s and 9s to come in and redeem the whole thing but it never happens.

wow what a disappointing and boring album :///

It's hard to believe this album came from the same person that made something as thrilling as Blackout.

Britney was about as present for Blackout as Bowie was for Station to Station.

well at least jamie lynn has a new single out right

Never liked anything by Britney Spears (first single excepted, sort of). Especially "Toxic"--hated that. But "Scream and Shout" and "Work Bitch" are two of my favourite singles this year. I'm clearly on the wrong page when it comes to her.

who decided that 10 mostly mid-tempo songs could comprise a successful album, smh. i still love 'work bitch' and 'perfume' and i think they do well paired back to back, but the rest of the album is such a disappointing slog. i enjoyed her song from the smurfs 2 movie more than most of these.

'chillin' with you' is one of the more soulless of brit's family-related songs in recent memory. like, i rarely listen to 'my baby' off of circus, but i appreciate it as a seemingly earnest expression of her love for her kids. this has no heart or soul or even familiarity at all. also the decision to have brit and jamie pronounce "with you" as "witchu" gets more embarrassing the longer the song goes on.

the thing is, this is the album that by rights britney should have made 5-6 years ago. i think the fact that she kept churning out decent-to-brilliant pop despite being on drugs, incapable, heavily medicated and/or clearly disinterested made people think she could do that forever. i guess this time the disinterest finally showed.

More the disinterest of everyone around here really. Think everyone just decided the game was up when Femme Fatale failed to shift even a million copies. Whereas before Blackout she was still defineably A Big Deal and they were going to get that record out AND make it good even if they had to physically push her into the studio and get someone else to record most of it.

Everyone around HER, I mean.

boring and disappointingly faceless

But it's supposedly her most personal record to date! Oh, wait.

i didn't even like femme fatale that much but it seemed like a huge success compared to this

"Body Ache" is my favorite.

i'm intrigued by the one song on here produced by diplo and co-written by katy perry, just seems odd

Wow, this album kind of sucks? And I liked Femme Fatale more than most folks.

Ha, I didn't actually read the thread before I posted. Much love to y'all.

I heard part of "Perfume" at the record store on Wednesday and it was really just the saddest thing, I felt like Britney just needed a hug that day