giorgio moroder x britney spears - tom's diner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiFoXHwV4Yo

this is such a perfect idea for a cover i can't believe it hasn't happened before. s vega's laconic and slightly bored voice => b spears' robotic blankness, of course

and it fits right into the britney mythology. "i open up the paper / there's a story of an actor / who had died while he was drinking / it was no one i had heard of." the narrator is anonymous, an invisible observer. britney's escape into normality~

not so sure about the "love is a drug" male vox that burst in halfway through, the glitz of the beat is fine but doesn't quite need that

it seems to be from an imminent giorgio moroder album but that involves sia so i'm sceptical that it'll be up to much

it sounds listless and terrible to me. I gave it a couple of increasingly desultory plays last weekend.

I know what you mean about the marriage of material and performer, but it's too on the nose. To project boredom she sounds vacant.

Moroder's clueless nowadays. The man always balanced out the brilliance with some awful cheese but I think he should stop before the legacy is totally destroyed.

I think this is amazing. The bridge lets it down a little bit, but I love Britney's performance and the whole sound of it. Moroder's album is one of my most anticipated this year. 74 is the new 24!

the video above is pitched-down a notch - the actual version is great and I'm really hoping there will be a video.

yeah the bridge is awful but the rest is pretty cool. I much prefer the arrangements and sounds of the verses to the chorus though.
As for the pitch, I agree that her voice seems a bit to low but it seems to be the official version : where did you get the "actual" version ?

That YT is not official (notice how there's an apostrophe after GirogioMoroderVevo), the pitch is slowed down to avoid copyright robots. The real deal leaked about a week ago and Giorgio even put it up on his youtube, but he removed it again for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYyofsEbZ9Q

oh OK, thanks !

that's MUCH better !
I really like the change of chords in the verses. I don't remember the original had these chords.

this is horrible - so cheap and pointless

this is bad and pointless lol xp

this is pretty awful but given that moroder's album has the likes of matthew fucking koma on it, it's probably not even going to be the worst track on it

("right here, right now" is great though

(or for that matter, given that britney is releasing a song with igloo australia in a few days, the worst britney track this year)

terrible

At first few listens I'm with Alfred, but I'm sure I'll change my tune after hearing it approximately 800 times at rooftop Sunday brunches throughout June.

The pitched down version is better, but that's true of almost every song ever.

the album art looks like a hi-gloss :( emoticon which is fitting

yeah fuck this

ha now i can't unsee the horrified emoticon and it's hilarious

leave moroder alone!

the Kylie song is great!

https://youtu.be/6gZ-11-kOSQ

it seems to be from an imminent giorgio moroder album but that involves sia so i'm sceptical that it'll be up to much

afaik she's only on one track, which has already been released. I prefer that and the Kylie song to the Britney one tbh.

Once you get past the novelty of "oh hey, it's Britney!" this track aint up to much.

The Kylie song deserved to be a hit. I'm curious to hear the Charli XCX and Foxes contributions to this but otherwise expect it to be a snooze.

DNA, the fellas who made the original remix of the Vega track did a bunch of good stuff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_%28duo%29

Britney > REM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erq_h9fbSws

If only this was "Luka" instead...